Chapter 244: Failed

This scattered feeling was terribly unpleasant, like the traces left behind after the tide receded, very hard to dispel, and the harder he tried to gather his focus, the faster it crumbled away!

The Corrupt Strategist had already sensed the shadow of death looming over her heart!

Kuchiki Senya looked at the Corrupt Strategist, smiled faintly, and said, "I've been waiting for this day for a very long time."

After a brief pause, he added, "Ever since the day you hunted me down."

The Corrupt Strategist closed her eyes, tears sliding down from their corners...

"In this life, I've never lost," she said in her heart: "Only in this one thing, I failed."

Then, the Corrupt Strategist fell flat on her back, toppling backward.

This was her second death.

"I hope that in the next life, we won't meet the same ending," the Corrupt Strategist said with her eyes closed.

"No, there absolutely won't be a next life for you. Your existence will be a thoroughly dim gray." Kuchiki Senya walked over, picked up the long blade from the ground: "Corrupt Strategist, thank you for helping me avenge my grudge."

The Corrupt Strategist opened her eyes once more, a complex glint swirling in their depths—impossible to tell whether it was anger or helplessness.

But at that moment, a figure suddenly burst into the room, a short spear in hand, pointing it at Kuchiki Senya: "Don't move, drop the blade right now."

Having said that, he squeezed the trigger!

Bang bang bang!

Three bullets shot toward Kuchiki Senya!

Yet at that instant, that samurai long blade had already transformed into a silver ribbon of light, slicing through all three bullets in a flash!

Kuchiki Senya exploded into motion in an instant, slamming a palm strike toward the man with the gun!

Boom!

The man didn't even have time to let out a scream before his head was blown apart!

A drop of bright crimson blood splashed onto the Corrupt Strategist's face, staining her brow with fresh blood.

"My apologies, I don't care for trading other people's lives for my own peace." Kuchiki Senya sheathed his blade, gazed at the corpse, shook his head, then turned and walked away, his figure gradually vanishing into the vast night.

After Kuchiki Senya left, the Corrupt Strategist finally awoke from her faint. She touched the bloodstain on her face, then slowly sat herself up.

The Corrupt Strategist's figure was extremely eye-catching, but at this moment, what she displayed was not that worldly, dust-laden flavor, but rather a dashing, heroic sharpness that pressed in on one.

Surveying the scene around her, the Corrupt Strategist gently furrowed her brow.

Within her field of vision, a pile of corpses lay scattered in every direction.

Every single one was a member of the tactical squad the Corrupt Strategist had led.

Their throats had all been slit open, blood gushing forth.

The Corrupt Strategist saw the man carrying the samurai long blade, and saw his retreating back.

By now, that man had already vanished from the deck.

Though his back was still straight, still carrying the brash vigor of youth, in the Corrupt Strategist's heart, that silhouette had already grown far more weathered.

"... We are all soldiers," the Corrupt Strategist said: "Even if the final ending is different."

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Speeding all the way, Kuchiki Senya went tearing across the sea at a furious pace.

At his speed, beneath the surface of the sea he was as swift as a swimming fish!

On the open sea at such a late hour, there were simply no vessels, no patrol boats or speedboats.

That decisive battle in the Eastern Seas back then had turned the entire island into ruins, and these ships had naturally all sunk to the bottom of the sea.

A night like this was when the danger coefficient was at its lowest.

"Corrupt Strategist, you shouldn't have come looking for me. You know what kind of person I am," Kuchiki Senya murmured: "But you just had to come knocking on my door like this. You knew perfectly well I wouldn't hold back against you."

After a brief pause, Kuchiki Senya added: "However, I don't kill women."

Yet before his words had fully fallen, the sound of gunfire rang in Kuchiki Senya's ears!

Bang bang bang!

Three consecutive shots!

The gunfire had come from the three o'clock direction!

On the open sea, there weren't many who could precisely aim and fire at this position!