I'll kill you after I finish this game!

At that moment——

"Pfft!"

One of the women who were entangled in the spider web... was sliced ​​like a ham.

Blood, flesh, and internal organs were scattered on the ground, turning into fragmented pieces of meat.

"Do you think they could possibly be alive in that state? I've strangled them all."

Red Spider grinned maliciously and laughed wildly, "Hahahaha, ahahahaha—!"

“…I see.”

Fujii Ren remained calm in the face of this response.

The other party probably really wanted to see her furious, right? Unfortunately, that didn't happen.

"Hehehe, hehehaha... Okay, the negotiations have indeed broken down."

Red Spider was somewhat disappointed that he didn't see Fujii Ren's furious reaction, but he immediately rekindled his desire to torture and kill her. He grinned wickedly:

"I'll kill you right here! If I eliminate the substitute at this stage, at least Melcrius won't come back! And that way, Lord Heydrich won't be able to fully revive!"

As for what happens next, it will be much more troublesome, but things will eventually work themselves out.

Red Spider raised his unusually long arm, and then extremely thin steel wires extended from the tips of each finger.

Surrounded by shimmering silver threads, the red spider sneered mockingly at Fujii Ren:

"You haven't mastered the [formation] of the relic yet. No matter how powerful it is, the gap is insurmountable, and you can't possibly defeat me! Drink!"

With a roar, the steel wires were swung out with incredible speed, each one capable of easily cutting through atoms; the human body was as fragile as paper in front of them.

However, the purpose of this relic is that the Red Spider, who is skilled at and enjoys torturing the weak, prefers to strangle her enemies, leaving them to die in despair after struggling in vain.

Moreover, the other side calls it the strangulation rope, and the original power of the relic is for strangling enemies.

Sharpness is what enemies should be wary of first when facing it, but with complete insight, its ability to capture is what should be the most vigilant!

"Shh-!"

The earth was cut apart by the extending steel wires, and the roads and buildings of Suwahara City were all cut and collapsed like building blocks.

However, Starscream's power extends far beyond that. He has not wasted his sixty years. Even though he is considered weak among superhumans, his destructive abilities are not entirely insignificant.

As if trained by someone, Red Spider uses the steel wire in a very diverse way.

To delay Fujii Ren's actions, the wire puppets set up a wire cutting net as a trap, a spider web-like capture technique, and transformed the wires into wire bullets or cannonballs that could break the sound barrier.

If Fujii Ren didn't have a strong self-healing ability, many of the injuries he suffered would have been fatal.

The reason he was forced to be dismembered was because Starscream used her thread abilities in a very insidious way.

The battlefield is no longer confined by Suwahara City; the entire Japanese island has become a battlefield for monsters.

The entire Japanese island roared violently under the terrifying force of Fujii Ren's punch, and tilted at a speed visible to the naked eye. Many extinct and active volcanoes were blown apart and spewed out huge amounts of lava.

In reality, probably more than half of Japan's population would have died by now.

The battlefield was destroyed in sequence, starting from Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, turning those areas into forbidden zones where no life could survive.

The capital, Tokyo, was so badly damaged that magma erupted from the ground.

Afterwards, famous cities such as Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kobe, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Sapporo, Sendai, and Hiroshima, which made countless Japanese viewers ashamed, were all buried in ruins and barren land by the aftermath of the battle between Fujii Ren and Red Spider.

While Starscream's fighting style is rather cowardly and defensive, it's actually quite reasonable; it's simply impossible to get close to a target without taking damage by crawling through the web's defenses.

Fujii Ren lacks the weapons that allow demons to destroy and kill each other, which is the insurmountable disadvantage that Red Spider mentioned.

"[Form]...?"

Having gained a chance to catch his breath and heal his horrific injuries, Fujii Ren pieced back together the severed half of his brain, and blood automatically flowed back to his body through the remaining limbs.

Even though this battle between monsters wasn't on the same level as the one between Skadi and Nanami, it still left countless viewers in awe and speechless.

At least the "small fry" that Fujii Ren mentioned could be considered world-destroying demons in their world, and Fujii Ren, a high school student, was even more so.

"What's wrong? Are you scared now that things have come to this?"

Red Spider mocked Fujii Ren's disheveled appearance, turning the steel wire into a bullet that pierced the sound barrier.

"How can it be."

Moving at high speed and using the footwork that Skadi taught her, Fujii Ren, with her agile movements, showed no sign of giving up.

She's organizing her tactics, figuring out how to win from a disadvantageous position and how to kill this guy quickly, so don't disturb her with that jarring noise.

"I see. Even if you're a woman, to be valued by that madman, you must be quite warlike."

