Chapter 435: Wake-Up Call
Jada’s instinct screamed, drowning out the distant explosions of the war.
She needed a weapon. She needed defense. So she pushed herself up from the ground as her legs shook. She ignored the fatigue and thrust her right arm forward.
Nothing happened.
"I severed your connection to it," Hoshikaze said. There was no malice in his tone whatsoever. Just a statement of fact. Jada’s mind struggled to keep up, so he explained, "The matter was simple... Once I used my Kekkei Genkai, I could see a link tethered to your soul that I didn’t before. So I cut it."
Jada lowered her arm. She didn’t want to believe him. To admit that he could simply reach into her spirit and snip a connection to a legendary weapon was to admit a level of defeat she wasn’t ready for. It also implied a gap in power that was impossible to bridge.
She tried to muster her chakra and cast a genjutsu, or maybe a fire style technique. Anything to create distance. But her reserves were dry.
Her eyes also burned due to the Sharingan having taken its toll. She had pushed it too far and too fast that the world was starting to blur at the edges.
"Why..." she managed to say. "Why did you lie to me? Why did you deceive me?"
Hoshikaze reached up as his hand grabbed the cloth covering his eyes. He pulled it, and the fabric fell from his face.
Jada expected to see eyes of remorse. Instead, she saw eyes so cold that they were almost terrifying. There was nothing behind them. No warmth, no anger, no pity.
"Because I am Arthur..." he said.
The name landed like a stone as she stopped breathing for a second. The wind blew a strand of hair across her face. She didn’t brush it away.