*BWOOOSSHH*
*DAHK*
*THUD*
“AAAKKKHHH!!!”
Diva was launched all the way towards the other side of the spacious hallway. Her back hits the wall, and she falls to the floor. She immediately holds her tummy with her hands.
“UPPHHH!!! HOEEEKK!!!”
She also regurgitates as a result. She looks at her own stomach while lying on the floor and sees that the bodysuit on her tummy was burned a little bit.
“(Insane physical strength and burning her opponents at the same time? This goes beyond what her brother is capable of in comparison! Thankfully, these bodysuits plus our Vein Armor can withstand her hit!)”
“DIVA-CHAN!!”
The three of them scream in panic for their friend.
“NEXT!!”
Fray is now already in front of Robert with her right fist clenched really hard, and it’s glowing brightly in orange.
“HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
*BAAAMMM*
“UUURRRGGHH!!”
Robert quickly blocks her punch with his UZIs.
*BWOOOSSHHH*
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKHHH!!!”
And he was sent flying 20 meters behind on impact.
*THUD THUD*
He falls to the floor and bounces twice before his body stops with his back facing the ceiling above. He also drops his two UZIs away from his hold.
“HRAAAAAAHHHHH!!!”
Raiya approaches her from behind, swinging her right gauntlet towards the back of her head. But Fray turns around very quickly. Her speed was far above Raiya’s.
*BAAAAAAMMMM*
“AARRRGGHH!!!”
She immediately does a roundhouse kick towards Raiya’s head as she turns around. Raiya blocks the kick instinctively with her left gauntlet, but she is sent flying away 20 meters to her right.
*DAHK*
“OHORRRGHH!!”
*THUD*
Her back hits the wall, and she falls to the floor.
“NEXT!!”
Fray suddenly moves behind Martina.
“TCH!”
Martina turns around to swing her right black disk towards her neck.
*WUSSSHHH*
But Fray swiftly ducks down, dodging her black disk completely, and she clenches her right fist once again.
*BAAAAMMM*
“OHHHOOORRRGGHHH!!!”
She swings an uppercut right to Martina’s stomach, and it sends her flying towards the high ceiling above.
*DAHK*
Her back hits the ceiling, and she falls freely to the floor.
*THUMP*
“UURRGGHH!!!”
She groans in pain as her back hits the floor really hard, though her wounds are not severe thanks to the bodysuit and her Vein armor.
“Heeeeee?! None of you exploded like I wanted you all to! I guess your Vein armor tanked most of the damage and impact, huh? Armament types are so annoying to deal with!” says Fray.
*BANG BANG BANG*
*!!*
Diva shoots Fray three times from her position, enduring the pain to get into a proper position to snipe.
*DSSH DSSH DSSH*
Fray moves her right hand and catches all three of her sniper bullets and crushes them with her grip.
“Drop it! Your bullets are useless!!” said Fray to Diva.
*RATATATATATATATATATATA*
*CTANG CTANG CTANG CTANG CTANG*
Robert shoots her with his UZIs from behind, but the bullets are simply deflected when they come into contact with her skin. She turns her head towards Robert.
“Didn’t you hear what I said about bullets being useless? I thought you were a smart fella, seeing you wearing glasses!”
“. . .”
Robert stops shooting his UZIs, and smoke is coming out of the muzzles.
“Alright! What kinda idiot stereotypes people as being smart just because of their glasses? While you are correct that I am smart, I wasn’t exactly trying to do something pointless!” said Robert with a smirk.
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*?*
Fray is confused by Robert’s reply.
*BWOOOOOOOOOONNNGGGG*
*BWWWUUUUUNNNNGGG*
But then two heat beams and two black disks are coming towards her from behind.
*Sigh*
Fray nonchalantly turns around and swings her right hand towards the incoming four projectiles.
*DAHK DAHK DAHK DAHK*
She easily deflects all of them without making any facial expression. This is partly because she looks at the condition of her brother’s corpse.
“. . .”
*!*
“(She’s dozing off! CHANCE!!)”
