Chapter 40 Traitor

The grenade dropped by Uragi blasted near Hitori and Reon. They both had already jumped away from the grenade, but still, they had suffered some loss.

Hitori and Reon had rolled onto the left side of the courtyard while Uragi was hiding on the right side. There was a distance of more than ten meters between them.

Hitori pulled his gun down and instead took out the katana. He rose up from the ground and took a glance on the other side. Uragi had come out a little with his great sword in his hands.

Hitori turned his eyes to Reon who was sitting beside him with her gun near her chin, she closed her lips tightly and gave Hitori a nod, "hm, go on, I will cover you, Ryu-san,"

Hitori turned back and came out of the cover. Reon jumped over to the side of the rock and got her gun ready.

On seeing Hitori steps out from his hiding spot, Uragi too stepped out from his cover and stood in front of Hitori. They both were staring at each other, and they both were holding swords.

"Ryu?" a frown appeared on Uragi's face, "who the hell are you?" Hitori started walking towards him furiously, Uragi did the same with his sword at the ready.

"My partner asked me the same question a few minutes ago," Hitori increased his pace, jumped in the air, and swung his katana diagonally down.

Their swords clashed with each other, they both increased their fighting pace slowly which ended up giving Reon a hard time setting her aim.

Hitori moved back after a strike, Uragi took a step back too. Then again, their swords clashed with each other, the metallic sound was echoing through the courtyard.

"Why so furious huh?" Uragi swung his sword, Hitori blocked it, "what did I do to you?" they both stepped back.

Hitori pulled his katana to his right, Uragi lifted his sword above his head. They both were rivaling each other's strength.

"Maybe we could work together," he lifted his sword back and landed another strong strike, "do not you think?" Hitori attacked this time.

Then they both moved away. Hitori was trying to ignore Uragi's words as much as possible, "we will split the loot sixty mines to forty yours."

Hitori lifted his lips. He pulled his katana up with, Uragi swung his katana horizontally and blocked Hitori's upcoming attack.

"Of course, you get to keep the lair," Hitori landed a powerful hit from above which made Uragi grunt.

Hitori pulled back and swung his katana sidewards. The strong impact made Uragi swift back a little, "looks like you did not like the idea," he muttered.

Hitori was panting, he was a few feet away from Uragi. He did not make a move, Uragi did not make a move either. They both kept staring at each other.

"How about I share a treasure with you? Would you like that?"

Clang!

Reon fired a bullet from far away. The bullet hit Uragi's gladiator armor and fell down. She glanced at the woman who had shot at him.

"Oh…"

"Do not listen to him, Ryu-san!" Reon came out and shouted, her gun was still pointed at Uragi.

"I did not know… that we had a science user in our party," Uragi's voice turned cold all of a sudden.

He looked back at Hitori. Hitori took a gulp and glanced between Reon and Uragi.

"You have paired with a science user despite…" Uragi lifted his sword, "despite being a magic-user…" his voice's tone was full of hatred and despise.

He looked down at his sword before lifting his eyes at Hitori, "are not you ashamed of yourself at all?!" with that shout, Uragi dashed off from his position.

Uragi's sword made a strong impact on clashing with Hitori's katana, for the first time, Hitori was having trouble throwing Uragi back.

His feet that were stuck on the ground started to slid back, Uragi was pushing him with even more strength than before.

Hitori glanced behind him, at this rate, he would be defeated by Uragi. Hitori looked back at Uragi with a frown, "Kori no Mahou," Hitori gripped his katana tightly, "Freeze-Dry," ice started sprouting out from his hands, soon the ice started climbing his katana, it covered the blade, and then it started moving to the blade of another sword that was pushing Hitori back.

Uragi clicked his tongue, when he saw that the ice had started climbing his sword, he quickly pushed Hitori back and pulled himself away from him.

"Tell me that you are ashamed," Uragi shouted, "tell me that you are guilty!" Uragi lifted his sword and boosted in Hitori's direction once again, "say that you are sorry!"

Shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot.

Reon started shooting at Uragi as he was making his way to Hitori. She managed to bang damage of nineteen points!

She quickly pulled down, released the magazine, and reloaded the gun with another new magazine.

Uragi ignored the little damage, his health bar had not still reached the yellow part. He jumped in the air to land a strong blow on Hitori.

This time, just as soon as their swords made contact, Hitori was pushed back, almost sent down into the ground. But Hitori somehow managed to stay on the ground. His katana once again started covering in ice.

She rose up and aimed at Uragi again. With another set of continuous firing, she banged damage of more than twenty-four health points.

She got down to reload her gun, "now down to yellow, are not we?"

"Fucking science user!" he pulled his sword back, the sudden release of force shook Hitori and his balance. Hitori lifted his eyes at Uragi, he was already running in Reon's direction.

Reon rose up from the ground and saw a heavy-metal man running towards her. She staggered back, she was barely getting any damage now as Uragi was deflecting the bullets with his sword.

After shooting eight times, she was out of bullets. Reon's gun cocked and no bullet came out.

"You deserve death!" Uragi's loud voice rang through the courtyard. He lifted his greatsword above his head.

Reon closed her eyes, looked down, and wished for the best. Suddenly, from the side, she felt a strong kick hitting her face. Although no pain was felt, the impact was sensed by her.

Hitori performed a roundhouse kick, Reon was lifted off the ground and rolled on the ground for more than five rounds. Hitori raised his katana above his head.

Hitori took a jump forward, he dived forward, raised his left hand with the katana above his head, and pulled out his right hand. Crystals of ice were forming on his palm but Uragi was blinded with hatred to notice it.

Their swords clashed once again, Uragi applied all of his strength and pushed Hitori down. Hitori was using only one hand, it was not possible for him to hold against Uragi.

As soon as the impact was made, Hitori's body started turning in the midair. He stretched out his right at the same time, it touched Uragi's metal armor, "Icicle spikes!"

Urag was thrown away by the impact, Hitori fell on the ground and rolled on his face. A few ice crystals fell on the ground.

They all three got up from the ground quickly. Hitori still had health which was on the verge of turning yellow while Reon's health was almost full, and Uragi's health had gone down, it was on the blink of turning red.

"You dared to pierce my armor," he muttered. He lifted his anger-crazed eyes at both of them.

"Reon-san, sorry,"

"Ryu-san… how are we going to survive?"

Hitori glanced at her, then looked back at Uragi, "together… duh," Hitori added.

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Will Be Continued…!

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