Right after morning, he woke up, Akira went straight to the autopsy room as promised.
The man who brought him in and let him witness all the ones the killer had killed in the previous assassination.
Akira was shocked. The man went on a killing spree, and over 17 people were killed.
The man had observed for over 25 minutes in different cities.
He discovered that the killer was the same, and the causes of death were also the same. They had their throats slit. It was quite fast. Arguably, the man had the main ability that involved speed.
The way he moved from one different city to another was first he went to the northern city, Zai'mére, the central city, Valac, the eastern city, Rengor'd, and last, the western city, Sylvans Garden.
The man had a board with pins related to this crime. He had pinned the latest crime today as well as the previous crime that happened yesterday. He stated that it was involved in some sort of gang war because the assassination was somewhat to kill a gang family.
Another statement was that it was
"something of a deal."
He believed they had hired a mercenary to kill them.
Their next objective was to kill the last one, one of the gang boss's children, his son.
His son was a guild leader, preparing for a dungeon raid portal. He explained that this dungeon raid portal was for boosting EXP.
There were many ways to boost exp. Including the portal he mentioned, it was designed as a real-life simulation where people could experience fighting monsters.
He bet that the killer could enter without them knowing his intent. But, after they were killed, he would be forever banned.
Now Akira appears jumbled. First of all, he didn't know there were "guilds". He only knew there were only squads. Second, the dungeon raid portal: he explored many places, but not a single dungeon raid portal that he discovered.
He explained that guilds were for warriors who had not been elected to join squads and went solo. They could join guilds freely, and some of them needed requirements. Second, the dungeon raid hadn't been opened yet since Akira explored; it only opened once a month, and today was the day the dungeon raid portal would open.
Back to the point of what their objective was...
"I want you to join their guild and disguise yourself as a newbie." The man requested Akira to join their guild and protect them.
Coincidentally, Akira was a newbie, right before he said that.
Akira shook his head and declined. He said, "Why not split up?" Because it would be so much easier if the enemy was stopped by one of them. One more thing to add was that so it would give them time to lead them away.
The man agreed with his point.
He then changed the plan and asked Akira to stop him and let the man guide them through. The reason was that the dungeon could be a maze. gates, monsters' dens, and other things that would jumble their directions, much like a labyrinth. Even so, he must take a gamble on what the dungeon would be like.
He would later join their guild and would guide them away from the killer, whilst Akira tried to stop the killer.
The man introduced himself as "Yuri Alexander." His main ability is called "zoom."
He could locate the killer's location in the dungeon with ease, so he could know where he would lead them away from him.
He couldn't use it in the short-range, so it would be useless against shorter-range targets. Akira introduced himself as well but not his main abilities.
And now, as they had finally discussed their final plan, they headed off to where the dungeon raid would start.
Akira went solo, whilst Yuri went together in a guild. Akira clenched his fist while making a cracking sound in his bones.
There were many guilds, estimated to be about 10 guilds in one area. He counted the leader as they wore something of a badge. Akira was offered to join one of their guilds, but just by the look on their faces, they were just going to use him. He couldn't trust them as he felt the wickedness in their presence.
It was odd.
He didn't need to use Danger Sense, but he could already sense their intentions. Akira believed that it was just a "gut-feeling".
Eventually, the gate portal opened and all of them went in. They were placed in different rooms. The description of the dungeon was cavern-like, and they could also sense the monster's presence all the way around.
Akira launched himself forward into the pathway, trying to find Yuri. He knew Yuri's whereabouts as he sensed him, but he kept getting stuck at a dead end. And then, he met him.
The killer, whom he saw back, didn't know if he noticed him, so he approached him.
Suspiciously, he acted as if nothing had happened and acted normally, which made Akira uncomfortable.
"Apologies that I have followed you here. I wasn't doing anything. If you don't mind, let me pass." Akira noticed that the man followed him for the same reason. He was smiling suspiciously.
He had senses that were similar to Akira's. Akira also took notice that his hands were a bloody mess as he hid them on his back.
He smelled an unpleasant stench all around his body and throughout the dungeon. Despite the fact that monsters were just an ai, there shouldn't be a smell of corpses from them.
Akira launched his attack after he summoned his scythe. The man dodged, and the smile on his face faded. He wasn't expecting Akira to halt his actions, so he prepared his knife. His knife was sharp and quite big that it could be called a dagger.
He started lunging with his knife at Akira, trying to impale him. Akira maneuvered away, but the man took a side jump so he could kill Akira. It took Akira by surprise as he dodged the knife while stepping away. He then swung his scythe and the man backed away.
"(I better keep my guard up... He's far faster than me...)" Akira admitted.
"Stay out of this! I don't want to hurt you!"
"You're up to no good. Like hell, I'm going to let you go!"
"Fine!"
The man stood motionless and glared at him, then said, " Move! " The whole area tremored as the whole atmosphere stirred. The power he had unleashed was similar to Akira back in the dungeon with Kitsune. Akira noticed a red glow encircling the entire area and could feel the tingling feeling.
The killer became perplexed as to why Akira didn't recoil or even sense the violence he had unleashed. He gave him the go-ahead to leave, and it appeared that he had no choice but to remove the obstruction.
Then, before his target fled, he made an attempt to assassinate Akira as swiftly as he could.
The man's eyes were matched with his aura and made Akira drip sweat from his face.
"(His eyes... A sense of death? My Danger Sense seems off, it doesn't trigger when I'm with him either dire or not... It seems likely he has the ability to disable my senses.)" Akira felt that the consciousness of his presence was very scary.
He held his scythe tightly.
Akira, with a brink of a second, after just a blink...
his throat was slit...
"You blink, you die..."
The man just blitzed through and appeared behind right after Akira blinked. Akira choked on his own blood after he was slit. The man walked away hurriedly to his objective's location whilst Akira was dying because his throat was slit.
Akira took the time to heal, and finally, he healed after a minute, but the pain continued as he felt a soreness in his throat.
Akira panted and started coughing, then sprang up to his feet and followed the killer.
Meanwhile, Yuri tried to guide them, and they followed him. They defeated many monsters on the way back while following Yuri. They didn't have any idea why they would trust him and follow him since Yuri was so serious, he joined the guild without them offering him to join.
After the killer had killed Akira, Yuri couldn't shake the nervousness when he saw that Akira had been murdered, and his heart was racing like crazy.