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Chapter 38: New King of Earth
The hot beam of the Purification Protocol had been swallowed by the void, leaving the sky over Shinjuku in a state of eerie, unnatural calm. The iron dust, the Blood-Rust was still falling, but it no longer hummed with divine static. It was just cold, dead metal, coating the ruins of the city in a funeral shroud of grey.
Ren Hanshin stood on the rooftop, his chest heaving. His silver hair, a side effect of the weaver’s growing influence, was plastered to his forehead with sweat and rain. Beside him, Jubei leaned heavily on the Kusanagi-Vessel. The old man’s presence was thinning. To Ren’s ’Divine Perception’, Jubei looked like a charcoal drawing being slowly erased by the wind.
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