Chapter 28: All Hell Broke Forth

Equilibrium Break!

A violent burst of electricity emanated from Guillotine's fist as it sunk deep into the core of the monster. Charlatan stepped back not wanting to get caught in the range of the deadly flash. Black matter spread across the monster's core when Guillotine's punch landed, the monster grunted before releasing a shrill scream. Its energy went berserk as it lashed out aggressively.

"Guillotine! Get back!", Charlatan exclaimed as the monster began to distort everything around it.

Cars were crushed, Lamposts crumpled, Stalls blow into the air and buildings torn apart, the monster emitted an intense gravity that warped and distorted everything around it.

Guillotine tried to pull out his hand but then froze, his hand was stuck. He forcibly yanked on it, tugging on his arm as hard as he could. Seeing Guillotine struggling, Charlatan asked, "Guillotine what's wrong?"

"My hand's stuck!"

"Huh?! How?", Charlatan asked bewildered but Guillotine simply exclaimed, "Charlatan pull me out! Now!"

Charlatan hurriedly converged dark energy behind Guillotine, forcibly pulling him out before retreating. Just as Charlatan was trying to escape from the monster, he heard a pained hiss, he turned back to Guillotine whose right hand had been ripped out.

"Guillotine! What happened?!"

"Nothing of note.", he said as he accumulated black mass on his right hand, "We have to kill that thing."

Guillotine and Charlatan retreated far back, taking Mari, Amanai and Longitude with them.

Despite the fact, that Guillotine and Charlatan were several meters away from the Abomination, they could still feel it's overbearing weight. In its wake, the monstrosity destroyed several buildings and vehicles crushing them to the singularity with its haphazard control over gravity.

"This thing...just what was DedSect doing, that brought this thing to life!"

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In a floating fortress at high altitude, the leader of DedSect was watching the catastrophic scene unfolding in the Gantz District of Kars. He had a darkened silhouette and was observing the events through a holographic screen.

He let out a cold laugh before saying, "Everything is going just as planned."

He chuckled a little before letting out a low laugh before breaking into hysterical laughter. The several men positioned around the rooms all had a slightly disgusted expression, the man sitting before them was supposed to be a peace-seeking man not a psychotic lunatic, but neither of them dares not say that out loud because the man before them had power equal to that seat.

He sighed before saying, "Alex Dae, what are you going to do?"

Meanwhile, said man was in his clubhouse playing a leisurely game of snooker. He polished his rod after scoring a point, he was playing against his right-hand man, Yanchimaru.

"Say, Alex Dae, I am sure you are aware of the corrupt officials in the ranks of Cybrmille's politics.", he said as he awaited his non-existent turn against Alex Dae who had just got another point.

"Mhmm."

"So... why haven't you handled them yet?", he asked narrowing his eyes.

Alex Dae chuckled before asking him, "Yanchimaru, have you heard of the term 'necessary evil'?"

"...Yes.", he answered slightly confused.

"Necessary Evil is a term given to malicious humans or lifeforms who have to exist for balance to exist.", he said, repeating 'exist'.

"I don't understand, sir, how do people who slaughter others or embezzle funds give balance?", Yanchimaru asked agitated.

"Dear Yanchimaru, why do people ask for world peace? Because of world war. Why do people ask for kindness? Because of hate. Good and Evil, Yin and Yang. One must exist for the other to exist in kind.", Alex Dae concluded as he struck the white ball against a red ball, sending it towards the hole on the upper left corner of the board and ending the game.

Yanchimaru sighed.

"But I understand your sentiment Yanchimaru, you're indirectly asking me to do something about what is happening in Gantz, right?"

Yanchimaru gasped, "How did you know?"

"Simple, while I was scoring points you were watching something on your holo-screen. I deduced that it was most likely news, and judging from your expression and your question I could tell that it was a dire one, and one that had to do with authority. No other organization except for mine has as much influence over Cybrmille as DedSect."

Yanchimaru's eyes widened as he listened to Alex Dae's bizarre explanation.

"So, with that information in mind, I took account of the fact that you mentioned slaughtering people and construed that you most likely meant Occludes who are mainly concentrated in Kars. Judging by the day of the week, I was able to come to a conclusion that people are being slaughtered in Gantz."

Simple, my foot! No matter how long I stay with you, Alex Dae. I don't think I'll ever get used to your level of intelligence!

Yanchimaru was so bewildered that he didn't even notice when Alex Dae reached his side and place his hand on his shoulder.

"Why are you spacing out, Yanchimaru? Get dressed, we're going to pay the head of DedSect a visit.", he said in a cold, indifferent voice.

After getting back his composure, Yanchimaru sighed before turning and following him.

He buttoned his vest, wore his suit, greased his arms and adjusted his shades before walking out the door with the Perfect Human, Alex Dae. They entered an extremely luxurious floating car which slightly tilted when Alex Dae stepped into it. Yanchimaru held the door open until he had taken a seat before entering into as well.

Inside Alex Dae, crossed his legs and put his hands over it before shutting his eyes and taking a deep breath. Yanchimaru crossed his legs in a similar manner but double tapped his shades and began to read manga.

"No slacking on the job.", Alex Dae reprimanded him causing him to sigh as he observed the city.

"We aren't going to Gantz?"

"The matter will solve itself besides if we don't kill the root of the problem, the problem will only resurface again."

"You're right."

The car lifted up into the air, before blitzing towards their destination. Unlike Undawn, that could move only at supersonic speeds. Alex Dae's Ronin could travel at precisely 1% of the speed of light which was plenty enough to get them to the flying fortress in the blink of an eye. The moment they reached DedSect, Alex Dae sent a transmission to the leader.

The leader of DedSect who hadn't been expecting any visitors, talk less of the King of the World himself, couldn't help but quiver. Lest he composed himself, permitting his soldiers to let him in.

Unbeknownst to him, the moment Alex Dae set his sights on him, his fate had been sealed.