The bullet Himeko caught turned into molten iron, yet it did not burn her fair palm. She even examined the melted, partially vaporized iron with curious eyes.
Xu Yanwu truly had no idea how long this body could endure such temperatures.
Still, Xu Yanwu forced himself onward. He tore a grenade from his belt, kept firing with one hand, and pulled the pin from the grenade with his teeth before hurling it at a burning pile of debris beside Himeko.
The grenade exploded amid the flames, and the shockwave swept the debris toward Himeko.
Himeko seemed not to have expected the incoming debris. Only when it was nearly upon her did flames appear to block it.
"Having just become a Herrscher, it looks like she still hasn't fully mastered her power?" Xu Yanwu noted that down first.
Then, amid Himeko's counterattacks, he began searching for any opening to survive.
However, while dodging, Xu Yanwu suddenly spotted something peeking out from Himeko's chest as she moved.
That immediately reminded him of something, so even as he evaded, he asked Otto, "Otto, can you see what Himeko has hanging around her neck?"
Xu Yanwu said, "That pendant... is it still there?"
"That pendant?" Otto came to his senses. "I remember now."
Otto adjusted his view and eventually spotted the pendant Xu Yanwu had mentioned on Himeko.
"The pendant is still there, and it doesn't look like it has been used."
Otto truthfully told Xu Yanwu, "What are you planning to do? I know what you want to do... but in this situation, you have no way of getting close to her."
"As long as the pendant is still there, that's enough."
Xu Yanwu gritted his teeth. "As for how to get it... I'll figure it out myself."
With that, Xu Yanwu fixed