"I'll flip!! I'll flip!!"
Clown roared.
The next moment.
In the brief gap between the beast's attacks, he yanked himself free, lifted his skirt, and performed a difficult, humiliating backflip on the beast's body.
But the instant he landed.
Boom-
The enormous tentacle came crashing down again, blotting out the sky and sending him tumbling in every direction.
"Are you satisfied now?!"
Clown roared.
Lynn adjusted the Monocle, stopped, and tilted his head.
"Sorry, a wave blocked my view just now. I didn't see it. How about another flip?"
[Ding! Clown's negative emotions toward you +20] [Ding! Clown's negative emotions toward you +30]
"Lynn!! I'll (bleep-) you-!!"
Clown let out a hysterical roar, but still climbed back up and performed another graceful backflip as Lynn had requested.
"Are you satisfied now?!"
Lynn chuckled.
He had had enough fun, too.
In an instant.
He drew the Dragon Sniper Rifle from his back, its dark muzzle instantly aiming at the sky-obscuring beast hundreds of kilometers away.
He said slowly, "Stick your ass up and show me that fragment embedded in you. You only get one chance, so make it count. If you can't catch it, that means our time together is over."
Humm-
He poured Firstborn Power into the Dragon Sniper Rifle in his hands with a deep rumble.
He pulled the trigger.
Boom-
The golden beam instantly tore across the pitch-black sea, shooting toward Clown.
At that critical moment, Clown finally spotted the golden beam streaking across the sky. Humiliated though he was, he no longer had time to worry about anything else. In the gap between the beast's attacks, he leaped up with all his strength and thrust the dim fragment embedded in his chest into the beam.
Humm-
The beam poured into the fragment, replenishing and recharging