Ben10: A Romantic Adventure with a Gender-Swapped Class

He instantly realized that his "grand talk" just now might have, probably, perhaps... stepped into a landmine that he should never have stepped into!

Alarm bells rang in his head, and his survival instincts surged instantly!

"Uh... I... I mean..." Kevin slammed down the hamburger as if he'd been burned, and his two sauce-covered hands were quickly raised to his chest and waved wildly, as if he were sending a telegram.

He forced an extremely stiff and obsequious smile onto his face, and raised his voice several octaves, with an eagerness that suggested he was trying to cover something up.

"I mean... I heard it! Yes! I heard it from a friend! I have a friend who's really experienced... He told me! It's all based on his experience! It has nothing to do with me! Absolutely nothing to do with me!"

Hearing Kevin's flawed and futile excuse, the cold anger on Xiaowen's face seemed to melt a little.

His tense shoulders relaxed slightly, and he lowered his hand that had been supporting his chin.

But her brows did not completely relax.

She lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes casting a small shadow under her eyelids, as if she were thinking about something.

Kevin's remarks about "trouble" and "start chasing and running" were like a tiny thorn that pierced her heart.

She raised her eyes again, her gaze lessening the murderous intent from before, but instead revealing a complex and unreadable doubt and a hint of...worry? Her brows slowly furrowed once more.

The warm lights and noisy chatter of the fast food restaurant acted as an invisible barrier, isolating the night and undercurrents outside the window.

Xiaowen and Kevin were engrossed in their slightly heated conversation, neither of them noticing that not far from their window booth, a figure blended into the shadows stood silently.

It was a figure wrapped in a dark coat, with the brim of the hat pulled low, obscuring the face, as if it were a piece cut out of the night itself.

He (or it?) was like a cold sculpture, motionless, the only thing that revealed his presence was his eyes hidden in the shadow of his hat brim—like two frozen, cold stars, piercing through the glass of the fast food restaurant, silently locking onto Kevin and Xiaowen with a chilling focus and scrutiny.

Just moments later, the eerie figure suddenly began to "dissolve".

Without smoke or sound, the dark material that formed the outline of his body seemed to be decomposed and recombined by an invisible force, instantly turning into countless tiny crystal chips that shimmered with a cold, eerie light.

It eventually collapsed into a flowing, silver vortex made of pure crystals.

The vortex existed for less than a second before suddenly shrinking inward, as if swallowed by a black hole, silently merging into the even denser darkness cast by the nearby buildings, disappearing completely, leaving only a slight disturbance in the cold air where it had stood, as if it had never existed.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the city.

Mo Bai drove his newly purchased car, carrying his little van that had just been "filled with slush," slowly along the neon-lit streets.

A cool night breeze blew in through the car window, ruffling the wisps of hair on Xiao Ban's forehead.

She leaned back contentedly in the passenger seat, one hand still stroking her slightly protruding belly with lingering pleasure, while the other hand rested idly on the edge of the car window, her fingertips tapping lightly to the intermittent music playing from the car radio.

The languid comfort after a satisfying meal temporarily dispelled the previous thunder and lightning.

"Burp..." The little boy let out a small burp, rubbed his stomach, and complained lazily, "I'm so full... I need to stop at the next intersection, I need to get out and walk around to digest."

Mo Bai felt as if he had been granted a pardon and was about to turn the steering wheel to pull over when...

The car communicator suddenly emitted a sharp beeping sound without warning, instantly shattering the brief silence inside the car.

The screen flashed a blinding red light, accompanied by Xiaowen's rapid, tense, and even slightly panting voice, which poured over her like ice water.

"Mo Bai! Xiao Ban! Answer me! Victor Valida! He appeared out of nowhere! He's attacking me and Kevin!"

"Victor Walida?!" Mo Bai and Xiao Ban exclaimed almost simultaneously! This name shattered the tranquility of the night like a thunderbolt! Wasn't he dead? Could the information at the cemetery be...?

All thoughts of taking a walk to aid digestion vanished instantly! Mo Bai's pupils suddenly contracted, and a chill ran down her spine.

He slammed the accelerator to the floor!

The roar of the engine ripped through the silence of the night.

Mo Bai pushed the car's performance to its limit, speeding along and running through several flashing yellow lights, finally arriving at Xiao Wen's location in the shortest possible time.

With a screeching sound of brakes, before the car had come to a complete stop, the passenger door was violently pushed open with great force!

The little boy jumped down like a cannonball.

She didn't even glance at Mo Bai. Her beautiful eyes burned with raging anger—anger at Victoria's resurrection and attack on her friend, mixed with lingering resentment towards Mo Bai for "daydreaming" and "being hugged by Elena"!

This mixed anger seemed to have found the perfect outlet, driving her like an enraged cheetah, charging straight toward the center of the abandoned factory area filled with dust and chaotic energy fluctuations!

"Perfect timing to let the Mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex get some exercise! To digest the slush!!"

Before he could finish speaking, the Ultimatrix watch on Xiao Ban's wrist suddenly flashed green!

The dazzling light instantly engulfed her slender figure, replacing it with a powerful tyrannosaurus.

The mighty fist of the Divine Tyrannosaurus, carrying the terrifying force of tearing through the air, slammed down like a falling meteorite towards the ominous figure wrapped in tattered clothes—Victor Valida!

This punch contained all of Xiao Ban's anger and power, enough to split mountains and shatter rocks!

However, something strange happened suddenly!

Just as that giant fist, capable of shattering steel, was about to touch its target, Vidovalida's body trembled violently!

The substances that make up his body rippled like a stone thrown into water!

The next second, his body suddenly exploded without warning!

There was no flying blood and flesh, no screams.

Vito Valida transformed into a "metal storm" composed of countless tiny, shimmering, cold silver chips!

These chips, as if they possessed a life of their own, deftly scattered and spun in the gale-force winds generated by the Divine Tyrannosaurus's punch, perfectly avoiding the fatal blow!