"Is that the woman you're afraid of? She doesn't look all that impressive."
White-haired Mephisto mocked Skullshatterer in his strange tone.
Naturally, Skullshatterer was not about to let him ridicule him without answering.
"When you face her yourself, you'll know how formidable she is."
"You can say that anytime, Skullshatterer." Mephisto ignored Skullshatterer's warning and continued.
"You can say that anytime..."
"But it doesn't mean anything... The fact is, you squandered every one of the combat-capable comrades we painstakingly infiltrated into Lungmen."
"Ah~ What a pity. If Talulah had let me command them, at least they wouldn't have been caught. They would have completed their mission."
As Mephisto spoke, he showed a hint of disdain.
Skullshatterer fell silent and said no more.
Mephisto was irritating, but one thing he said was true.
His mission had failed.
Reunion Movement had infiltrated quite a few people into Lungmen, but the only ones who could truly be called professional combat forces were those people. The rest were merely brainless thugs.
And after all that preparation, they had ultimately achieved nothing...
As the commander, he could not escape blame.
Nor did Skullshatterer intend to shirk responsibility. After remaining silent for a while, he simply stopped paying attention to Mephisto.
Seeing Skullshatterer refuse to speak, Mephisto frowned.
Before he could say anything else, Faust, who had been watching Maria's movements, suddenly spoke.
"She's very fast..."
"Hm?"
"I can barely keep up with her."
Faust spoke again. Though his voice remained calm, it could not conceal his surprise.
After all, his shooting skills had been honed through life-and-death battles. He did not think his skill was peerless.
But neither would he belittle himself to the point of thinking his shooting was worthless.
Yet even he could not predict Maria's movements in advance...
She was too fast...