District 42-Chapter 252: Sieged part 1
Those noises reverberated through the apartment and made Casper get on alert. He was aware that the place was already filled with other criminals trying to pursue him, but he got to be careful with what was happening in his surroundings first.
He looked at the man in front of him with killing intent. He couldn’t release the anger he was feeling before, but now was the time. Also, his survival instincts were kicking in, which made him get into a fight or flight state.
Before the criminal could make anything else other than breaking into the apartment, the White warrior drew his knife and advanced towards him.
The man got surprised by Casper’s initiative. He was expecting to get him unprepared, but the White warrior seemed to be waiting for him already. In the end, he was the one left flabbergasted there.
That reaction was effective enough to make Casper get the first blow. The knife drew an arc in the air and cut the skin on his chest. The cut wasn’t deep enough to make serious damage, however. In the last moment, the criminal could jump backward and avoid getting more damaged.
Nevertheless, his agility wouldn’t be too much of a hassle for Casper, who was just as agile as him. Following the first blow, he continued with a bunch of others which exponentially landed on that man until he hit his back against the wall and didn’t have where to run anymore.
The White warrior had cold eyes, he didn’t even blink when looking at that man.
"Hey, wait, let’s negotiate--" He got interrupted when a knife got quickly stuck at his eye, making him stumble and finally fall to the floor.
That blow damaged Casper just as much as it damaged the criminal. The only difference was that he was still alive, but that man wasn’t.
’I don’t know if I should evaluate someone’s lives regardless of their actions. I mean, he was a criminal, after all, I shouldn’t pity to kill someone like this... However...’ He, once again, remembered the phrase that Olaf said to him that marked him so much. It was a memorable thing.
’Well, independently if they are enemies or not. The thing here is that they want to take me with them to do unknown things. They have an interest in my powers, and I guess that this interest is far from being something good. Because of it, I need to take my survival as a top priority, no matter how many people I need to kill to survive in the end.’
Casper didn’t as long think about all those things. It still affected take lives so casually. After killing more than 50 people from Black Widow with his own hands, and alone, he couldn’t be the same person he was before.
Brushing off his thoughts, Casper noticed that the noise in his room was closer than the other in the adjacent doors.
’Anyway, for good or for bad, I will need to escape from here. I need to survive. I don’t know as much as other people here regarding the structure of this city, but I need to find a way to escape.’
The door of his room finally opened and from there another criminal dressed just like the previous one went through. He wasn’t going to be as reckless as his previous friend, so he wouldn’t let the White warrior take the initiative.
He had his gun in his hand and was prepared to draw his knife as well if needed. He had an idea of how the structure of the apartment was, so he just needed to be careful and build a strategy to don’t leave any weak points available for the White warrior to take advantage of, as he did with the previous poor guy entering through the most obvious window of the place.
The criminal was careful once he entered there. The noise was huge, but he could do it just well. When the time came, he rushed through the door, pointing his gun to two different places that he guessed that Casper would be. Nonetheless, he couldn’t find the White warrior in any of them.
The other criminals who also had entered the place to search with him couldn’t find him as well.
’I never imagined that he would be such a smart man... The way that Rat was talking to him a while ago was just like someone talking with children or an incompetent.’ The criminal thought. He was holding his gun firmly and putting it beside his chest, so no one would steal it from him.
Once he could make his way to the living room, he finally saw entirely the body of his friend fallen on the ground. It was a pitiful scene to see, and although he didn’t have a nice relationship with the guy, they were still comrades. The state that his body was left after just some minutes exchanging blows with Casper was so outrageous that he wasn’t even willing to look at it.
Regardless of the apprehension that he was feeling, the man entered completely the living room, searching for any signals of Casper. He knew that the White warrior wasn’t going to let himself be captured, but they didn’t know whether he would resort to violence or if he would run away.
After him, his other partners started to rush into the living room. Searching through the apartment, they couldn’t find anything, but they were sure that their invasion was synchronized. Casper couldn’t kill one of them so quickly and have time to run a long distance away from them. He surely was in the surroundings. Most likely, he couldn’t even arrive at a teleporting pad yet.
"It seems like he ran away from the apartment. He probably had some technology that helped him with this. There are a lot of other people in the surroundings and they didn’t do any signal or noise out there, so he probably was sneaky when leaving. We will need to look for him outside." The first one to arrive at the living room said.
"Yes. Rat said that we need to take him today no matter what. I will be going ahead and saying to the others that he escaped for now, but didn’t take a teleporting pad." A second one stated, jumping from the window again.
The others also started to move from there, looking into a thing or another from time to time, trying to find any clue of how he could run away like that.
’I wonder how he did it... I am sure our attack was well synchronized. After this one entered the living room, we did it right away. Was our momentum bad and we didn’t notice? I doubt it, but facts are facts, and if we indeed were able to invade this place well-coordinated, then he shouldn’t be able to escape.’
In the end, the criminal decided to shrug and accept his defeat. He would have another opportunity to give chase on the White warrior as long as he couldn’t get out from that floor of the Castle.
He, then, left that place as his other friends did.
After the inside of the apartment was silent and calm again, Casper appeared in a corner of the living room. His heartbeat was crazy inside the chest, he barely could bear the anxiety raising.
’That was the first time I used this uniform like this. Its fabric is enveloped with a reflector that camouflages me just like a chameleon. I didn’t know if it would work on my apartment, or if they would fall from this technique, but it seems that, as long as I stay still in the same place and in a corner I know they aren’t going to pass by, they can’t notice me.’
Casper was grateful that the Sgails gave to him such a useful thing. If not for this, he would have had to fight against a whole bunch of people at once inside a small apartment, and just with a knife already covered in blood.
’Well, I will express my gratitude to the Sgails afterward. For now, I need to solve this problem. I still need to keep going with the plan I set with the Aesirs, but I want to be alive as well and as much convincing as I can, so I gotta be stubborn here.
’It seems that I am sieged, which means that it will be a hassle to go out of the apartment.’
The soldier rubbed his neck, sighing hard and going to the window cautiously to look down there. He could notice some people moving.
’Nothing is helping it. I can harm myself a little, or too much, but I need to go out there.’
After preparing himself psychologically, the soldier wore his boots and cleaned his knife.
’I am thankful that Amelia already sent to me the items I needed earlier. I am well-equipped now. I need to thank her as well since she was so fast in attend me.’
Then, without more hesitation, he jumped through the window.
