Salute To The General

Arlo gasped in shock when he heard that.

As he made eye contact with Nathan, his mind went blank, and his body was frozen in place.

The sounds around him seemed to get farther and farther away, and his vision got increasingly blurry as well.

The next thing he knew, he was standing on a river bank with lots of bright red flowers.

Huh? Where am I? What is this place?

As he glanced about, he saw a stone next to the river with the words "Stone of Lives" written on it.

That was when Arlo finally understood what was going on. The river was actually Styx, and the red flowers by the road were red spider lilies-the road he stood on was the road to the afterlife. Suddenly, Arlo felt his heart skip a beat as the illusion around him disappeared completely.

All he saw was the bright light from Nathan's sword coming down on his head.

As much as Arlo wanted to block or dodge it, he knew it was far too late to do so.

could do, Arlo closed his eyes in despair and

soon went by, but Arlo had yet to be struck by

confusion, only to see that Nathan's blade had stopped a centimeter away from his

like my Blade of Seasons is better than your Absolute Judgement. You've lost this

and asked, "Hey! Why didn't you finish

in his tracks and said without looking back, "Why should

eyes went wide

Absolute Judgement on

bowed at Nathan and said sincerely, "Your level of honor and swordsmanship far exceeds mine, Mr. Cross. I humbly accept my defeat." Only then did everyone snap

and the Elite Eight all had proud

not take too kindly to the

know Nathan was this powerful!

and anger written

has made it past the second level! If he gets through the third and kills Pope Eugene, the Curia will be dishonored forever! However, he now has to face Baccio,

lot better at the thought of that, Milo ran up to Nathan and shouted