Chapter 239

"Look, here!"

Vodka moved his finger on the touchscreen to zoom in on the image; a white shadow was crouching in front of the fire hydrant box.

"It is indeed the fire hydrant where the detonator was set."

Gin, seeing the image, clicked his tongue.

"Have they been noticed by the police? In that case, we'll have to activate it early. What a pity; that was a big gift I left for the Onmyoji."

Toru Amuro crouched in front of the fire hydrant box and took a deep breath.

"Thank goodness I discovered this detonator."

"With this many wires, the organization probably installed quite a lot of explosives."

"They might have used every bomb in Tokyo."

"As long as I dismantle the activation device, those bombs will lose their effect. I must finish this before they detonate them."

Toru Amuro held his phone in his mouth for light, then took out his tools and used tweezers to grip a thin wire.

First step, cut this wire...

Gin, pacing beside the cockpit, reached into the pocket of his long coat, looked at the computer screen, and took out the detonation switch.

He looked down at the Ferris wheel from the cockpit window and opened the cover of the detonation switch.

"Heh heh, let me show you some fireworks!"

Gin smiled grimly and pressed the button.

Beep.

The moment the wire was cut, the detonator emitted an electronic sound, and the indicator light turned on. Toru Amuro jumped in surprise.

"Oh my god, it detonated just from cutting the first wire? Why am I so unlucky?"

He looked at the detonator in despair.

The LCD screen on it displayed the words "Signal received, activated."

However, everything was quiet all around; nothing happened.

Toru Amuro looked blank.

What kind of thing is this?

Is it not a detonator?

How come there wasn't even a sound after it was activated?

Click, click, click.

On the helicopter, Gin's smile stiffened.

He pressed the button on the detonation switch repeatedly.

But looking out from the cockpit, there was no change in the Ferris wheel.

Because those bombs had long since belonged to Akaso.

"Bastard!"

Gin, with his mouth curled upward, threw the detonation switch onto the floor and crushed it to pieces.

One could feel his immense inner rage from his trembling feet.

A familiar sense of frustration welled up in his heart.

Did you intervene again? Onmyoji!

He shouted frantically: "Let them taste a hail of bullets, Korn!!"

Chianti, holding the control stick, laughed out loud after hearing this.

"This isn't the time to be smug! Do as I say, quickly!"

"I understand!"

Korn pressed the switch on the control handle, and the machine gun extending from the belly of the aircraft immediately spat fire, spraying countless bullets toward the Ferris wheel.

The Ferris wheel's LED screen sparked, emitting large amounts of smoke.

A large group of tourists below screamed and looked up at the Ferris wheel; Inspector Megure and others, who were working on crowd control nearby, also looked up in surprise.

"What's happening? Has a war broken out?"

Akai Shuichi Akai, standing on top of the Ferris wheel, held his sniper rifle and looked down at the military helicopter firing wildly with its machine gun.

"It's no good from up here; I can't find a weak point at all."

Akai Shuichi Akai jumped toward the narrow passage below.

The moving target immediately attracted Korn's attention, and dense bullets chased after him.

"Damn it, I'll be targeted the moment I move even a little. I can't do anything like this."

Akai Shuichi Akai leaped and bounded along the passage, and his night-vision scope was destroyed.

"Their target is me! Hiding like this, I'll be dead sooner or later."

Curacao, hiding in a corner, muttered to herself.

She tore off her tight skirt and stood up.

On Vodka's infrared surveillance screen, a white figure appeared, moving and jumping at high speed.

That shadow was moving toward the bottom of the Ferris wheel at a speed unexpected for an ordinary person.

"This speed, and this posture... there's no doubt! It's Curacao!"

Korn aimed at the shadow that looked like Curacao and began firing wildly.

The whistling sound of bullets rang out again, and Akai Shuichi Akai, hiding behind a pillar, stood up immediately.

"The attacks are all concentrated in that one spot."

Compared to the random shooting at every part of the Ferris wheel before, this time the machine gun began to concentrate its fire on one spot.

Who was being targeted?

Curacao accelerated, running along the passage.

Behind her, bullets followed immediately, piercing countless holes in the passage.

Just then, the passage ahead suddenly collapsed.

Curacao, seeing no way forward, kicked off the ground and leaped, landing on a passage several meters away.

Crack, crack, crack...

The already damaged passage broke apart due to Curacao's weight and fell away.

Curacao lost her footing and had to jump again.

She lost her previous speed, and the high-speed, dense bullets finally caught up to her.

Countless flashing trajectories rushed toward Curacao.

"Akaso-san, I'm sorry~"

Under the glare of the bullets, the girl was covered in tears.

【Ding, Curacao has developed a favorable impression of you; current favorability is 4.】

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

The dense barrage of bullets suddenly disappeared before her eyes.

A pitch-black gate stood in front of her.

Kaze Akaso walked out from behind the gate.

He hovered in mid-air using a wind pillar technique, caught the falling girl, and held her in his arms.

Kaze Akaso said with a smile: "What you owe me can't be settled with just a 'sorry'."

"Akaso-san, run! They can destroy the space gate!"

Seeing him, Curacao called out urgently.

She remembered everything.

The records in the secret files, the special equipment Rum bought from abroad, and all kinds of powerful weapons—they all appeared in her mind.

This helicopter was equipped entirely to deal with Kaze Akaso.

"Destroy the space gate?"

Kaze Akaso's eyes narrowed slightly.

High in the sky, Gin widened his eyes, looking at the familiar space gate.

His heart was filled with hatred and fear, and a kind of morbid excitement.