Now!
Qingxiao reacted without retreating in panic. Instead, he twisted sharply at the waist with his forward momentum, his left hand flashing out to clamp precisely around the main body's blade-wielding wrist.
Its paper-reinforced skeleton creaked in his grip. The main body struggled to pull back, but it was as though it had been welded into an iron vise, unable to move an inch.
"The game of hide-and-seek ends here."
A cold glint flashed in Qingxiao's eyes, and his lips curled into a vicious smile. After hiding for so long, you've finally shown yourself.
He gave it no chance to dart away. The tendons and bones throughout his arm resonated as he poured all his cursed energy into Xiqu on his right hand, its imaginary mass surging in successive layers to its peak.
Jet-black lightning suddenly lit up along the edges of the knuckle-duster, and the immense force tore tiny cracks in space.
The first Black Flash erupted!
There were no tricks. His fist drove straight toward the core in Standing Corpse's chest with a crushing, world-destroying weight.
Black Flash's destructive force carried that immense, blunt momentum squarely into the center of the main body's chest.
Its solid paper body instantly caved inward. The exam-paper fibers on its surface split apart inch by inch, and the paper-reinforced skeleton inside was smashed to powder.
Before the main body could make so much as a sound, it exploded into fine paper ash that slowly drifted away on the air currents in the atrium.
The remaining copies around them lost the resentment sustaining them the instant the main body exploded. They slumped to the ground, becoming scattered heaps of wastepaper.
The low-frequency sound waves echoing between the walls also weakened, leaving only faint traces of resonance lingering in the air.
Qingxiao lowered his