Chapter 1203 (2/2)

He possessed three abilities – a powerful 'Telekinesis,' 'Omnidirectional Perception' and 'Force Vision,' an ability that allowed hi vision He had been given the codenaiants that possessed a hundred hands and numerous heads

Now, he wasactive cae to try and dispose of Melissa before Berserk, one by one

“Still, that Berserk guy is enjoying hi carried away?” said Doug

“There's no such thing as getting carried ahen you have the intelligence of a beast, is there?” said Melissa

As the two of them watched from behind while Berserk killed the soldiers one after another, they heard contact from Murakami

“Izanami is dead It's about time”

“Okay,” Melissa replied briefly, undoing Aegis fro the last soldier

“See you, bear,” said Doug, unleashi+ng his telekinesis

But Berserk leapt sideways, avoiding as supposed to be a surprise attack of betrayal, an invisible telekinetic one at that

And then it roared as it de speed by launching itself off the walls and leaping at Doug and Melissa

“It's been a while since that's been avoided But –”

The knife attack, sith the strength of a beast and the technique of a huis

Berserk roared again in anger

“And Hecatoncheir's codename isn't just for show,” Melissa murmured

Not letting the ripped and crushed Berserk's entire body with careful use of his telekinesis

“Alright, we're done… or not? What a tenacious bear,” Doug muttered

The bear fur, which had been torn to pieces, detached itself froeant Lee's body And then it began crawling towards a relatively intact corpse

This bear fur was Berserk's real body

It was a byproduct of the numerous animal experiments that had been conducted in order to acquire death-attributea beast's power to their battle techniques

The infested human, if still alive, had a part of their brain destroyed instantly, and they turned into a ra berserker as their body's nutrients were absorbed by Berserk

It had been nay, and research had been conducted to deterical weapon, but it had been branded as a failed product

It had been produced by accident, so it was impossible to create new Berserks, and because the only Berserk in existence was a parasitic organis only inside a fur, it was impossible to reconstruct its brain in order to control it

They could let it go on indiscries in urban areas, but it would be weak in the face of squads of trained soldiers That hat had been thought

Soldiers possessed firearms, weapons that would destroy the human bodies taken over by Berserk, and more importantly, unlike the soldiers of Earth, they had coic

Even if Berserk switched infestation targets from one human to the next, it would quickly be seen that the fur was the ic, or frozen and trapped inside ice conjured by water-attribute ic

It was better to put large budgets, effort and time into other research than try to find an effective use for Berserk That was the decision that had been made

The reason Berserk had been able to defeat special forces soldiers, who had received far e soldiers, was because it obediently followed the instructions of other Eighth Guidance members for sois

“But this is the end I'll take a piece of that fur, though” Doug tore apart Berserk's glossy fur until it stopped

Why were these men, ere equipped with state-of-the-art equip and using firearhly planned their operation to counter the Eighth Guidance's crimes

So, why?

There were three hth Guidance had kept Isis and Valkyrie's brave Zombie warriors, Izanami's monsters and Berserk a complete secret up until now Thus, nobody had information about these, so there had been no way to come up with countermeasures for them

Next, the objective of the special forces had been to capture the hth Guidance, dead or alive, and take them back to their nations

Since there was no need tothe to kill thehth Guidance's corpses, but it still meant that they were unable to use attacks that wouldn't leave corpses behind or put the bodies in a state that it would take too long to retrieve them

And the base that the Eighth Guidance had chosen was a ruined subway systeht cause the narrow passageways to collapse If they hth Guidance but took too long to retrieve the corpses, it was highly likely that the other special forces squads would obstruct them or the Bravers would intervene

There were soeways deliberately, having given up on retrieving Valkyrie, Izanami and Berserk and prioritized the capture of Pluto and the others instead, but they were obstructed by the final reason

It was the fortunes possessed by Murakami and the other former Bravers

Pluto and her companions didn't know that the Bravers and the Undead had been reincarnated froiven them that much information

However, the Eighth Guidance had noticed while targeting the Bravers that they had unusually good luck

Bullets ained inforh coincidence They survived in incredibly lucky ways, like protagonists of comics and dramas, and were helped by all kinds of coincidences as they achieved their objectives

Was it really just good luck?

