In the clearing, Lin Renmei and Nameless faced each other. The sky above them lay in shattered pieces; through some gaps, distant stars were visible, while others showed only pitch-black emptiness.
Nameless suddenly drove off the ground and threw a punch at Lin Renmei. She raised both hands to block, but new lines sprang from his fist. It curved around her guard at an uncanny angle and struck her face.
It hurt!
The pain was sharp. Lin Renmei touched her face and found that her cheek had caved in.
She glared at Nameless and said through gritted teeth, "Nameless, do you have no conscience? Don't you know you're not supposed to hit someone in the face?"
"Sorry, sorry. I was completely focused on figuring out this ability." Seeing her sunken cheek, Nameless hurried to apologize.
Then he pulled Lin Renmei close, kissed her, and blew hard for a while. Her sunken cheek promptly filled out again.
"Oh, it's fixed!"
Lin Renmei pushed Nameless away, flushed with embarrassment and anger, then discovered that her cheek really had returned to normal.
Curious, she asked, "How did you know that would fix it?"
"Instinct," Nameless replied.
He had meant to heal Lin Renmei with his superpower, but before using it, he had a hunch that ordinary superpowers might not heal an injury caused by that punch.
When he threw it, he had been thinking of the "Pretty-Me-Again Fist" from Flirting Scholar, which he had watched in his previous life. That was why a single punch had deformed her face.
In theory, if he kept punching, he really could beat her features beyond recognition and turn her into a completely different person.
As for the cure, he had somehow felt that blowing the dented area back up would restore it. So he tried, and