New York, Manhattan, Upper East Side, a certain detached apartment, right outside Helen's front door.
Leon set the shaken Helen down, and after she unlocked the door with her key, she looked back at Leon. "Um... I'm sorry, Mr. Leon, I got your uniform dirty."
"It's no problem, Helen."
"There is one thing you must understand--in my eyes, nothing is more important than your safety."
A warm, infectious smile remained on Leon's face as he turned and made a move to fly away, but Helen suddenly mustered her courage and called out to him.
"Why don't... you come inside and sit for a bit, and I'll wash your uniform for you before you leave?"
Hearing this, the corners of Leon's mouth curved slightly upward. Turning back, he saw Helen biting her slightly pale lips, her delicate hand trembling on the doorknob, looking at him with a pitiful and vulnerable expression.
Hiss--
Helen probably didn't even know how foul her current appearance was; Leon simply couldn't refuse, so of course he chose to accept.
Three hours later.
Leon gently kissed the forehead of Helen, who had already passed out from exhaustion, and then carefully lifted her from the bed into the system-signed Regeneration Cradle to repair the wound on her neck.
Only a small mistake occurred during this process.
Since Leon had no prior experience using the Regeneration Cradle, and the system had also included a complimentary can of human tissue fluid, he thought all he had to do was put the person inside and start it up.
As luck would have it.
The factory settings of the Regeneration Cradle defaulted to repairing all tissue damage in the human body, emphasizing all.
Therefore, the Regeneration Cradle not only perfectly repaired the wound on Helen's neck, but it also magically patched up the damage in every other part of her body.
Upon learning of this, Arcee couldn't help but suspect that Leon had done it on purpose.
Leon stated that he was truly wronged.
Goodness knows why this Regeneration Cradle was so powerful, repairing everything everywhere.
However.
Things had come to this, and the rice was already cooked into rice.
Leon could only take it a bit easier next time and let Helen suffer a little more.
The next morning.
When Leon woke up from the pink double bed in Helen's boudoir, Helen had already gone to work. There was no telling whether she was satisfied with the birthday night Leon had spent accompanying her.
[Question: Perform today's check-in?]
System, I'm working the early shift!
[Ding, today's check-in completed. Congratulations to the host for obtaining "Tsunade's Necklace".]
"What the hell?!"
The system prompt startled Leon so much that his PTSD flared up.
Tsunade's Necklace...
This thing could not be worn; whoever it was given to died.
System, if you want me to die, just say so. You don't have to beat around the bush like this.
Complaining to the system in his heart.
Leon summoned Tsunade's Necklace out of the system space and, complying thoroughly with his gut, didn't even dare to touch it, directly destroying it with a Palm Cannon!
As long as he ran fast enough, the Grim Reaper would always be a step behind him.
Nawaki: Regarding this point, I have something to say.
Seaside Villa.
Leon's Wonderful Workshop on the second basement level.
Out of a sober recognition of his own intelligence, Leon handed the Vibranium, the Regeneration Cradle, and the long scroll of the Regeneration Cradle's instruction manual provided by the system all over to Arcee for processing.
As for him,
he was only responsible for looking cool.
"Incredible!"
In front of the Regeneration Cradle, which resembled a futuristic coffin, Partner Mode, who had finished studying the Vibranium and the Regeneration Cradle with quantum speed-reading, exclaimed:
"The metal atoms named 'Vibranium' not only can be compatible with tissue cells, but they can also completely bind with them, forming a whole equivalent to being born with it."
"Isn't that a matter of course?"
Leon, standing to the side, spread his hands and said, "Otherwise, why would I go to so much trouble to get it?"
"Could it be... that you want to integrate Vibranium into your own body?" Arcee guessed, but immediately rejected the idea: "Impossible!"
"The Regeneration Cradle can only print living tissue from scratch; it doesn't have the ability to decompose cellular tissue, and besides, your body tissue is too tough, making it even more..."
Before Arcee could finish speaking, Leon used facts to shut her mouth.
Behold.
Leon displayed an extremely "explicit" ability to control his own cells--
The skin, muscles, and fascia on his palm receded like a tide, leaving behind only a pair of gleaming silver Adamantium palm bones.
This was an extension of Leon's "Super Self-Regeneration" ability.
Even though, apart from the one time Leon passively used it when he first acquired it, he hadn't triggered it a second time since then because his body was simply too hard and conventional weapons couldn't break his defense.
Yet as time passed, Leon's level of control over the "Super Self-Regeneration" ability was still genuinely improving.
And the ability to control the decomposition, reorganization, and transfer of his own cellular tissue was something he had slowly acquired during this period.
Although he still couldn't reach the ultra-high precision of Muzan Kibutsuji, who could perfectly mimic a woman from the inside out.
Still, just controlling his own tissue to decompose into individual cells and then reorganize was something Leon could completely achieve.
And that was already enough to accomplish Leon's current goal.
"How is that possible..."
Arcee's mouth dropped wide open in astonishment, enough to fit a five-centimeter-diameter cucumber, and she even forgot to close it.
"Darling, the things I can do are far more than you imagine."
Smack, smack, smack!
Leon patted Partner Mode's cheek while curiously feeling the texture inside the mechanical parts, but the gold-titanium alloy texture was hard, and he ultimately dismissed the thought in his mind.
Perhaps the versatile Vibranium, which could be both hard and soft, could solve this problem.
However, there was currently no spare Vibranium for Leon to squander; he planned to wait until his control over his body progressed further before giving Arcee a thorough, massive upgrade.
By that time...
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