"Boom—!!!"
The blazing lightning struck Guy, and in that instant, the phantom image of a dark golden bell appeared around him!
Lightning collided with the golden bell, erupting in a deafening explosion!
The violent shockwave, mixed with lightning and fragments of golden chakra, instantly swallowed and blew apart Takizawa Sakurako's entire office!
From outside, one corner of the second floor of Land of Hot Water Publishing House looked as though it had been struck savagely by an invisible giant hammer.
The walls, windows, floor, and even the roof structure collapsed and shattered amid the explosion!
Smoke, dust, shattered stone, and wood chips shot into the sky as thick black smoke billowed!
"An explosion! There's been an explosion!"
"The second floor collapsed!!"
"Save them, quickly!!"
The street and the first floor of the publishing house instantly descended into chaos, filled with screams and shouts.
Through the thick smoke, a figure wearing a face covering and dark clothing, with only a pair of sharp eyes exposed, slowly emerged from the shadows at the street corner.
He looked toward the collapsed ruins with a cold gaze.
"This time... he should be dead."
Yet in the next second, the figure abruptly stopped and froze.
His sharp eyes locked tightly onto the center of the smoke.
There, the smoke and dust were being pushed aside by an invisible force, revealing a clear figure.
It was a bare-chested man, his lean, well-proportioned muscles as hard and sharply defined as rock carvings.
Only the outline of a gleaming bald head could be seen, appearing and disappearing through the smoke.
"The target didn't die?!"
At the same time, the bare-chested man at the center of the smoke slowly straightened up.
Kakuzu's Lightning Release ambush had come too swiftly and suddenly.
While protecting Takizawa Sakurako, Guy had only had