"One 'Soldat' this, one 'Soldat' that…"
A faint curve rose at Cole's lips as he looked at Liltotto Lamperd.
"Sternritter-sama… don't tell me you still haven't even remembered my name?"
The moment he said that, cold sweat poured down Liltotto's forehead. She frantically searched her mind for his name.
Truth was, she really hadn't paid attention to Cole before.
From her standpoint, ordinary Soldat were no different from ants.
Fortunately, Liltotto was the brains of the girl group. She finally remembered what Candice had called him.
"Y-you're… Cole, right?!"
Liltotto exhaled in relief and forced a smile at him.
But before she could say anything else, her vision blurred—
and the Cole who'd been a hundred meters away was suddenly right in the sky in front of her.
"Correct. Too bad there's no prize."
As he spoke, Cole reached for her throat.
Liltotto's fur almost stood on end. She did not want to end up like the others—getting treated like a bowling ball and smashed into the ground.
That was way too humiliating.
She still had pride, okay?
In desperation, Liltotto suddenly opened her mouth—
and her mouth began to stretch, expand, and lengthen nonstop.
Cole actually flinched.
"What the hell is that?!"
Her mouth extended unnaturally, the far end swelling into a huge pink flesh-ball lined with razor teeth—still connected to her face.
It looked even creepier than a slit-mouthed woman.
Remembering what Bambietta had explained before, Cole immediately felt his teeth ache and muttered:
"Don't tell me this is your Schrift… Glutton. That look is… why is it so creepy?!"
With her mouth expanded, Liltotto stopped talking.
Instead, the huge maw at the end opened wide—
and bit down viciously toward Cole's upper body.
If this were an ordinary Quincy, that bite would've torn them apart on the spot.
But her opponent was Cole.
Staring at the jaws snapping down, Cole pressed both hands up and caught the upper and lower rows of sharp teeth.
"Mm…!"
Liltotto clenched her fists and forced the jaws to close harder, but it wouldn't budge.
It was like her teeth were biting into the hardest stone.
Since she couldn't close it—
she tried to open it wider.
But Liltotto suddenly realized…
she couldn't open it either.
Cole held the upper and lower teeth, glanced around inside, then locked onto a back molar and smiled.
"With a mouth this big—no bad breath, but… looks like you've got a cavity back here."
Liltotto froze. A terrible premonition surged up as she tried desperately to yank her mouth back.
Crack!
A sound like ceramic shattering rang out.
Liltotto's eyes went wide. Tears instantly welled up as she grabbed her mouth and tried to pull it back with all her strength.
"Mm! Mm! Mm…!"
I'm Glutton.
How could my teeth possibly be bad?!
But this bastard…
he actually smashed one of her teeth.
Inside the huge mouth, Cole stood on the sharp lower teeth, one hand holding up the upper jaw, and said with exaggerated apology:
"Sorry, sorry. I looked wrong. That one wasn't the cavity—this one is."
Liltotto's already-wide eyes bulged even more. She shook her head frantically, tears rolling like rain.
"Mm-mm-mm…!"
She didn't have any cavities at all!
You're just forcibly ripping teeth out!
Crack!
Another tooth shattered.
White fragments broke into seven or eight pieces.
This time, Liltotto couldn't even stand. She fell to the ground, rolling around, desperately trying to pull her mouth back.
"Mm-mm-mm…!"
Normally, thanks to Glutton, her mouth and teeth were her strongest weapons.
Especially her teeth.
Their defense was even tougher than Seikessō (Blood Vein).
But in Cole's hands, those teeth shattered like porcelain.
"This tooth wasn't it either…"
Cole sighed, looking at the rows of sharp teeth.
"Searching one by one is too annoying. I'll just smash them all at once. Then you won't have to worry about toothaches anymore."
Liltotto shook her head wildly, tears pouring down.
No!
Teeth are one of the most sensitive parts of the body.
And because of Glutton, her sensitivity in her teeth was even higher.
Higher even than her chest or lower body—so sensitive it might as well be an "erogenous zone," something she normally wouldn't even touch.
Crack! Crack! Crack…
The shattering continued.
One sharp white tooth after another was smashed into pieces, the fragments filling her whole mouth.
When Cole finished, he nodded in satisfaction and hopped out of the enormous mouth.
