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ould not hide his surprise.
The signal came from 2 young female Hunters who were being thrown right into Akira’s APC.

 

Akira was judging what to do there, whether to shoot them down, deflect them away, or receive them.
In the first place, he had no idea if they were friends or foes.
While he was at loss on what to do, he was already too late.
The two girls went past him right into the APC and crashed into the supply boxes.

 

Akira pulled out his rifles and aimed at them by pure reflex.
But at the next moment, he realized the state of those two girls.
He understood that it was useless to shoot them.
One of the girls had her neck torn off while the other one had a large hole in her torso.

 

“Corpses?! What the hell is going on here?!”

 

Although Akira was even more confused than before, he immediately shoved that out of his head as he immediately returned his aim outside the APC and pulled the trigger.
The person who threw those dead Hunters into Akira’s APC jumped away using his immense strength to avoid the incoming barrage before landing on top of the APC.

 

Akira jumped outside of the APC and made a flip, the moment he landed, he immediately aimed his rifles on top of his APC.
Since forced himself to maintain his posture using his augmented suit, there was a line dug into the ground.
However, his aim was still on target and did not meander away at all.

 

But the next second, Akira compressed his time perception and jumped out of the way since the guy had jumped off the APC and swung down a powerful kick aimed at him.
The kick landed on the ground.
But, Akira avoided it.
The huge force from the kick was taken in by the ground, creating a huge crack.

 

While both of them were still off-balance, they raced each other, fixing their postures in order to get the first dip on the next attack.
Both of them then immediately stopped.
They raised their guards toward each other while searching for an opening.
And so, they ended up standing still, staring at each other for a few seconds.

 

Akira’s expression turned grim the moment he got a good look on his opponent’s face.

 

“You…”

 

Tiol laughed like a mad man.

 

“Sorry for the wait! I’m here to kill you now!! Both you and that guy!!”

 

Akira then noticed that Tiol’s equipments were eerily similar to his.
They were so similar that it was impossible to differentiate between them from afar.

 

“That guy? Who?”

 

The answer to that question quickly presented itself after that.
Another vehicle appeared from behind.
The upper part of the vehicle could be opened to make it easier for its passengers to fight, and the person peeking out from that vehicle was Katsuya.

 

The dead girls that Tiol threw into Akira’s APC were from Katsuya’s team.
He went to attack Katsuya’s team, killed some of them, grabbed the badly wounded, and then went to look for Akira while maintaining his distance from Katsuya.
He made sure that Katsuya would not lose sight of him.
After finding Akira, Tiol then threw the badly wounded Hunters to Akira.

 

The transmitters in their augmented suits continuously sent signals to let others know the location of its users.
Katsuya thought that he might be able to save them if they were still alive, that was why he continued to chase after those signals.
Even after the signals told him that they were already dead, Katsuya still kept on chasing.
However, this time, it was for the sake of revenge.
He did not notice that Tiol deliberately maintained the distance between them in order to lure him.

 

The moment Katsuya caught Tiol in his sights, he immediately roared.

 

“There you are!! This is revenge for them!! I’ll kill you!! I’ll definitely kill you!!”

 

Katsuya could not differentiate between Akira and Tiol.
But Katsuya no longer cared about that anymore.
He blindly believed that the other guy was Tiol’s friend and that he would just need to kill them both.

 

Akira finally understood what was going on and sent a sharp glare at Tiol.

 

“You bastard…”

 

But Tiol did not seem shaken at all as he grinned and said.

 

“I’ll definitely kill both of you!! So you can go ahead and kill each other!! Both of you can just go to the afterlife!”

 

Akira immediately ran back to his APC and Tiol followed next to him.
Not too long after that, Katsuya released a barrage of grenades.
In a blink of an eye, the whole area was enveloped in explosions.

 

Akira and Tiol jumped out of the explosions, Akira was unharmed thanks to his coat while Tiol was able to quickly regenerate thanks to his abnormal vitality as a monster.

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Akira and Tiol also exchanged shots while running side by side.
They released their rounds at the same time and then jumped out of its way at the same time.
It was as if they had prearranged their engagement beforehand.
They blazed left and right through the ruin using their enhanced physical strength to evade their opponent’s bullets as well as the raining grenades.
All of this was done as they kept releasing shots at each other, aiming to stop the other in their tracks.
Both sides knew that the first person who stopped would be hit by the grenades and would be rendered unable to fight.
So they were willing to take some hits and focused more on speed instead of evading the bullets.

