39 Chapter 39 War Rhythm

As Hawk said—

Cheadle is an exceptionally talented individual who stood out among countless elites.

However, she hadn't invested much time in the field of combat. Instead, she devoted her talents and energy to the professional field.

She even disregards the upper limit of memory capacity, developing abilities beyond her category that serves her field of work.

Even though she possessed the combat-applicable ability "Diagnostic Register", due to the limitation "Doctor's Compassion", strictly speaking, it fell under the non-combat category.

It is worth mentioning that Cheadle is a Manipulator.

She really wanted to get rid of Ken and Sivir quickly, but the opponent's strength are not weak, coupled with her lack of combat Nen abilities...

In such a situation, it is simply impossible to defeat two powerful Enhancers in a head-on battle.

So, even though Cheadle was surprised and delighted by Moses's performance and results, the sense of crisis lingering in her heart has not diminished at all.

At the end of the day—

The abilities of Cole and Genbu are only the trump cards for Sivir and Ken to eliminate Cheadle.

Now that they have lost this trump card, they may no longer be able to pose a substantial threat to Cheadle, but Cheadle, who lacks direct lethality, also doesn't pose substantial threat to them.

If Sivir or Ken turns their attention to Moses or Hawk…

Given their current conditions, it is impossible to resist the threat from either of them.

Cheadle was well aware of this, so she is deeply aware that the crisis has not been resolved.

After learning from Hawk that Cheadle was a non-combat Nen user, Moses naturally thought of this too.

'We must change the status quo quickly…'

'Is there any way to turn the tide?'

Cheadle and Moses, who are in different positions, are both desperately thinking about how to resolve the crisis.

But no matter how they thought of it, the best result is still—

Cheadle would be safe, Moses would be in imminent danger, and Hawk, who is seriously injured, would undoubtedly die.

Sometimes, seeing too far ahead wasn't entirely a good thing.

As if she could already see the result, Cheadle, even with her strong psychological quality, couldn't help but start to worry at this moment.

The change in her mentality is reflected in the slight changes in her body movements.

Sivir, who became more and more irritated because she couldn't break through Cheadle's defense for a long time, did not notice this at all.

But Ken is different.

He is like a poisonous snake, and his cold eyes always seized upon the weaknesses inadvertently revealed by the enemy.

'That boy, could he be...?'

As Ken continued to attack Cheadle with his sword, he habitually squinted his eyes.

'Thirteen years ago, a baby was born despite being corroded by Post-Mortem Nen in his mother's womb.'

'Thirteen years later, that baby, who was born in such a unique way, became the boy in front of me?'

Ken originally thought that the price brought by the Libra would force this boy to be stopped at the threshold of his Nen ability for the rest of his life...

But now, it seems that the truth is somewhat different from his guess.

But it didn't matter.

Ken knows-

The appearance of this boy indeed disrupted their trump card to eliminate Cheadle, but it's also because of this boy's appearance, that they had another chance to eliminate Cheadle.

"Sivir, your 'fuel' should be enough, right?"

While asking Sivir this question, Ken swung his sword directly at the inconspicuous flaw in Cheadle's movement.

Cheadle's eyes narrowed, and she quickly retreated, narrowly avoiding Ken's extremely tricky strike.

'Close call…'

Cheadle's heartbeat slightly accelerated. Before she could adjust her posture, she saw Sivir's circular blade slashing towards her neck.

With her heightened insight, Cheadle leaned backward, allowing the sharp circular blade to sweep past her. Immediately afterward, she removed the "Diagnostic Register" and released the restriction of "Doctor's Compassion".

Following this, Cheadle placed her palm on Sivir's elbow, and using a skillful leveraging technique, Sivir was thrown away. As soon as Sivir was thrown away, Ken's slash came in front of Cheadle again.

Compared to Sivir's increasingly violent and deforming attacks, Cheadle was more wary of Ken, who could always exploit the small vulnerabilities that were inadvertently revealed in her defense with tricky angles.

Swiftly stepping back, Cheadle dodged another slash from Ken.

"Damn, damn, damn... Stop asking me if it's enough. Right now, I just want to tear her apart!!"

At this moment, Sivir's manic shouting suddenly came from behind.

Accompanying it was an even more overwhelming and powerful Aura.

"Huh?"

Feeling Sivir's Aura that suddenly became much more powerful, Cheadle couldn't help but feel shocked.

Throughout the confrontation, she hadn't seen Sivir and Ken use their abilities, leading her to believe that the other parties were pure Enhancement-type Nen users who did not develop their abilities, and only focused on improving their strength and Nen skills.

However, it is actually not the same as she guessed.

Cheadle quickly glanced at Sivir.

She saw the manifested Aura on Sivir's body surging like a raging wave. The erupting Aura swept away the surrounding dust and leaves, even causing her red long hair to float in the air due to the movement of the Aura.

War Rhythm.

This is Sivir's ability.

When her negative emotions accumulate to a certain extent, she will release these accumulated emotions in one go through her Aura, greatly increasing the intensity of her original manifested Aura.

Regarding the principle of this ability—

If Sivir was asked about it, she will only give this answer: 'What? When you are angry or irritated, hitting someone will hurt more, right?'

In fact, in Nen system, there was a phenomenon where emotions such as anger, rage, joy, madness, sorrow, fear, hatred, carelessness, loyalty, enthusiasm, doubt, shame, and pleasure could increase or decrease the intensity of Nen power.

Sivir's "War Rhythm" is derived from this principle.

"Three minutes… I'll tear you apart!"

Sivir's whole body exuded an Aura like a raging wave, and her eyes filled with killing intent locked onto Cheadle.

"Hey, hey, don't get the wrong target."

Ken stopped his attack and then pointed the tip of his word in the direction of Moses, while smiling like a fox.

"The person you want to tear apart is that little guy over there."

"!!!"

Hearing this, Cheadle's expression changed, while Sivir, in her "War Rhythm" state, was momentarily stunned.

At this moment, Moses didn't have the spare energy to think about the meaning of Hawk's words.

The problem before him now is the threat from Genbu.

"Huff, huff…I'm going to scramble your intestines!!"

Genbu, with a face full of killing intent, glared at Moses.

At this moment, he finally recovered from the intense pain.

If not for that, he would have immediately attacked Moses as soon as he pulled out the dagger.

After recovering, Genbu, full of killing intent, advanced towards Moses.

"Chirp!"

Suddenly, a pleasant chirping sound echoed in Genbu's ears.