A person's strength ultimately had its limits.
Besides, this was an opponent who broke promises and stopped at nothing.
Bang—!
Just as Raxi was about to hack those gang members into scattering like frightened birds and beasts, Udi remembered the order to "kill them all" and raised his gun.
Those were specially made bullets.
Raxi had not even worn body armor when he left for the airport. Even if he had, the outcome would have been the same.
Shot in the chest, Raxi swayed and braced himself against the stone-paved alley with his military knife, one knee stabbing into the ground.
The tigers, leopards, wolves, and jackals grinding their teeth and thirsting for blood saw their chance. They grabbed their weapons and wanted to swarm him, but one glare from him made them shrink back, too afraid to step forward.
Raxi bared his teeth in a savage grin. Blood flowed from the corner of his mouth and dripped onto the ground.
"So you finally fired..."
Under that gaze, Udi felt ice-cold from head to toe, as though the bloody hole would appear on his own body the very next second.
But Raxi was still only human. At most, he was an Awakened. He could not use magic.
Raxi looked at him and spoke between light breaths.
"I just remembered. Was it Shawa, or your superior Ackerman, who told me that you were an orphan he picked up from a village by the Tasan River..."
Udi looked at him coldly.
"Are you still curious why I betrayed you?"
Raxi gave a soft chuckle.
"Did I ever ask you that?"
Which child in the assault troops was not an orphan like him? And which of them had not become an orphan because of war?
If anyone wanted to hate someone, there was