My wife is the stand-in.

"Jiajia's injuries are not serious. Bian Que has already cured her. She just needs to rest." Someone said obsequiously, the flattery more obvious than the words.

Amber Master's amber face remained expressionless as he watched Amanosaki in the video, whose entire body was covered in dense magic patterns, making him look like a Terminator straight out of a science fiction movie.

"I heard that Amanosaki changed his ability again today. What is it? How did he perform?"

There was no indication of concern for JK girls in his words or actions.

This left the person who had flattered the wrong person extremely embarrassed.

Someone in the crowd immediately opened their notebook and answered loudly, "He's been awakening his powers for three days now, and each day it's a different woman with significant differences in height and weight. The second woman even seems to be a different species. The differences in abilities are very obvious, but there's one thing in common..."

"explain."

"They're all very beautiful, extremely beautiful." The person giving the report adjusted his glasses, trying hard to suppress a smile, but the upturned corners of his mouth betrayed him.

"...you little pervert."

Amber chuckled and calmly took the best seat. Only after the garrison commander sat down did everyone dare to sit down again.

Amber looked at the monitor with one eye open and the middle-aged man with glasses with the other: "How is his ability performing?"

“Each one is exceptionally talented.”

The bespectacled man answered without hesitation, "He called the woman on the first day Hinata, the woman on the second day Saria, and today's Rin Tohsaka. Judging from the data and abilities we've gathered so far, they are all combat-type abilities, and they all far surpass the level of the branch. With a little training, they can get close to the branch."

"Go on," Amber said, watching the monitor with great interest and urging him on.

In the video, Amanosaki threw several punches, shattering the chitinous armor plate on Li Junzi's lower back while also causing the skin on the back of his own fingers to ulcerate, revealing the stark white bone beneath.

He inexplicably fell backward, narrowly avoiding Li Junzi's twisting punch, as if some lucky star was watching over him, allowing him to always dodge dangerous attacks.

A faint light emanated from his hands. By the time Amanosaki rolled to his feet, his festering hands had healed, revealing fresh, pink skin on his fingers that contrasted sharply with the wheat-colored back of his hands.

Several gems of different colors, shaped like birds and bats, fluttered their wings and circled around Amanosaki's head.

One of them was circling around when it suddenly plummeted, crashing into Amanosaki's back and instantly turning into a pile of fragments.

Magic lines climbed up Amanosaki's neck and left several straight lines on his face.

Amanosaki set off again, his speed and strength significantly increased compared to before. He wore a childlike, innocent smile, genuinely joyful, but his movements were like those of a mad dog, using both hands and feet to jump onto Li Junzi's back.

With a forceful pull of both hands, his fingers sank into the chitinous armor plates, and he began to tear at the defensive exoskeleton on Li Junzi's head.

"Oh!" Amber interrupted the bespectacled man's report with great enthusiasm, as if he had discovered a new continent. "Watch the game, watch the game!"

Li Junzi, feeling pain as Amanosaki grabbed his forehead, reached out with both hands towards Amanosaki's body, but an inexplicable explosion occurred on the inside of his elbow, causing his counterattack to miss its mark.

"with full force!"

Enraged, Li Junzi roared, and countless bone spurs sprouted from the chitinous armor plates all over his body. He arched his body, intending to embrace Amanosaki and stab him to death!

But Amanosaki, as if he had foreseen this, stepped on Li Junzi's face, leaped up with a gushing nosebleed, and casually distanced himself.

"Whoosh!"

Amanosaki exhaled a puff of hot air, his muscles twitched slightly, his eyes were locked on Li Junzi, and his empty mind received Rin Tohsaka's reprimand without reservation.

'You moved too fast! You shouldn't be so eager for results. Even a magician specializing in close combat wouldn't use such a large movement! If I hadn't replenished your magic power, you would have been locked in place!'

"My wife is right," Amanosaki nodded without hesitation.

'Who are you... Never mind.'

Rin Tohsaka, halfway through her tirade, rubbed her forehead and gave a helpless instruction, 'Watch your movements. Don't act like a beast; act like a dancer. You should be leading the big guy in a dance.'

