The effects of the explosion left the area near the Olympic Bridge in chaos. Continuous bomb attacks had caused part of the steadfast Olympic Bridge over the Han River to collapse, and vehicles on the bridge were sinking into the river below.
The accident wasn’t confined to the bridge; panic-stricken drivers slammed their brakes on the roads leading to both ends of the Olympic Bridge, causing a chain of collisions. Explosions in the sections of the bridge that hadn’t collapsed also resulted in numerous casualties, with severely injured people lying around, making it hard to look at.
Seoul was always bustling with vehicles, and the traffic had come to a standstill due to the explosion at the center of the bridge, preventing rescue vehicles from entering.
When A regained consciousness momentarily from the shock of the explosion, she saw the HunterKiller members, whose expressions were filled with various emotions, staring blankly at her. She saw the faces of her girlfriends.
Dressed in suits for combat, she lay collapsed in front of them, and when she saw them, she didn’t feel like her identity had been revealed. All she felt was a sense of guilt that this was all her fault, and it would be better to lose consciousness again.
“Damn you, playing around with people like that. Just thinking about how this happened because of someone like you makes me want to throw up!”
Indigo, who had grabbed A’s hair, slammed her face into the dirt.
“Brother!”
Red, who had seen this, screamed first, followed by other members rushing forward. However, Indigo’s voice stopped them first.
“Shut your mouth! If you move even an inch from where you are, I’ll show you what happens to this guy’s head.”
Indigo had already pulled out a pistol and aimed it at A. Although the HunterKiller members surpassed the Guerrilla Team in physical abilities, they too were hyper-humans. It was impossible to move faster than Indigo could pull the trigger from a certain distance.
Above all, the Indigo that the HunterKiller members knew was someone who had long since acted beyond common sense, and the thought of him actually pulling the trigger made his feet stick to the ground as he tried to rush towards him.
“Haha! The illustrious HunterKiller Team can’t do anything just because of one man. How pathetic. Extremely pathetic!”
Indigo continued to mock and taunt the HunterKiller team, who couldn’t hide their anger. He wanted to rush over and crush his bound-up face once more, but he couldn’t do anything with the gun in his hand.
They knew that if A was indeed Spacystro, then like a hyper-human, he was only superior in physical ability, nothing else differed from humans. He didn’t have a steel-hard body to deflect bullets or a shield to block incoming bullets.
If Indigo really pulled the trigger, A would die right there.
“Snap out of it! The agreement with Spacystro prohibits killing!”
“Agreement? Damn it, why? Are you saying you want to save this guy so much that you’re bringing up the agreement?”
Indigo, raising his voice while clenching his fists, struck A’s head with the barrel of the gun. Even though he brought up the agreement, Indigo had gone too far, and he no longer cared about any agreements.
They wanted to take advantage of any weakness to subdue him, but they found no openings. While Indigo rambled and laughed without regaining his senses, the eyes of the other Guerrilla Team members were fixed on the HunterKiller members, and Indigo kept his gun aimed at A despite his nonsensical talk.
“How can these hyper-humans be fooled by a Spacystro lackey and try to protect him? They seem to have forgotten the purpose of being a hyper-human.”
It was a sarcastic remark. Even if it was true that the HunterKiller members forgot their duty as hyper-humans and were being fooled by A, Indigo had no right to say such things to them.
It was the Guerrilla Team that had long forgotten the original purpose of protecting Earth by fighting against Spacystro.
“Crazy bastard.”
Finally, Red spat out a curse at Indigo, but Indigo couldn’t stop laughing as if he enjoyed it.
“Are you that desperate to save him? Yeah, you want to hear something from him after saving him.”
Indigo’s expression, which hadn’t changed since the moment they met, hardened, and he glared at them with sharp eyes filled with sinister intentions.
“Get lost.”
At those words from him, the faces of the HunterKiller members, who were glaring at him, also hardened. What kind of nonsense was this human-like person saying at this moment?
“I’ve been thinking. How should I deal with both you guys who always ignore and look down on me, and this guy who made my face look like this?”
His smile reappeared, and he looked at the HunterKiller members up and down with a gaze that revealed all kinds of lewd thoughts.
