Conspiracy and Blades!

"What are you trying to do?!"

"No, no, please, no, ah----"

Outside the city wall at the edge of the Shitori Station farmland, three men dressed as farmers leaned against a horse harnessed to a wooden plow, looking tremblingly at the sword-wielding Samurai who had forced them to this place.

But the latter showed no intention of communicating, and amidst their desperate screams, he swung his sword and hacked them to death, also felling their horses in the process.

Besides them, two other groups of people were doing the same thing not far away. Afterward, they left the corpses, which were oozing large amounts of blood like torn bags, in place and quickly ran back inside the city walls.

All of this was observed by Mata, who was hiding in a corner of the city wall. She frowned and looked back and forth between the corpses and the many Kabane outside the moat.

Something terrible is about to happen!

The next moment, Mata turned and jumped into the city, then transformed into a blur and ran at high speed towards the agreed meeting place with Laskey. When she arrived, she quickly told him what she had seen and what she thought.

"Hmph, it seems there's no shortage of despicable people in any world, though I'm no better myself." Laskey glanced coldly in the direction of the General Manager's Office.

He had already heard about Bicho Amatori's background from the senior manager at Addison, so he could easily guess that it was the conservatives targeting the Hunters.

In this Shitori Station, the biggest conservative representative is probably the station manager!

"So what should we do?" Mata asked.

Laskey said expressionlessly, "The base just gave us specific instructions: keep an eye on Biba Amatori and that researcher in the white coat. If you have the capacity, also keep an eye on the other Kabaneri, Ayame Yomogawa, and the 'Black Mist' core inside the train engine."

"This is too much, for just the two of us," Mata said, looking at him with distress.

"The most important goals are the first two; we can do our best on the rest. And as long as we hold out until the next station, we'll have enough manpower."

"Especially that researcher, he clearly has no ability to protect himself. Just make sure he doesn't get killed by someone or the Kabane."

[Waaaaah----]

Just as Laskey finished speaking, a sharp siren sounded throughout the city, causing panic and tension among the people, as it meant that the Kabane the city!

"Walk!"

Without further delay, Laskey led Mata quickly to the black train where Biba Amatori was, but when the two arrived at the city gate, they found that the train had already left the city.

It's clear that the Hunters are about to leave the city to fight the Kabane again!

"Ugh, what a hassle."

Left with no other choice, the two could only choose a deserted section of the city to climb over, and then, while being careful to stay hidden, slowly approached the black train.

Meanwhile, a large number of Kabane had already crossed the moat and were struggling to climb the city walls, braving the bullets that were constantly being fired at them. They looked like a swarm of Black Ant with tiny sparks of Huoguang.

"Oh, how can there be so many?"

A soldier with a gun, sweating profusely, looked down at the dense swarm of Kabane below. They still didn't know why the Kabane had suddenly surged forward.

"Can we really hold out against this formation?"

In a high-rise building somewhere in the city, a group of people gathered together, watching the tense situation outside.

"Deliberately luring the Kabane and exposing the people to danger, this kind of tactic is truly..." One of them looked hesitantly at the man in front of him, the Wuzhou Peace Officer from the Shogunate's household.

"Don't worry, the Kabane will be handled by the Hunters. Since they call themselves the Liberators, they'll definitely step forward, and then they'll take advantage of the situation."

[Click-clack, click-clack, squeak-squeak--]

The black train, which had already left the city, slowed down rapidly and came to a stop as Biba Amatori. Then, one side of the armor lifted up, revealing a mortar squad that had been prepared beforehand.

"Incendiary bombs, fire!"

At Biba Amatori's command, the soldiers of the Hunters quickly loaded the cannonballs into the barrels, then hurriedly stepped aside, covering their ears.

The next moment, the sound of artillery fire rang out one after another, and shells Kabane the crowd in Kabane with a whistling sound, exploding into bursts of flames and Shockwave.

These flames could even continue to burn on the dry ground, constantly scorching the nearby Kabane, truly living up to the name of an incendiary bomb.

Immediately afterwards, the scene that Laskey and Mata had seen before appeared again: motorcycles that seemed to be powered by high-pressure steam carried armed riders and rushed out of the train carriages, firing at the Kabane. Meanwhile, the ground soldiers who followed behind coordinated to shoot down the Kabane rushed at them at close range.

This astonishing scene was a real eye-opener for the soldiers and Samurai of the Shitori Station on the city wall; it was truly the first time they had ever seen a force dare to go out and fight.

"Laskey, look there!"

Meanwhile, Mata and her companion, who had already arrived near the train and hidden themselves, were also observing the situation on the battlefield, but their eyes never strayed from Biba Amatori.

However, the Red-Clad Girl and the Short-Haired Blonde Woman, because they exuded the aura of the Kabane and were suspected to be Kabaneri, also attracted a lot of attention from the two of them.

What Mata was referring to was the scene of the two of them advancing side by side towards a giant Kabane that was nearly three meters tall and wielding a large machete. The Kabane had two more Kabane attached to its chest and back, clearly indicating that it was transitioning towards the 'core'.

"Tch, aren't there people in this world who are 2.5 meters tall?" Laskey said coldly and unhappily.

The Short-Haired Blonde Woman was clearly 1.7 meters tall, but when she stood in front of the giant Kabane, she only reached his Root thighs; he must have been at least 3 meters tall.

"But neither the Hunters nor this Shitori Station have seen a single person taller than two meters. This must be an extremely rare case," Mata comforted her from the side.

Next, the two witnessed the girl and the woman's wonderful collaboration.

First, the Short-Haired Blonde Woman accelerated, then threw her short-barreled gun above the giant Kabane's head. She then dodged the latter's slashing sword, showing no fear even as the sword Earth Split beside her, creating a loud noise and thick smoke. She turned her back to the incredibly thick thighs, then slightly squatted down, placing her hands in front of her.

The Red-Haired youngest daughter followed closely behind, leaping and somersaulting as she pierced the Kabane of a giant Kabane on its back with her twin pistols, which then landed precisely on the hands of the Short-Haired Blonde Woman.

With a powerful leap, the latter used the force to launch himself into the air again, catching the Short-Haired Blonde Woman had thrown high into the sky before it fell back down. He then fired it vertically through the skull of the giant Kabane in mid-air.

That wasn't all. The Short-Haired Blonde Woman suddenly drew her long sword from her back and, taking advantage of the moment when the giant Kabane screamed in agony from its head injury, pierced its heart and the heart of the Kabane its chest!

The entire sequence of movements was fluid and seamless, showcasing his Superman speed, strength, agility, reaction time, and combat experience to the fullest extent.

While these things amazed the soldiers and Samurai of the Shitori Station, they were of little interest to Laskey and Mata, who found them rather flashy and frivolous.

That knife

However, Laskey's sharp eyes noticed the peculiar blade in the Short-Haired Blonde Woman's hand, which was covered with glowing veins similar to those of the Kabane and was jet black.

The sheer power of the attack, capable of piercing the hearts and chests of two Kabane in a single blow, particularly caught his eye.

They had tested it before; ordinary Samurai swords in this world were completely ineffective against the Kabane's steel Heart Membrane. In a direct confrontation, the sword would simply break.