Anime Crossover: Post-Apocalyptic Survival, My Stand is the World

All the girls stared blankly.

She looked at the man who was squatting on the ground, in an extremely ambiguous posture, admiring his spoils as if he were appraising a rare treasure.

Then she looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha, the former trophy whose face had turned extremely ugly and who was almost bursting with anger because of Su Chen's words.

Their faces showed expressions of speechlessness, helplessness, and certainty.

This guy……

He's fallen into his wicked habit of collecting anything interesting again.

"Collecting...collectibles?"

The first to break the silence was Kasumigaoka Utaha from 19.

She looked at Su Chen with a dangerous, forced smile.

Those beautiful, wine-red eyes flashed with a fury powerful enough to melt steel.

"Su Chenjun, could you explain this again?"

What is a 'fish tank'?

"Or perhaps..." Her voice turned cold, like the winter wind, each word carrying a chilling edge, "In your eyes, are we just one of those interesting collectibles in your fish tank?"

"..."

"of course not."

Su Chen stood up and dusted off his hands.

The villainous smile on his face vanished instantly, replaced by a gentle smile full of sincerity and composure.

He looked at the group of girls who were staring at him with scrutinizing and disapproving eyes, and slowly shook his head.

"You are family."

His voice was soft, yet earnest. His eyes were clear and pure.

“And she,” he glanced at the Time Witch still unconscious on the ground, “is now just a dangerous substance filled with deadly poison that could turn on you at any moment.”

“So…” His gaze sharpened again, like an emperor about to unleash his sword, “before she truly learns how to be a ‘family member,’ I must first place an inescapable insurance policy on her.”

……

"Insurance?"

Yukino Yukinoshita frowned.

Su Chen didn't offer much explanation.

He simply squatted down next to Kurumi again.

Then, under the curious and puzzled gazes of everyone, she slowly closed her eyes.

hum-

A strange, crimson energy erupted from his body once more.

【King Crimson】.

This time, it did not display the fighting stance full of anger and imperial majesty, but instead, like a ball of the purest and most primal power of law, it slowly condensed on the tip of Su Chen's right index finger.

Finally, all the light collapsed inward, coalescing into an extremely tiny, crimson mark, like a red dot of cinnabar.

"This is……"

Kasumigaoka Utaha stared at the small mark that emanated a terrifying aura that sent shivers down her spine. Her beautiful wine-red eyes were filled with disbelief.

She sensed it from that mark.

I sensed that Su Chen's unreasonable deletion of time and prediction of the future stemmed from the same source of the Emperor's Law.

That is an unquestionable authority that transcends all physical rules.

Su Chen ignored their shock.

He simply used his fingertips to gently brush aside Kurumi's smooth, night-like black hair, revealing her snow-white, slender, and graceful nape, as beautiful as a swan.

Then, under the girls' breathless gaze, he silently imprinted the crimson mark on it.

……

"All right."

After doing all this, Su Chen took back his stand-in.

He stood up, looking at the crimson mark on Kurumi's snow-white nape that slowly bloomed and faded like an eerie spider lily, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

"nailed it."

"Su Chenjun".

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at him and finally couldn't help but ask what everyone was thinking.

"What exactly is that 'mark'?"

"Um……"

Su Chen thought for a moment, then explained in a relaxed tone, as if a product manager were introducing their proud new product.

You can understand it as...

"A system I just developed, which combines background monitoring and anti-addiction measures."

"Backend monitoring?"

"Anti-addiction?"

These two words, brimming with a sense of modern technology, left the girls somewhat bewildered.

"Yes."

Su Chen snapped his fingers.

"This mark allows me to 'see' her next move anytime, anywhere. 330"

"As long as she harbors even the slightest bit of 'hostility' or 'desire to run away' towards me or anyone in our team."

"Then the 'future' she sees will be synchronized into my mind frame by frame immediately."

"!"

“In other words…” Yukino’s pupils suddenly contracted, and she instantly understood the terrifying aspect of this insurance, “If she has any bad thoughts, I will immediately receive a system warning.”

He shrugged, a very kind, even radiant, smile spreading across his face.

"Incidentally, we can also use the 'time deletion' ability to remotely and physically force her account to be banned."

"..."

"..."

This chilling metaphor, so full of the scent of raw grass yet so incredibly apt, sent shivers down the spines of all the girls present.

They looked at the man with a kind smile on his face, and then at the Time Witch who was unconscious and whose neck had been silently bound by an absolute shackle.

We all silently mourned for the latter for three seconds.

It fell into this man's hands...

That would probably be even worse than dying outright.

Chapter 170 Daily Life After the War

"Remote account ban?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at Su Chen's kind smile, then at the pitiful Time Witch on the ground, who was unconscious and whose fate was sealed, having been implanted with a "background monitoring program".

She couldn't help but silently mourn for three seconds for this once arrogant witch.

'Of all people to mess with...'

'Why did I have to mess with this ultimate scumbag who's not only a cheater himself, but also an expert in all sorts of malware and psychological manipulation?'

'What a...poor woman.'

……

All right.

The biggest problem in the Battle of Shinjuku was solved in a way that was full of wicked humor.

Next up is the most traditional and also the most boring part.

—Clean up the battlefield.

Under the joint command of Mai Sakurajima and Yukino Yukinoshita, the entire team moved in an orderly manner.

Although the entire Central Park remains in a state of chaos, the broken walls still bear the marks of battle, as if bombed by meteorites.

But the chilling atmosphere filled with death and madness had long since dissipated.

Instead, a thriving scene, full of hope and vigor, emerged, akin to surviving a catastrophe.

……

Su Chen, on the other hand, leaned leisurely against a broken wall like a supervisor.

Just then, a beautiful figure, full of heroic spirit and curiosity, walked up to him.

It's Saeko Busujima.

She had already wiped the demon sword, stained with ghost blood, clean it with a snow-white silk cloth until it was spotless, its cold light gleaming, and then sheathed it.

She looked at Su Chen, and a rare look of seeking guidance appeared in her usually calm and beautiful eyes. It was the heartfelt longing and awe that a true martial artist felt after witnessing a higher realm of "Tao".

"Su Chenjun".

"Ok?"

“That kind of…” She seemed to be searching for the right word, a word that could accurately describe that power that transcended the realm of “martial arts,” “that ability to see the future…”

"Is it something that everyone can learn?"

Su Chen looked at her, at her earnest eyes filled with thirst for knowledge and a yearning for a higher realm, and smiled.

He lazily waved to her, mimicking the classic tone of a "peerless master" in a white coat with a receding hairline.

"You want to learn?"

"I'll teach you."

"..."

Saeko was stunned.

She hadn't expected the other party to agree so readily. She had thought that such a core secret would never be shared.

She never expected that the next sentence from that person, so full of superior air, would actually be...

"However, the tuition is very expensive."

"You'd probably need to exchange your lifelong loyalty and the job of washing dishes after dinner for it."

"..."

Saeko stared at the man who had seamlessly switched from "peerless master" mode back to "ruthless capitalist" mode in an instant, and remained silent for a moment.

Looking at the smirk on his face, full of wicked humor, the awe and distance she felt from witnessing his "divine skill" inexplicably vanished at that moment.

She smiled too.

He laughed with a sense of relief and ease.

"make a deal."

……

As they were having this strange conversation filled with the atmosphere of martial arts and reality, another figure, who was always inconspicuous, had silently appeared on Su Chen's other side.

It's Kato Megumi.

She silently handed over a bottle of mineral water that was still slightly cool.

"Su Chenjun".