The extremely impatient words instantly drew out the perilous atmosphere at the scene.
"You bastard..."
Mugino Shizuri fixed her gaze on Fang Li. Her eyes became dangerously cold, and she clenched her teeth so hard it seemed she might bite through them.
That irritating brat was one thing, but now even trash like an unskilled nobody dared look down on her?
"Mugino!"
"Mugino!"
"Mugino..."
Frenda and Kinuhata Saiai, handcuffed and thrown onto the ground, could not help calling out to Mugino Shizuri. Even Takitsubo Rikou, whose arm Fang Li was holding, cast a worried look her way.
Yet Mugino Shizuri did not respond to them. She merely looked away, focusing solely on the enemy before her.
Though they were comrades in the same unit, a place like the Dark Department was never somewhere one could expect everyone to possess humanity.
Frenda, Kinuhata Saiai, and Takitsubo Rikou were one thing. It was not as though they had never killed anyone, and when carrying out missions, no matter who the target was, they would kill if necessary. But at the very least, they still cared about their comrades.
Mugino Shizuri was different.
This Number Four, who looked like a beautiful girl and seemed at first glance like the kind of reliable older sister who would look after others, was in truth violently temperamental. She might even attack her own people simply because she was in a bad mood. Some even believed that it was precisely because she possessed such a brutal nature that she had been granted an ability as destructively powerful as Meltdown.
Thus, under normal circumstances, it would have been one thing. It was not as though they had never encountered enemies who were difficult to deal with.
However, in Mugino Shizuri's eyes, Fang Li was merely an unskilled nobody.