Kivotos, I was deeply shocked!

Worry, fear, anxiety...all the emotions that had been piling up deep in her heart, higher than the sky, suddenly collapsed in the midst of Kotori Hoshino's almost sobbing trembling, instantly drowning out the accusation that she was about to blurt out.

Ayane Okumura closed her mouth and said nothing. With the same tremendous strength, she tightly grasped Hoshino Takanashi's back and pressed him into her arms, as if she was afraid that if she let go, Hoshino-senpai would suddenly disappear like he did in the morning, leaving only an apology letter that sounded like a farewell.

If I do it again...

No, there won't be another time!

After a long while, the girl finally finished the second half of the sentence, "Welcome back."

"Hey... hey, hey hey hey..."

Hoshino Kotori sniffed his red nose and laughed with a nasal tone, "You actually put on such a formation and looked at me, an uncle, with such cute eyes..."

After several deep breaths, Hoshino Kotori's voice finally returned to normal, "Serika-chan, are you expecting me to say that line too?"

"Stop, stop being so verbose!"

Kuromi Serika's face suddenly turned red, and her cat ears stood up straight, with even the fur on the tips standing up as if they had been electrocuted.

The girl tried to hold back her shame and argued, "It was just a normal greeting! There was no dialogue at all, and Hoshino didn't say anything weird!"

"Qi Xiang-chan, that's not what you said before you came~"

Izayoino jumped onto Gloria with a whoosh, put her index finger on her lips, and said with a smile, "You've been muttering all the way that you want Senior Hoshino to do this and that, or else you'll do this and that to Senior Hoshino, have you forgotten?"

"—!"

Izayoino did not continue teasing Kuromi Serika, who was speechless for a long time because of the embarrassment that steam began to come out of her forehead. Instead, she opened her arms in the same way, embraced Hoshino Takanashi and Ayane Okumura, and whispered, "Welcome back, Hoshino-senpai."

"Yeah, that's right."

Another arm was placed on the shoulder. Sand Wolf Baizi appeared here without knowing when. His pupils as clear as the lake looked into the eyes of Kotori Yui Hoshino. "Welcome back, Senior Hoshino."

"Don't leave me alone to have fun on your own!"

Kuromi Serika rushed into the crowd, squeezed out a gap, and squeezed her head in, showing a very unhappy expression, "It was obviously me who took the initiative to say that first."

The girl had obviously completely forgotten the sentence "just a normal greeting" that she said less than a minute ago.

Or did he forget it completely on purpose?

“Haha…haha…hahaha, the atmosphere has already become so tense, I really have to say that, right?”

Hoshino Takanashi had no idea how to describe what he was feeling at the moment.

Excited? Emotional? Relieved? Anxious?

There is everything, and too much of it. They come flooding into my mind in wave after wave, leaving me no chance to breathe.

However, if I had to describe it in one word, it would definitely be warmth.

The body temperature penetrated through the barrier of clothes and flowed into the heart without any hindrance, warming the wounded heart.

Hoshino Takanari unconsciously increased his strength.

"Ah, come on, if you already knew, then don't keep us waiting so impatiently, Hoshino-senpai!"

Kuromi Serika pouted in dissatisfaction and rubbed Kotori Yui's cheeks with her cat ears, "Hurry up and tell me!"

“I really can’t do anything about you, but since it’s the strong request of my lovely juniors…”

Hoshino Takanashi took a deep breath, and seemed to have unloaded a heavy burden in his heart at the same time.

Then the girl smiled a brighter smile than ever before.

"I am back."

Chapter 196: Echoes

Caesar could no longer remember how many Si Wang he had killed.

But this was just a small matter. He was having a lot of fun chopping, so it didn't matter which one it was.

He drove the mechanical arm of the power armor, and the arm blade emitting a cold color split the head of Si Wang, who was flying towards him with a sneer, into two halves. What splashed out from the head was not the bright red and wet blood, but a ball of dry sand that exploded and covered his face.

But it doesn’t matter either!

As long as the one being chopped was Si Wang's particularly hateful face, Caesar would not have any objection even if what came out of it was sand, even if it was a custom-made dish from a membership restaurant!

Caesar roared and swung his arm blade, slashing through Si Wang's row of heads that were either grinning or mocking, and the sound was like a series of firecrackers exploding.

But the difference is that this time the sand rolling out from inside...

Seems a bit hot?

Caesar frowned slightly and continued to swing his arm blade without hesitation.

This little bit of hindrance could not stop him from wanting to cut Si Wang into pieces.