“At first, I thought what Pluto said was i,” said Isis, the beautiful black wo to the 'Marionette' Inui Hajiht in front of her

“Really? Isn't it just a coincidence?” Haji in a sticky tone

“No,” said Isis “Thestarted to go well We ed to dispose of the Calculation and Inspection that were getting in the way of our plans, and even the Oracle Wethe arrival of the other Bravers Even now, the special forces of every nation are being overwhelmed by Izanami, Valkyrie and Berserk, none of whom have experience in real battles It's all because of you people”

The Eighth Guidance had welcomed Murakami and the others into their ranks not only toeach other, but also to make use of their fortunes and destinies

The reincarnated individuals were protected by the fortunes and destinies given to them by Rodcorte That hy they could 'luckily' survive and act as they had been acting

However, when the reincarnated individuals fought each other, those fortunes and destinies did not function well Pluto hadn't known this, but noticing that Kaitou Kanata had been caught in shi+houin Mari's trap, soed to narrowly escape and then died three days later, she had deduced that this ht be the case

And she had been right

“That's e're thankful to you people I got to give Berserk soood exercise in the end, too And Jack in particular Thanks to you, he had a reason to go together with Hitomi” Isis cut her words off there

Haji to ask why? Why we betrayed you?” he asked Isis, who couldn't h he asked this question, he continued speaking, as if not interested in an answer “Well, it seeht fro Indeed, froroup of good kids, the Bravers, we planned to betray you To be ency of a federal state Joining you was part of our work for that agency”

Haji He was like the foolish villain in a comic book, but he had only one opponent, Isis All of the Undead ith Valkyrie, Berserk had been released souns or ic of any attribute

And because Marionette already had control of her body froer

Hajime's Marionette ability allowed him to take over and control the nerves of anyone he touched However, direct skin-to-skin contact wasn't necessary

By 'connecting' hiet with a weak electrical current produced by wind-attribute ic for just a moment, the requirements were met

I've been working on this dirty infiltration ht for me to enjoy some benefits on the side, isn't it?

Tor someone who couldn't resist was an irresistible pleasure Even ood woman

But even after having control over her body taken fro Hajime's confession, the calm smile didn't disappear from Isis's face

“Coood,” Haji to retrieve your corpses They're not going to capture you alive; other than you, it's difficult to capture you guys alive What about the ones that have already died? Izanami has probably turned his corpse into a ht have helped you guys escape, so it was better to have him die first”

Everything was in the palm of their hands Hajie to Isis's smile

Feeling irritated by that, Haji her companions in an even louder voice

“What about Gazer? It's fine, she was never one of our allies anyway We just kidnapped her under Murakami-sensei's orders so that she could be used on this mission; she was just a disposable tool But I didn't think that she'd get along so ith you guys She got so close to that creepy pumpkin-head, she did quite well for herself, didn't she, that slut!” Hajime spat

Finally, Isis frowned “Could you keep your voice down a little? Your voice is glossy and unpleasant to listen to”

“I don't care about that, you shi+tty woed by the fact that he was getting a completely different reaction from the one he desired “Do you understand the position you're in?! If I wanted to, I couldcaptured alive by ain! If you don't like that, how about you try crying and sucking up to me?!” he shouted

Isis's frowned turned back into a s Haji a woman whose body you've taken control over Maybe you haven't even held a girl's hand before?”

Hajih, shut up”

Having snapped, he extended Marionette's effects to Isis's brain With that, she was no different from a wooden puppet, and he couldn't enjoy her reactions, but she was no longer so for him to enjoy

“H you to the federal state, I'll find a better wo?!”

When Hajime controlled someone's brain, he controlled their expression and even their eyeballs However, Isis continued sainst Hajime's will

Iht in surprise

Isis's sreider “Your Marionette is an ability that takes over a person's nerves, isn't it? Then it's sione brain death The researchers kept me alive in that state, and then the Undead made me so that I am able to control my body directly with my soul”

It was a miracle performed by the Undead, Vandalieu, for a reason as simple as, “It's troublesome if you don't move on your own”

“Brain death?! Impossible, no hu…!”

