I am the boss of Sakaki

This plain rhetorical question was more oppressive than any roar.

The flesh on Yoshino's face twitched, and a strong sense of foreboding wrapped around his neck like an icy poisonous snake.

He no longer hesitated, and with his fat fingers covered in sweat and grease, he slammed the jewel-encrusted emergency call button on the armrest of the sofa!

"Hello?! Security department! Monitoring room! Are you all just here to eat and do nothing?! How could someone sneak into my office without making any noise?! Now! Get over here right now!" He roared into the pager, spit flying everywhere.

However, the only response he got was a dead busy tone.

The indicator light on the pager flashed an ominous red, as if mocking his futility.

Immediately afterwards——

"what--!!!"

"Help! A ghost-type Pokémon!!"

“No…don’t come over here—!!!”

The shrill and distorted screams, like the prelude to hell, suddenly penetrated the heavy office door and poured clearly into Yoshino's ears!

The sound did not come from downstairs, but was very close, in the corridor outside his office!

At the same time, a rusty smell so strong that it was disgusting - the sweet and fishy smell of fresh blood, mixed with the stench of incontinent excrement, like an invisible wave, instantly surged in from under the door and filled the entire luxurious space!

This smell, this sound... Yoshino felt a chill rushing from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and his legs suddenly went limp as if all the bones in them were pulled out in an instant.

"Plop!"

His fat body fell heavily back into the sofa, and the expensive leather cushion groaned under the weight.

Cold sweat oozed from his greasy forehead and fat neck like a waterfall, instantly soaking the collar of his expensive shirt.

The blood color on his face had completely drained away, leaving only a deathly paleness, and his pupils were dilated with extreme fear.

"Ho…ho ho…" A sound like a broken bellows came from his throat, and the great fear choked his breath.

Sakaki's cold laughter was like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue, echoing in the dead silence and blood:

"Oh, I really don't know how a bastard like you managed to climb onto this chair." The back of the chair turned slightly, like a hunter examining his dying prey. "It seems your current owner's vision is truly worrying. He's practically blind."

"Sir...Sir...Who...Who are you?!" Yoshino's voice was shaking, driven by a strong instinct for survival.

Like a frightened fat rat, he rolled down from the sofa using his hands and feet, and crawled behind the bronze clock in the corner of the room, as if this metal object could give him a sense of security.

His young and beautiful secretary was already frightened and instinctively wanted to lean on him for protection, but Yoshino pushed her away roughly and mercilessly!

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" he screamed, and the woman stumbled and fell to the ground, looking at him in horror, her eyes filled with incredible despair.

Da... cough cough... he turned his back on me without mercy, revealing his selfish nature.

The large office chair finally turned completely around slowly, with a cold and controlling majesty.

"Your previous master," Sakaki's face, as hard and cold as if carved by a knife and an axe, was completely exposed under the luxurious ceiling light. His deep and cold eyes clearly reflected Yoshino's distorted reflection due to fear, "Sasaki..."

He opened his thin lips slightly and uttered the last few words: "...I'll protect you."

"What?!!" Yoshino's head buzzed as if it was hit by a sledgehammer!

All luck and bluffing were completely crushed at this moment!

The person behind Sasaki... is definitely someone he cannot afford to offend...!

The fat on his face was shaking violently, and the huge fear instantly turned into a hysterical desire to survive!

Like a stepped-on toad, he pounced on the cold metal body of the bronze bell and screamed with all his might: "Quick! Bronze Bell! Take me away! Break the window! Fly out!!!"

He's certainly not a complete idiot.

The moment he heard the three words "I'm protecting you", he completely understood - the person in front of him was someone who could easily crush his new master like crushing an ant!

A quasi-king-level bronze bell?

In the eyes of the other party, he's probably not even a toy! His only way out is to escape! Now! Right now!

The bronze bell faithfully carried out the order. The heavy bell body burst out with supernatural light, humming, and carried Yoshino, who was clinging to the top of the bell, and slammed into the huge floor-to-ceiling window like a clumsy cannonball!

However, just as the bronze bell was about to touch the special glass that was said to be able to withstand artillery bombardment—

"Shh!"

Several shadows as black as ink and as viscous as liquid, like ghost claws reaching out from the abyss of hell, suddenly shot out from under the feet of Sakaki who was sitting still at a speed beyond the visual capture!

They wrapped around the speeding bronze bell with incredible precision, like extremely tough steel cables, tightening in an instant!

"Buzz--!!!" The bronze bell let out a painful and dull whine, and its momentum of charging was abruptly strangled in mid-air. It hung there, trembling in vain.

As Yoshino's eyes bulged out of extreme fear, a purple figure with a huge grin and a creepy evil smile slowly emerged from the shadows under Sakaki.

It’s Gengar!

It floated in front of the bronze bell that was firmly imprisoned by Shadow Claws and could not move. Its scarlet eyes flashed with mischief. It even tilted its head playfully and stretched out its seemingly harmless little hand.

Gently open it, and then——

Clap hard!

"when--!!!!!"

A deafening sound of metal explosion, as if it could tear the soul apart, rang out!

In Yoshino's horrified eyes filled with "impossible", the quasi-king-level bronze bell, which he considered to be extremely powerful and a symbol of the status of a rising star, was in his eyes.

The heavy metal body covered with ancient runes was like a piece of low-quality tin can hit by a huge hammer. With Gengar's hitting point as the center, it was visibly and terrifyingly dented, twisted, and collapsed!

Countless fine cracks instantly spread across the entire bell like a spider web!

The spiritual light was extinguished, the runes dimmed, and the bronze bell that was so majestic just now turned into a pile of twisted and deformed scrap copper and iron in the blink of an eye. It was casually thrown to the ground by Shadow Claw, making a heavy muffled sound!

"Wha...what's going on?!!" Yoshino's thoughts completely stopped and his mind went blank.

This scene completely overturned his understanding of power and petrified him.

His eyes literally bulged out!

Not to mention the rest of his elves.

Yoshino almost instinctively grabbed the Poké Ball belt around his waist with the last bit of luck and madness!

His fingers trembled as he tried to press the release button - this was his only remaining, insignificant resistance.

However, the Poké Ball didn't even manage to completely leave the clip.

A thick, living shadow extending from Sakaki's feet suddenly branched out into several thinner and faster black tentacles!

These shadow tentacles were like poisonous snakes with life and will. They wrapped around every Poké Ball on Yoshino's waist with precision at a speed that surpassed Yoshino's nerve reaction!

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

A few crisp sounds.

Blood and flesh appeared out of thin air, dotted with tiny pieces of Poké Ball.

Yoshino's hand was still frozen in mid-air, maintaining the posture of grabbing the Poké Ball.

The blood color on his face completely drained away, leaving only a deathly paleness and extreme fear.

The huge fear completely overwhelmed him.

The fat man who was still claiming to be a winner in life just a second ago, now seemed to have all his bones pulled out. His legs could no longer support his fat body. He fell heavily to his knees with a "thump", and his knees hit the ground with a dull sound.

He burst into tears, pressed his forehead against the blood-stained carpet, and wailed like a slaughtered pig, begging for mercy:

"Sir! Sir, please don't kill me! I was wrong! I was really wrong! I was forced to do it! Those guys forced me to do this! I'll tell you everything!

I know a lot of secrets! A lot of the new boss... No! That bastard's secrets!

Please! Please spare my life! I am willing to be your dog! More loyal than being his dog! Please! "

Sakaki didn't even bother to watch his ugly performance. He just waved his finger lightly, his tone as calm as if he was shooing away a fly:

"Do I need you to tell me?"