Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough

Chapter 469: Don’t You Think I’m the One Who Embodies Pleasure More?

"Wait, what did you just say?"

Pleasure was momentarily stunned, wondering if it had misheard. What did this woman mean by what she just said?

But Xie Antong didn't respond to it, acting as if she hadn't heard anything at all.

The close-quarters combat before them looked extremely perilous, making it seem like she was too focused on fighting to have time for conversation.

At this moment, to neutralize Sin's most powerful weapon, Xie Antong had been deliberately maintaining an extremely close distance between the two of them.

Specifically, she needed to reduce the distance to within the axe's length as much as possible to launch her attacks.

Given this combat strategy, it indeed appeared she had no time to be distracted by other matters.

Even Sun, who had been blasted away earlier, had just barely stabilized himself and recovered from his injuries, feeling somewhat unable to intervene.

Amidst the flickering afterimages, it was impossible to track them with the naked eye; it was as if their two bodies had merged into one.

Their figures flashed and moved, completely overlapping like two entangled electrons."Cough!" Sun forcefully coughed up a thick glob of blood, frowning slightly as he watched the scene unfold.

"What... what are they even doing?"

Their current fighting style was excessively dangerous. The previous deafening clashes of weapons had vanished, replaced instead by various dull thuds.

This form of combat was extremely unique, something that basically only Xie Antong could execute at this moment.

First, she had to perfectly coordinate with the All-Seeing Eye, capturing every single one of Lu Ce's movements, every possible opening and weakness, just to be able to stick to him so closely!

Simultaneously, she had to attack relentlessly without defending, making her assaults sharp and fierce, while entrusting all the openings on her own body entirely to Pleasure.

"Protect me! I'll seize the opportunity!"

She roared loudly at Pleasure. In these extreme circumstances, she completely ignored the axe hooking towards the back of her head, forcibly using that moment to attack Lu Ce's throat.

This behavior was essentially trading her own life for a chance to injure her opponent.

A very disadvantageous choice, but right now, there was still Pleasure.

Pleasure's primordial power erupted again and again, ensuring Xie Antong's safety.

With this almost cheat-like fighting method, she actually managed to inflict some damage on Lu Ce. It seemed the tactic was genuinely working.

It was precisely because of this that Pleasure's power briefly trusted her, truly continuously erupting with its primordial energy for Xie Antong to expend freely.

But it was also because of this that its power began to constantly deplete.

Xie Antong's eyes remained locked on the pink face before her. She knew that her current actions were akin to drinking poison to quench thirst.

This was practically a declaration of hostility. Sooner or later, it would realize something was wrong. It couldn't possibly allow her to squander its power completely.

When that time truly came, it would be... the final moment!

Her eyes were filled with this pink visage, but looking past this face, Xie Antong's mind was completely occupied by another face.

It was Lu Ce's original face, the one she remembered from before.

The two seemingly completely different faces slowly overlapped at this moment, making her feel somewhat dazed.

Jealousy's ability is imitation.

Imitation...

She could imitate too!

How did he do it?

How did he maintain his original self, remain who he was, amidst all those completely different masks?

"Hey! Our power is continuously decreasing!"

By now, Pleasure was getting restless.

It had already lost too much of its power! That was something it had accumulated over thousands of years.

It was genuinely painful. No matter the final outcome today, it was suffering a huge loss!

How could it possibly lose by playing this game?!

Glancing at the cross-legged fire giant in the distance only made it gnash its teeth in hatred.

How could such a coincidence happen in this world, that this detestable guy was right here?

Under normal circumstances, even if its power overflowed, the consequences wouldn't be too severe, but damn it, now that guy was absorbing it!

I hope you choke, you beast! Daring to take any power, don't you value your life?

Naturally, Sun didn't care what it thought. Sitting there, he was almost laughing out loud!

Thanks for the gift, nature.

Last time, to absorb Lust's ability, he had to fight desperately. Now, it was great; he could just sit back and reap the rewards.

He didn't really understand what Sin and Blank were doing either; he just focused on absorbing frantically.

Call it an experience farm.

Pleasure finally realized things weren't as they seemed. Its voice instantly turned extremely serious as it spoke directly to Xie Antong:

"Just hand your body over to me. Merge with me. That power will still be yours. There was never any real difference between us to begin with."

"If you really don't want to merge after we deal with him, we can separate directly. I might even gift you a portion of my power."

By this point, it had started lying outright.

But now, Xie Antong completely ignored it. She kept looking at the person right in front of her, and in her mind, memories of everything that had happened before began to flash by like a revolving lantern.

The last time they met, Lu Ce had clearly told her that those masks were actually him, just amplified versions of himself.

Therefore, he was the master of his power.

And there was what Wrath had said to her before—"What you call liking is just you pursuing excitement and restlessness in your boring life."

Did she inherently have a side that craved madness deep in her heart?

Was that why Pleasure had sought her out?

And back in Tokyo, when Greed overloaded, it taught her how to control her state and suppress the side effects.

Arrogance, on how to enhance her autonomy.

Sloth, in that game, how it resisted the power of the "god."

All the past games rapidly replayed in her mind, allowing her to deconstruct and imitate the way Lu Ce had controlled the masks.

So this... is our game?!

"I... think I understand now..."

In her murmuring voice, Pleasure was nearly going insane.

"Your method has failed! You can't kill him like this! Give me control of the body!"

"My method hasn't failed!" Xie Antong suddenly declared.

"I already told you earlier, my method is that I am your prison!"

Pleasure: ?

"Have you noticed something?"

"In fact, compared to you, I'm the one who seems more like Pleasure?!"