"Wh-What's happening?"
The zipper had split her head from her body. Although it wasn't fatal, the Ursus woman, having lost her sight, could no longer control her body.
Yu Yachen grabbed Ivan, who was about to fall. As [Sticky Fingers] retracted its arm, it slung the Ursus man far behind her.
"Thud—!"
As the zipper retracted, the detached arm automatically reconnected, and Ivan was thrown against a tree trunk behind Yu Yachen and Alina.
Just the right amount of force. Dazed, but no brain damage.
Yu Yachen wasn't as gentle with people who weren't capture targets. She had no stake in this guy's life. Even if he died, she wouldn't bat an eye.
"Alina, stay right there, but don't get too far from me," Yu Yachen said to the Elafia woman behind her.
"Ah... okay." Alina nodded quickly.
There was more than one enemy. Although she had easily dealt with this one, when the system warned her, she clearly remembered there were two Stand users.
The other one was hiding.
She scanned her surroundings, then slowly approached the Ursus woman. Although Killer Queen's power and speed were far greater than Sticky Fingers, she couldn't use both at the same time. When she switched Stands, Sticky Fingers's ability (the zipper) would be undone.
She would have to use Sticky Fingers to land the final blow.
The hidden enemy hadn't made a move. After confirming there was no movement, Yu Yachen had Sticky Fingers raise its right fist high, bringing it down on Eirymes's head!
"Spltch!"
But at that exact moment! Yu Yachen suddenly felt the ground beneath her vanish. Her feet plunged into the thick snow. Sticky Fingers's attack, distracted by the user, went wide.
Yu Yachen quickly tried to stabilize herself. She tried to pull her legs out of the snow, but no matter how much strength she used, she couldn't. The snow clung to her legs like a swamp.
The snow suddenly rose into the air as if it were alive, lifting the Ursus woman in front of her. Sticky Fingers punched at the escaping enemy, but the attack landed on the soft snow.
"Thud—"
Snow splattered. After carrying the Ursus woman out of Yu Yachen's attack range, the clumps of snow, like a viscous liquid, attached to the stump of Eirymes's neck. A moment later, the part that Yu Yachen had cut with Sticky Fingers was stuck back on.
"It hurts, it hurts so much, Pierre..."
The Ursus woman whined, pulling a phone from her pocket, the screen showing a call in progress.
"[Sheer Heart Attack]!"
Seeing that she couldn't escape the viscous snow, Yu Yachen simply deactivated Sticky Fingers. Killer Queen emerged from behind her, and several small tanks dropped onto the snow.
"Look over here..."
"As if I'd let you."
A voice suddenly came from the woman's phone. At the same time, the Sheer Heart Attack tanks, just like Yu Yachen, sank into the "swamp." They were trapped in the snow, unable to move.
This guy's ability is a perfect counter to Sheer Heart Attack.
"Tch."
"What's going on? Miss Yu, why did the ground beneath you just disappear?"
Yu Yachen snapped her head around to look at Alina, who was standing back, terrified.
"Alina, don't get too far away from me!"
Yu Yachen told her to get closer.
"You seem to care a lot about her!"
But just then, Eirymes, who was off to the side, suddenly made her move. She charged at Alina, who was running toward Yu Yachen. The slender "little deer" was no match for the physically strong Ursus woman. Eirymes quickly cut her off.
She's just outside Killer Queen's range! Yu Yachen grit her teeth. She controlled Killer Queen to throw the several snowballs held between its fingers—
"BOOM—!"
The snowballs flew faster than Sticky Fingers's arm. The moment they touched Eirymes, they exploded. Black smoke instantly enveloped the Ursus woman.
The force of the blast sent Eirymes flying out of the smoke. But because Yu Yachen had detonated several bombs at once, Alina was also caught in the blast. Her pale skin was singed by the high heat, and the shockwave sent her stumbling back, slamming into a tree trunk.
"Thud!"
