Chapter 38: Strange Encounter
Blaze cricked his neck and tutted with a wince. "Oh, oh, my old bones haven't had to do this in quite some time. Surely, you'd give an old man a chance to stretch his bones first, eh boy?"
Suddenly, his exaggerated demeanor gave way to one of cruelty as he gave Kaizer a playful look of morbid amusement.
"Just joking."
Blaze stretched out two fingers and lifted them upwards, which caused the air around Kaizer to suddenly combust, coating his entire body in flame from head to toe. The entire area of 5 meters around him became a burning hot fire zone that had no kindling and needed no such thing anyway.
Blaze shook his head. "I still didn't get to ask how he approached Francis in such a manner. Oh well, I will take him back and see if that wretched softie can piece him together."
"Oi, you fellows, get up!" Blaze kicked at the still-floored bodyguards who he thought were incapacitated, but his pupils rapidly constricted when he noticed that they were still conscious but completely unable to move, looks of horror the only thing coating their features.
Suddenly, a figure charged out of the fire zone he made, revealing itself to be Kaizer, who was largely unharmed by the attack, though tiny plumes of smoke wafted from his attire. If Blaze looked harder, he would notice that there was a thin membrane covering Kaizer's form that shimmered faintly.
Psychic barrier!
Kaizer accelerated faster than a normal human and appeared before Blaze in a mere second, throwing out a power-packed punch that caused the friction against the air with its movement. Blaze felt that if he got hit by this punch—even if he were a tanky fellow—he would likely lose a body part at the least.