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ed angrily at those guards.
Although they were already aiming their guns at him, Katsuya did not show any fear at all.

“I know you guys are the people who kidnapped Alna.
I’m here to get her back!”

“What are you even talking about? Who is this stupid guy?!”

That guard noticed the Drankam stamp on Katsuya’s vehicle and winced.

“You, you’re a Drankam Hunter, huh?”

“I am.
I’m Katsuya from Drankam.
I don’t know why you kidnapped Alna, but if you will obediently return her back now, I’ll still forgive you.
If you don’t…”

Ezont Family was indeed a strong gang, but it would still give them a lot of trouble if they killed a Drankam Hunter.
The guards there slowly surrounded Katsuya.
The guard who was responsible for communication flusteredly called his superior.

“…Yes! It’s an emergency… A Hunter from Drankam by the name of Katsuya is here…”

Katsuya, who saw those guards scared, made an annoyed face.
He thought that if having him there would make them that scared, they should not have kidnapped Alna in the first place.

“…Eh, ah, yes, it’s indeed the guy from the picture.
I think he’s the real Katsuya.
Unlike Akira, he looks well-armed for just a brat and his equipment are better than those common Hunters…”

Katsuya finally noticed Akira sitting in his vehicle with his hand on his chin.
He immediately connected Alna who was being held in Ezont Family’s base to Akira who was there, his expression immediately filled with anger and glared at Akira.

“…I see what’s going on here.”

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Katsuya thought that Akira asked the Ezont Family to kidnap Alna.

Akira actually already noticed Katsuya for quite some time now.
He looked obviously annoyed as he sighed and said.

“Why is that guy here?”

Alpha seemed obviously disappointed, it seemed to be impossible to avoid a fight now.

“I bet he’s here to save that pickpocket.”

“Why he would even know that pickpocket is he-“

Akira was suspecting that Katsuya also received that information from Viola, but since he did not have any proof and he had no trust in his own intuition, he decided to just forget about it and consider other possibilities.

“…Well, it might be from Drankam’s information network.
According to Elena-san, he’s treated as one of the officers in the gang after all.
So it might be possible for him to get that information from there.”

“So, he’s glaring at you though, what are you going to do?”

“Let’s see…”

Akira stepped off his vehicle and said to the guard who was still talking to his superior.

“Hey!”

“What?! Don’t bother me! Just shut up and wait!”

Akira then yelled to let the person, to whom that guard was reporting, hear him.

“If that Alna is still there and alive, give her to me and I’ll kill her, either that or kill her yourself now.”

“Hah!? What are you-“

That man was confused by what Akira just said.
But Katsuya immediately interjected.

“If you give Alna to him, I’ll never forgive you!!”

That man looked even more confused as he looked at Akira and Katsuya.
One of them told him to kill Alna while the other was there to save Alna.
But both of them were telling him to hand over Alna to them.
The weak-looking one looked at that man with a slightly stern face, while the strong-looking one glared at him with an angry face as both of them were demanding him to hand over Alna.

That man who was just a lackey had no privilege to make that decision, but he was obviously leaning to one of them while he was talking to his superior.

Akira noticed that and mumbled.

“…Well, this doesn’t surprise me at all.”

At this point, Akira already fully abandoned the possibility of peacefully resolving the current matter.
Just like everything that happened to him until now, it was just like always, this time too, it did not go as he wanted.
He thought that they would only let Katsuya in and they would hand over Alna to Katsuya.

Up until now, Akira looked at himself as an outsider in this conflict between Sheryl and Ezont Family.
That was why he peacefully came and asked the entrance guard, and if Sheryl was returned to him without any trouble after that, he would not look at the Ezont Family as an enemy.

But that was no longer the case now.
They were hindering him from killing Alna.
Now that Akira looked at them as such, he completely turned hostile toward Ezont Family.
Of course, from this point onward, he would react to them just like how he reacted to his enemies.

Akira walked past the guard and stood in front of the locked gate.
Alpha sighed and mumbled.

“It still turned to this in the end, huh?”

“I’ve backed off twice from getting into conflict with him.
And just like people say, if you’ve done it twice, you can do it thrice.
At this rate, I feel like I’ll always avoid getting into a fight with him.
That’s why I won’t do that this time, just like they say, third time’s the charm.”

