Almost at the same time, Kid suddenly noticed a Laser Red Dot on his pristine white sleeve.
His pupils contracted sharply. A Sniper Rifle... Someone was aiming at him?!
In the blink of an eye, the deadly red dot gradually moved upward and landed on his face.
Kid glanced at that red point from the corner of his eye, his expression turning grim. This is bad. It's hard to dodge in midair. If this keeps up...
As he was thinking, the sound of wind suddenly came from above and to the side, rapidly drawing closer.
The overly familiar sound made Kid light up with surprise before he could even see where it came from—this was the sound of Mist Tengu's wings flapping. Every time he flew freely through the night sky with a treasure he had just stolen, Mist Tengu would always descend from the heavens like this and silently take the jewel away... He had been robbed so many times that there was no way he could mistake it!
Kid abruptly looked up and, sure enough, saw a black figure rapidly approaching—Mist Tengu had flown in from who knew where and was already flying alongside him in the blink of an eye.
"Brother Tengu!" Kid called out in delight at first, but his expression quickly changed—Mist Tengu was flying on the side closer to the Sniper Rifle, as though intending to take the shot for him. But with the power of that gun...
"Move!" Kid thought the monster might not understand the power of technology. "That's a sni—"
Bang!
The shot rang out.
At almost the same moment, Mist Tengu suddenly smacked him in the back with a wing.
The Hang Glider let out a dull, battered thump. With that shove, the two of them dropped in unison. The