A Conceptual Neck Twist! Everyone Feels a Chill Run Down Their Spines! (Continued)

[Brook: I don't know if I can stop it! But I lost my neck ages ago! Yohohohohohoho...]

[Ash: I wonder if Thunderbolt would work on it?]

[Pikachu: Pika pika...]

[...]

On the livestream, SCP-173 followed the squad of Gluttonous Soldiers like a ghost, snapping necks at a speed the naked eye could barely catch.

It was almost beyond comprehension.

And throughout it all, even as their armor twisted and spat sparks, not a single sound escaped.

In the space of a breath, SCP-173 had reduced the dozens-strong Gluttonous Squad to its commander alone.

He glanced back without thinking and was horrified to find a rather ugly statue staring straight at him. Its tiny hands, too small to form fists...

Were poised at his neck. Behind him, dozens of bodies lay scattered across the corridor.

Every one of them had a broken neck, sparks still spilling from the armor around their throats. Only when his gaze fell on SCP-173...

Did sound return to the deathly silent corridor.

Eerie.

So eerie it made his scalp crawl.

"You..."

The Gluttonous Commander started to speak, but blinked mid-sentence. To his horror, the strange statue before him...

Had vanished.

Then his vision lurched backward. Everything went black, and he sank into darkness. After wiping out the squad...

SCP-173 sped down the warship's corridor toward its next target.

It was terrifyingly unnatural.

Powerhouses watching from planets across the universe froze. Cold sweat beaded on their foreheads and dripped to the floor.

Only then did they realize how badly they had underestimated SCP-173.

In a one-on-one fight, no more than five of them could be certain of winning.

Jiang Chen watched the comments and thought, Five? How naive. Not a single one of you could win!

In Meleon Celestial City, within the Angel Nebula, Kesha reclined on her throne and watched the livestream. Her pupils abruptly vanished, leaving her eyes pure white as she fixed them on SCP-173, which was slaughtering the Gluttonous Legion.

The Angels below the throne understood at once: SCP-173 had caught Kesha's attention.

Their queen was reading SCP-173's data.

[Attempting to read SCP-173's data. Unable to read... Unable to analyze!]

[Accessing Meleon Celestial City's computing power. Continuing scan! Warning: unable to read... Accessing Divine Armory computation... Warning: unable to read.]

[Warning: data scan exceeds computing capacity.]

[Warning...]

As the warnings rang through Kesha's mind, her smooth brow furrowed for the first time since she had defeated Heavenly Scum King Huaye.

Kesha knew SCP-173 was unusual, but she had never imagined that even with the Angel Nebula's full computing power at her disposal...

She would be unable to read a scrap of its data.

She had never encountered anything like this.

After several failed attempts, Kesha settled for trying to read the SCP Foundation's data instead. The result was just as she expected...

Beyond what had been announced on the livestream, she could not retrieve a single piece of information. Finally, she used Meleon Celestial City's computing power to analyze Earth's data.

She searched for any clue.

But found nothing.

"Your Majesty! Did you manage to read SCP-173's data?"

"What exactly is that thing?"

"It slaughtered an entire Gluttonous Squad with ease. That level of power could destroy a less advanced civilization's planet."

"Something that does nothing but kill must be destroyed!"

"..."

As soon as Queen Kesha's dark pupils reappeared, the Angels beneath her throne began voicing their thoughts all at once.

Queen Kesha shook her head. "I couldn't read SCP-173's data."

"It isn't in the Known Universe's database."

She paused, then continued, "I also read Earth's data and analyzed it using Meleon Celestial City."

"I found no trace of the Foundation, either."

"It's as though it never existed."

The Angels, including Leng and Zhixin, were stunned. They had never imagined that Queen Kesha, even after drawing on...

Meleon Celestial City's computing power, could find no trace of SCP-173 or the Foundation.

This...

Was beyond anything they understood.

While everyone was still reeling, Queen Kesha contacted Yan, who had already arrived on Earth, through Dark Energy communication. "Yan, I have a mission for you."

"Your Majesty, go ahead."

After Angel Yan replied, Queen Kesha briefly explained her failed attempts to read SCP-173's and the Foundation's data.

