Chapter 432: Interception of the Four Seasons Envoy
“Hm?”
With a flicker of eerie green energy, the young girl’s small figure emerged from the [Ghost Gate]. She looked at the room, which had become a complete mess in just a few minutes, and frowned slightly. She cautiously reached for the door handle, trying to ascertain the source of the strong energy fluctuations.
Perhaps due to the use of [Ghost Gate] to maintain contact with the outside world from her territory, Kazumi, even while within her territory, could perceive some of the information coming from the outside world. Thus, the violent tremors and fierce energy fluctuations had interrupted her original idea of studying the core of the Ice Giant. She had come out of her territory to check the situation.
The changed touch of the door handle made Kazumi’s actions even more cautious. A pale arm stretched out from under her hood, completing the potentially dangerous act of opening the door for her master. But the next moment, accompanied by blinding sunlight, an indescribable sensation of heat entered the young girl’s perception.
Hot, scorching heat.
It was like the desperate act of a heatstroke from running wild in the desert at noon in summer. The sensation that climbed onto the girl’s body at that moment was an exceptionally real sense of dehydration and heat, as if the moisture within her body had been instantly evaporated by this burning heat.
Even though her body spontaneously released energy to resist the scorching high temperature, that energy still penetrated the human skin cloak and energy shield, directly affecting the girl’s flesh.
Quickly switching her vision to that of a corpse crow, the young girl turned around and dodged into the cool shade of the room. After a moment of respite, the information that entered Kazumi’s mind from the corpse crow’s blood-red perspective made her unable to help but exclaim.
“What’s going on!”
The giant ship, which had been sailing smoothly, was forced to stop on the sea. And on this calm sea, a dazzling, scorching ball of light was blocking the mammoth vessel in which the young girl was riding.
Even from several hundred meters away, the sense of distorting heat could be perceived, and even the sea surface had strangely caved in. Countless water vapors dissipated from the center, only to be instantly consumed by the high temperature, leaving only wisps of scorching aura that could distort the air.
In the center of the light sphere, no, it should be said, on the surface of this miniature sun, there was a beach chair, utterly common on the seaside. A sexy blonde woman lay lazily on the lounge chair, her beautiful face obscured by sunglasses that were slightly lowered. Her seductive eyes looked provocatively at the people on the giant ship before her.
Her dark skin glistened with sweat, exuding an aura of exercise. Just like a sexy woman exercising on the beach in summer, she flaunted her perfect figure beneath her bikini without reservation.
Suddenly, the seductive aura emanating from the woman vanished. The lounge chair beneath her disappeared along with the light sphere under her feet, and she instantly appeared not far away.
Her long, yet powerful thighs kicked forward, as if generating flames by friction with the air. Her jade feet, carrying flames, anticipated and met the palm that appeared before her the next moment.
“Bang—”
The sound of flesh colliding echoed throughout the space. Even the turbulent sea was calmed by the energy impact, turning into huge ripples spreading outwards in circles.
“Isn’t the Association afraid of problems on their side, to the point of calling you here?”
The other party, who had been repelled, now revealed their true form. Their tall stature and iconic white bandages proved their identity. Andre stood barefoot on the sea surface, as if the collision that had just happened didn’t exist. His expression was calm, as if chatting with an old friend, and he asked calmly.
“You crossed the line, Andre!”
The blonde woman flicked her slightly messy long hair. Instead of meeting Andre’s gaze directly, she turned her head to look at the giant sphere stuck on the ship’s roof, and then turned back, looking at the tall man before her, and replied with a solemn expression.
“I believe you know better than I do what the consequences would be if the person inside were released. Is this your choice?”
“……”
“If it’s summer, you won’t be able to stop me.”
Facing the other party’s almost questioning statement, Andre silently shook his head, looked up at the glaring sun hanging in the sky, and slightly lowered his body, assuming a fighting stance, giving his final response.
“We’ll see!”
The blonde woman’s temper was no different from the abilities she displayed. The moment the negotiation broke down, surging flames erupted from within her body. Her dazzling blonde hair was adorned with a beautiful fiery red pattern, and her entire slender body was engulfed in burning flames, transforming her into a fire person who charged directly at Andre.
[An Association hero? Or someone from the police? To be able to fight Andre to this extent… there’s still a considerable distance to the shore. Should I leave in advance?]
The corpse crow could only provide simple vision, and due to the distance and the energy impact caused by the two people’s fight, the images transmitted to Kazumi’s mind were not very clear. The young girl could only vaguely see the tall figure fighting fiercely with Andre.
After the display of strength earlier, the abilities possessed by Andre were enough to rank highly in Kazumi’s mind. Yet, this woman who suddenly appeared could fight him back and forth like this, even blocking the escape route of the entire team.
Uneasily observing the state of the others on the ship, Kazumi looked somewhat uncertainly at the constantly erupting flames and energy impacts on the distant sea.
The Association’s foundation was much deeper than the young girl had imagined. They still had means to restrain Andre, who was praised by [Shell] for his combat prowess. While trying to sift through information related to the person in her memory, Kazumi had already begun to silently plan her escape route in her mind.
From the current situation, as long as Andre, the highest combat power, was restrained, the rescue mission of this team would only have failure as an option, unless the person imprisoned in the cage could be released in the shortest possible time.
[Wait!]
Unconscious thought made the young girl seem to have grasped something. Dangerous thoughts sprouted like weeds in her mind, but they were eventually suppressed by Kazumi’s extreme rationality. Her gaze still looked towards the sea battlefield, where the outcome seemed to have been decided.
Andre stood on the sea surface, his newly donned white shirt completely burned away, revealing his lean upper body, which was now significantly shrunken and still had wisps of flames clinging to it. He stood in place with a triumphant posture, but his defensive stance never wavered.
[Did she win?]
Looking at the situation, Kazumi, on the ship, couldn’t help but ask this question. After all, in the images transmitted by the corpse crow, the blonde woman who was fighting hand-to-hand with Andre could not penetrate Andre’s defense with her abilities and was eventually kicked away by a whip kick.
But before the young girl could celebrate her calm decision, the situation on the field instantly reversed. Green vines grew eerily from Andre’s body, like parasites inserting themselves into his skin. In a moment, they wrapped his tall body into a green zongzi, blooming with red flower buds.
The water vapor from the meeting of fire and water in the distance was still drifting. And what emerged from the mist was not the tall blonde woman from before, but rather a small, nimble little girl with a leaf hairpin, hopping around with a cute backpack on her back?