Liltotto hurriedly retracted it, crying as she spat out tooth fragments.
"Y-you… you b-bastard…"
A tearful, slurred curse came out, completely unclear.
Cole couldn't help laughing and teasing her.
"You're really something. I helped you 'fix' your teeth, and you're still cursing me."
Liltotto almost passed out from rage.
Who asked you to fix my teeth?!
I'm Glutton—how am I supposed to bite people without teeth?!
As she screamed, she opened her mouth again. Beneath the two rows of teeth, ten new rows pushed up.
Cole exclaimed and clapped.
"Impressive, impressive. Are you a shark or something? You can replace teeth?"
Liltotto was about to die of anger. As the new teeth replaced the old and she spat out the remains, she pointed at him and screamed:
"You damn small fry—stinky fish—rotten fish! I'll bite you to death, you bastard!"
With the others—even that fake-girl—
he only smashed them into the ground.
Why, with her—
did he have to smash her whole mouth of teeth?!
Did she personally offend him somewhere?!
Golden light burst from Liltotto's body. She roared to the sky:
"Kanseitai: Kami no Ue (God's Hunger)!!!"
Blinding golden light flashed in midair, forming a massive golden trap—
like a giant bear trap, but also like a huge mouth.
It snapped down at Cole.
Cole simply raised his left hand. His massive blue spirit bow manifested. He drew and released.
A huge blue arrow—
shot like a meteor.
Quincy arrows were the most basic ability.
But if your spiritual power was strong enough, the "basic" could become the strongest.
Bang!
The magnificent golden trap burst apart into a shower of golden particles.
"...Flowers...."
Liltotto gritted her teeth.
"Fork!"
"Knife!"
"Stick!"
Under Glutton's power, massive golden utensils were materialized—like someone was preparing ingredients in a kitchen—as they attacked.
But every single piece of cutlery was shot apart by Cole's arrows.
Just as Liltotto tried to manifest more—
Cole flickered and appeared right in front of her, smiling.
"I think you've still got cavities. Want me to pull a few more for you?"
Liltotto was terrified. Tears immediately sprang up again as she flew downward and shouted:
"You three! Get out here already! I can't beat this guy!"
She didn't believe the other three had truly lost the ability to fight.
They had to be down there, secretly watching her get humiliated.
Those awful girls—
when she gets beaten, they want everyone else beaten too.
Sure enough, right after she said it—
the women who'd been smashed into the ground flew back up.
Meninas smiled with her usual airheaded innocence.
"Lili, don't misunderstand. We were just studying how to deal with this monster. We weren't intentionally watching you get bullied…"
Candice and Giselle hurriedly nodded too.
Liltotto didn't believe a word of it. She clenched her fists, so angry she almost cracked her newly grown teeth.
These damn "best friends."
They love messing with their friends for fun.
With brains like yours, what plan could you possibly come up with?!
But she didn't have time to argue. She glared at Cole and ground her teeth.
"Everyone together. Let's teach this bastard a lesson."
Normally she was calm and expressionless—but after having her teeth smashed once, the pain had wrecked her composure.
The other three nodded, their eyes full of hostility as they stared at Cole.
They had already acknowledged his strength—
but they still couldn't tolerate his arrogance.
And more than that, he'd beaten all of them once already.
Giselle rubbed her neck and snarled:
"Maybe one of us can't beat you… but there are four of us now. You think you can still walk away untouched?"
Cole raised an eyebrow and smiled.
"You can try."
Wandenreich.
Inside an ice-covered palace, several Sternritter members arrived, frowning as they looked toward the distant sky.
One handsome man frowned.
"What are those women doing? How are they making that much noise? Are they trying to alarm His Majesty?"
For the past few years, Yhwach's awakening had been growing louder and more frequent.
He had even carried out Auswählen before, killing a large number of Quincy in the world of the living.
Because of that, even the normally reckless Sternritter had been much more restrained, afraid of disturbing Yhwach's revival.
And yet those women were practically tearing the sky open.
Another tall male Quincy with heavy makeup frowned.
"It's not just their spiritual pressure… there's an unfamiliar one too. And it's stronger than all of theirs…"
The Sternritter present all furrowed their brows, then looked toward the man seated at the head.
"Haschwalth… what exactly is going on?"
(End of Chapter)
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