Still using the silk threads, intending to dismember Fujii Ren into eight pieces, Red Spider sneered with an "I knew it" expression:

"Although we have different preferences, you seem to be the same type as me and Bey. If that's the case, the difference in experience and rank will determine the outcome. I suppose you don't have any secret techniques that can turn the tide of the battle?"

"[Yetzirah (Formed)] — [SiegHeilViktoria (Grant us victory!)]"

The incantation of prayers and blessings, chanted with magical power, made the steel wire covering the red spider even more clearly visible.

It was a rope wrapped around a neck—the Warsaw Prison strangulation rope, an instrument of torture that had strangled countless prisoners.

In this sense, it should be quite similar to the guillotine held by Fujii Ren.

Perhaps we can find more tips by looking at how he uses it.

"call out--!"

The steel wires that were tearing the earth flew toward Fujii Ren again, cutting through all the mountains along the way, while Fujii Ren still tried to counteract it with the ability of the [Active] rank.

bang——

However, the result was far from satisfactory.

"Hahaha, that kind of thing is useless!"

Red Spider laughed wildly and mocked, and countless threads seized the opportunity to cut Fujii Ren into human stumps.

With her limbs severed, Fujii Ren did not continue to reconnect the severed limbs this time, because Red Spider would not give her that time.

With overwhelming force, it inhaled all the oxygen within a kilometer of its lungs, subtly affecting the red spider, and then expelled it in one breath after extreme compression.

"boom--!"

The devastating air cannon disrupted Red Spider's tactical plan to capture and torture Fujii Ren.

The terrifying air cannon pierced the earth once again, as if stimulating the monstrous magma, causing it to spew out scalding hot blood from the earth once more!

The opponent gritted his teeth, thinking to himself, "How come this kid's tactics and experience are so sophisticated? He's like a hedgehog when he fights, able to defend perfectly and counterattack appropriately."

All his tactical attacks seemed to have been anticipated and countered by Fujii Ren from the very beginning.

Although the opponent was injured, Red Spider knew that they were only minor injuries.

Sure enough, given a brief respite, the flesh at the severed limbs of Fujii Ren began to writhe rapidly, and in an instant, with a 'pop,' new limbs grew out.

This unimaginable self-healing power even made the Hollows in the Death God dimension raise their eyebrows slightly; this self-healing was indeed much faster than super-speed regeneration.

The new limbs grew in less than a tenth of a second, and were completely restored.

This is also what makes the demon so troublesome. If Fujii Ren were to use Soul Devouring again, his self-healing speed would only be even faster.

But this can't go on, Fujii Ren thought with a slight headache.

Even with her decapitation ability at her current level, and even if she uses the Uninterrupted Head Path, the difference in rank means that without weapons, she can only attack like a primitive man with a stone tool.

The opposing Starscream was like a modern-day armed soldier.

The difference between ranks is so obvious and enormous that the silk threads protecting the red spider can always defend against and sever Fujii Ren's slashes.

If he were to be completely captured, and in a way that leaves no room for escape, then Fujii Ren would be utterly finished.

She didn't come here today to die.

They launched another attack, but this time they unknowingly drove back to Suwahara City, and Starscream revealed a triumphant smirk.

"General, Zarathustra."

"---Well!?"

Red Spider's fingers trembled slightly, and as the silk threads retracted, a woman's figure, entangled in their silk, appeared before Fujii Ren.

That's... Xiang Chun!

No, that's not good!

"Didn't I tell you? Checkmate! Hahahahahahahahaha—!!"

Just as Fujii Ren was about to take action again, Red Spider laughed wildly and activated the trap he had set up long ago.

Starting from the bound Xiangchun, countless dense threads burst forth, extending in all directions, including front, back, left, right, and even up and down.

Fujii Ren was bound by her neck, limbs, and waist, and surrounded by countless interlocking nets.

Although it's called a net, from the outside, there isn't even a gap that a mosquito could fly through.

But it still possesses the power to cut flesh and blood.

Fujii Ren gritted his teeth and hardened his body, desperately resisting the steel wires that were gradually tightening around his flesh.

Even so, the threads still felt like they were embedded in flesh, and blood splattered all over the body.

Honestly, it's a miracle it didn't immediately turn into pieces of flesh, but in this situation...

"The outcome is already decided."

That's right, once you're tied up, you can never break free of those wires on your own like you did the first time.

The gecko's survival trick of shedding its tail is no longer effective, because the red spider has gathered up a large amount of silk.

If Fujii Ren dares to do that, she will be met with an atomic-level cut.

At that point, it would be impossible for it to heal itself.

"Tsk..."

Surrounded by women who were hanging naked, Fujii Ren was among those who had been tortured to death... her?

Red Spider wore a smug smile as he looked at Fujii Ren's increasingly puzzled face and said, "What's wrong? You look so blank."

"You guy..."