Challenge: The Fool with the Surname Okayamine

Chapter 32: The English Chapter - "The Serpent and the Devil"

One Saturday morning in London, England~

At 8 a.m., in the basement of a café somewhere in England, Ming and Möbius stood facing each other in this pure white operating room, with Möbius still holding yesterday's lab report in his hand.

"Well? Old woman, you called me over so early in the morning. Have you done any experimental work on me after studying me for a week?" Ming, standing in front of her, crossed his arms and said coldly.

"Oh dear~ Klein, don't be so heartless. I've genuinely treated you as my experimental partner this past week. How could you scold me like that... especially on something as taboo as age for girls~" Möbius said feigning concern, covering her mouth and squeezing out a few tears, as if she had truly been heartbroken by Ming's words.

"Old woman, you've even exposed your scalpel." Ming said expressionlessly, his eyes glancing slightly at the mysterious metal parts peeking out from under her white coat, his lips twitching slightly.

"Oops! I've been found out?" Upon hearing that his little trick had been discovered, Möbius's expression faltered slightly. He feigned surprise, then his eyes narrowed instantly.

"Alright~ It seems Klein doesn't have much emotional intelligence. What a pity. Alright, alright, let's talk about the results of this week's experiments, Doctor."

As he spoke, an experimental report was thrown in front of Ming. After taking a look at it, Ming's face gradually darkened.

Seeing Ming's face darken, Möbius simply closed his eyes and slightly extended one index finger to explain:

"Experiments have shown that you cannot be dissected normally. No matter which part is cut off, it will instantly grow back in flames within seconds. Moreover, this has nothing to do with cell regeneration, and you can't even control it. Even if I use a drug that inhibits cell regeneration, it seems to have no effect whatsoever. Haha~"

"Even if I extract your genes, whether it's blood or anything else, it won't stay in your body for long. The flesh will turn into charcoal and then into ashes, and the blood will evaporate on its own after being exposed to air for a fraction of a second. Even if you put it in a freezer, it won't have any effect. The only conclusion I can draw so far is that you are truly immortal."

"You elves are truly enviable, haha~"

Upon hearing Möbius recount the contents of the experimental report, Ming clenched his fist tightly, and the coldness in his exposed right eye intensified rapidly.

Seeing Ming's reaction, Möbius's lips actually began to curl up.

"That's right~ I dissected you twenty-five times for nothing, and there's nothing I can do about it. We haven't tested many Pokémon so far, and you and the few that have appeared recently are actually exceptions. In the past, the ones captured by satellite were all monsters that had no sense and just roared. Even when we tried to track them down, they would just disappear into some alley."

"My original purpose when I went to Japan to investigate was to capture those roaring monsters and, incidentally, to reach some business cooperation agreements with AST. It just so happened that you appeared at that time and caught my attention. Unlucky, right?" Möbius chuckled, as if deliberately provoking Ming.

"You bastard! What do you take my twenty-five times for, you idiot!" Ming roared, his originally expressionless face slightly furrowed, his eyes burning with rage.

Möbius, however, remained unperturbed and continued:

"Well, you can't entirely blame me. After all, you were incredibly happy when you agreed. Besides... if you run away, I'll have no choice but to pass your information on to my colleagues at DEM." Möbius forced out some tears, then smiled at Ming.

"Damn Doctor!" Ming roared, and as a spark of anger was ignited by the [Cruel] particle, the black flames on his body instantly surged, illuminating the entire room.

Instead of being afraid, Möbius took a step forward, his eyes revealing a strong desire.

She licked her lips and murmured to herself, "As expected, your body converts all the pressure you experience into spiritual energy."

"Haha, hahaha, it's alright, burn it without worry!" Möbius shouted after laughing wildly, his voice carrying a hint of madness and determination.

“I’ve already used a device to shield the spiritual energy signals here, so it won’t be detected even in England. Besides, the surrounding electric floor is highly heat-resistant, so burn it without worry! Hahahaha!” She laughed triumphantly.

Ming was somewhat puzzled after hearing this, but his anger had already been overwhelmed by the cruelty of the situation, preventing him from thinking clearly.

"Then let's begin our experiment, my dear Klein~" As Möbius finished speaking, she pulled a square, flat crystal from her sleeve. "If you don't resist, it will be very painful~"

Möbius chuckled, took a few steps back, brushed his hair aside, pressed the chip to his temple, licked the back of his hand, and shouted:

"Manifestation device activated! Hydra, [Hydra]!" As soon as he finished speaking, Mobius was covered by a black light.

When the light faded, a set of black knight armor covering two-thirds of her body was revealed. Her face was covered by a mask. She held a cylindrical gun-shaped weapon in one hand and a standard European-style electric knight lance in the other. The nine giant snake-head mechanical hands on her back were particularly prominent, emitting dark green electricity, which was quite frightening.

Seeing this, Ming, though feeling weak from barely suppressing his negative emotions, didn't hesitate. Anyway, according to Möbius, he tore off the covers from his eyes and silently recited in his mind:

"Sing aloud! [Divine Might Spirit Armor - Fifth Rank - Reverse]" Ming closed his eyes, letting black flames continuously erupt from his body and skeletons appear out of thin air to kneel before him.

The skeleton retreated, and Ming was dressed in a black military uniform. Ram horns grew from the left side of his head, and the surrounding temperature rose accordingly.

