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Then, she slightly lifted the scissors in her hand, which were on the verge of shattering.

This action made Mosi feel extremely endangered.

After transforming into a Remnant Beast, as a fully developed exuviae, it could not only retain its human intelligence but also utilize the instincts and intuition of the Remnant Beasts.

Ordinary Remnant Beasts lacked intelligence and couldn't comprehend what survival crisis meant, but that didn't mean their instincts weren't sharp. It was such perception and intuition that made Mosi realize that whatever Emerald Sparrow was about to do, it was definitely something very dangerous.
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"Don't even think about it!"

It couldn't possibly allow the opponent to use a move that threatened itself, so it cried out, also calling upon its own rules, trying to affect the Magic Power surrounding Emerald Sparrow and cover it once again.

That's what it had done before; it had succeeded in negating Emerald Sparrow's Magic Power and taken away her masterpiece, which had stopped her from taking any further action.

It had thought the process would be the same this time, but it hadn't expected its attempt to fail.

The dense web of threads inside the castle was unaffected and remained intact there.

"Impossible!"

Mosi exclaimed, "How can there be Magic Power that my rules can't affect!"

"...Because... this isn't Magic Power at all."

Emerald Sparrow barely opened her mouth, gritting her teeth as she spat out these words, and then without waiting for Mosi to act further, she resolutely swung the scissors in her hand.

Click.

There was no sound from her action of waving the scissors, but Mosi felt as if it heard a noise from the void, like the crisp friction sound when scissors close.

In that instant, it felt as if it had lost something.

What had it lost? There was no sensation on its body, no abnormalities in its spirit, it had no idea what change had occurred when the scissors were swung.

But when Mosi used its compound eyes to look at its body and observe its own changes, it was stunned.

The sharp limb-like legs that were originally there had vanished without a trace, leaving behind a pair of human hands.

They were tiny hands connected to the massive body of the Remnant Beast, as delicate as fluff, but it could not fail to recognize them, for they were its own human hands.

"What have you done?"

It asked again, but this time the meaning was entirely different, the words laden with an uncontrollable horror.

It knew what Emerald Sparrow had just cut off with the scissors; it wasn't its body, nor its soul, not even Magic Power, but the part of it that was the Remnant Beast.

The scissors hadn't brutally chopped off its limbs but had erased the "Remnant Beast's appendages" from its body.

"Impossible, your Magic Power couldn't possibly affect me, your magical weapon couldn't possibly work on me..."

It muttered to itself, retreating continuously due to the intense feeling of threat, "I can cover your Magic Power, I can take that weird pair of scissors from you, and I want to use it to get back at you..."

Click.

The crisp friction sound rang out once more.

Mosi almost reflexively looked down following the sound of friction, and this time, it was its lower half as a Remnant Beast that had disappeared.

"Impossible!"

It howled in anger and futility and, seeing that retreating was useless, turned direction and once again used its own rules, but this time its target was the scissors in Emerald Sparrow's hands.

The scissors in Emerald Sparrow's hand were part of the magical weapon and indeed formed by her Magic Power, so when Mosi used its rules to cover Emerald Sparrow's scissors, it was possible to take them.

And indeed, it succeeded.

As the rules took effect, Emerald Sparrow's scissors disappeared in an instant and then appeared in Mosi's hands.

"Hahaha, I've found the way to defeat it!"

Seeing its success, it couldn't help but laugh wildly, then it took hold of Emerald Sparrow's scissors with its disproportionally comical palms, "I can too! Watch me use your magical weapon to... eh! Gah! Ahhhhhhh!"

But before it could finish speaking, as soon as Mosi touched Emerald Sparrow's scissors, it let out a miserable howl, "It hurts ahhhhhhhh——"

Screaming like a banshee, it forcefully snipped with the scissors in hand, discovering that it had no effect, so it hastily threw the scissors aside. Even after discarding them, the pain did not subside; intense agony made it tremble all over, leaving no room for thought.

Throughout, Emerald Sparrow hadn't said a word, she simply covered her head, expressionless, watching the scissors appear in Mosi's hands, then when Mosi threw them away, picked them up again.

"You can't use it," she said.

"...Impossible! Why is this happening! How could you possibly swing that magical weapon! Don't you feel the heart-wrenching pain at all?"

Mosi looked up, raging, "You knew I would do this, so you tampered with the magical weapon, right!"

"I don't need to."

Emerald Sparrow slid her fingers back into the scissors' handle loops, opening the sharp blades, "Used to it."

"Used to that kind of pain? What nonsense are you talking about!"

Mosi screamed in rebuttal, but when it saw the ice-cold expression on Emerald Sparrow's face, the words that should have spilled out halted.

It realized that Emerald Sparrow might not have been lying.

Twice overextending herself, with an incomplete essence, the price paid by the cracked Heart's Gem was far more than just weakened abilities. At this point, Emerald Sparrow was almost always in soul-deep pain whenever she used the magical weapon to fight.