Zongman: Collecting starts with Shiori

Tohka shook her head, wiped the tears from her face and smiled.

"It's not selfish. Rather, if I can help Feng, I'd be happy to do so. I like Feng the most. Feng is my best boyfriend!"

Seeing Tohka opening her arms and making an expression as if asking for a hug, Shikimori Feng smiled and moved forward to fulfill her little wish.

"Beep... An extremely dangerous situation has been detected. Please evade it. The elf rifle has been aimed. Countdown... Two..."

? ! ! !

A sudden voice sounded in Shi Shoufeng's mind. Shi Shoufeng subconsciously thought that the danger was not directed at himself, but...

"Tohka!!!"

Without any hesitation, as the countdown in his mind reached zero, Shikimori Kaede lunged forward with all his might and knocked Tohka to the ground.

Chapter 50: Runaway Tohka

"maple….?"

Tohka's voice trembled slightly, full of uncertainty and doubt.

Her expression became confused in an instant, as if a layer of mist had covered the window of her soul. Then, the confusion was quickly replaced by an indescribable fear, like an undercurrent that suddenly emerged in the night, catching her off guard.

When Tohka's hand gently rested on Shikimori's waist, the expected warm touch did not come as expected. Instead, what came from her fingertips was a cold and empty feeling.

This sudden abnormality made her heart sink suddenly, as if she had fallen into a cold pond, and her hands and feet began to tremble involuntarily.

As her body reacted naturally, Tohka's hands fell weakly, but she unexpectedly touched a temperature that shouldn't have existed - it was a warm and moist feeling, accompanied by an unsettling fishy-sweet smell.

This smell, like a sharp blade, stabbed into her heart and told her that all this was not a dream.

Tohka was stunned, her wide eyes filled with disbelief and pain.

She looked at Shi Shoufeng, whose face still had a faint smile on it, but at this moment seemed so distant, as if there was a whole world between them.

Her heart was almost breaking, and every inch of her sanity was screaming and shouting frantically, hoping that everything in front of her was just a terrible joke.

"Huh..."

Shikimori Kaede gasped heavily, as if he had used up all his strength, and turned over with difficulty, sliding away from Tohka. The faint sound caused by this action was particularly clear in the silent air, like the last sigh of the wind in the middle of the night.

As Shikimori Kaede slowly moved, the cruel truth was revealed bit by bit before Tohka's eyes - half of Shikimori Kaede's body seemed to be hollowed out by an invisible force, and the only remaining outline edge formed a sharp contrast with the void inside.

Through the terrifying hole, Tohka could directly see the red bricks on the ground. They blended with the blood slowly flowing out of Shikimori Kaede's body, forming a heart-pounding picture. The bright red was particularly dazzling in the quiet environment, as if it was a ruthless mockery of life.

"Feng...Feng?"

Tohka's voice was so low that it was almost a whisper, filled with pleading and despair.

She knelt on the ground, and gently stroked Shi Shoufeng's cheek with her fingers. The familiar outline now made her heart hurt. She couldn't believe it, and didn't want to believe it, this cruel reality.

"Wake up... This is all fake, right? Please, open your eyes and look at me... Feng?"

Every word is like a cry squeezed out from the depths of the soul, carrying with it endless sadness and an unwillingness to give up.

Her tears slid down quietly and dripped onto Shi Shoufeng's body, but this time it seemed unable to wake up the sleeping Shi Shoufeng.

“Ah-ah….Ah!!!!!!”

Violent and uncontrolled spiritual power began to burst out from Tohka's body. The originally bright dark purple spiritual power was now mixed with traces of black, which clearly showed Tohka's inner collapse at this moment.

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“Origami!!!!”

Kusakabe couldn't help but roar as he looked at Origami who was standing there in a daze.

"I...."

Origami is very confident in her skills, she couldn't possibly aim wrong... As long as Shikimori Kaede didn't pull Tohka away at the last second...

"You still have time to hang out here?"

For the first time, Kusakabe showed his displeasure and anger towards this subordinate whom he trusted very much.

"Do you know what you did? Not only did you fail to kill the Pokémon with this shot, which may have caused it to go berserk, you even wiped out another possibility!!! Why are you still standing there? Go! Save Shiki Morikaze at all costs!!! This is a major accident for the entire AST unit!!!"

"This is Kusakabe - emergency, all combat personnel are mobilized, location is Tiangong Park, evacuate all nearby residents as quickly as possible, repeat once more -"

After scolding Origami, Kusakabe didn't have time to pay any more attention. She directly used the headset to issue the highest-level combat orders to the entire AST.

Because she has seen it in her eyes...

The 'princess' who had lost her spirit response was about to go berserk.

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Does it hurt?

If he asked himself carefully, Shi Shoufeng did not feel any pain, because he felt that his body became light in an instant.

Although he didn't feel anything, he just felt that he was getting more and more tired.

He could see Tohka crying beside him, and getting angry.

He wanted to raise his hand to stop Tohka, but even with such a simple action, Shikimori Kaede didn't have the strength to complete it.

He watched as Tohka seemed to have discovered something, and then she put on the 'Divine Spirit Suit·Juban', which she proudly called the strongest territory. As the spiritual suit appeared, the sky in Shikimori Kaede's eyes seemed to be distorted, and a huge and majestic throne appeared under Tohka's feet. Tohka kicked her feet and stepped on the throne with her whole body as if she was holding it in a fist.

"Kill the prince!!!!"

These were the last words Shikimori Kaede heard before he fell into a coma.

Tohka's words were filled with despair.

