Facing Kiana, who rushed over like a meteor, Fuli's heart was exceptionally calm.
As calm as a Russian special forces officer with a terminal illness, sitting on a time bomb that couldn't be defused and would explode in three seconds with enough power to destroy half the city, while his daughter had just run away to America.
Without hesitation, he flicked his wrist and slammed two bullets he had been holding in his palm into his body.
At the same time, he grabbed Kiana by the collar and retreated backward.
"Hey, what are you doing!"
The little blackie (pun/nickname) he grabbed yelled, as a silver-white blade gleam flashed before her eyes.
While retreating, her hands felt lighter. The dual pistols she had used to block RIN's attack snapped in two and fell to the ground, leaving only the handles in her grip.
It was obvious that if Fuli hadn't grabbed her and pulled her back, the one snapped in two would have been her, Kiana Kaslana's body.
At this moment, Fuli, who had Shunpo'd more than ten meters away, had his eyelid twitching violently. "Long time no see? Yeah, if you didn't come (see), I would be fine (no see)!" (Pun on "don't come unharmed" / long time no see)
Rarely using an exclamation mark, one could imagine his current mood.
"You you you you you!!!"
Seeing this scene, Kiana was dumbfounded. She had seen Fuli's wretched state earlier.
How did he suddenly become lively and vigorous in the blink of an eye?
[Name: Healing Bullet]
[Rank: D]
[Category: Consumable]
[Effect: Special bullets developed by the leader of the anti-mating force NLNS for timely treatment during combat. The special gelatinous shell is filled with a therapeutic gel mixed with maca, antibiotics, and a series of other drugs.
Upon hitting the target, the gelatinous shell disintegrates and penetrates the target's body through pores and other means along with the gel, causing wounds to heal rapidly and providing about half an hour of pain relief and sedation.
Even if shot multiple times and suffering from multiple knife wounds, as long as death is not instantaneous, a single Healing Bullet can heal the wounds completely within one to three seconds.
This bullet does not possess any lethality, including impact or pain upon hitting; even if loaded into a sniper rifle, hitting the target will not produce any pain or wounds, as if it never existed from the start.]
[Note: From "Nukitashi" (Hentai island).]
Fuli had drawn a total of one magazine (seven rounds) of such things in his initial ten-pull.
He had been holding two in his hand just now, and by injecting these two Healing Bullets into his body at the critical moment, he restored vitality to his exhausted body.
Besides that, his Honkai Energy was also replenished a little.
The Human Immortal Dao can replenish a large amount of life energy through digestive behavior, and life energy can be converted into Honkai Energy at a certain ratio.
The amount wasn't much, but having some was better than having none.
At this time, RIN, having missed her slash, also looked over.
"Hehe~ Hiding a trump card, were you?"
Although she was smiling, there was no mirth in her bewitching purple eyes.
She felt like she had been played by Fuli again! This wretched guy was clearly baiting her to attack just now, to achieve some disgusting plot!
If not for that white-haired, blue-eyed little girl messing things up, she feared she would have fallen into his trap again!
Kiana also realized she had ruined Fuli's plan, but she couldn't care less about that now. Understanding the battlefield situation was the most important thing.
The girl quickly said, "Ignore this donkey-ears for now. Tell me, who is she? And where did you provoke such an SA-rank monster?"
"Just treat her as a Honkai Beast that cultivated into a spirit." Fuli glanced at the half-gun handles in her hands, quickly took out the Galactic Baseball Bat, and handed it over. "And what is SA-rank?"
"This Miss just made it up. A-rank Rule Breaker, Super A-rank!"
Kiana took the baseball bat and swung it, finding it felt like it was made for her!
Rules are meant to be broken! It's mine now!
Fuli frowned. "A-rank Rule Breaker is SA-rank. By your logic, aren't we B-rank Rule Breakers just—"
"Shut up! You're the SB!" (SB = Sha Bi / Stupid Cunt) Kiana immediately retorted angrily, but after realizing the meaning, her eyes widened. "Wait! You said you're also a B-rank Rule Breaker?!"
"What else?"
Fuli glanced at her sideways. His condescending look made the girl yell in anger.
Perhaps due to the urgent situation, the interaction between the two wasn't as distant as before. Instead, there was a subtle understanding and tacit agreement like a young couple reuniting after a long breakup.
However, the enemy certainly wouldn't give them a chance to continue their husband-and-wife... FuKi Manzai (stand-up comedy) act.
"I say, you two really aren't putting me in your eyes, are you?"
Long pink bangs covered RIN's eyes, and arriving before her voice was a slash fast enough to almost transcend time!
Fuli was very sure he wasn't seeing things. The speed of this slash was indeed fast enough to almost surpass time.
Because its principle was similar to curvature manipulation in science fiction. It was a god-speed Iai slash that interfered with the time integrated with the space around the blade by twisting it!
Well, transcending time doesn't equal surpassing the speed of light. Inequality checkmate.
Subconsciously, Fuli crossed his scabbard and Mikazuki in front of him to block, simultaneously activating Void Shunpo to condense a lotus under his feet for leverage.
Kiana reacted a beat slower than him, but she quickly raised the newly acquired Galactic Baseball Bat, inserting it into the intersection of the scabbard and Mikazuki to assist in blocking.
BANG!
The shockwave from the collision of two blades, one bat, and one scabbard spread rapidly outward. Fuli, retreating tens of meters after forcefully tanking the hit, threw away the scabbard that had snapped in two, his expression growing colder.
Previously, he had thought of refuting Kiana's claim that the enemy was SA-rank. In his view back then, having lost the four-tailed demon fox body and the massive Honkai Energy stored within, the current RIN was at most a B-rank.
Unexpectedly, she was hiding such exquisite sword skills!
On his side, Kiana's strength was indeed that of a B-rank Rule Breaker, but she was a Gunner, better at mid-to-long-range combat. Close-quarters combat against someone with such exquisite swordsmanship was obviously a disadvantage, not to mention her guns had just gg'd.
—Need to think of a way to draw the enemy's attention!
Thinking of this, Fuli took a deep breath and raised his voice, "That move just now, you didn't create it, did you?"
In the distance, RIN, who was completely suppressing Kiana, twitched her fox ears.
"Stay there honestly! After I finish dealing with this little girl, this old lady has plenty of time to deal with you!"
She slashed Kiana, who was struggling to defend, away with one sword strike. Without even looking at Fuli, she swung her tachi and pressed forward.
"That's only if you can win." Fuli summoned three Trailing Shadow Swords to circle around him. "Changing draw speed by twisting space-time... I have to admit, the person who invented such a sword technique is absolutely a powerhouse who has reached the peak in heart, body, and technique."
"But precisely because of this, the requirements for the user are extremely high." Firing several slashes to assist the perilous Kiana, he continued, "Compared to the master who taught you swordsmanship, your cultivation in terms of state of mind is far from the standard. Otherwise, with just that sword strike, that guy and I would probably both be cut in two."
The premise was that Fuli didn't activate the Flying Raijin Kunai to run away. As a noble one-time displacement item, the Flying Raijin Kunai possessed the extremely rare characteristic of ignoring the interference effects of skills and items below A-rank.
A time-transcending Iai slash is indeed rare and would interfere with the operation of space-time skills, but it still falls within the category of B-rank skills.
At least in RIN's hands, this move couldn't interfere with the Flying Thunder God's teleportation.
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