In that moment, Rika Fujimaru thought a lot.

After all, she had been surprised by the fact that "Léon El Johnson had returned" to the head of Dante's war; She had also learned from Corvus Corax that "the reverted original might suddenly appear without warning." With the above premise, she has managed to behave calmly in the face of the current situation, and not be hindered by too much surprise to think ability.

Since she was able to make the decision to "try to catch Corvus Corax" in the psionic council that was unfolding on Pamenio, in front of Robert Killiman, she would not be visibly timid in the face of the lion king who was standing out behind her.

The first thing that needs to be done is to swallow back the sentence "You look a lot older than you did 10,000 years ago".

— but this may partly explain the peculiar mental state of the crew of the Lionmane.

"Then let's move the conversation a little further forward." After a "lot of thinking" that took three seconds, Rika Fujimaru calmly (at least it seems) replied, "Are you sure you're going to get Ranmarok in trouble over this?" ”

Leon tilted his head, but that didn't mean much. In the illusion, Rika Fujimaru couldn't catch his emotional clues from the male lion with 100% accuracy, and it was certainly impossible to catch the cunning old lion in front of her now. The Lion King just tilted his head, but other than that, his expression did not change, and his tone when he spoke again was flat: "What if I say, is that so?" ”

"If that's the case," Rika Fujimaru emphasized the premise of being virtualized, while letting go of the various facilities and shields behind her currently, and slowly widening the distance from the original body, "then you really have to start thinking of a way to 'knock me down'." ”

Ranmaroke in the radio projection looked frightened, but Leon himself just snorted: "Are you sure? After you find out that you need to face me, the true master of the Dark Angels, an Primordial, a creature far above you, are you sure you still don't intend to change your story? ”

"Once the word is spoken, the horse is hard to chase." Fujimaru Rika managed to widen the distance between herself and Leon to about five meters on the premise that the other party did not take action, "Changing the order is a big taboo for the commander, if you break your promise without a proper reason, I can't sit firmly in this position - Ranmarok they should have told you about me, right?" ”

"You guessed it right." Unimpressed—at least it seems—Leon El Johnson looked at the distance between the two that had just been pulled apart, which was still meaningless to his own speed and reflexes, and then looked back at the other, "I know very well that you are now nominally leading this team. ”

"So now nominally, I'm the direct superior of Ranmaro." Rika Fujimaru seemed to have finally found a distance that she felt comfortable with, and after standing still, she folded her arms defensively again, "So I insist, if you want to get into trouble with him, you have to get past me first." ”

Ranmaro on the radio could no longer see the shadow of Rika Fujimaru, but this did not prevent him from doubting whether she was not mentally normal after hearing this. It was difficult for him to tell from the restricted footage on the radio what Leon was saying about it, but at least, his original body sounded interested: "Do you still insist on the way you just claimed?" 'Knock you down'? ”

"Are you going to do it?" Fujimaru Rika asked alertly.

"I'm just curious." Leon replied in a calm tone, "I admit it, if the one who is looking into the room by the door...... Sigismund? Realizing that the no-punch came in, he could indeed hold me back for a few seconds. But how do you get out of the next few seconds? ”

The gap between the Primordial and Astarte is so difficult to bridge - assuming the Emperor doesn't cheat in the process, of course. The gap between the primordial and the mortal will only widen - again, of course, the same premise. At least Leon really can't imagine how Rika Fujimaru, who can only run a few steps in a few seconds and can't even get any reliable weaponry, can fight back after he successfully incapacitated Sigismund from combat.

"I think there are some misunderstandings here." Fujimaru Rika also said calmly, "First of all, this is a conflict between you and me against the command of some of the forces of the Dark Angels, so I will not ask Sigismund to come over to help; Secondly, I only said that you have to try to 'beat me down', but I didn't say that the premise here is 'I'll fight you alone'. ”

Just as her words fell, a double-glazed transparent curtain wall fell between the two people in the room with a "bang" at a speed that the original body could not react to in the huge sound of mechanical operation, and the entire golden room also shook endlessly. In the cacophony of noise that could engulf almost everything, the words of Rika Fujimaru were separated behind a completely sealed double glazing, and then interpreted by the Lion King of Caliban in the form of lip language:

"I'm sorry for the word games, but I'm pretty good at this kind of thing, and the Emperor Dream happens to be my home turf." She smiled and waved at him from behind the glass, "If you want to 'beat me down', you have to find out where I actually are, that's fine, right?" ”

The ground beneath Leon's feet slowly began to sink in the tremors—or rather, the half of the room where Fujimaru Rika was slowly began to rise. The room on the Imperial Dream was bounded by a double-glazed curtain wall, and the floor and walls that had been tightly knit were slowly dislocated and split apart, and were split into two rooms with the sound of the machine running, and each began to move to another position.

This completely unexpected, but just happening right in front of Leon, left Leon with mixed feelings. First of all, he had to praise this little mortal girl who seemed to be only a little bigger, and she was really clever and responsible, and the Lionmane did not suffer much when she served under her management.

Second, he had to emphasize that he had boarded the Imperial's Dream more than once ten thousand years ago, but he had never known that there was such a function in this magnificent ship—he had not discovered it by his own abilities, and the Emperor had never told him about it. But this function is now used by a little girl from nowhere, and it is even easily used under the premise that it is completely impossible to rehearse it in advance, so as to successfully get out of the attack range of a primordial body. This inevitably made him a little pantothenic acid in his heart.

But if Leon did have a strong intent to attack at that time, the outcome of the matter would probably be another story. Leon didn't think that just two layers of special glass, even if it was mounted on the Imperial Dream, so it was absolutely impossible to compromise the quality of the special glass, could completely stop him and his sword.

In the process of moving, the originally transparent glass curtain wall turned opaque black under the action of program instructions. The "door" in this room was removed by the half of Fujimaru Rikka when they were separated, and Leon himself did not come with the purpose of making enemies with the other party. So now, the primordial being locked up in this small space has to wait for this round of "shapeshifting" to end, to see if this room will be "assigned" to a normal exit, and then make plans.

(End of chapter)

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