Sword Art Online: The Duo Factors

Chapter 39: Gear up.

Year 2025, January 18th.. Japan Standard Time, 8:00am.. Lai's Apartment Complex in Kashiwa, Chiba.

The MAC-10 machine pistol cleaned up by clean wet cloth. Now it is soaked in laundry detergent water, dissolving the blood, along with Lai's hoodie as well. Both result letting out an awful rotting smell that fills up the lobby, so much that caused Lai to stay in the basement for the time being.

Lai: Ugh.. I need a mask for this.

Akihiko: You could just hang it outside and let the wind and sunlight do the job.

Lai: Blood is thicker than water so it's harder to evaporate. Also, I need a better gun.

Akihiko: Why not just combat knife? It's durability is better than any high magazine rounds that you have to constantly reload.

Lai: Bringing knife into a gun fight is the worst case scenario. Unless you throw it with enough force and precision or just use the electrical powered chainsaw. Now let me see..

Lai just organized several fully filled Mac-10 Magazines. He decided to look for a better gun since his MAC-10 chew up most of the bullet very quick. He starts browsing through his father's large collections of weaponry, whether it's a modern firearms, ancient weapons or even from World War 1 and World War 2, anything that has better versatility and concealable weapons beside his spike knuckles. He grabs out a break action, short, no stock, double barrel shotgun with full blast modified mechanism.

Lai: This will do..

Akihiko: Double barrel? Such short shotgun would be the best concealable weapon with heavy firepower. But good luck handling the kick without the stock. What shells you'll be using then?

Lai: Standard Buckshot, Armor-Piercing Flechette, Slug Shells, FRAG-12 Explosive or even Incendiary Shells. And I'm gonna bring them all with it, load these in a belt around. So for today's schedule, what will it be?

Akihiko: I detected the delivery has arrived just now. You know what it is.

Lai: The RC Cars and Planes.. Right? I'll go get it.

He returns back to ground floor after grabbing a shotgun. Now carrying a Tactical, Semi-Auto Mossberg 590M Shotgun but with drum magazine this time, along the way just in case if things go south since he suspects nothing will always go any better with all the chaos in his life. He sets it beside, leaning against the wall, hide it from anyone outside and also conceals his double barrel shotgun, loaded with Standard Buckshot behind his back before opening the door. Noticing a man and a carrier lorry behind him, hands Lai with pen and paper for his signature.

Delivery man: Here's your delivery. Please just sign here.

Lai: ...Okay..

He grabs the pen that is tied to the board. Already suspicious towards it due to it has unnecessarily holes on both side of the pen, able to see the ink tube inside of it. But Lai doesn't want to alert them or misunderstood by his paranoid. At the same time and just as he expected, a flash just burst out from the pen in front of his face that recoils him back, his reflexes kicks in and grab the double barrel shotgun. Blows out the torso of the person that disguised as delivery man who just wields out a tranquilizer gun, blood splats out that stained the door and him as always. Then, the carrier of the lorry just reveals out several masked men armed with AK-47s as they just heard the gunfire, along with the goods he ordered behind them, fortunately. Lai recovers his sense before quickly whips out the Mossberg 590M Shotgun and reloads his double barrel. They start pressing Lai with their firepower, shredding the door apart. Then, Lai starts raining buckshot pellets on the men with his blind firing them back from his cover.