*Ksrk ksrk*
“There’s a lot here! Let’s take them all, Diva-chan!”
“Right! I’ll keep watch for anyone!”
It has been a week since I joined Diva’s group called Scorpio. We are now working together and have been accustomed to living together in a deserted part of a city in a country somewhere in the West.
It is five in the morning, and we are currently inside a 20-story building where 13 of its upper parts have collapsed to the ground. We are on the third floor, ransacking food inside a large abandoned supermarket. This building used to be such a famous giant mall full of people. Now it’s just a very dirty, dusty, quiet, empty building. This building was hit by a missile caused by the civil war.
I am stacking food into a large plastic bag that I got from the storage of this supermarket earlier. Diva is holding her sniper rifle aimed consistently towards the only entrance to this supermarket in case another survivor came, trying to search for food here.
*KRRRT KRRT*
“Alright, Diva-chan! This is food for a whole week! We’re good for now!!”
I stand up and carry about 16kg of food on my back. I am using Vein Armor to easily carry this much weight, given my small stature and young age. Diva has already lectured me about the basics and types of Faith power. I am now getting used to and familiar with the terms used for Faith power.
“Go walk in the front! I’ll be right behind you!”
“Right!”
I summon my gun and walk slowly towards the entrance while Diva follows me slowly after.
After quietly approaching the entrance, we see no sound or hints of anybody’s presence. We walk out of the supermarket, and the entire building is still empty.
“Phew! Safe again, Diva-chan!”
“Phew! Thank goodness! Let’s go home and store all of this!”
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It is now six in the morning, and we are back in our home base. We live in a bunker that was created after the civil war broke out, though it has been abandoned because most of the bunker was flooded. The bunker has 6 floors underneath the ground.
Diva has fixed the flooding on the first and second floors, all by herself, long before I was even imprisoned, and she has been living here ever since, leaving the rest of the bunker still flooded. The bunker is located near the edge of the city to the west. The door to the bunker was camouflaged by a bunch of wild trees, grass, and flowers that had overgrown across some deserted part of the city.
*CRUNCH CRUNCH*
“MHHH!! This tastes good, Diva-chan!”
“Most of the time, I don’t really care about the taste as long as it’s food and it’s edible, I’ll eat it!!”
“I understand you, but I've been eating horrible food during the time I was in prison, so eating stuff like this felt so luxurious to me!!” said I with a smile.
“I see.”
A few minutes later, we both finished breakfast. We purposefully do not eat a lot to preserve food and only eat enough simply to regain our energy for the day.
“So, what should we do now, Diva-chan? Food is secured for now! Usually, we’re so busy the entire day just looking for food, but look at how much we have now!”
“Hmm, I don’t know actually! I’ve never experienced this ‘free moment’ before, since I was always out there, looking for food until nighttime came. This is new to me, too!”
“Is that so? Hmm, should we go search for anything that might be useful to us?”
“Specifically what??”
“Maybe stuff like electronics? Irons? Tires? Wood? So that we can reinforce our home base? Or something along those lines.”
“Hmm, this bunker is secure enough, and the natural camouflage of the door above the ground was so great, I never had any instance where someone either invaded while I was outside or someone tried to break in while I was inside.”
“Hmm. . . I’m bored now. It feels like my life is so aimless and directionless.”
“. . .yeah, I’ve been feeling like that for a long time.”
“Hey! Let’s go do something that will lead us closer towards our end goal!”
“I know that I told you about my grand scheme with confidence, talking as if I knew exactly what I am doing, but in terms of the details, I’m a bit lost, actually!”
“EEEHHH??? THEN WHY AM I HERE AGAIN THEN?”
“Y-You know what? Let’s sneak inside the other part of the city! Let’s destroy the other half of the city first!!”
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“Specifically, what are we doing over there?”
“Let’s kill the mayor of the town and announce our existence as the Scorpio!!”
“Wow, great idea!!”
*BOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM*
*!!!!*
“W-WHAT??”
“WHAT WAS THAT? AN EXPLOSION?”
We were sitting and talking on the second floor of the bunker. We heard an explosion that shook the bunker quite a bit.
*THUD THUD THUD THUD*
“F-FOOTSTEPS?”
“From the sound of them, there are a lot of people above!!”
“W-WHAT IS GOING ON? WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW?”
I and Diva summon our guns. We head towards the ladder, leading to the first floor, and aim our guns at it.
*SRRRRTTTT*
Someone slides down the ladder and immediately turns around. He was wearing a soldier's outfit, holding a rifle.
“(Who is this guy?)”
*BANG BANG*
We immediately fired our shots and killed him on the spot. We both aimed at his head, and his head exploded.
*SRRRTT*
*BANG*
But then another soldier slid down the ladder, and we immediately killed him before he even turned around.
“(What is happening? From the looks of it, they know exactly that we’re inside this bunker.)”
“BLOW THE LADDER!!”
*!!!*
We heard someone shout from upstairs. We quickly jump away from the ladder.
*BOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM*
And the small hole leading to the ladder was blown away by a rocket launcher. Both of us are unharmed as we have already retreated further away from the ladder. We quickly stand up and ready our guns towards the ladder. There is a giant hole opening, two meters in diameter, near the ladder.
*!*
*THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP*
This time, multiple soldiers jumped down at the same time. Some soldiers on the front immediately crouched when landing, while the others immediately stood up, and they all aimed their guns at us.
“(T-THERE’S SO MANY!!)”