The impact knocked Alina unconscious. Fortunately, Yu Yachen had managed to control the blast's power just enough to hurt Eirymes without severely injuring Alina. This had only knocked her out.
These are minor injuries. I can heal her later. In an emergency, this was the only way.
Without pausing, Yu Yachen shot purple vines from her arm, grabbing the branch of a nearby pine tree. She was beginning to understand the other enemy's Stand ability.
"What's going on? Miss Yu, why did the ground beneath you just disappear?"
Based on what Alina had just said, Yu Yachen surmised that the enemy's ability wasn't just "softening the snow."
Alina was not a Stand user. She couldn't see Stands. But she did see the ground beneath Yu Yachen "disappear."
Therefore, the enemy's ability was likely... to [Convert] surrounding objects into his [Stand], which he could then freely manipulate.
Killer Queen's First Bomb and Sticky Fingers's zippers only work on real-world objects, not on a [Stand]. That's why she couldn't use her abilities to escape the "swamp-snow."
Furthermore, Yu Yachen guessed the enemy's ability wasn't just turning the snow into a swamp.
"Non-Newtonian fluid." A fluid that doesn't follow Newton's law of viscosity. Its main characteristic is that the more force you apply, the higher its viscosity, and the more it acts like a solid. Conversely, the less force, the weaker its viscosity and the more it flows.
If she wasn't mistaken, the Stand beneath her feet, with its "non-Newtonian" properties, was probably indestructible.
So, Yu Yachen could only use Hermit Purple's vines to pull herself out, little by little.
From his previous actions, the opponent's Stand could probably do more than just become a "non-Newtonian fluid." It could likely become a sticky liquid or increase its hardness as well.
His range is ten... no, maybe even twenty meters or more. Yu Yachen still hadn't seen him.
Without any intel, this Stand was extremely powerful. Yu Yachen had underestimated her opponents. That Ursus woman, on the other hand, was just a punching bag and nothing more.
From the strength of her sneak attack, Yu Yachen guessed her Stand was also a close-range power type.
Yu Yachen scanned her surroundings. The other enemy was hidden well; she still couldn't find him. She slowly pulled herself from the mire.
Just as she was planning her next move...
A snowdrift not far from her suddenly rose into the air. The scattered snow gradually formed into countless sharp spikes.
Yu Yachen immediately summoned Killer Queen to block, but she realized a moment later... the spikes were aimed at Alina.
Stand: Paper Hearts
Stand User: Eirymes
Destructive Power: A
Speed: A
Range: C
Durability: A
Precision: C
Potential: D
Author's Note / Promotion:
Recommending a teacher's book!
Synopsis:
[Yuri] After transmigrating to the world of Stellaris with a system, Yi Qiuyue thought she was going to conquer the galaxy and become a cosmic overlord... only to find she had become a "Little Gray" (Gray Tempest).
After being locked in the [L-Cluster] for centuries, and with no one opening the door, she had to build a [Visage Probe] and leave this universe.
But in her search for a new universe, she slammed head-first into a wall built by a certain amber-colored-someone.
From then on, Yi Qiuyue, as a nanite swarm, began her journey in a new universe.
Top hacker in the universe? But I'm a Gestalt Consciousness...
Jarilo-VI, plagued by the Eternal Freeze for centuries? Terraforming is what nanites do best!
The immortal Abundance abominations that have plagued the Xianzhou for millennia? Aren't those just perfect synaptic material for the vat?
The incurable Mara-struck, caused by memory and soul erosion? Just cultivate psionics, and it's solved.
The Glamoth Iron Cavalry's "Entropic Tachy-Brady Syndrome"? Don't you just need to reverse the process of entropy?
Many years later, facing an overwhelming swarm of nanites, Nanook, the Aeon of Destruction, will recall that distant afternoon when they first saw Yi Qiuyue.
Synopsis is weak, please see the main text.
...From the book, "Honkai Star Rail, But I'm the Gray Tempest."*
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