Back on Earth, Kiyomaro and Suzy are ambushed by a new type of enemy: a Belgim E.O. Sentinel . It’s a humanoid construct of black iron and violet energy, its face a blank mask except for a single, weeping eye. It speaks in a distorted chorus of voices—the stolen voices of the Mamodo.
Zatch closes his eyes. Instead of forcing lightning, he focuses on the feeling of protecting his friends. The phantom Brago lunges—and Zatch catches its fist. Not with electricity, but with raw will. The phantom cracks, revealing a sliver of the real Brago trapped inside, screaming silently. zatch bell 2 chapter 3
He’s interrupted by a knock. It’s Suzy Mizuno , now a tenacious investigative journalist. She’s one of the few humans who still believes the “Mamodo incident” wasn’t a mass hallucination. She hands Kiyomaro a worn photograph of the old gang: Zatch, Tio, Kanchome, Ponygon, and the others. Back on Earth, Kiyomaro and Suzy are ambushed
“I can’t fight like this,” Zatch pants, dodging a crushing gravity wave. It speaks in a distorted chorus of voices—the
Kiyomaro doesn’t flinch. He pulls out a strange device—a modified cell phone that emits a frequency that disrupts Gorm’s control over minor constructs. It buys them ten seconds.
Kiyomaro’s eyes widen. Zatch is communicating. Somehow. The chapter ends on a double-page spread: Zatch, standing on a cliff in the pocket dimension, looking up at a colossal, cracked bell floating in a void sky. Behind him, the shadows of all 100 Mamodo children—trapped, asleep, frozen in crystal.