About the time I was picked up and adopted by Tallulah

13. Lapland, the Mad Pretender

"Cute little dog, tell me about your relationship with Texas. Let me also know what kind of friends that lonely guy has made in this city now, hahahaha!!"

Suddenly, from a blind spot, a white-haired Luper attacked him, throwing him to the ground with two swords against his throat. Lappland laughed with jagged teeth bared.

"Does the relationship between the new employee and the interviewer count as the relationship with Texas?"

"Haha! That's a really interesting relationship! I'd also like to know what kind of interview questions will be asked in Texas. Would you like to teach me?"

"No problem at all!!"

Tear it apart!

Orson suddenly grasped the blades of the two long swords with both hands, and the blood on his palms flowed down.

Although Orson can tune the "music score" of an object without touching it, the effect and efficiency will be greatly reduced. Direct touch is the fastest and most effective way.

Lappland noticed the strangeness in Orson's actions, and she immediately retracted the two swords. Orson immediately took this opportunity to stand up from being knocked down and move back to create some distance.

"...?"

Orson frowned. The tuning using his own blood as a 'medium' seemed to have failed. The two long swords in Lappland's hands, which looked like protractors, did not change their nature and shatter.

laugh--

Orson clasped his hands together and used high temperature to stop the bleeding, and Lappland raised his eyebrows when he saw this scene.

"Is that your ability? Controlling temperature—no, it should be more than that. Judging from the way you and Texas were causing a scene on the streets earlier, it seems you have some ability to change the properties of objects?"

"—"

He still couldn't understand why Lappland could avoid his detection and his weapon was unaffected by the "tuning". Instead, his Originium skills were almost completely guessed by this white Luper girl.

As a [Tuner], in fact, almost no one knows the essence of Orson's Originium skills. Not to mention the essence, in fact, most people are not clear about the specific manifestations of all the abilities used by the [Tuner].

Even until now, new employees of Rhodes Island and Reunion Movement have always believed that the Originium skills of the [Tuner] are similar to those of Dr. Kal'tsit's mon3tr Stand User.

This also led to the "mon3trX rest" book.

It is still too early for such art on the continent of Terra.

"So how's your wound healing? I'm going to continue the attack, yo?"

Lappland didn't give Orson time to think. She smiled creepyly and disappeared almost immediately, appearing in front of Orson.

"Well!"

Orson barely dodged the blow with the stinging wind pressure by turning sideways, but the advantage of Lappland's double swords was revealed at this time. Unlike Maria's defensive battle or Chen's weapon battle, Lagou's chopstick battle put far more than "twice" the pressure on the enemy in this kind of hand-to-hand combat.

"Hahaha! You have good skills, little dog!"

“Who’s the dog…!”

Lappland laughed and mocked Orson while continuously waving two strange-looking swords.

Because the 'Scarlet Queen' is still in the security department of the Lungmen Guard Bureau, Orson, who has no weapons, is in a very difficult situation. He can only control his center of gravity and dodge the attacks with great difficulty.

"Yes, yes, that's the beat—and then variations!"

Lappland suddenly slowed down the attack of the sword in his hand for a moment, making a fake move to deceive Orson's action, and then Lappland immediately swung an unavoidable blow in the direction of Orson.

"Um... rest!"

With nowhere to hide, Orson barely summoned the dark pause to try to block Lappland's attack.

But in the next second, the Rest, which had just been summoned and had not even gathered to form a cluster, suddenly dissipated under Lappland's slash.

"...!?"

Click! !

Orson dodged backwards desperately and barely avoided the attack, but he also fell into a more disadvantageous position.

—The rest was broken? This has never happened before. It's like... Wait.

At this moment, the brain finally reached out from "memory" and dug out the reason that could explain all this -

Lappland possesses the same ability as himself, [Silent Originium Technique].

——Why did I just remember this now! This guy and I are the same type of Stand user!

Orson barely recalled that one of Lappland's characteristics in the 'game' was the ability to silence any existence.

——No wonder she was able to attack me silently... She blocked my 'Frequency Exploration' by default, and the rests would be directly broken up by her!

Orson finally remembered Lappland's abilities, but nothing changed about the current situation.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? What's wrong? I thought you were more interesting and a tougher guy, but you turned out to be so docile? Little puppy, show your fangs!"

"Although you finally stopped treating me like Du Lin...but I'd still be annoyed if you kept adding the word 'little'!"

Orson retorted angrily, but what greeted him was not Lappland's apology, but a long sword that could cut through flesh and bones.

"Haha, then what should I call you, Texas's little follower?"

"Who's the follower... Uwaaa!"

Orson hurriedly summoned the Rest as a one-time block to the opponent's attack, but the Rest still shattered at the first touch and had no defensive effect.

He didn't have the Scarlet Queen at hand, and the "Rest" that he was proud of, which could realize various combat methods, was perfectly restrained by Lappland's silence. He was so unlucky today.

Putting aside these restraining factors, Orson was also very surprised by Lappland's fighting style and skills.

Unlike that crazy and impatient appearance and Zaun's mouth, Lappland has always kept a precise distance from himself.

She would maintain this distance just enough to attack Orson with her sword, not too close for Orson to be forced to summon the Rest Symbol to attack, nor too far for Orson to escape.

Without any effective means of attack, Orson could only dodge, feeling like he was being played around by Shi Huaiya, like Lin Yuxia (huh?)

——Keng!

It was not known which round of attack it was, but Lappland swung his sword towards Orson, and this time Orson raised his arm to block it. His arm was not cut off, but instead there was a sound of metal friction.

