章節 202: With Flying Colours

Ori blocks a flying slash with his arm, the blade digging dangerously into his armour. A headbutt plants the ninja's face into the ground however, and a follow-up punt ends up throwing him straight out of the nearby window.

He spins through the head and lands heavily on the ground below, Wakako's Tyger Claws and the Moxes opening fire on him for good measure...

"KAZU! Y-YOU DOG-FUCKER!"

"Cosplayer!" Ori shouts back, drawing his revolvers and catching the offending sword with one as the metal comprising it struggles against the edge. The ninja tries to back up as Ori raises the other gun, but he's too late to react as his head jolts back with a new orifice adorning it.

The body drops to the ground but the attacks Ori anticipated after don't come. The two remaining ninjas backed away from the door, glancing at each other unsurely.

"Cold feet now?" he audibly mumbles as he aims at them.

"Filthy dog! You may kill us, but-"

*Bang!*

*Thud!*

...

Ori focuses on the next Ninja, the one without a sword. "You were saying?"

*BOOM!*

An explosion rocks the room and forces Ori to the floor as flames wash over him. Once the smoke clears he sees a large AV hovering outside the window, the Arasaka ninja already in the cabin. His target, Taki Kazo sprints out of the bathroom to flee onto it too.

Ori tries to blow his head off, but a sword cuts the bullet out of the air.

"Run Taki-sama!" the heavily tatted-up Tyger Claw shouts as he ushers his boss onto the AV. Ori fires a couple more times but the guy puts his own body in the way, taking bullets to his chest and abdomen, tearing through his lungs and other organs.

The bodyguard seemingly feels no pain however, dropping two grenades onto the floor as he, Taki, and some girl in high heels run for the AV.

"Get back here!" Ori angrily shouts as he fires, but almost all of his bullets get absorbed by the bodyguard, or the girlfriend...

"AAARGHH! HELP!" she shrieks and falls to her knees just as she reaches the AV. She grabs ahold of it but the bullet in her arm prevents her from pulling herself up.

"JUST DRIVE!" Taki roars, eyes fixed on the grenades that were about to go off.

"WAIT!" Chiasa cries out. The bodyguard tries to grab her but the AV lifts up too quickly, causing her to fall down, directly next to the grenades.

Ori makes one last attempt to catch them by leaping out of the window, the grenades go off as he does so, launching him even higher than anticipated. He's thrown over the AV and barely lands atop the glass over the cockpit, finding himself in a staring contest with the pilot... "Er, you mind landing for a minute?"

The pilot's disbelieving expression morphs into a cocky sneer, he wrenches the AV to the side, causing Ori to skid over while trying in vain to find a handhold. The sleek design of the AV was working in their favour, and its armoured exterior prevented him from even creating a handhold.

He slips down and barely catches the footrail under the cabin, before he's able to pull himself up though he looks across and gapes at the Arasaka ninja standing upside down... Did they have magnetized boots or something-

*Crack!*

His nose breaks as the guy punches him hard in the face. Ori blinks and moves his head to avoid the next punch but the movement of the AV was making any deliberate movement difficult. Right now he was just the fucking ninja's punching bag!

"SCREW OFF!" he shouts, sending a flailed kick at him, but his opponent just grabs it and sends a ball-busting punch into his-, well, balls...

"HYIYA!" Ori yelps and unconsciously cups his groin, leaving him hanging there with one arm.

"HEY!" a voice shouts above him, and Ori sees Taki Kazo gripping the cabin door with his pistol pointed at his head. "DON'T MIND THE DROP!"

*BANG!*

The bullet bounces off of Ori's forehead and temporarily dazes him, allowing the ninja to finally kick him free of the AV. Ori spins through the air and eventually collides with a tall building in Japantown, his head going through the wall and into someone's bathroom... As they were using it.

"F-fucking shit!" he curses at his failure to kill Taki, only to pause when the smoke clears and reveals a mother and her young daughter who had been in the process of bathing...

...

"Uh, this ain't what it looks like." he says with a tentative grin that doesn't look all that great with the blood covering him.

"PEDOPHILE!"

*Kick!*

"SheeeeiiiiIIIIIITTTTT!!!"

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Taki Kazo cackles as the infamous 'Zombie' flies off who knows where, the fact the guy had almost killed him was already forgotten in lieu of the embarrassing defeat he'd suffered. "HAHAHA! DID YOU SEE THAT!?"

Taki slaps Norio's shoulder, not noticing his bodyguards slight tremoring...

"Y-you... You killed C-Chiasa...?" he mutters in a low tone.

"Huh? What was that?"

"Y-you killed C-Chiasa... You killed J-Julia... Y-you killed Sota-sama... A-all those p-p-people..." Norio raises his head and bares his teeth, "N-NO MORE! YOU WILL HURT NO ONE ELSE!" he suddenly roars, and in a fit of violence throws the former Tyger Claw leader right out of the AV as the Arasaka ninja watches in shocked silence. (AN : This is Sparta)

Both observe as the man's body splatters against one of the many skyscrapers, barely leaving a red smear as evidence the only evidence he'd existed at all.

Norio turns towards the ninja, his head twitching erratically, "All of you... ARE GUILTY!"

"What the-?" the pilot starts but isn't able to react as his head splatters against the windshield, the AV quickly spinning in the air and crash-landing in the river.

Ni, the surviving ninja tries to climb out of the river, but squeaks as his leg is gripped by a manic-looking Norio...

"YOU ARE GUILTY! ALL GUILTY!"