"Are we leaving already?"
Uvogin smacked his lips, clearly rather dissatisfied.
"Of course not!"
Morin smiled, his gaze gradually turning cold. "We still haven't found that foul-mouthed bastard."
"And with such a fine building, wouldn't it be a shame not to set it on fire?!"
"Burn it?"
Uvogin's grin nearly split his face. "I like it!!"
As he spoke, he dragged Nobunaga along behind Morin, searching for flammable materials like gasoline and alcohol.
They had barely gone very far when—
A powerful aura suddenly accelerated toward them from behind.
"An expert is coming!!"
Nobunaga stopped, holding his longsword horizontally with one hand on the hilt. His expression turned grave as he assumed an iaijutsu stance.
The amount of aura the other party was displaying was absolutely beyond what they could contend with right now!!
"Want to fight?"
Uvogin knocked his fists together. He feared no opponent, no matter who it was.
Of course, if they could not win, running away would be even better.
"No need."
Morin shook his head, then took out a bamboo skewer.
Four white little balls, resembling glutinous rice dumplings, were skewered on it.
"Is that food?"
Nobunaga asked curiously, "Is it meant to fill our stomachs and restore our strength?"
"What stupid nonsense are you talking about?!"
Uvogin looked down on him again. "What kind of food is that? It wouldn't even fill the gaps between my teeth!"
While the two bickered, Morin swiftly removed the topmost little dumpling.
He hurled it hard in the direction from which the expert Nen user was approaching.
The white little dumpling immediately landed on the ground, kicking up a cloud of pink smoke, as though nothing had happened.
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Uvogin and Nobunaga both looked at Morin in confusion.
"Let's go."
Morin offered no explanation and led the two of them away at a sprint.
Life-Saving Pills
"Where do you think you're running?!"
The expert Nen user chasing them looked at the targets ahead, who were already nearly within reach. Naturally, he would not let them get away so easily. He immediately quickened his pace, his body suddenly accelerating.
Feeling the fierce wind behind them, Uvogin and Nobunaga did not ask any questions out of trust in Morin.
They simply kept their heads down and accelerated after Morin.
The distance between the pursuing expert Nen user and them grew smaller and smaller.
Just as he was about to catch up—
Step!
He planted a foot on the spot where the white dumpling had scattered its pink mist.
"Screeech~!!"
It sounded like fingernails scraping across a blackboard, an unbearably shrill noise.
The expert Nen user felt his center of gravity suddenly give way, and his body pitched heavily forward.
Fortunately, with his astonishing flexibility, he forcibly twisted his waist and barely straightened himself.
He avoided the worst outcome of planting his face into the ground.
"This is... glue?!"
He stared in astonishment at the yellowish, extremely viscous substance around his shoe.
No matter how hard he struggled, he could not pull his foot free from the ground.
It was as if it had taken root, his shoe firmly stuck to the floor.
He tried to pull his foot out of the shoe, only to discover that the glue seemed to have seeped through it and stuck his foot down as well!!
"Hahaha, idiot!!"
The experts following behind offered their colleague at the front their most sincere ridicule.
Having learned from his mistake, however, they carefully watched the surrounding ground and prepared to take huge strides over it.
But—
"Screeech?!!"
Another skin-crawling sound rang out, and two more people were stuck to the ground.
"The range is this wide?"
They looked at the vast stretch of ground ahead, where an extremely adhesive glue seemed to be hidden everywhere.
"Let's take another route!!"
Seeing Morin and the other two about to vanish from sight, the group decisively changed course.
But that inevitably cost them quite a bit of time.
"You're amazing, Morin!!"
After looking back and seeing what had happened, Uvogin understood.
"Was that one of your new gadgets?"
"Yeah. It's called Life-Saving Pills."
Morin nodded.
Life-Saving Pills were the third and final gadget Morin had drawn during these three days, aside from Canned Goods Studio and the Cuckoo Bird Egg.
Gadget: Life-Saving Pills.
Effect: When being pursued by an opponent with no way out, simply throw one Life-Saving Pill to successfully escape the opponent's pursuit.
There were a total of
U!
of them. Each possessed a different ability to get out of trouble. The first one, for instance, turned a large area of ground into glue so sticky it could kill someone without consequence.
Like Translation Jelly, they were disposable items. Once they were all used up, they were gone.
The expert Nen users chasing after them also raised their guard.
Even though the targets ahead were as weak as ants, they remained alert because they possessed Nen abilities.
Who knew what kinds of abilities they had?
Besides the ability to casually turn the ground into glue, might they have others?
Thinking this, the group tried their best to avoid the ground, maneuvering along the walls as they advanced. Seeing this, Morin threw the second Life-Saving Pill from the skewer. Plop!
After it landed, another cloud of pink mist rose up.
It made all the pursuing experts tense.
Just as they prepared to guard against it by sticking close to the walls—
Rumble rumble!
The ground shook violently.
Before their astonished eyes, what looked like hills and earthen spikes suddenly surged upward into the sky, piercing straight above!!
The area it covered was immense, and its scale vast. It directly formed a solid earthen wall, firmly blocking and separating them.
"Damn it!!"
The group of experts flew into a rage.
Nen power gathered in their hands.
Enhancement-type and Emission-type ultimate moves struck the earthen wall one after another.
But let alone breaking it—
They could not even shake it in the slightest.
"How can it be this hard?"
The group wore ugly expressions.
"What kind of Nen ability is this?!"
An effect activated by a gadget was difficult to solve through brute force.
Quite a few people stared at the earthen wall before them, pondering a solution.
They looked at the towering earthen wall.
"Come to think of it, directly above this place is the Elder's room, right?"
Someone suddenly remembered something and swallowed.
The others' expressions stiffened at the same time.
Then they exchanged glances.
Surely, probably, perhaps, maybe, or possibly... it could not have happened to hit it exactly, right?
At the very top floor, inside the Elder's office.
The old man wearing fur stood there blankly, staring at the massive earthen wall that had suddenly burst up from below, right in front of him.
The heavy scent of soil reaching his nose made a bead of sweat slowly trickle down his forehead.
"Gulp?"
He swallowed softly.
Only a few centimeters separated him from where the earthen wall had risen.
If he had taken one more step forward, he might have been impaled along with it.
The desk before him and the red wine atop it had already been smashed to pieces.
Instant Kill!
"What in the world is this..."
His lips trembled. "What the hell is going on?!"
His voice suddenly rose.
The furious, shrill roar spread from top to bottom throughout the entire building.
When the experts below who were pursuing Morin and the others heard it, they all shuddered.
"Hahaha, that old bastard's losing it!!"
Near the exit, Uvogin, who was about to escape successfully, let out a delighted laugh.
Nobunaga curled his lips, wanting to chime in with a few fitting remarks as well.
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