Schiller jumped onto the rooftop to his right, then descended the stairs of the adjacent building to the ground. He had his eye on a squad of samurai.
If Batman wanted to set a trap in the cathedral, he only needed to contact Death Angel Paul. But now the samurai squads were moving this way as well, proving that he had also contacted Lady Shiva.
Even if he wanted to get rid of Tony as quickly as possible and save his own life, there was no need to have both sides send people to retrieve him. After all, Tony was just an ordinary person, and both his legs and arms were injured. There was no need to make such a huge fuss over him.
Then the reason the samurai squads had appeared here was most likely that Batman could no longer wait to reclaim the nanotech equipment.
They had most likely discovered that Schiller was not Batman. More precisely, he simply was not a good person. Moral coercion and psychological provocation had no effect on him. There was no need to keep staging some act about "personally rescuing Destroyer," much less insist on giving the nanotech equipment to Schiller and having him rescue Batman. Batman could simply take the equipment back himself.
Thus, Schiller deduced that these samurai squads had come to deliver equipment to Batman. And his target was the nanotech equipment in Lady Shiva's possession.
A samurai squad usually had three to five people. The one Schiller had targeted had only three. Their clothing was clearly different from that of the cult members, making them easy to identify even in the city's dim light.
Schiller lay in wait at a street corner. The instant they turned the corner, he fired five shots from his silenced pistol. All three