Then she ordered, "I have a feeling SCP-173 is crucial to the Angels' future."

"Go to the Gluttonous Battleship where SCP-173 is, immediately."

"Gather whatever data you can."

Queen Kesha paused before adding, "Ideally, bring it back to Meleon Celestial City."

"If you can't bring it back, destroy it before Morgana gets to it."

"You must not let it fall into Morgana's hands."

"Understood?"

Angel Yan stood atop Angel International Tower, looking out over Earth. At Queen Kesha's orders, she nodded to show she understood...

Then immediately left Earth through a Micro-wormhole, heading straight for the Gluttonous Battleship carrying SCP-173.

Meanwhile, a Demon Warship lay hidden in the void beyond Earth.

Morgana, dressed in black leather with wings on her back, paced the hall under the bewildered stares of her subordinates.

"I can't read the data on SCP-173 or that damned Foundation!"

"Bitch!"

Morgana kept pacing as she cursed. "You there—Ato! Bring me SCP-173."

"I'll use it to snap that bitch Kesha's neck."

"Go!"

Ato bowed respectfully at Morgana's command and was about to leave. But just then, Angel Yan appeared on the livestream.

The instant Morgana saw her, she stopped Ato. "Since someone's going in ahead of us..."

"There's no need to rush."

"Let that little bitch Angel Yan test SCP-173 first."

"Let's see if it really has the conceptual-level neck-snapping ability the Foundation claims!"

At Morgana's words, Ato stopped, took his place in the hall again, and silently watched the livestream.

Aboard the Gluttonous Battleship, space rippled like water, and a graceful figure stepped out.

It was Angel Yan, wearing the Angels' signature short-skirted silver armor and carrying a Flame Blade.

The moment she appeared aboard the battleship, she used her formidable dark-matter computing ability to breach its operating system and seize...

Control of the vessel.

She checked the ship's surveillance feeds. After seeing the casualties, even Angel Yan could not hide her shock.

In just a few minutes, most of the Gluttonous Soldiers aboard had been killed.

The surveillance footage showed corridors littered with the bodies of Gluttonous Warriors.

Every one of their necks had been twisted beyond recognition. Not only had ordinary Gluttonous armor failed to protect them, but even armor capable of withstanding a nuclear blast...

Had offered no protection. SCP-173 had twisted both the armor and the Gluttonous Warriors inside it out of shape.

"Could it really be a conceptual-level neck-snapping ability?"

The longer Angel Yan watched the footage, the harder it was to believe.

Earth had only just entered the age of Nuclear Civilization.

Even the Black Armor Warriors who had awakened their Super Genes could not slaughter an entire battleship's worth of Gluttonous Warriors so easily.

Certainly not in such an eerie way.

Even she...

Could wipe out all the Gluttonous Warriors aboard without much trouble.

But killing them all by snapping their necks? That was another matter.

Just then, Angel Yan spotted SCP-173 on the surveillance feed. Somehow, it had reached the corner of the corridor ahead of her.

Why had she noticed it through surveillance?

With her Third-Generation Divine Body, Angel Yan's senses had grown vastly sharper. She could detect more than every leaf and blade of grass nearby—even the faintest fluctuation of a particle...

Was clear to her.

Yet she had unconsciously overlooked SCP-173 as it rushed toward her!

It wasn't that she had failed to sense it.

She had simply ignored its existence without realizing it. Alarm surged through Angel Yan.

As SCP-173 approached Angel Yan, she too appeared on the Foundation Livestream!

[Luffy: Angel lady, run! Watch out for that statue! It snaps necks.]

[Danzo: Finally, someone strong enough to test SCP-173's fighting power.]

[Gintoki Sakata: Can we place bets? I'm betting on the Angel lady. Gin-san hasn't eaten in three days...]

[Luffy: Want some meat?]

[Miko: That statue is scarier than those Evil Spirits!]

[...].

Powerhouses from across the planets flooded the livestream with warnings for Angel Yan to beware of SCP-173. But she could not spare a moment to read the comments.

She had discovered that only by focusing completely and pushing her Third Generation Divine Body's computing power to its limit...

Could she remain aware of SCP-173. The slightest lapse, and her mind would unconsciously erase it from her awareness.