183 Killing one after another
The leader saw how easily and cleanly Fade cut off his subordinate’s hand and frowned. Even though that one subordinate wasn’t particularly strong and was caught by a surprise attack he was still a rank six martial artist. Those higher than rank four are called true martial artists and rank six is already pretty strong.
‘Damn, he’s better than I could ever imagine.’ The leader gritted his teeth and gave out a secret signal only his subordinates could understand.
‘Everyone take out your weapons, Beta, Delta, and Trois you three distract Fade, and the others take the chance to kidnap Ichika. Once we have her we can escape and converge in the agreed location.’
Seeing the secret hand signs the others nodded their head and went into position. The trio Beta, Delta, and Trois rushed at Fade while the remaining people dashed toward Ichika.
Fade lifted his hands in the air and like a conductor waved them around while his fingers were doing some complex movements. Wires as thin as a strand of hair spread throughout the battlefield. Even as martial artists, it was hard to detect such a thin wire and worse still it was dark.
The opposing martial artist who have their weapons out tried cutting the wires but to their surprise, such thin wires were actually quite sturdy and they found it difficult to cut, all they could do was evade.
Erika held Ichika’s hand and slowly pulled her away farther and farther from the battlefield, she didn’t want to go too far since she didn’t how many more enemies were hiding in the dark.
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At the beginning of the battle, Fade and the kidnappers were at a stalemate as Fade was trying to capture the enemies using his wires, but the kidnappers coordinated well enough to avoid capture.
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‘It seems this mode of attack isn’t going to work, let’s change it up a little.’
Fade who was simply standing while using his wires suddenly rushed forward to the nearest enemy. The kidnappers were surprised by the sudden action, Fade pierced through the other party’s chest.
The leader and all the other kidnappers were shocked to see what happened to their companion. Each one of them was wearing bulletproof vests under their cloaks, and not only that but as rank six martial artists they also had bodies that were protected by their inner energy, and there was also a thick layer of muscles, yet despite all of that Fade was able to pierce through everything as if he was piercing through butter.
“No longer hesitate everyone go all out! You know what will happen if we do not complete this mission!”
When the kidnappers heard their leader’s words all of them were reminded of the person who gave the order to capture the princess of the Kurumi Clan. That person was not someone that would take failure lightly, it would be better to die under Fade’s hands than to return to that person without the princess.
Just imagining the scene of them returning without the princess of the Kurumi Clan made the kidnappers sweat, a fate worse than death waiting for them after failure. When those thoughts filled their minds the kidnappers’ eyes suddenly looked crazed as they rushed forward no longer caring about the wires.
Seeing them like this Fade knew that he could no longer act leisurely as before. Fade took out a few round balls out of his pocket and threw them on the floor. The things Fade threw were smoke bombs. The entire area was slowly being filled with smoke making it even harder for the kidnappers to see. Some of them had accidentally attacked one another.
When the leader who was watching from outside of the smoke noticed his subordinates attacking each other he couldn’t help but click his tongue. The speech he made to strengthen their morale and attack like crazy had backfired.
‘This Fade is powerful and cunning, as expected of an urban legend that makes even the most hardened criminals shiver in fear.’
The leader who wanted to act knew that at this very moment, he needed to move now Fade was busy or he would lose his chance. The leader silently moved towards Ichika’s side, but the moment he took a few steps he sensed something and dodged, a small object passed by him almost hitting his head.
‘Damn, he really doesn’t let his guard down.’ The leader then checked his watch. ‘Sh*t only a few more minutes before the Kurumi Clan notices something weird is going on. I need to call back the others to support.’
The leader got out a walkie-talkie and asked for all the other people who were on different duties to come to converge in their area. He really didn’t want to call those guys back since those four were bloodthirsty and might accidentally kill the Princess, so he wanted to finish the mission without using those four, but now with Fade here he had no choice.
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While the leader of the group of kidnappers was contacting the others, Fade inside the smoke was killing the other kidnappers with ease. Unlike the kidnappers who were in the smoke confused, Fade was not affected by the smoke at all since as an assassin one of his skills was detecting the presence of others without using his five senses but using his mana to scout outwards, he could even use some tracking spells to do that.
Fade killed each kidnapper with one strike to the chest. The way he moved from one enemy so efficiently was a scary sight to behold. As the smoke started to fade only two enemies were left standing.
Fade quickly moved to the one closest to him, the other party who saw the hole in the chests of his companions unconsciously guarded his chest and head. Fade who was midway through the action of piercing his opponent’s chest changed what he was about to do into a leg sweep, forcing the kidnapper to lose balance and fall.
As the kidnapper lost his balance and was about to fall backward, Fade appeared at his side and kicked upward hitting the kidnapers back. The sound of the kidnapper’s spine cracking was heard by those present, the kidnapper wasn’t even able to scream in pain as Fade’s hand came falling down onto him piercing through his chest.
The last remaining subordinate looked at Fade as if he was looking at the most horrible monster. Seeing Fade about to make a move, the kidnapper screamed in horror as he threw his weapon at Fade and was about to escape. If it was before the kidnapper would never think of escaping even if death was in front, since the fear he had of the boss behind the scenes was rooted deep into his very bones, but now that fear shifted from the boss behind the scenes to Fade.
The kidnapper started running but Fade who was given the job of killing all the enemies here was not about to let the other party go. Now that the other party was no longer on guard it was easy for Fade to wrap his wires around the other party’s neck killing him.
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“Hoh, that guy is pretty good. I really want to kill him.” After killing the last subordinate, Fade saw that beside the leader four other guys appeared and unlike the ones he killed these four were emitting heavy killing intent.
“What are you saying, I’m the one who’s going to kill him, right leader?” One of the four asked the leader.
“I don’t care who does it, you can kill him and the dog of the Kurumi Clan but do not touch the princess do you understand?”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, come on let’s have a party, and the drinks going to be your blood.” A man with messy hair spoke while licking his knife.
“So who’s going to go first?” The only woman of the four asked the others.
“Let’s do-” A man wearing a formal suit was about to take out dice from his pocket and suddenly felt danger coming his way he ducked, a small object passed by him, and he and the others then saw Fade charging at them.
“This guy is so eager to die!”
The craziest-looking one of the four came charging at Fade empty-handed, based on his movements Fade knew that the other party was good with throws and locks. The very moment the crazy-looking man got within Fade’s range, Fade used [enhancement] on his upper body, and with a twist of his waist a punch that was faster than all the other punches he threw before came into contact with the crazy-looking man’s face.
The sound of Fade’s fist hitting the crazy-looking man’s face echoed throughout the school, and the crazy-looking man flew backward hitting the nearby building. When the dust settled, they saw the crazy-looking man’s face had been flattened by that single punch, you could even see some of his brains were leaking out of his ears.
Seeing this scene even those three bloodthirsty criminals felt something they thought they never had, they actually felt fear.
