Chapter 1 Almost at the Same Time

Almost at the same time as the Time Lord fell, the Sengoku team members took action.

The four members, excluding Oda Ai, surrounded Xiao Tan with the fastest speed and adopted a fighting stance.

Obviously, Akachi Shin's previous "preparation" referred to this...

"Oh?" Xiao Tan cautiously scanned the surroundings and muttered, "I thought you would wait a little longer before coming."

"No choice, you're too fast," Uesugi Jin replied immediately.

"Yeah..." Takeda Tomoya squinted and added, "You think we don't want to rest a little longer? We're just afraid you'll run away."

After the three exchanged a few words, Oda Ai's expression changed slightly, and she looked at her teammates questioningly, "Hey, what are you doing?"

"Heh..." Xiao Tan gave a wry smile, "This posture... isn't it obvious enough? Can't you really tell?"

"Ai." At this moment, Akachi Shin looked at Oda Ai and said, "Don't forget, this is a competition... he's the opponent."

Hearing this, a complex look flashed in Oda Ai's eyes; but... after a few seconds of hesitation, the confusion in her eyes quickly disappeared.

"Right." Her hand firmly gripped the hilt of her sword again, "This is a competition..." Her gaze locked onto Xiao Tan again, "Although you saved us just now, that doesn't change the fact that our two teams are enemies."

"Yeah..." Sasaki Mei also drawled, chanting gloomily, "Even if we're called 'ungrateful'… there's nothing we can do, a competition is a competition, we can only say sorry."

"No need to apologize." Unexpectedly, Xiao Tan seemed very relaxed at this time, "I came to 'assassinate the god', not to 'save you', it's just that my actions happened to help you... you don't need to thank me for it, let alone feel ashamed or guilty at this moment."

"Hmph..." Akachi Shin snorted coldly, "Wang Jun, you're really considerate..." At this point, she had already signaled her teammates with her eyes to attack, and her own hand was also on the hilt of her sword, "Since that's the case, we won't be polite..."

Unexpectedly, just as her words were about to finish, a furry hand... landed on her shoulder.

In that instant, Akachi Shin instinctively wanted to turn around and chop someone.

However, she was surprised to find... that she couldn't move at all.

"Chomp chomp—chomp chomp chomp—" Immediately afterward, a series of smacking sounds came from her ear.

The next second, Akachi Shin mechanically turned her head and saw... a Rabbit Star person.

This rabbit had gray fur all over, except for his abdomen, chin, and hands and feet, which were white; he had two tall, erect, long ears, a pair of clever eyes, and a pair of cute buck teeth.

At this moment, his right hand was on Akachi Shin's shoulder, and his left hand was holding a carrot, chewing it unhurriedly.

When Akachi Shin's eyes met his, he said in a very casual tone, "What's up, doc?"

"This is... Bugs Bunny?" The moment he saw the NPC's appearance, Takeda Tomoya, who was standing on the other side, blurted out.

"Yeah..." Sasaki Mei's face also became even more unsightly, "The pressure of this scene is so great that my stomach is starting to hurt..."

"Relax, everyone, don't be nervous." Bugs Bunny looked at the surrounding people with a teasing look and said, "Let me introduce myself... I'm Barney, Bugs Bunny."

"What do you want?" Akachi Shin spent a few seconds recovering her composure and asked Barney.

"Tsk tsk tsk..." Barney finished chewing the last bit of carrot and rubbed his fingers together, "Obviously, I want to stop you from hurting my friend Wang... uh..." He looked up at Xiao Tan, "What's your name again?"

"Wang Tanzhi," Xiao Tan replied.

"Whatever." Barney got the answer, but waved his hand dismissively at Xiao Tan, and then continued to say to Akachi Shin, "Anyway, for various reasons, I have to help him."

"You bastard..." Oda Ai was standing very close to Bugs Bunny, but she hadn't noticed how the other party had approached at all. It was only now that she belatedly asked, "...Where did you come from?"

