And it had all begun with the Artificial Humans!
As in the Naruto World, he had crawled out of a pile of corpses.
For three months, he had stayed in hiding, doing everything he could to push this body to its limits.
Unfortunately, it was an ordinary human body. Train too hard, and he would injure himself. Train too little, and it would do no good at all.
Even among ordinary people, he was probably one of the weakest.
The only thing in his favor was that he was fairly handsome.
Not long ago, he had been searching the city for food when he ran into Android 18, who happened to be hunting for prey.
More shocking still, she had detected even his faint breathing from hundreds of meters away.
Was she even human?
Xia Le's heart lurched.
Across the Pirate and Naruto Worlds, he had never faced an enemy who inspired such crushing despair.
Then, in the next instant—
A fierce gust hit him head-on. Before Xia Le could make out what was ahead, a finger had reached the spot between his brows.
"What?!"
Even with his reaction speed, he had failed to perceive her approach.
Xia Le stood frozen, watching the blur before his eyes resolve into a single finger.
Slender and pale, it was a young woman's finger.
But it filled him with despair. Light had begun to flicker at its tip.
"Found you."
Android 18 brushed back her blonde hair with her other hand, a cold smile on her lips.
Pop!
The light gathered into a blast of energy at terrifying speed.
Standing inches away, Xia Le's heart sank. He could feel that the energy in the blast exceeded even the Expanding Truth-Seeking Orb he had encountered in the Naruto World.
And this was only a