Chapter 398

[When he opened his eyes again, the East China Sea Emperor found himself in a pure white space.

The sharp pain that was still lingering throughout my body a second ago has long since disappeared, as if it never existed from the beginning.

"Am I dead?"

The Emperor of the East China Sea stared blankly at his hands covered in blue and white gloves. The confidence in his voice was gone. There was actually a trace of hesitation and uneasiness in the trembling blue pupils that could never exist in the Emperor of the East China Sea.

The memory slowly returned, and she recalled the blow to her chest by the horseshoe crab, and she dropped her hands feebly.

"I lost..."

There is no doubt that he was defeated. Even though he gained power beyond the Insect Meter, he still lost to the horseshoe crab.

The moment you realize this fact, the moment you feel powerless in your heart, the moment you accept this defeat...

All along, something that supported the existence of the "Emperor of the East China Sea" quietly collapsed.

The invincible sun has fallen, and the only person staying here is the same owner as he was seven years ago.

She sat lonely in this empty space.

At this moment, she may be the true appearance of the "Emperor of the East China Sea". She is not a shell built to imitate the person she longed for, but something closer to his essence.

In the end, the Emperor of the East China Sea failed to become the symbol of Lu Duo. No matter how thoroughly he hypnotized himself, the imitator could not become the authentic one.

——As if this time was a failure...

The Emperor of the East China Sea's expression lost the confidence and calmness of the past, like a child who failed to achieve the goal in her heart. She hugged her knees and buried her blurred vision in her thighs.

She plans to accept defeat and wait quietly for her own dissipation. This is the ending that the loser deserves...

However, before that, a majestic female voice said her name, making her eyes widen.

"What are you doing, Emperor?"

"!?"

The Emperor of the East China Sea suddenly looked back. There, in the space that should have been empty, a brown-haired horse lady wearing a green military uniform was watching her quietly.

The appearance of this horse lady is very similar to that of the Emperor of the East China Sea, no! Not only is the appearance close, the calm and confident expression is even higher than that of the ordinary Donghai Emperor, giving people the feeling that he is an advanced version of the Donghai Emperor.

"Will it... grow?"

He hesitated to say the other person's name, and the Emperor of the East China Sea stared blankly at Lu Duo's symbol, somewhat confused as to why the long-lost president would appear here.

——Is the president also dead?

The absurd idea flashed through his mind, and the Emperor of the East China Sea immediately rejected the idea.

The other party is the president, and he is the one he has tried to imitate in the first half of his life. How could the completion of the Donghai Emperor's ideal be the same as his own?

While the Emperor of the East China Sea was thinking wildly, Lu Duo still kept his chest-crossing posture and just repeated his question again.

"What are you doing, Emperor?"

"I……"

The Emperor of the East China Sea came back to his senses, bit his lips lightly, and finally confessed to her what he was thinking.

"I was defeated by a powerful enemy..."

"beat?"

Lu Duo narrowed his symbolic eyes and softly repeated the words of the Emperor of the East China Sea.

The Emperor of the East China Sea lowered her head slightly. In front of this person, she was like a child. While she was ashamed of her failure, she also didn't want to see the other person's disappointed expression.

However, Lu Duo's symbolic expression did not change at all, and he just continued to ask calmly.

"So did you use all your strength?"

"well?"

The Emperor of the East China Sea raised his head and looked into each other's purple eyes.

She wanted to reply in the affirmative, but when she remembered that her left hand had not pressed down on the Beyond Insect Device, she visibly hesitated.

And this hesitation also made Lu Duo understand.

"Why not use all your strength?"

"This is my best effort..."

"No, it's not, Emperor."

Lu Duo interrupted Donghai Emperor's words, and the two of them looked at her right foot at the same time. It was an injury that Donghai Emperor had not been able to heal for 7 years. It was the limit she had set for herself.

Lu Duo looked at it symbolically and his tone became deeper.

"I know a fool."

There was nostalgia and emotion in her tone.

"That guy had a broken leg just like you, and like you it hasn't been cured yet. She regarded the pain as punishment for her mistakes and deliberately kept it until now. What about you?"

Symbol Luduo knew that the East China Sea Emperor's knight belt had long been transformed and strengthened by that idiot. The injuries that could not be cured 7 years ago have long been overcome now.

But until now, the Emperor of the East China Sea has not been cured.

What's the reason?

Lu Duo symbolized that she believed that the Emperor of the East China Sea already knew it, so she continued.

"Emperor, you are my best successor. You have polished yourself to look like me, perfectly interpreted my words, and become an undefeated emperor as dazzling as the sun rising in the east."

As he spoke, Lu Duo smiled symbolically. No matter what, the fact that the Emperor of the East China Sea was his best student was an unchangeable fact.

"However, this has also become your shackles. You are too obsessed with my back. Under the shell of the 'undefeated emperor', you have never taken any step. So..."

She stepped forward, stretched out her hand and touched the head of the East China Sea Emperor, and walked past her.

"You have graduated, Emperor of the East China Sea. The path ahead is yours to choose. Whether you are an undefeated emperor or anything else, whether you want to move forward or retreat, it is your choice."

"Just imitate my words, and you will never be able to go beyond the limit."]

