"Too bad I only hit his shoulder. If I'd used my original handgun from the start, that shot definitely would've hit something vital!"
Angel held her original 0.45-inch Revolver and slowly advanced toward where the ambusher had been hiding.
Her hurried shot had only struck the other's shoulder. When she tried to follow up, the ambusher decisively abandoned the attack, rolled backward, and vanished from the rooftop.
To eliminate any future trouble, Angel immediately pursued him across the rooftop, leaping over the gaps between neighboring buildings until she quickly reached the ambusher's position.
Clearly, a shoulder wound had not affected his speed. Only a small pool of fresh blood remained on the rooftop; the man himself had disappeared without a trace.
This did not surprise Angel. She turned to look at the battlefield below. The Tuxedo Clown was agile and possessed a variety of Beyonder Abilities, clearly not a Low Sequence Beyonder. But under the siege of several opponents, he was already struggling. From time to time, he used that ability to turn into flames and reappear elsewhere, only for Lorotta to immediately close in and entangle him again.
Dunn pressed his hand to his glabella again, seemingly preparing to use his Nightmare ability once more. Klein and Borgia periodically fired to cover Lorotta, giving the Tuxedo Clown no opportunity to release invisible bullets.
In the distance, Leonard was already running toward the main group with his gun. Once he joined the battle, the situation would surely become one-sided.
Just then, the spirituality that had saved Angel several times issued a warning of danger. The shadow cast beneath her by the sunlight shifted rapidly.
Someone was behind her!
She had no time to turn around. She could only take a large step forward while twisting her gun-holding right hand behind