Chapter 414: Raids End 1 (1/2)

Chapter 414: Raid's End 1

"That was a good old scrap Best I had in a damn while" Clint exhaled as he stood over a pile of half-ed with toxic lavender

Underneath the rubble, pinned below a pillar of concrete, was Shuten Doji He lay flat on his back, arms out to his sides in exhaustion Despite thedown on hiht that held hi that really hurt him

"Screw you, Unbreakable," said Shuten Doji, his voice a little strained froht on his chest "I said it before and I'll say it again: coeance - it's a foolish decision

You probably believe your alliance with Thanatos gave you the freedoh, an upstart like hih

And when that happens, you'll regret breaking the peace we brokered"

"A peace?" Clint shrugged Various inhuman parts on his body - the carapace on his skin, the feathered gills on his neck to filter out poison, the insulating blubber under the carapace to fend against fire - glohite before fading away like dust "That ain't a peace It was a ceasefire"

"And you broke it You understand what that means, don't you? You still have an entire tribe to take care of You - you're an interesting specione Meta

You could have helped the world soyour body to science, but here you are, licking old wounds like a bitter dog"

"Here I alanced at the facility's now shattered do here? Metamorphosis?"

"Why's it matter to you?"

"It ht now," said Clint

"What!?" Shuten Doji exclai parts

"Oh, believe me, that's been in the back of my mind," said Clint "But I've had time to calm down about that A little I'll still kill your kind if it coo on a rae with my tribe on the line

That is, until now

All that talk about vengeance was to keep you fightin' me, ya blockhead"

Shuten Doji furrowed his brows together, his glowing purple veins visible under his skin "What!? You would dare to steal our research? You'rea mistake, Unbreakable! This research - it isn't petty R and D for the next killing weapon - it's the key to our future! To humanity's future!"

"Really now?" Clint sat down on the pillar cross-legged He rested his stubbled chin on his hand casually "Kinda interestin' coranted, but still thugs, y'know?"

"You know nothing," said Shuten Doji His eyes flickered in recognition as he recalled their battle The battle that had utterly destroyed the lab's shi+eld dome and, he realized, its communication lines

Clint had made absolutely sure to keep Shuten Doji isolated here, leveraging the fact that he was the one and only Unbreakable - the one h tier corporation by himself with a personal vendetta to boot - to bait Shuten Doji into thinking only about the fight here

Shuten Doji put a resisting hand against the pillar pinning hi into the solid concrete like it was made of putty "Down there is mankind's only hope to survive the future You cannot destroy the research there Not if you actually care about this world"

"Huh" Clint raised a brow at Shuten Doji "You're being serious, aren't ya? Desperate, too But not in a way to try and spare you, cause' no self-respecting Sword is ever gonna beg for their lives

You really do think the world's hope is down there"

"Yes," said Shuten Doji "As is mine"