Ruthless!
Brutal!
The Old Woman's Meat Cutting Knife was nimble and precise. It met Jiang Qiao's throat and struck home, producing a sound like flesh scraping against flesh.
"Go to hell!"
A voice brimming with malice rang beside Jiang Qiao's ear.
"No one gets to act viciously in the Red Moon Restaurant."
"I've more or less guessed how you got in. You must have obtained some kind of key left behind by that old thing."
"But it doesn't matter."
"As long as that one doesn't return personally, you won't be able to turn the world upside down!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"To think that you came here. It seems that one really can't return... Once I capture you, I'll slowly work you over and make you tell me exactly what happened to that old thing!"
The Old Woman shrieked with laughter.
Her laughter was horribly grating.
It carried the exhilarating satisfaction of finally finding an opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to an archenemy.
However...
Very soon.
The sinister, ferocious smile on the Old Woman's face turned into disbelief.
The tip of the knife pressed against Jiang Qiao's flesh.
The tremendous force should have driven it smoothly into his neck, pierced through his throat, stabbed into his cervical vertebrae, and emerged from the back.
She had repeated this motion countless times before.
It could not possibly go wrong.
It had never caused a problem.
Even opponents no weaker than her would inevitably be injured and forced back by this strike, if they did not die outright.
But...
Jiang Qiao was completely unharmed!
The blade was like a small knife stabbing into thick cowhide.
It had merely made a slight dent and mark. It had not even pierced his skin!
The follow-up move she had prepared.
The strike she had built