'Try again, watch his lower back. I reckon the big guy can transform into other creatures, but that would be incredibly taxing. However, as long as he maintains his human form, destroying his spine is always the easiest option.'

To maintain flexibility in his waist, he certainly wouldn't cover it with too many plates. Don't try to grab his head or neck; most people are prepared for that.

Amanosaki nodded and moved slowly to adjust his position.

Seeing this, Li Junzi wiped the blood off his face, bared his teeth, and started spinning around as well.

They were like two planets orbiting an unseen star, maintaining a constant distance, carefully observing each other, searching for weaknesses.

Lacking practical experience, Amanosaki was the first to lose his temper and make a move. He pushed off with both legs, leaned forward, and moved forward in a zigzag pattern close to the ground at an extremely fast speed.

But this time, Li Junzi caught a glimpse of him.

At this moment, Li Junzi's appearance changed drastically.

His eyes swelled to ten times their normal size, taking up most of his bald forehead. His insect-like compound eyes carried countless nerve endings, dozens of times more numerous than those of humans, into his brain.

A superior dynamic vision system allowed Li Junzi to catch up despite being a latecomer.

The armor plates on the inside and outside of his arms fused and grew, forming a blade-like structure. His five fingers on his right hand came together and became a chitinous spearhead, which he thrust at Amanosaki who was attacking him from the front.

Amanosaki braced himself with both hands on the ground, leaped up as Rin commanded, and dodged the stab.

At the same time, he kicked off Li Junzi's thrusting left hand, and flew up like a gazelle leaping up, his target clearly Li Junzi's waist!

"A true hero won't suffer the same mistake twice!"

Li Junzi cackled, the entire plate on his back lifted up, and two enormous tentacles reached out, completely enveloping Amanosaki. No matter how Amanosaki tore and punched, the tentacles, wrapped in fine chitinous bone plates, slowly tightened like pythons, blood gushing out but not loosening.

"Brother, wasn't my trick brilliant?"

Having freed up his tentacles, Li Junzi, whose muscular chest and abdomen were now as thin as paper, chuckled, "I've shed my arms and pectoral muscles, turning them into these two tentacles hidden under my armor plates. Then I secretly transformed the armor plates into insect wings, just to prevent you from ambushing me."

His terrifying, fly-like eyes slowly faded, returning to normal. Li Junzi loudly announced, "I won this round!"

"No, although my dance is over, the formula for victory was already determined when Rin let me take the stage."

Amanosaki grinned, revealing a mouthful of teeth stained red with blood.

Rin Tohsaka slowly approached the two of them, and under Li Junzi's wary gaze, she extended her jade-like finger and gently pointed downwards.

Li Junzi followed the finger and looked down, only to see those jewel-like birds and beasts with wings sitting around him, with shallow pits and twisted characters dug out by their beaks and claws at their feet.

A magic array has been completed in the battle between Amanosaki and Li Junzi.

Magic circles, complex chanting, catalysts, rituals.

These are all auxiliary settings for activating grand magic in Fate.

In the Type-Moon universe, magic that requires 4.5 sections can be called grand magic. From destroying an entire house to creating a large barrier, these multi-section magics often require complex auxiliary rituals and long casting animations.

Of course, you can also use these things extravagantly to perform ordinary magic.

The magic circle beneath Li Junzi's feet was created by Rin Tohsaka to reduce casting time.

"Although it can only be used once and will waste a lot of gems, it should be enough for your branch to collect data."

Rin Tohsaka still had her arms crossed, the hem of her black skirt fluttering in the wind, the absolute territory between her short skirt and stockings sometimes expanding and sometimes shrinking, dancing a seductive dance.

“Sister-in-law.” Having tasted the bitterness of Rin Tohsaka’s curse, Li Junzi was afraid of collapsing from exhaustion after a few more doses. He swallowed hard and said, “That’s not fair of you. We agreed that I would attack my brother, but you won’t.”

Rin Tohsaka looked at Li Junzi like he was an idiot and sighed, "First of all, I never promised not to take action, I just didn't want to use Gandra."

As the girl spoke, she rolled up her sleeves, revealing a magic mark that looked like countless intricately assembled machines. "And I really didn't use this."

