Chapter 35: Are you kidding me!!!??

  Standing tall and looking far, the nine lives that originally planned to rush down and kill the opponent saw a building not far from one side of the passage, an institute with an unknown name. Hmm, wait a bit longer.

  He glanced slightly in another direction, and the faintly discernible gaze that had been cast over him quickly withdrew, but Jiǔ Mìng didn't pay much attention to it.

  As one side passed through the entrance of the institute, Jiǔ Mìng took a deep breath. Since he had to go, there was no need to hold back. At worst, he could just sleep more when he got back. A transparent wave, like flames, burned on the surface of Jiǔ Mìng's body.

  "What the...?! This oppressive feeling." The person peeking at Kujou's nine lives sensed not only her nine lives, but also the rapidly increasing mental pressure that made him feel a delusion that the Queen was mentally weaker than the opponent... How is this possible?

  Crunch...

  The high platform under Jiǔ Mìng's feet appeared with dense cracks, the cracks spread rapidly, and Jiǔ Mìng who was standing there had disappeared.

  Boom!

  One of the buildings that was entered from one side seemed to have been hit by a missile, and it immediately collapsed. The nine eyes had confirmed that it was not the main experimental site before taking action, so there was no need to worry about accidentally injuring her sister Mio Shirai.

  "Hahaha! It's you again, this lowlife! I was worried about how to find you!!" A burst of maniacal laughter came from under the collapsed building, and the piled-up construction debris flew out in all directions. "Your way of greeting is really special!"

  "Cut, won't work after all?" Looking at the unscathed One Pass, Jiǔ Mìng (Nine Lives) curled up the corner of his mouth. Single-target attacks would be bounced back, and this AOE-type attack method was also ineffective. Don't look at how this building was smashed by Nine Lives with one punch.

  In fact, this time he had been accumulating power for a longer period of time. The collapse of the building was just an incidental effect. He had already controlled his strength and concentrated most of the impact in one direction, resulting in a passageway that looked like it could be walked through...

  It seems like nothing is happening at all!

  Get lost!

  Cheated all the way home by a white hair.

  "Why didn't you show up yesterday? It's just so unenthusiastic to deal with a group of weak experimental animals that are like ants." With a slight tilt of his head, Jiǔ Mìng spoke in a gloomy tone about yesterday's events, his eyes narrowing slightly.

  Is it really like this?

  He opened his card album, pulled out one of the cards, and after crushing it in his hand, a steel pipe appeared in his hand. "You bastard."

  "Shut up, don't talk about me like I'm a murderer! Those things are just experimental animals for my own invincible path, as long as I press the button, there will be as many as I want, but what about you? Are you even human?"

  "That's right, I'm no longer human." Jiǔ Mìng measured the steel pipe in his hand, how many times should this be counted?

  Used up and disappeared, or?

  "But I feel torturing you is more enjoyable than those lab animals!!"

  "Can you do it? The road to invincibility? You really think you're someone, huh." He curled the corner of his mouth, and for an instant, Jiǔ Mìng's expression was slightly stunned. The palm of the hand holding the steel pipe suddenly became transparent for a moment. What is this? Time has come.

  Maybe in the next few seconds, he will be popped out of this world. Mad, just a little more time to die, next time I'll definitely not be so wordy!

  Obviously, another Misaka #1 has already met the original body, and the commission between her and Nine is complete!

  The commission is complete, and he no longer has a reason to stay in this world. Naturally, he will be expelled in a short period of time. Jiǔ Mìng tried to resist this kind of rejection, but the result was that he wasn't powerful enough to fight against the entire world's power alone.

  "How despicable!! Invincible!? What a joke!"

  I don't know what suddenly got into Jiǔ Mìng, but as he stared at his body becoming increasingly illusory, he suddenly charged over. After a brief moment of stunned silence, he sneered coldly, "What? You look like you're about to disappear? What's with the scrap metal in your hand... how is that possible?"

  Under the extreme threat, what was supposed to be a bold move of launching a powerful attack turned into an emergency evasion. This time, he was no longer carelessly unleashing his abilities, but rather making a desperate all-out effort to dodge, causing the ground beneath his feet to collapse instantly.

  Even so, one side's cheek still had an extra blood mark, and the 'reflex'... didn't work!

  It's not that it didn't work, but rather it was broken through! How is this possible?! His abilities, which theoretically even nuclear bombs couldn't harm him, were actually injured by a steel pipe he had just called scrap metal!

  The tip of the steel pipe seemed to exert just enough force at the moment it came into contact with him, exceeding his computational power by a hair... and this moment was when he couldn't reflect on continuing to increase his computational power, it's subtle to the extreme!

  It was just over this thread that made his ability's 'reflex' ineffective.

