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Bab 39: Final Stretch

His first reaction was to step back a few metres at her presence. He was in no state to keep fighting, not when there was such a visible path to escape right in front of him.

And the drain also wasn't very visible, but it was there. His energy depleted slowly but surely. He didn't think he'd be able to go into a clash with a Class Eight while keeping his energy intact.

"Ah ah ah, I wouldn't do that if I were you." She grinned. "The moment you turn your back on me is the moment you'll fall to the ground, unable to fathom what happened to you. Wrists aren't the only bones that can be broken, you know."

He absolutely resented her tone, but he could do nothing in this situation.

Amelia continued, "Not to mention. The injuries you inflicted on them were probably superficial. One step into the wrong hall, and you're a goner."

Emery sighed. She was right. Igor was probably in gut-wrenching, soul-crushing pain at the moment, but someone at his level would be able to shrug it off after a while.

Owain, on the other hand, was in a bad state, but he could probably ignore the pain of losing an arm. As long as he wanted revenge, that was. And chances were, they wanted revenge.

Citro curled back nervously, mirroring the emotions that Emery was trying to keep hidden from the lady.

"That's a cute rat you got there," she pointed out.

"It's a mongoose."

Her fists came up once more, and she positioned them above the earth. She looked straight at Emery and Citro as she spoke her next words.

"I wonder who…"

Then, without waiting any further, slammed both fists deep into the earth.

"...asked?!"

BOOOOOM~!

A massive explosion emerged as soon as her fists connected. The ground broke apart and began caving in from the steps of the large courthouse. All the debris and the earth in the area slid towards the giant pit, Emery included.

'Shit!'

He looked around for something to hold on to. He couldn't run back or go forward.

There was no leeway for him to escape properly. So he could fall to his death now, or run back and surrender to the two guards, eventually suffering a far more brutal death.

His answer was…

'Fuck all that!'

All rationality flew out of the window in those next few moments. He backed a few metres back into the courtroom, then dropped into a running pose. 

"Eep?"

"Hold on tightly, Citro. I'm going to be doing a bit of athletics here,"

"Eep? Eep! Eep!" 

Realization gradually set into the mongoose then it sunk its claws deep into Emery''s jacket flesh. He ignored the searing pain, taking it as a wake-up call, then looked fiercely at the target. The woman in front.

There was only one thing that separated them. And that was a giant pit. No matter.

'I refuse!'

He tapped into a little bit of the energy, activating the Energy Circuitry skill, then took off into a quick dash.

More speed. He needed more!

The edge gradually grew closer, but he couldn't stop moving. Not now. Not at all!

Finally, after what seemed like forever, he jumped forward.

Several things happened in that brief second that he was in the air. Citro's claws pierced the layers of his skin, drawing blood. The woman widened her eyes, not expecting him to have done what he did.

More importantly, the adrenaline within him reached its peak.

"HAAAAAAAA!"

And then…

BANG!

CRASH!

He slammed into the side of a newly formed cliff, grabbing onto the rocks and debris jutting out. The adrenaline was wearing off, allowing him to think far more clearly than before.

He couldn't let Amelia catch him here. He needed to move before that.

The spikes he supported himself with cracked the longer he hung on to it. Even here he was given two options to take.

'I don't intend on dying anytime soon!'

Emery looked around, everywhere but down, then finally pulled himself up. He flew several metres into the air above. It was quite a risky move, seeing as the debris could have given in with that slight pull, but luckily it didn't.

The battlefield from his vantage was something else to behold. Chaos, death and destruction. Konnor still fought Carlos' two right-hand men, and Elyn was still cornered.

She looked up briefly as if sensing someone's presence. They briefly locked eyes, causing her to let out a smile of relief. It didn't distract her though, she returned to her battle, attacking with even more ferocity. Fighting to escape the encirclement.

His bird's eye point of view ended then.

Emery landed on the ground, stumbling. As soon as that happened, all the adrenaline wore off.

He could hear his parent's voices yelling and screaming.

'What exactly were you thinking?!'

"EEEEEP!" Citro echoed them, despite everything.

Truthfully, he didn't know at this point.

Amelia broke him out of these thoughts a second later.

"Impressive. I thought you'd take the sensible route and just die by falling. But you just had to choose the harder method, huh?"

He glared at the red-haired woman for a while, then dropped.

Right, this was a battle. He couldn't forget that. He reached into his pantry and pulled out the knife. Its blade was bloody. He would have to burn it afterwards, but let this be its last fight.

"Now you're talking, pretty boy."

His brows narrowed slightly, and then a green energy enveloped his body.

"All right, bring it."

. . . . .

*Meanwhile*

Hemp looked toward the other man. Chris had both arms crossed. They looked out of the glass outward in the distance. The ruckus was visible even from where they were.

"I didn't expect it to turn out like this," he said.

"Yeah."

"I only told him to retrieve that thing and test the boy out. This is unprecedented,"

"Should I go put an end to it?" Chris asked.

