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"It's a trap...!" Amiya shouted in panic as a black ball was created on her palm. Gojo narrowed his eyes and looked behind him.

"More Reunion forces behind us!" He shouted to everyone. He raised his pistol and started firing bullets at them.

"Where's our scout?!" Matoimaru shouted while cutting down a Reunion Member that was charging at him.

"They got separated from us!" Amiya shouted back.

"Shit!" Matoimaru cursed and decapitated two more Reunion Members in front of her.

"Rhodes Island... I've caught you. This time, I'll grind your bones to dust!" Gojo turned around to see a mysterious person walking in between the Reunion Members.

"Kill them all!!" A Reunion Member shouted in anger. Gojo shot him in the head and he fell down.

[Marksmanship Skill Lvl 8]

"Snipers, stop their advance! Defenders, hold the line. Get ready to push forward!

Ace, prepare to––" Dobermann ordered but was cut off when a mysterious person in white appears.

"Time out, time out––I only just finished purging the Southeast Fortress, but I rushed over here as soon as I heard the news. These are my hunting grounds, Crownslayer." The mysterious person glared at the woman in between the group. The whole battlefield stopped and looked at the mysterious person in white.

" What'd you come here for?" The woman named Crownslayer asked him.

"Isn't it about time you handed them over to me?" The mysterious person grinned maniacally at her. Gojo reloaded his pistol and infused Cursed Energy into his machete.

"Mephisto?" Crownslayer muttered in confusion.

" You have no reason to object, right? Just a few insects that flew too close to the light... are they really worth your time?" The man named Mephisto asked Crownslayer still having that maniacal grin on his face. Dobermann growled. Gojo narrowed his eyes and raised his pistol a little.

"My troops have already received your info. You've already done your part. All that's left for you to do is to go home. After all, you're just responsible for the core energy sector and its surroundings..." Mephisto continued to mock her. Crownslayer seethed inside her face mask.

" Don't do anything unnecessary...!" Crownslayer shouted at him. Mephisto looked like he didn't give a damn what she said.

"You still have somewhere else to be, don't you?" Mephisto looked at her in the eyes. Crownslayer narrowed her eyes.

"Fine. Have it your way. I can't wait to see you fail." Crownslayer replied to him and looked at her group of Reunion Members.

" We're leaving." Crownslayer ordered.

"Yes ma'am." One Reunion Member replied and the group left. It significantly decreased the amount of Reunion Members left in the battlefield.

"One of the enemy leaders... just took a portion of the Reunion troops and left?" Amiya muttered in confusion.

"What are they up to? Whatever it is, we can't let our guard down... The enemy is still many times our size!" Dobermann told everyone.

" Honestly, 1000 bees are a little better than 100 000 bees chasing us. But it's still worse though." Gojo muttered to himself.

" Well, well. Please allow me to apologize on Crownslayer's behalf for her rudeness.

You can call me Mephisto." Mephisto approached the Rhodes Island group and introduced himself to them. Gojo raised his pistol slightly more.

" What is Reunion trying to accomplish?" Dobermann asked him. Mephisto shrugged.

" Oh, nothing in particular. To be honest, I wouldn't even mind letting all of you go. You weren't even our target in the first place." Mephisto didn't even care to answer her question. Dobermann clenched her fist.

Gojo noticed and calmly put his hand on her shoulder.

"Easy, Dobermann. Easy...." Gojo whispered in her ear. Dobermann started to breathe slowly.

" If we weren't your targets, then why..." Amiya asked again but was cut of by Mephisto.

"However, I had the honor of watching your battles. Your combat tactics as well as your personnel configuration were quite intriguing." Mephisto interrupted her with his own sentence.

" ...Intriguing? You think that the carnage of battle is... intriguing?" Medic asked with her eyes wide open.

" Rhodes Island... I've read up on your group before. At first, I thought you were just another ordinary company. But by the looks of things, don't you think your ambitions have stretched a bit too far from playing with test tubes? It'd be terribly dull if I allowed you to just walk out of here, wouldn't it?

What I'd like is to have a little competition, a ritual of sorts." Mephisto answered while grinning widely.

Dobermann leaned into Gojo.

" Distract him. I need to tell Amiya something." Dobermann told him. Gojo nodded and looked at Mephisto.

" Go back to elementary school kid. We don't have time to play with your clown ass gang." Gojo mocked the Reunion commander.

That commented slightly ticked Mephisto off but he didn't let it show.

"Amiya, get ready. We might have to break through with force. Relay this message to everyone. I'll get his attention...!" Dobermann whispered to Amiya.

" Mm, okay!" Amiya muttered and started to relay the message to everyone else. Gojo already heard it.

Dobermann opened her waist pouch and took out a red pistol. Gojo recognized it as a flare gun.

Dobermann quickly raised the red flare gun up in the air. She closed her ears and pulled the trigger.

*BANG!*

The flare gun launches a signal flare or fireworks into the sky.

"Keep distracting him, Doctor Satoru." Dobermann whispered to Gojo and put back the flare gun in her waist pouch. Gojo nodded and looked back at Mephisto.

"...What was that just now? Who were you sending a signal to?" Mephisto asked Dobermann while glaring at her.

" Hey kid. Why are you still here? I thought I told you to go back to your mama's house? " Gojo mocked him again. Flamebringer looked at him with a confused face.

" Wasn't it supposed to be elementary school? " Flamebringer asked himself whether his hearing is failing him.

"Come on, we're all professionals here. Where's your basic courtesy?" Mephisto was clearly affected but he barely kept control of himself.

"If brats like you didn't exist, my insults wouldn't have been this offensive. " Gojo kept distracting him.

" Amiya, what's going on? " Dobermann asked Amiya whose eyes were wide open.

" Dobermann... All of our escape routes have been blocked by his troops!" Amiya revealed. Doberman's eyes went wide as well.

"How can that be?! How did he manage to do that in just a few minutes––

To be continued.....