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arted chasing after Sonoda and his men.

 

While around the same time, Akira was bored guarding the clinic when a notice reached his information terminal.
The coordinate written in that notice was around in the direction where the reconnaissance team went.

 

Akira thought for a bit before he hopped on his bike and paced it.

 

Alpha frowned.

 

“We don’t know for sure if Elena and Sara are there, there’s no need to go there yourself, no?”

 

“Accepting SOS requests is also one of my duties, right? Though it’s true that it’s a little bit further away from the clinic.”

 

Alpha frowned even more.
Akira thought that it was a bit surprising as he said.

 

“…Well, I do know that since it’s an SOS request, there’s a good chance that I’ll find a troublesome swarm of monsters, and I admit that I do really want to help them if Elana-san or Sara-san are the ones that got into trouble.
But at least let me do this much, alright? There are not that many monsters around, so I should be able to get my rank up faster instead of just guarding the clinic, right?”

 

“Just don’t get too deep into the ruin, alright?”

 

“Hm? Yeah, sure.”

 

Akira thought that it was weird since, in order to get stronger and to gather as many experiences as he could, it was better if he was actively taking SOS requests and that Alpha would have preferred it.
But since it seemed that it might sour her mood if he said anything there, he just kept his mouth shut and paced his bike faster.

 

Akira drove his bike to its max speed.
He was fully relying on Alpha’s support without holding back.
After all, he felt that he would slow down if he tried controlling the bike on his own and he had no plans to arrive late.
Due to Alpha’s advanced driving skill, the bike could sway nimbly left and right evading the rubbles scattered on the ground without losing much of its momentum.

 

Not too long after Akira went out, he detected some signals from monsters.
He quickly shifted his focus to the source of that signal, with the help of Alpha’s support, he could clearly see a group of monsters, but from that distance, they looked like small dots.
The moment he noticed the monster swarm, Akira frowned.
It was a swarm of weapon dogs blocking his way forward.

 

“So those were the reasons for that rescue request, huh.
I would rather run than chagrin right at it.”

 

“Want to withdraw then?”

 

“No.”

 

As Akira was thinking about what to do from there, he could see a vehicle suddenly jumped out, running away as fast as it could.
The backside of that vehicle was half open and there were people there desperately trying to fight back the incoming monsters, Akira could at least tell that much.

 

Right after it jumped out, that vehicle immediately turned and drove right toward Akira.
The sharp turn almost threw the whole vehicle into the air, but it was able to regain its balance thanks to the advanced driving skill of its driver while still shooting the monsters behind it and keeping its speed.

 

“That must be the rescue target then.
Thank goodness, it seems that there’s no need for me to jump into that swarm.”

 

“Well then, let’s pick him up and head back“.
By the way, how reckless are you willing to go today?

 

Alpha was smiling challengingly at Akira, but he only replied with a bitter smile and said.

 

“Not more than what’s needed.”

 

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“Alright.”

 

Akira’s hand that was grabbing the steer suddenly dialed up the power bar and violently accelerated the bike, just right on time before warheads rained down right where he was a few seconds ago.
The explosions sent shockwaves and left craters on the ground.

 

Under the raining warheads, Akira aimed his SSB multi-weapon at the weapon dogs blocking his way and started shooting, ignoring the amount of money that he spent just for that barrage.
The missile pods fixed into his A4WM automatic grenade launcher were also joining that barrage.

 

The bullet storm swallowed the frontline of the incoming weapon dog swarm.
Although the distance between them dampened some of the bullets’ momentum, they still tore through the weapon dog’s bodies.
Their big bodies with a cannon perched on them quickly turned into huge chunks of obstacle, but the bullets also tore through them and ate through the swarm’s defense.

 

The backside of the swarm was hammered by the mini-missiles.
Thanks to the guiding system from Alpha, they struck accurately at the weapon dogs’ cannons, igniting the black powder inside their body and resulting in a big explosion.
Thus shredding those weapon dogs into small pieces.

 

As the vehicle filled with Hunters went past Akira, he immediately pulled the brake, made a U-turn, and once again pulled down the accelerator.
The special function of the bike that helped its wheel to stick on the vertical wall prevented it from flying off.
The powerful inertia assaulted Akira’s body, but he was able to endure it with the help of his augmented suit.
Even as he was driving off, Akira kept on shooting at the weapon dogs, using the recoil to accelerate his bike even faster.

