Though only two sentences had passed, the six-armed bandit gave Fu Hua and the boy no time to talk. It uprooted a giant tree and swung it straight at them.
Facing the incoming tree, the boy took less than a second to calculate it in his mind. There was no way they could escape...
So he did not even consider turning to run. After all, either way led only to death. But he was already supposed to be dead—how could he drag down the benefactor who had saved him?
With that thought, the boy stepped in front of Fu Hua and drew his tachi. He could not stop it... but at least he could give his benefactor a little more hope of surviving.
"No need for that!"
Seeing the actions of this extraordinarily adorable, gender-indeterminate boy, Fu Hua liked him even more.
She grabbed him with one hand, watched the giant tree crashing toward them... and raised her hand.
"Don't!"
Seeing what Fu Hua was doing, the boy froze... then hurriedly tried to stop her. How could Fu Hua's fair, soft-looking little hand possibly contend with a giant tree twenty or thirty meters long?
He could practically see the brutal scene already.
But...
Boom!
Fu Hua's fist struck the giant tree. The imagined scene of flesh flying everywhere did not occur. Instead... the enormous tree was blasted into wood splinters that filled the sky with a single punch.
Standing behind Fu Hua, the boy was completely dumbfounded... unable to react at all.
A towering tree was actually... no match for... a fist that looked so soft and delicate?
Could she really be... a deity?
At that moment, Fu Hua was not thinking about any of that. Looking at the monsters before her and sensing the filth on them, she