"Beep, the host has been detected to have suffered fatal damage, and the rescue method is being detected..."

"Beep...activate the hidden function, ability sharing."

"Drawing all the host's cards, Gokawa Shiori's ability 'Flame Regeneration'...starting to repair..."

When Tohka locked onto the rapidly approaching robot army in the air, what she didn't see was that the big hole in Shikimori's body was being covered by a ball of extremely pure flame.

Under the cover of flames, Shikimori Kaede's body was regenerating at a slow pace.

Tohka didn't know all this. She was standing not far from Shikimori Kaede, raising the "Aoshagong" in her hand and pointing it at Origami and the others who were approaching.

"Stop...!!! It's you guys...you're the ones who hurt Feng, you're the ones who killed Feng!!! How dare you...how dare you show up in front of me?!!!"

Standing at the forefront of AST is Origami.

She looked at Tohka. Although her face was expressionless, her eyes involuntarily glanced at Shikimorikaze beside her.

Because the flames were too transparent, all she could see was a huge hole and a pool of burning blood.

"Let me go... Although I want to kill you, I want to save him..."

“Hehe….Hehe…”

When Tohka heard this, she acted as if she had heard the funniest joke in the world. The sneer that came out of her throat made all the AST members present shudder.

"save...?"

Tohka looked at Origami with indifference. She raised the 'Aoshagong' in her hand and pointed it directly at her for the first time with the sharpest tip of the sword.

"This smell... this disgusting smell of gunpowder is coming from you... It was you who killed my boyfriend, right? Why... did you have to kill me... Obviously... Obviously, under Feng's leadership... I also fell in love with this world..."

"Swish..." As Tohka murmured, the throne from which Tohka had just pulled out the 'Aosha Gong' began to shatter, and piece by piece the fragments began to be embedded on the 'Aosha Gong' that Tohka had raised high.

“Die, be destroyed, disappear completely! I want this world to be buried with Feng!!!”

The final sword——also Tohka's strongest form...appeared the moment the words fell.

Chapter 51 Flame Demon Form

After the sword was completed, Tohka had no intention of wasting time talking to Origami and the others. She raised the 'Aosha-Kou' in her hand and chopped it down fiercely with a dazzling light. In just a moment, she attacked the AST troops with the force of a ground-shattering force.

"Get out of the way!!"

Kusakabe only had time to shout once, and everyone else only had time to scream and flee.

"......"

When everything was settled, all the members of the AST unit were left with the horror of having escaped death.

They looked at the cracks on the ground and couldn't say anything.

The entire park was split in half by Tohka's sword, which made them clearly realize that...Tohka's previous release of water was into the sea.

If we use such an attack at the beginning...I'm afraid the AST force will disband directly due to lack of personnel?

"Kotori...what are you going to do now?"

On the other side, although the area had been evacuated, two figures were still left in the park.

They were Kotori and Reine, who had been keeping a close eye on the two of them.

"Click..."

Kotori bit off the lollipop in her mouth irritably, and just when she was about to say something, her pupils couldn't help but dilate.

"That is...."

There can't be any mistake...Kotori is sure that she is definitely not seeing things!

Isn't the flame burning on Shikimori Kaede the regeneration ability of his own 'Flame Demon'? !

Why does it appear in Shikimori Kaede? It is obvious that this ability is stored in Kotori's sister's body.

...

wrong! !

Kotori shuddered as a strange thought occurred to her.

My sister... has now been subdued by Shikimori Kaede and has become his card...

What if Shiki Morikaze can use the power of the card?

Although it's just a deposit, it's still an ability that exists in my sister's body!

"pat..."

The stick of the lollipop quietly fell from Kotori's mouth, and Kotori still had no idea about it.

Her eyes only watched as Shi Shoufeng's body turned into a ball of fire, continuously burning in the strong wind brought by the battle on the other side.

"It's okay... He'll figure it out..."

After a long silence, Kotori finally recovered from her shock. She let out a long breath and turned to leave.

"Let's go back to Flaxenas. We can't stay here any longer."

Upon hearing this, Lingyin silently glanced at Shikimori Feng, then followed Qinli away.

"Go die die die die——"

At this moment, Tohka seemed to have completely lost her mind, and she kept waving the 'Aoshagong' in her hand. She didn't care how much spiritual power she emitted, and she just attacked there unscrupulously.

An entire area was shattered by Tohka's destruction.

The place that Tohka had called beautiful not long ago was now only left with broken rubble. It could be said that except for the place where Shikimori Kaede was, which was consciously protected by Tohka, there was not even a single tile intact in other places.

The AST unit suffered the most. Under Tohka's attack, the "random fields" equipped on their devices seemed to have become useless.

It has no effect other than allowing them to dodge the attacks in a miserable manner.

Even if there were some fish that managed to escape and attack Tohka, they would all be annihilated by Tohka's angry gaze.

This isn't really a fight...

It was a completely one-sided massacre. As long as Tohka wanted, everyone present would be doomed to die.

"Calm down..."

Although it was a bit funny, Kusakabe stood up.

"Let me go over there, I want to see how badly Shikimori Kaede is injured. With our medical technology, we might be able to save him, but if we're late it might be too late!"

This was Kusakabe's true feelings. Although she shouldn't say this openly, privately, she didn't want Shikimori Kaede to die like this. Shikimori Kaede's importance as an individual or to the world was being revealed bit by bit.

Isn’t the elf’s loss of control now a perfect illustration of this point?

If I can save Shikimori Kaede, the elf in front of me will calm down, right?