Unless the temperature soars by hundreds or thousands of degrees Celsius.

As if they had heard his thoughts, Si Wang's heads flying from all directions laughed heartily, instantly satisfying his insignificant request.

Three red-hot Si Wang heads flew over from the front. Red and orange flames kept popping out of their mouths and ears, and their eyes were swaying back and forth like fireballs.

Pretend to be a ghost!

Caesar roared, and two machine guns deployed from the shoulders of the power armor, spewing out scorching flames.

Bullets with a caliber of 20mm are equal to all, not to mention Si Wang’s head which can be easily split in half by cold weapons.

Without any surprise, Si Wang, who was floating in the air with a strange smile on his face, had his head smashed and exploded like a watermelon.

But the only difference from before is that this time what came out was no longer dry and disgusting sand, but flying magma.

"No!"

Suddenly a shrill scream was heard from the ruins, and Caesar woke up from his coma with sweat all over his forehead. Before he could catch his breath from the lingering fear from the nightmare, the terrifying scene before him made him hold his breath involuntarily.

A piece of red-hot iron was only a finger's length away from his nose, making an extremely tiny yet extremely harsh sizzling sound in the air.

Even though he held his breath, the smell of burnt rusty metal still drifted into his nose unhindered, slowly and dangerously irritating his scalp.

"Wow, what a shame, if only you could wake up two seconds later, Caesar."

The burnt Luo Tie was gently moved away, revealing Si Wang's face behind him, which was more hateful and terrifying than a nightmare.

Si Wang casually threw the iron that he had put into the system backpack at some point aside, revealing a look of genuine regret. "Actually, I'm quite curious if the red-hot iron really falls on human skin, will it really make the sizzling sound shown in TV dramas?"

"Did you come here just to humiliate me again, Si Wang?"

Caesar panted, trying to avoid looking at the smoking Luo Tie stuck in the sand, otherwise he was afraid that he would not even have the courage to speak in front of Si Wang. "Then you can humiliate me as much as you want. Anyway, you are the winner now, you can do whatever you want!"

"How can you say it's a humiliation, Caesar? Look at my sincere eyes, and then look at this sincere face. Can't you feel my sincerity from the bottom of my heart?"

Si Wang pointed at his eyes, poked his cheek, and said with a smile, "Why don't you cooperate and faint for another minute or two, and I'll be done quickly."

I will cooperate with you **! ! !

With a bang, the string of reason in his ears made a sound of breaking as if being teased. Caesar's cheeks and lips were twitching, and his teeth were grinding back and forth between his alveoli, making a harsh squeaking sound. His throbbing and swollen cheeks made Caesar look like a grinning, hungry wolf from the front.

Si Wang didn't feel scared, instead he found it very interesting.

A person who looks like a robot can actually show a more vivid expression on his face than a human...

Si Wang couldn't help but look at it twice more.

Time passed slowly in this silent gaze, and Si Wang's eyes became more and more focused. It seemed that he would not be surprised if he could tear Caesar's face off and put it in front of him to observe carefully in the next second.

Ten minutes later, Caesar finally couldn't stand Si Wang's terrifying gaze anymore and broke the silence first.

"Have you seen enough, Si Wang?"

Caesar originally wanted to make his voice sound deeper and more calm, but he failed. For some reason, as soon as he thought of the name [Si Wang], an uncontrollable anger boiled up from the bottom of his heart, and his voice unconsciously became much louder, "If you've seen enough, close your dog eyes! Hurry and tell me your purpose!"

"What's your purpose~"

Si Wang obediently looked away. For a pig tied to a chopping board, why shouldn't he obey the other's whining?

After thinking for a while, Si Wang shook his head and said, "Although I did come to you for a reason, but when it comes to explanation... I don't think I have anything to explain to you."

"Then get out of here!"

Caesar's fingers twitched slightly. He showed an even more angry expression to attract Si Wang's attention, and quietly restarted the system of his power armor, intending to give Si Wang, who was clueless about his own life or death, a surprise.

In order to prevent the sharp-minded Si Wang from noticing his little action, Caesar raised his voice and deliberately made an even louder sound to cover it up, "Go and enjoy your peaceful and stable life with your students for a few days. I will not let you go! The Caesar Group will not let you go either!"

"See, this is why I said [I have nothing to explain to you]."

Si Wang seemed not to notice Caesar's little move. He spread his hands and showed a helpless expression, "It's obvious that everyone can go back to their own homes and find their own mothers and live a happy ending, but there are always some people who are as stubborn as donkeys. They don't know how to write the word "turn back" until they hit their heads and bleed."