“(WHAT IS THIS? ARE THESE SOLDIERS FROM THE WAR? WHAT ON EARTH ARE THEY DOING HERE?)”
*THUMP*
And then someone else jumps down and stands up at the very back of the line. All the other soldiers in front of him move away and open up a way for him to walk. He walks forward, approaching us.
“Well, well, well! What are the odds that you are here in the closest city to the desert prison?? Thanks for leading us directly into this place!”
“WHAT?”
I was shocked by what this soldier was saying. Diva is also shocked. She is already suspecting that I was a spy to capture her from the very first time we met.
*!*
Diva suddenly aims her gun at me.
“YOU SLICK BASTARD!! YOU TRICKED ME, HUH??”
“WAIT, DIVA-CHAN!! I AM NOT WITH THESE GUYS!! I SWEAR!!”
“LIAR!! THAT STORY ABOUT YOU BEING LOCKED IN THE PRISON IS A LIE THEN?”
“NO, IT’S NOT!!”
I quickly take off my top in front of her.
*!!*
And Diva saw all the bruises on my entire torso from all the beatings that I took. Though it has started healing a little bit, it is not as purple as it was previously.
*BANG*
But then I was shot by one of the soldiers on my side.
*CTANG*
Though, since I have my Vein Armor active, the bullet bounces off my body.
“You really became a Believer, huh, brat? Seems the info was right!”
I quickly put on my top again.
“WHO ARE YOU GUYS? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?”
“I am someone connected to that prison head guard that you beat to death!!”
*!*
The prison head guard died?
. . . .
I smiled and grinned widely.
“That is good news to my ears!! That fucking asshole deserves to die!!”
“Well, enough of that!! I am here to capture you, stupid brat!!”
The soldier in the front looks towards Diva.
“And her, too, I guess! What a surprising bonus!!”
Diva aims her gun back at the soldier in the front.
*BANG*
And she shot him dead in the head.
*THUD*
His body falls motionlessly to the floor of the bunker.
*!!!*
“(OH NO!! SHE KILLED HIM!!)”
“FIREEEEEEE!!!!”
One of the soldiers was enraged and shouted, signalling every soldier to start spraying us with bullets.
*RATATATATATATATATATATATAATATATATTATATATA*
We were both sprayed by thousands of bullets across our entire bodies. Though we have our Vein armor active, all of the bullets ended up bouncing off our skin. Yet all of the soldiers never stop shooting their guns.
*SSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH*
About a minute later, all of the soldiers have exhausted all of their clips. They started panicking and tried to reload their guns as swiftly and quickly as possible.
*BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG*
Both of us knew it was our turn to fight back, and we started shooting the soldiers in the head one by one. There were about 35 soldiers inside the bunker, and we killed 12 of them in 15 seconds. But then most of them have reloaded their guns and shot at us once again.
*RATATATATATATATATATATATATAATATAT*
*CTANG CTANG CTANG CTANG CTANG CTANG CTANG*
The bullets keep bouncing off our skins, but we both feel that our skins have started to sting, and we endure the slight pain.
*BANG BANG BANG BANG*
We keep shooting and killing off the soldiers one by one, and after a few minutes, we’ve finally cleared them all.
*pant pant pant pant*
Both Diva and I are exhausted, not from the fact that we were tired, but from the fact that we killed a lot of people in the span of a few minutes. Diva has killed in the past, but that was two people who tried to kill her in the span of a year. While I have never even killed anyone, aside from that prison head guard, but that was an indirect killing, and this was my first time directly killing people, and, keyword, people.
Our hands are shaking so greatly that we have trouble holding our firearms.
“D-Diva-chan. It’s alright! We did it to survive!”
“O-Of course. . . It’s just. . .”
“Wait, Diva-chan! Let’s get out of here before more of them come down! Who knows how many there are upstairs!”
“R-right.”
We both jumped towards the first floor from the hole opening, and we saw that the door to the bunker was also bombed away, creating a two-meter-diameter hole on the ground. We jumped out to the outside.
*!!!*
And all around us were more soldiers in a larger radius, surrounding us, already aiming their firearms at us.
“I can’t believe it! EVERYONE WHO JUMPED DOWN WAS KILLED BY THESE TWO?”
Someone who clearly looked different from the rest was speaking to us. He seems to be the leader or commander of this operation.
“W-Who are you guys? What is this all about?” asks me.
“Prison escapist! You have humiliated the reputation of our national prison!! You killed our prison head guard, threatened our informant, knocked out our soldiers, and left them in the desert to die, and now you have murdered several soldiers with your own hands!! Did I miss anything?”
“. . .”
He just perfectly described all of my crimes; there is nothing to refute.
“How did you find us? Or rather, me.”
“We planted a nanobot into your food, and it’s been staying inside your body this whole time! We’ve been tracking your whereabouts this whole time. The only reason we came here now instead of a week ago is that we were trying to keep that prison head guard alive!”
“W-WHAT?!”
Diva is looking at me and regrets our meeting a little bit. I have been leading them towards her hideout this whole time. This is my fault.
“I can’t think of a more punishing punishment than selling you to the Underworld!”
*!*
*BAM BAM*
One of the many soldiers walked towards us from behind and hit us on the back of our head, knocking us out cold.
“Tie them up properly so they don’t escape! Go down there and retrieve the body of our fallen comrades! We’ll bury their body officially later! FOLKS!! MOVE OUT!!” commands the commander.
“SIR, YES SIR!!” responds every soldier in the area.
