The girl with white hair and red eyes is serious about revenge

We must escape together, Kemp thought to himself.

After that, everything will be fine.

......

7) In the Name of Original Sin (Part 6)

"Hahaha, run, little hamster, run!!"

"boom--"

The bone whip swept through the woods like a storm, clearing away the tangled bushes in an instant, revealing a clearing.

In the middle of the open space, a young man was holding his head, shrinking and trembling.

He was almost out of strength. He ran all the way from the border into the forest and was chased across almost the entire forest. The boy was facing death every minute and every second. He could be chopped into pieces by the bone whip storm behind him at any time and turned into one of the skeletons on the ground.

He thought he had become numb, but when the last piece of fig leaf was removed, he couldn't help shedding tears.

“Ah…Ah…”

The young man raised his head and met Beichenxing who was walking towards him. Her eyes were full of madness, and her pretty face was no longer beautiful, but covered with blood and tiny wounds, like a demon crawling out of hell.

Behind her, a huge biochemical robot was walking. It was completely black, like a rhinoceros walking upright, and was covered in heavy steel.

The boy thought that the two monsters he saw at the border were scary enough, but now it seems that they were just a fraction of the power of this terrifying mercenary.

"Clang-clang-clang-"

Every time the cyborg's huge iron foot landed on the ground, the boy's body shook. During his escape, he witnessed countless well-equipped mercenaries challenging the giant iron puppet, but none of them had a good ending. Most of them were beaten to pieces by a punch before they could get close to the cyborg, and those who used guns had no way to penetrate the cyborg's armor. Without exception, they died under Itrisna's bone whip storm.

"......"

In silence, the boy's eyes fell on the waist of the cyborg: it was a long string of contestants' heads strung together by dog ​​tag chains. Looking at the dead faces of those guys, the boy couldn't help but imagine what his head would look like when it was hung there.

Will it be panic, despair, or numbness?

Anyway, it is unlikely that the white-haired sister will appear again.

Is this the end?

"..."

Itrisna walked up to the boy with a crazy look on her face. She lifted his chin and looked at his cheek carefully.

"Cute little mouse..." Etrisna murmured softly, "I remember you... Oh... It was [Pure White Flame] who saved you, right? Where is she? Tell me quickly?"

"me..."

The young man stammered and couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time. Seeing this, Itrisna's cheeks were suddenly filled with madness -

"Snapped!"

Itrisna slapped the boy in the face, then swung the bone whip, turning it into a long strip like a chainsaw, with its sharp edges flashing with red factor energy.

"Tell me where she is, you know that, right? I'll let you keep running...keep running, but you have to tell me, you have to...you have to tell me..."

Idrisna's tone was crazy, as if she had no idea what she was saying. She was like a pipe that had been opened but broken, spraying out her incoherent words aimlessly:

"She is mine... She is my prey, you are the hamster... She is the prey... The prey... I need the prey..."

The young man stared at Itrisna blankly. Suddenly, a fierce murderous aura burst out from her body. She suddenly stabbed the bone whip into the ground fiercely, then held her head and looked up to the sky and howled:

"My prey!! Where is my prey!! Perlis Havrgard!! Come out!! Let me prey on you, let me eat you up completely!!"

After that, Idrisna grabbed the boy's neck like crazy and lifted him up. The boy felt a strong sense of suffocation and twisted his legs desperately, but he had no way to break free from Idrisna's iron arms.

Behind Itrisna, the huge cyborg had stretched out his right arm and unfolded a long arm blade - probably waiting for Itrisna to use it to chop off the boy's head after killing him.

"Uh...uh uh..."

His vision became increasingly blurred, and the severe lack of oxygen made the boy's eyes go dark. Soon, he felt his consciousness gradually fade away and become illusory.

Just die like this?

Gradually, the boy's struggle became weaker and weaker, saliva flowed from the corners of his mouth, and the figures of his parents appeared before his eyes.

“Ah…Ah…”

The boy rolled his eyes. He felt his soul becoming vague and all physical sensations fading away.

In this pitch-black darkness, he heard three short, plain words:

"[North Star]."

In an instant, a torrent of air rushed into his lungs again, and he felt himself sitting down on the ground, and then began to cough continuously.

"Oh...it's you..."

In the boy's ears, Idrisna's figure was somewhat ethereal, but then filled with passion:

"【Scavenger】... your ranking... is it much higher than 【Pure White Flame】?"

The boy felt Etrisna walking away from him. He didn't know why for a moment, but he subconsciously crawled in the opposite direction.

Leave, leave this hell.

"Ahem...ah...cough..."

The strength of his limbs recovered a little, and the boy struggled to get up, then staggered towards the woods in the distance.

That direction is the Light Prism Tower. He is still alive and there is still hope.

The boy then ran for his life, praying that the Grim Reaper holding the bone whip would not catch up with him, while he tightly clutched the dog tag on his chest.

"..."

Before completely entering the woods, the boy turned his head slightly and happened to see his "savior".

The guy stood in front of Etrisna like a devil, his green eyes above his thin cheeks flashing like a wild wolf.

......

"What... happened here?"

