Did this child have some kind of interdimensional pocket?
How could that little backpack possibly hold so many high-powered explosives?
Kamisato Satoru and Eula, two "victims" who knew Klee’s destructive power all too well, watched with their hearts in their throats, terrified that one of those little spheres might slip out of her hands and detonate on the spot.
Even Mona couldn’t help frowning.
She could clearly sense the incredibly dense and violently unstable Pyro energy contained within those little red spheres.
"Where did I put it... Ah! Klee remembers! It was taking up too much space, so I buried it together with my new treasure underneath the big tree at Windrise."
"Don’t worry, Big Sister! Klee will go dig it up right now!"
Klee hoisted the heavy backpack onto her shoulders, turned around, and shot off like an arrow released from a bow.
"Wait! Let’s go together..."
"Da-da-da-da..."
Before Kamisato Satoru could even finish speaking, Klee’s tiny figure had already disappeared around the corner.
"Well, we’d better catch up."
Kamisato Satoru remembered that in the original story, the diary should’ve been inside the bag.
Apparently, this kid’s storyline had progressed too quickly and gone completely off track.
"All right. Let’s hurry."
...
"Why is there a Dendro Slime here? Klee, was this thing around when you buried your stuff?"
When the group hurriedly arrived at Windrise, they immediately spotted a large orange-red lump near the enormous tree that stood out starkly against the surrounding grass.
"I don’t think it was here before."
Klee shook her head in confusion.
Pop!
The Slime disguised among the vegetation sensed the approaching strangers and suddenly sprang out of the ground.
Fortunately, everyone reacted quickly enough to dodge its charge.
Its physical attacks might not have been absurdly powerful, but getting rammed by it would still hurt like hell.
Shing!
Eula instantly drew her gleaming greatsword, while Mona summoned her catalyst in perfect coordination.
"Leave a little monster like this to Klee!"
Klee eagerly rushed to the front.
At some point, a strange new bomb wrapped in crackling purple arcs of electricity had appeared in her hands.
"Try Klee’s newest improved Jumpy Dumpty: Enhanced Version!"
"Holy crap! RUN!"
The instant Kamisato Satoru saw the bomb clearly, his expression changed drastically.
He grabbed one girl with each hand and dragged Eula and Mona away at full speed.
BOOOOM!
A deafening explosion shook the surroundings.
Scorching flames and violent lightning intertwined in an instant.
The resulting Overloaded reaction expanded the blast radius several times over.
When the clouds of dust and smoke finally began to disperse, the Dendro Slime that had been bouncing around moments earlier had completely vanished.
Only a few pitiful drops of Slime Condensate remained.
The previously lush green lawn now had an enormous crater several meters across blasted into it, with trails of black smoke still rising from the edges.
"Th-This is really the kind of destruction a little kid can cause?"
Eula and Mona both stood there petrified.
What adorable little girl?
This was clearly a strategic-level mobile arsenal wearing the skin of a cute child.
Even Kamisato Satoru was secretly astonished.
He hadn’t expected the Jumpy Dumpties to undergo such an absurd qualitative leap in destructive power after incorporating a high-energy material like the Lightning Prism.
Pyro, Electro, Overloaded, Burning...
At this rate, the kid might eventually figure out how to achieve nuclear fission with alchemical bombs.
"Hey, Mona. Weren’t you all fired up about challenging this kid and comparing your combat abilities earlier?"
Kamisato Satoru turned toward her with a teasing, spectator-like grin.
"Huh? You heard wrong! I absolutely never said anything that delusional!"
Mona frantically shook her head like a rattle.
She estimated that if that bomb had landed directly on her, she’d probably be lining up for a number at Wuwang Hill by now.
"Ta-da! Big Sister, look! This is the big box you were looking for!"
Klee dug an antique wooden chest out of the loose soil nearby.
Fortunately, it had been buried quite deep.
Otherwise, the massive explosion just now would’ve reduced it to a pile of splinters.
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