  Could it be that this inconspicuous steel pipe is a specially designed tool to restrain his abilities? But how can such a thing exist, and he's not even blind, the steel pipe in Jiǔ Mìng's hand is just an ordinary one that was casually pulled out from who-knows-where!

  It was just this that made a crack in his confidence. Just now, the Nine Deaths Needle had been aimed at his brow, and if he hadn't dodged, the outcome would have been death!

  It's not because of this steel pipe, but rather Nine Lives' own reason. This ability to restrain oneself... The dangerous experience I just had from passing through the Ghost Gate...

  "Great! The more I hate you, the better! If I kill you, I'll be ecstatic!!!" He wiped away the bloodstains on his cheek, his expression twisted and crazy, looking exactly like a madman having an episode...

  "What a pity! Time's up." He didn't continue to bicker, after losing the initiative in one attack, he stood still, his previous actions had already consumed most of his remaining time, if he made any more big moves, he would definitely be instantly knocked out, in the end, Jiuming could only stand there, with an extremely helpless mood that he hadn't felt for who knows how long, and say these two words.

  It seems that this existence called One-Way Road is also a very important existence in this world. If it were someone else, even if their abilities were similar to those of One-Way Road, they wouldn't be an important existence in this world, and the outcome would be vastly different from now.

  Just now, Jiǔ Mìng had already burst out with full speed, but the result was that he subconsciously and unscientifically tilted his head to one side while watching Yī Fāng Tōng Xíng, damn it! Can't play like this, okay?!

  Come a couple of times... Give him another chance to make a move, and he really didn't believe that one party would have such 'good luck' action.

  But it's gone.

  "What's wrong with you...!?" Jiǔ Mìng's abnormality was noticed by Tōkai as well, and that flash of light was like a neon sign - how could anyone not see it?

  "Alas, it's a pity you didn't die, hurry back home and sleep..."

  Before his words had fallen, the nine lives were like candles in the wind, thoroughly extinguished before the eyes of the onlookers.

  Boom!

  On the other hand, the front of the passage was like a strong earthquake, and the ground was instantly filled with deep cracks. A large number of fragments flew up, and no one was seen.

  "What the heck! What does it mean when time is up!!"

  With a roar like that of a wild beast being robbed, one side went crazy and destroyed the empty space around them. The nine lives that didn't seem to be moving disappeared, with a tone full of regret before they vanished, or rather, it was as if they naturally disappeared...

  Is it time?

  Is it gone?

  Are you kidding me!!!!!!!

  "What!？It's gone." Listening to the report from her subordinate, Shokuhou Misaki was slightly taken aback, and with her subordinate describing it in detail, she clearly understood what had happened at that time.

  After flickering and becoming unstable, it finally became completely transparent and disappeared? Are you sure it didn't just dissipate?

  Ah...... The nameless fire in her heart suddenly disappeared without a trace. Her colleague had an inexplicable sense of guilt.

  Has it really disappeared?

  "Who are you?" Mikoto Misaka stared blankly at the girl in front of her who looked exactly like herself, her voice filled with incredulity.

  "Ahhh!!!!" In the mysterious shop, Jiǔ Mìng was rolling around on the ground like a child, his usual calm demeanor had long been kicked far away by extreme depression.

  Give him ten more seconds... No! Five seconds of normal action time and he can make that white-haired person successfully get a one-way ticket!

  "What a joke, how is this ending suitable for me..." Glaring at the lie again, Jiuming suddenly sat up with a deadpan expression, staring tightly at the 'Boundary Gate', looking at it for half a moment before finally letting out a long sigh. Alright... He reopened the door and looked at the sealed card floating quietly there, which was also a 'gift' of the 'Fantasy Killer' card type.

  Defective Electrical

  Type: Skill

  Attribute: Electric

  Note: None. When activating the ability contained in this card, the cost to you can be ignored.

  [Note: A capability that even the genuine Super Electromagnetic Cannon's 1% hasn't reached...]

  Convertible Source Power: 200

  There is no time limit, which means that the ability sealed in this card is a type that can be permanently grasped as long as it is loaded onto oneself. For Jiǔ Mìng, he doesn't need to load it on himself at all. On the one hand, for him, holding this card allows him to use the ability sealed inside without any restrictions on the number of times, and also doesn't require directly crushing...

  On the other hand... it's not necessary!

  The value of this sealed card, although not low, is also relatively low in some ways. A one-time use item like the "Fantasy Killer" costs 300 source points, and a three-time use item like the "Broken Defense Steel Pipe" costs 450 source points.

  Now that steel pipe has two uses left, its value has also been cut down a bit, just equal to the Fantasy Killer. Don't forget, the Defective Electric's seal card is permanently held, while those two have usage limits, even if the value difference isn't big, the actual difference... tsk tsk.

  "Let's make a deal, Panel Master, you return this thing and let me go back for a trip, okay?"

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