36. War of Factions
"Th-thank you."
As I approached, the man drenched in blood opened his mouth with a terrified expression.
The woman beside him was bound with her arms, her top and pants mostly torn away, leaving her in a half-naked state. She had a fairly large chest, but her overall appearance was ordinary. She staggered but forced herself to crawl closer to her boyfriend.
"Are you two a couple?"
"Y-yes, that's right..."
"What's the deal with those dead guys?"
"I've never seen them before. We were suddenly attacked on our way to the market. I was beaten to death... and my girlfriend..."
"These kinds of bastards are everywhere now. If you can't protect your girlfriend in the future, you'll get attacked again."
"C-cough... That's right... If I had been stronger..."
The guy was crying with disappointment in my words. Pathetic. This guy was the type who would cry at the slightest thing that happened.
I approached the woman. She looked at me with eyes full of relief that she was alive, and with her bound hands she tried to cover her crotch.
"Thank you for helping me..."
I looked at the woman's body. In the previous world, I never imagined a healthy woman on the street would end up like this, half-naked.
Her face was ordinary and her figure was just so-so, but her breasts were quite large. Moreover, her nipples sticking out were also quite prominent. This would be almost F-cup or more, right?
Feeling my gaze on her chest, she raised her hand to slightly cover her breasts. Then her crotch would be visible... The woman, perhaps embarrassed, turned her head and couldn't look at me.
"Kyaa!"
I grabbed the woman's bound arm and pulled it up, took out a knife, and cut the ropes.
The woman was trembling all over. Urine was flowing down between her legs. Was she thinking I was going to kill her?
Grabbing her large breasts, she closed her eyes tightly and turned her head.
When I pinched and pulled her nipples and twisted them around, she bit her lip while holding back a moan. Glancing at her boyfriend, he was fidgeting like a puppy needing to poop. The guy was scared and couldn't say anything.
"Huuup... S-stop now..."
The woman said with teary eyes, looking pitiful.
I freed the woman and gestured to the fighter. When I released her breasts, the woman let out a big sigh.
"To survive, you must always be careful even on the streets."
I turned my back on the couple. The fighter quietly followed behind me, and the couple was hugging each other in relief that they were saved.
"Was it like a movie?"
"Killing those guys was like a hero, but touching the woman's breasts was like hentai."
"I didn't see the woman's face, but since her breasts were big and pretty."
"I agree, bro."
When we almost arrived at our apartment, distant gunshots rang out.
It was a heavy shotgun sound. Not one or two shots, but quite a few.
"This sounds like the market area from earlier?"
"It seems so."
"Let's go."
I immediately started running towards the Grand River Apartment.
In the distance, people were running away from near the market. People were scattering in all directions and fleeing. A man was running towards us. It was the middle-aged man who had bought the portable water filter earlier.
"What's going on!"
"Huff huff... Run away quickly. There's a gunfight with the mart bastards. They fought like that last time too, and eventually it blew up big."
The man finished speaking and ran away with all his might.
Was it the large mart guys? I got closer.
I saw the chaotic empty market and the firmly closed apartment entrance. And people hiding behind the entrance and fence, using it like a wall, were shooting guns. Probably high steps or piled up stuff behind the entrance.
From the alley away from the apartment, a group of people were shooting at the apartment. Were these the large mart bastards?
About thirty of them. A mix of people with shotguns and crossbows, and those with pistols. They weren't approaching closely, just shooting from afar, so no big damage. Handguns and shotguns have quite short effective ranges.
But bullets are limited, yet they were shooting like that. In that sense, the air gun, which can make bullets directly, is better. It's for real survival.
Among the people hiding behind the apartment fence, Ryu Si-a was also visible.
They were fighting head-on like that... The shotgun she was carrying didn't look like a form. Moreover, she seemed quite skilled.
She fired her double-barreled shotgun with two holes top and bottom twice in succession, then skillfully cocked the gun and quickly loaded the bullets.
"Bang! Bang!"
Someone from the alley advanced forward and was hit by the shotgun she shot quickly, falling down.
Her shooting skill was amazing. She hit a running person with tremendous reaction time in one shot.
Her figure wearing sports goggles. From the shooting posture to loading, it was beautiful. Every time she shot, her hair swayed beautifully as if in slow motion.
It wasn't an awkward actress acting; it was the feeling of a real master shooting.
The person hit by the gun didn't die immediately and screamed while clutching her leg. Since the distance was quite far, the power of the pellets was greatly weakened.
