That was a rookie mistake. They shouldn't make it.
"Bzzzz..."
I was hurrying along, lost in thought, when a buzzing suddenly came from overhead. I stopped short
and pressed myself against the wall. I drew both pistols from
under my arms and edged the muzzles around the corner to test the waters. No shots came...
Strange. The buzzing seemed to be coming from the sky.
No gunshots meant no danger, right?
I glanced up at an angle, then lowered my pistols in exasperation.
Dozens of large drones were circling overhead.
"Are those... for surveillance?"
That must have been how the people outside were keeping tabs on what was happening in here.
They were noisy, though. Drones flew over every section of the city.
I holstered my pistols, glanced at the drones, and kept walking. A camera clearly swung toward
me. One look was all it took to
understand.
The side street was deserted. That was strange. Were they planning to wait for me instead of coming after me?
Heh... I hoped they wouldn't be surprised when the thing that ran into their tree turned out to be a tiger, not a rabbit.
Speaking of waiting for a rabbit, why had those words suddenly brought to mind a story that sounded like... a cartoon?
One day, a farmer was sitting beneath a tree when a rabbit ran into it. The rabbit
passed out and somehow turned into a beautiful woman.
Delighted, the farmer carried her home, and they lived happily and shamelessly ever after...
Uh, of course, the point of the story wasn't the rabbit or the beauty. It was the second farmer... the one doomed to stay single.
The second farmer saw how happy the first one was and grew envious. He went to the same tree to wait
for