After the initial probing, both sides had a clear grasp of the situation before them.
The Fujiwara Family Head had the upper hand, but if John Edgar Hoover wanted to flee, there was no problem at all.
Yet after realizing things could not be done, John Edgar Hoover had still remained here. Clearly, he still had some trump card in hand.
A trump card sufficient to make him stay.
"You care about the lives of these two ants again and again. It seems you really value them. So tell me, can you keep protecting them under my abilities?"
John Edgar Hoover looked at Jian Xiong and Old Wood as he spoke tentatively.
Though it was somewhat unreasonable, the Fujiwara Family Head had indeed saved those two ants several times. That young genius was not worth such a price!
He had used that precious item once, then personally shattered it afterward. He had even held back, willing to take a lighter injury himself rather than expand his advantage, just so the two would not be caught in the aftermath.
Otherwise, that blow would not have been so easy for him to endure.
It made no sense. There was no logic to it!
"You can try."
The Fujiwara Family Head's expression did not change in the slightest. He did value that promising prospect somewhat, and had incidentally pulled that old deadweight beside him along as well. But he also understood that, given the other man's caution, he would never place his hopes on such an unreliable balance.
Putting himself in the other man's shoes, he would not believe that two people like this could restrain an opponent of the same level. Well, if the other man really kept fighting like this, they truly could distract and restrain him—but the other man definitely