"Don't let it hit me!"
Magadino had fought his way up from the bottom, and his battle instincts told him how terrifying this attack was.
His gaze swept discreetly over his wife and daughter, frozen in place behind him by extreme fear. A trace of struggle flashed through his eyes, but it lasted only an instant before being completely replaced by cold cruelty.
The next moment, he suddenly released his wife and daughter's hands, threw himself backward, and expertly rolled to the side.
"Pfft!"
The blade swept past, taking two beautiful heads with it. Expressions of terror and disbelief were forever frozen on the lovely faces of Magadino's wife and daughter.
Until their final moments, they could not understand why the man who had always protected them would do such a thing.
Warm blood splashed across Kaku's young face, yet he did not even blink.
At CP9's agent training base, the first lesson they received after gaining awareness—and the lesson that continued throughout their training—was to extinguish their humanity and adapt to, even grow accustomed to, taking the lives of others.
Sympathy, pity, discomfort... such emotions were unnecessary, even fatal.
Meanwhile, Magadino used the momentum of his roll to reach a section of floor beside the fireplace.
His fingertips precisely slipped into a nearly invisible crack. He yanked up the floorboard and pulled out a crudely designed heavy shotgun.
The entire process was smooth and effortless, without the slightest hesitation over the deaths of his wife and daughter, as if the two who had just died were insignificant strangers.
"Die!"
Magadino snarled and pulled the trigger at Kaku. A thunderous gunshot rang through the dining hall once more as specially made pointed bullets screamed forth.
Facing an attack that could turn an ordinary person into minced meat, Kaku showed no