Chapter 116: The Battle Between Two Sisters (Part I)

"Whoosh!"

The strike did not miss. However, before Tuantuan could feel any joy, her brow furrowed. She knew that the sword had clearly connected, yet she felt none of the resistance that should come with slicing through flesh.

Furthermore, the sound that reached her ears was slightly off.

A splash of cold liquid hit Tuantuan in the face, causing her to instinctively close her eyes.

"Water?"

In Tuantuan’s astonished gaze, the transparent, water-based body that had formed in place dissipated back into the ground before it could fully take shape.

Xue Feifei’s eyes also widened. Through what she had just witnessed, she began to form a hypothesis.

It was highly likely that these two were not Awakened. Even for an Awakened, it would be impossible to turn one’s entire body into water; if that were the case, wouldn’t all physical attacks be rendered completely ineffective?

Then there was the man in the distance. She remembered Kong Zhe once telling her that the abilities of the Awakened were limited and could not be used indefinitely. Yet the explosions that man unleashed seemed to be triggered at will. Such a person did not fit the criteria for an Awakened that Kong Zhe had described.

Therefore, Xue Feifei suspected that neither of them were Awakened, which was likely why they were unaffected by the safety zone's protective barrier.

As for what exactly these two were, she had no idea. But one thing was certain: the situation was dire. Facing such elusive and ghostly enemies, how could they possibly defend themselves?

No, she could not rely entirely on Kong Zhe. She had to find a way to counter them immediately.

It must be said that Xue Feifei’s composure as a scientist proved invaluable at this moment; even in such a crisis, she accurately grasped the crux of the problem.

However, the enemy would not grant her the time to do so.

"Angel Saintess!"

Tuantuan’s shrill cry made Xue Feifei instinctively look up, but before she could react, she felt a sharp pain in her head. Her hair had been tightly grabbed by someone.

"Little girl, you truly surprise me! I never expected you to launch a counterattack under such circumstances. It seems your strength is far greater than I estimated... Hehehe..."

Seeing the woman in the raincoat suddenly appear behind Xue Feifei, Tuantuan gritted her teeth, but she dared not approach rashly.

At this moment, the woman in the raincoat had placed her fingers against Xue Feifei’s throat. Her long, sharp nails glinted coldly as she stroked the skin, as if ready to pierce it at any moment. Tuantuan watched in anxious desperation and hissed, "You monster! Let her go this instant!"

"Hm? A monster?"

The woman in the raincoat frowned subconsciously, but her expression immediately relaxed.

She gave Tuantuan a seductive smile. "What’s this, little girl? Are you concerned about her? How about this: throw away your sword, kneel on the ground, and bark like a dog twice, and I will let her go. How does that sound?"

"What? You ugly hag, how dare you ask a noble Vampire Queen to bark like a dog! Why don't you just die!"

Tuantuan blurted the insult out, almost instinctively.

"Aha, it seems you haven't learned your lesson yet!"

The woman in the raincoat sneered. She brushed her right hand across Xue Feifei’s face, and her entire palm transformed into a cold, liquid mass, enveloping Xue Feifei’s head completely.

"Ugh..."

The sudden sensation of suffocation caused Xue Feifei to begin struggling instantly. Helpless, she was still being held by her hair; even reaching up to cover her mouth and nose was futile, as the surrounding water completely cut off her ability to breathe. Soon, blood rushed to Xue Feifei’s eyes, and a wave of dizziness flooded her brain.

"Angel Saintess!"

Watching this, Tuantuan felt her heart constrict. Abandoning all caution, she rushed forward and slashed the woman in the raincoat in two with a single strike.

However, the woman immediately reformed. Tuantuan gritted her teeth and began to slash repeatedly, trying to shatter her again before she could fully recover.

Soon, however, Tuantuan felt a sense of despair. No matter how she attacked, it was useless. The woman was like actual water; her strikes, while seemingly powerful, caused no damage at all.

Just as Tuantuan was shouting and preparing for an even more violent assault, she felt her arm being grabbed.

Coming to her senses, Tuantuan realized that Xue Feifei, who was holding her, had a face that had turned a deep, bruised purple. Through her one open eye, she revealed a look of desperate pleading.

Like a drowning person, even if a straw appeared before her, she would grasp it without hesitation, for it was her final hope.

Tuantuan finally realized that no matter how she attacked—even if she hacked the woman to pieces—it was of no help to Xue Feifei. The water enveloping her head never dissipated.

What could she do? Should she strike at Xue Feifei’s head?

