coming for blood

   Nega had a bit of a hard time getting back home but he was still the first to arrive. He sat on his chair in the same room he had met Orie and the others and proceeded to get a smoke. He made sure his blunt was rolled perfectly and searched himself for a lighter but couldn't find any.

   "Need a light?" A familiar voice said from the distance. He looked up to see someone he knew that he really needed at the moment.

   'Philip Vaquero', arguably the greatest bounty hunter of his time with very few competition. With an almost perfect record, he made his way to the top spot in the bounty hunter world and what made him fearsome was that all his bounties were top tier and of the highest grade. So if Vaquero ever came for you, all you could do was hope that you were wanted alive.

   Such a fearsome man stood in front of Nega and called him "BOSS" with a casual salute and he reciprocated with a casual "yo"

   "You're quite early" Nega said as he reclined back on his chair

   "Well boss" Phil replied

   "I happened to be around the area" he said

   "Also," he added

   "A bunch of guys where outside looking you"

   "It looked quite urgent, but I was able kindly tell them that you weren't around" he said with a grin.

   "You killed them, didn't you?" Nega asked

   "Well.." Phil replied

   "They weren't listening"

   "And also because they had guns" he added

   "How many were they" Nega asked

   "I think there were five of them in total" Phil answered.

   "Alright" Nega said then almost immediately, Phil felt a ringing in his pocket. He checked his phone to see what it was and saw that fifty thousand dollars had been credited to his account.

   "Hmm" Phil uttered with a smirk 

   "You really are a man of your word" he said, looking at Nega.

   "Now let me get to work" he said as he made his way back through the door.

   "Wait a sec" Nega said in haste

   "I still haven't told you who you're going after" he added

   "I already know who they are" Phil replied with a loud tone that expressed anger and resentment.

   "They're Freeland special forces"

   "The same guys that got to Matéo"

   "Their death is my payment"

   "Your bounty is just an added bonus" he said as he walked out of the room.

   Not long before Phil left the room and came out of the lonely house in the middle of nowhere, he found himself in the running from gunshots and shooting back. Each one of his shots hit their intended targets but it was quite the opposite for the ones shooting at him.

   "Special forces bastards" he said as he hid and reloaded his revolver.

   "It's like the only thing they're good at is sneaking into places"

   "Your sniper can't even get it right" he said as he came out and shot far into the distance. At first, the soldiers thought it was just an unlucky shot that missed but it wasn't long before someone on their comms yelled out "THE SNIPER IS DOWN!!, I REPEAT THE SNIPER IS DOWN!!"

   On the other hand, A while back in the open field, commander Hughes tried his best to run from Orie but his weakened legs couldn't do much to create any distance between them. 

   Orie walked behind the terrified commander with an emotionless face of which the right half had become purely black with the markings of his death god. The same markings were on right side of his entire of his entire body and could be noticed because he had taken off all the clothing that covered the top half of his body. In his right hand, he held the the blade of Obgun'abali and with each step he took, the grass around him died. 

   "Whoa" Yamato exclaimed from the distance as he was warned to stay back.

   The world was silent to Orie and he could hear nothing as he struck the heels of his target and broke them. He saw a terrified Hughes turn around and beg for mercy but he could not make out the words.

   "The killer at night does not listen to the plea of the wicked" he said as he raised his machete and struck Hughes on the shoulder. The blade did not cut through but the strike was heavy and shattered every bone it came in contact with.

   "A sharp blade is mercy" Orie said

   "And mercy cannot be granted to the wicked man" he added as he struck another shoulder. 

   "You will not die until I'm done"

   "And do not think think this is the worst of it" 

   "There is a whole lot more of this..."

   "...IN HELL!!" 

   Hit after hit, Orie struck with the blunt blade at did not stop until his hands could no longer move and he let go of the machete which disappeared into thin air. The markings on his body cleared as he raised his head to look at the sky and he could finally hear what was happening around him.

   "Mr. Addison" a familiar voice said from behind and he turned around to see Yamato coming towards him. All Orie could do was stare at Yamato and, he could not not utter a word.

   Yamato could understand Orie's state of mind at the moment.

   "Let's go back" he said as he pulled Orie away from the disfigured sight that could not even be called a corpse. Orie walked with him slowly and when they had covered some distance, Yamato washed all the blood from Orie's body and gave him clean clothes to wear.

   "I'm sure they're waiting" he said as they walked away into the distance.

   Meanwhile, Shiro seemed to have tracked where Mia was. 

   "I hope all that overthinking paid off" he said to himself as he walked through a hallway with many doors. 

   Within the time he spent pacing around, an idea came to Shiro. If he could track the residue of his energy that was left on Mia during their time together, then he had a chance of finding her. He tracked the energy to a large suspicious looking building and was currently walking across it's underground hallways.

   He kept walking until at some point he felt something and stopped at one doors.

   "The energy is stronger here" he said as he proceeded to open the door. He was right. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Mia but she didn't look too happy to see him.

   Before he could speak, she was right in front of him swinging her blade to strike.

   "Maybe she's just being alert" he said to himself

   "She's just on her guard, that's all" he thought. But he was very wrong.

   "MIA!!" He yelled as kept dodging her strikes

   "IT'S ME!!" He added but it was like she couldn't hear what he was saying, she just kept swinging her blade at him like she had the intent to kill him.

   An ominous figure whatched it play through a screen in an unknown location.

   "How will you get out of this?"

   "You can't save yourself if you stay"

   "You can't save her if you run"

   "Can you bring yourself to attack someone you love?"

    SHIN SEKAI SECRET: The blade of Obgun'abali has the ability to change it's level of sharpness depending on who or what it wants to cut.