He landed on the ground with Kato on his back, and along with the comrade carrying Madara on his back, they immediately sprinted towards the west, to the direction of Sagami Co.
The opponent was that purple-haired monster and the infamous Poisonous Liquor. He didn't think Gill could win against them, even only hypothetically. Let alone win, it was even impossible to escape.
Dammit, dammit, dammittttttttt!!!
Tetsu sprinted with all his might, suppressing the loathsome feeling of how spineless he was surging inside him.
"Oh no, they are coming."
Looking back over the shoulder after Madara’s warning, several dozen men dressed in black clothing from head to toe were chasing after Testu and his comrades.
"What should we do, Tetsu?"
"We can't do anything about it. We have to run!!"
He could tell they are experts just from a glance. No matter how much battle techniques Tetsu and his friends had learned from the head of combat training, Akuido, everyday, in the end their experience wasn't more than several months. They still didn't have enough power to directly face [Laguna]'s elite members seriously.
"We have to!!"
They continued to run with all of their might.
"Dammit! We are being completely played."
"I guess they're in a rabbit-hunting mood."
They'd been attacking Tetsu and the others for a while now, but not hitting us. The only thing Tetsu knew was that they were being led to this back alley.
Most likely, their aim wasn't Tetsu and his comrades, but Madara and Kato.
"It seems like we can only go that far......."
Finally, they ended up in what looked like a vacant lot in a dead-end alley.
In an instant, the black clothed men surrounded them.
"I'm sorry. Madara-san, Kato-san."
"No, I don't mind. It's all of my subordinate's fault all along, after all."
"It's wrong for me to complain to Sagami Co.’s people, but I have pride too. I don't want these lowlifes to have their way with me."
Kato put the knife around her neck.
"Wait, let's try to struggle until the end."
Saying that, Tetsu took away the knife from her and took a stance to protect her and Madara.
"Captain, what do we do with these guys?"
"There's still something they want to ask from Madara. I've been told to make them faint and carry them," the most hulking of the black-clad men replied immediately, looking annoyed.
"What about the woman?"
"Oh, the woman has no special orders. You can do whatever you want with her."
"Wow, it's been a long time since I've had a woman!" the black-robed man shouted in delight.
"They are looking down too much!!"
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"Hey Nero, didn't you say it's an unpopular location? Why the hell there's such a vile act happening there?"
"I don't know. You can ask the monkeys over there, who are showing their bare instinct openly."
A brown-haired young man called Nero, who wore a mask, looked around at Poisoned Liquor’s men in a troublesome manner.
Poisonous Liquor’s subordinates weren't simple thugs either. So, when one of their own was burned in an instant, they raised their alert level to the limit.
"You bastards, who are you?" a hulking man dressed in black, who seemed to be the leader of the group, carefully pointed his sword and asked the two strangers in front of him.
"Hey, the monkeys are shouting something desperate♪ Aren't you going to answer? You battle junkie♬?"
The brown-haired masked man, Nero, took a big yawn and snapped his fingers.
All of a sudden, a blue-colored seat and a blanket appeared out of thin air.
"I'm going to sleep until Grimm and the others arrive. Wake me up when they get there♪"
Seeing Nero who didn't even recognize their existence, let alone taking them as a threat, Poisonous Liquor’s subordinates’ churned with rage inside, and their faces immediately flushed with intense anger. Of course. They'd never been treated in such a humiliating way since they were born.
"Don't underestimate us!!" one of the black-clothed men fired a poisonous dart on his arm at Nero, but before the dart could reach him, it rotted and fell down.
Nero, still wrapped in the blanket, put out only his left hand and snapped it.
A moment later, a long, thin sword pierced through the brain of the man who’d fired the poisoned dart, penetrating his spine and plunging deep into the ground.
"W-watch out! These guys are using strange techniques!"
The black-clothed man quickly tried to put some distance. However, their true suffering had only just begun.
The black-clothed man, who should have died instantly from his skull getting pierced, pulled the sword himself and turned to look at all of the other black-clothed men.
"Guooooooooo!!!"
Then, he roared like a beast.
"You are being too noisy. Be quiet!"
The man, who had died instantly, shrinked back at the unreasonable order.
"M-monster......."
These were the words that came out of the black-clothed men’s leader as he witnessed such an absurd phenomenon.
That was the deciding factor. They retreated, turned their backs, and began to flee all at once.
"What a pain."
Looking at the retreating backs of the black-clothed men, the monocle man scratched his head with his left hand. Instantly, the crimson flames ran around and surrounded the black-clothed man that should have died, turning him into dust in the blink of an eye.
"Now what should we do about them?"
The monocle man was still looking down at the men and women who had fallen unconscious.
"These kids are his family. Doing anything is no good," Nero’s sharp voice rang out.
"I see. The reason why you come here purposely is for that reason, huh."
The monocle man also leaned his back against the back alley wall and closed his eyes tightly.