With the gun-wielding Yu as the vanguard guard, Kemp finally carried Jessica on his back and reached the escape capsule under the prism signal.

But everything that came into his sight made his hair stand on end instantly——

——Blood and corpses.

There was only one escape pod left, and several corpses were lying around it. The ground was soaked with blood, and the faces of the dead were empty, and it looked like they had not suffered much.

It seems that a battle took place here, and it was a very quick battle.

The mercenaries arrived here first, and the winner was decided quickly. Perhaps because the winning team lost one person, there was still an escape pod left here.

What a fortune in misfortune.

Seeing this scene, Kemp calmed down and said to Yu beside him:

"Yu, I'll leave Jessica here. You keep watch around while I go unlock the escape pod."

Kemp said as he pulled out the dog tag hidden in his collar and held it tightly in his hand.

This was the best method Kemp could come up with: he was a non-combatant and could appear in the open as bait, and if there was an ambush around, Yu could shoot from the dark.

Even if something happens to her, Yu will protect Jessica.

"If something happens to me, you must send Jessica away, understand?"

Kemp looked into Yu's eyes, but was surprised to find that Yu was staring at the dog tag in his hand with a hollow look in her eyes.

"Rain?" Kemp asked tentatively, "Are you okay?"

"Me? I'm fine."

Yu reacted and shook his head quickly. He looked at Kemp and then nodded slightly.

He pulled Kemp's gun from its holster and gently wiped the muzzle.

......

7) In the Name of Original Sin (Part 7)

Seeing that Rain already had the gun in his hand, Kemp turned his gaze to the escape pod in the middle of the woods.

There was still no one around, but with the experience of the mill, Kemp would not take it lightly.

He held the small pistol in his left hand - Jessica's sidearm. Kemp's left hand was much weaker than his right hand, so he was able to use the gun just fine.

"I'm going to fuck."

Kemp took a deep breath, then pushed aside the bushes and began to approach the escape pod. At the same time, he began to be alert to the surrounding movements, ready to hide at any time in case of an ambush.

Fortunately, Kemp did not see any trace of an ambush until he trotted to the side of the escape pod. He quickly checked around the escape pod and finally breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was no one.

Finally, at least now Jessica can leave here.

As Kemp thought about it, he walked over to the small platform next to the escape pod and placed the dog tags on it.

"Permit to pass, verified, route being planned."

A deep blue light pattern lit up above the escape pod, and with the roar of the engine, the escape pod began to prepare for takeoff.

After seeing that everything went well, Kemp looked at the escape pod and was distracted for a moment.

Jessica, are you leaving?

In an instant, Kemp recalled all the times Jessica and he had spent together on this journey. The fragments flew past him one by one, pieced together chaotically, and each time they formed a key to unlock his heart.

He recalled the girl's running posture in Shouma Lane. He couldn't catch up with Jessica at all, so he usually ran out of breath and begged Jessica to wait.

At this time, Jessica would usually laugh and turn around, saying a few sarcastic words to Kemp. Then, she would stand there, quietly waiting for Kemp to catch his breath and catch up.

But this time, Kemp didn't think he could catch up.

"......"

Kemp gently stroked the wall of the escape pod. He could be quiet for a while until the escape pod was fully prepared.

It seemed like centuries had passed since I boarded the Academi Sky Eye. From the border to the Weird Mist Forest, I had experienced so much and changed so much along the way.

So, what exactly led to this?

"......"

Kemp recalled Aunt Enlia's smile. After Jessica left, the federal medical staff would soon treat her crystal wrist inflammation. After that, Aunt Enlia's lesion would also be removed, and both mother and daughter would definitely get better.

He wanted to join them and protect Jessica, who loved to laugh.

However, even though Kemp's tone was so confident when he was persuading Yu, he himself knew that the hope of him and Yu escaping was almost zero: the energy storm was about to come, and his injuries made it impossible for him to win a battle, let alone escape.

As expected, he should have listened to the gunsmith and should not have come to the competition. If it weren't for the little beast in Kemp's heart that kept roaring, he should have watched Enlia leave indifferently as usual, like a bystander.

But he couldn't do it, not only because Enlia and Jessica meant so much to him, but also because he was tired of living in the mud.

Now, when he looks back, he misses the feeling of being in the mud.

In Shouma Lane, he indeed underestimated the dangerousness of this world.

"..."

"The escape pod has been initialized. Please enter the pod. The [Academy] thanks you for your efforts and contributions."

The pre-launch of the escape capsule has been completed, and a deep blue light is faintly lit, as if this cylindrical rocket is ready to rush into the sky and break through the factor energy clouds at any time.

It seems that it is time to say goodbye.

Thinking this, Kemp turned around and prepared to ask Yu to bring Jessica over.

However, to his great surprise, he did not know when Yu had already stood behind him.

"rain?"

Yu was wearing a hood, and the shadow covered half of his face. He stood there alone with a gun in his hand.

"Why are you here? Didn't we agree that you would cover me first? Where's Jessica?"

Kemp looked around but couldn't see Jessica.

"What about Jessica? She..."

"Bam—"