Chapter 116 - #115 Mount Hakuba 4 (1/2)

”Let's go!” Najasho shouted, turned around, and started running towards the bandits blocking their way out.

Poney immediately followed after Najasho without any hesitation with Tsukushi resting on her back.

”Stop them!” Suzaku finally stopped ignoring Mudi and Mashiro's wish not to interfere and immediately commanded his units to stop them from breaking through this encirclement.

”Tch!” Mashiro clicked her tongue with a face full of hatred while glaring at the retreating backs of her enemies. She calmed herself and instead of sending numerous bullets, she just focused on Poney's head. Since she was focusing her everything into one shot, she would be able to predict the travel time of the bullet and Poney's position right after the shot.

*Bang!* The sound of gunfire resounded, however it didn't come from Mashiro's gun but instead it came from Tsukushi's shingu, Prometheus.

Mashiro was caught off guard that Tsukushi could still fire so accurately but she was still extremely experienced and quickly reacted to it by jumping to the side to dodge the bullet.

However, the thing she didn't expect happened, and the trajectory of the bullet suddenly curved and followed after Mashiro, ultimately penetrating her right shoulder.

”AGH!” Mashiro ġrȯȧnėd in pain with a distorted face in pain together with hatred.

”Mashiro, are you okay?!” Mudi run to Mashiro's side to check on her.

”Grrr, I am fine but they are getting away!” She replied to him while gritting her teeth.

”Don't worry, there are a few thousands of rebels here, they won't be able to get away no matter what.” Mudi tried to comfort her a bit while glancing at injured Cornelia who stood beside him.

'Tch, if I want to use her more, I should wait until she recovers.' Mudi thought and dispelled any thoughts of sending Cornelia after them.

”Stop them!” More than twenty people stepped in Najasho's group way, trying to halt their advance.

”MOVE!” On the contrary, instead of stopping, Najasho speeded up while sprinting straight towards them with his narrowed eyes.

”Kill him!” When they saw that he wasn't slowing down, they instantly jumped towards him with their weapons. Numerous types of weapons which for a normal person would be extremely hard to defend with only 2 free hands.

However, Najasho was anything but a normal person or ȧssassin in his transformation.

*Clang* *Splash* *Clang* *Splash*

Numerous flashes of Najasho's attack were seen while he was running straight through those people, leaving only headless bodies or half of the bodies behind him.

Those people underestimated him however when others saw this, they got ready once again since there was more than 100 people in front of Najasho, and more of them were still running to help them and others were also running towards Najasho's group from behind to completely overwhelm them with sheer numbers.

”That guy is a monster...” Some of the enemies were even avoiding crossing his path when they saw his face covered in blood.

Poney kept with Najasho's speed and Tsukushi provided cover fire while resting on Poney's back. Somehow, they were able to get away from the encirclement but it cost Najasho a few smaller injuries however with how his energy was depleted, recovering quickly was out of the question. Despite being injured, they kept running straight toward the town.

”Kids! Are you alright?!” As they hoped, after running for less than 5 minutes, they met Gozuki on his ways towards the location where he saw the red smoke.

”We are mostly fine but there are a lot of things to report, however, I am now more concerned about Green's group” Najasho as a leader said while holding the worst injury he attained while running away on his right shoulder. While it was the worst injury, it was nothing life-threatening, it was simply the biggest one out of all of them.

'To think they ended up in such a state...I need to hear their report of what had happened but first I should take care of their wounds.' Gozuki thought with frowned brows while looking at their wounds.

”Let's return back to the town to take care of your injuries, you can tell me everything that happened on the way there.” Gozuki said while turning around in the town's direction.

”W-What about Akame and others?!” Tsukushi instantly asked with a worried expression, she didn't want to lose any more of her friends.