“Before you act surprised, you should think about this first What is inside my skull instead of a brain that doesn't function? I wonder what it is that Izanaave me?” Isis said

“Eh?” Hajiave a scream and tried to turn his body aside

Isis gazed at his back and pressed the switch irateful to you That's why I'll take you along with ood woman like me,” she said

A thunderous explosion sent Inui Haji, and he fell onto the railway tracks of the subway syste room's door He bounced multiple times as he rolled across the tracks

Hajiasped in pain He was barely alive Perhaps because the bomb implanted inside Isis's skull eak, or perhaps because he had ed to put a little distance between theed to use the door as a shi+eld

And thanks to the portable staff… the ical medium that he was equipped with, he had been able to shorten the incantation for a basic defensive spell,to cast it in time

Thanks to all of these, Hajied to 'luckily' survive

However, at this rate, he would die in less than ten minutes With the pain he felt all over his body and the blood drenching his clothes, he couldn't help but be aware of that “Help…?!”

As Haji a gun For a moment, he held his breath, and then he exhaled in relief when he saw that it was an ally

“Kana… ko… help…”

Tsuchiya Kanako Unlike Hajiic, she could cast healing spells of the water attribute If she applied first-aid treatment with that, he'd be saved

As Haji in hope, she holstered the gun she was holding and held a hand towards him

“I'll put you to rest now,” she said “Strong Acid Bullets”

She cast a spell that released projectiles of powerful acid that could

“What?! GYAAAAAAH! W-why…”

Hajime screa with the rubble and railway tracks around him

Kanako watched this happen, erased the irritating odor with a spell and then used her communications device

“Murakami-sensei, I've disposed of Marionette as we planned It looks like he failed to capture Isis after all He was just a creepy guy as useless right until the very end”

Tsuchiya Kanako had disposed of the 'Marionette' Inui Haji received this news from Murakami, Konoe Miyaji, the Death Scythe, smiled

He ht' coinning

What Inui Hajiely true The difference was that Murakami and the others had been ordered by the federal nation to dispose of Marionette during the mission

When Murakami had first revealed this, Miyaji had felt quite shaken, but he was convinced by Murakami's persuasion

Hajione too far

His ability is too dangerous Despite that, he showed that power off toothe important people of the federal nation so scared!

Marionette, the ability to manipulate those the user was in contact with, which had evolved so that h to control the target's body The i Hajierous

And he had been a dangerous person in terot carried away, couldn't resist his desires and he was hot-tempered as well He wasn't trustworthy at all

And now that they had disposed of Marionette, the rest of the shown loyalty to their employers

Now all I have to do is kill the huge wootten carried away in front of me, and collect her corpse

Miyaji looked at the chest of Valkyrie, who had almost completely exterlint in his eye as he activated his ability

“With this, the eneh less than a third of my brave warriors re to celebrate our victory or…”

Valkyrie's speech was cut short unnaturally Clutching her abundant chest as if she was trying to tear the flesh off, she bent over

This is my victory!

Miyaji's Death Scythe, technically speaking, was not a power that caused instant death in living creatures It was a power that stopped the target's 'movement'

However, he needed to concentrate for a long tie amount of Mana as well That hy the 'movements' that Miyaji stopped were limited to heartbeats

Thus, he could kill his target in an instant as long as his condition of knowing the target's face was fulfilled

Since I told them that it's a power that causes instant death, I just needed to use ic for rescue work in disasters and accidents, and act as a tru in front ofin front of the federal state!

Now, Miyaji just needed to ignore the Zombies who had lost their co her back to where Murakami and the others were

“It was a pity to kill a wo payout Don't think badly of me,” he murmured

Valkyrie was on her knees, facing down, and she had stoppedin this position Miyaji leaned over in front of her to pick her up from the shoulders

At that moment, Valkyrie, as supposed to be dead, moved her arm

“Eh… GAH?!”

Miyaji gave a shout as he was flipped onto his back He couldn't believe what he was seeing; Valkyrie was getting up, holding a stun gun in her hand

“You're curious as to why I'm alive, aren't you, Death Scythe? But unfortunately, I don't understand why your Death Scythe doesn't work on me either, so I can't explain it to you I don't knohat principle your ability uses to cause instant death in its targets, you see!” Valkyrie said spiritedly, putting the stun gun into an inside pocket of her coat “But Hito looked down at by you,' so I thought that it probably wouldn't work I can give a guess as to the reason, too Isn't it because my heart is already completely non-functional?”

