6 scary looking men with devilish smiles and monster tatoos surrounded him while the lone girl stood in the distance. She did not smirk but had a confident smile on her face. Her face was covered by a hoodie and black shorts revealed her leg right below her knees.
"Hey moron, you want to just walk into our territory like this without paying a toll?"
"He think he can just stroll anywhere he wants"
Leo Skyfang didn't respond. He just immediately stared at the one who he knew was the calmest among them all. The De Facto Leader. Standard Academy Procedures, or SAP, was to always wear your Nano-Suit underneath your clothing. It was not a matter of protection but as a precaution against foreign ambushes. National Security Defenses were unable to stop every last insect from getting through, so powerful organizations and their members were responsible for dealing with the strays.
He was in a very popular neighborhood in a very secluded street. There was laughter and joy but it was barely audible. Water could be heard dripping from an unknown location.
Leaders in a group were rather intuitive to notice. Some of them preferred to fight, but they usually stayed back. They let their men rough up the mark and if they fail, they step in. Taking care of the mark after the fact meant demotion. It was mandatory to have a sense of battle instinct to know when it got too dangerous for the grunts. If the mark was the typical fish that flopped out of the sea, they would reap the benefits of leadership.
The leader was a man if the woman was wrapped up in his arms. The fact that all the men charged at him, along with the confident smile of the girl, made it obvious that he should leap into the sky and divebomb her which he did without any hesitation.
The girl was not shocked but excited that someone recognized her. The name was stitched in big letters on her hoodie. Carmen. Pink and glitters. The pink was high intensity and glossy and reflective of the light. The glitter trailed up towards her breasts. The mess it made there was enough to stop a man's breath. She dodged his kick with ease with a step and dash towards the side.
He grabbed a whip near where she was standing and swung it with force behind him. The snake like movement.
Since it was not an ordinary civilian operating the whip, the men were all smashed into the side of a building and knocked out in a single hit.
The girl continued to look happy.
"Wow. Truly amazing!!~ You're the type of man I've been looking for. You're definitely a WMR recruit and not a normal one at that. We've met hundreds of WMR recruits over the years and without fail, they've all generously donated to our fundd :D"
Carmen was on the ground, kicking her feet and hand into the sky like a cat. Her leg wrapped around the nearby railings as she lifted herself up. An Uzi in her hand sprayed across the battlefield as he ducked behind a corner of a building.
This was one tough cat. She immediately rained bullets upon him without consideration for anything else. Thanks to that, he found out the Nano-Suit had more than two modes. Sharpshooter, Brawler, and now 'Sprinter'. The way it worked was that Nano-Suit was living and breathing. Under the intense pressure of the pressure skill, its gears were always whirring as it reconstructed everything it experienced and rebuilt itself upon powerful foundations. Sprinter relied upon his concept of Space to compress the space around him similar to how the pressure ability worked, effectively reducing his surface area. It could also compress the space in front of him the more effort he put towards running.
"You're so fast!!!! Almost as fast as me~~~ Hehe"
Sprinter not only affected his physical abilities but also his mental ability as well. As soon as he took a moment to rest and noticed the huge wall in front of him, he immediately ran towards it, jumped, and made an attempt to dash up the wall. His first step was at the base and the second was just on the ledge. He walked over to the other side and looked down. The cat didn't see him.
He immediately ran through the possibilities of how all the modes could operate with each other. He jumped up via Sprinter and using the scope from his index finger and thumb made possible with his excellent Sharpshooter, pinpointed the location of the cat's head. He then smashed with his fist as a Brawler directly through the wall.
From start to finish, it barely took more than a second. The cat had unnatural reflexes as she sensed the danger at the very last millisecond and dodged.
She was no longer as cheerful as before but panicked and very shocked.
From the time bullets were poured on him to the corner of the building was 2.5 seconds. From the ground to the top was 1 second. From the ledge to the punch was 3 seconds. From beginning to end, 6.5 seconds had elapsed from when she was in control to when her life was in danger.
She had changed from a cute cat to a lioness protecting her cubs. The edge in her viciousness had dulled a bit since she was pulling the trigger but aiming at the ground.
The sound of sirens caught both of their attentions. He observed her a little longer before leaving the scene. He wanted to see her reaction and thus her nature and she wanted to see how he did it. He sprinted to the other side of the alley at a speed which was physically impossible.
She ran as fast as she could not to escape the police but to ask him a question.
"Wait. Please. Can we meet again. I know where you go"
It was like a distant whisper to him. A request for mercy. Like a maiden who was forced to do unkempt acts to survive. Actually, it didn't really sound like that. His suit was literally processing the emotions in her voice and giving him a judgment. It was helping him making a tough moral decision.
He was stunned. It seemed like the suit transcended WMRs. Before today, he only had hopes on mastering one archetype. Currently, he had three archetypes and three different modes of operation through his Nano-Suit. Furthermore, each mode was versatile and one of them didn't even exist in other models.
Would he continue to get more as he fought stronger opponents? He didn't think himself as invincible just because he had all these tools. He still had to use them in a practical way that made use of their strengths.
The deadly Sharpshooter fired a single round from his pistol that lodged into the thigh of the cat via inhumane speeds. She couldn't react but she felt the painful side effects a few seconds later. There was a messaged embedded in the metal.
'If you're serious, do a good deed. I lack time to waste on demeaning degenerates"
When she arrived at the end of the alleyway, he was already long gone, disappearing into the depths of the night.
"Hmm. I probably won't survive but he'll see the news tomorrow. Maybe he can take care of them. Too many families have been wasted by them. I may be a cat but they have a cheetah. Faster, stronger, deadlier"
A few minutes later, she arrived at head quarters. The guards became infatuated by her beauty and tried to cuddle her but she immediately killed them and rushed into the compound. Alarm bells immediately lit up the entire building as men and women checked the commotion. Dozens of people died before the powerhouses in their local branch moved out.
"Kitty Cat. What's the meaning of this?"
"We provided you with everything you need but you attack us like this?
"Which fool poisoned that beautiful body of yours?"
"Subdue her first and then we'll find out"
"It's unnecessary. I'll get the answer from her in less than 10 seconds"
"It's you????"
The cat was so terrified that she started to shake while the colors from her face drained"
The Great Shaker. This colossal titan had a mysterious ability that compelled people to tell the truth. He could satisfy their deepest lust and make them spill everything.
She made an attempt to retreat and run but the Shaker was faster. Similarly to how he could satisfy people, he could satisfy his own ability to capture whatever target he wished. Within a few seconds, he had already grabbed the cat by her breasts. He enjoyed this spot on women the most.
"The best spot because its the softest and feels super good"
There wasn't even an attempt to struggle.
Then she started spilling the beans regarding the fellow she met. He was an unusual WMR recruit with weird abilities that didn't match up with what she knew.