"Eh? Where is this?"
Power had just worked out a new theory and wanted to flaunt her IQ to Denji-ko. She looked up—and froze.
"What the hell? Where'd my big room go? Why is it gone?"
She gaped and looked around in disbelief, seeing only charred furniture and ruined walls. The ceiling had completely disappeared; the white walls had turned into disgusting, writhing, dark-red meat.
"Crappy woman, quit shrieking."
Denji-ko dug a finger in her ear and blew lightly. "Mr. Su Tang just went supernova. Almost the entire eighth floor burned. Only this room and that one far away were left intact."
"Ah-ha?! Doesn't that mean we're saved?"
A bit crestfallen, Power put away her research results. "Since you managed to live, looks like Yours Truly has to split the Nobel Prize with you—damn it."
Denji-ko couldn't care less about Nobel Prizes.
She glanced at the dazed Arai and Kobeni, then at Aki who'd fainted during the violent shaking. Last, she looked skyward, moon-eyed. "Mr. Su Tang blew his clothes again, hee-hee…"
"Su Tang blew his clothes? Yours Truly wants to see too!" At the sound, Power eagerly looked up. "Last time you two did something secret in the room, it's my turn now."
Looking up, she saw the cyan figure darting back and forth among the heaving meat-walls.
"What, that's it? I thought it was more explosive. It's just his sleeves torn by his muscles." Power slapped her cheeks, huffing. "Yours Truly wants to admire chest muscles too."
"Don't rush. The chance is probably coming."
Denji-ko put on a mysterious air, positively confident.
"What chance?" Power leaned in to ask, but Denji-ko only smiled without speaking.
Clearly she meant to keep it to herself.
"Damn it! Even if you don't say it, Yours Truly knows."
Power raised her head, eyes sparkling with wisdom. "The answer is that shield!"
"Huh? How do you know?" Denji-ko looked shocked. "If I'd known, I wouldn't have told you."
"Heh-heh, Yours Truly's IQ is dozens of times yours." Power preened. "That Su Tang is fighting the meat-wall devil over the shield, and his eyes look just like when he pulled that octagonal stone from behind me last time. I bet you're planning to help him grab the shield and trade it for a condition!"
"Too bad—it's already known by Yours Truly, hahahaha! I announce that I'm joining the fight for the shield!"
She crowed triumphantly, oblivious that it wasn't only Denji-ko who could hear her now; Kobeni and Arai had also heard every word.
The two looked at each other, obviously not understanding the fiend.
Denji-ko, however, gave her just what she wanted.
"Damn it, crappy woman, the shield is mine!"
"No, that shield belongs to Yours Truly! This time the human brat can stand aside and watch!"
"I won't yield to a crappy woman like you—for the chest muscles!"
"For the condition!"
They started bickering again.
Overhead, Su Tang sneered at the meat-walls. "Didn't you eat? Put your back into it! These chunks hitting me are just like a massage, hahahaha!"
"Aaagh! Damn human! I'll kill you!!"
Heads popped out of the meat-walls from every direction. Arms emerged in swarms, swinging up and down, grabbing for Su Tang.
"Ah-ha! Now it's getting interesting. But not enough!"
In half-dragon form, Su Tang charged through the arms, laughing. "Not fast enough, not hard enough, not enough of them!"
He caught a fist that suddenly lunged from the wall, squeezed, and turned it to mince. With jaws open wide, he grinned ferociously. "No strength to throw a punch—and you call yourself a devil?!"
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts—aaagh!!"
The Eternity Devil screamed; countless heads shrieked in unison, like a demonic chorus in the ear. "It's useless, useless! Human! I am the Eternity Devil—I cannot be killed! Give up!"
After knocking aside another fist, a very human frown appeared on Su Tang's grotesque face.
To keep from losing his reason, he had stopped using fire-qi and relied only on half-dragon form. His IQ had just "rebooted."
And once it did, problems followed.
These countless arms and an unkillable devil were too troublesome!
It was also a brutal test of his SAN value.
He was not keen on being committed to a mental hospital as a doctor.
So… he had to get the talisman quickly!
Keeping his eyes expressionless, he glanced toward the shield. With dragon claws opening a path, he pressed forward invincibly!
"Human, human! What do you want? Oh~ you want this shield!"
The Eternity Devil giggled, condensing batches of meat-tumors, heads, and arms to block Su Tang, while wriggling the walls to shift the shield back. "Human, if you hurt me, you'll never get it—never! Hahaha!"
"Hmph."
Bloodlight flashed in Su Tang's eyes. He pulled his arms back like a full moon drawn on a bow and punched with maximum force!
The meat-walls rippled with the shock, waves spreading outward.
All the way to the shield!
Boom—!!
Another punch!
In an instant, the meat-walls lost control. Without the surrounding squeeze, the shield immediately began to fall freely.
"Catch it!"
Su Tang shouted down to Denji-ko and Power.
He had thought they'd be too slow and had prepared to have the Shadow Corps assist. To his surprise, the moment they saw the shield, the two were like hunters sighting prey. As soon as it fell, they were already beneath it.
"Ha! The chest muscles are mine!" Denji-ko was a shade taller, so she snatched the shield before Power.
"Damn." Power's eyes rolled, then she suddenly shouted, "Look! Su Tang blew another meat-tumor!"
"Blew his clothes? Where?!"
Denji-ko turned her head—and felt her hands go light. She looked back. Sure enough, the shield was in Power's hands.
"Ah-hahaha! The shield belongs to Yours Truly now!"
Holding the golden shield high, Power laughed—and before she got two laughs out, a hand burst from the meat under her feet and slammed a fist into her patellar reflex point—
With a bang!
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