[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want-":3,"chapter-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-39":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Streaming Life With SSS-Rank Girls With Want My Kids",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1457659,1905,"Chapter 39: Kai vs. Eris (2)","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-39",39,"\u003Cp>Kai, on his knees, looked at the stone floor of the catacombs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His left shoulder wasn’t responding well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not broken — partially dislocated, the kind of thing that in a ring would mean the end of a fight, and in this tunnel meant adjusting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slammed his shoulder against the nearest wall with a sharp movement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound was ugly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shoulder popped back into place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai exhaled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[GarcíaFTW: HE RELOCATED HIS OWN SHOULDER]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[NocheEterna99: AGAINST THE WALL. WITH A SLAM. ALONE.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[StreamerHunter: Kai has a split lip, a bruised side, and now the shoulder. And he stood up.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[xSorinx: Eris stopped moving when she saw that.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pedro_Sierra: ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ THAT’S BAKI... I MEAN KAI ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Deral_Bleattler: ←←← dislocated shoulder →→→ wall →→→ relocated →→→ standing. HE FELL AND GOT UP CALMER THAN BEFORE.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris was looking at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes had changed — not the dark red of professional hunger from before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something different that Kai didn’t try to name because he didn’t have time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How much can you take?\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t know yet.\" Kai adjusted his stance, compensating for the shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris didn’t answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She came again — faster, more direct, without the patterns of the previous exchanges because she’d processed that patterns didn’t work against Kai and had decided that pure speed was a better strategy than an elaborate tactic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai didn’t dodge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took the first hit on his crossed forearm — the impact was enough to move him two steps but not knock him down — and used those two steps to generate momentum in the opposite direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He came back at Eris with all that accumulated energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fist strike to the chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same point that had worked against the S-ranks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris blocked it with both hands crossed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impact made Eris stagger back a step and a half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai felt both fists up to his elbows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Denser than the S-ranks still, he thought. The heart method needs more force than I have right now with the shoulder like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Different angle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at Eris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looked at the crossed hands she’d used to block.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She blocked with both hands. That means for a moment both arms were committed to defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the next strike arrives before she separates her hands...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[NocheEterna99: Kai is looking at Eris’s hands with that face]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[GarcíaFTW: THAT FACE MEANS HE FOUND SOMETHING]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[StreamerHunter: viewers: 4,200,000.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[xSorinx: Eris is looking at him too. Both are calculating at the same time.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pedro_Sierra: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) who calculates faster ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai attacked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not the chest — Eris’s right shoulder, the same one he’d marked before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obvious target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kind of attack anyone who’d watched the fight so far would expect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris raised her right arm to block it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai didn’t complete the strike to the shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He changed at the last moment — hip turning, weight transferring, the same principle as the feinted jab he’d used against the dungeon android but applied differently — and the real strike came with the left elbow straight to the center of Eris’s chest while her right arm was committed high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sustained pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heart method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the elbow instead of the fist because the shoulder couldn’t handle more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris didn’t convulse like the S-ranks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A full second of total stillness — not moving, not breathing, without the continuous processing of an S+ entity that’s always calculating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai used it to separate and put two meters between them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The left shoulder protested the whole way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris exhaled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at her own chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then at Kai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The heart,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You used it against my S-rank comrades.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And now against me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\" Kai adjusted his stance again. \"With less effect because you have better defense. But enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris processed this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind her, from the gate, the townspeople had stopped shouting and fallen silent, watching the fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of them — the greenhouse one, recognizable by the dirt still on her hands from when she’d been captured — looked at Kai with the expression of someone waiting for something specific.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai saw it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nodded once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She nodded back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris saw the exchange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re not going to give up,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even though I’m S-rank and you’re injured.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris was silent for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai nodded toward the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because they’re in there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[GarcíaFTW: \"BECAUSE THEY’RE IN THERE\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[NocheEterna99: no drama. No speech. Just the direct reason.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[StreamerHunter: Eris asked why and Kai pointed at the gate. END OF DISCUSSION.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[xSorinx: The guy nodded. They’re coordinating something.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pedro_Sierra: (╥_╥) this man (╥_╥)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Deral_Bleattler: ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´ωﾟ)ﾟ｡ \"because they’re in there\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[User_7741: ヽ(°〇°)ﾉ KAI THE BEST ヽ(°〇°)ﾉ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rank markings on Eris’s hands stopped glowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t turn them off — they just stopped glowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai noticed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris took a step to the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving the path to the gate with half a meter of space that hadn’t been there before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My mission,\" Eris said, looking ahead instead of at Kai, \"is to protect the prisoners until my mistress decides what to do with them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai waited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My mistress is busy.\" Her eyes moved toward the back of the chamber where the sound of Serah and Lira’s fight kept filling the catacombs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And the prisoners will remain protected if they leave the cell.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai looked at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m not going to repeat it,\" Eris said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai walked toward the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris didn’t move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[GarcíaFTW: ERIS LET HIM PASS]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[NocheEterna99: SHE FOUND AN INTERPRETATION OF HER MISSION THAT ALLOWS HER NOT TO BLOCK HIM]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[StreamerHunter: \"the prisoners will remain protected if they leave the cell\" — TECHNICALLY CORRECT]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[xSorinx: she didn’t say it twice. Just once. Kai understood.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pedro_Sierra: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Eris found a loophole in her own mission ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Deral_Bleattler: ←←← mission: protect prisoners →→→ interpretation: protect them OUTSIDE the cell →→→ BRILLIANT]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[System — notification]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Current viewers: 2,500,000]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system notes that Kai freed the prisoners without defeating their guardian]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system notes that the guardian found an alternative interpretation of her mission, due to the respect she has developed for Kai]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system notes that this is just to see Kai fight without worrying about the others.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system considers that also a form of winning]\u003C\u002Fp>",1069,"2026-06-06T02:17:06.772Z",1,"novelbin.me","c33916c27c71f776c778a0ae7cf2cec8727bbdb3fc6a7466b64c6651dfc22c20","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-40","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-38",110,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--cover.jpg"]