[Master K] The bad one next door

"You bastard—go to hell with me!"

Accompanied by the angry roar, the body of the man in the black hood slammed into the glass window of the shop next to the street, making a deafening noise.

The aftermath of the sound shook the air, and after a few seconds, it finally returned to silence.Hatta walked out of the smog, wiping the dust off his face with the back of his hand, the tip of the baseball bat in his hand was stained with blood.He looked at the window that had been smashed into a huge hole, and frowned: "Tsk, I probably won't jump up now."

After all, I have done so hard.

—But it is not certain.The overall strength of the man in the black hood is actually at the level of a beta-level ability user, but he insists on relying on his tenacious vitality to compete with him until now. In the end, he couldn't help but wonder if this man's body is some kind of social insect.If it's true...then it's understandable that he couldn't be killed.

Just thinking about it makes me sick.

Hatta smacked his lips irritably, lifted the skateboard lying sideways on the cement road with his toes, and lifted it up abruptly.Under an ingenious force, the skateboard flexibly flipped a few times in the air. The orange-haired boy saw the moment it hit the ground, jumped on it familiarly, and then jumped into the hole in the window steadily with his strength.

"—Boom."

There was a dull sound when the rollers made contact with the wooden floor, and the fine dust was kicked up as the boy landed, choking him so much that he couldn't help sneezing a few times.He rubbed his nose and cast his gaze farther into the store.

The ceiling was shattered due to the huge impact, and debris kept falling, splashing a little dust.In the depths of the dense blackness, a group of black figures were leaning motionlessly against the corner of the wall, and cracks like spider webs meandered from the wall behind him.

Hatta stopped in front of him, put a baseball bat on his shoulder, looked down at him, and said, "Hey, are you still alive?"

The man in the black hood was silent for a long time before his fingers twitched slightly.Seeing this, Hatta shook his hand violently, and in the blink of an eye, the baseball bat in his hand was firmly placed on the opponent's side neck: "Which organization do you belong to? Why are you attacking us? Hurry up and do it, I don't have much patience!"

The other party remained silent for a long while, and the only clue that could be seen was the dissipated black mist billowing behind him.Waiting for Hatta to grow impatient, the man in the black hood suddenly arched his body and let out a violent cough.

"Cough cough... cough cough..."

After the heart-piercing cough subsided, he finally vomited a mouthful of thick liquid, wiped the blood around his mouth with the back of his hand, and sneered hoarsely: "What a miscalculation, I didn't expect you all to grow to this extent.—— But do you think you can beat me like this?"

"……what?"

Hatta frowned: "What are you talking about..."

"You should regard that child as more important than yourself, right?" The man in the black hood interrupted him, the corners of his mouth grinning wider and wider until it reached an extremely rampant arc, "Otherwise, I wouldn't Arguing with her... Well, it's too late anyway."

In the few seconds after his voice fell, Hatta did not realize who "that child" was referring to.

He was stunned for a long time, and when he finally understood the meaning of the other person's words, the pupils of his eyes constricted in horror.He turned around abruptly, ignoring the man in the black hood who was laughing and coughing up blood behind him, gripped the baseball bat tightly, and shouted anxiously to the outside: "Hey, really—"

——The next second, his voice was drowned out by the deafening explosion.

……

After the figures of Hatta and Fujiwara disappeared in the opposite shopping street, Maya waited for a long time. Seeing that there was no movement, he lowered the gun in his hand hesitantly.

【How's it going? 】

Hirobe's voice came from the school badge on the collar.

"It seems that Misaki is in the upper hand." She pulled the neckline unnaturally, and replied in a low voice, "But I can't see them from my angle... so it's not very clear."

After Zhenya found the sniper position, Hirobe, who had evacuated the crowd, came over and returned the school badge to her.Before that, she had no idea that Tobu's school badge had the function of communication. The silver-haired boy said: "It must be because you didn't attend class on the first day of school."

【Yeah?I'm already contacting Quanliang and the others, they should be here soon, so please hold on. 】

Mami, who had been in one posture for a long time, moved her body, wiped the cold sweat on her forehead with the back of her hand, and let out a long breath: "I know."

