Infinity, progressing from Arasaka

"Just like what's happening right now in New York, or in Washington, the next one could be your home, unless!"

A burst of stirring music.

"Unless you make the most important decision of your life!" The MSF operators clenched their fists and placed them in front of their hearts, "to prove to everyone that you have the power and courage to pursue freedom."

"Respond to the call of the Federal Army, or choose to join..."

"A large family of military technology."

"To be a force for maintaining world peace. To eliminate terrorism and let the light of democracy and freedom benefit everyone."

As expected of a military science institute that leads the world in innovation, this recruitment advertisement is truly original.

Chris was a little stunned, but he still understood what the military science and the authorities were trying to convey—military expansion and war preparation!

“This is military technology expanding arms production and hiring, while simultaneously building momentum for Washington. She must have received confirmation that this war may be no less large or lasting than the Vietnam War…” Barry muttered under his breath.

"This damn world is in turmoil again..."

"Ugh."

Chris sighed helplessly, glancing back at his powerfully prosthetic right arm. Umbrella's last base had been destroyed, and he had just planned to spend a few peaceful days with Claire after being discharged from the hospital, and to confess his feelings to Jill...

Unfortunately, it was war.

Damn war! Damn biological attacks! Damn terrorism!

Once war breaks out, it's a double-edged sword; no one can benefit from it...

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"Ghoul"

Tokyo, 14 Nakano Ward.

"Huff...huff...damn it, White Dove is still chasing us! Baka, would killing us do her any good? She's been relentlessly pursuing us. How many of our men has she killed since we came to District Fourteen!"

In a dark alleyway with no surveillance cameras, thump-thump! hurried footsteps sounded as a group of people limped out, turned into another street, and ran wildly towards an abandoned factory not far away.

Once we escaped inside, there was an underground tunnel, and we'd be safe! The reddened eyes of the leaders instantly filled with even more bloodshot veins.

"Killing you will naturally have benefits, benefits in every way." Bang!

Accompanied by that indifferent and arrogant female voice, a gunshot echoed through the narrow alley. The air seemed to violently fluctuate, blasting the last person, along with the fleshy tentacle-like organ that pierced through the flesh from their lower back, to smithereens.

The bullet, studded with flesh and organs, pierced through the man, and in the instant the others dodged, it surged to the very front. Then, with a soft "bang!" imitating the girl's voice, it exploded, completely blocking the path like a thorny thicket of flesh and blood.

Behind the streets and alleys, tap-tap.

"Just like war, regardless of its intensity—counter-terrorism, maintaining order, attrition warfare, or high-intensity conflict—it is a good medicine for the military-industrial complex to develop." The latter half of the sentence seemed to be a soliloquy.

Dressed in black clothes, black pants, a tie, and a white overcoat, a tall, slender woman with light blonde hair carrying a white briefcase stopped in her tracks.

"Just like your kagune is to my experimental research and career advancement within the system. Compared to 'them,' my career progress is indeed not enough, is it?"

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PS: Regarding the first half of this chapter, the initial design was that Vera and Military Technology were emerging large-scale defense contractors in the USA that had been gaining popularity in recent years, leading the times and attracting attention. The fourth plane was intended to crash into the San Francisco Military Science Headquarters building.

But then I thought, this isn't appropriate. It's based on a real event, and neither shooting down a civilian airliner beforehand nor allowing a terrorist attack to succeed is good (I deleted and rewrote it). According to the information I found, the destination of the fourth 'United Airlines Flight 93' was San Francisco.

Thinking further, it's quite normal that there were MSF (Military Science and Technology Service) agents on the flight to San Francisco who happened to be returning to work after their vacation. So, the second design was adopted.

To reiterate, this story is purely fictional and opposes all forms of terrorism.

Chapter 076 Vera, Executing Justice (4.5K)

"Ghoul"

The night in Tokyo was deep, the streets were deserted, the traffic was empty, and the few pedestrians who were there were hurried along.

In the dark alley, hard-soled high heels clattered on the concrete, making a crisp, continuous sound.

Then came the chaotic sounds of people stomping through puddles and littering with trash and debris, along with sounds like barking dogs and howling beasts, all mixed with the sounds of heavy objects hitting the ground, muffled gunshots, the chopping of flesh, and the clashing of weapons.

Bang!

A heavy thud.

It was accompanied by the faint screams of some kind of humanoid creature.

"Sato! Damn it, White Dove, are you trying to start a full-scale war with us?!" He roared, his anger growing. "Do you know what you're doing? Breaking the tacit agreement of the 14th Ward, if we start a massacre, your CCG won't have it easy either... Pfft!"

"What are we doing? Killing ghouls, simply carrying out justice."

Vera glanced sideways at the ghoul who seemed to have lost his lover, her deep indigo irises remaining calm as she raised her hand and fired a shot.

On his left hand, a short, cannon-like, glowing armor, resembling a mixture of pinkish-white flesh and some kind of metal, encircled his wrist, the flashing muzzle flashes dazzlingly bright in the deep alley.

The gushing crimson kagune spikes pierced his open mouth, tearing apart his upper and lower jawbones and tongue, exploding in his brain with a bang, spraying blood everywhere.

I am a kind-hearted person and cannot bear to see you separated by death.

Behind it, the protruding predatory organ formed by the proliferation of Rc cells (Red Child Cells) lashed weakly against the cement floor of the dark alley.

Vera withdrew her gaze and murmured softly, "Rank A, Linhe."

