"It had... another one on its back!"
The enormous, bandage-wrapped cylinder that the half-bodied Bandaged Impersonator Art Student had carried on its back all along had such a lumpy texture that it looked just like a gourd or some kind of tool...
But even when Little Genius was smashed to pieces, that thing had never been used!
What if it wasn't a prop at all, but... another Impersonator?!
Just as a puppeteer hid in the shadows, Little Genius was merely a puppet it used to contaminate its enemy's vision, while its true body had been hiding on its back the entire time!
At that thought, he connected all the details!
That was precisely why its movements had looked so stiff, and why, after the bandages peeled away, it had flailed its limbs after falling and struggled so hard to get back up!
That was why... even after Little Genius shattered, this eerie overwrite within the painting hadn't ended!
The reason for all of this was-
"Its true body is still alive!"
"Rustle, rustle... rustle, rustle..."
Just then, completely undisguised rustling rose all around him!
Only then did he realize that countless bandages had already merged into the entire painted domain around him. The trees in the surrounding Wooded Belt seemed to be wrapped in countless bandages, and even the Pebble Road beneath his feet looked pieced together from bandages...
Was this entire world a painting drawn on bandages?!
Just as Mu Daxian painted on a drawing board to overwrite reality, this Bandaged Impersonator Art Student had used bandages as its drawing board, completing a painting and overwriting reality!
"Correct answer... Your reward is to replace it as my new toy." The cylindrical bandaged object that had rolled aside during the fight slowly opened like a cocoon, and the true Impersonator