Sugar Fainted, Operation SOP Succeeded!

Meanwhile, over at the Corrida Coliseum.

The thunderous booms from the arena never stopped. The guards on the second floor saw cracks appearing beneath the coliseum. Before the final battle had even begun, "hundreds of powerful fighters had already clashed here. How much impact had the coliseum endured in just one day?"

"Burgess's attacks are making things even worse. At this rate, the coliseum will collapse."

At that moment, Burgess threw another elbow strike at Lu Yu. Lu Yu sidestepped, and it missed completely. Lu Yu could not possibly lose to him in terms of speed. Burgess continued attacking relentlessly, but none of his strikes hit Lu Yu. Instead, they all landed on the spectator stands outside the arena, instantly smashing them to pieces.

"You bastard! Stop attacking over here!" the spectators in the stands cursed loudly.

Elsewhere, Diamante said to Rebecca, "You can hear it as many times as you like, Rebecca! I'm the one who shot your mother, Scarlet." He spoke to Rebecca through Bartolomeo's barrier.

Bartolomeo could not stand it anymore. "Hey, just attacking with words—what the hell is my barrier supposed to do?"

Rebecca covered her mouth and dropped to her knees, holding back her tears. Soldier, I can't go on.

Rebecca recalled the time in the flower field, when she had told her mother, "Mother, I'm hungry." Her mother had gently replied, "I'll go buy you something to eat." But before she could return with anything, Soldier had carried Rebecca back. That was how her mother had died.

"I regret it so much... I can't even move my body."

Over at the Toy House, smoke and dust filled the air. Three officers had taken on Franky alone, along with countless soldiers. Franky had already been knocked to the ground, covered in injuries and beaten to