 

But then, Tiol was able to go ahead of Akira.
Tiol kept running in front of him as he aimed backwards without even looking.
Although Tiol was aiming without looking while running at the same time, Akira understood that he was aiming properly at him since the internals of the muzzle of his rifle could be seen.

 

With Katsuya’s team chasing and shooting from behind them, Akira understood if he focused more on evading instead of moving forward, the attacks from both Katsuya and Tiol would kill him.
Thus, in order to survive, Akira chose to risk it.
He completely ignored the pain on his head as he gathered his focus, compressed his time perception, and retried bending reality with his will.

 

Akira’s vision once again distorted.
As his perception of the world turned sharper, he charged straight toward the muzzle in front of him.
The manoeuvre and increased output of his augmented suit were crushing his body.
It was only thanks to the medicine that Akira took before jumping into action that helped maintain the shape of his body.

 

The expensive medicines had a strong healing effect and prolonged healing duration.
Thus, it was able to quickly heal any small wounds.
But of course, that did not make the body stronger.
It was a forceful method to keep the performance of the body by relying on the healing power of the medicines through an endless cycle of breaking and healing the body on a cellular level.
The moment the medicine’s effects ran out, or the moment the injuries were faster than the healing, Akira would instantly die.

 

In that situation where Akira himself was uncertain how close to death he was, he was able to accurately predict where Tiol was aiming as he kept accelerating forward.
Akira only took the least necessary movements to evade the incoming bullets as they grazed and took a piece of flesh off his face.
However, that kind of wound was far from dangerous.
It was not even close to enough to shave off Akira’s fighting spirit.
He rapidly closed the distance to Tiol with a grin, he then used the full power of his augmented suit to swing down his blade at Tiol.

 

Tiol did try to evade that attack but he was not able to completely get away from it either.
The glowing blade completely cut off one of Tiol’s arms right from the shoulder down.

 

As Akira saw Tiol’s arm flying away slowly through the air, he thought that he had the upper hand now.
He quickly changed posture in order to deliver the killing blow, but when he saw the severed arm move, he raised his eyebrows and jumped away.
The severed arm suddenly folded its elbow to aim the rifle on its hand at Akira while still in mid-air.

 

The severed arm pulled the trigger, the bullets in its muzzle spewed out grazing Akira.
The kickback from the shots caused the rifle to flail uncontrollably in the air.
While still running, Tiol quickly grabbed the flailing arm that was flying at him from the recoil of the shots.
He then placed it back onto the open surface wound, which was gushing out green blood.
When both arm and shoulder touched, they somehow got reconnected.

 

Akira, who had already jumped away and opened some distance from Tiol, saw that and was astonished.
He was surprised that Tiol was able to reconnect his severed arm, but more than that, he was surprised by the blood coming out from the wound.

 

[Green blood… No way, can it be that…?]

 

Akira remembered the massive humanoid monsters that he had fought in the past.
As if he knew what Akira was thinking, Tiol laughed at him.

 

“So that monster was you, huh!? Didn’t I kill you back then? How the heck did you return back from death? I see now! In that case, I can just kill you again and again until you’re dead!”

 

“That’s right!! That was me!! But this time, I will be the one who wins!! You’ll be the one dead!!”

 

As Akira and Tiol ran side by side while widening the distance between them, they exchanged a grin, although they did not exchange words, both sides knew what the other sides were thinking about.
They stopped momentarily shooting at each other because of their surprise as well as for the sake of healing their wounds.
However, it did not take long before they immediately aimed their rifles at each other and were about to start exchanging bullets again.

 

That was when a vehicle suddenly went in and charged at them.
Nelia’s voice could be heard from the communication device.

 

“Akira!! I’m coming there, so hop on!”

 

Nelia did not understand what was going on.
But she understood that she could not afford to slow down nor to stop.
She accelerated the APC forward as if to run over anything and anyone that got in its way.

 

The vehicle went past between Tiol and Akira.
Akira quickly jumped and grabbed the side of the APC and Tiol did the same on the other side.