“If you get away from here and act like you did with this guy, I won’t kill you.”
The hands of the HunterKiller members standing still trembled slightly. Even if they did as Indigo demanded, he would still kill A. That’s how Indigo was known to the HunterKiller members.
But perhaps there was a glimmer of hope? If there was even a momentary gap, couldn’t they save A?
The suit worn by the HunterKiller members recognized the wearer’s DNA and operated by touching a pad on the neck. So, taking off the suit here meant unfastening and removing the tightly fitting suit directly.
“Brother…”
Red’s mind was full of thoughts about A. About the argument yesterday. About everything that had happened until now. And whether A was truly a member of Spacystro. Whether he was really playing around with them. She wanted to hear it directly from his mouth.
Her trembling hand slowly moved toward the pad on her neck, and Pink grabbed it.
“…Pink?”
Pink, who had lowered Red’s hand, stepped forward.
“If you take off the suit here, I promise to let A go.”
“It depends on what you do afterward.”
She clenched her fist. Taking off the suit here and exposing herself naked was certainly not something she wanted to do. It was unthinkable to expose herself in front of others, and the fact that the opponent was the Guerrilla Team made her feel the worst.
But if there was even a sliver of hope to save A, she could endure showing her nakedness. As the leader but the youngest, Red couldn’t ask her to step forward. Although there was no hierarchy within the HunterKiller, at this moment, she didn’t want to make Yubin experience such humiliation.
It would be humiliating for her, and following Indigo’s words, it would leave an indelible scar. But if she could save A, even in this injured state, she thought it would be okay.
“Pink!”
Blue immediately called out to her, and Pink turned to look at Blue and smiled.
“It’s okay.”
She said one last thing before looking back at Indigo, who was licking his lips with a sinister gaze. She gritted her teeth, and her trembling hand moved toward the pad. As her hand approached the small black pad on her neck, Indigo let out a disgusting breath,
and a pebble fell onto Pink’s foot.
Everyone saw the pebble fly at Pink, who had everyone’s attention, and their eyes turned to where the pebble came from.
“No… don’t…”
A seriously injured A, still bleeding from the head, struggled to keep his consciousness and managed to speak with great difficulty. At the sound of her name, Pink felt her trembling hand stop.
Seeing Pink, who had stepped forward to undress, the HunterKiller members thought it would be better if they did it themselves.
A was important to Pink. Even if he played around with them, she wouldn’t believe what Indigo was saying until she heard the truth from his own mouth.
A was precious enough to trust blindly, and A valued her just as much.
She wondered what expression to make and smiled.
“Yes. I understand.”
A said no. Therefore, she wouldn’t do it.
And she vowed in her heart.
That no one except A would ever touch her body recklessly.
No one would see or touch her. This body was only permitted for A.
“Damn you!”
Excited by the thought that his desired situation was finally happening, Indigo, upon realizing it had been ruined by A’s interference, cursed and trampled on his head.
“Damn you! Damn you! Who the hell are you to interfere?!”
He continued trampling on A’s head, and the HunterKiller members, whose patience had reached its limit by his verbal abuse and actions, rushed toward him with the intention of killing him. But at that moment, the end of the gun in his hand turned toward A.
And in a brief instant, the trigger was pulled, and a flash hit Indigo’s right arm, severing it before the bullet could reach A’s head.
“Damn you!!!”
Before realizing his arm had been severed, Sierra, who quickly rushed in, grabbed Indigo’s hair and slammed his head into the dirt amidst the dust.
“Die! Die, you bastard!”
Sierra, spitting out curses filled with rage and madness, slammed Indigo’s head into the ground while scraping the bandaged side of his face against the ground.
“Aaaahhh!!!”
He screamed in agony from the pain of his severed arm. As his face scraped against the ground, he continued screaming.
“Sierra. Calm down.”
Angered to the point of wanting to kill Indigo, Sierra tried to slam his face into the ground, and Luche pulled out her scythe from the ground.
Two flashes flew from the sky just before Indigo fired at A. One of them was Luche’s scythe, which sliced through Indigo’s arm in mid-air. Then Sierra, who landed, scraped his face against the ground.
Luche, with a blank expression, was soaking wet from head to toe, and she approached Sierra with the scythe in hand, dripping water.