Seeing Ming's change through the mask, Möbius revealed an excited expression, and the two snow-white breasts, at least C to D size, that weren't properly covered by the armor on his chest trembled slightly.

"Oh my, so this is what they call the [Spirit Gear]? It's true that the AST group didn't name it correctly when they found it. It shouldn't have been called [Flame Beast]. [Demon] is more suitable for Klein."

At this point, Möbius raised the pistol in her left hand, meticulously analyzing Ming's current data through her mask. Then Möbius said:

"Ah~ let's begin the experiment!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a black, tubular object was fired from the pistol, straight to Ming's throat.

Ming reached out to try to block it, and the surrounding air became increasingly hot due to Ming's movements, attempting to dissolve the mysterious tubular object that was approaching in front of him.

But as the tubular object drew closer, Ming's eyes widened. The tubular object, which should have melted at a safe distance due to the high temperature, had not melted; instead, it remained stuck straight in his palm.

"What!" Ming exclaimed subconsciously. Although this attack was useless against him, it still surprised him greatly.

"Klein, what kind of person do you take me for, Doctor? Do you really think that after spending this week together, I wasn't prepared to have something with extremely high temperatures?" Möbius laughed.

Seeing this, Ming didn't bother to deal with it and tried to pull his hand back, but he only felt something being injected into his palm. Suddenly, his right hand, except for the skeleton, rotted and fell off. Ming looked at this scene in astonishment.

While Ming was still in shock, Mobius's leisurely voice came from in front of him, getting closer and closer. Ming looked up and saw her knight's lance about to pierce his chest.

“My dear Klein! In a real battle, no one will explain the principles of weapons to you!” Mobius said, as the knight's lance drew ever closer to Ming’s chest.

"Burn everything! [Black Flame Demon - Spell]!" Ming summoned the [Demon King] before he could think. A cane blazing with black flames appeared in Ming's undamaged other hand and clashed with the knight's lance.

In a duel between these weapons, a cane could never possibly be a match for a lance, but the strength of the user is simply too great.

The two sides were locked in a stalemate, neither able to gain the upper hand. Just then, Möbius's mocking voice rang out:

"Klein, you don't think you're safe just because you blocked one of the snake's bites, do you? Don't forget I'm the 'Hydra'!" With that, the nine mechanical arms behind [Hydra] moved simultaneously, biting at Ming.

Upon seeing this, Ming subconsciously raised his other hand, which had just been rotting, only to find that it had already self-repaired at some point.

With this, Ming activated the flame-creation power of the [Black Flame Demon] in his hand, and nine spears forged from black flames were created from the magic circle behind him, stabbing towards the nine snake heads.

Upon seeing the spear created from the magic circle, Möbius cautiously retracted his mechanical arm, then released one hand that was holding the knight's lance, took out the spear hanging at his waist again, and fired with a single button.

Seeing the syringe flying towards his head at such close range, Ming used the ultimate human reaction speed, like a bullet in time, to catch it.

"Oh no! It looks like we've been caught~" Möbius said calmly. Ming immediately took advantage of the moment she spoke, bit off his tongue, and then quickly spat it out.

The tongue flew straight towards Möbius, instantly cracking open and generating a massive explosion of spiritual energy. Ming used this opportunity to retreat slightly, escaping the confrontation with the knight's lance.

For some reason, Ming felt that being pricked by this thing would be very bad. Although he had the ability to regenerate super-regenerate, he still thought it was better to be cautious and quickly stepped back.

Ming flashed behind Möbius, intending to observe and probe, but when the smoke cleared, the center of the explosion was empty.

"Uh!" Ming stared wide-eyed at the spot. She was just there a moment ago; she couldn't have disappeared in an instant.

"Are you looking for me, Klein?" Mobius's flippant voice suddenly came from behind Ming.

Upon hearing the voice, Ming instantly turned around and was right next to her, but as their faces met through the mask, he immediately struck the person with his cane.

As a doctor who has studied humans for many years, he noticed that Ming's shoulder and hand muscles bulged slightly when he saw her through her spirit costume, so he quickly took a step back to avoid the attack.

After dodging the attack, Möbius looked at Ming again and commented:

"Klein, the way you bit off your tongue just now was insane! It's a pity your mouth muscles didn't conceal it well, otherwise you would have succeeded~"

Seeing that Möbius had withstood the explosion generated by the Demon King after he channeled his spiritual power to the tip of her tongue, leaving not a speck of dust on her display device, Ming was even more astonished.

"Oh~ it seems Klein is quite anxious to see us? Hehehehe~" Möbius covered his mouth, which was already hidden by the mask, and said with feigned concern.

"Alright! Let me, the Doctor, reveal the answer to what happened earlier~ Because, you know, I'm a snake, and snakes can detect prey without their eyes even in dark caves~" Möbius explained as if joking.

"I see... You actually believed me!" Ming shouted after slamming his cane on the ground. "Humans couldn't do that! Or rather, even elves couldn't make out the details in the dark!"

"Hehe, believe it or not, the Doctor is just giving you a friendly reminder~" Möbius said, but his body did not move.

As Ming was thinking this, his eyes suddenly fell on the mask that Möbius had been wearing ever since she used the manifestation device. He seemed to understand something, and pointed at her face, saying:

"You're clearly just using a detector on your face to tell people apart!"

After hearing Ming's words, Möbius chuckled softly, nodded as if in agreement, and then shook her head, saying: