A Second Chance

Chapter 52

After shooting down and killing at least another six more men who were stationed at the lift lobby, Tsukiyomi stole a few bullet magazines from one of the bodyguard's guns that were the same model as hers.

A thud echoed from behind her. In reflex, her head turned swiftly, and she brought up her loaded pistol towards the sound. Her hand dropped when she noticed the figure of a half-bloodied short male. "Ah, Akatsuki-kun." She acknowledged, knowing that all of the blood on him weren't his.

Said male nodded his head. Just then, the earpiece in their ears zapped static for a second and Kei's voice replaced the noise. "Hey! The minister has touched the basement! Make it fast!"

Tsukiyomi turned to the shorter male. "Akatsuki, use your ability and hinder them!" She said. "Take the stairs. I will deal with the lift and make it impossible to use. It will force him out through the emergency escape stairways."

Akatsuki nodded his head. Yellow lights of kanji grew from the bottom of his feet and wrapped around his legs, creating some sort of layer. In the next instance, he was gone in a flash and the only sound of the staircase's door banging open harshly signalled that he had started his way downwards.

"Hey! I found one of them!" A scream tore through the lobby. Tsukiyomi glanced to the right before her hand lifted from her side and she pulled the trigger. With a bullet to the heart, the victim fell to the floor with a thud.

Various shouts and screams accompanied afterwards, and more footsteps thundered in the vicinity. Tsukiyomi's expression fell flat when she saw more bodyguards filing into the lobby. "Why won't you all ever give up? You're just going to make me kill you..." Not waiting for their response, she fired her shots first. Pulling out her other gun on her left waist's holder, she used it in addition to the one in her right hand.

More bodies fell as every second passed. With them being in her range, it was an instant kill as most of them just crowd around each other, not finding a place to hide before shooting, giving her a very big advantage.

Once the wave had finished, she noted that another ten had fallen to her hands. Another ten she had killed and bloodied her hands. That thought crossed her mind and her eyes turned to a hazy hue.

"Let's try that out then." Sliding her guns back to their holsters, Tsukiyomi activated her ability. " 'All Are but Mine' , Telekinesis." Strings of kanji painted in the colour of blue appeared from beneath her legs in a circle of swirls, encasing her body in the strings for a few seconds before they faded from existence.

She walked to the doors of the lift and placed her hand on the metal surface of the two sliding metal doors. At the point of contact, a few small blue lights of strings appeared and flew out from the palm of her hands as an effect.

"Seems like the heaviest I could barely carry is as heavy as this lift's doors." Tsukiyomi mumbled as she willed her mind to move the doors. "That doesn't help when I want to hurl boulders at annoying people." An image flashed in her mind, but she forgot about it a second later. With a long breath leaving her lips, both metal doors were pulled off from their section, revealing the inner layout of the elevator, a few thick cables holding onto the elevator and car guide rail of the elevator car.

With a flick of her hand, one part of the door shot towards the car guide rail while the other ran over the cables. The former destroyed the backbone of the elevator while the latter cuts off the cable from the elevator, cutting off the electricity and preventing it from being used.

"That oughta do it." Tsukiyomi brought her microphone to her mouth. "I'm done with my side. What's the status on Akatsuki-kun?"

"He has started his onslaught of attacks. It's not easy fighting if there's bullets coming right to your face."