Yu Yachen, who hated excessive contact with others, had many quirks. She wore gloves when she went out, refused to use furniture others had used, and would wipe down doorknobs.
Even more, she hated the feeling of owing people. She resisted help from others, as if it implied she would have failed without them.
From the beginning, the only person she could trust was herself.
Yu Yachen felt a boundless rage spreading in her chest. Her face, usually an emotionless mask, finally showed a ripple.
Perhaps it was because of the system's missions, but she had been acting too gently lately. So gentle that she had put away her cold mask. So gentle that she no longer resembled a sociopathic serial killer who was indifferent to life.
"Eirymes, get her!"
The Ursus man roared, the whites of his eyes turning red. He clutched his nose; using his Stand while severely injured was causing him to have a nosebleed.
The Ursus woman understood. She summoned her white Stand and charged at Yu Yachen.
At the same time, the ground beneath Yu Yachen sank. The man, forcing himself to use his Stand, made the snow fly into the air, gathering like ropes. The snow-ropes wrapped around the white-haired woman's ankles.
Yu Yachen's physical fitness was weaker than an average person's. Her right leg, already trapped, was suddenly yanked by the snow-ropes. Before the Ursus woman could reach her, Yu Yachen's center of gravity was thrown off, and she fell backward.
"Thud—"
The instant she fell, the Ursus woman was upon her, [Paper Hearts]'s fist smashing down at her head like a cannonball.
Controlling a Stand takes immense concentration. The best way to stop a Stand is to attack the user. Therefore, she would strike the moment Yu Yachen fell!
With her strength, one hit would kill her!
But just as [Paper Hearts] was about to flatten Yu Yachen's head, a vertical zipper appeared on the white-haired woman's forehead—
"ZIP—!"
The zipper ran from the top of her head to her chin. The moment it opened, Yu Yachen's head split in two. The fist that was about to hit her forehead grazed past her now-split-in-half nose and struck the snow behind her.
"What?!"
Without giving the enemy a moment to react, Sticky Fingers struck. A heavy punch slammed into the Ursus woman's abdomen, sending her flying once again!
"Puh—!"
After flying over ten meters, the woman's back slammed into a pine tree, snapping the old trunk.
Yu Yachen, still trapped in the swamp, turned her body. [Sticky Fingers] instantly switched to [Killer Queen]. The pale-pink Stand grabbed Yu Yachen's right index finger.
"CRACK—!"
Killer Queen twisted, forcibly breaking Yu Yachen's finger off!
Yu Yachen's face remained blank, her pale cyan eyes calm, showing no reaction to having just snapped her own finger.
The snow-swamp was now part of a Stand, so it couldn't be turned into a bomb. The swamp covered a 3-4 meter radius around her, meaning she could no longer use snow-bombs for ranged attacks.
If that was the case, she would just turn her own body into a bomb.
Killer Queen pinched the severed finger and threw it at the distant Ursus man!
"It's useless! One of your abilities is turning things into bombs, right? I've been on guard against that!"
Pierre raised his hand. The snow in front of him twisted, forming a soft wall. The soft wall stopped the flying finger... but the finger didn't explode on contact.
"..."
Unlike the original Yoshikage Kira, Yu Yachen could use multiple Sheer Heart Attacks. In this, her Killer Queen was more like the Part 8 Kira.
That Kira, a ship's doctor, had once saved a drowning patient who had a blood clot from hitting his head. As a doctor, he had shrunk Sheer Heart Attack to a cellular level, sending it into the patient's bloodstream to blow up the clot.
What that Kira could do, Yu Yachen could do.
"Click, clack. Click, clack."
A few seconds later.
The sound of the toy tank's treads reached the Ursus man's ears. Two skull-tanks, growing in size, slowly climbed up the soft snow wall.
The First Bomb and Sheer Heart Attack cannot be used at the same time.
So, Yu Yachen had deliberately created an opening, making him think she was using the First Bomb. In reality, she had secretly stuffed two miniaturized Sheer Heart Attacks under the fingernail of her severed finger.
She used her own flesh as a delivery "vehicle."
From her earlier observations, the man couldn't make his swamp-fluid do too much. For offense or defense, he would make the snow hard or soft.
Fragile snow couldn't block an explosion, so she was certain he would make the snow "soft."
And, coincidentally, the tanks needed time to return to their original size. A soft wall that could "catch" the finger... became the perfect blind spot, which Yu Yachen used against him.
"Look over here..."
The tanks climbed the soft wall, emitting a deathly rattle.
"Alright. It's over," Yu Yachen said flatly.
The Ursus man had nowhere to run. It was too late to block. The skull-tanks launched themselves at him—
"BOOM—!"
The explosion engulfed him. The shockwave blasted the surrounding snow away. At the same time, Yu Yachen felt the viscous sensation around her legs disappear.
The white-haired woman slowly rose from the ground. The smoke cleared. The man's charred body was thrown into the snow like a ragdoll.
He was a mangled mess, and he would not be getting up again.
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