"Hmph—!"
Forcibly suppressing the turmoil in her heart, Tornado huffed, an unyielding flame burning in her emerald eyes. With a super fierce expression that screamed, "If you don't let go, I'm going to punch you," she glared fiercely at Han Sen.
"Hey! Why do you keep trying to grab me? What, do you think Psychics aren't good at close combat?!"
Watching Tornado's beautiful profile, her ears still tinged with the alluring blush from before, looking fierce but inwardly timid, Han Sen couldn't help but blink. His gaze was as focused as if he were admiring a rare treasure.
So cute!
"How could that be? I'm also a Psychic," he retorted, a hint of matter-of-factness in his tone. "Do you think I'm not good at close combat?"
"Hmph!"
Tornado was choked by his retort, huffing like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
That's right, the scene of this guy killing a Dragon-level Weirdo with one punch was still vivid in her mind. That pure destructive power could even rival her own casual Psychokinesis attacks.
If he wasn't good at close combat, were all those S-class heroes recognized by the association useless?
With the topic blocked, Tornado felt much of her built-up momentum deflate.
She looked at Han Sen's bright eyes, which shone like stars and seemed to see through everything, and his large hand, which still showed no sign of letting go. The shame and anger in her heart once again took over.
"What is this?! What kind of answer is that?!"
"Who answers a question with another question?!"
Before Han Sen could retort, her small face, still flushed with two streaks of red, suddenly turned to him, a hint of suspicion and challenge flashing in her emerald eyes—
"Then why do you keep holding my hand? You… you don't like me, do you?!"
Thump! Thump! Thump…!
The moment she asked that question, Tornado regretted it.
What was this?
This was practically handing her weakness to the enemy!
She had even anticipated his reaction—
Either surprise, or mockery, or simply brushing it off with a joke.
Whichever it was, it would be enough to make her explode with shame and anger on the spot.
However, it was beyond all her expectations.
Not only did Han Sen not show any of the expressions she imagined, but he instead frowned slightly, a hint of confusion in his eyes, as if he found it strange that she would ask such an obvious question.
"Didn't I already say it?"
Before he finished speaking, he tightened his grip on Tornado's wrist slightly, gently pulling her, who was a bit dazed, towards him.
At the same time, Han Sen's gaze became more serious and fervent than ever before, a warmth capable of melting an iceberg.
He spoke slowly, enunciating each word, and gave his answer in a clear and firm voice.
"Suki, sukidayo (I like you, I like you)!"
"I like you, I do like you!"
His firm voice, rich with magnetism and masculine security, boomed in Tornado's ears like a clap of thunder from a clear sky!
It was like a sudden, unadorned, straightforward attack, kicking hard into her heart.
Tornado: "…"
The wild winds surging above the ruins stopped, the floating dust solidified, and even the distant cries of survivors had disappeared at some point. Time seemed to stand still at this moment.
All defenses and disguises were temporarily dropped. Tornado's heart, suddenly opened a crack, was forcibly invaded by Han Sen's burning eyes and the confession that echoed in her ears, firmly occupying a territory within it.
Her brain completely shut down.
Buzz—
Like the hum of an old television losing signal, Tornado's mind was blank.
Her emerald eyes, capable of controlling all things, were now wide open, but seemed to have lost focus.
—Likes… me?
—This man, this guy she had only met a few times, actually said… he liked her?
—Absurd, outrageous, incomprehensible!
—But… why was her heart beating so fast?
—But why was her face so hot?
—Why… even the wrist he was holding started to unconsciously go limp?
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
When extreme shyness and panic exceeded the brain's processing limit, they would transform into pure, primal rage!
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah—!!!"
After several seconds of dead silence, the accumulated emotions burst forth like a broken dam!
Tornado's delicate and pretty face instantly turned red as if it would drip blood, and a scream loud enough to pierce eardrums resounded through the sky!
"You've only met me a few times and you suddenly confess, only a ghost would believe you ah ah ah ah… Pervert!!"
Buzz—!!!
Emerald Psychokinesis flames surged out along Tornado's petite body, soaring into the sky like a supernova explosion, transforming into a destructive storm that crushed all things, sweeping across the entire sky!
The intensity of the energy contained within it was so high that the surrounding air was instantly compressed and evacuated, forming a zone of absolute vacuum!
Even space itself showed visible fluctuations and distortions!
This level of power release had far exceeded the scope of normal colleagues' playful bickering; it was an almost unreserved full-force attack!
Once ordinary materials like steel and rock came into contact, they would be twisted and decomposed, crushed into fundamental particles!
For a normal Dragon-level Weirdo, it would only result in instant death!!
In the past, even when Tornado used this level of Psychokinesis, it was usually a large-scale AOE. But now, it was concentrated on one point—
The man who was tightly gripping her wrist, making her both ashamed and angry!
Feeling a bloody "Danger" sign suddenly pop up above his head, Han Sen's pupils sharply contracted.
He had expected Tornado to blow up, but he hadn't expected this tsundere loli's reaction to be so intense!
A full-force attack from an Above Dragon-level being!
Terrifying pressure surged from all directions, and Han Sen felt every cell in his body screaming under the unbearable burden.
His powerful body, forged by effort and stats, instantly tensed up!
The Black Light Battle Suit, hidden beneath his skin, immediately switched to its most rigid form!
The composite force field constructed by Imagination Power and Electromagnetic Rampage instantly went to maximum!
In the instant before the attack arrived, Han Sen wasn't sure how many layers of buffs he had stacked.
He only knew that all his inherent abilities, now fully leveled, were bursting forth at the absolute limit of what a human body could bear.
It was just that the "Not Human System" was too rudimentary; otherwise, the number of buffs on his panel would definitely rival the status bar of a main DPS in a dungeon raid!
Even so, Han Sen's entire body still trembled violently, uncontrollably. The frequency was so high that it produced a deafening roar that made his eardrums bleed, leaving streaks of afterimages in the air!
His bones groaned, his muscles twitched, and the force field on his body tore countless times in an instant.
Han Sen gritted his teeth, his gaze resolute, and stubbornly held onto Tornado's wrist without letting go an inch!
—It's fine…!
—I! Can! Still! Take! It!!
He always believed—
Since he coveted her body, then he had to…
See! It! Through! To! The! End!!!
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