"You okay, Ranpo-san?"
Kunikida worries about asking Ranpo, who now realizes their existence after staring at Akutagawa's direction.
"You guys should've been faster."
"Sorry, traffic."
Ranpo pouted at Kunikida, while he threw out a terrible excuse. In fact, the reasons they're here are due to Ranpo's call signifying their position.
Fortunately, it seems like Ranpo has no injuries on him. They still don't know Atsushi's condition in the container, but the others will take care of him as of now.
So, for the meantime, they have to distract Akutagawa from interfiere.
[Don!] [Don!] [Don!]
Kunikida fires more bullets into Akutagawa, but none of them ever reach him.
"Useless…"
With an annoying groan, Akutagawa summons countless dragon-head aims directly toward the Kunikida duo.
"Nop~"
Before the attack can connect, with a bright smile on his face, Kenji holds the road sign and swings it a full circle and knocks away the dragon-heads.
"…?!"
Startled by the strength of Kenji, Akutagawa slightly flinched and leered at him with a slightly confused face.
"Now!"
Kunikida rips the page out of his beloved note, the main source of his power, and a flashbang then materializes on his hand. He then pulled the pin and gave it to Kenji, who immediately threw it toward Akutagawa, who now started to realize the weapon.
"Tch…!"
Akutagawa immediately sliced the flashbang in two with his clothes, but this also made him vulnerable in a sec. Taking this opportunity, Kenji threw countless pebbles at Akutagawa, while Kunikida ran toward him with another ripped page.
Their intentions were clear, Kenji will provide blind spot for Kunikida to sneak up on Akutagawa and take him down.
They seem eager to end this battle as soon as possible, probably due to their concern over Akutagawa's ability in a long term battle.
But, Akutagawa isn't dumb either.
"Useless, such a shrewd trick won't work on me…"
With a boring expression now as the beginning, he casually calls forth four dragon-heads to eat the whole pebbles, while summoning two more heading for Kunikida.
"Ugh!!"
Kunikida barely avoided the two heads, as he kept his distance from Akutagawa. But before he could relax, a bunch of blades then approached him with immense speed, aiming directly at his chest.
"Shit!!"
Accidentally let out a swear, Kunikida braced himself for the attack. A second later, a dark lance pierce through his chest, as he coughs out a whole pool of blood.
"Hm…"
Huffing with no emotion, Akutagawa then tried to rip him apart into pieces, just like what he did with the two rats…
Suddenly, his whole view darkened, and he immediately looked back at his front, eyes slightly widened in shock. A giant concrete pipe slowly flies toward him, and will definitely crush him if it lands.
"Tch…"
Akutagawa barely reacted to that, using his clothes to crush the pipe before it could hit his face just in time… But right after that, when the dust from the destruction started to settle, a lot more pipes began to show up in the air, directly toward him.
"…"
Without any more wasted breath, Akutagawa summons countless blades and dragon-heads, destroying all the obstacles that dare to obscure his vision one by one.
During the process, he also gets a glimpse at the opposite side, where a figure repeatedly picks up concrete pipes lying around and throws it away at him, and decides to finish this for real this time.
Avoid all the flying pipes, he rapidly reduced the distance between him and the farm boy, who now expressed his hostile demeanor toward him.
Notice Akutagawa quickly approaching, Kenji stops whatever he's doing and instead jumps toward Akutagawa. He throws a fist directly at Akutagawa's face, while Akutagawa simply calls forth his blades on Kenji, ready to pierce his heart.
Kenji fist effortlessly goes through his blades and lands on Akutagawa face, followed by a rumbling sound that echoes all over the harbor…
A direct hit from an angry Kenji, Akutagawa must surely die at that moment…
… But he didn't.
Akutagawa, with his unfazed gaze, avoided Kenji fist in a pich. On the other side, countless blades have pierced through Kenji's belly, blood started to flow all out.
Two members down, he scoffed.
Although this battle is slightly more annoying than his regulars, they're still relatively weak compared to his absolute power, one that has been strengthened by "that guy" over the years…
A slight pain arose in his arm, which made him flinch for a moment. He narrowed his eyes on the wound, which was still leaking some blood, and pinched his lips in annoyment while thinking back.
No one's been able to truly make him feel pain all this time, other than "that guy", even since he was still a little child living in poverty.
He has single handedly built up his reputation, all without shredding a pinch of blood after the training, all for the sake of acknowledgement from him….
And yet, somehow make him bleed…
Is it arrogant, or even underestimated, that he got injured by a mere rat? Even worse, that damn rat punched him in the face, a feat that no one else has ever done before.
… Doesn't matter, none of his business.
That rat died now, just like the others…
Suddenly, the container doors opened, and a figure slowly crawled out of it, which intrigued Akutagawa's attention.
"!!"
Widen his eyes in shock, Akutagawa immediately runs toward the container to try handling the target.
But when he got close to the container, the figure quickly vanished into thin air, leaving him staring in awe. He then look into the container to confirm the status, but the mantiger have really escaped
"This is…?!"
He looks back at the two defeated Agencies, and sure enough, their bodies have also disappeared without a trace. As he tries to re-captivated the situation, a single snowflake falls into his gaze, but he doesn't mind it a bit.
"!!"
He immediately spread his clothes all over the places, slicing everything that fell in his view. But despite the destruction, he hadn't hit anything remotely ressemblances a human being.
"Tch, they escaped…"
His gaze then falls into dissatisfaction looking at the scenery he created, as he take the phone to make a call.
[What's wrong? How the mission?]
A soothing yet sinister voice come from the phone, but Akutagawa didn't budge one but by the voice.
"Sir… he escape."
He quickly inform the status, his tone didn't change at all from his initial emotionless state.
[I see…]
The voice again speak up through the phone, express nothing of his current thought to Akutagawa.
In the other side, the man fall into silent as he let out an intrigued smirk.
To actually stopped Akutagawa and save the tiger, it seems like the Agency is more capable than he thought.
He didn't disappointed one bit by the underling failure, but only curious as his old friend underlings quick reactions.
If he didn't order Akutagawa to come over there sooner than expected out of concern, they would actually save him without his knowledge.
"Rintaro! More cake!"
"On my way, dear Elise ~"
Hearing his beloved grumpy sound he immediately ended the call without any further orders for Akutagawa.
In this case, it means that he can freely going anywhere until further notice.
"Hm…"
Looking at the sea through the cracked between the harbour cargos, he silently turned around and walk away…