Chapter 62: Women Fighting

Long, slightly-waved black hair brushed gently across the young man's face, making his nose tickle and his eyes sting slightly with moisture.

At this critical juncture, his Madam President had appeared.

To be frank, if Olivia hadn't been lying in wait outside, Ron would likely have chosen to run away together with Elena rather than stay behind to confront the fish-processing miss face-to-face.

By the way, where was that good-for-nothing woman?

Ron looked around in confusion, suddenly realizing that Elena had disappeared without a trace.

Noticing the expression on her subordinate's face, Olivia slanted a fox-eyed glance at Ron and sneered:

"Hah, see that? That cheap woman is an ungrateful ingrate. No matter how close you are to her, she'll run away by herself the moment danger strikes, leaving you behind to cover the rear."

"I used to think she had recognized her mistakes after all these years, but I never expected her to try to trick even a minor..."

Olivia gritted her teeth, but before she could finish her lament, Ron raised his hand and spoke up:

"Isn't that completely normal?"

"If Miss Elena was the target, fleeing at the very first moment is the logical choice, right?"

Are you the president or am I the president?

Every single day, all you do is talk back to me!

The black-haired woman's eye twitched as she said sternly:

"From now on, keep your distance from her. You don't learn her good points, you only pick up all her bad habits!"

With that, she grabbed the young man by the ear and forcefully dragged him to the side.

Swish—

The sound of a sharp object piercing the air suddenly rang out right beside Ron's ear.

The youth only saw a shark-tooth blade flash through the exact spot where he had been standing just a moment before.

"Ha, what a big surprise!"

"Olivia, you really did show up. It was worth all the trouble I went through to issue that notice."

"It seems you're exactly as written in the intelligence reports—a brainless, stupid woman who only knows how to vent her violence!"

Outside the villa's courtyard, a loud, clamorous voice suddenly rang out as the shark girl nimbly leaped out of the large crater.

She didn't look like she had suffered any serious injuries at all.

This completely caught Ron off guard. He knew better than anyone what kind of power was hidden in the Madam President's legs, which were longer than his own life.

They could literally kick a cow right back into its mother's womb—utterly astonishingly overpowered.

Yet now, after taking a kick squarely to the body, she was still bouncing around as if nothing had happened. It was truly incredible.

Moreover, she said she was the one who sent out the witch's notice, specifically to lure out the president?

As expected of a fish processor, she even knew how to use fishing enforcement tactics.

At that moment, Ron realized this was a trap targeting the Madam President.

Faced with this sarcastic and venomous mockery, the black-haired woman merely glanced at the shark girl's whipping tail and said with utter disdain:

"Hoh, an alchemical creation dares to casually critique human intelligence?"

"You'll find out whether I can critique you right now! You're just as annoying as that person next to you!"

Suddenly, Ron's vision blurred as he saw the fish-processing miss appear eerily behind the Madam President, as if teleporting.

Her rows of sharp, inverted triangular teeth gleamed with a metallic luster, and as though locking onto her prey, she lunged forward to bite Olivia's backside.

In the next instant, without Olivia making any discernible move—or rather, too fast for Ron to even catch—

With a loud crash, a huge bump swelled up on the shark girl's head, and her entire body flopped facedown like a dead fish into the deep crater right beside Olivia's feet.

Judging by the shape of the hole, it matched the shark girl's silhouette with absolute precision.

Yet, undeterred by this setback, the fish-processing miss stubbornly opened her sharp-toothed jaws wide and lunged to bite Olivia's toes.

Ron was utterly dumbfounded. Are you here to fight, or are you just trying to take advantage of her?

The high-heeled leather boots stepped backward quietly, heavily trampling the shattered ground.

At that moment, a faint ripple of magic suddenly appeared, and Ron immediately felt the ground beneath his feet turn as soft as if it were about to melt.

The shark girl's beast-like pouncing motion instantly changed; she began thrashing and struggling hand and foot like a beast trapped in a quagmire.

Yet this predicament still failed to make the fish-processing miss completely docile.

Her thick tail lashed back and forth, swimming, swimming, swimming through the mud-like earth.

In a flash, having seemingly accumulated enough momentum, she whipped her tail fiercely and propelled her entire body upward, breaking free from the softening ground that held her captive.

With both hands clawing the air, she lunged straight for the black-haired woman's chest, as though trying to rip something right off.

Where on earth did this pervert come from?

Olivia's mouth twitched, her anger mounting with every passing second.

She had spent half the night staking out the place with her subordinates, supremely confident, only to not even catch a single hair of the witch—a fact that had already dealt a heavy blow to the black-haired woman's pride.

She had initially wondered if she was being played with by the witch once again, but the shark person before her claimed responsibility for the whole thing.

Without a doubt, she had been swindled yet again.

Where was the Madam President supposed to put her face after this?!

Thinking of this, Olivia felt an urge to summon a fireball and scatter the ashes of the fish before her to the winds.

However, considering they were in the royal capital, going all out would likely land her on the front page of the West Ring Daily by tomorrow morning.

Therefore, the black-haired woman managed to restrain the restlessness in her heart, simply raising a hand imbued with wind elemental magic and gently slashing it across the air before her.

The shark girl's arms and legs were abruptly sliced clean off in the middle by a razor-sharp blade of wind.

"Eh?"

She felt no pain at all, only letting out a puzzled sound as if wondering why her arms and legs had suddenly vanished.

Foul, sticky blood spurted out, staining the soles of the high-heeled boots and the churned-up earth.

With a heavy "bang," Olivia delivered a kick that sent the small fry flying dozens of meters away.

Even so, the shark girl still refused to be discouraged.

As blood flowed across her severed wounds, brand-new hands and legs rapidly grew back. She bared her teeth at Olivia, her tail thrashing to send ripples vibrating through the air.

Her body swam through the empty space just like a fish, gliding five or six meters away in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that the situation was turning south, time to make a strategic retreat.

Clearly, the shark girl realized that she was no match for the black-haired woman alone, and given her strength, she couldn't even close the distance.

Sturdy and virtually immortal as her body might be, she could find no way to deal with Olivia.

If she wanted to collect samples from this legendary figure, she would have to think of another way.

Oh no, this wretch is trying to run!

Seeing the shark girl regenerate her lost hands and feet so quickly, Olivia felt a surge of genuine surprise.

Alchemical creations came in different tiers. Initially, she hadn't expected this shark girl's tier to be very high, nor her self-healing capabilities to be so strong; she had thought simply disabling her mobility and dragging her back to the Stardust Society for harsh interrogation was the safer route.

She truly hadn't expected the creature's tail to possess such exceptional escape capabilities.

You offend me and still think you can run away?

As if it were that easy!

The black-haired woman's figure vanished abruptly, reappearing high up in the air. She raised her high-heeled boot and aimed a powerful kick straight at the shark girl's tail.

Meanwhile, Ron, watching the battle unfold from a corner, felt his heart skip a beat. He hurriedly stood up, raised his palm, and released a strange blue light that had been swirling in his hand for a long time.

In a split second, the shark girl felt as though her tail had completely vanished. She turned her head back to look, only to be met with a pale, bare target.

The very next second, a very long heel plummeted from the sky and drove straight into it.

"Aaaaaah!!!!" The shark girl let out the most heart-rending scream of her entire existence.