*BWOOOOSSHHH*
Suddenly, Raven and I also entered the room through the broken window in this hallway. Raven swings his two giant axes at her neck while I warp above her head and point my gun towards her forehead.
“HRAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!”
*BANG*
Raven’s two giant axes were only 2cm away from decapitating her, and my bullet was only 1cm away from piercing her brain, killing her instantly.
*GRAB GRAB*
*CTANG*
But all of a sudden, she catches both of Raven’s giant axes right at their sharp part of the blades with her two bare hands, glowing in orange even brighter than previously. At the same time, my bullet was simply bounced off her forehead.
*!!*
She pulls Raven’s giant axes easily away from his hold, even though Raven is holding his axes very firmly and strongly.
*BAAAAAAMMMM*
“OHHHOOORRGGHHH!!!”
*BWOOOOOOSSHH*
And she kicks Raven right at his belly, sending him flying away, 20 meters behind.
*THUD*
I landed in front of her at the same time. And she immediately turns towards me and swings a roundhouse kick with her left leg at my head.
*WUUUUSSSHHH*
*BANG*
*!*
She misses her kick as I warp away behind and above her. I summon my survival knife in my free hand.
*CTANG*
I stabbed the back of her neck with it, but it bounced off her skin.
“(WHAT THE--!! HER SKIN IS SO TOUGH!! HOW ARE WE GOING TO KILL HER AT THIS RATE?!)”
Fray jumps a bit into the air, spins her body horizontally, and swings a kick towards my head.
*DAHK*
“UUURGGHH!!!”
I block her kick with my left hand.
“(Her kick is heavy and hurts a lot!!)”
*BWOOOOOSSHHHH*
She sent me flying away towards the wall in this grandiose hallway.
*GRABS*
*DAHK*
“AAKKHH!!!”
But Diva catches me in mid air and we both land on the wall, with her back hitting against it, softening the blow and pain that I would’ve suffered otherwise.
*THUD THUD*
And then we slowly fall to the floor as Diva is still holding me.
“D-DIVA-CHAN!! You shouldn’t have done that!! I could’ve easily warp away at the very last second!”
“I knew! I just couldn’t stay still if I saw you get hurt!”
“. . .”
Her words make me feel guilty since I was staying put and hiding my presence from Fray back when Diva was hit by her.
“Thank you!”
“It’s nothing!”
*Step step step*
“EISSEN-SAMA!! LET’S COORDINATE OUR ATTACKS AND KILL HER WITH EVERYTHING WE’VE GOT!!”
Robert was running towards Fray as he also shouted out his request.
“UNDERSTOOD!! EVERYONE!! FOLLOW ROBERT’S ADVICE!!”
“ROGER!!”
Everybody else was already running towards Fray as well at the same time. Diva and I stand up. I also run towards Fray while Diva stays behind to snipe her from afar. Fray opens her palm, and it catches fire.
*FWOOOMM*
*BWOOSSHHHH*
*!!!*
But then she immediately approached me as I was running to her. She was already swinging her burning palm at my face.
*FWOOOOMMM*
I lean my head backwards to the point of doing a backflip, accidentally, dodging her burning palm.
*BANG*
I shot my gun at her chin from below when I leaned back, but it bounced off her chin. She went past me, and I landed safely on the floor.
*BWOOOOOOONNGGG*
Raiya propels herself forward and reaches Fray quickly. She swings her right fist down at her head. Fray turns around and immediately jumps into the air and does another roundhouse kick.
*DAHK*
“URGGH!”
She kicks Raiya’s gauntlet to the left, and she does another roundhouse kick with her other leg.
*WUUUSSHHH*
But Raiya propels herself away from her, dodging her kick entirely.
*THUD*
*BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM*
When she landed, four grenades that were placed on the floor exploded directly at her feet. Those were my grenades that I tossed when she jumped to face Raiya. She was covered in smoke after the explosion, and after the smoke cleared, she was on her knees, with her arms crossed in front of her face to block the damage of the explosion.
*!!!*
Her hands were hurt by the grenades, despite nothing we threw at her harming her this whole time.”
