chapter 15

"Wahhhhh!!!!" back at the alleyway a few kilometer away from the mini-nuke bullet explosion where Ryuji and the other were waiting patiently for Leonard to return, an earthquake and the sound of a loud bang had managed to reach their location and caught them by surprise.

"What was that loud explosion and an earthquake? Did someone decide to detonate a bigger bomb than those improvised explosive devices?" Ryuji asked as he stumbled down to the ground and landed on his tailbone which pained him greatly, it wasn't only Ryuji who felt that pain, it also traveled to Jeanne as well, as the moment he landed, she flinched.

"Huh? Did something happened? Jeanne?" Ryuji who noticed Jeanne acting weirdly asked her out of his concern.

"Uh no, nothing has happened at all...haha...hahaha…" she laughed awkwardly as she cursed herself for that little slipped out.

"What the hell is wrong with me today?! Arghhhhh!!! I hate you hormone?!" her inner chibi screamed loudly as she went back to her neutral face.

It was then that they heard a weird beeping noise coming from Roger inner pocket.

"What was that?" Ryuji asked the man who seem to be quite flustered the moment the beeping noise started to call out and rapidly took the item out from his inner pocket.

Revealing it to be a small tablet like device.

"Shit! We need to leave here quickly, this thing had detected radioactive particular in the air- and the number is steadily rising!" Roger informed his group- whom quickly pulled out filtering mask and put it over their head before plugging in a canister( presumed to be oxygen in assisting them in the process of breathing if needed be.)

Jeanne also copied them and once again, wrapped that mask around her face.

"Is it that serious? I mean...it's just a little bit of radiation…" Ryuji stared at the people around him with uninterested eyes.

"Where is your filtering mask?! You wanted to be turned into something like a licker?!" Roger shouted at Ryuji as he saw the trap emperor still doesn't wear his filtering mask yet, but the truth is, he does not have any filtering devices to begin with.

"I don't needed it- actually it's more on the line of I don't have the mask." he shrugged.

"What?" that line caught Roger group by surprise, Jeanne- somewhat surprised, but she isn't that impressed as she already noticed the first time she met him and Leonard.

*****

While the people who were waiting were scrambling like headless chickens, Leonard was watching the mini-nuclear explosion on front row seat- also known as the bell tower that was roughly a kilometer or so away with a wide smile on his face.

"That's some nice firework- albeit, not comparable to the shit I can pull if I had enough time, but nonetheless, impressive enough." he complimented.

"Heck, it betters worth it as I spent quite a lot of effort to acquire it!" the sniper sneered.

"Hey~ I liked you, why don't you quit being employed by the Central Government and work for me instead?" Leonard offered.

"No thanks, I have a feeling that signing a contract with you is like selling my soul to the devil himself." the sniper refused the moment Leonard gave out his offer.

"W-what! Come on, it's not that bad...I mean, I would feed you three times a day, and also, my life insurance policies is top-notch too, I can- literally bring you back from the dead." Leonard grinned as he spoke of the last piece of enticement.

By now, the group of militant had already covered themselves with filtering mask as they ignored Leonard words- that was especially true for the sniper.

"What are you idiots doing?" he wrinkled his brow as he notices how they quickly pulled out a mask and covered themselves with it the moment the explosion and the bright orange fireball flashed brightly in the distance.

They all looked at Leonard with eyes saying "are you stupid?"

"You know that I just fired something equivalent to a mini-nuke right? Soon, the radioactive cloud will spread throughout the entire area and began to irradiate the surrounding and harming all living creatures- mutated monsters included- but if they're lucky, they will further mutate into something else." the sniper answered him.

"Hmmm…" Leonard began to ponder over the issue and soon to be a major headache that he just created with firing that shot.

"Huh?" however something caught his eyes the moment he looked up above the cloud, his eyes began to narrowed at what the hell that caused a disturbance in his attention span, it was a flying drone like machine that was roughly a kilometer or so above of him.

"Hey, I want you to shoot at that direction, straight directly at it with the "Red-Hawk" bullet." his eyes flashed with a chilly light as he ordered the sniper.

"Why? That just wasting bullet, there's nothing in the air anyway…" the sniper mumbled in dissatisfaction as he listened to Leonard command.

"Just fucking shoot it!" Leonard raised his voice in an fit of rage as he ordered the sniper.

"Yes sir!" all the people were freaked out the moment he raised his voice.

Up till now, they only saw him in a calm fashion- but never this enraged for no apparent reason, they couldn't help but looked at the direction that Leonard was looking when he ordered the sniper of the team to take aim at that direction.

However, there was nothing insight but cloud and empty sky above their head.

Noticing that there was really nothing strange, with his normal eyes, the sniper grudgingly peered through his scope at the direction that Leonard was pointing and focused his attention onto it, to see if there was anything strange there at all.

"Huh? What the hell is that?" he was caught by surprise the moment he looked through the scope.

"You see it now? Good, I want you to take out whatever the fuck that thing is." Leonard ordered.

"That look like some kind of drone perhaps? But what the hell actually kept that thing levitating above in the cloud? I don't see any spinning blade, jet engine or anything like that." the sniper commented.

"Just fucking shoot it already." Leonard repeated.

"Yes sir, I will do that." the sniper promptly shut his mouth and loaded a Red Hawk bullet and quickly focused his aim and pulled the trigger.

*BANG! The bullet was shot out from the barrel toward the direction of the "Drone" like machine that was hovering above their head, in the cloud.

The moment the bullet was fired out at five time the speed of sound, it whisked and cut through the air- *BOOOOM! It was a hit.

The drone exploded in a fiery fireball and sent metallic fragment crashing down onto the earth below.

*****

"What?! You DARE TO DESTROY- MY PROPERTY?! I WILL SKIN YOU ALIVE THE MOMENT I HAVE MY HAND ON YOU?!" the beast-like figure roared out in extreme anger as the live-feed he was watching through was suddenly destroyed from a bullet down below.

"I was planning to end you without much suffering after I take the god imprint, now...I will make sure you suffer!" his hand crushed the metallic railing as his eyes was burning bright red.