"Mayday! Mayday!"
Two helicopters that entered C-Moon's domain swayed abnormally left and right.
The pilots stared in panic at the instrument panel. The helicopters were equipped with corresponding gravity-sensing devices, convenient for pilots to grasp direction, up, down, left, right, when flying in clouds or fog.
But the pilot widened his eyes at the instrument panel.
The "up" it pointed to was not the blue sky, but the nearby Space Center.
"I… I must be hallucinating, it has to be that…"
One helicopter had already plunged headfirst into the ground and exploded.
Seeing his companion die, the pilot could only grit his teeth, adjust the helicopter's orientation, and fly toward the "upper" direction.
———
Father Pucci let out a painful howl.
The two steel balls infused with the Golden Spin, like two drills, had their rotating force penetrate into the gravity barrier and bore two bloody holes in Father Pucci's temples.
Fresh blood spurted out, exposing pale white bone.
Not only that, under the spinning force, the skin on the left half of Father Pucci's body became loose and saggy. Combined with his already graying hair, he looked like a frail old man.
But the skin on the right half of his face was tight and glossy, just like that of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old youth.
A mirror that had fallen from the ghost room landed in front of Father Pucci due to gravity shift.
Enduring boundless pain, Pucci saw himself in the mirror. Pain, shock, and fear all filled him, and then he saw thin strands of yellow, white, and green sticky fluid seeping from his temples, it was clearly… his brain matter.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!!"
Father Pucci's mind became incomparably chaotic, and extreme fear completely devoured him.
He spread his arms wide, praying for divine salvation.
BOOM!
A helicopter smashed through the roof of the visitor center and crashed heavily onto Father Pucci.
Such a massive external force finally caused a tiny deviation in the 90-degree angle maintained by the steel balls.
Reverse gravity activated, and the two steel balls collided in front of Father Pucci, merging into one.
The "destruction" effect of the Kiss duplicate triggered.
Long, narrow wounds appeared across Father Pucci's face, and immediately after, the crashing helicopter exploded, blasting him away.
Father Pucci rolled on the ground in a miserable state, but...
"Hahahaha! Jolyne, this is the power of fate!"
"The more you want to kill me, the more you will be bound by fate."
Father Pucci propped himself up with one hand on the ground. His temples were still bleeding, deep bone-revealing wounds covered his face, and one of his eyes had gone blind.
But he felt it.
The helicopter before him was a gift from fate, the strongest weapon bestowed upon him.
Father Pucci stared at Ryosuke, who was dozens of meters away.
"Do you believe in gravity?"
"Whether you do or not, gravity is about to fall."
Father Pucci took a step forward, reverse gravity activated again.
Because of the crash and explosion, countless burning parts turned into thousands of flame bullets, shooting toward Ryosuke like a sky-covering barrage.
Since C-Moon's reversal punches were useless, he would use direct physical attacks.
Such a large-range attack sealed off all of Ryosuke's space to dodge.
"Ryosuke!"
Anasui's pupils shrank. He controlled Diver Down and rushed in to support, wanting to share the damage Ryosuke was about to suffer.
But it was too late.
They were ten meters apart. He could not reach Ryosuke before he was turned into a ball of fire.
Father Pucci clenched his fist tightly.
In the next second, Ryosuke was covered by countless sharp, burning fragments.
"Ryosuke!"
Ermes, who had just caught up from outside, shouted involuntarily, her eyes turning red instantly.
Ermes had a straightforward personality. Jolyne was her close sister, someone she had lived and died with.
Although Ryosuke hadn't been with them long and still wore Jolyne's appearance, less than half an hour was enough for Ermes to feel Ryosuke's indescribable charisma.
This attack from Father Pucci was no different than killing two people Ermes cared about. She roared in fury, "Pucci! F*ck your mother! I'm gonna kill you!"
Kiss smashed the ground with her fist, and like climbing a mountain, she charged toward the visitor transfer station relying on brute force alone. From the look of it, she was going to tear Father Pucci into octopus strips.
Behind her, Emporio's hands and feet went cold.
He hadn't joined the fight, always observing the entire battle as a spectator, so Emporio saw more clearly than anyone, only Ryosuke, or rather someone with Stone Free who could use the "Mobius Strip", could counter Father Pucci.
Any one of the rest of them, just touching C-Moon's fist lightly would be enough to lose their combat ability.
Emporio gripped his baseball cap tightly, staring toward the direction covered by fragments and flames.
Ryosuke could no longer be seen there.
But unless one was a fool, they could imagine the unbearable pain anyone trapped in such flames would suffer.
"Is there really no way… huh?"
Emporio suddenly heard a faint, sharp whirring sound.
It was like the sound of a mini 4WD motor spinning at maximum speed during childhood, and the source of the sound was...
Bang!
All the burning fragments were blasted away.
Whether it was Ermes charging, Anasui, the proud Father Pucci, or the helpless Emporio, all of them turned to look toward the spot that had been engulfed in flames.
Countless azure threads spun and intertwined, forming a high-speed rotating sphere big enough to contain one person.
On top of the sphere, there was also a layer of white frost, this was the power of Weather Report.
It was this layer of frost that lowered the temperature of the burning fragments, preventing the high heat from burning Ryosuke inside.
Looking closely, one could see faint ripples flickering on each thread, and these ripples had condensed thin, sharp ice shards on the threads.
The ripples were weak, and the ice shards were thin, but under high-speed rotation, they acted like countless tiny blades, slicing apart all falling fragment attacks.
Golden Spin: Weather Report: Great Spiral Marbles.
"Ryosuke!"
His teammates exclaimed.
They never expected that in such a dead-end situation, Ryosuke still had a way to break through.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Falling fragments were knocked away one after another, and Ryosuke accelerated toward Father Pucci.
Weather Report's Disc could only last two to three seconds. He had to close the distance as fast as possible.
Through the gaps between the spinning threads, Father Pucci and Ryosuke locked eyes. Those eyes that seemed as if they would never waver made Pucci's heart jolt, and he instinctively stepped back twice with a low cry, "Y-You're not allowed to come closer!"
"C-Moon!"
C-Moon charged out from behind Father Pucci. With a chain of punches, and with a bang, all the outer threads flipped inside out, exposing Ryosuke hidden inside.
Father Pucci pulled a pistol from the waist of the pilot's corpse on the ground, aimed at Ryosuke, and pulled the trigger.
Several bullets flew toward Ryosuke.