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

She simply pressed the gun lightly against Kato Megumi's head, even gently tracing the girl's smooth cheek with the cold muzzle, as if admiring a work of art called "hope" that she was about to shatter with her own hands.

Her face once again wore that confident and elegant victor's smile.

She slowly turned her head and looked back at the rooftop, at the man she cared about most from beginning to end.

Su Chen.

"Mr. Su Chen."

Her voice was sweet and melodious, yet it was like the coldest venomous snake, coiling around everyone's hearts and freezing their blood.

“Now it seems we can have a more ‘fair’ and more ‘friendly’ conversation.”

"You agree, don't you?"

She is laughing.

She smiled like an innocent, naive girl next door.

But her slender, snow-white finger, resting on the trigger, was making a silent declaration.

This proclaims her absolute and unquestionable control over the game and over everyone's lives.

……

Su Chen watched this scene unfold.

Even with the cold muzzle of a gun pressed against her temple, the face of the man remained calm and indifferent, as if he were not the one being held hostage.

· ········Requesting flowers··· ··

Look at that time witch who is threatening him with the lives of her companions.

His face, which had always been filled with ease and playfulness.

All the smiles, all the banter, all the composure, vanished slowly at this moment, like dust blown away by the wind.

Instead, there was an unprecedented coldness.

He didn't immediately answer Kurumi's question, nor did he roar helplessly like the protagonist of a shonen manga.

He simply watched Kurumi quietly.

In those dark eyes, there was no longer any trace of the previous admiration or probing; only the purest, most primal abyss remained, as if it could swallow even light and time.

.. ..... ...

A chilling, bone-chilling killing intent, enough to cause the temperature in the entire Shinjuku district to drop several degrees suddenly.

Like an invisible tsunami, it erupted from his not-so-robust body and swept across the entire world.

The air around him distorted subtly, visibly, because of this pure killing intent.

The cement ground beneath his feet silently cracked, spreading out in a spiderweb-like pattern.

That moment.

Whether it's those few girls on the rooftop who know him.

It was still Kurumi, who was always full of confidence in mid-air and had everything under her control.

They all felt a shiver that came from the depths of their souls, without prior agreement.

Even the fearless, puppet-like avatars in the distance were instinctively stiffened in their movements due to the pressure emanating from a higher level of life.

It was as if there was an ancient ferocious beast that had been sleeping for hundreds of millions of years, feeding on planets and taking gods and demons as its blood.

It awoke inside him.

Su Chen looked at Kurumi and said, word by word.

His voice is not loud.

It was even colder and more biting than the permafrost winds of Siberia.

That voice was no longer a threat, nor a negotiation.

Rather, it is the final judgment.

"Let her go." (The sentence ends abruptly.)

Chapter 123 The Art of the Deal

The entire Shinjuku Central Park seemed to be completely frozen by an invisible layer of absolute zero, originating from the deepest part of the soul.

The air freezes.

The wind stopped.

Even the eerie, dark red light in the sky, like congealed blood, seemed to dim in fear before this will.

That chilling, pure, and utterly terrifying killing intent, like an invisible black mountain range formed from the corpses and blood of billions of gods and demons, pressed down heavily on the hearts of all intelligent beings present.

On the roof.

Yukino Yukinoshita, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Mai Sakurajima all took a half-step back in unison.

It wasn't out of fear, but rather a primal awe that life instinctively showed towards a higher-ranking "predator."

They stared at that familiar yet unfamiliar figure, their beautiful eyes filled with shock and fear.

Is this still the Su Chen they know, who is always playful and lazy, as if he could be used as a blanket even if the sky were to fall?

At this moment, what emanated from him was a pure, absolute evil they had never seen before.

This is clearly an ancient, chaotic demon king that emerged from mountains of corpses and seas of blood, feeding on gods and demons.

And on the ground.

The hundreds of Madman's clones suffered a devastating mental shock.

Their sickly, uniform smiles froze instantly.

however--

At the very center of this storm of murderous intent was Tokisaki Kurumi.

Her beautiful, smiling face remained completely unmoved.

She even stuck out her pink little tongue and gently licked her moist, bright red lips.

It was as if they were savoring a delicious and mouthwatering appetizer.

“Alaaa…”

"What a terrifying look. It's like they want to chew a person up and swallow them whole, soul and all."

Looking into Su Chen's dark eyes, which had turned into an abyss, she revealed an even more pleased, morbid, and satisfied smile.

"Mr. Su Chen, the more you act like this..."

"The more I want to give you..."

"Eat it."

She uttered this terrifying declaration of death and plunder in a tone full of love, intimacy, and affection.

Not only was she not intimidated by Su Chen's murderous intent, but she acted like a child who had seen her beloved toy about to be taken away. She pushed the cold muzzle of the gun against Kato Megumi's temple a little further in, even leaving a clearly visible shallow mark on the girl's delicate skin from the cold metal.

"!"

Su Chen's gaze instantly turned even colder.

That invisible killing intent almost materialized into black lightning, tearing everything around it apart.

But his action, which was already prepared to summon the [World], abruptly stopped.

He didn't dare to gamble.

He is very clear.

In the split second before he activated "time stop," the madwoman in front of him, who also possessed an extremely terrifying control over time, was absolutely capable of pulling the trigger a step ahead of him.

Kato Megumi's fragile, human mind could absolutely not withstand a bullet from an angel.

"...What do you want?"

In the end, Su Chen chose to compromise.

Slowly, he withdrew the terrifying killing intent emanating from his body—an intent capable of freezing the soul—like the receding tide, little by little, back into his body.

The process was like resealing an ancient, ferocious beast that had broken free of its chains back into its cage, filled with repression and resentment.

He asked in an extremely hoarse voice, suppressing a torrent of anger.

"Ha ha……"

Kurumi laughed.

He smiled like an absolute victor who had won the final battle.

"It's very simple."

She lifted the hem of her skirt and gracefully twirled in mid-air, like a beautiful black butterfly showing off its spoils.

"From the very beginning, I never intended to engage in such a brutal battle with you, Mr. Su Chen."

"After all..." She extended her slender, jade-like index finger, gently touched her lips, and revealed a captivating smile.

"I prefer to see the beautiful scene of the strong willingly sacrificing themselves for me in order to protect the weak, rather than 'conquering' them."

She looked at Su Chen and finally revealed her ultimate goal.

"Mr. Su Chen."

"Give me half of your 'time'."

"As long as you willingly offer me your vast and delicious 'power of time'... "

"I will return this 'ordinary' young lady to you intact."

"How about it?"

"This should be a very fair deal, right?"

"..."

"..."

fair?

The moment I heard that word.

On the rooftop, a flame of anger instantly ignited in Kasumigaoka Utaha's eyes.

"Despicable." She couldn't help but mutter angrily under her breath, "This guy... she's got her hands on us completely. We can't possibly give up on Kato-kun. This is the most shameless form of blackmail."

Yukino Yukinoshita's expression was also extremely unpleasant.

She knew very well that this was a multiple-choice question with no options.

A blatant conspiracy.

Either we watch Kato Megumi die, or we simply watch her die.

Alternatively, Su Chen could pay an unknown, or even devastating, price.

No matter what they chose, they lost.

……

"it is good."

However, just as the girls were caught in a dilemma and boundless anger.

A calm, decisive, and unwavering answer rang out from Su Chen's mouth.

"…Eh?"

Yukino and Utaha, and even the Blank siblings who were far away in the building, overhearing all of this through the only still-functioning "eavesdropping device" on Kato Megumi, all exclaimed in disbelief.

He...he agreed?

He agreed so easily?

That's half the power! What does that mean? Nobody knows.