"Phew… I feel like I've been entrusted with something very troublesome. Even Chiyou, whom Ji Xuanyuan couldn't resolve, how am I supposed to handle him?"
Inaba Tsukiyo said with some difficulty. Although the surrounding Honkai Energy didn't affect her much, asking her to deal with Chiyou was really putting her in a tough spot.
Fortunately, she was currently inside Chiyou's body. No matter what she did, Chiyou wouldn't rush in to attack her; no matter what she did, Chiyou would retaliate.
"Heh heh… Why do I feel like what I'm doing now is something I've seen in some movie before?"
Inaba Tsukiyo scratched her head, somewhat perplexed. She always felt that in a certain movie she had watched in the past, someone had done something similar to deal with a powerful enemy.
Shrinking oneself, then running into the enemy's body to furiously attack the internal organs, and even tying a bow tie—such a bizarre maneuver.
Soon, Inaba Tsukiyo arrived near the heart Ji Xuanyuan had mentioned, enveloped by Honkai Energy.
Chiyou's heart was not a beating heart; it looked somewhat like a tree, but this large tree was composed of crystals.
"This really is… can I say it's truly Chiyou? Even his heart is so unique."
Hanging the xuanyuan sword at her waist, Inaba Tsukiyo took out mikazuki munechika and tried to slash a few times, finding that it left no marks whatsoever.
"This really is… the heart is clearly fragile, so why is Chiyou's heart so hard? Did Chiyou strengthen his heart's muscle tissue to the hardness of steel through Honkai Energy?"
She couldn't help but fiercely slash it with Cloud Radiance: Swift Thunder, only to find that at most it made a gash, with no other effect.
"This is… infuriating. Forget it, in this Honkai world, there's no science to speak of. But… how did Ji Xuanyuan get here in the first place?"
Since Ji Xuanyuan had once considered destroying Chiyou's heart, how did she get to this place then?
This was worth considering. Did Chiyou's heart require a special weapon to be destroyed? Like the divine key she carried?
Inaba Tsukiyo hesitated for a moment, took out the xuanyuan sword from her waist, and slashed at the large tree with it.
Unlike before, the crystal tree was easily destroyed, but as the xuanyuan sword entered the heart, an unknown force sucked Inaba Tsukiyo, along with the heart, inside.
After Inaba Tsukiyo was sucked in, the ruptured gap quickly closed.
At this moment, on the other side, Fu Hua and Kiana were not in a good situation.
It was bad enough that they suddenly fell into this place; large numbers of mech units appeared around them, surrounding them, and in the middle of those mech units stood a very annoying brat.
"I've already said, hand over the xuanyuan sword, and I'll give this woman to you. Otherwise, this fellow will become a dead person, you know."
Although she looked very young, there was no hint of a joke in the brat's words. If they didn't do as she said, she would really kill Himeko.
"What should we do, Class Monitor? We don't have the xuanyuan sword at all. What can we exchange for Aunt Himeko?"
Kiana looked at Fu Hua with some difficulty. They were already unlucky enough; after wandering around that place for so long, even the xuanyuan sword they had finally found disappeared when they fell. Now, what could they use to exchange for Himeko?
"Don't be nervous, Classmate Kiana. Wait a moment before acting."
Fu Hua also didn't know what to do. For now, she could only stall and see if any opportunities arose.
They had already contacted Theresa, and Theresa was already on her way here with Mei and Bronya aboard the Hyperion. They just needed to wait a little longer.
Just as Fu Hua was about to stall for time, something heavy suddenly fell from the sky and embedded itself in the ground.
Kiana and Fu Hua calmly looked, and realized, wasn't this the xuanyuan sword that Himeko had been holding just now? Why would the xuanyuan sword fall from above?
The opponent clearly also saw the xuanyuan sword lying on the ground. Without hesitation, she ordered the nearby titans to retrieve the xuanyuan sword.
But Fu Hua, who was even faster than the titans, rushed over and pulled out the xuanyuan sword embedded in the ground.
This was their only bargaining chip with the opponent. Without the xuanyuan sword, how could they negotiate with the opponent?
"You… do you really want this woman to die here?"
Perhaps because she failed to snatch the xuanyuan sword, the opponent looked at Fu Hua with some irritation, and the hand clutching Himeko clearly tightened.
Fu Hua looked at the xuanyuan sword in her hand, then at Himeko in the opponent's hand. After a moment of hesitation, she threw the xuanyuan sword over.
A titan easily caught the thrown xuanyuan sword. Just as the opponent was about to throw Himeko over, an indescribable sense of crisis arrived.
Without thinking further, the opponent directly threw Himeko out of her hand and ordered the nearby titans to block in front of her.
[Clang!]
A sharp edge sliced through the void. The huge titan was cut by the sharp edge, its movements paused for a moment, then it broke into two halves from the middle, followed by a violent explosion.
"What!"
Completely unexpected that such a situation would suddenly occur, the explosion directly blew the opponent away, sending her crashing heavily to the ground.
The opponent was clearly severely injured. She looked forward with a ferocious expression, wanting to see who was so suicidal as to dare attack her.
Then, she saw a petite figure, covered in purplish-black liquid, emerge from the explosion in front of the wreckage of the exploded titan, slowly walking towards her.
The opponent's right hand was on the scabbard at her waist. Although she hadn't drawn her sword, it gave her a strong sense of crisis.
After seeing the opponent's face clearly, she was visibly stunned, biting her lip tightly, staring fixedly at this figure.
