Memory (First Update)

"Mechs really are troublesome…"

Xu Yue looked at the mech, which offered absolutely nothing of value, with a look of disdain.

The mech moved at high speed. Xu Yue was locked onto on the screen, and once the image was enlarged and the pilot clearly saw the disdainful expression on Xu Yue’s face, a trace of cruelty appeared in the Reincarnator pilot’s eyes.

If he got grazed by bullets of this caliber, he would be blown to pieces, right?

Rat-a-tat-tat~

Flames spat from the gun barrels, and thick bullet trails gouged the ground. But in the next instant, the target vanished completely.

Had he been blasted to pieces?

But no matter what, he should have left behind at least some bloodstains.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

The optical assistance system kept issuing warnings, alerting him that a high-speed object was approaching!

When the system automatically slowed the footage and enlarged the auxiliary camera feed, he finally saw that it was the Reincarnator he had seemingly just shot dead!

"That speed! How is that possible?!"

He raised the weapon in his hands and, with the system’s assistance, fired continuously.

Yet a phantom-like figure moved through the storm of bullets as leisurely as a crane strolling through a courtyard.

To Xu Yue’s pair of sinister eyes, every bullet fired from the gun barrels seemed to move in slow motion.

One shell after another, each as large as a forearm, spun past his body, trailing rings of distorted air.

Within the supposedly dense barrage, he effortlessly found the optimal route and arrived directly before the mech.

I may not be faster than bullets, but being faster than your reactions is enough…

Tap~

An Explosive Tag was slapped onto one of the mech’s joints. Before the other side could swat at him, he leaped away and stuck another one elsewhere.

He kept darting around beneath the mech’s sluggish reactions.

A few seconds later, he was already standing atop the mech’s cockpit. He gave the enlarged camera lens a gentle smile and lightly attached the final Explosive Tag.

It might not be worth much, but at least I’ve completed the main objective first…

"No! This isn’t real! This isn’t real!"

"Tear them off! Right, tear them off now!"

The pilot, who had first fired wildly and then tried to capture him at close range, was now completely frantic.

He desperately tried to rip the Explosive Tags off the mech.

But how could he possibly control the mech’s thick arms well enough to do such delicate work?

He could only watch in despair as the Explosive Tags ignited and then exploded!

Crack! Crack~

Sunderland’s defensive capabilities were quite good. The armored sections only suffered slight deformation and some scorch marks from the Explosive Tag blasts.

But the joints without armor protection were completely destroyed.

The entire mech instantly lost its combat capability!

Red warnings flashed everywhere inside the cockpit. No matter how he pulled the control levers, all he could hear were the sounds of the mech’s mechanisms jamming.

"Move! Move for me!"

This mech was the Reincarnator’s lifeblood. He had only just gained the right to use it and had not even properly acquired it yet, but now it had been completely damaged. How could he accept that?

It was like a loser renting a Ferrari with all his savings just to try it out, only to crash it the moment he drove out—and in a way that could not be repaired. That was probably how it felt…

Why?

Why was there such a powerful expert in the opposing team?!

Why could someone withstand a mech head-on?!

He felt as though his beliefs had collapsed.

He had always been so weak. Every other skill he had was utterly terrible, but he had gritted his teeth and saved up for mech piloting skills and a little physical enhancement. Now all he lacked was the money for a mech.

With the blessing of faith and conviction, he had been about to turn his life around!

And now you’re telling me everything I saved up for could be soloed by one person?!

Bang~

Just then, a harsh scraping sound came from outside the cockpit.

That thing was working on the cockpit?

But it was fine. Sunderland’s cockpit had outstanding defensive capabilities. Even Explosive Tags and grenades could do nothing to it, unless it was a weapon mounted on a mech or something anti-armor…

A sharp, ear-piercing sound rang out. A pale blue beam pierced through the mech’s outer shell, accompanied by crackling electricity as it slowly cut toward him.

The dark-red melted cut showed just how terrifying that thing was!

"No! Stop!!!"

After the Chidori Sharp Spear sliced through both the cockpit and the pilot inside it.

Xu Yue leaped down from the ruined mech kneeling on the ground and frowned as he looked toward a pile of rubble.

Then he walked over. Upon reaching the open ground there, he reached behind himself and tore.

It was as though he had ripped open a transparent curtain, revealing Sun Lin within, her face full of alarm like a startled deer.

The cold aloofness she had put on was completely gone. She looked utterly terrified.

"Y-you, what do you want…"

Sun Lin was no fool. The other party possessed the terrifying strength to solo a mech, yet had kept it hidden without showing it. He definitely had secrets he did not want others to know.

But now…

She knew!

Why was he so strong?

He was ridiculously strong!

She could not even see his movements as he dodged the mech. She had no idea what had happened before discovering that all the mech’s joints had been blown apart.

By the standards used to classify ninja, he had at least Chunin-level strength!

Normally, only veterans could reach Chunin level!

Yet he was a Reincarnator on the same level as her!

"What a kind girl you are."

Xu Yue smiled gently and reached out to tidy Sun Lin’s slightly messy hair, his fingers brushing across her smooth cheek.

"You were worried about me, so you came back to see whether I could still be saved, weren’t you? Everyone else had clearly run away."

Xu Yue’s tone was gentle, but when his fingers slid toward Sun Lin’s fair neck, she shuddered. Goosebumps rose all over her body, and she hurriedly said,

"My brother bound a Life Casket to me. If I die, my soul will return to the Life Casket."

His moving fingers stopped, then turned into a gentle caress.

"What are you thinking? How could you possibly die? The enemy has already been dealt with."

After stroking her, Xu Yue even smiled as he adjusted her collar, undoing one button to make her outfit look more playful and lively.

Sun Lin could not help letting out a strained sigh of relief, but then she noticed those sinister eyes of his, completely unlike those of ordinary people.

Tsukuyomi…

Holding the unconscious Sun Lin around the waist, Xu Yue looked at her pretty face hidden beneath her long hair and rarely frowned.

This really was a bit troublesome. Using Tsukuyomi in conjunction with Illusion Techniques, Xu Yue could naturally pry the truth from a newbie of this level with ease. The little girl had not lied. Her brother, Sun Chuanfang, had invested heavily in her. It could be said that he had painstakingly given her every benefit allowed by the Space’s upper limits.

A Sister Complex really was terrifying…

Fortunately, he had learned some Illusion Technique tricks from Uchiha Fugaku back then. Combined with his own Sealing Jutsu, it was enough to handle a newbie like this.

First, he separated her short-term memories and sealed them with Sealing Jutsu. Then, he used Tsukuyomi to implant a false memory to fill the gap.

So long as she did not encounter someone with Illusion Technique abilities greater than his who conducted a careful examination, theoretically, there would be no flaws.

There were not many people capable of breaking an Illusion Technique cast with the Eternal Mangekyo, and none of them would likely have the leisure to carefully examine a newbie like her.

Still, this had truly wasted quite a bit of this Wood Clone’s Chakra.

A girl born with a golden spoon in her mouth and spoiled rotten, yet kind by nature. In Reincarnation Space, aside from himself, she was one of the few "good people," huh…

Sun Lin woke with a soft murmur. She stared blankly at the back of the head of the person carrying her, feeling as though her head was somewhat heavy.

Then the "memories" from before she fainted gradually surfaced, and she relaxed slightly.

They had escaped…

Her appearance had drawn the mech’s attention, while this newcomer had used his unbelievably precise throwing skills to luckily blow up one of the mech’s leg joints with an Explosive Tag.

Having lost its mobility, the mech fired wildly for a while, and she had been knocked unconscious by the blast’s aftershock…

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