"Bloody head?"

Caesar sneered. He was the one who was knocked to the ground, but his arrogant attitude was as if it was Si Wang who was lying on the ground and being looked down upon. "You should be the one who is about to get your head broken and bloody!"

The engine roared, and the propulsion devices embedded in the legs of the armor spewed out beams of azure flames. The left fist, which was still intact, carried a tremendous force and slammed fiercely towards Si Wang's annoying smiling face.

"You're too close to me, idiot!"

Chapter 197: Tragic Aftermath

"Let me go...eh?"

The left fist wrapped in iron armor suddenly stopped only two centimeters away from Si Wang's nose. The strong wind blew up Si Wang's bangs, revealing a pair of slightly helpless eyes underneath.

Caesar widened his eyes, looking in disbelief at his left arm which seemed to have been paused. No matter how he drove it or gave commands to the system, his left arm seemed to be frozen in mid-air, motionless.

"This is, this is..."

Caesar looked at the arm with confused eyes, as if it no longer belonged to him, completely unable to understand what was happening before his eyes.

"Maybe your yelling was too rude and impolite, so your power armor doesn't want to pay attention to you."

Si Wang brushed his bangs and explained seriously, "How about you be more polite and ask again?"

"What the hell are you talking about, Si Wang?!"

The only backup he could rely on broke down, and Caesar's mentality collapsed. He didn't even notice the obvious teasing in Si Wang's words, and shouted back, "It's just a machine! A machine that acts on orders! I want it to go to A, but it can't go to B, do you understand?!"

"That being said, the intelligent system controlling this machine may have awakened itself, developed a personality, and developed psychological needs. How about I try politely?"

Si Wang coughed twice in a pretentious manner, just to let Caesar know that he was pretending. Then he gently pressed down the steel fist that was about to touch his nose, put his right hand on his left chest, and bowed gently, "Sir, could you please raise your left hand and help me break Caesar's right index finger?"

Click.

Just as Si Wang said, after his very polite request, the power armor on Caesar's body pinched the index finger of Caesar's right hand without hesitation and twisted it gently.

Caesar looked in disbelief at his index finger, the tip of which was now completely aligned with the back of his hand. The absurdity of the situation made him forget the severe pain that had already reached his cerebral cortex for a moment.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

Si Wang was quite curious and kept count in his mind, intending to see how long Caesar would stay stunned before coming to his senses.

Then ten seconds passed, a full ten seconds, before Caesar suddenly realized that his index finger had been twisted off, and along with it he realized... the excruciating pain!

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Caesar let out a heart-wrenching scream. He desperately wanted to hold on to his index finger, kneel on the ground and roll around to relieve the pain that penetrated deep into his bones.

"Move, move, you bastard, move faster! I beg you, please, move faster!!!"

However, the power armor that he used to control at will seemed to have a short circuit now. No matter how he cursed or prayed, it stood there motionless like a piece of real metal, adding fuel to Caesar's already heart-wrenching pain.

Inside the armor, a blood-red bug was lying on the chip, emitting flickering blood light all over its body.

With its front jaws, which are no bigger than a needle tip, the Aphid certainly cannot chew through the Caesar Group's firewall, which is thicker than a bunker.

But it’s so easy to solve my problem.

He only needed to order the [Aphids] to physically chew off the chip of the power armor, and then turn it into an identical chip that was completely under his control and cover it again, thus solving this seemingly thorny problem.

The computer room of your Caesar Group is so well hidden that I can’t even find it.

But you put such a small power armor in front of me, which is too disrespectful to my plug-in.

"Although what you said was confusing and what you did was ridiculous, I still agree with your shocking speech just now."

Si Wang smiled faintly, and the sound of electricity and gears mixing came from the power armor again, as if the solidified power armor started to work again. "You are too close to me, idiot."

This time, the power armor pinched the nail of Caesar's middle finger.

"No, no, no..."

The electronic pupils contracted, the lips trembled, and Caesar's vocal cords twitched as if they were plucked, and the sounds he made were as sharp as electric shocks.

Obviously, the firmness of Caesar's tone was directly proportional to the power armor he was wearing. As long as he was still wearing this power armor, even if he fell into such an embarrassing situation, he could still stiffen his neck and confront Si Wang.

But now, after Si Wang stripped off his power armor and even turned it into a torture device on his body, Caesar was no longer strong. At the slightest hint, he immediately screamed as miserably as a pig lying on a chopping board.