Wait, why is this blond guy a lolicon?

"Um?!!?"

"You bastard, what did you win?!"

Before Chi Zhan could turn around, a swift palm strike came hurtling towards him, slapping him hard across the cheek and knocking him to the ground.

"What?!" Chi Zhan stared at him in disbelief.

"My ability is so great that it can even split a soul in two..."

Jiang Ling chuckled, grabbed his hair, and lifted him up with one hand:

"My ability to shatter into pieces allows me to reassemble even my soul."

"Sorry, I'm a natural counter to slashing attacks and the like."

"No, no... How... how did you know my hidden technique was a slash!?"

Chi Zhan saw a ghost and screamed in terror.

"Tell me, who is the leader of the Viper Gang? What are his characteristics?"

Jiang Ling gripped his throat, her voice icy, "Tell me, and maybe I can spare your life."

"Slash!" Chi Zhan unleashed another spatial slash.

A thin line of blood instantly appeared on Jiang Ling's neck, and her head and body were slightly misaligned.

However, the severed head floated in front of him and coldly said, "You have ten seconds left."

"Slash! Slash! Slash!"

Chi Zhan was completely dazed and confused, frantically squeezing out his mental energy to unleash a spatial slash.

But no matter how many times you cut it.

It could only cause Jiang Ling's body to break into even smaller pieces, but it couldn't cause any truly fatal damage—those fragments didn't even bleed a drop of blood, and they maintained their eerie activity.

Jiang Ling punched him in the stomach.

Chi Zhan coughed up a mouthful of blood, gritting his teeth and growling:

"Aaaaaah, I can't... tell you anything!"

I can't say anything... I absolutely can't reveal anything about the BOSS!

If you say it out loud, you're dead.

Jiang Ling took the phone from his pocket, then mimicked his voice using a feint, saying with a smile:

"Of course, you don't have to tell me. I just need to call your boss to extract information from him."

"You're also... a user of dual hidden techniques?!"

Hearing a voice that sounded exactly like his own coming from his mouth.

Chi Zhan stared blankly, as if the sky were falling.

"I...I'll talk...I'll talk—!" he cried, grabbing Jiang Ling's hand.

Since the information is going to be exposed anyway, I might as well use it to buy a possible chance of survival...

"Hey, go ahead and say it, I'm listening," Jiang Ling said with a smile, staring at him.

Buzz~ Buzz~ Buzz

Sudden.

I inexplicably heard the sound of fingernails scratching a blackboard.

Hey!

Jiang Ling was stunned. She looked down and saw only a pair of severed hands gripping her sleeve.

The severed hand had a clean cut, from which blood bubbles gushed out, forming a winding, crimson stream that flowed onto the ground.

Tick-tock~ Tick-tock~

Warm liquid dripped onto his forehead. Looking up, he saw that Chi Zhan's body had been pierced by a steel bar and was pinned to the ceiling frame.

He is dead.

"Cough—!" Jiang Ling suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Looking down, he saw a hole the size of a bowl in his chest, his heart shattered.

A feeling of impending death enveloped him.

This was the first time he had felt such a bone-chilling cold since gaining the ability to "stop time".

Someone actually managed to punch him through the chest without him even noticing.

However, Jiang Ling did not panic; her eyes turned cold.

【Zawarudo—!】

[Paper Knight - Saint Lord Mode - Horse!]

A noble horse will drive away all your injuries and diseases.

Jiang Ling squinted and calmly surveyed her surroundings.

If I remember correctly, it was when I heard that faint sound of fingernails scratching across the blackboard.

Just a moment ago, he clearly sensed another fluctuation that interfered with time.

If his "fluctuations" can briefly stop the movement of particles in all things in the world, while he himself briefly jumps out of the timeline to become the sole "observer".

This achieves a time freeze.

So the "fluctuation" just now was to make the "timeline" itself "disappear" from the consciousness and physical logic of all observers, delete the process, and leave only the abrupt and inexplicable "cause" and "effect".

In layman's terms... it's the ability to "delete time"!

From cause to effect.

There is no process.

That's why he didn't notice the other party's "attack".

Jiang Ling had a preliminary deduction in her mind.

It's most likely that the mysterious and unpredictable boss of the Viper Gang made his move.

From the very beginning, the BOSS was lurking in the shadows.

They wait for their chance to strike, like a treacherous and cunning viper.

Actually, you can figure it out if you think about it.

None of the cadres sent out on the mission survived; even the most incompetent boss wouldn't remain completely inactive.

It now appears that Chi Zhan's "assassination plan" was merely the surface, while the real, deeper target was him.

The boss wants to know who has been ruining his plans all along, what their strength is, what hidden skills they have, and whether they can be killed by surprise...

This can also be explained.

Why was it so easy for Koizumi Aoyama to obtain Chizan's assassination plan?

It was clearly bait deliberately released by the BOSS.

If there is no Holy Lord mode.

He has now become a ghost under the BOSS's command.

"What a brilliant tactic! They're willing to sacrifice the vice-leader's life just to test out my hidden technique?" Jiang Ling released his Observation Haki, searching inch by inch.

Time-based superhumans possess a certain degree of resistance to other superhuman abilities.

He was able to deduce that the time had been deleted based on the "fluctuations".

That guy could also sense the "time stop".

Perhaps, like Song Ruyu, she can retain consciousness during the pause.

"Found you!" Not long after, he was in the dojo's restroom.

We found someone wearing a baseball cap.

A man with pink hair that was loose and flowing like octopus tentacles.

"The boss of the Viper Gang..." Jiang Ling's golden hair flew wildly like flames as she circled behind him and unleashed a powerful punch.

"Wuda!!!"

Without hesitation, he punched through the chest!

"Mu Da Mu Da Mu Da Mu Da - Mu Da -!"

A barrage of punches rained down like a storm. Jiang Ling showed no mercy, instantly turning his opponent into a cloud of blood mist.

Jiang Ling showed no mercy.

At the same time, the Falun (Buddhist wheel) behind them is turning.

Bronze Dragon Head - Exploding Dragon Flame Ray!

boom--!

The bursting dragon flame ray dried up the patch of blood mist.

Bronze Pig Head - With piercing, captivating eyes!

The laser eye broke the black powder into even finer particles.

Even Wolverine would die here if this combination worked.

Time stop ends.

Jiang Ling stared at the pile of ashes on the ground. "System, is he dead? If he is, give me the reward."

No response.

Either this guy isn't the BOSS, or... the other party used some methods he wasn't aware of to escape.

Jiang Ling prefers the latter.

Given the boss's cautious nature, he would definitely leave himself a way out in case of failure.

However, at least one of the BOSS's hidden skills has been discovered – "Time Deletion".

I waited a few seconds.

Jiang Ling took off her pants and urinated into the toilet.

Then, he pulled up his pants and left the toilet stall.

……

About three minutes later, Jiang Ling returned and used his Observation Haki to thoroughly search the restroom several times.

"Looks like he's really gone. Let's go find Alan."

Five minutes passed.

Jiang Ling returned to the toilet, his fist covered in black dog blood, and smashed the urinal with a single punch.

The water gushed forth like a spring, a soulless wail.

He frowned:

"So they really ran away..."

"Fine, then I'll let you off this time."

at the same time.

Inside a low-rent apartment building off-campus, a young man with pink hair knelt on the floor, wailing and pounding the floor with his fists.

"Damn it! Damn it all!!!!"

"You actually killed Doppio... my Doppio... my brother... Doppio... Doppio, ahhhhhh!"