Chapter 164: The End of The Hunt (2/2)

Akira immediately frowned. In order for the black powered suit to chase after him from the other side of the mansion, that black powered suit would need to go all the way around the mansion, that was why he thought that there was no way that black powered suit would come for him. And even if it did, it would take some time for it to go around the mansion. But his feeling of safety was immediately betrayed, he could see the black powered suit standing right on the top of the mansion.

“You gotta be kidding me!?”

“He must have used the full power of his powered suit to get it on top of the mansion. Although, in order to do that, it seems that he had no other choice but to leave some of its heavy weapons behind. It has no ranged weapon at all, that melee weapon is the only weapon that it has at the moment.”

“That’s not even the problem here!!”

The black powered suit jumped down and landed with a big bang. It then jumped with a power that was enough to shake the ground as it headed right toward Akira.

“You damn brat!! Do you think I’ll let you get away?!!”

The black powered suit moved around while reading its chainsaw, the countless teeth of its chainsaw raised a deafening sound as it started spinning.

Akira’s augmented suit increased its output to its limit as if it did not care how much burden it would put on Akira’s body. Akira just ignored the stinging pain from both of his legs as he kept on running as fast as he could. But of course, it was no match against the high-speed powered suit. The distance between him and the powered suit was slowly shrinking.

“Alpha! Can we do something about that thing?!”

Unlike Akira who obviously looked very worried, Alpha only looked slightly concerned. She then casually said to him.

“It can’t be helped then, let’s fight it.”

“Are you serious?!”

Akira was wide-eyed, but Alpha smiled and replied.

“Get yourself ready, you at least have a better chance fighting it rather than keep running from it like this.”

Akira smiled wryly.

“Alright, I get it! If resolving myself is enough to do something about it, I’ll resolve myself as much as you want!! That’s my responsibility, after all!!”

“And the rest would be my responsibility. So just leave the rest to me. We don’t have time to waste, let’s prepare ourselves before it catches on to us.”

Akira was running at high speed when he used his augmented suit to immediately stop himself. Right at the same time, he reloaded a new magazine to his CWH anti-material rifle, and then threw it down on the ground together with his A4WM automatic grenade launcher, and DVTS minigun.

He then took out the foldable blade that he had obtained from the mansion, grabbed it with both his hands and expanded it. Once it was fully unfolded, its bladed started to give a faint bluish glow.

Right in front of Akira, the black powered suit raised its chainsaw while blazing straight at him. Seeing that, Akira took a deep breath and readied himself.

Rogelt then yelled from inside the powered suit.

“Die!!!”

The black powered suit swung its powerful chainsaw down with a huge force. Akira, who was inside the slow-motion world, swung his foldable blade as vigorously as he could.

The moment their blades made contact, blue light flashed from Akira’s blade, it then turned into dust and carried away by the wind. While at the same time, the force of the collision threw Akira’s body back.

With that one exchange, although Akira was fighting a powered suit with only his own flesh and his augmented suit, it was able to push the black powered suit back.

Normally, it would be nothing strange if that one attack crushed Akira. There were 2 reasons why it did not. First of all, Rogelt had spent most of his energy on fighting all the powered suits and tanks in the previous fights, because of that, his powered suit could not exert its full power. While the other reason was because Alpha modified the blade to use all its available power for one swing.

The only thing that maintained the blade’s sharpness was its energy. Due to modification from Alpha, it used all of its energy in one go, way above what that blade could withstand. Thanks to that, it increased its destructive power to its utmost limit. Although it turned into dust right after that, it was able to withstand that exchange against a powered suit. And with the help of Alpha’s support, Akira swung it with the technique that rivalled a swordmaster.

While his body was blown backwards, Akira quickly grabbed his DVTS minigun and CWH anti-material rifle and immediately started to shoot using his DVTS minigun. Although most of his bullets hit the powered suit, it barely caused any damage at all.

