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Narration: The power manifested from an Enchanted Blade when burning one’s life and exceeding limits increases in density to utter extremes: Becoming a color of black, and at the moment of death, revealing a brilliant radiance. The Magatsumi takes life from others and grants it to its holder: That is to say, the user consumer them as if it was their own. And as such, the power it grants is always black and dense in potency: An Enchanted Blade, one meant for taking life.
(“The True Realm of the Sword Saint took the lives of 200,000 people”)
Editor’s note: The worst.
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Chihiro (thinking): ..Surely there’s no way —
Kagurabachi Chapter 107 – “This Moment”
Narration: The state attained by the Sword Saint, by drawing the “Magatsumi”.. All it desires to do is ceaselessly devour all life in its path.
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Chihiro (thinking): Since I’m close to Samura-san I’m safe, but without his Suzaku I’d already be..
Chihiro (thinking): So this is the power released from the Malediction..
Akemura: Samura-san, according to you, just how far would you say the people you’ve rescued are about now?
Samura: …There’s nobody anywhere near 250 meters.
Akemura: Then that’ll be our battlefield. If you step out of the ring: Be good and slice your stomach open.
Samura: …
Akemura: Centipede.
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Chihiro (thinking): Even in his basic state, he reaches speeds comparable to Samura-san.. And with the Shinuchi, his true potential is realized..