Alchemists do not need self-cultivation

"Boss, we found Ren Tokiwa in contact with two mysterious people on the school playground. They are not students from Shirasaki Middle School."

In addition to the message, a picture was also attached.

The photo shows two hooded men talking to Tokiwa Ren. The angle doesn't show the faces of the two men, but the silver-white hair hanging down under the hood of the thin man is still visible.

"Who is this?"

It feels like the number of people to be investigated has increased again.

Tokiwa Ren was one of the first people he removed from the list, but now he seems to have become a prime suspect again.

"If all else fails, just arrest them all."

……

When the bell rang, Isaac and Ayana left their seats to go for a walk on the playground.

But as soon as I got there, I heard a commotion ahead.

"Ahhhhh!!"

"This person is incredibly strong!"

"Where did that brat Tokiwa Ren hire his thugs from?!"

The ones shouting were a few third-grade thugs that Isaac had bribed; they were all beaten to a pulp.

Before them stood Tokiwa Ren, who was watching the show, and beside him stood a burly man whose face was covered.

And this burly man was the same one the sniper had shown him earlier.

"Looks like I'm having a lucky day..."

Chapter 650: Robot

"This guy... is incredibly strong."

Is this really a human?

The delinquent who had been knocked to the ground charged at the burly man again, but before he could get close, he was sent flying with a single hand.

The sheer power required to send someone flying with a single wave of the hand is unimaginable.

Bang!

One person was knocked away, and he flew directly in Isaac's direction.

Isaac caught the flying person and placed him on the ground.

"Boss... Boss?"

"Who is this person?" Isaac asked, frowning as he looked at the burly man in front of him.

"I don't know, it seems like it's some helpers that Tokiwa Ren found," the man said.

He was unable to move his body, as if he had injured his bones when he was knocked away.

"I see..."

Isaac looked at Tokiwa Ren behind the burly man with a surprised expression, as if he didn't know that the person in front of him was so strong.

"Tokiwa-kun, may I ask where this guy next to you came from?"

"...What's it to you?"

“Of course it’s my business,” Isaac laughed. “It’s about whether or not I’m going to come and take your dog’s life.”

"..."

The burly man had been standing still, looking completely at ease. When the delinquents rushed at him, he simply swung his arm and knocked them all over the place.

But when Isaac arrived, his behavior clearly changed.

Although her entire face was covered, a faint red glow emanated from the veil covering her face. Isaac noticed this very carefully.

"Ok?"

The target has been confirmed.

The burly man crouched slightly, and then with a loud explosion, a large cloud of dust suddenly rose from the ground. He charged towards Isaac at an incredible speed.

"Boss!"

"Rentaro!"

Amid the gasps of the crowd, he raised his hand and punched Isaac in the face.

Bang!

Isaac took the punch head-on, and the force of the impact sent him sliding back several meters, his feet dragging two deep furrows in the ground.

"Are you alright? Are you hurt?!"

Ayana rushed to Isaac's side to check on him and found that he was still standing there unharmed, only his face seemed to be covered in dust.

Brushing the dust off his face, Isaac twisted his neck and glanced at the burly man who had thrown the punch earlier.

"Your strength is decent, stronger than several adults combined," Isaac laughed. "Who are you? A Twilight Race... no, you probably don't even qualify as a living being."

He possesses the ability to sense Qi, and as everyone knows, all living beings emit Qi, which is an energy originating from the five internal organs of the human body.

However, only living beings possess breath. People like Alphonse Elric, who have lost their bodies and are replaced by armor, cannot sense breath, and the same is true for the burly man before them.

Seeing that Isaac was unharmed, the burly man launched another attack.

This time, he gripped the ground with both hands and charged towards him in an animal-like posture.

"Ayana, you should leave here first."

Seeing the unidentified object rushing towards him, Isaac shoved Ayana aside and caught the punch with his bare hands.

Just as he caught the punch, the burly man twisted his body and kicked him at an incredible angle.

Bang!

Isaac also kicked out, blocking the kick in front of him. Then he grabbed the man's collar and slammed him to the ground with an over-the-shoulder throw.

boom!!

He crashed heavily to the ground, and the ground cracked open with his landing.

"So strong."

"Both of them are monsters!"

"As expected of the boss."

The people around stared in disbelief at the fight between Isaac and the burly man; it didn't seem like a human duel at all.

Looking at the burly man he had thrown to the ground, Isaac seemed to have already guessed what he was.

At this moment, the burly man who had been lying on the ground suddenly stood up straight and disappeared from the spot with a loud bang.

"Ok?"

Swish!

The next moment, he appeared behind Isaac and clenched his fists, smashing them down on Isaac's head.

'So fast! '

Without hesitation, Isaac spun around and punched him in the stomach.

With a loud 'bang!', the punch pierced through the heavily wrapped-up burly man in front of him, the fist going straight through his back.

The sudden turn of events caught the onlookers completely off guard.

"!!"

"Boss...you...you killed him."

They watched helplessly as Isaac beat a man to a pulp.

Ignoring the group's stares, he pulled his hand out of his body and tore off the hoodie that was covering him.

Inside was a robot made entirely of metal. Sparks occasionally flew from the hole he had punched in its abdomen.

"what?"

"What is this? A robot!?"

"How could something like this appear in a school?"

Their attention turned to Tokiwa Ren, the one he had brought.

However, he was also completely bewildered, as he had no idea that the person named Mr. Ag would send him a robot.

"Tokiwa-kun, it seems I have a lot to ask you."

Isaac ignored the robot lying on the ground, which seemed to have shut down, and turned to walk towards Ren Tokiwa.

He was the only person who had contact with the machine, and there seemed to be another mysterious hooded figure besides him—these were all clues.

Just as he suspected, there were 'mercury' people mixed in with the school.

Unbeknownst to him, the moment he turned around, the robot's electronic eyes on the ground glowed red again, and it stood up.

Ayana, who was standing nearby, noticed all of this and immediately shouted, "Rentaro, watch out!"

"what?"

Isaac whirled around, and the robot's fist was already in front of him.

Bang!

Although this punch didn't cause any real damage, it did send Isaac flying.

'Tsk, I forgot I can't sense a robot's aura...'

The machine moves incredibly fast, unlike a cold, metallic object.

Before Isaac even landed, he had already leaped up above him and kicked him to the ground.

Ayana didn't know that Isaac wasn't actually injured and didn't even feel pain; she only saw him being beaten helplessly by the robot.

She wanted to go up and help, but her body froze as she was about to take a step.

As she watched the rapidly moving robot, her gaze began to turn strange, and for some reason, a flood of data and technical information surged into her mind.