“I need you to help with A.”
At Luche’s low voice in her ear, Sierra regained her composure and turned to A, who was lying unconscious and groaning from the pain of his severed arm. Luche was looking down at him with a cold, calm gaze.
“Don’t worry. I won’t kill him.”
Luche raised the scythe, holding it by the handle, and thrust it into the wound on Indigo’s severed arm.
“Aaaaahhh!!!”
He screamed as if his ears were being torn, and Luche, holding the handle tightly, twisted it.
“Grrrr!!! Ugh!”
Unable to scream properly due to the pain, foam formed at Indigo’s mouth, and Luche continued digging into the wound with a cold gaze.
From the moment Indigo tried to shoot A until now, only about a minute had passed.
The Guerrilla Team members, paralyzed with fear, watched Indigo, who was screaming in agony and covered in blood, while the HunterKiller members, who had fixed their eyes on the severely injured Indigo, turned to A.
“A. Come on, snap out of it. Can you hear me? Get up! Please… please…”
Sierra, crying tears from her eyes, held A, who had collapsed, and called out to him repeatedly, trying to bring him back to his senses. A was still bleeding from his head and was breathing heavily, barely clinging to his sanity.
“Brother!”
“A!”
“Baby!”
The women of HunterKiller ran towards A simultaneously, and Sierra, feeling their approach, quickly turned and aimed her sword at them.
The tip of the sword seemed to warn them not to come closer, and Sierra glared at the approaching HunterKiller members with eyes filled with anger and hostility.
For Sierra, the cause of this mess was not the Guerrilla Team, but the hyper-human who had put A in this state. She couldn’t predict what the hyper-human might do next. Everything in front of her was an enemy, and she needed to save A, who was collapsing right in front of her.
She held the sword in one hand, aiming it at HunterKiller, while holding A’s head with the other hand to stop the bleeding.
“Sierra. It’s okay. You’re okay now. Calm down.”
At the familiar voice, Sierra turned her head, and Angelique, who had appeared somehow, patted her shoulder.
“Captain Angelique… A… A…”
“Don’t worry.”
Soon, shadows fell on the sunny ground. Looking up, she saw a large flying object hovering in the sky, and the HunterKiller team was tense as they saw the massive aircraft for the first time. They felt a surge of energy, and soon, a beam of light descended towards A, Sierra, and Angelique.
“Luche. Let’s go.”
Esmeralda, the captain of Team 1, had also arrived and was calming Luche, who was digging into Indigo’s wound with an expressionless face.
“This guy. I’ll make sure he can never move again. Never again will he be able to touch A. Never again…”
Then, a series of gunshots rang out, followed by another scream from Indigo.
“Aaaaahhh!!”
In Esmeralda’s hand was the gun that Indigo had previously aimed at A, and several bullets from it pierced through Indigo’s left hand.
With his right arm severed and his left hand injured by the gunshot, Indigo was in unbearable pain, nearly passing out, and Luche pulled the handle of the scythe from his wound. Filthy blood gushed out, but Luche’s expression remained unchanged.
Looking at him with a cold stare, she then looked at A, whom Sierra was holding.
“Is A okay?”
“Let’s go back and check first.”
“…Okay.”
Luche answered in a low voice. She no longer felt like talking due to her mixed emotions.
What caught her eye was the severed arm of Indigo. The dirty arm that had aimed the gun at A. Luche, unable to tolerate the arm that had injured A and threatened his life, swung her scythe at that spot.
The arm—or what was once an arm—was instantly shattered into pieces, turning into a shapeless mass of flesh.
Just as a beam of light descended on Sierra and A, Angelique, Luche and Esmeralda were also enveloped in a beam of light. With a blinding flash, all the Spacystro personnel present disappeared.
The HunterKiller members, who were checking A’s condition while facing the Spacystro leaders, shifted their gaze to the flying object hovering in the sky as soon as they and A vanished.
The massive flying object emitted light and then disappeared with a powerful flash.
The city was still in chaos, and screams echoed everywhere.
On the day a major event occurred that significantly affected the twenty-year-old agreement.
On that day, A disappeared in front of five women.
Thus, a month passed.
