I'm No MOTH Hero

Boom!

The dust and mist kicked up by the impact temporarily obscured their vision.

Zero slowly descended. The moment he landed, two people attacked from behind. Rosemary silently pressed the blade of her scythe against the back of his neck, while pink crystals had already encased him from all sides.

"Heh..."

Zero's pitch-black pupils radiated a suffocating black light.

Click—

An enormous rift appeared beside them. Then, a pallid arm reached out from the rift, seized the Rosemary and Elysia before they could dodge, and slammed them heavily into the ground!

Roar———

A shrill, terrifying roar came from within the rift. Zero said nothing. With a casual gesture, the rift closed again, as though neither the arm nor the roar had ever existed.

"One Honkai Beast I raised. It may not possess every trait of the Chimera inside Kevin's body, but like me, as long as there is enough 'quantity,' no 'quality' is anything to fear." Zero leisurely introduced the giant arm that had just appeared to the girls sprawled on the ground. He took a new mask from his clothes and put it on, and the traits of Artificial Collapse gradually faded away. "Seeing all of you give everything for Lin truly brings tears to my eyes. Unfortunately, little Yan Luo must have already told you that I am an opponent you can never defeat."

"Then why are you doing something so meaningless? Lin supports me, you know?"

"Cough, cough... Lin's opinion... isn't important..."

Mei, coughing blood, barely pushed herself upright with her blade. Her bloodstained eyes fixed on the utterly unmoving Zero.

"He would... definitely disregard himself... and what the people around him think... So... we have to bring him back..."

"Oh? Then in your eyes, can one person outweigh everyone else?" Zero stood before the scattered group