 

Katsuya’s team was still shooting at them from the front.
The storm of bullets was intense.
It came both from the machine gun of the vehicles as well as rifles from each Hunter.
But that was not enough to stop Akira’s APC with Nelia continuing to go at full speed.

 

Nelia kept shooting at the machine guns in order to reduce the incoming bullets while she kept accelerating the APC.
Akira had one hand holding onto one side of the APC while he was using his other free hand to shoot homing armour piercing frag grenades to clear the way forward.
Tiol also did the same from the other side except he was aiming specifically at Katsuya’s team.

 

There was a difference in their shots, Nelia and Akira focused more on clearing obstacles while Tiol was clearly aiming to kill Katsuya’s team.
Because of that, most of the obstacles removed were from Akira’s side.
So Nelia directed the vehicle toward that opening, causing Tiol’s side to be more exposed.

 

Not only did this shield Akira from the enemy’s bullets, but it also made Tiol take on most of them.

 

The APC used all the build-up momentum to charge into a small opening within the enemy’s formation.
The smaller vehicles could not withstand the power of Akira’s large APC and were sent flying.

 

Akira managed to hold on from getting thrown off the APC.
It was thanks to his augmented suit that the shock from the collision did not knock him off.
But that was not the case for Tiol.
After taking in tons of bullets, he was weakened to the point that shock threw him off the APC.
The collision shook some of the armour tiles off the APC, but with its superior horsepower and size, it successfully managed to force its way through the enemy’s formation.

 

Akira was breathing rapidly as he climbed up the APC.
His first step after that was to use more medicine to heal his body before asking Nelia.

 

“…Nelia, thanks for the help.
But like, could you have done it better?”

 

Nelia replied with an amused voice.

 

“Nope.
As a matter of fact, you should be more thankful than that.
After all, I came back for you.”

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“Thank you very much!”

 

“You’re welcome.
We’re allies for now after all.
So I would at least do that much for you”

 

“Well, thanks.”

 

Akira smiled wryly and just spat out that reply.
That was when Nelia warned him.

 

“Two signals from above!!”

 

Akira quickly aimed his rifles up but he did not make it in time, so he instead jumped out of the way.
Right at the next moment.
Those two signals landed simultaneously above the APC.
The shock from Katsuya and Tiol landing on top of the APC shook it and caused the armour tiles where they landed to bend.

 

Tiol laughed like a mad man.
Although his body was covered in his green blood from the bullets before, he had already healed up all of his wounds.

 

“Don’t think you can get away from me!!”

 

Katsuya’s expression was filled with hatred.
That hatred caused him to throw caution into the wind as he did something as reckless as jumping onto the enemy’s APC.

 

“You won’t get away from me!! All of you will die here!!”

 

Akira frowned, but it was more because of an inconvenience rather than hatred.

 

“Just knock it off already, Katsuya, was it again? The object of your revenge is over there, not me.”

 

Akira said so and pointed at Tiol.
But that did not soften the hatred from Katsuya’s eyes.

 

“You won’t trick me!! It’s both of you!! I’ll definitely avenge my friends’ death!!”

 

“I know that you’re misunderstanding this, but I’ll at least try to let you know that I’m not that guy’s friend!!”

 

“Like hell I would believe that!!”

 

“Then let’s do this instead, how about we work together until we get to kill that guy? We can try to kill each other after that.”

 

“You gotta be crazy to think that I would work with you!”

 

Akira did that knowing that it was highly unlikely for Katsuya to accept his offer, but even so, getting rejected still made him knit his eyebrows.
That was when Tiol then mocked.

 

“In that case, Akira, how about you work with me instead?”

 

“Drop dead.”

 

Tiol laughed and shifted his gaze to Katsuya.

 

“How about you?”

 

“I’ll kill you!!”

 

Between the three of them, one thought that it was a huge inconvenience, one was laughing like a mad man, and one was glaring with intense hatred.
All of them there already expected that no one would try to work with anyone, so after they confirmed that their guesses were correct, they then spoke as they jumped into action at the same time.

 

“Alright alright, then both of you can just die!”

 

“Get on with it already!! Kill each other!! Die!!”

 

“I’ll definitely kill both of you!!”

 

The intense three-way deathmatch started on top of the ‘narrow’ APC.