"Well..." Lott opened his mouth to answer. The hearts of all the Lighthouse people on the other side leaped into their throats. Countless people shot Mark looks of extreme resentment.
'Why did you have to provoke him?!'
Squelch!
The sound of a blade piercing flesh and blood spurting forth emerged.
Mark looked incredulous, his gaze lowering to see deep red, almost black blood gushing out like a fountain from his throat.
The members of the Hunter Squad around him, like Ran Bing, Erika, Fei Xue, and others, all had drastic changes in their expressions.
Looking behind him, they saw a man in shabby clothes, clearly a Dust citizen, holding a knife with a frenzied expression, tears in his eyes as he roared at the kneeling, bleeding Mark: "It's all your fault! All of this is your doing!"
The sudden turn of events shocked everyone.
"Bastard!" Mo Cheng, one of the Hunter Squad's members, was the first to react.
Enraged, he pinned the Dust citizen numbered 1225 to the ground.
"What are you doing?!" Other Hunter Squad's members swarmed up and restrained him.
However, even while pinned down, the man struggled desperately, roaring hoarsely: "It's all you! Why did you give me a Dust citizen's heart!? You ruined everything! Die!!"
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"This guy... to do it at this moment..." Charles was also startled.
Dust Citizen 1225, though now a Dust citizen, was originally an Upper citizen named Luke. He had heart disease and received a heart transplant from a Dust citizen.
The Lighthouse originally didn't allow heart transplants between Upper and Dust citizens. Mark intervened and forcibly had the Dust citizen's heart transplanted into him.
Charles himself took the opportunity to demote him to a Dust citizen, precisely to use his broken mental state to find a chance to strike at Mark.
Although this scene was something Charles was happy to see, he never expected this waste to make his move at this moment. Charles was also anxious, unsure whether Mark's death at this time was good or bad!
Shiranui Mai, Kagura Chizuru, and others watching the spectacle from the Planet King of Fighters were also dumbfounded.
'Wh-what is this situation!?'
"As expected of Lott-san, you even have supporters in such a remote planet!" Ishigami quickly offered flattery.
"Support my ass." Hearing the man's roar, Lott also remembered who he was.
One had to admit, human nature was truly fascinating.
Seeing the blood continuously gushing from the wound on Mark's throat, Goku hurriedly reached into his pocket.
"Th-that, Senzu Bean... uh..." However, as soon as his hand went in, Goku remembered. He had already given out the Senzu Beans to the fighters in the Planet King of Fighters earlier. He didn't have a single one left on him now!
"L-Lott-sama!" The former Upper citizen Luke, now Dust Citizen 1225, pinned to the ground, twisted his neck and shouted hoarsely at Lott: "I-I've already killed Mark for disrespecting you. C-can you let me go live on Earth?"
Shiranui Mai and Kagura Chizuru beside Lott, along with the group members watching the spectacle in the chat, were all stunned.
Mark's strength wasn't even ranked in the group, and he was only slightly better than group members from mundane worlds without special abilities, but his presence wasn't low.
At least perverts like Kazuma and Miroku were on good terms with him. After all, there were truly many beauties in his Hunter Squad. Zenitsu even fantasized about getting closer to Mark to have him act as a matchmaker.
Therefore, they were quite familiar with Mark, the Hunter Squad's Captain who had dedicated himself to the Lighthouse.
But they never imagined that just for a chance to 'immigrate', the people of the Lighthouse would directly turn on Mark!
And Ran Bing, Fei Xue, and the others were equally shocked. Everyone knew Mark usually treated Dust citizens equally!
He had even said that if he became City Lord, he wanted to abolish the discriminatory system between Upper and Dust citizens. Yet now...
And it wasn't over! After Dust Citizen 1225 shouted those words, one after another, more Dust citizens picked up fallen, sharp monster remains, comparable to blades, and rushed to deliver additional blows to Mark's body.
The situation on the Lighthouse descended into utter chaos. Although the Hunter Squad's members were quite capable, they couldn't possibly block the assault of so many Dust citizens at once.
Ran Bing was initially blocking two Dust citizens, but when she saw another person charging towards Mark with a shard, she rushed over to stop them.
Thud!
But the next second, she was shoved aside! There were too many people!
"Sorry, sorry, sorry!" A male Dust citizen standing in front of Mark wept as he stabbed a dagger-like remnant fragment into the back of the neck of the already fallen Mark. He's Dust Citizen 4068, who had accompanied the Hunter Squad on missions multiple times and greatly desired to become an Upper citizen.
"No!!!" Ran Bing and the others screamed.
Goku was also dumbfounded, not reacting for a moment, as he couldn't understand why these people were attacking Mark.
Although Goku didn't know Mark or understand him, when he first arrived, he had witnessed this man piloting a strange robot to fight those monsters with his own eyes, protecting many of the residents here.
If that was the case, then why were these very people he protected now trying to kill him? Goku didn't understand.
"Stop!" Only after a full dozen seconds did Goku, whose worldview had suffered a massive impact, finally react.
He shouted, ordering these Dust citizens, and the many Upper citizens who had also joined the finishing blows, to halt their actions. The deterrence of a Super Saiyan was still effective.
"L-Lott-sama, I-I was the one who dealt the final blow to Mark just now. P-please, let me, no, me and my companions go live on Earth. O-or please let me work under you!" Dust Citizen 4068 tearfully pulled two still-dazed Dust citizens and knelt before Lott.
4277, whose delicate features couldn't be completely hidden despite her shabby clothes, looked bewildered. She hadn't processed it yet. The scene just now was too terrifying for her.
"This is..." Kagura Chizuru said tremulously.
"You wouldn't actually take someone like this as a subordinate, would you?!" Shiranui Mai looked at Lott in disbelief.
Having personally witnessed monsters like Rugal Bernstein, Goenitz, and Orochi, she had experienced many major scenes.
But she was still shocked by what had just happened. The ugliness of human nature had been exposed most thoroughly in front of the entire universe.
Although Genos and Ishigami could be quite terrifying when they went crazy, they weren't this indiscriminately murderous.
"That's why I said the people on that planet are basically ingrates." Lott raised an eyebrow at Shiranui Mai, then looked at the kneeling 4068 on the screen.
'I remembered this guy replaced Mark's position and became the new Hunters Captain in the original ending, right?'
"Did you misunderstand something?" Lott's tone was calm and unruffled.
The faces of the Lighthouse crowd changed.
"When did I say I wanted to kill Mark?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the Upper and Dust citizens who had just frantically delivered finishing blows to Mark were stupefied.
Lott's voice continued: "Did I tell you to kill him? What are you doing, acting on your own wishful thinking? A bunch of idiots."
Ishigami scornfully mocked, "A bunch of morons, flattery missed the mark."
Shiranui Mai and Kagura Chizuru looked at him strangely.
'Aren't you talking about yourself?'
Under the nearly collapsed gazes of the entire Lighthouse population, Lott glanced sideways at Goku on the other side of the screen.
"Goku, still want to save them?"