"Don't make yourself visible. If you do that, we'll have to explain a lot. So fix it from a distance. Anyhow you can. We need their support, so don't mess it up."

Chris nodded. "What about the tide?"

"We'll tell them about that. In fact, that's exactly what we'll do. Make it snappy and clean."

"Understood, sir."

The man turned around, and then walked towards the door, finally leaving the dark-haired boss alone.


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Bab 40: Old Enemy Returns

It was a very brief clash, yet Emery had almost lost a second arm to the woman. He stared at her carefully from a distance, wiping the blood away from his lips. Citro was no longer his neck.

He lost him a few minutes ago, but knowing the mongoose, it wasn't doing anything that would affect their chances of winning.

His wrist ached even more. She managed to make him flail it around as much as possible, instigating the already terrible wounds.

Above all that, a new wound had appeared in his left ribcage. At least two were broken, he surmised. The clothes that should have been around that area had been destroyed to pieces, exposing the bruised purple-ish skin in its stead.

His breathing paused at several intervals, but he still held the knife with as much deviance as before. The green energy still illuminated most of his figure, but it flickered, unwilling to give up.

Everything faded. His life force draining the most. He could see Elyn giving him short, worried glances from the side, distracting her from the encirclement she found herself in.

She could sense it. He didn't doubt that Citro could, too.

Emery tried his best to keep it under control or hide it in some way or form, but nothing worked at that point again.

"You're a bit tongue-tied. Why is that?" Amelia laughed.

When someone was pretty, it was quite easy to forget that she killed people for a living. That was the mistake he made the first time.

She already had an innate advantage over him in the form of her Class. He only widened that gap by looking down on her ability to take a life.

"I'm just thinking of how beautiful you are, really." he laughed, trying his best to buy time a little.

The woman realized and played along with him.

"That coming from such a man is truly an honour. Buuut… I'm a little insecure, though. So you'll have to forgive me for my next actions!"

She jumped forward, bringing her fist down faster than Emery could even follow. He rolled to the side.

A bad mistake. Small rocks pierced all his wounds so far, causing him to freeze and groan mid-movement.

Another mistake.

She spun around after the first attack and slammed down into the earth once more. This time, it hit.

"Ravaging Earth Fists!"

A massive cloud of dust rose into the earth, and a crater of a smaller scale than the one from before appeared as she hit Emery in the head.

He placed the green energy at the back of his head to brace the impact, but it was far from done yet.

Amelia grabbed him by the ankle, then spun him around rapidly, like one would see in a cartoon of some sort. She had a wide grin on her face, which he only caught through quick glimpses.

"Ravaging Slam!"

His body flew into the air like a rag doll, then fell as quickly back into the ground. A mouthful of blood erupted from Emery's mouth.

The job was basically done at this point. Amelia rubbed her palms in a satisfied manner, then walked over to where she'd dropped him.

"You know," she said, "I'm a very big advocator for peace and all that other stuff. But I'm also a very big advocator of having fun. My enjoyment precedes anything else, unfortunately for you. The apocalypse is so much better. Free food for those with power. Status for those with power. As long as you have power, you can have anything in the world at all!""

Emery blinked slowly, struggling to make heads or tails of what she just said. His mind was still numb from everything.

None of his limbs were broken yet since he used the energy to protect him at very critical moments. However, they felt broken.

The internal damage tore him up from the inside out. Blood poured out in a steady stream from his entire body.

If before, he was losing life force like a tap, then this could only be compared to a waterfall.

[Ding!]

[Would you like to commence healing with energy points!?]

A bit of sensibility returned just as he saw that, however. 

It almost felt unnatural to see the system message now. He had been so used to stuff like that happening without any way to get out of it, but he could only manage.

Since when could energy points be used for healing? He remembered it happening the first time, but wasn't that just a one-off thing?

Clearly, it looked like that wasn't true. 

Emery resisted the urge to get rid of the pain once and for all, but he wouldn't just yet. He used every last piece of common sense in him to plan his next moves carefully.

Citro was still underground. An appropriate moment would be just before that. He wouldn't be able to tell though.

That vague connection between the two didn't even allow that level of synergy. But he could still assume, though. And even if that plan didn't work out, he still had something on his mind.

His eyes landed on the bold, flashing letters in front of him.

[Free Summon now available!]

Hopefully, this would give him something related to escape or something. He just wanted to get back somewhere safe quickly.

Amelia caught his gaze, then smirked.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Oh, right, I doubt you can talk after I slammed the daylight out of you. Though you are stronger than I give you credit for. Your bones aren't all twisted and mangled, even after all that."

She was really far more annoying than she looked, but no matter.

He could feel it. It would all happen and come together anytime from now.

And it did… just not the way he expected.

BOOOOOM~!

A large explosion emerged from the distance, and an all too familiar beast stood. Its maw and fangs lay bare, revealing the building ball of fire that would soon hit the city once more.

Emery held his breath. Or at least he tried. His ribs attacked him before the new arrival did.

There it was, standing in full force.

The very same Class Five Threat that had caused all of this.


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