Chapter 20: Volume 1, Chapter 19: Encounter

1517 hours, 25 June 0145…

We're sneaking behind, wandering Taken-Ki through this long and dark corridor. We thought the situation was going along with the plan. Until Taken-Ki felt something suspicious in his behind. And then, we quickly hide behind the wall gap, preventing us from getting spotted by him. After that, Taken-Ki continued walking through this dark corridor like nothing had happened.

"Is this our perfect time to strike him from behind?" I asked while peeking Taken-Ki behind the wall gap. And then, he replied while looking at his hologram watch that's showing the map of this abandoned sugar factory.

"Not yet. However, I detected another threat is coming from the 10 o'clock and it's going right into Taken-Ki.,"

"So you're saying we will strike him from behind under certain circumstances, right? Like, we'll start attacking him from behind, when he's distracted in the front. So, what do you think?" I asked him back. And then he replied.

"Might be. Considering Taken-Ki is a little stupid,"

"Ok, let's go," I said while nodding.

Wasting no seconds, we continued tailing Taken-Ki from behind while remaining undetected.

***

The heavy iron stomping feet sounds were echoing through this dark corridor when we tailed him from behind. We're so lucky that Taken-Ki doesn't pay attention too much from his behind. Suddenly, he blurted something that caused us to flinch and quickly hide from another wall gap.

"Kill… everyone… who… get in… my master… way!" He said in a growling, and deep robotic voice.

Then, Taken-Ki continued while inspecting his Great sword that's smeared with blood.

"To protect… my master… I have… to kill… everyone… who… get in… my way!" He continued with an angry, growling tone while holding and looking at the blade of his Great Sword.

"What master?" I asked him while hiding in the wall gap.

"Probably his creator or someone he used to protect," He answered.

"Kind of sad to hear. Unfortunately, we have to do it.,"

"Heh," Joshua replied while smirking in a slight nod and nodded.

Suddenly, we've heard a walking sound echoing in this dark corridor. And it seems like it's a monster step sound.

An eerie sound shook the corridor and lifted the curtains from their resting position. The Ragodrome's roar soared from the depths of hell, from its rusty wind pipe exited a dreadful sonata that shook us to our bones. Much more than an invitation for his meal to jump straight into his mouth, it was a battlecry that announced an incoming massacre. Oh boy was this thing hungry.

*Hooooaaaaaahhhhhh*

*Hiyaaaaaagggghhhhh*

*HOOOOAAAHHH HOOOAAAHHH HOOOAAAAHHH*

Taken-Ki's in the fighting stance position with his Great sword to counter Ragodrome. Then, he said while swung his Great sword into the right side.

"Intruder… ALERT! Must kill, INTRUDEEEEEERRRRR!!!"

"Kill… everyone… who… get in… MY MASTER WAY!!!" He continued.

He dashed toward Ragodrome as his feet were crushing the floor and causing a mini earthquake.

"A Ragodrome? What the hell is that monster doing in here?" I asked Joshua.

"I don't know. Probably for food,"

"And their food must be that Infectoid, right?"

"Correct.," Joshua replied while nodding.

It made little sense in the first place, like a living being eating an iron. However, Galean monsters food chain is really unstable.

Because, there's a history of the 1st great extinction during the late Exordian age (Prehistoric age). The cause of the 1st great extinction is alleged to be a large meteoroid falling into the largest and most dangerous volcano at the Northwest of San Martino, called Mt. Giuvila.

After the large-scale explosion because of the large meteoroid striking Mt. Giuvila and causing a massive eruption that's almost destroyed half of Galean planet, there's a Gelusian age (Ice Age) that's causing most of the Galean being starved to death and can't feast any edible foods. Because most of the food they wanted to feast on dies because of the thick snow that's covering most of Galean land.

And because of that, many Galean living beings in the Gelusian age (Ice age) committed a large scale cannibalism by eating each other for their survival. Even if they're eating a hard object like rocks, irons, ores, and so on. Day after day, eating these kinds of objects, and committing cannibalism, the ancient Galean beings evolved into a resistant being.

And even to this day and age, most of the Galean living beings, including the humans on this planet, still did these things. However, humans' arrival from another planet is becoming the turning point for these natives that's used to doing these things.

Looking at that hungry Ragodrome about to devour Taken-Ki gave me a little pity for the life of this planet during that age. However, it's also useful for their own survival and for their body's resistance. Because the hard objects that Galean monsters used to feast on contain great substances that can add their resistance to their body for survival. I even remembered I used to swallow 3 Protein Rocks as a supplement during my early days as Minerva's Authonoid.

