“What kind of monster is that?”
Snake Pillar (Obanai Iguro) and Giyu Tomioka both gripped their Nichirin Swords, staring in shock at the Armored Titan stepping out from the billowing steam.
They couldn’t make sense of any of it.
“You’re really sneaky! Seems you noticed me long ago and deliberately showed an opening!”
Tang An emerged behind the Armored Titan and stood on its shoulder. Below his purple-diamond-patterned pupils, blood-red lines crawled across his cheeks, and steam billowed from his body.
From atop the Armored Titan, Tang An looked down at Wang Xu, feeling a heavy weight in his heart.
This guy was even more troublesome than Zhou Wei!
If it weren’t for the Titan’s regenerative ability, he would already be dead.
“So you’ve been to the world of Attack on Titan.”
Wang Xu’s eyes gleamed with greed as he stared at Tang An as though he were a woman stripped naked.
Tang An didn’t answer, but his expression grew ever more grim.
This guy actually knew about Attack on Titan!
“Do you have the power to travel to other worlds, or some sort of cheat ability?”
Wang Xu was already unable to contain his excitement.
“Since we’re both from the same place… let’s lay our cards on the table!”
Tang An jumped down from the Armored Titan’s shoulder. The Titan then crashed to the ground, dissolving away.
“What is your cheat? You don’t seem like a ‘reincarnator’; you’re just a simple ‘transmigrator.’”
“Reincarnator? So you’ve encountered something like a Main God Space? Did this happen in Attack on Titan?”
“If reincarnators exist, then surely there are infinite worlds!
That means anime, novels, movies—all of them might be real worlds, and you can travel to them.”
“Is it a system-type cheat?”
“Looks like you’re not a reincarnator either. You must be a simple transmigrator like me. You know a lot of intel that I don’t.”
The more Wang Xu spoke, the more excited he got. He and Tang An clearly weren’t the only ones—there must be other countrymen out there too!
Tang An narrowed his eyes and stayed silent. He sensed that this guy was feigning ignorance to wring information out of him!
This wasn’t some brainless fool, but a cunning, sly countryman.
Just one sentence, and he could analyze so much. If Tang An said a few more words, wouldn’t that be enough for this guy to figure out even the color of his underwear?
Yes… this countryman was very tricky—a super pain in the neck!
“Never mind. If I eat you, I’ll get your memories, maybe even your cheat ability.”
Wang Xu’s entire being was surging with excitement, even his so-called sixth sense.
Tang An’s hand gripped his dogleg blade as he looked at this borderline deranged countryman. Both his mind and body tensed like never before. He could feel danger—lethal danger, enough to make every hair stand on end.
“Interested in joining forces?”
Suddenly, Tang An looked over to Giyu Tomioka and Obanai Iguro, who stood not far away.
His plan was simple: he wanted to team up with Giyu Tomioka and Obanai Iguro to take on Wang Xu together.
This guy was too dangerous, and Tang An wasn’t confident he could kill him alone.
“Were you the one who killed Tanjiro, Sanemi, Muichiro, Tengen, Shinobu, Mitsuri, and the others?”
Giyu Tomioka wore a cold, impassive expression. In his eyes, both Tang An and Wang Xu were enemies.
Next to him, the Snake Pillar glared furiously at Tang An.
“That’s a baseless accusation. Who told you that?”
Tang An frowned, looking annoyed.
He knew this was the moment to start “acting.”
Since Giyu Tomioka was asking in this way, it was likely he didn’t know the entire story—maybe he was just guessing.
Regardless of whether the Demon Slayer Corps was aware of the truth, the smartest move now was to posture righteously and insist he was being framed.
“It was you who framed me!”
Tang An feigned fury, spinning around to pin the blame on Wang Xu.
“Your acting is too fake. I only killed the Stone Pillar and the Mist Pillar.”
Wang Xu was indifferent; he saw right through Tang An’s embarrassing performance at first glance.
Before he’d transmigrated, he’d watched more than his share of terrible shows.
Tang An’s level of acting was at best D-list!
“Let’s go!”