Unlike before, this time Akira was properly armed.
Or at least, it no longer gave him a reason to back off again this time.
There was a time limit too, he had to kill Alna before a stronger organization took her in.
Akira no longer had any reason to withdraw.

“Though just like I told you before, that augmented suit is not ready, so I won’t be able to give my full support.
So don’t expect to get my usual support, okay? Not to mention, you’re not used to that augmented suit yet.
So be careful, okay?”

“Okay!”

Alpha then smiled gently at Akira.

“Well then, you can go ahead.
Good hunting!”

“Roger that!”

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Akira’s augmented suit was already functional.
He used his full force to deliver a powerful kick to the strong-looking gate.
The 350 million Aurum augmented suit showed its power and blew away the gate with a loud bang.

As the other people were still dumbfounded by what just happened, Alpha controlled Akira’s vehicle and ran it straight to him as if to mow him down.
Akira lightly jumped to evade that and landed on his vehicle.

He then quickly reached for the guns fixed on his vehicle, removed them, and equipped them himself.

“Alpha, do you know where’s Sheryl and that pickpocket?”

“Unfortunately, I only know that they’re not outside the mansion.
Viola did send the blueprint of the interior of the mansion, but it doesn’t say where Sheryl and that pickpocket are held.”

“I guess I have no other choice but to raid the base and ask them, huh?”

“I’ll try to look for them too and tell you if I find them.”

“I’ll be counting on you.”

As Akira’s vehicle went straight into the mansion through the courtyard, people inside the base started shooting at him.
Of course, Akira shot back with the powerful rifles that he just took off from his vehicle.
The night scene immediately filled with flashing muzzles.

After Akira kicked the door open and drove in, Katsuya finally returned back to himself and immediately started shooting at Akira.
But Akira had already disappeared and it was not like he was properly aiming at Akira, so none of his shots hit Akira.

“Dammit!!”

Katsuya seemed obviously vexed.
The guards around him immediately aimed their rifles at Katsuya.
Although he was only aiming at Akira, it did not change the fact that he released shots into Ezont Family’s base.
It was obviously an act of hostility.
Even if he was a Hunter from Drankam, they could not just let that go.

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“You brat!! Doing something like that!!”

The guards shot at Katsuya aiming to kill him.
Katsuya reacted to evade them while shooting back at those guards.
Katsuya showed his skill in that fight.
The guards were riddled with bullets as they fell down one by one to the ground, some of them were immediately killed while some of them were severely wounded after that exchange.

When it ended, Katsuya was the only one still standing.
He looked at all the people he shot down scattered in front of him, as the one who did that, he then said to them as if to make an excuse.

“It’s your fault for kidnapping Alna, okay!!”

Katsuya made a stern face as he hopped back to his vehicle and chased after Akira.

One guard was still alive albeit badly wounded and was drowning in his own blood.
He used the last life force that he had left to reach for his information terminal to send a notification in order to alert everyone that they were under attack before he let out his last breath.

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After questioning Alna and judging from how she answered his questions while shaking in fear, Rogelt then thought.

[She’s not lying, or at least, she thinks she’s telling the truth.
It doesn’t look like she had this planned either.
It’s purely out of luck that Katsuya came to save her.
If I think that Katsuya only saved her to show off to the other girls that were with him, it all makes sense.
And the reason why he did not give up Alna when he was offered 20 million Aurum might be because he doesn’t want people to hate him thinking that he’s someone who would exchange a girl for money, either that or it’s because he had gone too far and had no other choice but to keep it up.
It’s not too strange for a Hunter, who is earning well, to think of 20 million Aurum as a small amount of money.
Not to mention, the info said he’s a womanizer.
It all makes sense… As for the chance of him working together with Viola behind the scene… That’s unlikely.]

Rogelt thought that the information about Katsuya and Alna were nothing more than fake information made up by Viola, but he quickly dismissed it.
And when he thought that the information Viola spread might incite it, considering the reason why Akira was hunting for Alna, he quickly dismissed that too.
It was because he had enough reason to think that it was all nothing more than pure coincidence.
But even so, the reason why he questioned if that was really a coincidence was simply because he knew of Viola’s bad reputation.

“I’ll ask you one more time.
You’re close to that Katsuya and he promised to save you if anything happens to you, right?”

Alna was still shaking, but she replied back firmly.

“That’s right!! He’ll definitely save me!!”

“But you’re in this situation now.
Doesn’t that mean that he wasn’t able to save you?”