Miyaji inhaled sharply upon learning that Valkyrie's heart didn't beat, even without hi Death Scythe to stop it

Valkyrie saw his reaction and nodded in satisfaction “My heart was surgically removed while I was an experimental subject A Manpowered pump implanted into a different part ofabout wanting to prove that the Mana itself hadn't been erased, even if the properties of its attributes were reh” She stopped her explanation short and took out a small-caliber firearm from another pocket

Miyaji let out a muffled scream

“It's true that we intend to die in the end And we don't care about what happens after we die But we don't want to have even our corpses used as guinea pigs Judging froic, does it? As you know, I can't use ic, either Sorry, but I'll shoot you with this unreliable sht even be able to pierce your skull, until you're dead!” Valkyrie squeezed the trigger numerous times, just as she said she would

dainning; this isn't hoas supposed to be!

Miyaji desperately unleashed his Death Scythe, trying to stop the pu Valkyrie's life But since he didn't knohere it was, he was co on luck

Fortunately, it see for Miyaji's head, grazing his scalp, ears and shoulders, but she hadn't landed a direct hit yet

But at this rate, eventually –

At that s

In the next, there was a sht that burned his retinas

There was a screaunshots, there was the sound of so

“Don't let your guard down Your over-reliance on your ability caused more work for me,” said Murakami's voice

Miyaji let out a triumphant cheer in his mind I'm saved As expected of Sensei

But then, he suddenly had a bad feeling

Why did he use a flashbang? Firing a gun would have been enough to kill Valkyrie while she was separated from her Zos are useless against them… Could it be?!

Miyaji was startled as he realized this, but his body was still paralyzed by the stun gun, and he was unable to do anything

“It doesn't look like it's that hed as he fired the assault rifle that he had picked up at Miyaji A poor for of you was part of the plan fro I just used, in order to re Valkyrie's corpse It's the same reason as Marionette There's no e can let so instant death by looking at soht?”

Throwing aside the empty assault rifle, Murakami Junpei looked not at Konoe Miyaji, as now riddled with bullet holes, but at the corpse of Valkyrie, who had blood flowing from her head

“This is Murakami,” he said into his communications device “The rest of the work is up to us seven Tsuchiya, secure Isis's fragments If it's i to a and Izanami, who has becoal; Pluto is the top priority”

Outside of a few unexpected events, Muraka as planned It seehth Guidance had noticed the betrayal of Murakaroup of individuals each capable of using only a single death-attribute spell each It seeainst

A his companions killed by these people

As Murakah his communications device

“Muraka; send someone to back me up!”

“S-sensei, this is Gotouta! There's a hth Guidance that we didn't know about! For even my Super Sense to not be able to perceive them, it's like they're a Ghos… HYIH! H-HEEELP –”

“Huh?! Why are you suddenly dying?!” Murakami demanded

Despite Sylphid having been ordered, “Don't go near Baba Yaga at any costs; it's too dangerous for you in particular,” he had been killed by Baba Yaga, and the 'Super Sense' Gotouta was now unresponsive after the scream on the communications device was cut off unnaturally

The seven companions had becoin

What did this mean? Had their luck suddenly turned on them?

“Sensei, I heard on the enemy's communications devices… It seeround now Ah, it seements of Isis's corpse,” Kanako reported

Hearing this, Muraka

The arrival of Ahth Guidance, as well as Minai and the others anted to capture Murakaed the flow of events

Murakaue “These 'fortunes' and 'destinies' are really troublesoroup with the Aegis! The Bravers have the 'Clairvoyance' Tendou! If you're outside of Aegis's area of effect, they'll knohere you are! Tsuchiya, move as we planned!”

Muraka as he spoke the that he didn't have time to recover Valkyrie's corpse, he collected a little of her blood that was flowing out, and then he hastily started running

“Lead the brave warriors and kill everyone except for my comrades… me,” Valkyrie whispered hoarsely Muraka had really stopped this time

Special forces: Almost annihilated

Eighth Guidance: Izanami, Berserk, Isis, Valkyrie, deceased

Murakaroup: The 'Marionette' Inui Hajime, the 'Death Scythe' Konoe Miyaji, 'Sylphid,' deceased The 'Super Sense' Gotouta, status unknown Five surviving members

Bravers: Have landed on the ground surface