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"Roar! Roar!"
After being knocked down in one move, Kin Tsuchi was furious. He scrambled to his feet, clenched his fists, and pounded his chest a few times. Then his leg muscles suddenly tensed, launching his nearly hundred-meter-tall body into the air.
Before the smug Pipi Shrimp could react, Kin Tsuchi landed astride its thick, powerful body.
He clenched his fist and hammered it into the scales beneath him.
Though Pipi Shrimp's armor was as hard as superalloy, Kin Tsuchi's terrifying strength still passed through the scales and into its body.
Feeling waves of pain in its back, Pipi Shrimp immediately shook itself violently, flinging Kin Tsuchi off.
Kin Tsuchi wasn't discouraged. He roared and reached for Pipi Shrimp with a huge hand as big as a hill. Pipi Shrimp dodged at lightning speed, then seized its chance to coil around Kin Tsuchi's waist.
As Pipi Shrimp wrapped around him, Kin Tsuchi reacted too, calmly grabbing its body with his massive hand and trying to pull it off.
After years of fighting Skullcrawlers, Kin Tsuchi had grown used to this kind of constricting combat.
Unfortunately, he didn't know that Pipi Shrimp was nothing like those flashy, low-class Skullcrawlers. Never mind that it was two hundred meters long—having evolved from a giant python, it was naturally skilled at wrapping its powerful body around prey and squeezing them to death.
Once Pipi Shrimp had coiled around him, Kin Tsuchi would have a hard time escaping unless his strength far surpassed its own. All he could do was slowly wait for death.
Sure enough, when Kin Tsuchi realized he couldn't break free and felt Pipi Shrimp tightening around him, he panicked. In a flash of inspiration, he grabbed Pipi Shrimp's vulnerable spot with both hands and squeezed hard.
Under Kin Tsuchi's terrifying