"Secondly, I had Amanosaki spar with you for the purpose of teaching. Although he is still a novice, he has already deeply absorbed the feeling of using magic, so it will be much easier for him to start learning."

"at last."

Rin Tohsaka tilted her head, looking curiously at Li Junzi's head, wondering whether it was filled with muscles or brain matter:

"I'm the one with superpowers. I already went easy on you by letting Amanosaki fight you. Do you think it's honorable to bully someone who can't even kill a chicken?"

"Don't say it! Don't say it!" Li Junzi shook his head in anguish, his defenses broken by Rin Tohsaka's words.

Amanosaki, his face flushed red as he was being held aloft by the tentacles, slapped at the tentacles binding him, his voice filled with anguish: "I should be the one saying that! If you still consider me your older brother, then fucking let go! You're going to crush me to death!"

"Oh, oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Li Junzi then remembered that he had someone in his hands and quickly put them down.

The tentacles and excess tissues that he had grown using his supernatural abilities dissipated, and he returned to human form. Instead, he strengthened his chitinous bone plates and said in an eager tone, "Sister-in-law, although I admit defeat, let me still see the power of this thing of yours."

"Of course, I would do it even if it was just for the people behind the monitors to see."

Rin Tohsaka, supporting Amanosaki who was coughing up blood and burying his head in her chest, rubbed it against her chest repeatedly. It was unclear whether he was trying to take advantage of her or being affectionate. Rin gently stroked Amanosaki's hair with one hand.

Although she didn't want to admit it, she was indeed touched by her boyfriend's clumsy acting, and inexplicably felt a surge of anger.

After a crisp snap of the fingers, the gems surrounding the magic circle instantly ignited. Li Junzi, who was waiting in the magic circle, immediately felt immense pressure, as if the planet beneath his feet had suddenly turned into a white dwarf, its gravity pulling his body and bringing terrifying pressure to every inch of his bones.

Blood began to ooze from his mouth, ears, eyes, and nose, and two jets of blood even spurted from his ear canals.

Rin Tohsaka held Amanosaki, who was curled up in her arms like a big cat, with one arm, and stroked him affectionately with the other hand. Without even looking at the stubborn Li Junzi, she took out a synthetic diamond and began to treat him.

About thirty seconds later, Li Junzi, who was bound by magic and unable to leave the magic circle, heard a crisp cracking sound from his legs. With his bones broken, he could no longer support himself and fell down, only then did he feel the pressure dissipate.

Like Amanosaki, he was spitting out blood and managed a weak smile as he asked, "Sister-in-law, if I use the body structure of an insect directly, will I be alright?"

"With so much magic and gems forming a magic circle, do you think I'd give you time to transform? After a snap of your fingers, you'd be overpowered, and then you'd be fish on a chopping board."

"Too."

Li Junzi sighed, tilted his head back, and fainted.

The last thing he saw was Rin Tohsaka holding Amanosaki, a scene brimming with maternal love, and the unconscious Li Junzi showed a satisfied smile.

Thankfully, my sister-in-law isn't the ultimate ghost wife, so my brother won't have to worry about being unsuccessful in the future.

Rin and Amanosaki naturally couldn't see this scene.

Amanosaki, engrossed in rubbing against his chest, greedily enjoyed his reward, while Rin Tohsaka leaned in and whispered in his ear:

When did you realize I had a backup plan?

Amanosaki buried his face in his chest, his voice sounding muffled due to the lack of air circulation:

"We're on the same wavelength, aren't we?"

Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Hot Commodity

Amanosaki and Rin Tohsaka were snuggling together, ignoring everyone around the monitor as they were all savoring the battle that had just taken place.

To be fair, it's not uncommon for superpowers to use precious minerals. The superpower of the Yushan branch leader currently guarding Amber Lord, who sits in the monitoring room, requires him to consume a large amount of amber every day.

His fighting ability is closely related to his usual amber reserves.

However, the outstanding overall qualities that Rin Tohsaka displayed in just two tests were truly frightening.

It possesses melee combat abilities at the level of a gang leader or higher, long-range curses, healing abilities that can be obtained by spending real money to survive, and special abilities to strengthen allies and overwhelm Li Junzi.