"He's about to attack Ragodrome. However, he's a bit fucked up this time," I said to myself while peeking at Taken-Ki dashed toward Ragodrome while swinging his Great sword.

*SWUNG*

One swing Taken-Ki gave toward Ragodrome. Unfortunately that monster dodged it in a lightning speed and did a payback attack toward Taken-Ki by spitting toxic saliva toward Ragodrome's mouth. It hit Taken-Ki's left belly and did nothing toward his big and steely body. Besides, it just pissing off that big Infectoid even further.

"YOU… BASTARD!!! I WILL… KILL YOU!!!" Said Taken-Ki angered while dashed toward Ragodrome by swinging his Great sword to slash Ragodrome's body.

"Is it our time to strike him from behind?" I asked, while taking a peek behind the wall gap. And then Joshua answered.

"Not yet. We should wait until he's about to-"

Suddenly, Taken-Ki smacked Ragodrome's left body with the blunt part of his Great sword and hurried Ragodrome toward this wall gap harshly.

However, I realized this wall gap that's used to covering ourselves was really old and fragile, and it's easily destructed by any harsh collision.

"Wait, watch out!" Joshua said to me while forced me to ducking together to avoid Ragodrome getting thrown away by Taken-Ki toward this wall gap.

*BSRYAK*

Ragodrome hits this wall gap harshly, and it's causing a chunk of these walls to be thrown away in any direction. We thought about the debris of these walls covering our bodies, but thankfully we're safe and sound.

The smoke covering the rest of this corridor because of this crumbled wall, and then I saw the sprawled Ragodrome covered with wall debris. Although his body was covered with heavy wall debris, he's desperate to get up and fight back against Taken-Ki. And then he screamed in desperation.

*HIRRYYYAAAAGGGGHHHH*

Suddenly, Taken-Ki is throwing a large sharp steel that's enough to kill the sprawled Ragodrome. And it stabbed right at his waist.

*JSLOSH*

*Hyaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhnnnnnn*

Ragodrome breathe his last breath and died after stabbed by the large steel through his waist.

"Holy shit! What the fuck was that?" I asked, while wiping off my clothes from the debris and dust. And then, I looked behind and saw a large being from the smoke with a 1 threatening red eye staring at us menacingly.

And when the smoke was cleared, Taken-Ki revealed himself staring at us and clenching his Greatsword from his right hand.

"Great… we're fucked up right now," Said Joshua while drawing his dual guns and did a fighting stance for engaging against Taken-Ki.

"You… Authonoids… must… DIEEEEEE!!!!" He shouted as he swung his Great Sword from above to slash us.

*SWUNG*

With sheer luck, we've avoided his slash.

*BWOAAAAASSSSSSHHHHHHH*

"Tsuyuki! Get ready!" Joshua said to me while preparing for a fight.

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And then, I said.

"Looks like an evil robot needs some teaching, eh?" After that, I revved my Nakajima from my back.

*BRAAAAAAAAAAP BRAAAAAAAAP BRAAAAAAAP*

Feeling intimidated, Taken-Ki swung his Great sword left and right.

"HUUURRRRYYAAAAAAAGGHHHHH!!!!"

*SWOSH SWOSH SWOSH*

"EVADE!" Joshua said to me when he sees me about getting slashed by his Great sword.

Both of us evaded Taken-Ki Great Sword's swing at lightning speed by rolling to the side.

*SWOSH SWOSH SWOSH*

After we've evaded Taken-Ki's Great sword swing, I quickly draw my Kiryu and shoot Taken-Ki 3 times toward his right chest.

*BANG BANG BANG*

"You… foolish… Authonoids… killed… my master! And all of you… MUST DIEEEE!!!" Said Taken-Ki, angered while chasing me as his heavy steely feet stomped the ground.

"Tsuyuki! Dammit, that bastard!" Said Joshua while following my lead from behind while chased by Taken-Ki.

I keep shooting him with my Kiryu to push him further, to increase the gap behind me.

*BANG BANG BANG BANG*

My Kiryu is running out an ammo, and I reloaded it only using my right hand. After I reloaded, I saw Taken-Ki enraged and shouted.

"KILL… KILL… KILL… MUST KILL… ALL… AUTHONOIDS… FOR… MY MASTER!!!" Shout Taken-Ki in deep growling, robotic voice.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!" He shouted again as he swung his Great Sword harshly, and it would create a shock-wave projectile that could slash any object.