Rogelt was surprised by what happened but immediately regained his composure. After reassessing his situation, he readied himself and quickly went for another attack. Unlike Akira who had lost his blade, the black powered suit still had its weapon just fine, and it was powerful enough to easily crush Akira.

From the external camera of his powered suit, Rogelt could see Akira aiming another shot at him. This time, Akira was using his CWH anti-material rifle.

Akira pulled the trigger, the bullet that was shot in a point-blank range hit the black powered suit and released a loud bang. Right at the next moment, Rogelt immediately lost the power output of his powered suit. Akira’s shot had destroyed his powered suit’s energy generator.

When the powered suit stopped moving, Akira nimbly manoeuvred away while picking up the rest of his weapons before running away from that place.

Akira was running like a madman when he threw a question to Alpha.

“Alpha! That should be enough to stop that thing, right?!”

“To be more precise, you just sniped its generator and temporarily stopped it. If it has a spare generator, it can immediately swap its generator and start moving again. So I don’t think stopping it is the right word to use in this situation.”

“Wha-!? Even that wasn’t enough?!”

“It’s a matter of fighting a tank only with an augmented suit, or like fighting a powered suit only with a human body. The power gap is simply too big. But even if it has a spare generator, it’ll take some time to replace the destroyed generator. So you should have enough time to run away, that is, as long as you don’t stop because you’re tired or something.”

“Alright alright, I get it!”

Akira smiled bitterly and started running again. He then jumped over the fence with the help of his augmented suit, and just kept on running away from Ezont Family’s base. He finally was able to escape that place.

—*—*—*—

The rear side of the black powered suit opened, Rogelt came out from it. His face was deep red, he looked absolutely furious. He kept looking at the direction where Akira ran away and mumbled.

“…That brat… He got away, huh!”

Rogelt jumped off from his powered suit and checked the hole on his powered suit. It was the hole left by the bullet that destroyed the powered suit’s generator.

[…I bet it’s a powerful anti-force field armour bullet. It was able to pierce through my powered suit’s force field armour after all. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to do that.]

As Rogelt had predicted, Akira actually used the anti-force field armour bullet that he bought as a lucky charm and a trump card. It was a high-quality bullet that cost him 5,000,000 Aurum per shot. He only bought one bullet just to be safe in case he had no other choice but to go against a powerful monster, like that one huge creature that he fought back in the Seranthal building. Akira himself did not expect that he would be using that bullet so quickly.

[But still, even if he shot that in a point-blank range, normally, that would not be enough to destroy my generator, so how…]

Rogelt frowned, he did not want to believe the explanation that came up in his head.

Unlike armour plating, the force field armour of the black powered suit was the type that continuously consumed energy and extended out its force field. Since it would consume too much energy if he kept moving, Rogelt usually only stood still when he was not in a fight. And even in the middle of a battle, he would lower the force field for parts that were unlikely to get shot in order to save energy. Otherwise, it would consume too much energy to maintain.

Focusing the force field armour only at the points where they were receiving shots was something that only skilled users could do, and one of the indicators of a high-quality control device was whether it could accurately predict incoming shots and only expand the forced field in those locations.

But this automatic adjustment from the control device usually had some particular quirks. In some cases, it might cause the force field to focus only on one point and leave another location more open for an attack.

Rogelt remembered how Akira used his DVTS minigun to shoot a barrage on his powered suit. If it was in order to damage his powered suit, then it would have been a pointless action, but what if he did that to manipulate the automatic adjustment control of Rogelt’s powered suit. If Akira did that to focus the force field armour in one place and open a weak point in another place to shoot at, if that was all true, then it would explain how Akira was able to snipe the generator.

Although it was possible theoretically, it was actually almost impossible to execute. It would have been possible with the combination of a huge amount of bullets and a powerful information-gathering device that could precisely calculate the small changes in the force field armour in order to create a concentrated force field and opening a weak spot. But in order to do that, Akira would have to analyze and calculate a huge amount of information, which would have been impossible.

