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"Huh? But I don't even control the Worm, they're just helpful guys I know" said Shen, confused.

"He'd twist Yan's arm after replacing you" I pointed out. "Maybe literally. Anyway the point I'm trying to make is unless your Principles include precognition, I think we would've noticed Death Dealers tracking us to this random arena I picked for no reason. That is assuming Luohan would break his consistent pattern of not using any of his multinational corporation's resources for dealing you, despite otherwise being ambitious and conniving"

"Damn, you're right. Well you're rumbled Luohan, I'm not falling for such petty tricks" said Shen confidently.

Luohan mentally recalculated. "Hey Shen, there's a butterfly behind your head!" he blurted out.

"Huh, but there's no-" began Shen, turning around as Luohan lunged at him, knife in hand, gleefully anticipating an arterial spray straight out of Sweeney Todd's wet dreams-only to get comically bitchslapped across the hard ground. Luohan got hit itself, the knife went flying away like it was abandoning him to save it's life.

"Didn't hurt" he announced. "Now that I've mastered Hua Jin, developed by the 50th Shen Wulong-"

"Shaori. That's. That's shaori" I pointed out. "That's straight up shaori, the ancient chinese technique of getting so loose and jiggy with it that you just don't get hurt by kinetic impacts"

"Oh yeah, it is!" said Shen brightly. "It's just like that one guy, Kaku, I used to know back in the day was practicing after I completely embarrassed his bodybuilding journey. Still feel kinda bad about that. I wonder what happened to him-"

With the unspoken instincts of pack hunters surrounding an auroughs, Luohan and Tiger Niko started to surround Shen. Without even breaking stride, Shen proceeded to beat the living shit out of Luohan in such a comically onesided way that it was like watching Spike pulverise Tom into a living cat-shaped accordion.

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