(Thank you very much to 'Yunqi Qinggu,' 'Sui Feng Qi Wu,' 'Sha 5 What 2,' and 'Erciyuan de Shuangxiezuo' for the rewards!)
Bang!
"Ugh..." With a muffled groan, Hinagiku slammed hard into the trunk of a tree twice as wide as her body. Like it had been struck by a heavy axe, the trunk cracked open with a sharp snap, fractures spreading across it like a spiderweb.
"Hinagiku!" Not far away, Mikoto was alarmed. She hurried to Hinagiku's side and supported her, panic faintly appearing on her pretty face despite knowing this was not the time for it.
Bazett's punch was no joke!
It was a punch that could shatter the ground and smash through walls of iron sand!
In terms of sheer power alone, this level of strength was already no weaker than Berserker's!
Taking a punch like that head-on without holding anything back, death would hardly have been surprising. At the very least, she should have been seriously injured!
Just because Hinagiku and Mikoto had taken so many punches while fighting Berserker without incident did not mean it was nothing. That had only been because the Mobile Church had protected them.
Against the Mobile Church, known as the ultimate defensive barrier, even Berserker's attacks could only be helplessly blocked completely, unable to inflict even the slightest injury on Hinagiku or Mikoto.
But neither girl was wearing the Mobile Church now!
With Hinagiku's constitution, taking a punch from Bazett, whose strength rivaled Berserker's, was genuinely dangerous...
"I'm fine..."
Yet after taking such a punch, Hinagiku merely showed a trace of pain before standing back up, leaving even Bazett, watching from afar, momentarily stunned.
Hinagiku touched her abdomen, then lifted her clothes to reveal the skin beneath.
Only then did Bazett see it...
On the skin of Hinagiku's abdomen was