Chapter 1263: Are You Even Human?!
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The Psychic Titan Xenoid had betrayed Emilia's trust, just as she had originally expected him to do. Although he had given her some hope after actually freeing the pilots, the pilots found themselves chased by his tentacles and trapped within a cube made of psychic energy around them, a pseudo domain of sorts.
"Heh… Hahaha… HAHAHAHAHA!"
And as if things couldn't get any worse, while laughing maliciously, gigantic tentacles wrapped around the dragon mech, dragging it away from Emilia.
"Did you think it would end so easily?! STUPID IDIOT! HUMANS EMOTIONS… THEY'RE SO EASILY EXPLOITABLE! GYAHAHAHAHA!"
"But you promised- UNGH?!
TRUUUM!
Emilia was quickly grasped within a hand created out of psychic energy, slowly moving towards the Psychic Titan Xenoid's jaws. She was shocked she felt so powerless before this immense invisible power. There was nothing she could do.
"Promises? That is merely a tool to let your guard down, foolish humans. Inferior in every sense… only your machines help you survive. But without it, what are you but a sack of meat, blood, and bones? A small little snack, if anything!"
"No…! Stop…! Please stop! NOOOO!"
Emilia screamed as she was pulled towards the gigantic jaws, her eyes widening in horror as the massive fangs were about to completely triturate her!
Trusting on a Xenoid was her worst mistake, a mistake she would regret until the afterlife.
"Uuuaagh!"
"You should have never trusted a Xenoid, foolish human… We are, indeed, enemies that cannot get along~"
CRUUUNCH!
The Psychic Titan Xenoid smiled, its massive jaws feeling something crunchy and salty entering, its massive fangs tearing it open, slowly shredding it to pieces, and swallowing it.
"Hah, that was too easy, these humans, I should tell papa about- UNGH?!"
CRASH!
Suddenly, the Xenoid vomited blood, as he saw his gigantic jaws bleeding. The fangs he had used to devour Emilia were shattered actually, and the pain was just coming to him due to his body being so large.
"W-What…?! Eh?!"
"Yeah, you're right."
And a voice echoed below him, as something tore through his flesh and stepped out of his entire body, a voice echoing inside his mind.
"I never trusted you to begin with."
The Xenoid gasped in disbelief, his countless eyes spiraling in agony and horror as they saw the little human stepping out of its body.
It was impossible! Without her spacesuit, humans would die instantly, they were tiny, powerless beings with no power of their own!
And yet…
"Y-YOU…?! Y-YOU…! YOU'RE NOT A HUMAN!"
Although Emilia retained her overall human-like appearance, her entire body was covered with mechanical draconic scales. Her hands and feet had draconic claws made of metal, her hair had become silver and long, resembling metallic strands.
"T-THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!"
Her eyes had become almost digital-like, glowing with silver and blue light. She had a pair of huge, mechanical wings releasing golden light, and even her face had become metallic, covered by these scales.
"NO…! WAS I DECEIVED TO BELIEVE YOU WERE A HUMAN?! ME?!"
Above all, her incredibly long, metallic tail moved around, its tip was that of a long blade, which was dripping with Xenoid blood, just like the rest of her body was covered by it.
"Nah, I'm still a human, believe me!"
"J-JUST DIE! DIEEEEE!"
The Psychic Titan Xenoid lost its composure instantly, as he attacked Emilia with its massive tentacles and shockwaves of psychic energy!
TRUUM! TRUUM! TRUUM!
Emilia's body was still small, quickly being pushed several meters away from her massive foe, however, her mechanical scales wrapped around her even tighter than before, glowing with silver light.
"I have indeed completely transformed! To think a human can live in the vacuum of space with this ability!" Emilia thought, looking at her own body. "The moment I activated the ability, I had technically merged with the machine, when I separated, as I thought and as I talked with Bestellen, I was able to take parts of his own body and create this armor that… quite literally merged with my flesh."
Emilia wasn't just piloting a robot anymore, she was by herself as well, as a human, battling a monster… It felt as if she was in ancient times, confronting a beast that her ancestors must have hunted eons ago.
It was just the beast and her own body…!
"Even if you got some fancy armor… DO YOU TRULY BELIEVE YOU CAN GO AGAINST ME?!"
Emilia charged her arms and legs with electromagnetic energies and silver flames, as she clashed against the Xenoid's massive tentacles, punching them one after another, shockwaves were released with each impact.
BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!
RUMBLE!
"NNGGH?!"
The Xenoid screamed in pain as he noticed his tentacles gaining massive wounds across their fleshy muscles, torn apart pieces floated everywhere, as Emilia had singlehandedly stopped a titan!
She felt Bestellen's powers coursing through her, strengthening her physical prowess to its limits, end beyond.
"Truth be told; I never imagined this plan would work this well!" laughed Bestellen. "You cannot possibly be a match against him, but you're buying me enough time!"
Crack, crack…!
Emilia noticed cracks in her fists and legs, as she smiled.
"Yeah, I know, so hurry the hell up, Bestellen!"
"YEAH, I'M GOING!"
Bestellen's voice reverberated through the psychic field, as the Psychic Titan Xenoid screamed, noticing the machine dragon escaping his grasp by slicing and tearing apart his tentacles!
CRAAASH!
"UUAAAGH! HE'S RUNNING AWAY?! YOUR ROBOT CAN MOVE ON ITS OWN?!"
"It can do more than that!"
Emilia gathered the accumulated particles in her hands, releasing a powerful explosion at once, blowing a hole through the Xenoid's body.
"{Silver Nova Explosion}!"
BOOOMMM!!!
"AARRGH!"
As the Xenoid agonizingly screamed, he glared at Emilia once more, noticing she was flying towards his brains, the hole left on his body was barely enough to make him grow slightly weaker though.
"She's definitely not as strong as when she fought me with the big machine!" He thought. "She's trying to buy time?!"
His tentacle chased after her, but he quickly noticed that the dragon machine had disappeared.
"WAIT! WHERE DID HE- HUH?!"
The Xenoid screamed, realizing the dragon had already rescued all four of the hostage pilots.
"Where are you looking at, fucker?!"
And right after that, Emilia's fist punched through his brains, blowing a huge chunk out of them!
CRAAASH!
"GRAAEEGH?!"
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