534 It’s a good thing to have a girlfriend who forced you to quit smoking (2/2)

”Over one hundred battles… you're exaggerating a bit.”

”Well, I think you're almost there. Don't be so humble. I've heard legends about your martial exploits.”

”Martial exploits? You're truly overestimating me.” Fujishima sighed. ”I used to believe that I was really strong. Only when I met someone truly strong did I realize that I was only a little brat who didn't realize how far away from the pinnacle I was. I almost lost my life at that time… if she had wanted to kill me, I would be dead already. I don't know why she left me alive, but I understood how the world was after that. I'm only an ordinary fighter.”

”…That opponent you faced was female?” Yamazaki asked in a soft voice.

”Yes. Not only that, she was much younger than I am. She's probably only a high schooler by now.” Fujishima inhaled some smoke and slowly exhaled some smoke rings.

The person next to Fujishima moved slightly.

Fujishima turned to look at saw that the game developer named Kazuhiko Haiga was still sleeping on the car seat. Haiga hadn't woken up yet.

This person adamantly refused to cooperate with them, so they could only resort to forceful measures in the end and take him back.

It was only a game. Why make such a big deal out of it?

Fujishima felt that Haiga was a truly foolish man to take the difficult path when they could have simply worked together in a friendly manner.

The weak would be unable to resist the strong. Resistance would only lead to a bad end… Wasn't this all just about some cell phone game? It wasn't like a cell phone game was his wife or daughter. He should have just obediently agreed to cooperate with them and hand it over.

Well, he considered Haiga to be an ignorant weakling.

Although Fujishima felt that Haiga was truly foolish, he was also slightly impressed with Haiga's stubbornness.

Haiga had kept up his attitude of resistance to the end. That wasn't something that everyone could do. At the very least, Fujishima felt that he wouldn't be able to maintain an attitude of resistance against someone stronger than him.

Life was precious, after all. If Fujishima ever met that ridiculously strong girl again, he would definitely choose a method that would allow him to survive rather than fighting back against her.

Moments later, Fujishima finished his cigarette.

”I'm going to take a rest. Yamazaki-san, if you get tired of driving, let me know and I'll switch with you.” Fujishima flicked his cigarette stub out the car window, not caring that he was littering.

”Sure thing.” Yamazaki turned off the music.

Fujishima shut his eyes and relaxed himself. Still, he maintained a basic level of vigilance.

The car continued down the road at a high speed.

Upon passing an intersection, Yamazaki saw a black car parked there.

He didn't pay it much attention. However, he noticed that this black car started following him, which put him on guard.

Yamazaki then witnessed the two rear doors of the car open up, with one person jumping out from each side!

One person was wearing a dress and the other was wearing a jacket. It was obvious that they were wearing Spiritual Ability user combat equipment, and that one was female and the other male. Both were wearing full helmets that concealed their identities completely.

Yamazaki tensed up upon seeing these two individuals jump from a moving car that was traveling at high speed and being able to run fast enough to catch up to his car.

”Fujishima-kun! There's an ambush!!”

Fujishima who was resting in the backseat instantly opened his eyes and pulled out two runic guns. He aimed out the car window...

*Bang bang bang bang…*

The spiritual bullets pierced through the car window, flying towards the attackers. However, the jacketed man wielded a shield that blocked all the bullets!

The dress-wearing woman unsheathed a sword. All Fujishima saw was a flash.

*Shing!!*

The car Fujishima was riding in was sliced in half, right down the middle! It was as if the car had been sliced by a laser with how clean the cut was. The front seat and backseat were completely separated without any damage to the seats themselves.

Such an amazing sword move! Fujishima instantly felt a chill run down his spine.

If this sword had sliced directly at him instead, he would definitely have been unable to block it!!

The opponents were incredibly strong and possessed excellent equipment. He knew that he wasn't strong enough to fight them.

Should he use the hostage to resist? Or attempt to escape?

Fujishima, a combat veteran, instantly made a decision...

Run!

At the same time that the jacketed man rushed over while covering himself with his shield, Fujishima immediately jumped out of the car and started running away!

”Yamazaki-san! Run!!!” he shouted loudly to his companion while running at his top speed away from the road.

He figured that the attackers' goal was to recover Kazuhiko Haiga.

Perhaps it would be effective to use Haiga as a hostage against them, but Fujishima deemed this to be too risky. It was likely that he would be defeated regardless and maybe even killed in the process.

He felt it would be far wiser to give up on Haiga and run away from here as fast as he could. He would then give a report to his boss about what happened.

Not only that, since he and his partner Yamazaki were escaping in opposite directions, this increased the chances that one of them would escape.

”Yamazaki-san, I hope that you'll survive,” Fujishima said to himself.