Rogelt rejected the solution to his question that came up in his mind. He then lightly shook his head, just to blame that on his bad luck, and decided to stop thinking about it.

Rogelt shook off his thoughts from what just happened and looked at his powered suit one more time. Seeing how his prided black powered suit was rendered to that state, anger started to well up again.

“That brat, wrecking my powered suit like this. I’ll definitely kill him next time.”

“Unfortunately, you won’t be able to do that.”

A woman’s voice abruptly replied to Rogelt. Rogelt immediately pulled up his rifle and released some shots in the direction of that voice.

Although there was no one there, his bullets ricocheted and made a sound as if they bounced off a metallic object. A blade was floating in the air there. When the owner of that blade took off her camouflage, it revealed a girl smiling amusedly. She had a metallic cyborg body covered under a camouflaging coat, both of her arms were armed with blades, it was Neria.

Neria and Rogelt made eye contact. Right at the next moment, Neria suddenly dashed and closed the distance between them.

Rogelt made a rough approximation of how strong his opponent was by judging from how she moved just now and how she blocked his shots. He quickly decided that his rifle would not do him any good and threw it away, instead, he grabbed 2 knives behind his hip and readied himself. When he unsheathed his knives, blades extended out and they turned into swords.

Rogelt had talent in CQC, that was why, during the battle against other powered suits, he was always using melee weapons, and of course, that talent also translated very well when fighting against another human. As a matter of fact, his skill with the blade allowed him to distinguish himself in the eastern district where guns were a norm.

Nelia and Rogelt exchanged blows for just a split second, by the end of that exchange, they were standing past each other with their backs facing each other.

“See, it would be impossible for you.”

Nelia smiled and said so, behind her, Rogelt was sliced into 4 pieces with a cross centered on his throat. Not only did he get beheaded, but his head and body were also split cleanly into two halves. His body parts fell down and painted the ground red in blood.

Now that her job was finished, Nelia looked in the direction where Akira ran off to. She smiled amusedly which even looked like she was ecstatic.

“But still, although it hasn’t been that long since the last time, to think that he has become strong enough to defeat a powered suit with only an augmented suit. It was really unfortunate that I wasn’t able to seduce him back then.”

Nelia once again activated the optical camouflage of her coat. Her figure was slowly swallowed into the scenery and vanished completely.

“It would be great if I can get another chance to try to seduce him, although, it would be hard to do that in my current situation. Seriously though, what should I do with you?”

She did not feel anything wrong with seducing someone that she would try to kill 5 seconds later. Nelia, who had such a distorted way of thinking, had a regretful expression on her beautiful face. But that face also quickly vanished from the views, leaving behind the nonfunctional powered suit and the dismembered corpse of its user.

—*—*—*—

Haurias, the gang that was at war against the Ezont family. Inside its base, in its boss’ room. The report from Haurias’ soldiers echoed through the room.

“Boss! These guys are too strong!! We’ll be wiped out at this rate!! Tell us what to do!! Boss!! Are you there?! Whether we group up or retreat, just give us something!! Dammit!! Is it not connected!? What the heck is going on here?!!”

Their boss was unable to give them any orders, after all, he had a bullet on his head and he was already dead.

Haurias already sent most of its men to attack the Ezont family. Its boss was left only with a handful of bodyguards in the base. And those bodyguards, like their boss, were already dead.

Both Haurias and Ezont family had some similarities. First of all, both of them were huge gangs with a lot of members, the boss of the respective gang held a ton of influence. Because of that, it was extremely difficult for the members of those gangs to rise up against their boss. So right now, with both sides left with no boss, their men had no other choice but to fight to the death, save for some who ran away at the very last second.

Ezont Family and Haurias, the two goliath gangs in the lower district of Kugamayama city. With the loss of their boss and their men, the money that they spent in that battle, both of them were effectively destroyed in a single night.