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"why?"
Nana Ebina asked Doma Umaru curiously.
"Because Zhuge Cong and Hachiman Hikigaya triggered a connection, a bond between partners, and it happened after Zhuge Cong was rescued from being controlled, and Hachiman Hikigaya even reconciled with Zhuge Cong."
"By rescuing them from control and reconciling past grievances, the bond of friendship has been greatly enhanced. With the blessing of this bond, the chances of Hachiman Hikigaya and Zhuge Cong failing are less than five percent."
Doma Umaru said confidently, "Actually, there's another point: Doma Umaru doesn't think a bunch of weaklings can defeat two boss-level characters."
"Hey, that makes a lot of sense. Umaru knows so much."
Nana Ebina looked at Doma Umaru with admiration and then continued to ask questions.
"Where did Umaru learn all this knowledge?"
"This is from a comic..."
Doma Umaru was about to speak when he realized he had said the wrong thing and immediately corrected himself.
"I overheard my brother talking about comics with his friend at home by chance, haha."
In order to prevent her image at school from collapsing, Umaru Doma shifted the blame onto her older brother, Taihei Doma.
Doma Umaru believed that her brother, Doma Taihei, wouldn't mind.
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"Achoo!"
Daihei Doma, who works at the company, suddenly sneezed.
"Is someone thinking about me?"
"Who misses you, Taiping?"
"Have you secretly started dating someone?"
As soon as Doma Taihei finished speaking, Motoba Takeshi, who was standing next to him, came over with a grin and said something.
"Um!?"
Kongo Yo, who secretly admires Doma Taihei, immediately perked up upon hearing Takeshi's words.
"No, it's probably Umaru."
"Oh, I thought you were going to find a partner, Taiping."
Takeshi returned to his workstation, which was actually just a slight shift of his chair to the left of Daihei Doma.
[Zhuge Cong and Hachiman Hikigaya, seeing the drone force charging towards them, also began to deal with the drones in front of them.]
[Zhuge Cong used a palm-sized cannon, while Hachiman Hikigaya relied on his own weapons; unfortunately, Zhuge Cong crushed the Gatling gun.]
154: Zhuge Cong: Is this your ex-wife, Hachiman Hikigaya?
Compared to Zhuge Cong and Hachiman Hikigaya, these drone units were no different from ordinary cannon fodder.
The drone attacks not only struggled to hit Zhuge Cong and Hachiman Hikigaya, but even when they did, they couldn't inflict effective damage on them.
[It only slightly darkened Zhuge Cong and Hikigaya Hachiman's battle suits, without leaving any dents.]
[However, the attacks from Zhuge Cong and Hikigaya Hachiman could easily tear apart such a drone force.]
【“Beep beep beep.”】
[Zhuge Cong saw the notification from the battle suit and dodged to the side. The next second, a missile shot over and blasted a small artificial hill into dust.]
[Zhuge Cong raised his hand and fired several small bombs from his wrist towards the three drones, instantly blasting them to pieces.]
"Did you see that?"
[Zhuge Cong didn't forget to boast to Hikigaya Hachiman.]
"Yes, I saw it, that's amazing."
[Hachiman Hikigaya's reply was somewhat perfunctory.]
"Hachiman, crouch down."
[Zhuge Cong, watching the drones gather again, shouted to Hachiman Hikigaya, "I'm about to unleash my ultimate attack!"]
[Upon hearing this, Hachiman Hikigaya immediately squatted down.]
[The back of Zhuge Cong's Iron Man armor began to glow red, and then Zhuge Cong spun 360 degrees.]
[The surrounding drone units, artificial hills, and trees were easily sliced apart by the scarlet laser.]
"Next time, you have to go first with your big move."
[Hachiman Hikigaya stood up and looked at the drone force around him, which had been sliced in two by lasers, and said...]
"This is a one-time use skill that I can only use once."
[As Zhuge Cong spoke, a puff of white smoke emerged from the back of his hand, followed by the ejection of two small devices, presumably the laser-firing contraptions, which would be rendered unusable after one use.]
At that moment, a group of uniformed police officers walked into the backstage area of the exhibition. Looking at the officers who entered, Shiho Miyano pointed at Un'taka Shinomiya and spoke.
"It's him."
【"What?!"】
[Shinomiya Un'taka was surprised and confused as the police walked in and Miyano Shiho pointed at him.]
"You're under arrest. Put your hands behind your back, sir."
[The police officers then approached and detained Shinomiya Un'yō.]
"Are you kidding me? You shouldn't have arrested me."
"Hehehe, I know, I know what you're trying to do. You want to just pin this on me like this? Well done."
"As expected of the CEO of Zhuge Group, eliminating rivals, hmm."
"But do you think you can handle me? We'll be seeing each other again soon."
[Shinomiya Un'taka was taken away by the police. Before leaving, he didn't forget to make some threats to Miyano Shiho, though whether they were truly threats is only known to Shinomiya Un'taka himself.]
"Once they arrive, it's best to arrange for them to be positioned near the south, east, and west exits."
"Okay, we have closed train number 7 at both the entrance and exit."
"Use intercity buses to transport people to designated evacuation routes."
"Okay, come with us."
"No, I'll stay here and wait for the exhibition area to clear out."
[Shiho Miyano gave instructions to the logistics staff of the Zhuge Group standing nearby.]
This logistics department was established by Zhuge Cong after he became Iron Man and founded the Iron League.
The reason for establishing this department is quite simple: it was set up to compensate for the losses incurred by Zhuge Cong and his Iron Alliance in their external activities.
"Watch out, another drone is coming, but something seems off; it doesn't look like a drone."
[Vermouth looked at the target unit's glowing circle appearing on the computer screen and reminded Hachiman and Zhuge Cong.]
Vermouth's intuition told her that the target's aperture might not be that of an ordinary drone.
"I guess it's Akizuki Kozo who went to cause trouble for Zhuge Cong wearing his updated whip armor."
Natsuki Subaru felt that the target halo should be Akizuki Kozo, after all, Akizuki Kozo had previously made a special phone call to Zhuge Cong to tell him that he had upgraded his whip armor.
Moreover, given Akizuki Kozo's hostility towards Zhuge Cong and the current changes in the situation, Akizuki Kozo will likely go directly to the battlefield to fight Zhuge Cong and Hikigaya Hachiman.
[Then Vermouth looked at the data displayed on the computer screen and said.]
"The impact energy is much higher than that of other drones; you need to be careful."
"Aha, you didn't need to remind me, I already saw it."
[Zhuge Cong looked at the armor descending from the sky and spoke to Vermouth on the other side.]
[Kouzo Akizuki, clad in an Iron Man suit, descended from the sky, then removed his mask, looking arrogantly at Zhuge Cong and Hachiman Hikigaya.]
"It's great to see you again, Zhuge Cong. You look to be in good shape. I thought you'd be on your deathbed."
[Akizuki Kozo removed his mask and immediately started trash-talking Zhuge Cong.]
"I'm not happy to see you. Nobody likes to see someone who crawled out of a coffin looking for them."
"And are you wearing an Iron Man suit? You look more like an urn."
Zhuge Cong naturally retaliated immediately.
[Without saying anything more, Akizuki Kozo unleashed two enormous, crackling whips from the arms of his battle suit.]
"Let me go first. I said I'd use my ultimate move first. Great, I have a special weapon here—my ultimate move."
"I'm going to use my ex-wife to blow his armor off."
[Hachiman Hikigaya spoke to Zhuge Cong, then walked to a position half a step in front of Zhuge Cong, and slowly extended a missile launcher from his right shoulder.]