Clang!

The crisp sound of metal colliding rang out in the living room.

Luke slowly drew back his blade. “Then you have to be faster.”

Pa!

A silver-gray tip fell to the ground. Riot, who had already possessed Ryoko Tamiya’s body, screamed in pain, but didn’t give up as its tentacles swung out.

At the same time, the silver-gray tip turned into a silver-gray liquid which returned to its feet and body.

Clang! Clang!

There were two more crisp sounds.

“Ahhh~~”

There was another scream.

The sharp tentacles were directly cut off.

After being injured again, Riot didn’t immediately attack.

It already understood that this enemy couldn’t be killed with a surprise attack.

Luke raised the katana in his hand and examined it with both satisfaction and regret.

He was satisfied because this special metal katana was indeed powerful.

Its sharpness was just an additional stat. The truly awesome thing about it was that it was durable and practically indestructible.

Luke, who was a master at using cold weapons, had immense strength, and this blade could pose a fatal threat to many impervious enemies.

What made his heart ache was that when Luke encountered that mega octopus last time, it actually escaped with the other katana.

A certain person had only been able to play with two blades for less than two days.

“Who are you?” Riot finally asked.

Its voice was low and hoarse, like that of a beast, and was very distinctive.

Luke unhurriedly drew the katana back. He bowed slightly and said, “Only when you can receive my attack will you have the right to ask for my name.”

Before Riot could react, Luke suddenly appeared in front of it.

He now had plenty of room to exert force with the katana. Instantly, there were two intersecting streaks of silver light.

Before Riot could react, it felt a chill in its arms, which was followed by excruciating pain.

It wasn’t afraid of physical attacks, but they still hurt. Riot couldn’t help but take a few steps back, and the tentacle on its head which had just recovered stabbed at Luke.

Luke was even faster. Brushing past the tentacle, he turned around and slashed at Riot’s legs before kicking it in the butt.

Riot’s torso smashed through the wall and flew out of the room.

Luke stood up and put the katana away. He tilted his head and looked at the arms and legs on the ground. “Aren’t you going to enter the complete symbiotic form? It seems I didn’t go hard enough on you.”

The arms and legs quickly turned into a silver-gray liquid and slipped out to track the owner of the house.

Luke followed them out through the hole and saw Riot getting back to its feet after smashing into the wall opposite, its limbs all regenerated.

Of course, it had heard what Luke said. The problem was that Luke was too fast, and Riot had been cut down twice before it could use its full strength.

At that moment, at the enemy’s reminder, it finally roared, and a layer of silver-gray liquid quickly covered its body.

This time, Luke finally followed the glorious Japanese tradition of not suddenly intervening to stop the other party’s ‘transformation.’

If that happened in a cartoon, the audience would send the cartoonist razor blades.

Luke wasn’t in a hurry to take action; he wanted to see what marvelous form this Riot, the dog head’s ‘countryman,’ had.

In terms of looks, the dog head was still the best.

It didn’t have a mouth, so it naturally didn’t have fangs, and hence looked cute.

Agony’s blue skin coupled with Haley’s looks was passable, but its fangs were too sharp.

Venom was a tar monster. Not only was it ugly, it didn’t have any hair.

The dog head didn’t have any hair either.

On the other hand, Agony had long, thick hair.

That made Luke wonder if the dog head and Venom were long lost brothers.

It wasn’t until he saw Riot’s head now in the complete symbiotic state that he was basically sure of one thing — the symbiotes generally truly didn’t have any hair.

Riot’s appearance lowered the bar for symbiote looks once more.

Not only was this guy bald, its entire body was bumpy all over and not smooth at all.

If that silver-gray skin was black like Venom, it would look even more like a toad.

However, the toad in front of Luke was clearly smart and not to be trifled with. Many key parts of its body had spikes that ranged from a few centimeters to a dozen centimeters in length. It looked fierce.

So, this was actually… a poisonous toad? This was a disservice to its host, Ryoko Tamiya.

The high school teacher’s looks and temperament could pique the interest of some nerds who liked the mature type.

A lot of ridiculous thoughts flashed through Luke’s mind in less than two seconds.

His brain was just that fast after his Mental Strength exceeded 40.

On the other side, Riot swelled up again, not just physically, but also in terms of its senses.

After it stood up, it roared and shot a dozen or so spikes at Luke.

Luke, on the other hand, was a little disappointed. Shouldn’t the boss do something big after a roar like that? This little trick was boring!

He was too lazy to move. He simply turned slightly, and four or five spikes flew past his chest without making contact at all.

The moment the spikes shot out, three tentacles attacked from above and both sides.

Luke frowned. “That’s all you can do? Then you’re going to die here today.”

As soon as he said that, the katana on his shoulder exploded with a dazzling silver light that enveloped the three tentacles.

The three tentacles suddenly stopped and shattered into pieces.

Riot threw out more spikes as it started to retreat.

This time, Luke didn’t even bother to dodge. He simply flicked his left hand.

With a clatter, he flicked away four or five darts.

A dozen tentacles suddenly shot out of Riot’s body. Their tips were no longer like the edges of a sharp knife, but the simplest of cones, which stabbed at Luke from all directions.

The katana danced around Luke to block the tentacles.

At that moment, a tentacle that had just been cut off slithered back toward Riot’s body.

Luke suddenly sped up and appeared in front of Riot, pressing a palm to its chest.

A very scant amount of Elementary Annihilation spread out to cover the front of Riot’s upper torso.

Riot instantly sensed the destructive energy and screamed in fear as it directly pulled away from Tamiya’s back.

The Annihilation energy seized the opportunity to wrap around Tamiya and prevent Riot from returning to her body.

If Luke had known that Riot would be here tonight, he wouldn’t have given it a chance to combine with Ryoko Tamiya. After all, she was a very important ‘tool.’

He was even more reluctant to kill Riot.

Of the five symbiotes that came to Earth, three could be considered to have been ‘recruited’ by Luke. Only Riot and the missing Shriek could potentially be used for research. It would be a shame to kill them right away.