"Damn it! You, let her go!"

Feeling the hand gripping her arm tighten, Tuantuan was frantic and shouted at the top of her lungs.

The woman in the raincoat reformed once more and sneered, saying nothing, but pointed to the ground at her feet. The meaning was clear: if you want me to let her go, do as I say.

Tuantuan glared at her fiercely, then suddenly threw her sword away and fell to her knees with a thud.

"Woof... woof..."

A humiliating sound escaped her lips. However, she stopped struggling, merely keeping her head bowed and silently staring at the ground, hiding her expression. Her left hand gripped her right arm tightly, as if suppressing extreme rage.

The woman in the raincoat looked at the kneeling Tuantuan with a triumphant smile and finally released Xue Feifei.

"Cough, cough..."

The water covering her head vanished into thin air. Xue Feifei collapsed onto the ground, gasping for fresh air. She had never felt that breathing was such a wonderful thing.

Looking at the miserable state of the two, the woman in the raincoat sneered.

In truth, with her strength, she didn't need to put in so much effort to deal with a girl like Tuantuan, but she had chosen this way to torment her.

Who told her to call her an ugly hag? Even in an organization filled with monsters, no one had ever dared to call her that. Now that a yellow-haired brat dared to humiliate her, she naturally had to return the humiliation tenfold.

"...Hehe, wouldn't it have been better to do this sooner? If you had recognized reality earlier, your sister wouldn't have had to suffer so much, don't you think, little girl?"

The woman in the raincoat walked over to Tuantuan, reached out to lift her chin, and spoke with a smug look on her face.

"Eh?"

But then she noticed something wrong. As she lifted the girl's head, what she saw was a smiling face!

In her impression, at this moment, the girl should have been furious, with murder in her eyes.

How could it be a smile? And a cold, mocking one at that!

Just as the woman in the raincoat was puzzled by this, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her arm.

This made her frown. Since she had obtained her abilities, she had never felt pain, as nothing could harm her.

But now, she felt a real, tangible pain. Though slight, this long-forgotten sensation felt incredibly surreal.

Filled with suspicion, the woman in the raincoat instinctively turned her head to look.

The girl before her had a wicked smile on her lips, while her eyes glinted with icy light. She was holding her arm up, her left hand pressed against her own right arm. In her hand was a red, syringe-like object.

At that moment, the red liquid from the syringe was flowing continuously into her body.

"You, what did you do to... me..."

The woman in the raincoat was suddenly alarmed. She stumbled back a few steps to put distance between herself and the girl. Feeling a wave of dizziness wash over her body, she began to scream in a panic.

"Your body is water, and physical attacks are ineffective against you, *cough*, but if the substance is also a liquid, you're helpless, aren't you?"

Behind the woman in the raincoat, a weak voice rang out. The woman instinctively turned back.

There, Xue Feifei had sat up from the ground. Her face was still flushed, clearly not having fully recovered, but a light of success shone in her eyes.

"You! You... could it be?"

The woman in the raincoat was shocked, suddenly recalling the moment when Xue Feifei had grabbed Tuantuan’s arm.

Tuantuan stood up from the ground, looking coldly at the swaying woman in the distance, and unconsciously touched her right wrist.

Earlier, when Xue Feifei had suddenly grabbed her hand, Tuantuan had initially thought she was begging for help, but she soon realized something was wrong because the grip kept tightening, and her fingers were moving in a rhythmic pattern.

On Tuantuan’s right arm, right where Xue Feifei was touching, was strapped one of her "chunibyo" props—an anesthetic needle!

It was the same red syringe she had once fired at Kong Zhe. It hadn't worked on him because he had blocked it, but now, this expensive injection had finally served its purpose.

It was precisely because of Xue Feifei’s reminder that the sharp-witted Tuantuan immediately understood her intent. That was the reason for the kneeling scene that followed.

Kneeling, putting on an act of hatred, barking like a dog, and gripping her right wrist with her left hand...

Everything had been a performance by Tuantuan, aimed at making the woman lower her guard and come close.

Even so, kneeling and barking for her enemy still left Tuantuan feeling incredibly furious, which was why she continued to glare viciously at the woman in the distance.

"Damn brat, it's just a common anesthetic! Don't get too smug; this stuff is useless against me. I can still kill you... all..."

The woman in the raincoat wore a look of madness as she lunged toward Xue Feifei, which gave Xue Feifei a terrible fright, as if she could feel that suffocating sensation all over again.

But just as she reached her, the woman in the raincoat rolled her eyes and collapsed, completely unconscious.