"Wilson, Laffite, go wild, don't let the small fries get in Elly's way," I said and watched as Laffite jumped and landed behind Frank Nitti and the gangsters near him dropped like flies. "This is your moment, Elly, hold nothing back and let it all out," I concluded as Wilson transformed to his gorilla form and threw himself at a group of gangsters while shrugging everything they threw at him, including a shot from a hand cannon.
Elly looked at this scene, and her eyes began to tear up, but she shook her head and started sprinting in the mob boss's direction after muttering the words, "thank you."
I stood in my place and took out my gun, and began sniping the mobsters left and right at a leisurely pace while prioritizing those who looked like they were targeting Elly.
We, of course, couldn't stop all the gangsters from targeting Elly as there were too many of them, but that did not stop her as she was steadily advancing through the battlefield while performing all kinds of gymnastic moves to dodge the bullets.
Some gangsters decided to attack her in melee range, and I intentionally let two of them through to see how she would react to them while keeping a close eye on them to put them down with a bullet, if necessary, of course.
The first gangster that reached her was carrying an ordinary cutlass sword, which he swung at her sideways as soon as she was at striking distance.
Elly ducked under his word without stopping and reached to her belt to take a knife, which she threw backward without even looking as she kept sprinting.
'now that's a cool trick. I'll have to ask her to teach that later,' I thought with a smile as I watched the knife hit the gangster directly in the back of his head, killing him where he stood.
The second gangster to reach her was unarmed, so he stood in front of her with his arms wide open, trying to stop her sprint. She jumped over him with a graceful backflip, and I saw her making eye contact with me when her head was right above his head with a smug smile as she twisted his neck with her hands before landing and continuing to sprint.
"Nobody likes a show-off, Elly," I said as I raised my leg and sent a flying rankyaku slash right above her head, which hit two more gangsters in front of her, decapitating them and sending their heads rolling in the air.
"Tch, who's the show-off now, captain?" she snapped at me with a click of her tongue as she sprinted, but there was a smile on her lips.
By the time Elly finally reached Frank Nitti, Laffite had already taken care of all the gangsters near him, leaving only Laffite himself and the mob boss there.
Laffite looked at Elly and nodded with a smile as he walked forward and patted her shoulder. "I'll watch your back. He's all yours," he remarked and took one more step to stand behind Elly with their backs facing each other as he twirled his red cane.
I unsheathed my sword and sent several flying sword slashes to finish the remaining small fries near me as Wilson jumped near me and morphed back into his human form.
"what, it's already over? After all that talking, I thought this would be way more fun," Wilson said to me as he picked up a rock and threw it at a gangster who was playing dead.
"not yet. That guy has been awfully silent the entire time. He probably still has something up his sleeve," I said as I rubbed my chin in thought while pointing at the mob boss.
Wilson just shrugged his shoulder with no interest at all and jumped again, landing next to Laffite, and I followed him with a soru step.
"Frank Nitti, you do not know how long I've been waiting to tear you apart with my own hands," Elly said with an icy tone of voice as she clenched her fists hard enough for her knuckles to turn white while facing the man who destroyed her family.
"wait for your turn, little girl. Do you think you're the only one with a grudge against me?" he said with a calm smile. "in fact, I don't even know who you are," he concluded with a careless shrug of his shoulder, obviously trying to provoke her.
"You don't need to know who I am. You only need to know that I'll be reuniting you with your shit-eating son, Francis," Elly did not fall for his attempt to provoke her and replied calmly.
"so it was you, huh?" he replied calmly, but I can feel the rage boiling inside him as his body started to change.
His face was the first to change as his nose turned into a black snout while the rest of his face grew black, fuzzy fur, except his mouth and chin, which remained the same. The front of his body also grew the same black fur as his hands and feet grew long black claws, while the back of his body sprouted countless white, long spikes that looked sharp enough to penetrate rock.
"a hedgehog zoan," I stated with a calm tone as I looked at this scene, and Laffite nodded while Wilson only looked slightly interested, but he didn't make any comments.
"you bastards really made a huge mess for me, but no matter, I will kill you all and rebuild the gang again after I'm take care of you lot," he stated with an even calmer tone as a large pulsing vein appeared on his forehead.
Elly seemed to have grown tired of waiting as she pointed her rifle in his direction and quickly fired a bullet aimed at his head. The mob boss saw it coming and quickly covered his face by bringing his hands in front of his face, causing the bullets to hit the spikes on the back of his arms and bounce off, doing no damage at all.
The mobster then pointed his arm in her direction and fired several spikes at her, which she dodged by performing a cartwheel flip to the side without her hands.
Frank Nitti, however, made use of her actions to close the gap as he started charging in her direction before she landed on the ground. Elly noticed this and started pedaling backward while firing two shots at him, which he shrugged of again.
He closed the distance in no time, and he brought his hands in front of him as he lunged in her direction, trying to impale her with the spikes on his arms.
Elly waited until the last second to reach for the coach gun and shot him with it at point-blank, sending him flying and crashing into a wall behind him, sliding backward because of the recoil, creating some space between them.
Elly took a second to steady herself and threw the coach gun to the side to retrieve a stick of dynamite from her belt and throw it at the wall Frank Nitti crashed into after he went flying.
She waited until the dynamite was right above the spot where he crashed and then shot it, causing it to explode with a thunderous bang as the fire devoured the rubble of the wall the mobster wrecked with his body during his crash.