Chapter 115 – Part 2 Prologue – A New Stage
From grim-looking thugs with colorful tattoos on their faces or exposed shoulders, to fighters with prosthetic metal arms, addicts whose eyes are loosed by dangerous drugs, and those whose body parts have been bizarrely mutated, they have been completely different from humans from the start. A gloomy underground city where even distant figures and unpleasantly human masquerades roam the streets unconcernedly. One day, a man who did not fit in with the atmosphere of the city stepped into this polluted place, which took shape as a city from a heap of discarded garbage in the most brilliant and developed city.
“Is this really the right place?”
In this city, where bad things with at least one defect, whether physically or personally, gather, the appearance of a blonde man who looks so ordinary and fine was enough to attract the attention of the people around him. And the blond man was unknowingly shrunken by all kinds of stares pouring down on him, the greed, vigilance, and hostility contained in them. Feeling that the whole city didn’t seem to welcome him, the man made up his mind to quickly achieve his goal and get out of here.
The blond man took a map out of his pocket and started to navigate the unfamiliar city streets. A stranger with a strange face in clean and tidy clothes, which is hard to see in a dirty underground city, stood out very much among the people of the underground city, and soon, dirty and ugly greed for strangers attracted attention. In this lawless city, where even if someone is suddenly struck by a knife while walking on the street, rather than helping the stabbed person, it is common practice to carry the person’s luggage and run away.
Soon, a group of robbers with daggers hidden in their bosoms began to pursue the stranger, making their way through the crowd. Whether the stranger knew it or not, he gradually headed toward a dark, quiet alley where robbers could do their work. And the moment the stranger passed the road leading to the dead end, the robbers who had been chasing him, muffled footsteps, thought that now was the right time and grinned. I still don’t know what kind of stranger this stranger is, but it’s harder to find something of little value among the things they have.
“Hey bro. Are you new to this city? Maybe we can help you, huh?”
Five of the seven thieves filled the narrow alleys and approached the stranger, while the other two looked out to see if others might interfere on the way. However, the side watching the watch had less risk than the side taking money and valuables directly, and the income falling into their pockets was less, so the remaining two robbers were dissatisfied with that fact and were grumbling, blocking the access of other gangs.
“Ugh, this, this bastard! What kind of power…!”
“Quaaaaagh!”
Until the screams of the same gang, not the corrupt strangers, leaked out from the inner alley.
“Damn it, what is it?”
“Could it be a trap?”
The two robbers who were on the lookout belatedly packed their weapons and entered the alley to support their comrades, but it was already too late. Their gang was all rolling on the floor, moaning, with a broken arm or leg, and the gorgeous blond stranger was nowhere to be seen.
“What, what? Where the hell did you go…”
The robber tilted his head and turned his gaze back to the other colleague, witnessing the stranger in question slashing his remaining companion through the back of the head. With a clean, no-nonsense technique, his dagger-wielding comrade collapsed to the floor without even uttering a scream.
“This, this bastard…!”
Oh, this is no match The robber, who vaguely realized this fact, made a threatening gesture as if he were going to do something, and made an angle to run away from this spot. I grabbed my collar.
“Ouch…!”
“I’m not the type to enjoy violence, but I don’t hesitate when I need it. That’s what I learned. I just got lost and it worked.”
She asked the man, pulling out her map that she had been looking at just a moment ago, and thrusting it right in front of the thief’s throat.
“Do you know where this is? Or have you even seen the person in this picture attached to the map?”
“That picture… Are you the guy from above, aiming for ‘Teacher’?!”
She asked without expecting much from the man, but surprisingly, the robber seemed to know the information he wanted to know. But her man, at the same time, was suspicious of the words her man uttered.
“Above? ‘Teacher’? Let me elaborate.”
“Don’t pretend! Holy shit, if I’d known you were the guy who was aiming for ‘Teacher’ from the beginning…”
“Look, there seems to be a misunderstanding. I don’t know where the ‘upper’ you are talking about is, but at least it’s not where I was. And… I didn’t even know you called this guy ‘Teacher’. . You need to explain in detail…”
That was the moment. At the frightening murder that suddenly came over her, the blond man hurriedly let go of the man he was holding on to and threw her body to the side of her. At the same time, something invisible collided with the floor the man was standing on, and cracks and cracks spread like cobwebs across the solid bricks. But her man’s eyes could not yet see what had broken the floor and who had made the attack.
