“Is this the confidence you have to resist arrest?”
Hu Yao’er looked at the waiter before her, whose face she couldn’t quite make out, and asked subconsciously.
Hearing this, the waiter, not realizing that Hu Yao’er was completely unaffected by his aura, replied smugly.
“That’s right, this is exactly what gives me such confidence. So, how about it? Scared now, little girl?”
Hearing this, Hu Yao’er flicked the fox tail behind her and looked at the waiter with an relaxed expression, asking back.
“Why should I be scared of a superpowered individual of your level?”
“What do you mean by that?”
Feeling insulted, the waiter couldn’t help but ask Hu Yao’er this with some displeasure.
Hearing this, Hu Yao’er looked at him very seriously and replied.
“What I mean is very simple: a superpowered individual of your level couldn’t possibly pose any threat to me.”
Having said that, Hu Yao’er stopped hiding and directly released her aura as a Two-Star Peak Superpowered Individual, completely overwhelming the aura the One-Star waiter had been emitting.
“What?! You’re actually a superpowered individual stronger than me? How is that possible!”
Feeling the aura of a Two-Star Peak Superpowered Individual pressing down on him like the weight of Mount Tai, making it hard to breathe, the waiter couldn’t help but stare in shock at the little loli not far in front of him, saying this in a tone of disbelief.
Hearing this, Hu Yao’er, while taking down the large gourd from her back, said.
“Nothing is impossible in this world. Just give up and surrender quietly. Also, that person hiding inside the bar, peeking at our situation here, isn’t it about time you came out?”
Upon hearing Hu Yao’er’s words, Maka, who was standing not far from the bar’s serving area, watching Hu Yao’er and the waiter, couldn’t help but freeze for a moment.
“What? Do I need to personally invite you out?”
Seeing that Maka was taking his time to show himself, Hu Yao’er, holding her large gourd and already prepared for battle, added this.
Seeing this, although he didn’t know how Hu Yao’er had discovered him, since he was already exposed, continuing to maintain his state of being unnoticed by others no longer made sense.
Thinking of this, Maka didn’t hesitate any further and directly deactivated his supernatural power, allowing himself to reappear in others’ sight.
“How did you find me? Although you’re a Two-Star Peak Superpowered Individual, I’m also a Two-Star Peak Superpowered Individual like you. In terms of strength difference, you shouldn’t have been able to see me at all.”
After revealing himself, Maka asked Hu Yao’er this in a puzzled tone.
Hearing this, looking at Maka who had appeared before her, at the well-fitting suit he wore, and his perpetually blurry, indistinguishable face, she recognized him as the mysterious man in a suit that she and the Anomaly Affairs Bureau had been trying to capture for days, the one constantly creating superpowered individuals in Windbreak City, letting them cause havoc everywhere. While watching him with a vigilant gaze, Hu Yao’er replied.
“You’re right. Given our strengths, which aren’t that far apart, it would have been almost impossible for me to discover you while you were hiding using your supernatural power. But, did you perhaps forget my self-introduction earlier?”
“Self-introduction? The Free Life Association… I see.”
After a brief moment of stupefaction upon hearing Hu Yao’er’s counter-question, Maka instantly understood the whole situation. Then, he continued speaking to Hu Yao’er.
“I didn’t expect you to have companions far stronger than me. It seems your Free Life Association is even more formidable than I imagined.”
“Since you now recognize the might of our Free Life Association, you should just give up and surrender today. I guarantee the Anomaly Affairs Bureau will treat you leniently.”
Hearing Maka’s praise for the organization she had established, Hu Yao’er didn’t let her guard down because of it. Instead, she said this to him, hoping he would surrender willingly and save her the trouble of wasting energy here.
Hearing this, Maka just looked at Hu Yao’er with a smile and said.
“Sorry, cute little girl, but I don’t plan on surrendering either. I still have very important things waiting for me to do.”
“So you mean to resist arrest then?”
Hearing Maka’s words, Hu Yao’er began gathering her supernatural power while asking him this in a warning tone.
Hearing this, Maka nodded and replied.
“If you consider my refusal to surrender as resisting arrest, then you can certainly think of it that way.”
“How obstinate. Take this!”
Confirming that Maka truly had no intention of surrendering and accepting arrest,
Hu Yao’er immediately activated her skill. Channeling the supernatural power within her, she created a large amount of poison with paralyzing and dizzying effects inside the large gourd she held. Controlling them, she suspended them in the air, forming black raindrops of various sizes, and then shot them towards Maka and the waiter, who had already been scared witless by her strength.
Watching the countless black raindrops rushing towards him, realizing that getting hit by this stuff would definitely lead to trouble, Maka kicked over a bar table beside him, hid behind it, and blocked the vast majority of the black raindrops.
As for the newly ascended One-Star waiter on the other side, he had no time to react. Soon, he was struck by the overwhelming black raindrops. In an instant, he fell to the ground with his eyes open, completely paralyzed and temporarily losing consciousness.
“Hmm, a special liquid that has an anesthetic effect and can be absorbed through the skin? This is really troublesome.”
Looking at the waiter who had lost consciousness not far away, feeling his right hand, which had been hit by a single black raindrop and had temporarily lost all sensation, Maka, realizing the true effect of these black raindrops, couldn’t help but think to himself.
Not looking at the waiter she had paralyzed on the ground, Hu Yao’er watched Maka kick over the table to use as cover. Knowing her first attack hadn’t affected him, she continued to control the black raindrops suspended in the air, bypassing the table’s protection and launching a fierce attack on Maka from all directions.
Seeing this, Maka naturally wouldn’t just sit there and wait for death. The next second, he utilized the second supernatural power he had gained upon advancing to a Two-Star Superpowered Individual. Using the white paper hidden on him, he created paper plate armor covering his entire body, wrapping himself up and blocking Hu Yao’er’s black raindrops.