"I don't know." Tamayo shook her head gently. "I've never gone out, and I've never had relationships with anyone other than Quinn. If there's any source, I can only think of Muzan Kibutsuji."
"Are you sure?"
Bobbi looked incredulous.
No matter how long a person's life, it was impossible to be alone and unassociated with anyone.
If so, who were you operating on before?
But after Coulson heard this, he was thoughtful.
Bobbi wasn't at the level in S.H.I.E.L.D. to know about dimensional travelers, so her skepticism was understandable.
But Coulson knew about the travelers' existence and speculated that Tamayo and Yushiro were also travelers. He wouldn't think it impossible like Bobbi did.
If Tamayo and Yushiro were dimensional travelers whose crossing time was short, then not being connected to anyone was normal.
However, who was this Muzan Kibutsuji she was talking about?
Now that she'd crossed over, the enemies of her original world no longer existed.
Unless her enemies had also crossed over.
Were there undiscovered travelers?
Shit!
Reaching this conclusion, even the kind-hearted Coulson couldn't help but swear internally.
The known travelers were troublesome enough, and now there was someone who sounded even more troublesome. What should they do to completely eliminate the crisis from parallel universes?
"It must be because I brought too many people!" Yushiro looked at Tamayo sadly and admonished, "Lady Tamayo, I told you long ago that my blindfold method doesn't eliminate traces of existence—it only covers them up. The more people there are, the more traces there are, and the greater the risk of exposure."
"Now think about how to solve the problem!"
Tamayo replied lightly and looked up at the ceiling. Five or six handballs printed with colorful patterns bounced back and forth in the room, leaving palm-sized cracks and craters on the walls like cannonballs. The furniture and decorations in the house were smashed to pieces.
This kind of offensive was as if someone had set up several cannons outside the door, continuously firing.
"We have to rush out!"
After Coulson said something to Bobbi, he took out a grenade, pulled the pin, and threw it out the door.
Without thinking, Bobbi got up and rushed out.
As a result, as soon as she stood up, she saw the grenade that had flown to the door come flying back.
"Shit!"
Bobbi cursed and dove away.
Although Yushiro didn't know what it was, when he saw Bobbi's movements, he also subconsciously embraced Tamayo and covered her with his body.
Boom!
The grenade flew back and exploded in the house, blowing the coffee table and sofa apart.
Yushiro got up from Tamayo and yelled at Coulson and Bobbi, "You two idiots! Can't you see those guiding things?"
"Guiding things?"
Coulson and Bobbi were stunned, then immediately looked at the handballs flying around the house.
From a physics standpoint, after a handball hit many times, its strength should decay, then come to a complete stop.
But these handballs bounced back and forth as if they had infinite power, and their force didn't decline in the slightest from the first wall hit. Coulson and Bobbi had initially thought these handballs themselves were some kind of superpower, but now thinking about it, it didn't seem so simple.
They were about to ask something.
But without the cover of the coffee table and sofa, the attackers outside knew their location and controlled the handballs to turn and shoot at Tamayo and Coulson.
"Lady Tamayo!"
Yushiro once again stood in front of Tamayo, grabbing the chair next to him and batting at the flying handball.
Coulson subconsciously reached out to swat it.
Boom!
The handball seemed equipped with an automatic avoidance device. It turned before being hit by the chair, bounced off the ground, then bounced back before Yushiro could regain his balance, blasting his entire head to pieces.
And Coulson's hand was directly blown off.
"Yushiro!"
Tamayo caught Yushiro as he fell backward. After feeling his heart still beating, she relaxed and looked at the other two. "That handball is made by Blood Demon Art—don't touch it carelessly. Also, step back and don't expose yourselves to outside vision!"
After speaking, she held the headless Yushiro and rushed into the operating room inside.
That speed was many times faster than Usain Bolt, stunning both Coulson and Bobbi.
But the bouncing handballs made them snap back to attention, and they rolled into the inner operating room in an extremely ugly but practical way.
Compared with the filth Tony had seen on his last visit, the operating room at this time was cleaned and tidy. Whether it was the operating table in the center, the tool cart beside it, or the counter built against the wall, everything was clean enough to use as a mirror.
However, perhaps because of the surgery, there was an unconscious black girl lying on the operating table.
And in the trash can under the operating table were many blood-stained remains.
Coulson just glanced casually, then took off his tie and tied the severed part of his right hand tightly to avoid bleeding too much.
But the pain made him sweat profusely, and he could only stand by leaning against the wall.
Bobbi couldn't wait to ask, "What is Blood Demon Art? What are the invisible guides Yushiro mentioned before?"
"Blood Demon Art is a special ability awakened by powerful demons. You can understand it as human superpowers. As for the invisible guides..."
Because the situation was urgent, Tamayo didn't hesitate to tell them the information.
"Yushiro's Blood Demon Art can see things ordinary people can't see, and I don't have this ability. But I can probably infer it's some kind of effect of the enemy's Blood Demon Art!"
"Blood Demon Art, demons!?"
Bobbi was confused.
Her level in S.H.I.E.L.D. wasn't very low, but she wasn't high enough to access the newly discovered high-level secrets, so she was confused about the so-called 'demons' and 'Blood Demon Art' in Tamayo's words.
But Coulson understood, so his face was grave.
Tamayo had revealed two pieces of information.
One: Demons also had superhuman-like beings among them, just like humans. Two: Yushiro was also a demon.
And she was with demons, so most likely she was a demon too.
The former was undoubtedly bad news for S.H.I.E.L.D., which was preparing to deal with demons.
Demons themselves had super recovery, super strength, and super endurance. Among such demons, there were superpowers like humans, making them undoubtedly more difficult to deal with.
The latter showed that Quinn knew the demons and even had a good friendship...
Demons lived on people.
Regardless of good or evil, as long as they ate people, they were enemies of humanity.
But Quinn had befriended humanity's enemy, which meant he...
"Don't worry. I only need a small amount of blood to survive. Yushiro needs even less."
Tamayo's soft words interrupted Coulson's contemplation.
Character Notes:
Usain Bolt - Real World Reference
Former world record holder in 100m and 200m sprints Used here as a comparison to show Tamayo's superhuman speed Considered the fastest human runner in history