Chapter 262: Going Slim

A gentle breeze blew as Jiang Xia and Bina arrived at the scene.

He parked the motorcycle by the roadside, watched the battle, and stopped Bina from rushing forward.

The cat-type Yummy before them kept spitting energy blasts, while Huo Ye Yingsi merely relied on his Holy Emblem Slash Sword to defend.

Sitting on the high platform, Anku looked down from above at the struggling Ozi, and when he saw Huo Ye Yingsi once again being blown apart by a fat projectile, he could no longer hold back.

"Yingsi! Cut a little deeper," Anku said with an impatient expression.

"If this harms the person inside, what should we do?" Huo Ye Yingsi looked up at Anku.

"Who cares? Destroying Yummy to obtain ordinary coins is your mission; you're just a tool for collecting coins,"

Anku said coldly, looking at the cat-type Yummy before him.

"He's not my brother. Though he looks identical, my brother wouldn't speak with that expression and tone."

Bina, standing nearby, affirmed.

In her memory, her brother was a gentle and reliable person who had constantly cared for her; he could not be the cold, authoritarian commander he is now.

"You're right; he's indeed not your brother now, but his body is your brother's, as you've just seen with your own eyes."

Jiang Xia had long understood the reason but did not explain it directly; some things must be seen with one's own eyes and felt to be believed.

This cat-type Yummy is the most straightforward, best example, allowing the girl named Quan Bina to concretely recognize her brother's current bodily condition.

He looked at Huo Ye Yingsi and said:

"Huo Ye, as long as you remove the outer cell coins, you can rescue the person wrapped by Yummy."

"Exactly!"

Huo Ye Yingsi suddenly understood, but when he saw Jiang Xia and Bina standing together, he gave them a strange glance.

Because Quan Bina seemed to have nothing to do with the coins; she was just an ordinary person.

But now is not the time to ponder that; the priority is rescuing the person.

Anku brushed it off lightly, withdrew his gaze, and refocused on the battle.

Anku looked at the coin in his hand and produced a yellow Core Coin bearing a leopard pattern.

It was the one Huo Ye Yingsi had just extracted from Kazhali (cat-type Greed)'s chest, perfectly suited for the current situation.

"Yingsi! Use this," Anku clenched the coin tightly, tossed it toward Huo Ye Yingsi, and the coin landed precisely in his hand.

Huo Ye Yingsi examined the stripes on the back of the coin, immediately removed the leg cell coin, and swapped the locust Core Coin for a leopard Core Coin.

Fun fact: every Core Coin has a different number of stripes on its back, each representing the optimal spot on the head, chest, or leg.

The leopard Core Coin's back bears three stripes, indicating the leg.

Thus ancient Alchemical Art practitioners, when forging Core Coins, already accounted for the best animal‑type match for Ozi's parts, preventing mismatched pairings.

"Great, with this power we can pull him out."

Huo Ye Yingsi felt the leg's power and instantly sprinted, his legs leaving afterimages on the ground; the leopard symbolizes speed.

One of the afterimage legs kicked the cat-type Yummy's plump belly.

The relentless kicks caused the cell coins on Yummy's surface to scatter in all directions.

After reaching a certain point, the person wrapped in cell coins finally revealed his true face.

"Save me, save me!"

The overweight man, whose appetite was excessively voracious, saw the light and desperately reached out toward Huo Ye Yingsi.

"I will definitely save you, absolutely!"

Seeing the person continuously calling for help, Huo Ye Yingsi unhesitatingly extended his own hand.

"This time I'll hold on tightly!"

At the moment he grasped the pleading hand, Huo Ye Yingsi pulled hard, dragging the person trapped in the vortex of desire out forcefully.

"It's done."

He then drew three cell coins from his waist and thrust them into the Holy Radiance Slash Sword, preparing a finishing move.

Throughout the process, Quan Bina watched from the side; she turned to the calm Jiang Xia and asked, "Is my brother like this too?"

She had also seen the person devoured by the monster, but she lacked the power to do what had just occurred.

"Your brother's right‑arm is a similar monster; it's called Anku, and because of it,

your brother can survive for now. Quan Xinwu's body, when on the brink of death, was possessed by Anku."

"If Anku is forcibly removed while your brother's injuries are still unhealed, Quan Xinwu's body likely won't last more than ten minutes before dying."

"What should we do now?" Bina asked.

"Leave it to me. As long as your brother's body recovers, I can make Anku depart willingly."

Jiang Xia, looking at the already exploded cat-type Yummy, said to Bina.

"I want to trust you, but we just met," Bina lifted her head, "You and my brother aren't friends, so why are you helping us?"

"Even the kindest person wouldn't go this far," Bina said to Jiang Xia.

"I'm not being kind; I have my own purpose," Jiang Xia smiled.

"I can't force you to believe me; I'm just offering you a choice, and this is easy for me."

It's easy for him—who exactly is he? How can he accomplish such feats? "Well done, you're already familiar with the Ozi system," Jiang Xia said as he walked over to Huo Ye Yingsi.

"Jiang Xia, is she also someone connected to the Core Coin?"

After ending his transformation, Huo Ye Yingsi walked to Jiang Xia's side, stared silently into the distance, and occasionally looked toward Quan Bina here to ask.

Anku, who had jumped down from the platform, gathered the scattered cell coins on the ground and frowned at Quan Bina.

The body seemed to react strangely the moment it saw her.

That feeling made him unusually irritated, as it was a sensation he had never experienced, causing an instinctive aversion.

In fact, this is Quan Xinwu's love for his sister, a feeling that a Greed can only obtain after reaching its final form and continuing to devour humans.

And the feeling that arose during the process of Quan Xinwu getting along with his younger sister.

That is what Anku has always sought deep within his heart—the true experience of being alive that only living beings can feel—but Anku now only feels extremely awkward.

"Her name is Quan Binai, she is the sister of the police officer possessed by Anku." Jiang Xia said.

"I have already told her the facts, so I just need to tell her what happened."

"If we kill her directly, her existence will hinder our collection of the coins."

Anku felt that strange emotion in his heart and immediately raised his right hand.

Huo Ye Yingsi froze for a moment, instinctively stepping in front of Anku; he had long been guarding against this day, and because he had seen what other Greed looked like, he remained vigilant toward the current Anku.

Even though they are currently cooperating temporarily, Huo Ye Yingsi knows deep down that perhaps one day he will personally overthrow Anku and completely end the monster formed by the Core Coin.

All for the sake of giving more people a safe living environment.

"If you try to harm any human, I will not transform into Oz again, and without me, collecting the coins will become troublesome for you." Huo Ye Yingsi said.

"Hmph, besides you, I can still continue collecting the coins; it's not like only you can transform into Oz."

Anku let out a cold snort and turned his gaze toward Jiang Xia.

"I already have another partner, so I can't help you, and don't you think having a sister is a pretty good choice?" Jiang Xia shrugged.

Anku looked back and forth between Huo Ye Yingsi and Jiang Xia several times, then turned away with a resentful face, as if having suffered some great grievance, his tone impatient as he said: "Do as you please."

(End of chapter)