"Go to hell!"

He slammed the corpse of his dead companion toward Vera, and a ghoul who looked like a big boss jumped out. With a thud, his clothes burst open at his shoulder blade, and Rc cells inside his special predatory organ instantly swelled up, turning bluish-black and thick, like a kagune 'lance' made of multiple spiral steel bars.

A few shots shattered the flying corpse, and two more shots shattered another ghoul that was about to pounce, along with the kagune growing from its tailbone. "Rank A, tail kagune," Vera judged, reflexively dodging the splattering blood as she looked in the direction of the sound, her blue eyes instantly brightening slightly.

This one's good, Kagaku.

The kagune is located below the scapula and is a metallic kagune formed from a high density of Rc cells. It is extremely hard and has strong defensive capabilities, but its speed and agility are weaknesses.

Vera is the type of kagune most commonly used by Quinque in manufacturing.

"Lucky me, an unregistered S+ class Kaguya..." she commented.

Enraged by the contemptuous tone, the Kagaku ghoul made an upward thrust, and with a snap, he ripped off the outdoor unit of an air conditioner from a house in the alley and slammed it hard into the blonde female dove who was 'slowly' firing her cannon.

laugh.

With a venting sound like a valve releasing gas, Vera opened the silver-white briefcase she was carrying in her other hand.

A long, dark blade with a purple sheen pierced through the air, and with a bang! In the instant the air conditioner unit deformed, the dark blue-black kagune, without any hindrance, pierced through the fan blades and grille, carrying metal fragments and dust straight to Vera's forehead!

"Why aren't you doing anything yet!" he roared.

A female ghoul whose arm had been blown off by the explosion gritted her teeth and unleashed her Kagune. Whoosh! Crystal prisms like blood cones shot out, attempting to suppress the female dove's backward movement.

But then, a sudden, momentary delay.

He saw the golden-haired female dove's spear shaft deform instantly, a spiral defensive wall unfolding, blocking his companion's attack while the spear tip, like a flower petal, spread out and enveloped the wreckage of the air conditioner unit. The pincer-like structure, like flower petals, trapped his Kagami.

A brief delay was enough for Vera to complete the displacement.

With a loud 'thud!', the ghoul's katana, with its shoulders fully extended, slammed heavily into the ground, first causing the concrete to crack and cave in.

Then, bang!

A louder sound.

Vera stomped her foot on the massive, lance-like, dark blue armor, the exaggerated force of which horrified the ghoul. Its shoulders, spine, and knees could not withstand the force, and it cried out in pain as it knelt down.

"Such power... no, impossible..."

His right arm, which was wrapped in kagune, appeared to have been ripped off, the joint dislocated, and the skin and flesh stretched like rubber bands, literally torn open.

"Hmm, the shape, appearance, and quality are all good. As expected of Ward 14 of 'Kyokuro', the kagune is of really good quality."

It was as if he wasn't talking to a rational being, but to a kagune, to an organ. The nonchalant tone that implied he was about to dismember you sent a chill straight to the top of the head of the kagune ghoul.

"You, you're not human..." *Pfft!*

Click.

A long blade tip separated from the quinque section of the defensive wall stuck in the concrete ground. Vera, as if slicing a steak for a Western meal, chopped off the two shoulder blade joints of the kagune ghoul with two slashes. Thump, the bluish-black kagune crashed to the ground, making a metallic clanging sound.

"If I'm not human, then who are you?"

His throat was slit, and then, as if he were a piece of trash, his upper body, physically thinned, was sent flying by Vera's slap.

It flew seven or eight meters before colliding with a metal trash can in a narrow alley, making a cracking sound. It somersaulted, spun halfway around, and then landed on the ground with a thud, blood seeping out.

Everything happens in a flash of lightning.

From the perspective of the ghoul providing cover, within a few seconds, she only saw his old war god leap up, crash to the ground, and then scream a few times before his mangled body, with both shoulders broken, was thrown out, seemingly about to die.

"Damn it! Why isn't the Bronze Tree here yet?!"

The ghoul, who was tearing out kagune and flesh from the corpse of its companion to replenish its strength, had eyes wide with rage. It no longer fired out crystal prisms for cover, but activated its kagune to the maximum extent, spraying out blood mist shaped like wings.

Like blood and flames, or like the release of gas, she instantly soared into the air, leaving behind her still panting companions, intending to escape.

"Bitch!"

"I'll rape you..."

She was still resisting and delaying, while her companions, facing the white dove, naturally cursed her out.

Before the words were even finished, bang! bang bang—!

One shot after another, without a sound, their flesh torn apart by a few bullets. Vera lowered the long-range cannon-like Quinque in her left hand, and with her right hand, the tip of the long-bladed spear plunged back into the main defensive wall. With a click, it spiraled and writhed, returning to a single-handed knight's lance with black and purple patterns. With a backhand swing, the sharp spear tip severed the head of a ghoul that was feigning death and suddenly sprang up.

Vera's gaze locked onto the female ghoul who had glided thirty or forty meters away in just a few breaths and was about to flip over and dart into the building that was yet to be completed. "S-rank, Yuhe."

Holding the javelin in a javelin-throwing stance, Vera's one-handed knight's lance, Kuinck, instantly deforms, its handle elongating and its spiral tip thinning. She takes a large step forward with her left foot, aims, calculates the distance, shifts her waist and abdomen to generate power, and throws.

All in one go.

Whoosh!

Breaking through the air.