"Enough, I don't want to waste any more time. I don't care why you came here pretending to be me, but I've run out of patience..."
As she said this, her eyes sharpened. Then she let out a light snort!
"Hmph!"
That familiar voice made me instinctively realize what she was about to do!
Steam Mode!!
I froze for a moment. At the same time, steam suddenly erupted all around her, and the skin exposed outside her clothes instantly flushed red.
At that very moment, the figure before me suddenly disappeared!
"Damn!"
My strength was completely different from before. By the time I realized something was wrong, I had already ducked my head. At the same time, a fist appeared before my eyes.
I only had time to raise my hand and block. In the next instant, I felt as though I had been hit and sent flying by a truck traveling at sixty miles per hour. My entire body shot into the air, everything before my eyes spinning as the world rushed past me, and then...
"Crack!!"
"Bam!!"
The first sound was my left forearm breaking. The second was my entire body slamming into a wooden wall.
When I finally came to a stop, my head was groggy, and it felt as though the whole world was spinning.
"Ugh..."
I groaned in pain and slowly opened my eyes. What greeted me were everyone's astonished gazes. Perhaps... no one had expected that I had already become this weak?
Back then... I had been a being who stood at the pinnacle of biology.
And now... I had been knocked down by a single punch from my "self."
"Heh heh... Who would've thought my own fist would be this heavy to ordinary people... No wonder I managed to survive the apocalypse."
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