Captain Just Wants to Go Home and Play Games

"I've already seen it."

"Kiana, your next line is—It's Kiana Time!"

"It's Kiana Time—"

The instant the countdown ended and they could move again, Kiana raised her twin guns and opened fire on Tia Polo ten meters away. Just as Tia had predicted, she shouted her signature line.

"Nani?!"

When Kiana realized that her opponent had said what she was about to say a step ahead of her, she hesitated for only a second. Her hands, however, did not pause in the slightest. With unlimited ammunition, she had no need to think too much—she simply unleashed the master-level marksmanship she had honed over the years.

Tia's response, however, was just as brutal. Rather than dodging Kiana's attacks, she charged straight forward, covering herself in armor formed from electric currents while accurately deflecting the lethal shots with the dagger in her hand.

Tia herself had an awakened ability of her own: Electric Manipulation. Though its potential and upper limit were far below those of Herrscher Mei, with the help of the Grasshopper Sister Network, the precision she could currently achieve far surpassed Mei's. Naturally, its raw power still could not compare to Mei's ultra-high-voltage electromagnetic attacks, which were powerful enough to vaporize steel.

"The distance is enough!"

Using the electric armor to accelerate and tank a wave of damage, coupled with Kiana's one-second hesitation and her remaining rooted in place to shoot rather than repositioning, Tia closed to within five meters of Kiana in that single second. She could now activate King Crimson's true ability—Time Erasure.

"Now it's Tia Polo Time—"

PS: Episode 427, Princess Arc: For some reason, Mo Yi felt that something was off. He had clearly arrived in Gensokyo, and aside from the unpleasant trip through dimensions, nothing seemed to have gone wrong. Yet he could not shake