"Hey, I'm a rabbit, of course I came from a hole." Barney turned his head and replied, "Don't believe me, look..." As he said that, he raised his hand and pointed behind him with his thumb.

Oda Ai looked in the direction the other party was pointing, and she really saw a "hole"—a circular, black hole suspended in mid-air, which was very common in the cartoons of A Hua and A Na...

"See?" Before Oda Ai could respond, Barney interjected, "I didn't lie to you, did I? Otherwise, how do you think we came to the Time Domain?"

"'You'?" Hearing that word, Akachi Shin keenly sensed something.

"Yeah." Xiao Tan shrugged from a few meters away at this time and said, "I also came here through that kind of 'cartoon dimensional hole'." Speaking of this, he seemed to suddenly remember something and pointed behind Oda Ai, "Oh, and... he's also here."

This sentence startled the Sengoku team members again.

If Xiao Tan hadn't reminded them, they really wouldn't have noticed... that in addition to Bugs Bunny, there was another figure they hadn't noticed, who had quietly arrived behind Oda Ai.

"Hey~ I'm trying very hard to hide my presence." The next second, a Rabbit Star person wearing a sailor's short shirt, overalls, and a red scarf suddenly appeared in everyone's sight, complaining to Xiao Tan, "I originally wanted to suddenly jump out and scare them."

"Pu-heh—" Before that rabbit could finish speaking, Sasaki Mei in the distance suddenly bent over and spat out a mouthful of old blood.

"Hey... what are you doing again?" Takeda Tomoya was shocked by the gloomy man's reaction.

"Ha... ha... I'm... I'm sorry..." Sasaki Mei gasped and replied, "Too... too much pressure... ha... stomach bleeding... woo..."

"Hmm..." Uesugi Jin frowned and pondered upon hearing this, "Is this the legendary Tochi constitution..."

"What kind of constitution is that exactly!" Takeda Tomoya really couldn't help but complain, her loli image and voice with white hair and pink armor were indeed very suitable for the role of the straight man.

"I say..." Akachi Shin closed her eyes and shook her head, sighing, "If you guys are done clowning around, can you consider..." Her eyes narrowed fiercely, "...helping me chop up these guys!"

Chī yīng—

Chī yīng—

Hū—

Hōng—

The moment her voice landed, the sounds of four weapons being unsheathed almost overlapped.

The Sengoku team members, who seemed to be casually playing with comic banter... were actually always in a state of high tension, they were just using this trick to cover up their own psychological fluctuations and make their opponents relax their vigilance.

Accompanied by Akachi Shin's order...

Murderous intent rose, and a chaotic battle began.

It was too late to say it! Oda Ai flashed to Barney's side, her sword... as swift as lightning.

[Iai. Nue Cry]

[Skill Card Attribute: Active Skill, Permanently Mastered]

[Skill Category: Fighting]

[Effect: Unleashes an extremely powerful and fast Iai slash (cooldown time is one hour, can only be activated when equipped with a sword-type weapon and sheathed)]

[Consumption: Stamina 1000, Spiritual Power 100]

[Learning Conditions: Fighting Specialization A]

[Remarks: One of the Iai techniques created by the "Demon Sword Master", the move contains the power of the five elements and eight directions, ferocious and tyrannical.]

The Time Lord was dead, and the Silence Domain was naturally lifted; therefore, Oda Ai could use skills at will at this time.

By the way... in order to perform this move, Oda Ai had deliberately sheathed the already unsheathed katana, which showed that she had great confidence in the reliability and lethality of this skill.

Hiss—

Sure enough, in the blink of an eye, the blade cut through Barney's body, splitting him in half at the waist.

But…

"Oh! Dear me!" Barney looked at his separated lower body, exclaimed, and covered his face with his hands.

Then... like pulling up his pants, he quickly pulled up his lower body and reattached it to his waist...

Throughout the process, he didn't shed a drop of blood, and the parts of his body that were cut open... only showed a black color, and no internal organs could be seen at the wound.

All in all, after taking a Grade A skill at close range, Barney... was unscathed.