Wangchuan raised his fingertips slightly, about to make a move toward the Execution Platform.
Just then.
A figure darted out diagonally from the side, blocking the straight line between him and the Execution Platform.
It was a pink-haired boy in a Marine uniform.
His frame still bore the slightness of youth, and his expression mingled fear with resolve.
He spread his arms, blocking Wangchuan's path.
"Stop!!"
The boy's voice trembled, but he still shouted loudly.
"I won't let you go any farther!"
"Hmm?!"
Wangchuan stopped moving.
He lowered his head, his gaze falling on that figure.
"This is Marine Headquarters! We will never let evil people do whatever they please!"
Wangchuan looked the figure blocking his path up and down.
That look in his eyes.
It was like that of someone out for a stroll whose path had been blocked by a puppy at the roadside.
He said nothing.
He merely gave a casual, gentle wave, as though shooing away a mosquito flying past his ear.
"Hum."
An invisible repulsive force spread from his fingertips, so fast that the pink-haired boy had no time to react.
The boy's body left the ground, traced a gentle arc through the air, and finally struck the distant fortress wall back-first.
"Thud!"
A dull impact sounded.
It was not the sound of a fatal collision.
A shallow crater formed in the wall, and the boy was embedded in it, his limbs splayed like a doll pressed into the stone.
He coughed twice, but he was not seriously injured.
"Koby!!"
Another figure rushed over from a distance.
Pale-faced, Helmeppo ran to the wall and held Koby by the shoulders.
"Are you all right?! You idiot! Why did you charge at him?!"
Koby coughed twice and struggled to pull himself free of the depression in the