“What is this…”
“Stupid guy…!”
The robber, who had been let go by her man, sneered at him as she coughed.
“Do you think there are one or two sent from ‘upper’ to target ‘teacher’ like you? Ever since the ‘Hound’ troops cleared the basement, we have prepared for you guys too!”
“So, I have nothing to do with ‘up there’ at all! A misunderstanding!”
“It’s noisy! Even those who made excuses like that, after all, when I checked their personal information, they all belonged to the ‘Hound’! Kill the hound, ‘Specter’!!”
‘Spectre’. Perhaps that is the identity of the being who attacked him. Having concluded that, the blonde-haired stranger prepared a defensive posture to prepare for the next attack. At that moment, the man stretched out his arm in that direction at the sound of the strange wind blowing from his left side, and a golden shield appeared on the man’s left arm.
Aaaaa…
“Keugh…?!”
However, something invisible passed through the man’s open shield and through the man’s body. Goosebumps ran through his body at the terrifying sensation for a moment, and the man hurriedly turned her body and held out her shield at the ghastly murderous intent flying from behind, and a transparent impact struck her shield. And when something invisible collided with the shield, the moment or the attacker’s appearance was revealed in an instant. A metal prosthetic arm made of rusted metal caught a glimpse, but then it faded again into the darkness and disappeared.
“Damn it…”
Although the opponent is invisible at all, it is still worth a try if it is one person. The moment I thought so, the distinctive and disparate wind noises made when invisible beings moved suddenly multiplied. Well that’s right, things can’t be that easy. Didn’t that man always say, ‘Originally, life doesn’t go the way you think, so wouldn’t life be more fun?’ I didn’t agree at all where the hell was fun.
“Hey, invisible assailants. I think there’s a misunderstanding, but I have nothing to do with what you think of as ‘up there’ and ‘hound’ and all. It’s just that the man in this picture, you ‘ The person you call ‘Sir’ has personal business.”
“—-Shhh. If you really want to prove your innocence, drop your arms and surrender immediately.”
At the sound of an invisible voice coming through the gas mask that made it difficult to identify the opponent, the blond man removed the golden shield from his left arm, took out a dagger with ornate decorations from his bosom, and dropped it to the floor. And as a sign of surrender, he raised his arms above his head.
Before long, an invisible hand retrieved the dagger he had dropped, and another invisible weapon wielded it against the man’s back.
“—Shhhhh. Captain, how do we deal with it?”
“—Shhh. For now, report directly to ‘sensei’.”
In the middle of the invisible people talking, the stranger lamented how things had gotten so twisted. All I had to do was meet him and take care of one personal matter, but I never thought it would turn out like this from the start.
“—Shhh. Yes, sir. It’s the ‘Specter’ index finger. The stranger you just captured asked you to visit him for personal business. Yes, yes. Looks blonde and is estimated to be in his 20s… Yes “Yes, yes. I understand.”
The one who seemed to be reporting to the ‘teacher’ in question, who was presumed to be the leader of the group called ‘Specter’, asked the blond stranger after a while.
“Stranger, what is your name?”
“…If you say ‘Luke’, you probably know who it is.”
“Yes, I understand. Yes, sir. I call myself ‘Luke’… Yes? …Yes? Ah, yes. That, I understand.”
And Luke, for some reason, felt as if the leader of the Specter, whose face could not be seen, was looking at him with a puzzled expression.
“Uh … ” Teacher ‘says … Well,’ I just kill him and kill it ‘…”
“…”
“Unless you’re a normal person, the teacher doesn’t say anything harsh, let alone swear. To think that a teacher like that would be so furious… Did you say Luke? What are you doing?”
Clap, Clap, Clap. Luke thought, biting his lips at the heavy, menacing sound of metal coming from all sides at the same time.
Saying this is ruined
