I Have Returned, but I Cannot Lay down My Gun

Chapter 588

All that's left is to ship out.

As I was struggling to get through the area without even being able to increase my speed because of the debris overflowing around me, the UI suddenly caught my eye.

Among the few letters on the slowly rising Killlog, something I couldn't let slip caught my eye.

-[Logan ???<smashed>???>> Rain]

"...No."

"What's wrong?"

"No."

What did you do to turn Rain into a cake with your bare hands, you crazy guy.

I was starting to get scared of Logan.

"Waaaaaaah-!"

"I know the youngest members of Mecha aren't ordinary, but there's no need for their appearance to be unique."

"Waaaah, my throat was just ripped out, huh, I'm alive... uh, why is Senior Laurentina here?"

"You're really late to notice."

A woman's voice bursts out in the quiet room.

Rain, who had been sitting comfortably on a special sofa that could withstand even the heaviest weights and had her eyes closed, suddenly opened her eyes, hurriedly stood up, looked around, and barely managed to calm down.

The reason was simple. The scene from a few seconds ago that could be seen as soon as you looked straight ahead - Logan, wearing a knuckle duster that he had randomly built through the shield of the Icarus Gear, was firing straight at a speed that humans could not even recognize, and Rain, who was hit by it, was literally cut down on the spot.

As if that wasn't enough, he approached before firing the railgun and pulled out its tail with brute force, and as if that wasn't enough, he stomped on its legs and crushed them before punching its neck... The rest is omitted.

Now, it was a scene that reminded me of a fatality from a 19+ brutal action game that had remained in the past.

Rain, who had an expression that seemed like he didn't know what to say, sat down again, and Laurentina opened her mouth calmly, still laughing like an aristocrat.

“…That’s not really a person.”

“Well, it’s Logan. You must have experienced it a lot in the other world, Lane. Logan…is the strongest among the manifesters in terms of strength. That polar bear. He’s the person you hate the most in a 1:1 sparring without any weapons.”

“You’re going to say you hate sparring with your master anyway.”

“The third arm that hits with the tail or wraps around your legs to block your mobility is a glitch.”

“…That’s true.”

Hoo.

While scratching her head and concentrating on the screen, Laurentina, who had been sitting at a distance from Lane, slowly moved her body closer to her.

When she was close enough to touch him without having to stretch her hand out, the shark stopped and her mouth opened again.

"If you've come to your senses, let's start the debriefing. There are more than a few things to point out, but it's better if you hear such a rookie mistake yourself. Isn't that right, you rushed into a polar bear and got killed?"

"Oh my, don't tell me because it's embarrassing! I'm already so embarrassed because I rushed in so carelessly!"

"It's ridiculous that you fought in a cramped warehouse, and you can't even use the railgun properly. If you knew how Jin got beaten up after having his minigun taken away, you wouldn't be so careless."

"Ughhhhh... Jooyin... The shark is bothering me..."

Of course, Eugene on the other side of the screen was walking around the port city of Tannhäuser with Harmony, who had become Mecha Byam.

Jin and Marv were still going strong, but as the number of people remaining decreased to less than 30, they began to come into contact with the newly appeared New-Mecha Byam more frequently. Of course, Mekabyam couldn’t be their enemy. This was because people wearing reinforced suits appeared one after another.

There weren’t just one or two of them, but several.

Naturally, the form of the battle had long since deviated from the form of modern warfare.

“Hmm, it seems that the manifesters aren’t compatible with reinforced suits. Well, there’s no way they could make something that’s compatible with this body… No, my thoughts wandered elsewhere for a moment. It seems that they made it so that they can’t be used in event matches due to balance issues….”

“…They’re clashing more chaotically than I thought. Well, that’s inevitable. The firepower of each individual weapon easily blew away any cover. Rather, it’s surprising that they adapted to the changing combat situation in such a short period of time….”

“Nevertheless, there are bound to be some people who stand out among them. For example… That crazy guy who’s swinging a hammer that can’t be wielded without the reinforced suit.”

At the same time, his gaze turned.

