Jun was right. These guys are danger. Just now about 10 men in black suit set up each of their automatic machine guns pointing to the house.
In the middle of them stands a man in black suit too but with shades. Yup, shades at this hour. No need to request another photo of Nico.
"Jeonghan, they're totally going for a kill."
"I know."
"Your plan?"
So, as usual, we will sneak behind the men in suit, infiltrate, take their weapons, and tranquilize Nico.
We were about to leave the trees when we saw one of them opened the trunk of the car.
"Jeonghan.. are you kidding me.." Hoshi whispered while we head back our hiding spots.
That trunk is loaded with explosives. This is bad. We really aren't ready for these.
"Okay, plan B-"
BANG!
We didn't notice Nico had set up a sniper. The shot is followed by a loud scream from the house. Nico threw the sniper away, motioned for the men to start blasting the house.
Hoshi and I docked as they shoot. I managed to open my eyes and saw Nico stood there as he watch the house be disintegrated in bullets.
"Hoshi, let's take the machine gun men."
"Copy."
New problem. The man who opened the trunk took one bomb, unpinned it and raised his arm to throw it to the house.
"I'll take the bomb, you take the gun." Hoshi didn't wait for my approval and just headed to bomb guy.
"Mine's the dirtier work, huh?"
He grabbed the man by the arm and neck from behind. They battled for the bomb but Hoshi managed to redirect the trajectory of the bomb to the fields.
I snapped one man by the neck then studied how to disable this machine gun.
"Hey!" One of them noticed and pointed his pistol at me while not leaving his post.
"Ahhh this is bad."
Another man saw me and shouted "Who are you?" that caught Nico's attention. He turned around and saw Hoshi brawling with the bomb guy and me surrendering at the two pistol guys.
"Hmm. Probably bounty hunters. In this economy, they would want the money on top of my head. I'll go inside, take care of these rats." Nico walked away.
"How dare you call me a rat!" Hoshi shouted while trying to break free from bomb guy's arm lock.
"Hoshi-ya. Can you do better?" I said then ran towards the pistol guy.
We wrestled for his pistol. Hoshi and I agreed not to use much bullets because, again, our budget's running low. Jun doesn't even give us discounts on weapons these days.
The guy stumbled when I punched him. I sat on top to strangle him when another man grabbed my arm from behind. I loose from him, snatched his pistol, and fired two shots aiming at their thighs.
"Cease fire!" Called the guy in the center. The guys I brawled with crawled towards their posts and disabled their machine guns.
"Hoshi-ya!" We charged at these men who started firing at us.
Well, my speed is formidable. As for Hoshi, he calls himself a tiger and sometimes it really shows. We dodged their bullets and aimed for their neck. We don't want to kill anyone as much as possible. Not that we have conscience, but the cops won't be on our side when we kill someone not on a bounty list.
"I took out three, you?" I panted.
"I only had two, including the bomb guy."
"Nico said start firing!" The remaining men ran towards their machine guns and operated it again.
While they're on it, we stole two machine guns from unconscious men.
"Waaah heavy." Hoshi took the guns to bring to our bikes.
"I need to go inside."
"Can you bring Nico here?"
"I don't know, but we can't go back now."
"I'll follow you asap."
"Nice."
I ran towards the house, 6 operating machines is still really a lot to dodge. I can't imagine the storm with 10 machine guns. I spotted a slightly blind spot beside the house and crawled through it.
I peeked at the window and I'm guessing this is the fireplace. It's dark in here. The house is a disaster. The floor is covered in debris, glass, and bullets.
When I stepped inside, a body soaked in blood on the floor welcomed me. The head is bleeding so bad but I recognized the hair. It was the older one who went to the diner a while ago.
Crazy how I just saw him alive and strong back then.
BANG.
I docked. I hid behind the stairs and saw Nico holding his bleeding arm. Then I saw a guy in white shirt, holding a pistol, crawling through the glass shatters towards the door.
So this is the younger. I thought he isn't much of a fighter.
BANG.
He shot Nico by the same arm, pretty sure that wasn't on purpose. Since I saw him aiming again at Nico.
"Ooh. No more bullets?" Nico took out a knife and raised his hand. Younger tried to escape but he stopped.
I guess it's time to help.
I readied the pistol I stole and aimed at Nico's raised hand when suddenly I got distracted by the boy's face. He closed his eyes and I thought his expression shows contentment.
"Bye."
Thanks for Nico's voice I regained my concentration. I shot his left arm. I stayed at my place then saw the boy turn to me. I told him
"Stand."