 

As Akira was trying to catch up with the vehicle in front of him, he received a short-distance call from his information terminal.
It was a call from Sonada who was waving at him from the backside of the vehicle in front of Akira.

 

“You’re the Hunter who came to my rescue, right? Thanks for the help.”

 

“It’s good that you’re alright.
To be honest, I was thinking of retreating when I spotted that weapon dog swarm.
It’s a good timing that you pulled yourself out from that.”

 

“That was a close call.
With that many cannons, if it was not because of you taking away some of the heat, they would have wiped us out.
And here I thought we have really run out of luck when those weird things attacked us, but I guess we still have some luck left, huh.”

 

“Weird things? Do you mean you didn’t send out that SOS request because of that weapon dog swarm?”

 

“Yeah, it was because of those…”

 

Akira noticed something weird on the side of the vehicle.

 

“Hey, someone is latching on the side of your vehicle? Didn’t you get enough time to take everyone inside?”

 

“What!?”

 

Sonada peeked out from the backside of his vehicle and pulled out his gun at that ‘someone‘ latching beside the vehicle without showing any hesitation.
The barrage peeled that small boy off from the vehicle as he tumbled on the ground.
Akira who saw that could not help but to raise his eyebrows.

 

“Wha-!? why did you do that!?!”

 

“That thing is not friendly!! It’s an enemy!! We sent that SOS request because we got attacked by those things!! I bet they are one of those humanoid robots posted to guard the ruin or something…”

 

Suddenly a small boy with a face similar to Tiol landed on that vehicle with a bang, violently rocking the vehicle and leaving a big dent on its armour.

 

“Warning.
Detecting resistance, arresting targets…”

 

The small boy stopped his formal warning midway and his expressionless face twitched.
Hostility replaced his face and he immediately jumped off that vehicle and lunged straight at Akira.

 

Although Akira was surprised by that sudden turn of event, he did not miss a beat as he aimed his rifle at that young boy and shot him down.
But that did not stop him, the young boy immediately rose back up and started chasing Akira.

 

Akira could not help but be surprised to see the young boy chasing him.
Although that bullet was powerful enough to rip through the weapon dogs, it was not enough to pierce through that young boy.

 

“Is it one of those dolls that I fought with the other day? I didn’t expect to find them outside a building.”

 

“Akira, leave the guessing for later and focus on the fight.
It’s not done yet, more of them are coming.”

 

Akira aimed his SSB multi-weapon up with a stern face, there were multiple of those young boy dolls jumping at him from the buildings to his left and right.
Some of them had 4 normal limbs, some of them carried rifles, while some of them had their whole arms turned into guns.
Some of those dolls had open bodies, exposing the mechanical parts inside them, some of them even had 3 arms attached to their bodies.

 

Akira compressed his time perception and shot down the enemies in front of him in turns following Alpha’s instruction.
But that did not end all of them, although some of them plummeted straight to the ground and turned into scrap, and some of them were thrown off and crashed to the building near them and stopped moving.
But of course, there were also those with stronger bodies which rose up again after getting shot down before they started chasing him.

 

Sonada’s vehicle was powerful enough to drive through the bad ground, but even so, the small wreckage spread here and there prevented them from going too fast.
Not to mention, if they made a small blunder and managed to get the vehicle to roll over, it would spell the end for them.
So they drove even slower than usual, slower than the dolls chasing after them with their super-human strength.

 

Although they were fighting back the dolls chasing them, the distance between them was slowly narrowing, and their number was not getting smaller at all.

 

The young boy dolls jumping out the buildings left and right straight at Akira also had their guns and cannons aimed at him.
Alpha controlled the bike to keep making evasive manoeuvres to get away from their aims.
Due to the continuously moving bike and the bad ground, Akira had to maintain his compressed time perception while aiming his SSB multi-weapon at those dolls.
He followed the instructions shown in his augmented vision, displaying the order of the enemies that he had to shoot down.
The bullets that he was using should be able to easily turn normal monsters into minced meat.

 

The flying powerful bullets ripped the dolls into pieces, spreading their flesh and mechanical parts into the air.
But the ones with strong bodies would only slam to the ground after their momentum was killed by the bullet just to rise up again.

 

The backside of Akira’s vehicle released a pack of mini-missiles.
Some of them hit the dolls that were still in the air, while some of the missiles went straight at the dolls chasing Akira.
The explosions from those missiles sent a violent gust of wind right at Akira, but he planted his body firmly with the help of his augmented suit so as not to get blown away from that shockwave.

