"Hey, I'm all for that! I never expected you to have so many good things!"
Capybara looked pretty adorable on the outside.
But he was a transmigrator, after all. You couldn't judge a book by its cover.
As for what treasures Babata had...
The anime and the original novel had made that perfectly clear.
Before long, all three accounts belonged to him.
The Cosmic Armor helped him stand upright right away.
The newly born Demon Cloud Vine wrapped itself around one of Capybara's forepaws, too.
He felt like he'd reached the peak of his life.
But the better things got, the more frustrated Babata became.
At last, the little demon came up with an idea.
"I think you should go up to the surface and get used to things. After all, the way you look now..."
He had to admit, Babata knew how to read people.
"I like that suggestion. Come on, go up with me!"
"I need to repair the ship, but I can show up whenever you need me. You go ahead!"
That little demon couldn't wait to get rid of him, could he?
That was fine. Capybara really wanted to go out and show off.
Especially in front of the two pretty girls.
Would those two girls be so shocked when they saw me in my humanoid armor that they wouldn't be able to speak?
Besides, after equipping the Cosmic Armor,
Capybara's voice system had been adjusted, too.
He could communicate not only with Earthlings,
but with aliens as well, without any trouble.
Still, if he ever left Earth, he might need to wear a helmet
to cover up his face.
After all, the demon race wasn't very popular in human space.
Of course, that was all for later.
The moment Capybara returned to the surface, he saw a very ridiculous sight.
Luo Feng was being hunted.
Perhaps the appearance of a monster like him had thrown the original timeline into disarray.
So Luo Feng's timeline had changed a little, too.
Originally, the one who should have come to Mist Island to hunt him was Vulture Li Yao.
But this time, it was someone else.
None other than the legendary long-legged aunt, Venina!
High above Mist Island, a golden figure streaked past like lightning.
Venina wore her signature golden battle armor.
Her long, shapely legs cut sharp arcs through the air beneath her short skirt, each kick accompanied by a sharp whistle.
"Luo Feng, you can't escape!"
Venina's voice was icy, her long golden hair whipping wildly in the wind.
Luo Feng rolled desperately across the ground, barely dodging a whipping kick.
Venina's kick missed, but it blasted a deep crater into the earth, sending rocks flying.
"Venina, Li Wei's death had nothing to do with me!"
Luo Feng shouted through gritted teeth, holding the Blood Shadow Battle Blade in front of him.
A flicker of pain passed through Venina's beautiful eyes, then gave way to even deeper murderous intent. "You dare bring up my son?
"If it weren't for you, how could he have died?"
She moved again, her golden high heel stabbing toward Luo Feng's face like a blade.
The strike was as fast as lightning. Luo Feng barely managed to raise his blade to block it.
But the immense force sent him flying. He smashed through several ancient trees before finally coming to a stop.
"Cough, cough..."
Luo Feng spat out a mouthful of blood, his heart pounding with shock.
Venina was far stronger than he'd expected. Those slender, beautiful legs held terrifying strength.
Venina landed gracefully, her short golden skirt fluttering in the breeze and revealing glimpses of her Absolute Domain.
She walked toward Luo Feng, her heels clicking crisply against the rubble.
"Don't worry. I won't let you die too easily."
A cruel smile curled Venina's lips. "I'll make you suffer before you join my son in death!"
Just as she was about to strike again, a figure suddenly burst out of the ground.
Capybara, clad in Cosmic Armor, stepped in front of Luo Feng. The armor gleamed with a cold light in the sun.
"Hey! Let's get acquainted, beautiful!"
In the universe of Swallowed Star,
Venina was an extremely unusual character.
When the anime first came out,
many viewers had shouted for Luo Feng to be killed so Venina could be saved.
Ye Xiu had once been one of those teenagers.
Though he was now a capybara, his innocent heart still stirred just as eagerly.
Especially now that he was seeing her in person.
He was practically drooling!
But Auntie wasn't thrilled to see him. If anything, she seemed a little frightened.
"Y-you... what are you?"
Venina's icy green eyes contracted the moment she got a clear look at him. Her red lips parted, disbelief written all over her beautiful face.
She instinctively took half a step back, her high heels scraping across the rubble with a shrill sound.
"W-what is that?" Her voice carried a tremor so faint it was almost imperceptible.
The creature before her wore streamlined Cosmic Armor, with gray-brown fur barely visible through the gaps.
Most unsettling of all was the head: a round body topped with the cute face of a capybara.
Its shiny black eyes stared straight at her.
As a Core Member of the HR Alliance, Venina had seen countless strange races throughout the universe, but she had never encountered such a bizarre combination.
The armor, clearly from a highly advanced civilization, clashed sharply with that harmless-looking animal face.
A strange chill rose in her heart.
"A monster? Or... some kind of unknown life-form?"
She clenched her fists, the muscles beneath her golden armor tensing as she went on full alert.
Capybara tilted his head. A faint mechanical whir came from his armor.
He stepped forward, and Venina immediately retreated, taking up a fighting stance.
The long, shapely legs that had once captivated countless men bent slightly, ready to unleash a lethal strike at any moment.
"Whoever you are, don't meddle in this."
Venina tried to sound calm, but the faint tremor in her voice betrayed her nerves.
Capybara didn't answer. He simply raised a forepaw.
The Demon Cloud Vine emerged through a gap in his armor, writhing like a snake.
Venina's pupils contracted sharply at the sight. She could sense the terrifying energy within the plant.
At that moment, the "Scorpion," who had made her mark in both business and battle, felt the urge to retreat from an enemy for the first time.
After some time,
"Cough, cough, cough!"
Luo Feng struggled to push himself up from the ground, blood still at the corner of his mouth.
When he saw the figure standing in front of him, his pupils contracted sharply, and his breathing stopped for a moment.
"Th-this is..."
He murmured to himself, his mind flashing back to the encounter a few days earlier on the outskirts of City 023.
He had only recently become a fighter. While training in the Wilderness Zone, he'd seen a creature much like this one.
That capybara had been lazily sunbathing by a river, paying no attention to the monsters wandering nearby.
Luo Feng had even wondered how such a gentle animal could survive in the dangerous Wilderness Zone.
Now they had met again, but the scene was completely different.
The capybara before him wore shimmering Cosmic Armor, and the energy rippling around him made Luo Feng's heart tremble.
The vine wrapped around his forepaw was even more mysterious. Just looking at it made Luo Feng's soul shudder.
"It's you..."
Luo Feng managed to force out two words, his eyes full of disbelief.
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