He calmly opened his arms, asking Tobio, "Why side with outsiders, Tobio-san, aren’t we true compatriots? Isn’t everything I’ve done for all hybrids?"
"No one is a compatriot of yours, God City Future."
Tobio turned back, pulling the trigger expressionlessly.
A savage blood hole appeared on God City Future’s face, brain matter and blood trickling out slowly, God City Future died instantly.
That’s how it should’ve been.
But God City Future did not fall back skyward, instead stiffly standing in place, after quite a while, slowly lowered his head, examining the blood flowing from the hole in his forehead onto the ground.
"Wagging your tail to beg for mercy from others won’t bring peace, Tobio."
He sighed in disappointment.
Amidst the hail of bullets from the Extreme Path, he endured attacks that could destroy the flesh countless times over, gazing at everyone with a pitying look.
His smile gradually turned mocking.
"Look, everyone."
"The things that divide us are far stronger than the things that unite us. You surrender to authority, intoxicated by false peace and complacency, forgetting the pain and humiliation we were born with. So foolish, so ridiculous...
Humans are like cells, aggregation is only a rare miracle, ’division’ is the eternal theme."
His cracked lips, bloodied, slowly opened and closed, issuing a hoarse voice.
He said,
"My name is [Prushim]!"
Prushim, differentiation, division, separation.
The registered name in the God City Future, derived from ancient legend in Hebrew, ’Pharisee’, in essence, means one who pursues holiness and distances oneself from the mundane.
To create a beautiful and pure realm, away from foolishness and filth.
At that moment, amidst the barrage of bullets, his shattered face revealed a ferocious smile as the corners of his mouth lifted.
"Now, the time of separation arrives—"
Boom!
In that instant, his head exploded.
Because someone pushed past the people in front, walked forward, and impatiently threw a punch, directly smashing his head.
"Bah!"
Huai Shi spat fiercely after lowering his head, then lifted his foot to stomp. Dissatisfied, he stomped again: "Separation, separate your damn head!"
Boom!
"Not being afraid of bullets makes you amazing, huh! Do you know sumo wrestling!"
Boom!
"Do you know what a shiko is!"
Boom!
"Ever heard of the stories of the... Tiger King Group!"
Ignoring the astonished looks from those around, Huai Shi continued to punch and kick, physically crashing into the scene to hammer the guy on the spot.
Thinking about the enormous threat this idiot posed to so many innocents made Huai Shi want to scatter this dog’s ashes, to keep him forever separated.
"No transformations allowed, got it!"
Huai Shi reached over, grabbed the rapidly regenerating remnants on the ground by the neck, and punched the newly grown head again: "Taking so long to load and still no invincibility frames, really think you’re a Magical Girl, huh!"
Boom!
Blood sprayed.
He paused for a moment.
Because the feel of the punch was a bit peculiar. It felt like smashing a pig bladder, strangely slippery.
Then, he heard an angry roar from the God City Future, and in his hands, the incomplete shell suddenly expanded and shattered, turning into rolling Abyss that swept all around.
The impact, comparable to an explosion, flipped Huai Shi over.
Immediately afterwards, endless darkness erupted, as if Huai Shi had finally broken the illusionary exterior, revealing the rotten truth within...
In that instant, beneath the women’s clothing, Liu DongLi squinted, her eyes becoming stern.
Indeed!
The aura from Hell erupted from the shattered corpse, and the shadow of entwined rotten snakes appeared, followed by the body of God City Future materializing once more from the void, unharmed.
The blessing from the Ruler descended, allowing him to return to life, howling to the sky.
A piercing scream burst forth, followed by a sudden explosion in the night sky, like the thunderous boom left by a fighter jet breaking the sound barrier.
The ground shook violently.
Where Huai Shi originally stood, a giant hole appeared.
A massive figure, bloody and as if skinned, descended from the sky, shook the dust from its body, and raised its head. Eerily, two sharp horns sprouted from its face, golden-painted and terrifyingly savage.
Golden Bear Boy, Yingzhou Phylogeny Fourth Stage... It would have been that, if not fallen into the Abyss.
——Solidifiers!
"That’s... that’s... Lord Jiutiao!"
Arakawa was the first to recognize the figure, and his eyes burned red in an instant: "God City you bastard, do you have to disturb even the dead!"
He roared: "Kill that bastard for me! Kill that bastard thing!!!"
The hybrid hero long deceased, once a protector of the Tanbo Inner Circle, now resurrected, stood by the side of God City Future.
Hollow eyes looked at the place where Huai Shi was.
Killing intent erupted.
"Holy shit..."
In a frantic roll, Huai Shi looked up, then... he panicked.
"Is Ai Qing there, there, there, there, there!!!!"