*BWOOOOOSSSSHHHHH*

*BSSHHRRYYAAAAAKKKKK*

With sheer luck, I avoided his shock-wave projectile by ducking while dashing.

"Holy shit! That was close!" I said while looking at the aftermath, as the nearby property and he destroyed the walls in this dark corridor into pieces. And this place is about to crumble down, if we're not quick enough.

Suddenly Joshua jumped above Taken-Ki, did a front flip, and did a rapid fire toward Taken-Ki's head with his Dual Guns.

*DADADADADADADADADADADADADA*

After that, he followed my leads beside me.

"What'd you gonna do in this situation, dumbass?" He asked, while dashing.

Then, I came up with an idea and asked.

"Do you find any nearest wide space with tons of property in there?" I asked him back. After that, he turned on his hologram watch to look up at the map for nearby open empty spaces.

The reason for us is to set a trap for him by using the remaining properties in there. And after he falls into our trap, we can easily slay that Infectoid.

"There's a warehouse around 300m to the right," He answered while looking at his hologram watch.

"Unfortunately, there's Veronica and Christine. And it seems like they're fighting against Kalbaroth in there. We don't want to interfere with their fight, or else we're fucked up in the middle," He continued while dashed.

When I'm running, I looked back for a second to see if the Taken-Ki gap between us was getting closer. And it's getting closer for around 0.986 seconds from behind, where he's getting closer than we'd expected it to be.

"Is there another one that's completely empty with no other people in there?" I asked in a hurry.

He checked his hologram watch again to find any empty places while running. After that, he said to me.

"I found one! Unfortunately, it's far away from us. It's estimated around 732m from here. However, I've analyzed that there's 9% of explosive property in that area,"

"That'll be useful. Let's go!" I said to him, while dashed faster than Joshua through this dark corridor.

"Your call," He replied while following my lead from behind.

"DON'T… RUN… AWAY FROM ME!!! BECAUSE… I WILL… KILL ALL OF YOU!!!" Taken-Ki shouted and followed our lead from behind as his gap is getting closer, and he's about to kill all of us with his Great Sword.

With no second, I saw a pillar from above in this corridor, and I had an idea to grapple ourselves with my Claws to get away from Taken-Ki easily, to buy us time to set up the trap in there.

"We have to grapple ourselves in that pillar from above!" I said to Joshua while grappling myself toward the pillars from above.

"Good idea!" He replied, as he did the same as me with his grappling hook.

"YOU… BASTARD AUTHONOIDS… KILLED… MY MASTER!!! I… WILL… KILL ALL OF YOU!!!!" Said Taken-Ki when he's swung his Greatsword and creates a projectile slash like before where it causes massive havoc in this area.

*SWOOOOOSSSHHHHH*

*BSSRRYAAKKK*

I did a midair maneuver to avoid his projectile slash and falling walls in this corridor while grappling myself toward pillars by pillar quickly.

After that, I draw my Kiryu to shoot down Taken-Ki midair to push him back further.

*BANG BANG BANG*

Joshua did the same thing as me. But, he did it with a cooler midair maneuver by rapidly firing him in behind, grappling, and repeating.

*DADADADADADAADADADADA*

I did the same as Joshua. But, I did a charge shot when my bullet was about to run out.

*BANG BANG BANG KABAM*

"GYAAAKKK!!!" Taken-Ki shouted when my charge shot a bullet hitting him right at his left shoulder.

"This… is… nothing-" Suddenly, the bullet exploded.

*BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM*

"AAAAGGHHHHH!!!! YOU… BASTARD, HAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHHH!!!!" He screamed in pain while he's downed into the ground.

Suddenly, he's enraged, and he's dashed faster than ever, where the gap is getting closer, around 0.417 seconds from behind.

*STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP*

"Looks like we've enraged him further. We have to grapple ourselves quick!" Joshua said while grappling away from Taken-Ki through the pillar by pillar on the way to the destined place we wanted to go.

I replied by nodding and grappling together with him to get away from Taken-Ki and buying us some times to setting up the trap whenever Taken-Ki entered the warehouse in there.

"DON'T… RUN AWAY FROM ME!!! YOU MUST PAY… FROM WHAT YOU DID… TO MY MASTER!!!" Taken-Ki shouted as his shout echoed through this dark corridor from the distance.

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