Chapter 270 - Escape Against the Sword of the Dead (1/2)

Day 314: 10:00 P.M

Osaka Streets:

Equipment:

Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Blade Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei's View)

The chase continues as the Night Rage's duration continues to tick down. It's not easy as I have to continue to run. It isn't easy and the feeling of being chased is returning to me just like how the Juggernaut continues the mindless pursuit against me while I was in Kirishima High School.

I managed to survive against the Juggernaut by sheer luck but now that I am faced with an almost invincible body. I tried shooting the lunky bastard but this guy is capable of cutting bullets midair. Nevertheless, I didn't lose hope and continue to run away from this infected variant.

I might sound exaggerated but this guy is not just casually following my steps, this variant is slashing obstacles to obstacles without any care, be it walls or doors, even some infected like the Juggernaut that is just plainly blocking the road was not spared. It is a walking cutting machine just in a humanoid form.

My first plan is to kill it in ranged attacks like the gun. However, it is proven ineffective. I don't have the Piyavka modified guns that can fire Piyavka bullets so when I said that I can't execute this plan via shooting, I really can't.

The second option for me is to fight it in melee and hope to overpower this bastard. I am confident in fighting in close-quarter combat but that doesn't mean I am confident in taking this guy on who can easily cut through solid objects. If I wanted to defeat this guy, I needed to make a surprise attack and kill this guy in one blow. The problem is how to do it.

There is no guarantee that my Piyavka weapons will be able to hold out. Seeing this lunky guy use the sword-like arms dangling around its arms and cutting walls and other solid objects like butter cut by a hot knife, my weapons will immediately snap, losing my weapons I can use for melee combat.

Hiding and waiting above the buildings and rooftops is also not a viable strategy. I tested it out earlier, and I was immediately wrecked by the ”swordsman”. This guy basically cut all of the foundations of the building I was staying and the house collapsed. This guy can just cut almost everything if it needed to do so.

I am thinking of tiring this variant and hold out till morning comes as it is now a common knowledge that variants like the Juggernaut does not survive during the morning and will disappear. However, that is also not a viable strategy. I just remembered that Stalkers are basically variants too but they can also survive the morning and still be alive and active. What of the ”Swordsman” is also a variant with the same trait?

Now my only choice is to keep on running and thinking of stopping this guy. I can whip up some quick explosives using the gas tanks in the houses but that is a little bit risky and troublesome. I don't have the ”Swordsman” as the only problem, I also have the running undead chasing my ass for the majority of the night.

While I am busy contemplating on what to do to fight this blade undead, my headphones once again started to halt all the music in my ears before it once again connected to Nanami.

”Kyosei! Why are you still not home? It's dangerous here and most of us are struggling against the ”Headaches” as we have to keep an eye on both the ground and the air to avoid being assaulted by the Headache and the undead below! What are you doing?!”

”I also have problems on my own and I can't dare to bring this problem of mine there especially if you guys have been having troubles against the flying heads, then this problem I am dealing with will destroy our defenses if they managed to do something!”

”Huh? Are you also dealing a variant too?!”

”Yeah, this bastard variant is just making me full of headaches so if you don't want me to bring this shitty lunky variant to the base and wreck our walls like paper then let me deal with this for now! might be going back once the sun comes out.”

”You really need to come back or else I will beat up your face for not coming back.”