Hirobe was silent for a while, then suddenly laughed.

[Haha, I'm sorry, I can only drive vehicles, and I'm useless in battle, thank you for your hard work. 】

"No, there is no such thing, thanks to Hirobe-kun we were able to stop him in an emergency." Mami quickly replied, "Each subject has a specialization field, and the vehicle department itself is not a combat-specialized subject, so please don't Think so."

[Thank you~ Having said that, although I don't know the relationship between you and Hatta-kun, don't worry too much. That person is a character in the textbook anyway, and his combat power will definitely not be bad. 】

Maki frowned: "...Wait, is it that obvious?"

【Worried feelings almost turned into resentment and floated out of the communicator~】

Mami felt even more embarrassed.She coughed dryly: "Well, I'm sorry for bringing my personal emotions to my teammates, but—"

Before he finished speaking, a strong sense of crisis suddenly surged up his spine.She opened her eyes slightly, and her voice was choked in her throat. Before her brain could react, her body reflexively hugged the gun in her arms and rolled to the side.

The next second she dodged, a strong wind passed by her side, and then the sound of the floor being smashed through rang clearly in her ears.

"Snapped!"

The broken stones splashed onto his face as the ground cracked, scratching his cheeks sorely.Out of the corner of her eye, Mami caught a glimpse of a churning black object. Before she could figure out what it was, she stopped rolling, stood up neatly, quickly loaded her gun, and aimed the gun at the attacker: "Who is it?!"

However, when she saw the appearance of the attacker, she froze and forgot to pull the trigger.

Accompanied by the sound of "swishling", several black tentacles slowly pulled out from the cracks in the floor and reintegrated into the black humanoid creature hanging from the ceiling.Upon closer inspection, the humanoid body was actually made of churning black mist.

The black figure moved, and suddenly there was a creepy "cracker" sound from the neck, and the head started to turn a little bit.When the sound finally stopped, it had turned 180 degrees, and the black expressionless face faced her without any concealment, and the straight black whites of the eyes and the orange-red eyeballs shone with a horrifying and strange light.

Under such gazes, Maya's hand holding the gun began to tremble uncontrollably.

[Ya, Yazawa-chan?what happened to you there? 】

"...It's nothing." Mami took a deep breath and tried to hold his breath, "Don't worry about me, I should be able to solve it myself..."

Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of a cylindrical object protruding from the hands of the humanoid creature, and her eyes widened.

——That's... the button to control the bomb!

After being dazed for a few seconds, she finally came to her senses, turned around quickly, and tried her best to take steps, trying to escape through the broken window.However, the next moment, the humanoid creature behind her pressed the button with lightning speed.

"Boom!!"

The sound of an explosion suddenly exploded in my ears.

Her eardrums went numb in an instant, and scorching air waves swept from behind in the blink of an eye, tumbling, mixed with broken glass, and easily knocked her out.She felt her back being hit hard by something, and then her body flew into the air. She didn't know how long she had been flying before her back hit some hard object, and she rolled down, and her body fell powerlessly on the cement covered with broken stones. ground.

There was a buzzing in the ear, and a faint scream was faintly heard.Mami was so sore that she almost fell apart, lying on the ground, coughing heart-piercingly.

A thick liquid with a rusty smell gushed out of his throat, and his vision was blurred by the blood.She moved her arm with difficulty and touched her calf with her fingers, which brought a piercing pain.

— Broken right calf... probably a rib or two too.

She was in a daze, thinking in a trance with her bloody head.

——This situation cannot be said to be optimistic.No, it would be more appropriate to say that it was terrible.

While thinking negatively, Maya moved his left hand, only to realize that he was still holding the pistol tightly.She twitched the corner of her mouth helplessly, moved her body, and was about to try to struggle to stand up, when suddenly a pair of pitch-black feet appeared in her red-covered vision.

The buzzing tinnitus continued, so that she didn't hear the other person's footsteps at all.She raised her head with difficulty, and met the humanoid creature looking down at her.

In this extremely pessimistic situation, she was finally able to take a good look at the sudden attacker.

