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004| The Final Round

Chapter 4
The Final Round

———3rd Person POV———
"Okay, we just need to get out of this forest and we should be at the plains."

Zeliska continued walking forward as she spoke, nearly tripping on a couple of rocks from the forest they were getting through.

"We should hand back a little bit till the next scan, I don't want to lose the element of surprise," Kuroh stated as she took a spot leaned up against a car. The rest of the group followed suit, "We also need to know who won, SHINC or ZEMAL."

"What's the plan to go against TK-5?"

"I have a few ideas..." Kuroh replied, her eyes locking onto the few pink grenades LLENN had strapped to her waist.

Kuroh leaned against the tree she was leaning on, holding up the scope that she kept around her waist for this reason. "Looks like most of my dad's men are surrounding him," she pulled down the scope and looked towards her team. "LLENN, get ready to started shooting, remember the bullet lines won't be ours. Itsuki, Zeliska get ready to head over to SHINC, they'll be here soon. I'm gonna head straight for my dad," Kuroh put the scope attached to her belt before gripping onto her black knife.

LLENN gripped onto the pink grenade she held, "On three."

"One."

"Two."

The group tightened their hold on their weapons and got ready to run out.

"Three!" LLENN activated the pink smoke bomb and threw it out into the plains. TK-5 stood up straight and pointed their guns towards the area the bomb was thrown. "Go!" LLENN and Kuroh ran straight ahead, keeping up with each other and slowly taking a few members of TK-5 out. Zeliska and Itsuki ran off to the left, towards a different part of the woods, keeping close to the trees.

The grenade exploded just as they started running out, pink smoke filled the area blocking player's view of the field. A red line appeared next to Kuroh's shoulder, she moved to the side to dodge the bullet before running to the player. The player took a few steps back, but that did not stop Kuroh from spitting the males throat. "That's one," the purple-haired member said as she continued with LLENN to try to take out the others.

She let out a gasp of surprise as she tumbled forwards. Her HP went down a little bit, 'How?!' She thought, as she quickly got up to avoid more bullets. "Careful LLENN I don't know how, but they can see us!" Kuroh warned, dodging bullets that's were headed her way.

"I know! I just nearly got hit a little while ago!" LLENN spoke, her child-like voice having an underline of panic in it. "How can they see us?!"

"I'm not sure," Kuroh rolled on the ground to dodge another pair of bullets. "Itsuki, Zeliska, how's it going on your end?"

"Not good," Zeliska responded, she took a few steps back from the three females that stood in front of her. She gripped onto her Peacock shotgun, taking a few more steps back before turning and running to get cover. "SHINC was closer than expected! Itsuki! Give me some cover!"

"Anna, give us cover," Eva took ahold of her handgun and began shooting towards Zeliska.

Itsuki held his sniper up as he sat on one of the tree branches, he sighed. "Fine," the green bullet circle calmed down as his heartbeat calmed after running for a while. He settled his sights on a navy blue long haired woman, Toma. He shot, the bullet missing her head and instead hitting her shoulder. Itsuki frowned deeply before jumping to another tree to try and get a better shot.