The Gentleman at the End

Chapter 324: Chapter 323 True Damage Chapter 324: Chapter 323 True Damage [Nightmare Town – Park Woodland]

As the red scissors completely sliced open the corners of her mouth, adding a third color—[Bright Red]—Catherine’s temperament underwent a massive change.

Even Yi Chen, her temporary ally, could feel an obvious ‘malice’ growing inside her.

Her connection with the Hundred Treasure Box transformed Catherine into another kind of nightmare creature.

Like the split-mouthed woman, Catherine said in a crazed, utterly uncompassionate tone:

“William, make sure to hold this guy back! Don’t be useless and get killed instantly, understand?”

“What’s wrong with you?”

“What’s wrong with me? I’m fine, aren’t I? Never been better than now, stop the nonsense and get on with it, William!”

“Hmm…”

Given their relationship under the [Soul Contract], Yi Chen couldn’t say much more; as long as the end result remained unchanged, whatever Catherine became didn’t matter to him.

Click, click~

Yi Chen twisted his neck side to side while relaxing his whole body, slowly walking towards the center of the scene where Teacher Zede, with a silver frame floating above his head, was approaching.

Even as Catherine hurried him incessantly during this process, her words were filtered through his Madness Brain, not affecting Yi Chen’s walking rhythm.

At this moment, he had just one thing to do—「Physical Focus」.

Aside from observing Teacher Zede’s body for foreknowledge of his moves, Yi Chen paid equal attention to himself, setting a perfect trap to try and deceive Zede’s perception.

[Physical Disguise]

As he approached with a slow walk, Yi Chen’s hair turned silver again, with beads of starry light flowing through his blood vessels.

Thirty meters,

Twenty meters,

Ten meters…

Upon reaching this critical distance, Yi Chen’s body began to undergo changes.

His right arm showed a slight tendency to swing backward,

His left arm hung slightly lower, with his finger joints starting to move rapidly,

All toes on his right foot stretched out rigidly,

Each step of his left lower leg was strong and powerful,

All the blood in his body, driven by the Star Attribute, formed a strange ‘Star Vortex’ in his abdomen, simultaneously supplying ample blood to his limbs.

“Hmm?” When Zede looked at Yi Chen, he actually saw six different potential offensive moves, including kicks of various lengths and continuous strikes from the front or side.

“Opportunity!”

Zede’s momentary hesitation was perfectly captured by Yi Chen who slightly quickened his pace, his clenched right fist dispersing deathly matter within.

Direct straight punch?

After filtering his options, Zede preemptively extended his left hand, attempting to catch the incoming fist in mid-air and suppress it with a joint technique.

The outcome was as foreseen by Zede—a right fist coming straight for his face.

Swish! But he caught nothing,

Yi Chen’s fist did not swing as anticipated, or rather, it stopped halfway through the contraction of his muscles and the pulling of internal iron chains.

In the moment he stopped swinging his fist,

[Sink]

The right fist that hung in the air sank along with Yi Chen’s body, his center of gravity dropping by half in an instant.

The submerged Yi Chen was like a cheetah poised to pounce, the built-up force between his legs released instantaneously.

Low sprint… whoosh! He closed in on Zede completely.

His already extended arms crossed and gripped tightly around Zede’s two large legs.

“Fooled you, teacher, finally got hold of you!”

「Submerged Takedown」

Immediately,

The veins on Yi Chen’s forehead burst out, and the brain grooves all over his body protruded along with his blood vessels, even wriggling to stimulate the deep potential of each muscle.

His power burst forth entirely, attempting to slam Zede to the ground!

Crack! The earth beneath Yi Chen’s feet even cracked, but Zede remained unmoved.

Although the touch of the buttocks held in his arms felt no different from that of a normal person, the overall sensation was like embracing a mountain of infinite corpses.

The reason he couldn’t lift wasn’t that Zede was too heavy,

but rather because as Yi Chen executed the Submarine Grapple, Zede also reacted instantly by pressing his body down.

No matter how much Yi Chen stimulated his physical body, even if he summoned all the power of the iron chains, trying to leverage them to lift, with skin covering and compressing the muscles,

he still couldn’t lift him, let alone throw him.

“Retreat!”

Yi Chen gritted his teeth, preparing to retreat, but it was already a step too late, something superfast was rushing towards him.

It was a knee,

After switching legs, Zede’s right leg was fully extended, delivering a high-speed knee strike.

“Fuck! A knee strike from this close could kill someone. Is Zede, the teacher, really not holding back this time…I can’t block it, even if I use my hands alternately in front with the chain’s locking, I can’t block it.

My hands would be instantly broken, bones crushed,

my jaw shattered by the knee strike, and the broken bone fragments and the impact would instantly affect my brain, turning it into mush!

Are we starting with ‘Dead Man Makeup’ right out the gate? Damn it!”

Just as Yi Chen made his decision, placing his palms towards his face, ready to switch to Dead Man Makeup,

Zede’s knee strike stopped forcefully in mid-air

With one hand bracing against Yi Chen’s back, he spun and kicked high and twistingly toward his left side.

It seemed as if there was nothing in that spot,

but when Zede swung his leg, Catherine was suddenly kicked out from the shadows… due to the huge force, Catherine’s upper body, spring structure, and Hundred Treasure Box were all shattered.

After disposing of the ambush in the shadows, Zede turned back to face Yi Chen, following up with a ‘Soccer Kick.’

However, the latter had already used the opportunity to pull away some distance.

The soccer kick, like a crescent moon blade, merely swept past in front of him, the created wind pressure slicing open a bleeding cut on Yi Chen’s face.

Gajiji Gajiji~

Yi Chen’s shoes and the nightmare tentacles growing out of his pant legs assisted him in quickly retreating hundreds of meters away.

“Hmm? The teacher’s soccer kick just now seemed rushed… did he make a mistake in his hurry? No, he is injured.”

Yi Chen’s ‘Nightmare Eye’ immediately locked onto Zede’s right foot.

It was also the same foot that shattered Catherine, whence dark red blood was seeping out from the sole.

It was known that Zede’s essence was a corpse.

During Yi Chen’s training in the Underground Paradise, whether he cut Zede’s body with a surgical knife or blew apart his torso with a shotgun, no blood ever flowed.

Even in previous battles where Yi Chen managed to slice through Zede’s palm, there was no bleeding.

Now, to see real, cold blood flowing out of his body clearly indicated an injury, marking the first time Zede had been truly hurt.

The fluid volume between his head frames also decreased by 1/20.

This, in turn, made Yi Chen worry about the teacher’s condition,

“Could this be Catherine’s ability? Indeed… ever since she used that red scissor, she has completely changed.

Speaking of which, Catherine’s ambush earlier wasn’t successful, she got shattered mid-way by Zede’s kick, is she dead?”

Just then,

A Scare Magic Box next to Yi Chen emitted a weird laugh,

Pop!

The upper part of the box suddenly sprang open.

A woman’s head with its mouth completely torn open was sneakily snickering inside,

As the internal spring mechanism activated,

it directly shot out Catherine’s head, a string of nerves and spine, along with various hanging flesh and organs, rapidly reconstructing into an ‘upper body’ state in mid-air.

“William~ you did really well! Do it again, just like before, limit Zede so I can get close enough, maybe I can really kill him then!”