Escaping Line

Riley, a commander of the Foremost Agents and its underdogs who has been promoted to the principle of Oxfell Arton, was one of the ruler agents where the four, who entered the agency's higher-up room kept a tight eye on their summoner.

"Look at you bunch. You came just in time. The fun's about to start."

They turned to gaze at Riley with a wide-eyed fascination, anticipating the upcoming orders. Riley laughed as he glanced at the monsters in the front of his office, preparing to assign each of them a task in dispersing Tim and the others.

"I must admit that I was impatient, but you finally turned there, ready to carry out any commands I gave you. The ruthless and 'Foremost' Agents; Eagor 'Lazy Eye' Soren', Parth 'Snake' Shelley'. Naeve the 'Fox' Payton, and Yules 'Raider' Salvadore. It must be a pity for me to come across such magnificent "Oxfell Arton's" warriors who are obeying my orders. Here's where you can listen. We've discovered a group of pirates hiding on our island, one of whom is Natan, the 'Shadow Rider.' I was astounded that someone with so much talent would join such a crew team to sail across the ocean. It can only imply one thing: these pirates have some truly extraordinary talents. It's your job to get rid of them."

"You've summoned us here for some pirates causing trouble, is that it? Why summon us for some weak pirates that don't even have bounties other than one of them? Sure, the 'Shadow Rider' has a high bounty, but we usually preserve our abilities to strike down an army of high bounty pirates. That's our job, nothing else."

"So you'd rather have a bunch of useless pirates rampaging around the Oxfell Arton causing havoc for us and the rest of the agency? Isn't the 'Shadow Rider' bounty enough to convince you? There's no way he'd join up with some weak pirates, especially the warrior who likes to sling his guns to victory and has killed countless adversaries in his life spam."

"To be honest, Yules, we should obey his orders. While I agree that his selfishness is unreasonable, there is no reason why we should not eradicate the threat."

Naeve tucked her hair behind her ears and held a book beneath her armpit before turning to face Yules, who had initially refused Riley's orders, but had rapidly become fast-moving and eager in removing the threat.

"I assume there's a monetary incentive for taking them out."

"Is there a certain number of them? Can you say it again?"

Parth, wondered as he kept his arms crossed in front of his chest, hoping for an ideal reaction from Riley, who delivered the information once more at the favor and then looked through the massive window to watch the agents frantically searching for the pirates.

"There is a total of seven of them. Two of them are somewhere in the vicinity of central Oxfell Arton, while the other two have eluded us and we have no idea where they are. The 'Shadow Rider,' on the other hand, has been seen running through the Western streets. As of the four-eyed girl who had been with the other two girls earlier has been attempting to locate something or someone by racing across the outskirts of the city, pursued by only a few agents. We're still trying to figure out why she's been running. There were some assumptions that the girl couldn't fight or avoided causing a ruckus. However, as I previously stated, the best answer could be that she is looking for something specifically."

"I see, there are a total of seven. Is that, however, the correct figure? I'm not sure, but it's possible that the eighth member is among them..."

"What are you saying, Parth? That's ridiculous! If there was the eighth member, the citizen would have already informed us about!"

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Tim continued to look at the cooks as they prepared the food while he carelessly threw the plates away. He had never realized it because he had been more attentive to the task being done, but after smashing additional plates, the cooks began shrieking.

"Stop smashing the plates!"

It startled him, and he flinched on the spot, instantly looking into the sink with a shameful grimace on his face.

"Oh! Sorry for the joke! I was completely oblivious!"

"Just stop and concentrate on your work! Even if you ruin the dishes, you won't be able to get out of here!"

"Can't I get some food first? I've been working hard..."

"By destroying our plates?!"

When the kitchen chef yelled, he threw a plate at Tim, which cracked on top of his head, causing other cooks to grab him.

"Now you're the one destroying plates!"

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Detected by some of the agents, Codey continued to leap over the rooftops, vaulting over the edges while being pursued by the yelling agents who were trying to catch him, but due to the fun he had had and the joyous years he had lived, Codey just laughed in their faces and pointed his own tongue at them to irritate them and cause them to lose concentration on the path, where they suddenly started to roll down the stairs one by one, with only a few escaping harm.

"This is the advantage of being a Spiritual Duelist! There's no way a bunch of normies like you could catch me adrift like a ship! I'm beyond your average speed and no matter how hard you try, it'll just persuade you into failure!"

He had been getting very confident and joyfully continued to descend and ascend over the rooftops while also noticing a cannon on top of the tower in the distance which was piloted by an agent at the top who never lost sight of Codey.

"Looks like they brought reinforcements..."

The cannon was fired, and the cannon ball rotated and rolled through the air, nearly crashing into Codey's body, who hunched with his knees almost touching the roof's edge, and ascended into a high jump, for the cannon ball to explode at the roof's corner, below Codey's feet. The cannon was replenished as Codey flew into the sky, and began to regain control of his body. He conjured a red whip by swiping his arm behind his back. With the force of his wind blast, he hurled it forward and wrapped it around the front tower's framework, propelling himself through the air. With the cannon ball blasting on the opposite side of the wall he had been behind, he spun around and behind the tower.

In a matter of seconds, he was swinging about and catching air by flinging himself through the air, shocking the agent. He whipped the whip between his knees and threw it at the agent, who was already wrapped around and trapped. Codey yanked the man through the air beneath his boots, which he took advantage of and rebounded off the agent's back, then unwrapped the whip, causing the agent to scream and fall to the very bottom into the open streets, where the agents trod over him without noticing.

"As stupid as you always are! You should really find some better agents to keep this town safe!"

Codey turned to gaze at the agents after a flawless landing and chuckled, only to be astonished when he saw them ascend the walls.

"Crap! Gotta keep moving!"

He dashed forward and jumped over the roofs to get back into sprinting. He was stopped in his tracks when he spotted a group of agents prepared to fire a row of cannon balls. It astounded him that numerous agents were still able to track him along the streets and roofs below him.

"How many of these agents are there?! There seems to be no end to them, and I've already plowed through several!"

He heard shouting and moaning behind his back as he watched a slew of agents leap over the roof's opening, with only a few failing, and the most of them keeping up with him despite his incredible agility.

"Prepare to retaliate. The target has been set! In the distance, it's around 45 feet!"

Codey gulped the saliva of astonishment and unable to come up with a viable escape strategy, and all he saw was the cannons firing at him at the same time. He felt agitated and looked down at the street below him.

"Let's hope there's not too many enemies down there!"

He dove into the street, cannon balls exploding behind his back at the roof, and he laughed as he heard the screams of the hit agents caught in the blast.

He jumped from a structure that was roughly 20 meters tall, with the agents squatting on the roof and peering down over the edge, observing him land safely and without incident. With a laugh and a smile, Codey turned to look at them from below, lifting his arm and smiling as he bid them farewell.

"Look forward to seeing you! It was a lot of fun to play catch! But now I'm going to put a stop to these stupid mistakes and establish that man who cheated..."

The agents were terrified and perplexed, shivering from the height they were at. They appeared to be locked in place, unable to think of a way to track him down.

"That kid isn't even close to being normal! We can't jump from this height because our bones will break!"

Despite the warning, the majority of the agents attempted, but failed, and began to pile one on top of the other, with Codey detecting their failure by keeping one eye fixed on them, but laughing in reaction to their agonizing screams.

"Looks like you're not as skilled as me!"

To be continued...