Chapter 142: Death...?!

Chapter 142: Death...?!

Chapter 142: Death...?!

The Giganto Zilla pointed with its tail, having found a new playmate.

“No...!” Roka muttered, as the Giganto Zilla shot straight at the Tsero Crystal.

How the Tsero Crystal would react this time, none could tell.

Roka’s gaze quickly moved towards where the Paru had been standing seconds earlier.

He was nowhere to be seen.

‘So he took cover.’ Roka noted, as she turned back towards the Tsero Crystal.

The Commander didn’t move.

Hiding behind the crystalline pillars would be meaningless, as they would easily be pierced or cut through. Being behind one might even be worse, she thought, as the structure might collapse, burrying her.

Instead of moving or watching idly for the Tsero Crystal’s reaction, Roka raised her sniper rifle, and aimed for the Giganto Zilla’s eye.

Bang!

Roaar!

Bull’s eye.

‘I can’t let it take it back in again. That’s the most important thing. If the energy keeps duplicating... At worst, the energy might be duplicated by a hundred... Or more! If a hundred or more of those streams are shot everytime and that the Giganto Zilla gets its fill after each round...!’

The Tsero Crystal reacted.

The Commander’s eyes widened, realizing that she hadn’t been thinking logically. That she had been too focused on the worst-case scenario.

The streams ejected by the Tsero Crystal hadn’t touched her. They didn’t seem to have touched the Paru either.

And just as importantly,

Grrrowl!

They hadn’t touched the Giganto Zilla.

“Ha...!” Roka’s lips curled up nerveously. “I guess... We haven’t completely lost then.”

She let out a sigh. Or, at least, felt like she had. The Paru managed to hide, she thought, that’s good enough.

She had come here alone in the first place. It was right for her to be the one to die.

She was the Commander. From the beginning, it was wrong for her to be the one to survive.

Roka shut her eyes. There was nothing she could do.

The speed at which the streams moves is too much, even for her. She had seen those streams move many times by now.

Once shot, it’s over. Many of the crewmates who listened to her orders had died by this very same attack.

Roka remained with her eyes closed, ready to accept the end... When she felt a hand lay on the back of her head.

Her surprise didn’t last long. She wished she had been touched like that in the past. Gently, and softly.

Now, she was going to die... Which is why she was hallucinating being touched that way. Or, perhaps, she had already died.

She was pulled closer, and her forehead connected with his chest.

Roka opened her eyes slowly.

The Paru was hiding her completely. She couldn’t see anything beyond him. Not the Giganto Zilla, not those accursed Tsero, nor the sharp end of the tail that had been staring at her.

For a moment, time seemed to have come to a standstill.

She stared at the Paru’s face. She was slightly frowning.

Why was he standing there? Was he going to protect her by putting his body on the line? Was he going to sacrifice himself for her? There’s no way. Why would he even do that? But... What else could it be?

It’s backwards in the first place. It’s a woman’s job to sacrifice herself for her man, not the opposite.

Her... Man?

Roka almost chuckled at her racing thoughts, which, at some point, started to seem like they weren’t even hers.

A moment later, the Paru’s face started disappearing, and so did the front side of his upper body.

His hand moved away from the back of her head, and her brows furrowed further.