Meanwhile, Chen Xiao had brought Nijika Ijichi and the others back to the Parking Lot. Just as he was about to open the driver's door, a wave of weakness washed over him.
Then he toppled helplessly to one side.
"A-Xiao!"
Standing beside the passenger door, Nijika Ijichi gasped in alarm.
But from that distance, there was no way she could run over and catch Chen Xiao.
Ikuyo Kita had already taken the seat behind the driver, and she couldn't get to him in time either.
Whoosh-!
With a strange rush of air, a tall, sultry figure in black appeared beside Chen Xiao and caught him securely in her arms.
Chen Xiao immediately felt much better. Then he realized that half his face was buried in a soft, fragrant cleavage, the sensory stimulation second only to that of Alice, the maid in black.
"Who...?"
Chen Xiao struggled to lift his head. His cheek rubbed against her clothes as he painstakingly peered over the rounded mound blocking his view, barely managing to see who had caught him.
"Kalifa?"
Kalifa was a female agent from CP9 in One Piece-a tall, sultry blonde beauty who enjoyed bathing, teasing her enemies, and collecting high heels and stockings.
However, the outfit she had materialized in wasn't the tight black hip-hugging dress and black mesh garment Chen Xiao had made for her, but an ordinary black office secretary's outfit.
"Master, this is sexual harassment."
Looking down at Chen Xiao, whose face was buried between her breasts, Kalifa adjusted her glasses with a slight curl of her lips.
Chen Xiao: ...
Oh, yes, yes! That's the vibe! That's exactly it!
This is the Kalifa I remember!
Still, unlike her abruptly accusing people of "sexual harassment" in the original, what I'm doing really is no different from sexual harassment. And my superpower seems to have counted it as paying the price, too.
After burying his face there a little longer and nuzzling against her, he felt considerably less weak.
Whenever Chen Xiao nuzzled her, though, Kalifa's body trembled involuntarily. She tipped her head back slightly and pressed her lips together, as if she were trying to endure something.
A moment later.
"Ahem! I'm fine now. Thank you... Kalifa."
Having paid enough of the price to regain his mobility, Chen Xiao slowly pulled away from Kalifa's embrace. He raised a hand and coughed twice, seemingly trying to preserve his "respectable" image.
As for what lay beneath that image...
Put it this way: a month ago, Chen Xiao might still have blushed if Alice had rammed into him breasts-first. Now, it only made his heart beat a little faster.
He even felt a little reluctant for it to end.
Clearly, his standards were sinking lower and lower! (Tragic.)
"No, as long as you're all right."
At his thanks, Kalifa turned her head slightly. The reflection on her glasses hid her eyes, but it couldn't conceal the bright red tips of her ears.
Nijika Ijichi and the other three: ...
This feels kind of annoying!
They had watched Chen Xiao get intimate with someone else right in front of them.
Did this count as cheating right in front of his wives?
Unfortunately, they didn't really have any skills Chen Xiao could borrow, so there probably wouldn't be much chance for him to pay them a price.
"By the way, Kalifa, how did you get here?"
At his question, Kalifa adjusted her glasses and replied, "When you began using my abilities, Master, Miss Mari opened the Boundary Gate for us."
Then Kalifa gave Chen Xiao a scolding.
"Borrowing several people's powers all at once was far too reckless!"
"Ah... well, I got carried away at the time and couldn't help myself."
Chen Xiao scratched his head awkwardly.
"You borrowed several people's powers at once? A-Xiao, so when you suddenly left earlier, you were going to..."
Nijika Ijichi looked at Chen Xiao in surprise.
Although they could sense the exhaustion his borrowed powers had caused, they hadn't imagined he had gone off to fight an enemy!
"Was the enemy really strong?"
Ryo Yamada asked with a slight frown.
"No, no! He really wasn't that strong!"
Chen Xiao hurriedly waved his hands in explanation.
Then he briefly explained the situation with Today's Flower City Rich Boy, Gao Chen, to everyone.
"Oh, I see."
After hearing him out, they nodded in understanding.
Still, when Nijika Ijichi and the other three heard that he had done it to avenge them, they couldn't help feeling secretly pleased.
"All right, everyone, get in. We can talk about anything else once we're home."
But just as Chen Xiao was about to get into the driver's seat, Kalifa stepped forward to stop him.
"Master, please leave the driving to me. You haven't fully recovered yet."
Without waiting for Chen Xiao to respond, Kalifa sat down in the driver's seat.
"Ah... oh, all right."
Chen Xiao couldn't really object. Driving in his exhausted state really would count as dangerous driving.
So Nijika Ijichi had to make do with moving to the back seat and squeezing in with Bocchi and the others.
However, after Chen Xiao settled into the passenger seat and fastened his seat belt, a question suddenly occurred to him.
"Wait, are there cars in the One Piece world?"
Kalifa fell silent for a moment before answering, "Don't worry, Master. I read a driving manual before coming here."
At those words, Chen Xiao's face went deathly pale. In the back seat, Nijika Ijichi and the other three clung to one another in terror.
That doesn't mean you know how to drive at all!
"Maybe I should just..."
Before Chen Xiao could change his mind, Kalifa stepped straight on the accelerator, sending the sedan racing out of the Parking Lot!
"Slow down!!!"
Poor Chen Xiao, Nijika Ijichi, and the others practically screamed the whole way. Only when they reached the outskirts of the villa district did the pale-faced Chen Xiao take over the wheel.
"Kalifa, was your surname Einzbern before?"
"Master, this is sexual harassment."
A few days later.
Downtown Magic City, Anomalous Incident Management Bureau, Superpower Crime Task Force-interrogation room.
Knock, knock, knock...
"Come in."
The task force member outside pushed the door open and entered.
"Chief! Someone from the Gao family in Guangdong Province is here."
Sitting behind the interrogation room's one-way mirror, Liu Yaowen didn't turn to look at him. Instead, he kept his gaze fixed on Gao Chen inside, who was smiling like a bright, cheerful young man.
Over the past few days, Gao Chen had answered every question truthfully. If he didn't know something, he simply said so, without making anything up.
According to the bureau's scientists, from a biological standpoint, a third of Gao Chen's brain had been cut away. Now he was even more impaired than someone with Down syndrome!
And there were those eerie star-shaped eyes...
"An unknown psychic superpower user."
Whether this person was friend or foe, a superhuman with such terrifying abilities hiding within Shenzhou was nothing short of a ticking time bomb!
"Chief?"
The team member beside him prompted quietly.
"Gao Chen's brain is ruined, and his reputation out there is completely destroyed. They still want to take him back?"
Liu Yaowen asked without turning around.
"No, the Gao family representative hasn't asked to take Gao Chen back."
"Then what are they here for? To watch their third young master with Down syndrome play truth or dare?"
Liu Yaowen scoffed and pointed at Gao Chen on the other side of the glass.
In his current state, everything he said was true, and he immediately did whatever he was told.
Mentally, he was no longer even a person.
"We're here for revenge."
An elderly man's voice came from outside the door.
Liu Yaowen turned toward the voice and saw a neatly dressed old man standing in the doorway. Despite speaking of revenge, his face showed not the slightest anger.
"Hello, Chief Liu."
After entering, the man even politely extended his hand to Liu Yaowen.
But Liu Yaowen didn't take it.
"Revenge? Then you've come to the wrong place. Your enemy isn't in the bureau."
"But we can find them through 'him.'"
The old man calmly withdrew his hand and looked at Gao Chen on the other side of the glass, showing no sign that he regarded him as his family's third young master.
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