But, to everyone’s surprise, Giyu Tomioka suddenly grabbed Obanai Iguro, leaped onto the rubble, and vanished after a few bounding steps.
Tang An’s face went stiff with astonishment.
Giyu Tomioka’s retreat was completely unexpected.
“People in this world aren’t fools.”
Wang Xu’s gaze stayed calm. He had thought they might join forces against him, but Giyu Tomioka simply withdrew.
Just as Wang Xu said, people from this world weren’t idiots. Giyu Tomioka could clearly see that Tang An and Wang Xu were at odds. Rather than getting involved, it was better to leave them to fight it out and wait until they were both badly hurt, then swoop in and reap the benefits.
Moreover, the battle here would have been reported already. The other Twelve Kizuki might show up!
Given that the Demon Slayer Corps’ strength was drastically reduced, confronting them head-on would be the worst plan. It was far smarter to let these people kill each other first and then come afterward to collect the bodies.
Tang An’s face looked awful. After a moment, he managed a forced smile.
“They want us to destroy each other. You’re not dumb enough to play the part of the cicada, are you?”
“When the mantis hunts the cicada, the oriole waits behind. What if I’m the oriole?”
Wang Xu let both arms hang, each finger extending ten invisible threads that easily pierced the ground.
“So there’s no peaceful coexistence, huh?”
A golden storm swirled around Tang An. One by one, radiant pieces of equipment—helmet, right-ear pendant, arm guard, chest guard, visor, and boots—seemed to attach themselves to him as if alive. The metallic clang echoed loudly.
At the same time, a warlike BGM roared out.
For five minutes and twenty seconds, his power would be doubled. If he couldn’t finish off Wang Xu in that time, Tang An would retreat without hesitation!
“That BGM… so it’s not just for show!”
“Your aura has skyrocketed—looks like it really can increase your strength.”
Sensing the explosive growth in Tang An’s power, Wang Xu’s eyes hardened.
He could tell in an instant that this BGM wasn’t just there for atmosphere.
“Huff…”
Tang An inhaled sharply. Golden lightning crackled across the air. He leaned forward, the ground beneath his feet collapsing in rings. Rubble went flying in all directions. In the blink of an eye, Tang An vanished.
“Instant kill!”
A beam of pure speed—Tang An’s dogleg blade in his right hand glowed red-hot, slicing straight for Wang Xu’s neck.
But Wang Xu seemed to have anticipated this, sidestepping to dodge. At the same time, five razor-sharp transparent threads on his right hand shot toward Tang An’s chest.
“Crack—”
Thunder crackled through empty air as Tang An instantly vanished to the side. Avoiding Wang Xu’s attack, he slashed with the dogleg blade in his left hand.
Wang Xu used his right leg, connected to multiple threads, to forcibly meet the dogleg blade.
At once, the earth shook. Within a thirty-meter radius, the ground tore open, sending rocks and dust flying everywhere.
“Boom! Boom!”
The ruined battlefield split in two. A ragged gully was left between them as the two reappeared, jumping back after that head-on clash. Then, like rubber bands snapping back, they collided again with the force of two massive mountains.
“Impudent demon! Such petty tricks, daring to show off! Da Wei Tianlong, Shizun Dizang! Daluo Fazhou, Banruo Zhufó! Banruo Bamahaung!”
“Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon!”
Golden lightning rocked the earth. Behind Tang An loomed a twenty-meter-long divine dragon. His right hand transformed into the dragon’s head, swiping at Wang Xu from close range.
Wang Xu’s face changed drastically, every hair standing on end in terror.
Tang An’s sudden finishing move caught him completely off guard.
“Spider’s Nest!”
A massive tangle of thread sprayed out, forming a spider web shield in front of him. Wang Xu backed away in a hurry.
“Boom!”
Even with the spiderweb defense, Wang Xu burst apart like a watermelon.
His head shot away like a cannonball. Meanwhile, his shattered body remained linked by transparent threads, flying backward as it rapidly reassembled. In the span of a heartbeat, his upper torso was already restored.
“Instant kill!”
There was no way Tang An would pass up the chance to beat a dog while it was down. He turned into a flash of golden lightning and vanished.
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