It was black all over, including the hair, the whites of the eyes, and the lips, as if it was made of churning black mist.This caused the pair of orange-red pupils and the glowing heart-shaped crystal on the left chest to look like inlaid gemstones, although they were abrupt but not out of place.

……heart?

Mami was startled, and suddenly a bold guess emerged in her heart.But before she could put this idea into practice, the left hand of the humanoid creature began to be wrapped in black mist little by little, forming a huge black blade with a cold light in an instant.

It slowly raised the blade above its head, paused for a second, and then cut through the air suddenly.

Mami couldn't move, seeing the blade slashing towards the top of his head, but he had nowhere to hide, so he could only close his eyes in despair.

——Sure enough, I still want to become the first Butei to die in the first mission.

she thought silently.

Well, it doesn't matter what the humiliation is.The only pity is that they haven't explained it clearly to Misaki, but now there is no chance, and if they die like this, Wu Yue and they will definitely blame themselves very much.Thinking about it this way, I'm really sorry...

——However, the pain did not come as expected.

In an instant, the boy's familiar roar broke through the gradually weakening tinnitus: "Maiya!"

This shout was like a slap in the face, which woke up Miya who had almost given up.She raised her head in astonishment, and saw the orange-haired boy jumping up on a skateboard, aimed at the head of the black humanoid creature, and swung down the baseball bat with raging flames.

And then—the baseball bat went through its head.

As if a stick hit the air, the trajectory of the baseball bat did not stop at all, and the fog on the head of the humanoid creature only stirred a little before returning to its original shape.But Hatta's sudden interruption did have a significant effect - the whistling wind stopped abruptly when the black sword was slashed down, and the blade was only a decimeter away from her head, temporarily saving her life.

Maiya stared blankly at the blade above his head, and he was rescued just like that before he could react.

With one blow, Hatta's eyes widened in disbelief.He cursed in a low voice, wanting to strike again when he landed, but the next moment, the black tentacles protruding from the back of the humanoid creature wrapped around his ankle.

The soles of the feet are separated from the skateboard in an instant.Miya suddenly came back to her senses, tried her best to support her body, and shouted anxiously: "Misaki! Be careful!"

"Varied--"

Hatta was stunned for a moment, and then his ankle was pulled violently, making him swallow the rest of his words.The tentacles grabbed him and circled in the air, throwing him hard towards the stunned Miya.

In an instant, the two collided heavily.

Maki, who was already seriously injured, almost vomited blood under the impact. Fortunately, Hatta subconsciously protected the back of her head with his palm during the collision, so the injury did not deteriorate further.The two rolled into a ball on the concrete floor due to inertia, and barely stopped after half a day.Hatta gritted his teeth, supported the ground and got up: "Hey...are you okay?"

Mami, who fell all over the place, replied in a daze, "It's okay...probably."

"...What do you mean, idiot, if you can't do it, don't be brave!" Hatta cursed, and was about to stand up, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a black shadow flashing behind him.His pupils shrank, he turned around quickly, and rushed to Maki who just sat up: "Maki! Don't get up!"

Before Zhenya could react, he was thrown to the ground by him, and then she was tightly protected under her body.There was another sharp pain in her back when she hit the ground, but her attention was completely out of herself.She opened her eyes wide and looked behind the boy who was hugging her tightly - there, a black humanoid creature was quietly leaping up, raising a huge black blade, and slashing at his back with lightning speed , the orange-red crystals on the left chest shone with a strange light.

If no one blocked him, in the next second—maybe in less than a second, the blade would cut on Hatta's back, causing his flesh and blood to fly on the spot.

Just by imagining that scene, a sense of despair gushes out from the bottom of my heart crazily.

Misaki——

You must not die so easily! ! !

At that moment, driven by some idea, she quickly wrapped her arms around Hatta's neck, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at the left chest of the humanoid creature with both hands holding the gun.

In the line of sight, an invisible ballistic trajectory cut across the air, and shot precisely into the heart-shaped orange-red crystal.

Mami's eyes gradually became firmer.

——The fault of light and shadow, between minutes and seconds.

She pulled the trigger.