Among all those women, plenty had clearly fallen under his spell.

They’d already been staring at him with shameless, lewd eyes. Then Lin Mo, desperate to stay alive, had said something so simple and direct that they seemed to start imagining all sorts of fun and exciting things they might do with him in the future. Before long, their breathing had grown heavier.

“Tie him up! Tight! Don’t let him go—!”

His words seemed to have shaken the red-haired leader, too.

Maybe caution and keeping a low profile were the right choices for their bandit gang after all.

If they just took Lin Mo outside and had him lure the rest in to be killed… that’d be a good way to make the idiots out there stop quickly.

“Ugh, damn it…”

The red-haired leader’s thoughts were in a knot.

When it came down to it, she was only the leader of this bandit gang. She was fairly ordinary in both brains and ability. Under normal circumstances, she was steady and dependable—but when every single problem came crashing down on her at once, she just couldn’t cope…

A woman hurried over with a steel cable, trying to use it to bind Lin Mo’s arms.

The leader pressed a hand to her forehead, frazzled, and could only hope that everything would go smoothly from here.

Lin Mo finally relaxed a little and started thinking about how to escape.

Everyone thought the problem had been dealt with for the time being. Whatever way this ended, at least for now, they’d all returned to the eye of the typhoon. In that moment, everyone got to enjoy a brief spell of peace…

And yet—

Right in the middle of that blissful moment, like a boy lying flat on the floor on a summer afternoon, basking in The Sun while eating ice cream—

Rumble—!!

Along with the roar of a car engine came the sound of a violent crash. There was a deafening boom, and the nearby walls and defenses shuddered twice from the impact. “What the hell happened?! You bastard—you bastard!!”

The red-haired leader’s terror unfolded in two stages, divided by a single sentence.

When she didn’t know what had happened.

When she realized what had happened.

Then, in the very next moment, another explosive boom rang out. The outer wall built around Big Goldfish Supermarket—and even the innermost wall leading straight to the plaza—were both smashed through in one crushing impact!

She was insane.

Completely insane!!

The red-haired leader grabbed her handgun and strode toward the iron-nosed Jeep, her face stricken.

“Aaaahhh—!! I’ll kill you! I swear I’ll kill you, you bastard! You bastard!! You damn bastard!!”

An opening!

Lin Mo seized the perfect chance.

He quickly wrenched himself free of the hands of the woman who’d just grabbed him, now frozen in shock. He didn’t bother trying to kill anyone or fight back. He plunged straight into the crowd of women.

“Waaah! Big sisters, help me! Please, help me!!”

He’d made the right choice.

A great many of the female bandits present had guns. If Lin Mo had tried to run outside just then, at least ten bullets would’ve chased after him.

But plunging straight into the crowd was a different matter. Whatever they might think afterward, in that moment, these female bandits were too stunned to instinctively see the boy who’d turned to them for help when danger struck as their enemy.

(What the hell just happened?)

Lin Mo threw himself into one woman’s arms and buried his face deep in her chest, still shaken by what had happened.

Just like everyone else here, he had no idea why the other person had suddenly driven through the wall.

Lin Mo kept rubbing his face against the woman’s chest as he pressed himself into her arms. Feeling the boy’s scent and warmth against her, the female bandit—who couldn’t remember the last time she’d held a man—blushed and responded with unmistakable enthusiasm.

If they weren’t in the middle of a dangerous situation, with her companions all around them… she’d definitely have pushed Lin Mo down right there.

“S-Sister, help me. Please, help me.”

As Lin Mo whimpered, he glanced back at the women around him.

As the situation gradually became clearer, the bandits began to realize how serious things were and prepared themselves for a fight.

“That’s terrifying. Those definitely aren’t my old companions. They must’ve been killed already—this is so scary, really scary…”

Just as Lin Mo let out a trembling, mournful whimper, he suddenly saw someone vault over the hood of the car as it drew closer to the red-haired leader, who was shouting furiously.

The newcomer had pale blond hair, close to the strange range of colors sported by the female bandits here. In the end, they were all shades that people on Earth could only get with hair dye.

Her hair was tied up in a bun, with a small braid trailing behind like a brilliant shooting star streaking across the night sky.

“Even if everyone else forgives you, I’ll never let you off! Die—!!”

The red-haired leader roared in fury and aimed her gun at the blond girl.

But the girl…

She simply hooked her foot out with a swift motion. In an instant, she knocked the gun barrel aside in midair.

Bang—!

The gunshot rang out, announcing that the red-haired leader’s bullet had gone wide.

(So this is what the women of The World are like…)

Shock.

Trembling.

Fear…

Lin Mo had lived in the twenty-first century, and he’d never heard of anyone moving or reacting faster than a gun could fire.

“You bastard, you—”

The red-haired leader tried to block the blond girl’s descending kick with her left arm.

Crack—

Crack—! Smack!

But even her strong, muscular arm was completely helpless against that downward kick.

With a snap of breaking bone, the red-haired leader’s left arm twisted around at an impossible angle. A near-agonized scream burst from her a split second later.

“Die.”

Using the red-haired leader’s body as a foothold, the blond girl made a quick step in midair.

Then she brought her foot down at full force toward the other woman’s head.

Whoosh—

(It’s over.)

(The women of The World are just too terrifying…)

(Even if the most dangerous enemy is dead, can I really survive what comes next?)

Lin Mo watched everything in front of him, tense with nerves.

Everything he was seeing now seemed utterly unbelievable…

And just as Lin Mo had given up hope that the red-haired leader would survive, something suddenly blocked the blond girl’s kick in midair—just as something had deflected the bullet she’d fired at the girl not long ago.

The blond girl’s steel-toed boot stopped no more than three centimeters from the red-haired leader’s forehead.

And it couldn’t move any farther down. Not even a little.