Logan, holding a blunt weapon that was a little bigger than a hammer, approached the group of enemies while weaving through the shattered and burning cover, and when he got close enough, he activated the shock function and swung it.

A booming sound. The person wearing the enhanced suit flew away like a baseball hit by a bat. Laurentina, who had superhuman kinetic vision that could even recognize bullets, and Rain, who was not bound by human limitations, saw the user's pupils blurred as he was bounced off like a water spout.

The moment he was hit by the hammer and flew away, he felt a terribly powerful shock all over his body and died on the spot.

As the circle narrowed, the battle became more intense, and bold and arbitrary choices that had never been seen in the actual game continued without fail, and a high-powered IED that someone had intentionally created to cause a commotion detonated in the middle of the battlefield, incinerating two or three people nearby at once.

But even in the midst of all that, there were survivors, and when the number of users left was reduced from double digits to single digits, the battle became several times more intense. It was a butterfly effect caused by the fact that users wearing the enhanced suit could destroy the enemy’s defense line without hesitation.

If it were ordinary people, they would be reduced to ashes the moment they got caught up, or would be pierced by a railgun powerful enough to penetrate a tank, or would be blown to pieces by a sound wave that could blow away even heavy armor, and the remaining people gradually narrowed down - and there was no need to recite that lineup.

-… You brought a hammer that only enhanced suit users use!?

- When would you ever swing something like this?

Biyam and Polar Bear finally met again at the end.

- You really blew up a whole cargo ship, Dice… !

- Haha, I should have expected that. How I gained notoriety in KSM last year!

The two young Byams who met again after becoming Mecha Byam.

-Come to think of it, this was a battle royale… ugh!

-You’re slow to notice, eldest sister.

As soon as Marv found out that it was a battle royale with only one person left, he blasted Jin with an ion cannon.

It wouldn’t have been strange if anyone won, but there were four Mecha Byams in the narrow circle. The firepower these four instantly unleashed was more than enough to turn the surroundings into ash and render the sensors useless.

Eugene and Logan, who seemed to be fighting fiercely, disappeared somewhere else, and before they could move, plasma and ion cannons flew in, the ultrasonic weapon on Harmony’s tail shattered the cover, and Dice’s tail weapon, a gravity manipulation weapon, distorted the surrounding space.

In this way, one, two, and three were exhausted and melted into pieces in a storm of firepower that even Mecha Byam could not withstand. Jin, Marv, and Dice woke up one by one.

While they gathered one by one in the room, a tattered Eugene walked out of the warehouse that was almost completely burned and melted. One of his arms was already beyond recovery, but Eugene, who seemed completely oblivious to the fact, was holding the railgun with his remaining right hand.

The moment Eugene, who was holding it with difficulty, fell to the floor, a single machine appeared across the flames.

It was Harmony.

- I told you, Eugene… Even so, I didn’t know you would stay like this until the end.

-… Well, I thought this could happen.

- Hehe. It looks like you’re in pretty bad shape… I think it’s time to take back the life you owe me. Don’t you think so?

- Well… .

Eugene muttered, his finger still on the trigger of the railgun.

- I don't know if you remember, but I just happened to check earlier... Mekabyam's hair volume is surprisingly protected by a shield.

- Hair volume... Wait!?

- I won't say much.

Kwaaaaang!

At that moment, a blue flame burst out fiercely from one side of Harmony's head. Harmony's eyes widened as she confirmed that it was something attached to Eugene's neck while saving him from being crushed by the debris, but Eugene was aiming the railgun at that moment.

Sharply

As the high-pitched sound of the wind burst out, the nuclear fusion reactor located in the center of Harmony’s upper body was completely destroyed and shattered, and Mina, who had fallen backwards with an expression of incomprehension, looked straight ahead.

Eugene, who had come closer, threw away the railgun and stroked her face.

- I don’t know how much it would cost to repay Eunhye… but a 1-hour tail pass would be enough, right?

- Teacher Eugene, really… .

- Let’s go back and look at the rest.

She snickered at that and soon dropped her neck.

The event match ended with Harmony’s eyes closing completely.

It was a moment of incomparable chaos from the main event.