 

Akira then noticed something troublesome and frowned.

 

“Say, Alpha.
It’s just my feeling though, but like, aren’t those dolls focusing on me? Or more like, they’re only attacking me, right?”

 

“If you want to leave one of them alive in order to confirm that, then you don’t have my permission.”

 

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“Like hell I would do that!”

 

“If you have no plans to just abandon those people behind, then just take this positively, at least they won’t be attacking those Hunters while you’re around, right?”

 

“You have a point there.”

 

Akira then banished that thought and any other unneeded things inside his mind to the void.

 

Another batch of mini-missiles was launched from the backside of the bike.
They drew a huge arc on the sky and went for the dolls chasing from behind.
The dolls with guns immediately tried to shoot some of the missiles, causing several explosions in the air.

 

But even after that, the rest of the mini-missiles were able to reach them and blow them away.
Akira looked slightly relieved watching those explosions, but his face immediately tensed up again.
Those mini-missiles were not enough to stop those dolls from chasing him.

 

“That did cut their number down, but there are still quite a lot of them left.”

 

“Akira, bad news here, that was the last batch of mini-missiles.”

 

“And here I thought I carried quite a lot of them.
It starts to scare me to think how much I spent in this fight alone.”

 

Akira took his DVTS minigun off from his bike and replaced it with the automatic reloading system for the missiles since it has no mini-missiles left to load.
The ammo expense from that battle was nothing to laugh at.

 

Akira aimed his SSB multi-weapon and started shooting again.
The SSB multi-weapon was spouting out powerful bullets as if it was a minigun.
Once he emptied his rifle, he loaded another magazine and started shooting again.
He told himself that he did not care if Kibayashi complained about the expense later on as he kept burning through his ammo reserve.

 

But even so, the incoming dolls did not seem to be letting off at all and his ammo reserve was getting smaller and smaller.
Akira could not help but start feeling nervous.
Right in the midst of it, Alpha said something that he could not ignore.

 

“We at least got out of the most dangerous part now.
I’ll need to go for a bit, so do your best yourself for the time being, okay? I’ll give the bike’s control back to you.”

 

As the bike suddenly swayed, Akira flusteredly took control of the bike back.

 

“Wait for a sec, you need to go now?!”

 

“I just need to take care of a small business.
I’ll be back in a minute or two.”

 

“Small business?! Right now? In this situation?!”

 

In contrast to the panicking Akira, Alpha just smiled and pointed her finger.

 

“Don’t worry, like I said before, we already got out of the most dangerous part.”

 

Alpha immediately vanished right after that.
Akira quickly shifted his gaze forward and saw Yastsubayashi’s mobile clinic coming right in his direction.
He could also see the Hunters guarding the clinic standing by near it as well as the Hunters that were a part of the expedition team.

 

The mobile clinic was originally an APC, so it had rifles and other weapons equipped.
Those weapons immediately started shooting, half of the other Hunters around that clinic also started reacting.
After Akira went past the clinic, he spotted Elena and Sara, so he turned his bike toward them.

 

Elena noticed Akira and threw a smile at him.

 

“Akira, it seems that you’re having a hard time there.
Are you alright?”

 

“Ah, uh, yeah, I’m okay.”

 

Sara then worriedly said to Akira.

 

“This Hunter by the name of Sonada keeps broadcasting SOS requests, so you came to rescue him, huh? Are you alright? Did you get any injury? If you’re tired, you can take a rest in the back.”

 

“Ah, no, I’m fine.
Although I’m a little tired, I still can move.”

 

“I see, don’t push yourself too hard.
Since we’re around this time, it would be a waste not to rely on us when you have the chance.”

 

Sara said so and smiled gently at Akira, who blushed and seemed to be flustered.

 

“In that case, I don’t have much ammo left, so is it okay if I stay close to you?”

 

Elena smiled and said.

 

“Of course.
It has been quite a while since the last time we fought together.
If you want to use my information terminal too, come closer and I’ll do the adjustment.”

 

“Yes please.”

 

Akira smiled happily as he said so.
After he finished his readjustment, he then fought the dolls together with Elena and Sara.

 

The other Hunters that were guarding the clinic and the Hunters from the expedition team knew well of the danger that they were going to face, thus they came well prepared with a lot of ammo.
Of course, the bullets that they had prepared were suitable for the danger of the requests that they had accepted that day.

 

After that, they took their time cleaning up the dolls chasing Akira and Sonada as well as the weapon dog swarm that came not too long after those dolls.