"I thought you would have been dealt with before you even got here. I didn't expect you to be so tenacious, Inaba Tsukiyo!!!!"
"I also didn't expect to meet you here, An-Mar. Do you know how much I've wanted to see you again?"
Opening her crimson pupils, Inaba Tsukiyo stared fixedly at An-Mar, who was lying on the ground. This person was as detestable as ever, and she was also the one who had harmed Bronya.
Inaba Tsukiyo learned from Bronya that when she conducted an experiment to go to the Sea of Quanta where Seele was, due to the long duration, her legs were invaded by Honkai Energy, which is why she had to wear prosthetics.
Actually, the damage to her legs could have been avoided. If An-Mar hadn't injured Bronya's legs, Bronya wouldn't have ended up this way.
So all of this... all of this is... "All of this is your fault! An-Mar!!!!"
An indescribable killing intent spread, continuously pouring out with An-Mar as the center.
Although she had killed many people, An-Mar had never been targeted by such intense killing intent before. For a moment, she completely didn't know how to react.
"Is that... Classmate Tsukiyo? She's not dead?"
Fu Hua looked at Inaba Tsukiyo in surprise. She hadn't expected Inaba Tsukiyo to be able to survive in such a dangerous environment.
Even she, if she hadn't used the power of the 'Feathers', would probably have been completely devoured by that group of Honkai fish.
"To be able to survive in that situation, is that person a monster?"
Kiana looked at Inaba Tsukiyo in horror. She had been somewhat sad about what happened to Inaba Tsukiyo, but after seeing Inaba Tsukiyo, she somehow felt relieved.
It's just... the purplish-black liquid on Inaba Tsukiyo made Kiana shiver uncomfortably.
For some reason, she felt that the bloodstains on Inaba Tsukiyo were from the previous battle, which made Inaba Tsukiyo's terror level in Kiana's heart skyrocket.
"You... you're just trash! Just trash! I'm going to kill you! Go to hell!"
Although she was terrified, An-Mar found it even more unacceptable that she was afraid of Inaba Tsukiyo.
She commanded the surrounding titans to attack Inaba Tsukiyo. Although someone had told her not to engage in unnecessary battles, the xuanyuan sword was now in her hands, so there would be no problem if she just killed these people, right?
No matter how powerful Inaba Tsukiyo was, she couldn't deal with so many titans. If she killed Inaba Tsukiyo here, perhaps her mother would even praise her.
An-Mar, who had taken the xuanyuan sword from a titan, commanded the titans to surround Inaba Tsukiyo and ordered all the titans to attack her.
"It's really... too much of an eyesore. Seriously, I just dealt with Chiyou, and I still have to teach that person a lesson, so why are you blocking my way?"
Facing the titans surrounding her, Inaba Tsukiyo did not show much anxiety. She lowered her head, and no one could see her current expression.
At this moment, a heavy titan had already launched an attack on Inaba Tsukiyo. The movement of this titan was noticed by Fu Hua, who was not far away.
"Classmate Inaba!"
Seeing Inaba Tsukiyo surrounded by over a dozen titans, Fu Hua handed the unconscious Himeko to Kiana. Just as she was about to help, she saw Inaba Tsukiyo slowly draw mikazuki munechika and gently swung it at the arm of the titan attacking her.
Logically, such an attack should not have much destructive power, but the titan's arm was cut open under this soft and weak attack. The titan's arm was very easily cut into two halves.
"This... how is this possible?"
Fu Hua didn't know much about the materials Anti-Entropy used to make titans, but they definitely wouldn't be so fragile as to be cut by such a light attack, would they?
Fu Hua didn't know, but An-Mar, who was not far away, knew very well the materials used to make titans.
The main combat power of Anti-Entropy consisted of these high-tech titans, but now the titans were cut so easily. This... did someone cut corners?
Or... because the production cost of titans was too high, they had no choice but to find some cheaper materials for the construction?
Welt: I worked very hard to earn money, but I still couldn't do it.
"It's just a toy, so what if it's mechanical? These eyes... can kill even a god."
Her eyes covered in a sapphire blue light, Inaba Tsukiyo didn't even use her specialty, Iaido Slash, against the constantly pouncing titans. She merely dodged attacks and then swung her sword.
Even the speed of her sword swings was slow, but it was precisely these strikes that effortlessly sliced through the titans' bodies, making them feel like blocks of tofu.
Kiana, standing some distance away, watched Inaba Tsukiyo cut through the titans so easily and looked at the twin pistols in her hands with some confusion.
Before Inaba Tsukiyo arrived, she had used her twin pistols against the titans, but they hadn't even caused a scratch. She strongly suspected her bullets were just BB pellets.
After dealing with the titans in front of them, An-Mar was nowhere to be seen. It seemed she had made a strategic retreat while Inaba Tsukiyo was dealing with the titans.
(An-Mar: I'm out of here, I'm out of here.)
"Did she really run away? Other than spouting threats, she's utterly useless."
Inaba Tsukiyo sneered, then an intense stinging sensation in her eyes made her cover them uncomfortably.
The sensation came and went quickly, but it was much better than the first time she had used it.
"So, next is Major Himeko's problem. The xuanyuan sword was taken, but her heart has been destroyed from within, so there shouldn't be any issues, right?"
Having accidentally fallen into the heart earlier, she used that power, combined with the xuanyuan sword, to finally locate the heart's core and destroy it. That should have caused Chiyou immense damage, right?
It's just... Major Himeko's situation is very grim.
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