"What should we do?"
The fighter asked from beside me.
"We'll attack their side. I'll snipe from afar, and you guard the position next to me while watching the surroundings."
I quietly moved to the side alley of the large mart group. Since they were focused on the apartment, they wouldn't notice the side. Moreover, there was no cover on the side, so it was fully exposed.
About 100 meters away. It was quite close for a sniper shot. With a K2 rifle, even if I just shot, it would hit.
The air gun made almost no sound when fired. In a situation where gunshots were ringing loudly like now, it wouldn't be heard.
"Bang!"
When I fired at the closest guy, he grabbed his side and fell. Still, the guys didn't notice my existence and were focused on the apartment.
After quick reloading, I fired again. Another guy grabbed his thigh and let out a sharp scream. I didn't know because he was wearing a hat, but upon hearing the scream, it was a woman.
The downside of the air gun is that it's hard to kill in one shot, but it's also an advantage. Since people become combat-ineffective after being shot, it burdens their comrades who have to take care of them.
When two fell, the guys felt something was wrong.
Quickly, I bent the barrel again, loaded the bullet, and fired. One fell with blood on his chest.
"It's on the side! There's someone shooting an air gun from the side!"
When three fell, they finally noticed my existence and started shouting.
The guys pointed their guns towards me and started shooting, but it seemed they still hadn't found my exact position.
In the meantime, I fired the air gun again, and another fell. 4 kills... or 4 injuries?
"Retreat! Everyone retreat! Retreat!"
Since they were attacked from the side and resistance from the apartment wasn't easy, they started retreating.
As they started retreating, shooting stopped from the apartment side, but I had no intention of stopping. I had to kill them as much as possible before they retreated.
The guys started supporting or dragging the injured comrades hit by the air gun.
When I finished reloading, I hit the guy who was supporting. More injured people increased.
"Flanking fire! Flank!"
Some pellets flew towards the wall where I was hiding. I hit another guy who had finished reloading and was dragging a comrade behind the wall.
Perfect accuracy. Thanks to the improvement in physical ability, it was surprisingly accurate even by my standards.
They would dry up the blood. As they tried to take the injured, more injured accumulated. Moreover, they had no ability to deal with snipers.
When I hit one more, they seemed to have given up and just started running away.
After chasing and hitting two more, they were quite far. I wanted to kill more while chasing, but confirming the dead was important. Since the injured were staggering and walking on their own, I couldn't miss them.
I shot one by one and finished them off.
I absorbed 8 souls.
Super Regeneration: 213
8 kills total. While fleeing, they took guns if possible, but I acquired one shotgun and one handgun.
The disappointing part was that there were few bullets. Only 7 pellets and 11 handgun bullets. As time passed, bullets would clearly run out.
I saw a woman staggering while clutching her bleeding thigh. As I slowly approached, she was surprised and fell, crawling on the ground. I pressed the air gun to the woman's face.
"P-please save me!"
A young woman in her early 20s, terrified. Her face was ordinary, but her figure was slim.
"Drop your weapons."
At my words, she took out the knife from her ankle and threw it on the ground.
"T-the gun was taken by my comrades earlier. There are no more."
"How can I believe that? If you want to live, take off all your clothes for ten seconds. Otherwise, bullets will be stuck in your face."
She started counting and frantically took off her clothes at a crazy speed.
When I poked the remaining underwear with the gun, the woman became completely naked. Blood was gushing from her thigh where the pellet was embedded, and she knelt on the floor naked.
After the fighter tied the woman's arm, I wrapped her clothes around her face so she couldn't see in front, and dragged the woman towards the apartment.
As I approached the apartment, I waved my hand, and Ryu Si-a waved back happily.
I got closer to the entrance and spoke.
"We captured one of the fleeing guys as a prisoner."
"B-but why naked..."
Ryu Si-a seemed surprised that the prisoner was naked.
"They were hiding weapons in their legs. To keep them safe, we took off their clothes."
The men's gazes from the fence were fixed on the naked woman. Her face was covered, so I couldn't see, but her figure was excellent.
Most of the men looking would imagine. The naked, wriggling body of the female prisoner. It wouldn't hurt to poke once. The woman, her eyes covered, was staggering, and her breasts were shaking quite a bit.
"Do as you wish: take her to interrogate or release her."
The entrance opened, and two people came running and grabbed the female prisoner from both sides, entering.