Chapter 29
"Captain Yabai, Monster No. 3... said it has news for you alone. It's about a humanoid monster!"
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Lying on Sengoku Sakuya's back, Kurozuka Kirishi, who was being quickly taken away from the battlefield, accidentally heard the anxious reports of the team members who passed by.
The rest of the words drifted in intermittently: "...What should I do? Captain Yabai has something and will be late, estimated to be at least 15 minutes..."
15 minutes?
This number was like an icicle, instantly piercing through Kurozuka Kirishi's consciousness, which was clouded by pain.
What does 15 minutes mean? Vice Captain Hoshina... He is not good at fighting large monsters. If he gets into a tough fight, his energy and physical strength will be quickly depleted, and he will be injured, or even... die.
This possibility suddenly gripped her heart like an icy hand, bringing a panic that almost suffocated her.
"Put me down!" She struggled violently.
"Kurozuka?! What are you doing? Your injury!" Sengoku Sakuya felt the movement on his back and hurriedly tried to steady her.
But Kurozuka Kirishi burst out with strength from nowhere, ignoring the tearing pain in her abdomen that was aggravated by the violent movement and almost made her faint again.
He fell off Sengoku Sakuya's back and landed heavily on the gravel ground.
She suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood, but her eyes were extremely clear and resolute, staring intently at the center of the smoke-filled battlefield in the distance.
Energy... She needs energy to repair herself and then go back immediately.
It doesn't matter if her identity is exposed, as long as she can ensure his safety, she can do anything.
Kurozuka Kirishi frantically mobilized the energy stored in his body that he had swallowed from Monster No. 3 last time but had not yet fully digested and absorbed.
A faint blue light flickered rapidly at the hideous wound on her abdomen. Flesh and tissue regenerated at an unprecedented speed. Even the meridians under her skin faintly revealed a strange blue glow.
"Kurozuka! Stop it! Your body can't take it!" Tana Sonoko exclaimed, and she and Itami Koji wanted to rush over and hold her down at the same time.
But they couldn't even touch the edge of her clothes,
Kurozuka Kirishi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, stood up shakily, and took off his combat uniform, revealing a bloodstained, half-torn white shirt and trousers.
Without clothes to cover it, the new skin still showed a fragile pink. The aftermath of the severe pain had not yet subsided, but the feeling of weakness had been replaced by a desperate and cold aura.
She didn't even look back at her teammates' shocked and worried expressions, her eyes were fixed on the figure in the distance.
The next second, she kicked the ground hard and rushed out like an arrow, so fast that she only left a blurry afterimage and raised dust, leaving the shouts of Tianna and Itami far behind.
At the center of the battlefield, Soshiro Hoshina's situation was not very good.
The flashing blade left countless sparks and shallow marks on the monster's hard shell, but it was difficult to penetrate deeper. Every swing of the monster's claws and every flick of its tail carried destructive power.
He was forced to dodge like a small boat in a storm, relying on his extreme speed and reaction. He was surrounded by danger, his breathing was heavy, beads of sweat rolled down his forehead, and his arms were numb from the shock.
"Tsk...it's ridiculously hard..." He spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, but his eyes became sharper: "But, this is the end."
The sound of the sword rang out again, and the originally huge monster suddenly disintegrated in an instant, breaking into pieces, and the most important core was shattered along with it.
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"Generally speaking, some monsters have backup plans, such as storing energy on a daily basis and then unleashing it at a critical moment to unleash even greater power."
Number 3 swam slowly, sharing his insights with Yabai Mina: "Monsters like this are rare, because most monsters don't actually have this special ability to store energy."
"But, the monster lurking among you humans, it does."
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Sudden change occurs,
The scattered monster fragments seemed to be pulled by an invisible force field, frantically converging towards the center. The energy fluctuated violently, even causing a small range of spatial distortion.
Under the gaze of Hoshina Soshiro, the fragments reassembled, expanded, and deformed at an incredible speed.
In the blink of an eye, a brand new monster suddenly appeared.
It was no longer the clumsy form it had been before. Its body had become as serpentine and flexible as a long snake, covered with sharp scales that gleamed with cold metallic light. The huge golden eye on its top locked onto him, filled with a breath of violence and destruction.
Without giving anyone any time to react, the monster's body spun violently, and countless sharp scales exploded like a rainstorm, flying towards Hoshina Soshiro, covering all the space for him to dodge.
Hoshina Soshiro's pupils shrank sharply, and his two swords crossed in front of him.
The dense crashing sound was like hail, and the huge impact force blasted him and his sword away. He crashed through several broken buildings before being buried in the rubble.
The monster swung its tail in pursuit, its winding body suddenly rushed out, opened its ferocious mouth, and pounced towards the pile of ruins.
The next second, a red light flashed.
A figure fell like a meteorite, stepping down the top of the monster accurately and heavily.
With a teeth-grinding tearing sound, a pale, eerie bone knife fiercely penetrated into the huge golden eyeball.
Hoshina Soshiro took a deep breath, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, squinted his eyes and looked up.
Red lines crawled all over the girl's exposed pale skin. Indistinctly, the lines spread out to reveal sharp fangs. A pair of blood-red vertical pupils stared intently at the monster under her feet. Her black hair fluttered, revealing the strange growth of white bones behind her.
She mercilessly twisted the bone knife that was inserted into the monster's eyeball and pulled it out.
At the moment when the monster struggled even more frantically due to the severe pain, she thrust her other hand back into the huge crack on her back and forcibly pulled out a bone knife from the flesh and blood.
She jumped down from the monster's body, and quickly turned her waist, her upper body being driven by it.
Her body spun rapidly in the air, like a whirlwind of blood and white, brazenly engulfed in the monster's winding, massive body.
Visually, it was like countless extremely fine red threads instantly entwined, contracted, and cut, and she completed a pure and extreme violent decomposition.
In an instant, the huge and ferocious monster's body was completely torn apart and cut into countless flying pieces.
The blood mist dyed everything within a radius of 100 meters red, as if a violent rain of blood and flesh had begun to fall.
Kurozuka Kirishi's figure landed lightly on the ground from the bloody rain, with her back to the cruel and grand destruction that she had created with her own hands.
The flying dust and tiny pieces of flesh and blood had not yet settled, forming a hazy red mist around her.
She didn't even have time to breathe. The moment she landed, she turned her head eagerly. Her eyes penetrated the thin smoke and dust and accurately locked onto the direction of Hoshina Soshiro.
She wanted to make sure he was safe.
However, the scene that came into view instantly froze my worries.
Dead silence,
The battlefield fell into a strange, suffocating silence, with only the sticky sound of flesh and blood fragments falling from the air, which was particularly harsh.
She slowly raised her eyes,
In my field of vision, the faces of my companions are no longer there.
Instead, the muzzles of the guns pointed at her coldly, steadily, without deviation. They were dark and shimmering with the unique cold light of metal, locking her firmly in the center of the scope.
She was very familiar with the person leading the team.
Yabaimina stood there, her ponytail untangled, her cold face covered with a layer of frost.
She lowered her eyes slightly, looking down at Heizhong Wushi from above, and her lips opened slightly, and her voice clearly cut through the dead silence.
Every word was like an icicle, hitting Heizhong Wushi's heart and the ears of everyone present.
"Kurozuka Kirishi... No." Yabai Mina paused, corrected the address, and spoke with a firmness like a verdict.
"A humanoid monster."
"You are under arrest."
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