"Ho ho..."
Fang Mo hauled Steel Adam up from the ground, wearing the same smile as Dio. "You saw me and not only didn't run, but actually dared to provoke me head-on?"
"You!"
Steel Adam's expression visibly changed. "Y-you, how can you hit me? Aren't you afraid...?"
"What am I afraid of?"
Fang Mo grinned, then swung another massive slap at him. "Joseph isn't my grandpa!"
Slap!
"Pugh!!!"
With Fang Mo's heavy slap smashing into his face, Steel Adam felt his brain buzz and his vision blur.
Half his face instantly went numb. His eyeball was squeezed so hard it nearly burst on the spot, his vision blurred, and waves of indescribably sharp pain tore through his eardrums.
The slap sent his entire body spinning in place. Like a child being lashed with a copper-buckled belt, Steel Adam spun several times like a top.
Several of his teeth went flying.
Even a huge clump of his hair was forcibly torn out.
In the end, he lost his balance and crashed headfirst onto the ground, seeing stars.
"Pfft... ngh... urgh..."
Steel Adam instinctively clutched his severely swollen cheek and struggled to speak through slurred words. "Damn it... it hurts... Don't hit me again!!!"
"If I stop just because you tell me to, wouldn't that make me look bad?"
Fang Mo planted a heavy foot on his chest. "How about this? I'll give you a random couplet. If you can answer it, I'll stop. Sound good?"
"W-what couplet?"
Steel Adam had been beaten so badly that his mind was muddled, and he asked instinctively.
"Listen." Fang Mo stood on his chest, thought for a moment, then casually asked, "A cicada knows not Zen, yet falsely calls itself enlightened... Do you know the matching line?"
"Huh?"
How could Steel Adam possibly understand such