Chuunibyou stood in the middle of the yard. Through the window, he saw only raging Fierce Flame and billowing smoke; Face Not Big and Shu Wanjuan were nowhere to be seen.
The fire was strange. It burned only within that one room. None of the dozen or so rooms in the residence had been affected, and there was not even a whiff of smoke outside.
Chuunibyou looked toward Light Bulb's room, worried that something might have happened to him.
Light Bulb came to the window and waved at Chuunibyou, signaling that he was fine.
Light Bulb had awakened long ago and was hiding in his room, not daring to come out.
Not coming out at a time like this was the right choice. Face Not Big could no longer spare attention for the two brothers. He and Shu Wanjuan were about to begin their decisive battle.
Shu Wanjuan burned amid the flames. No one knew what kind of technique he had used, but his flesh, hair, beard, and clothes remained completely unharmed.
Anyone else would have looked for Shu Wanjuan's weakness at this point, broken his technique, and let him burn to death in the fire.
But if he truly did that, Face Not Big would be falling right into Shu Wanjuan's trap.
Finding Shu Wanjuan's weakness was exceedingly difficult. Shu Wanjuan would deliberately sell Face Not Big a flaw, and if Face Not Big stepped into the trap, no one could save him.
Precisely because he understood Shu Wanjuan well enough, Face Not Big's tactics had not changed even at this critical juncture. He seized seven parts of the advantage with the opening move, concentrated all the grease on Shu Wanjuan, and burned him fiercely, waiting to see how he would respond.
Shu Wanjuan truly found it hard to