At this level, there wouldn't be any wounds at all.
Talk less. No one would mistake you for a mute!
Hm? You're asking how there could be blood without wounds?
Blood packs, capsules, and things like that. There was quite a lot of stuff in the System Space.
It couldn't be helped. Lin Nai had a bit of a collecting habit.
Whether he needed it or not, his hands were never exactly clean.
"Lin Nai..."
Bronya bit her lip. She felt like there was something in her eyes—water, maybe?
"Hey... don't make that face..." Lin Nai helplessly reached out and touched Bronya's little face.
Mm.
Very moist.
He wiped the tears from Bronya's face. "I'm not dead yet..."
"Bronya will take you to the Doctor... Hold on!"
"Bronya."
"..."
Bronya wanted to pull Lin Nai up, but she couldn't, because he was resisting.
"Lin Nai..."
"We're companions, right?"
"Mm... Bronya and Lin Nai are companions!"
"Hehe."
"Don't laugh. Didn't you promise to help Bronya break out of her cage? What would it mean if you died now..."
"Isn't it already broken? Bronya, that expression on your face isn't one you could normally make."
Bronya clenched her fists. If this was the price, she would rather the cage had never been broken.
"I've already opened a gap. Now... you'll have to destroy this cage yourself..."
"Bronya, you are free, like the birds in the sky."
"Go. Spread your wings, summon a fierce wind, destroy this cage... then fly freely through the skies..."
"Lin Nai..."
"I'll wait for you here... Let's make a promise. I'll go with you."
Lin Nai held out his hand, hooking his pinky around hers. "Come to think of it, what was this called again? Pinky promise, a hundred years without changing?"
"Bronya, this is our promise. You'll destroy this cage, and I... will hold on until you do."
Several seconds of silence passed.
Bronya nodded.
"Bronya understands..."
Gently laying Lin Nai down, Bronya made her decision. She took the gun and dagger from the long-dead masked man and walked toward the door.
She looked back with every step.
Lin Nai merely smiled as he watched Bronya leave.
Once Bronya disappeared from his sight,
Lin Nai finally let out a sigh of relief, then...
Lin Nai sat up and shook his clothes twice. Several bullet casings fell to the floor.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
Bronya had been too worried to think clearly, so his acting had fooled her.
Otherwise, how could a professional killer fail to see through his act?
Besides, a mere fatal wound—fatal wounds couldn't kill him anyway.
Did she really think he was like some Number II, still a glass cannon after more than a year?
Heh!
Then he found a more comfortable position and prepared to lie down for a while.
Bronya was an assassin. Wouldn't taking care of that guy be easy for her?
He should sleep for a bit. He hadn't slept in days...
Come to think of it, he still didn't know what was going on with Kiana.
And that intrusion... could Kiana have done it?
But thinking about it carefully, Kiana probably couldn't pull off something like this.
And there had been explosions too.
Just as Lin Nai was thinking about this, a head of white hair poked in through the doorway.
"Yahoo! Lin Nai!"
Kiana waved her little hand and walked in.
"Kiana? Why are you here?"
"I came to find you! Let me tell you, a whole bunch of robots suddenly appeared outside!"
"Robots?"
"Mm-hmm! You know, the kind from those cartoons we used to watch at the hotel..."
"What was it called... um... oh! Robots from Demon God Machine Sword: Alahato! Though they don't look quite the same."
"...Huh?"
Lin Nai climbed off the floor in confusion and followed Kiana outside.
There, he saw one blue and one red giant robot slaughtering everything in sight.
Each robot was nearly a dozen meters tall.
Looking at the enormous hole in the ceiling, they had probably smashed their way straight in.
"Hey, you have to admit, those two robots look pretty cool." Lin Nai studied them with interest.
Kiana blinked. "Is this really the time to talk about that?"
"Then what should we do?"
"True."
The two of them remained completely unmoved, just standing there.
Kiana had actually wanted to save people, but then she thought about the children these people had turned into killing machines.
Kiana gave up.
Besides, they had never been on the same side in the first place.
And fight robots?
Impossible, impossible. Absolutely impossible.
They were just weak, ordinary people. They had no power and couldn't do anything.
Lin Nai: How Could I Stab You Without Getting Close?
"Don't run!!"
Hearing the shout behind him, the middle-aged man stopped and turned around.
"Heh, isn't this Silver Wolf?" The middle-aged man's face was full of mockery. "What is it? Still want to be my tool?"
"No. Bronya came to end you."
Bronya's face was expressionless as she calmly aimed her gun at the man before her.
The middle-aged man sneered. "A tool is a tool. You don't have a brain at all."
"We've come this far. Did you really think I'd just sit here and wait to die?"
"Watch this! I... argh!!"
Before he could finish, a hole appeared in the middle-aged man's shoulder, and blood poured out.
The middle-aged man dropped to one knee, gritting his teeth as he glared at Bronya.
Bronya said nothing.
She simply fired another shot into the man's shoulder!
Bang!!
"For every shot Lin Nai took, Bronya will make you take one."
"Silver Wolf, you..."
The middle-aged man's eyes were bloodshot. He pulled out his pistol, preparing to fire.
But the next moment,
the gun in his hand fell to the ground.
Because the hand holding it had been shot too.
Bronya kept her gun trained on him, her expression cold. "Bronya learned all of this in that place."
"Come to think of it, maybe Bronya should thank you."
"Silver Wolf!!"
"Goodbye."
However, just as Bronya was about to pull the trigger, a masked woman emerged.
The mask was entirely black, with the Ankh symbol of life imprinted on its forehead and the Eye of Horus emblazoned around the eyes.
She wore a cloak resembling that of Anubis, the god of death from ancient Egyptian mythology.
Underneath was a fitted white blouse with puffed sleeves and an open back at the waist.
She wore a blue wrap skirt and white high heels.
Faced with the sudden arrival, Bronya's first reaction was caution.
"Doctor?!"
The middle-aged man was overjoyed. "Doctor! Have you come to save me?!"
The person called Doctor did not answer. She merely casually tossed a syringe onto the ground.
"Use it or don't. Those are your only two choices."
After saying that, the masked woman left.
Bronya found it baffling, but she did not fire.
The other woman showed no hostility, and her target was only that man.
The middle-aged man gritted his teeth, endured the pain, and rolled toward it, grabbing the medicine.
Without much thought, he fiercely jabbed the syringe into himself and injected its contents.
"Heh! Hehehe, ahhhhh!!!"
The man let out a roar, and the wounds on his body actually began to heal.
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