Chapter 229: Chapter 216: Fairy Tale Nineteen

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The thing was entirely made of some metal-like material, you could barely consider it to be a piece of clothing, but its "front" was all hollowed out, there was a shoulder strap on each side, and at the waist, there was a wide, thick iron hoop, connected to both by a metal mesh, with a Metal Spine embedded in the middle... This design made the gadget look something like a "hunchback corrector."

The fat man lifted this strange gadget and looked eagerly at the other four people in his team.

"Is there no other way?" he murmured, and of course, from his almost resigned tone, you could tell that he already knew the answer.

As expected, the rest of them looked back at him with a "you know what I mean" look.

"Alright, alright~" the fat man mumbled to himself, with the look of a child going to the dentist's office. Then, he began to strip off his armored clothing.

The instant he took off his clothes, the fat man's flesh "plopped" out, making him appear even bigger than before...