Chapter 1647: A Warning
"Are you saying I'm still not strong enough?" Kouji Kabuto was somewhat displeased, but he was nowhere near enraged when facing Xiao Ran. Still, as Kouji's emotions shifted, Mazinger ZERO's eyes glowed an even deeper crimson.
Xiao Ran answered without the slightest hesitation, calm and indifferent. "That is how it appears to me."
"Why?!" Kouji Kabuto asked in confusion, raising his voice. "I clearly defeated an enemy even you couldn't defeat! I was the one who killed Hades!"
"That's right. You killed Hades. With my abilities, I truly had no way to destroy Hades as easily and directly as you did. That is a fact, and I do not deny it. But are you sure the one who killed Hades was you, rather than Mazinger itself?"
"What do you mean?!" Kouji Kabuto directly controlled Mazinger and flew toward Dawn, clenching his fists as he stared at it. "What exactly are you trying to say? I was clearly the one who eliminated this world's threat! I was clearly the one who saved everyone! Then why are you saying these things to me?!"
Without any warning, Dawn suddenly launched an attack at Mazinger ZERO—an abrupt attack that was not particularly powerful. A beam shot forth, and in the next instant, Mazinger ZERO left behind an afterimage as it shifted aside and effortlessly dodged Dawn's attack.
Only after Dawn's attack had been dodged did Kouji Kabuto seem to react. He looked at Xiao Ran in disbelief, never having imagined that Xiao Ran, who had led the Victory Fleet all this time, would attack him. But before Kouji Kabuto could react further, Xiao Ran's voice rang out again.
"Did you notice? You were not the one who dodged my attack. You never expected me to attack, and you did not