"Ash," Philly suddenly asked, "is there really nothing we can do?"
"At least this time, all we can do is protect ourselves," Ash said softly. "There will always be disasters we can't see,"
"and there will always be moments when we're powerless." Bang.
Seeing them draw closer and closer to the building, the sniper grew increasingly impatient. But they were weaving through the Arcade, and the Gun Bullets often had to pass through walls first, naturally making it even harder to inflict lethal damage on them.
Boom.
The floor above suddenly exploded, the shock making Ash and the others lurch. The sniper had stopped shooting at them and was instead shooting the gas pipes inside the residential building!
Boom, boom, boom!
Aside from the upper floors, the cars stopped in the lane beside them were also being shot through the fuel tanks one after another and exploding! Although this hindered the legion monsters from attacking Ash and the others, the large-scale blast waves and tremors had an even greater impact on them.
Now they couldn't leave the Arcade—the lane outside was packed with cars, which in the sniper's eyes were all triggerable explosive devices—so they could only keep charging forward until they entered the tower where the sniper was!
Just as they were about to break out at the end, Ash suddenly felt his sleeve being tugged.
He looked back and saw Philly covering her mouth as tears streamed down her face. Following her gaze, Ash saw the door of a car ahead open, with a little girl lying unconscious on the ground. She must have happened to encounter the Golden Holy Grail's descent just as she got out of the car.
Barring any surprises, when Ash and the others passed nearby, that car's fuel tank would also be shot