“. . .”
I whisper something to everyone very quietly without letting Fray hear about it. Then everyone smiles.
*BWUUNNGG*
Martina immediately throws her black disk really fast towards her.
*RATATTATATATTATATA*
*WUUUUSSHHHH*
*BWOOOOONNNGGGG*
*BANG BANG BANG*
Robert fires his UZIs, Raven throws his two giant axes, Raiya shoots her heat beams, Diva shoots her sniper, and I throw my grenades. All of us shoot and throw our attacks towards Martina’s black disk.
*WUUUUUUNNNGGGG*
All of our attacks were pulled and revolved around her black disk, and our attacks are merging. My grenades explode, and they merge with Robert’s UZI bullets that have caught fire due to friction against the air, Raiya’s heat beams, and Diva’s energy bullet.
*FWOOOOMMMMM*
Fire blades spinning at 200km/h were formed, and their temperature reached 2400 degrees Celsius; they engulfed Raven’s giant axes entirely.
*FWOOOOMMMM*
The black disk with two burning giant axes is approaching Fray at high speed, but she is ready to dodge out of the way.
*BANG*
But I immediately warp behind her, and I immediately sweep her legs really hard.
*DAHK*
She stumbled into the air and is now positioned horizontally as our combined attack is 30cm away from her.
Seeing her predicament, she realizes that this is the end of her life. Her Faith power may be strong, but whatever is approaching her has way more firepower to pierce through her Faith power’s strength.
The moment we all saw that my grenades harmed her, even if it was just slightly, we understood that there is a limit to how much damage her body could withstand; that’s why we came up with this combined attack.
“Nii-san. . . I’m sorry that I couldn’t avenge you. . . Please forgive me. . . I don’t wanna die, Nii-san. . . I should’ve stayed with you. . . from the start. . . You died because of me. . . I’m sorry, Nii-san. . .”
*!!!*
*ZRAASSSHHH*
*BANG*
Fray was cut in two as our attack completely went through her body without any resistance. The cut was perfectly in the center of the belly, detaching her upper half and lower half, and her cut corpse fell to the floor, spilling a lot of blood immediately. Our combined attack goes out of the window and flies high into the sky. Martina controls her black disk and unsummons it, causing our combined attack to destabilize and go awry.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM*
And it explodes into a giant burst of hot flames, 200m in diameter, high above the sky.
“YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!!” says Raiya.
“WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” says Raven.
“IT WOOOOORRRKKKSSSS!!!” says Robert.
“AS EXPECTED OF EISSEN-SAMAAAAAAAA!!” says Martina.
“Phew! We did it!” says Diva.
Everyone is cheering at the success of our attack. We finally took down this strong Believer, who didn’t seem to take any damage from any of our attacks. I warped away right as the attack cut through her, avoiding it entirely, saving myself. However, I heard what her last words were.
“. . .”
I stood up with a confused expression, but no one saw it as I was away from everyone.
I thought people who live in the Underworld mean that they no longer have any regrets in their lives. They decided for themselves that they wanna live this way after all, putting their lives on the line every single day, prepared to die at any moment.
Yet what I just heard from that girl was regret. She said she didn’t wanna die. That makes no sense to me. How can someone who takes other people’s lives without a care in the world say something like that? I am not trying to take a moral high ground here; it just baffles me because, as a murderer myself, I wouldn’t be saying stuff like that. Ever!
This is my life. I was born into this shitty world. All I know about this world is that if I don’t have the courage to kill someone else, my own life would be at the expense of my cowardice. This world isn’t so tame that one could live an ideal life like that. We have to be realistic. If we show compassion towards people who want to take our lives, we would be the ones at a disadvantage; we would be the ones losing our lives.
I have no regret!
I can say that with confidence.
. . . . . . .
Or can I?
I don’t know what’s happening to me, but lately, doing these missions, these activities that were supposed to bring me joy, along with everybody at my side, doesn’t make me happy anymore. I still smile and am cheerful around everyone, but deep down, I feel like there is something wrong with me.
What is going on with me?
I don’t understand. . .
