Chapter 5 Shower of Blood

" I win," I said while throwing the card on the table.

" Oh come on, this is the third consecutive win, how the fuc can you be so good? Didn't you say this was your first time playing?" Ugo, the big man who had pointed his gun at me, said while throwing his cards in the air.

" What can I say, I am a lucky guy," I said while looking at my current level 9 Card shuffling and level 8 Acting, the rookie title plus using the skill on real-life situations is helping me grind them way faster than I normally could.

" Yeah yeah, fucking beginner's luck." He said while transferring the eddies we had bet.

After around an hour of playing, I had made 200 Eddies, but I also lost 90 of them, so I had only gained 110, but you know what they say, money is still money.

It had been almost three hours, another few minutes and the job would finally be done, I had had enough of this putrid smell, I am quite sure that if I had Gamer's body I would have gained something like poison resistance.

We are about to start another round when someone knocks on the door of the room, making everyone freeze and draw their weapons, Ugo his M2038 Tactician, Kiro( the slim man) his Shigure, and me my knife... ok I am the one with the smallest weapon, I won't cry, promise.

Ugo slowly approached the door, his shotgun pointed at the door ready to shoot at the first signs of something wrong, but after reaching it, he looked through the peephole and then smiled towards us.

" No worries it's the pizza I ord-" Before he could finish several bullets went through his body, the last one making his head explode in a shower of blood, meat, and metal.

Gamer's Mind was the only thing that made me react in time, just as they kicked the door down, I had already jumped before the couch, where a flashbang had been placed by Kiro, I removed the pin and threw it right in front of the door.

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New Skill: Throwing Lv.1

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'NOT NOW.'

The Flashbang exploded, making me deaf but at least I still had my vision contrary to the one coming inside.

Seizing my opportunity I dashed towards the nearest one, who had fallen to the ground after being hit by the Flashabang right in his face.

Holding my knife in a reverse grip I plunge it right in the middle of his big mechanical eye killing him on the spot.

After I removed the knife from the man's head I threw it at the nearest intruder, which did nothing after it made contact with the man's skin.

'Fucking subdermal protection.' I thought while trying to figure out a way to kill him.

My answer arrived in the form of a shout telling me to get away, which quickly followed.

Kiro seeing the opportunity got up from his spot behind the couch and showered the intruders with his SMG, killing one of them, but not even grazing the one with the subdermal armor.

The man finally got his bearings back and began shooting towards where he thought we were in the room with his own LMG.

Knowing that the couch wouldn't have lasted much more, I knew I had to find a way to injure the fucker, but considering how most of his skin was fucking grey, he must have covered his whole body with chrome, the only thing that might work would be a sho-

A suicide plan formed in my head.

' Considering I will die anyway at least I will die trying.'

After that thought I grabbed one of the metal pieces that had spread everywhere in the room after Ugo died and cleaned it with my shirt to use it as a mirror, after seeing where my only way out of there lay, I took a deep breath and enacted the plan.

Throwing the metal piece in the air, the man, fueled by adrenaline and who knows what wasted the last bit of his magazine on it, letting me dash out of cover and head for something behind him.

The man saw me move, but due to the weight of LMG he wasn't as fast as he wished to be, and using my now level 13 Running I was able to barely slide under him while munching him in the nuts, which most likely hurt me more then it did to him, and grab Ugo's Shotgun.

After getting on my knee I spun with everything I had and shot.

*BANG

Silence spread everywhere in the room, only two ragged breaths could be heard, one belonging to the now-raising Kiro, and the other one to me, who after landing a headshot on the man, got kicked on the ground by the recoil of the shotgun.

My head felt like exploding, my shoulder was most likely dislocated, and I was covered in blood, but I had fucking survived.

Smiling through my teeth I slowly got up from the ground, using the shotgun as a walking stick.

Kiro seeing how shitty I was, decided to land a hand and placed me on the last surviving cough while handing me a cigarette.

Taking it I let him turn it on and take a big breath, which resulted in several coughs, but the nicotine was helping me ignore the migraine.

" Thanks," Kiro said while turning a cigarette for himself.

With a timing comparable to the worst Z movies, the Netrunner came out of the bathroom fully naked and holding a pistol.

She looked around and saw 4 dead men, two smoking chooms, and several eddies in repair needed for the room.

"What happened?"

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Defend the Naked ( compleated)

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" Nothing," I said while smiling, not bad for my first gig.