45 Unpleasant surprise 3 (1/2)

The woman began to throw a tantrum, ”You bastard! Did you kill them?!” She asked Lazar, barking furiously at him.

Lazar frowned, annoyed by such behavior, 'Is she just crazy or does she not feel my blade against her throat?' In addition to not putting away her weapon as Lazar had ordered her to do, the woman even allowed herself to ask him this question while insulting him.

He applied more pressure with his blade, going as far as piercing the skin of her throat, but this didn't change anything. Despite the blood slowly flowing on her throat, she kept a combative expression.

Lazar came to wonder if she had lost all sense of reality, had she not understood that he was the one with the ascendancy? 'Either the Apocalypse fried some of her neurons or the person who took care of her psychological assessment screwed it up when she was recruited.'

”He... He just knocked them out.” The words said by a shy voice calmed the woman down a little.

The person who spoke was Sullyvan. He was squatting next to the two soldiers who had collapsed to the ground and was taking their pulse.

'She wouldn't have believed me if I had told her that, Sullyvan has maybe more than one use finally.' Lazar thought while looking for Amandla with his night vision.

Seeing that Amandla was aiming her bow at the woman and was gradually getting closer to their group, Lazar moved his blade away from the woman's throat enough so that she could turn around and realize that her comrades weren't dead.

Now that Lazar was assured that the woman would be killed before she could do anything to him, he could give her that freedom.

”Show her, Major.” Lazar said, without taking his eyes off the woman who was now facing him after turning around.

Sullyvan grabbed on the ground one of the two flashlights that had fallen from the hands of their owners when they collapsed.

They were still lit, so Sullyvan only had to direct the one he had in his hands to light the scene.

When the woman saw that there was no trace of blood around her comrades and that their chests swelled and deflated successively, sign that they were breathing, every muscles of her body finally relaxed and she sighed with relief.

”Good thing you weren't stupid enough to make the mistake of killing them. I would have sent you to the other world right after them, and if it wasn't me, the Major General would have done it.” The woman declared haughtily.

One of Lazar's eyebrows rose, 'Does she realize what she's saying?' Thinking that this woman needed a good lesson, he didn't stop Amandla who was rushing towards her.

After a short consideration, he felt compelled to clarify something with Amandla since she seemed to want to use her bow on the woman and him wished to keep her alive even though she was a pain in the ass.

Amandla didn't take her hateful gaze off the woman, but still gave Lazar an 'ok' sign with her hand to tell him that she had understood before making her bow disappear.

”Huh?!” Shouted the woman as a sign of incomprehension of what Lazar had said.

She didn't react soon enough to avoid Amandla's kick. She took it in her right hand and it made her sword fly a few meters away from her.

Seeing that the woman was about to blind Amandla again by pointing her flashlight at Amandla's face, Lazar grabbed the wrist of her left hand to stop her.

”Stop this at once!” Ordered a sizzling voice.

Upon hearing this, Lazar immediately recognized a human voice transmitted by walkie-talkie.

”Stop!” Lazar shouted while putting his sheath between Amandla and the woman to prevent Amandla from starting to hit her.

Amandla gave a cold glance to Lazar to make him understand that she couldn't let what had just happened pass her by.

However, when she saw in the look that Lazar was giving her back that he was asking her to trust him, she managed to calm down and took a few steps back.

”You owe me one.” She whispered to him.

”I know.”

Lazar took the walkie-talkie from the woman's belt and snatched the flashlight from her left hand, she was too shaken to react, ”Go help the Major wake up your comrades.” He ordered.

Having finally recovered, the woman continued to be uncooperative. She crossed her arms and stood still, ”I don't take orders from you.” She said.