The Coward (3)

I immediately flew towards Haoyue and Sakura Dance at full speed!

"I can't break through!?"

"I've never seen this kind of material before. Its value... wait, it's completely beyond my calculations!?"

"If I can't break through, I'll go around! She was holding something back!"

Go around?

I glanced at the flesh wall. It was probably over two thousand meters high. It would be easy for them to climb over that!

"Don't even think about escaping!"

Gustav flickered and appeared behind me. He was chasing too fast! But with a thought, another piece of the Bug's flesh was summoned behind me, blocking his punch by a hair's breadth!

"Annihilate--"

A golden-pink halo descended from above. With a flash of golden light, a beam cannon hundreds of meters in diameter shot down from the sky!

Faster, faster, faster!

Crack!!!

The Bug's hard shell blocked above my head, stopping the beam cannon just before it hit me. That's right, the Bug's flesh is definitely the sturdiest material in the world! I could see it now – the place where Yu He and I first arrived, the place where Haoyue and Sakura Dance were. Using the Bug's defense as cover, I could finally--

Swish. "...Huh?"

A soft rustling sound of paper.

It was checks.

Several checks had somehow attached themselves to my body.

Just like that, I lost the ability to move.

"'Asset Freeze'... successful."

A familiar voice, a familiar enemy.

He slowly approached me, looking at me mockingly.

"They might be powerful, but don't forget about me."

"Yu He..."

I chewed on the name.

The name of the bastard who had toyed with me from beginning to end.

The name of the formidable enemy who had defeated me on every level.

I couldn't even feel anger anymore.

"Let me go..."

"Absolutely not."

"Let...