Chapter 149. The Person I Am (1)
One look at No. 3’s eyes was enough to tell that he had already lost all reason.
He had clearly come here determined to start something.
If this continued, it could easily turn into a bloodbath.
“Stop!”
“No. 6 was only acting under Alpha’s orders!”
“If you have a problem with what happened, take it up with Alpha!”
Driven by the need to protect Yukgap, No. 7 stepped directly in No. 3’s path.
But No. 3 did not listen.
“Who cares?!”
“I just want to cut that bastard into pieeeeeeces!”
With a long roar, No. 3’s body expanded.
His skeleton swelled as he transformed into a massive tiger-like beast.
At that moment, he was nothing more than a predator excited by the prey before him.
As expected. There’s no talking him down.
No. 7’s eyes sharpened.
“If you’re going after No. 6, you’ll have to deal with me first.”
Black fur surged across No. 7’s body.
Her frame shifted into the sleek form of a jaguar.
Once she had fully released her Archon form, she stood firmly in his way.
No. 3 growled at her.
“I have no interest in killing women.”
“So move.”
“And if I don’t?”
No. 7 refused to budge.
No. 3 ground his teeth.
Then he abruptly swung his longsword.
“Then I’ll cut you apart too!”
The heavy blade came crashing toward her.
No. 7 merely smirked.
“Too slow.”
She slipped through the opening in an instant.
Her razor-sharp claws raked across No. 3’s chest.
Blood sprayed.
“Ghk!”
Caught off guard, No. 3 staggered.
Apparently, he had never expected her to exploit the tiny opening created by his attack.
No. 7 held up her claws.
“You Extermination Team types are slow.”
“And you’re unnecessarily huge, which just gives me more places to hit.”
“Shut up!”
No. 3 lost his temper and charged while swinging wildly.
But to No. 7, even that looked painfully sluggish and full of openings.
“As long as you’re not No. 5, I’m not particularly scared of you.”
She immediately closed the distance.
Then she swept her inward-curving claws through a long arc like blades.
Blood burst from No. 3’s shoulder.
“Aaaaaagh!”
“That hurts!”
No. 3 screamed under the repeated attacks.
No. 7 looked at him coldly.
“Perfect.”
“I’ve been stressed anyway.”
“I might as well take it out on you.”
“You dare treat me like some toy?!”
No. 3 clenched his teeth in rage.
Every swing of his longsword unleashed a shockwave.
No. 7 lowered her stance, preparing to attack again.
“You’re not even worth using my cloaking suit on.”
“I’ll carve you apart nice and slowly.”
Just as she charged again, a dagger suddenly flew between them.
Both immediately recognized it.
“Both of you, stop.”
For some reason, Yukgap staggered out with a deathly pale face.
The despair in his expression, as though he had lost everything in the world, had not changed at all.
“No. 6!”
“You finally feel like moving?!”
No. 3 looked delighted simply because Yukgap had appeared.
Yukgap stared at him blankly.
“I’m the one you want, right?”
“Damn right!”
“My arm ended up like this because of you!”
No. 3 furiously showed off his metal prosthetic.
Yukgap looked at it and let out a long sigh.
Then he spread his arms wide.
“Go ahead.”
“Kill me in one strike.”
“Cut off my head.”
“Or stab me through the heart.”
“What?”
“What the hell are you talking about?”
Even No. 3 was stunned by the unexpected response.
But Yukgap did not seem to have the energy to explain.
“Or torture me for a while before you kill me.”
“I don’t care.”
His face showed that he had let go of everything.
He simply stood there waiting for No. 3’s blade.
No. 3 was not the only one shaken.
“Hey!”
“What the hell are you saying?!”
“Die?”
No. 7 was equally stunned that the man who had refused to speak a moment ago was suddenly asking to be killed.
Yukgap answered hollowly.
“Nothing matters anymore.”
His expression was empty.
There was not a trace of emotion in it.
“It’s over.”
“I don’t want to live anymore.”
“This body should’ve ended up like this from the beginning.”
“So just...”
“Kill me.”
He looked like someone who had completely abandoned everything.
He did not even release his Archon form.
He remained in his powerless human shape, simply waiting to die.
No. 3 raised his longsword again.
He cared far more about revenge than Yukgap’s state of mind.
“If that’s what you want, I’ll grant it!”
Just as No. 3 prepared to charge, the lights in the corridor suddenly went out.
Darkness swallowed the area.
No. 3 stopped in confusion.
“W-What?”
“Alpha controls the lighting here!”
Every facility inside No. 12 was controlled by Alpha.
With her overwhelming computational ability managing the base, equipment failures simply did not happen.
“I don’t know what happened, but this works for me.”
Using the darkness, No. 7, whose fur blended perfectly into the shadows, rushed forward.