"Oh? There's a new attack method? No, it should be an extension of that black thing just now."

"Could you not guess so quickly...it makes me feel embarrassed."

Although the step of 'spreading outwards' was reduced, the Rest Note could directly form complete protection after clinging to the arm, but after Lappland's attack, he had to make the so-called 'wrist guard' again.

Keng! !

——My hands are numb... If I had brought a golf club with me when I went out, this wouldn’t have happened.

Orson swung his hands and complained quietly in his mind.

Generally speaking, based on the "horizontal version of the fighting game" I played before, there should often be daggers, meteor hammers, broadswords, AK grenades and other weapons that can be picked up around the streets and alleys.

But why is this alley in the heart of Longmen so clean?! Not even a metal rod, let alone an electric baton!

Orson never thought that one day he would get angry because of the appearance of Longmen Street.

"It's about time you stopped hiding, right, Coyotes? Just let me remove one of your arms and then tell me what Texas is doing and where he is."

Lappland slung a longsword over his shoulder and flashed a jagged smile.

"What are you looking for Texas for? To be honest, I don't know her that well."

Orson asked Laplander why she had such a 'soft spot' for Texas.

"Good question. What should I do? Haha, I guess I should prepare to welcome her back to the past."

Lappland responded with a smile, but Orson didn't understand the meaning of this statement.

Orson tried to listen to the melody of the soul of the white-haired Rupert girl in front of him, but unlike what he had expected, the melody in Lapland's heart did not have a bit of madness and agitation, but was instead frighteningly calm, revealing a kind of despair that she did not care about.

"Ugh...!"

Before Orson could finish listening to the melody, he was suddenly brought back to reality by a tingling sensation. It seemed that Lappland's "silence" interrupted his listening to the melody.

Orson looked at Lappland, who tilted his head with a question mark appearing above his head.

"?"

Lapland didn't know why Orson suddenly stared at her with strange eyes.

But Orson didn't understand what kind of existence Lappland was.

He thought Lagou would be a purely crazy character, but it seemed that was not the case.

But these are all things of the past. There is only one thing I have to do now.

"Are you from the Mafia?"

Orson suddenly threw out a question.

"Isn't that right? There's no need to ask such questions."

"Let's change the subject. Do you like salty or sweet tofu pudding?"

"what?"

Lappland was stunned for a moment by Orson's extremely strange question, and in this moment of stunnedness, Orson attached the rest to his arm and directly knocked off the steel water pipe extending from the wall beside him.

"By the way, I like salty food!"

"What the hell are you talking about, huh?"

Orson immediately took the knocked-down steel pipe in his hand to tune it, and then threw it directly at Lappland.

The tuned water pipes had unknown properties, but Lappland remained calm. She simply got ready once again, ready to chop down the thrown objects.

Even if a tuned item loses its Originium Skill's blessing, its characteristics will still be retained for a short period of time. Of course, this is not the point. The point is that Lappland wants to "use" his "Originium Skill".

Just before Lappland swung his sword, Orson closed his pseudo-vocal cords.

【take a bow】

"...?!"

Keng!

The strangely shaped long sword cut down the thrown steel pipe, but the effect of this attack was completely different from what Lappland had expected.

Anyone who is silenced while using an Originium skill, regardless of the function of the skill, will experience a momentary delay because the skill cannot be released normally. This is like not being able to open your eyes by external force after sneezing. It is an established fact that is almost irreversible.

This "delay" caused a slight error in Lappland's movements. Orson seized this opportunity and rushed straight towards Lappland.

Unlike the instantaneous silence of [Curtain Call], Lappland's silence requires a very short lead time and is limited to a very small area.

In other words, large-scale attacks at ultra-close range cannot be silenced by Lappland.

Therefore, the attack method chosen by Orson was to turn the pause into a shield.

"Haaah!"

Boom! ! !

Lappland used both swords to block in front of him, but even so, he was still knocked away by the violent impact of the shield.

"I learned this move from the shield guard uncles for a long time!"

Orson used to be beaten into a pancake by the shield guards every day, and once suspected that the reason why he couldn't grow taller was because of being beaten. This time, he finally used the shield smash he learned from the elite shield guard team of Ursus.

"Ahem, hahaha! That's right, that's it. Isn't this much more interesting?"

Lappland, who was knocked away, rolled on the ground, and Orson came over again almost at the same time.

He didn't want to know which of 'Curtain Call' and Lappland's Silence had a higher priority. Rather, he thought that in the current situation, losing his Originium skills would only make him more frustrated.

Therefore, what Orson has to do is the opposite of what he did before. Neither of them can use [Silence].

Orson activated the [FEVER] state, and his arms were forcibly amplified by the rest symbol. He used the fighting skills he learned from ACE and others to fight tightly with Lappland.

Clang! Clang! Clang!!!

The teeth-grinding sound of swords and arm guards colliding with each other continued to burst out. Lappland did not have the terrifying power of the Patriot, but the strange angles of her attacks made up for this shortcoming.

In the last confrontation, Orson blocked the long sword that Lappland chopped with his right wrist with his left hand, and at the same time, his right hand collided directly with the other long sword that was stabbing towards him.

boom! ! !

The loud noise and impact sent the two flying to both sides of the alley, and dust and smoke rose instantly.

"So it's more than just changing nature. Your ability is the same as mine, little dog! Hahahaha!"

Lappland stood up shakily. She ignored her tattered clothes and looked at Orson with an excited and bloodthirsty expression.