"So this is ah……"

At this moment, many viewers, including the symbol of Lu Duo in the real world, finally understood why the Emperor of the East China Sea in the video was so different from her in the real world.

Because for the Emperor of the East China Sea who lost everything 7 years ago, the way to quickly cheer up is to imitate the embodiment of his ideal and become a person like the symbol of Rudo.

Becoming the undefeated emperor that Lu Duo symbolized was the only choice before the Emperor of the East China Sea at that time.

And she was excellent and lived up to the expectations of Lu Duo's symbol. She moved closer to Lu Duo's symbol and became the full-fledged existence in "Jia Dou" today.

But after that, it was inevitable that the Emperor of the East China Sea fell into the shackles of "perfection".

Because she is already perfect, she cannot surpass who she is now.

Because she is already the embodiment of the ideal, she cannot make any changes.

The most intuitive manifestation is the right foot that the Emperor of the East China Sea has never been able to heal.

And now...

【"Puch!"

Momentary mistakes on the battlefield caused a continuous accumulation of disadvantages.

In the end, under the disbelieving sight of Mejiro McQueen, who was struggling to support the fierce offensive of the Lobster Zerg, the giant claws of the Lobster Zerg containing special energy penetrated the body of the twin turbines.

"No!!!"

Looking at the twin turbines that fell and lost their voice, at the moment when Silent Suzuka showed pain and Mejiro McQueen screamed, the whole world was tightly held by a red hand.

"Hyper Clock Up!"

Just like pressing the rewind button of a video, time in the entire Kato world began to flow back.

The shrimp zerg's giant pincers were pulled out from Twin Turbine's body, and the two faced each other and distanced themselves, returning to the sapling where Twin Turbo died.

Then, the flow of time returns to normal.

When the shrimp zerg swung this attack, the red hand suddenly stretched out and grabbed its giant pincers.

"!?"

Everyone was startled by the Transcendence Armor that suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and the Shrimp Zerg watched in disbelief as his extremely hard chelicerae was crushed to pieces.

It tried to withdraw its hand in shock, but only one severed arm was withdrawn.

The Emperor of the East China Sea, who returned from the near-death state, threw away the tattered chelicerae and punched the shrimp zerg in the chest, knocking it out and denting the entire breastplate.

"Hey, two squirts."

"Um?"

It wasn't until the Emperor of the East China Sea said his name that the stunned Twin Turbine came back to his senses and looked at the brand new Kato.

"Where is the zerg leader?"

"After I beat you into the water, I took the ladder up to the sky."

Realizing that the East China Sea Emperor was fine, Twin Turbine showed an excited look and pointed at the towering ladder.

The Emperor of the East China Sea nodded and tapped the red button on the back of the Beyond Insect Instrument again.

"Hyper Clock Up!"

Following this command, the armor on the breastplate, shoulder armor, back, and limbs that surpassed the armor unfolded in response, revealing the golden internal structure, just like a flying one-horned fairy.

"I'll leave this to you."

After finishing speaking, the East China Sea Emperor disappeared from the scene in the green halo, while Twin Turbine nodded and looked at the seriously injured Shrimp Zerg.

The flow changed at this moment and the counterattack began.

…

At the top of the ladder located outside the atmosphere, the horseshoe crab has just arrived and is ready to complete the final steps.

For her who finally defeated Beyond Kato, this was the last piece of the puzzle to complete her victory.

However, just a second before she pressed the button, she keenly captured the abnormal fluctuations in time and space.

She suddenly turned around and put up her hands to defend herself, and a fist hit her both arms, knocking her away and even directly smashing through the solid outer wall of the ladder.

The moment the airy interior and the vacuum exterior were opened, a huge suction force erupted and sucked out the East China Sea Emperor who had just settled down.

One person and one insect grabbed hold of the bulge above the ladder in outer space to fix their bodies, and at the same time entered the time-rise state.

In the high-speed world, the abnormal gravity returned to normal due to the delayed flow of time, and the two sides were able to stand up again and look at each other.

"You guys are still alive."

Faced with the question from Horseshoe Crab, the Emperor of the East China Sea shrugged his shoulders.

"Now it's 1 win, 1 loss and 1 draw. It's almost time to really decide the winner."

"interesting."

The horseshoe crab chuckled and slowly raised his right hand, while the Emperor of the East China Sea placed his left hand on top of the Transcend Insect Instrument.

Both sides have already understood the strength of the other party. If this is the case, then they can save themselves the tedious steps.

The scene fell into silence for a moment, with one person and one insect staring at each other, like cowboys confronting each other in a Western movie.

Then, they took action almost at the same time...

…

At the same time, the battle below also came to an end——

"Rider Cutting!"

The merged double blades of the steel bucket turned into terrifying scissors. The twin turbines clamped the dying shrimp zerg around the waist, lifted the entire zerg into the air, and cut it directly into two pieces.

"Rider Slash!"

Mejiro McQueen, who kicked the Lobster Zerg into the air and no longer had to worry about the twin turbines, showed his true strength. The purple slash left an afterimage in the air and chopped the Lobster Zerg into several sections.

"How can it be?"

Seeing the situation of the battle taking a turn for the worse, the katydids had just made a startled sound when they were locked by a cold gaze.

"Where are you looking?"