(Jef's Pov)
"....."
"Guess what? You are going to die now." I said.
Four waiters and chefs closed the distance as they began attacking me with cleaver weapon. One of them made a little scratch on my neck but I was fine. I performed the sword cut in circular motion, annihilating four of them at once. Four of them, their body being cut in half, are laying dead on the floor with brutal cuts.
"Four waiters and six chefs are left now. You will not come out, Amelia? They have their own life and families. And yet, you are still hiding behind these guys? Sacrificing them isn't the best option I think." I said, provoking the suspected target.
A figure suddenly appeared in front of me, coming downstairs. She has beautiful long black hairs, eyes black, wearing red outfit, a red ribbon on her hair, and she has a weapon type staff in red crimson colour, staff wepaons are usually for great magic users.
In this world, everyone can use magic abilities but a true magician doesn't have ability to use those magic that requires your physical abilities as well. These staff weapons are specially crafted for that purpose and it enhances the magic powers of true magician class. She is none other than Amelia herself.
Looking at her, the Netori king- our former leader- would have been charmed by her appearance. Regardless of what our leader does in past, he was still a great leader because of his own style of power. Using women as weapons, I accepted these terms since it provides only battle powers. Leader was lustful but he was also clever to use women to execute many dangerous missions.
"Rosie, please forgive me. I didn't realised that he would be this strong. I also apologise to everyone for this. I didn't really thought that they would die. Please take these dead bodies and inform their families." said Amelia, rather with a sad expression that seemed to be geniune.
"It's your own fault that they are dead now. You should have showed yourself earlier and these chefs or waiters would have been alive right now." I said.
"You!"
"Calm down, Rosie." said Amelia.
"But he killed them!"
"Please, let me talk."
"O-Okay, if you say so."
"You done talking with your fellow mate? Come with me without any resistance or else I will have no choice but to use force..." I said.
"The guts!"
"Please, Rosie calm down."
Amelia turned her gaze in my direction and then she began to speak.
"You belong to Zenin Organisation, right?" asked Amelia.
"Yes, you may have heard of a title Netori King. He is, unfortunately, dead. We found that you were involved with our leader. I am Jef, the Co-Founder of this organisation. Our leader was seen in this restaurant at night, few days ago. Our hackers managed to get the CCTV footage before you could delete it." I answered, also explaining why I came here.
"I see. Even if I knew something or did something, I would have probably avoided sharing any informations to you." replied Amelia.
"Besides, you would have killed me after extracting all the informations." she continued.
"Three leaders, including our leader, were kidnapped at the same time but in different places. I suspect that there are many people involved or atleast three people." I said.
"Don't try to play with me, I can extract the informations even if I have to use some unpleasant methods." I continued.
"Heh, you are pretty cute. Do you think I will simply let that happen?" she replied.
Her confidence level and the danger I sensed just now. She is not any weak opponent.
"I want to avoid the unnecessary conflict here, please leave." said Amelia.
"I can't sit back silently after coming this far..." I said, clutching my weapons grip with more pressure.
Just as I attempted to move, I was struck by the forceful flame balls. After few shots taken, I began to defend myself from the incoming attacks to avoid further damages but-
"...!"
"Too late!"
Amelia was aiming for my abdomen, she pierced the flame-generated spear directly into my abdomen part. I slashed the flame spear and cancelled it but the damage was already inflicted on me. Thankfully, I am not pierced by that attack deeply.
I prepared myself again to rush but she began to send powerful yet fast flame balls. It was hard to deflect them as they were extremely fast. These flame balls don't inflict much pain and that means she must have manipulated the magic energy to modify her attack.
This time, I saw the incoming flame spear in my direction but remaining flame balls were still coming. She just switched her attack and swiftly directed that spear to make sure I don't take down two incoming attacks. However, I defended myself from the spear and took hits from flame balls.
"Tch..!"
She attempted to do this pattern again and started sending the flame balls again.
"You may defend yourself from my attacks but almost simultaneous attacks might be dangerous, right?" she said, smiling gently.
Of course, no one can simply attack simultaneously but if you just switch your attack quickly then you might easily perform another attack while the previous attack is in effect. In other words, her attack speed level is high enough to perform this difficult level. She must have also trained for this.
"Gargh!"
I am struck again by the violent flame spear.
"What happened? You were saying something earlier, huh? What were you saying again?"
Amelia's friend or ally, who's name might be Rosie, tried to taunt me. I calmly stood up.
"Oh my? Did I anger you?" Rosie began to taunt me.
However, this cheap trick doesn't work on me. I am focusing on Amelia's pattern. I can't let my guard down against her.
"Hm, I must admit you are quite the problem here. This won't take much time anymore. Come here."
I called my subordinate who was waiting for my orders to come inside the restaurant. He brought someone with him. Amelia's face turned in shocked expression.
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To be continued...