“…That is… It’s my fault, he told me not to walk around outside since it’s dangerous but I disregarded that…”

When Alna was hiding in one of the camping trailers owned by Drankam, a Hunter came and kicked her out since he was about to use that vehicle.
As she was thinking about what to do inside Drankam’s base, a guard found her and kicked her out since she was an outsider.
When she was loitering around outside Drankam’s base, she heard that Katsuya went to the slum city to look for Akira.
She was so worried and ended up going to the slum city too.
And that was where she was kidnapped by Rogelt’s men.

Alna thought that it was nothing more than a series of bad luck, in reality, it was all orchestrated by Viola.
The Hunter who kicked her out of the vehicle she was hiding in, and the guard who found her later, all of them were there only because of the information that Viola spread.
They did not even know that they were being used by Viola.
Similarly, the reason why she heard about Katsuya going to the slum city was because she overheard some people talking about that and those people only did so because they were told to do so after they received some money from someone they did not know.

Rogelt looked at that depressed Alna and felt fear welling up from inside him.
Fear towards Viola.
Alna thought that she was kidnapped because someone whom she stole from in the past still had some grudges against her.
That was also what Rogelt said to Alna.
Rogelt did not notice that it was all according to Viola’s plan.

Rogelt looked at Alna who was about to break down and sneered at her.

“Well, it doesn’t really matter.
If Katsuya really holds you that dearly, then it’s good news to us too.
I’ll have him properly pay for all the troubles that you caused us.
And if he refuses, we can just kill you too.
I’m expecting that you’ll be a good hostage, okay?”

Rogelt looked at Alna’s face and guessed how good she was as a hostage.
He decided that it was worth making her a hostage as he smiled and left the room with his men.

“…Katsuya… Save me…”

Alna said so with a pained face now that she was left alone in that room.

The moment Rogelt stepped outside the room, an emergency alarm reached his terminal.
He pulled his information terminal out and asked with a stern face.

“It’s me, what is it?”

His men replied with a panicked voice.

“Boss!! It’s an attack!!”

“Who is it from? Don’t tell me it’s the Haurias!?”

Rogelt thought so judging from how panicked his men were, but he was surprised when he heard the reply.

“What!?”

The attackers were Akira and Katsuya.
Rogelt did not expect that at all.
He was even more surprised when he checked the record of their exchange.

[What’s the meaning of this!? Why do they know about Alna and Sheryl!? I understand it’s only a matter of time before they knew it, but this is just too fast!! They found out about it on the same day!? And they even raided the base without giving us a chance to negotiate! It’s just too strange.]

Rogelt immediately noticed why it happened and made a grim face.

[…Viola! Don’t tell me that she brought that plan to us not so that we can manipulate them but to make them attack us?! Did she also say something to them that made them not even try to talk it out first? But even if that’s true, why would they attack us? There’s no way they can win with the only two of th-]

Rogelt froze.
After that, he immediately shouted at his men.

“Kill both of them!! There’s no need to give them a chance to surrender! Call back everyone outside the base to fight them!! Use all the powered suits inside the hangar too!”

Rogelt’s men, who did not expect that at all, confusedly replied.

“Wait for a sec, isn’t that too much just to fight two young Hunters.
Not to mention, we stocked those powered suits to fight Haurias in the first place…”

But Rogelt yelled back to that guy who was questioning his order.

“If they’re your common young Hunters, there’s no way they would raid our base just with the two of them, you know!! If my guess is correct, that Viola might have something to do with Haurias!! They might even come here using this chaos!! Go! Make sure that the powered suits are ready before I’m there!”

“O-okay!”

His men flusteredly ended the call.
Rogelt still had an extremely grim expression on his face as he looked around his officers and his men and told them.

“I’ll go to the hangar.
All of you take your squad to join the fight outside.
Hire those Hunters who would help us too.
It’s a full-blown war.
In case if Haurias don’t come after we finish taking care of those two, we’ll go and attack Haurias base.”

“Roger that.
Should we kill Sheryl and Alna too?”

Rogelt was able to regain some of his calm after he looked at his men who were calm in that situation.
After giving it a short thought, he then said.

“…No, try using them as hostages.
Both of them attacked us without even giving us a chance to talk it out, they might not be here in order to save them in the first place, but at least give it a try.”

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Rogelt quickly ran towards the hangar after he said that while his men immediately went to move as they were ordered to.