Chapter 36

Trance and Hiro silently walk towards the building where the Serpents men are. Hiro smiled and energetically waved at the men wearing black clothing with high-caliber guns on their grasps. Trance slapped his hand and tugged him away as the Serpents men shoot them. Both of them hide behind the tree with a big bark. Hiro snickered despite the bullets flying in their direction. Trance laughed and give him a high-five. Thankfully, there are no students inside the building anymore, there's no reason to limit their movements since Hera commanded the rest of the teachers from different departments to evacuate the students.

"Come on, sister! Pissing them off is fun!" Hiro invited her before the chains appeared in his hands. Trance glanced at the metal chain on his hand before she pulled out her katana from its sheath. "You twins are total opposites." She commented the loud bangs ringed through her ears. She's used to it since Nine, Kai, and Hera mercilessly showered bullets to her during her training days. The surroundings got silenced and Hiro stepped out from hiding behind the tree.

"Yes we are opposite but I bet you know that Haru is..... you know?" He managed to shrug despite rounds of bullets flying in his direction.

"Gay?"

"Fuck Hahaha."

"But there are two things that we both like." Hiro swings the chain on the mid-air and lets the weighted edge wrap around the guy with artificial blonde hair's neck then pulled him using his strength. He looked at Trance then smile. "We like doing illegal."

"Illegal?" Trance asked before she swiftly runs to the men who are aiming at her younger brother then swings her katana at them, giving them fatal wounds on their backs.

"Yep, like illegal racing, gambling, and sometimes...." Hiro stopped when a punch landed on his cheek. Trance is about to rush on her brother when two men shoot her. She used her katana to dodge the bullet before she slashed their chests and stomachs using the heavy yet sharp blade that can even cut a human bone. Hiro stood up and wiped the blood on his lower lip and looked at the man with a big body. He's wearing black clothing and he has an olive complexion with a beard covering his jaw and chin. Hiro smiled in amusement but he got punched on his abdomen. The man laughed while Trance got stopped on her way to her brother's direction.

"You're one of the rascals who send my boss to the prison. Remember the name is Randy, I'll revenge for my boss." Hiro chuckled before he swings the chain on his side while his eyes lay on the man with olive skin. Trance mercilessly swings her katana on the five men who are trying to stop her on her way to where Hiro is. Trance screamed before she pierced her katana at the last man who tried to stop her. She grimaced when the man coughed blood. Trance kicked the man who was on the brink of death to remove her katana from his abdomen.

"That wasn't me. That's my twin. Just be thankful he didn't send you to heaven. Wait!" Hiro throws the chain in Randy's direction, Randy catches the chains yet, it is wrapped around his muscular and veiny hands. Hiro runs in Randy's direction without the big man noticing.

"Are you sure that after you die you'll go to heaven?" The younger one asked him. Randy tried to pull him by the chain but the boy managed to wrap the thick chains on his neck while Trance runs towards them and jumped on her younger brother's shoulder before she pierced the blade on the big man's head. She almost fall once more on her knees as the big man got released by Hiro and fell to the ground.

"We also like mayhems. He teaches you that move, right?"

"Yeah?" Hiro just smiled in reply before they entered the building.

Nine immediately put back her gun in the bag beside her and carry it as if nothing happens. She exited the building but rushed towards Trance and Hiro is. "These two." The lady commented after witnessing the bloody scenery. She's about to enter but she heard a clanking sound of the gun behind her. "You're still alive after all." Even Nine's back is facing the person behind him, he knew that the girl is smiling at her words. The man behind her narrowed his eyes at the tall and blonde woman wearing the black suit in front of him.

"Nice act by the way," Nine said before secretly pulling out the golden desert eagle from her coat's secret pocket and putting down the bag with the gun inside. She saw Trance watching her before she slashed the goon's arm. Nine averted her gaze back to the building where the gang went into first, "A mastermind always hides behind the shadow because he feared death.." Nine commented.

["Athena reporting, we are on our way, Nine. The Apolaki building is clear now."] Nine shook her head, making the man behind her looked at him in confusion.

"Just be thankful that one of the rouges you're cursing is not here, Martin."

"So, how did you know that I'm also part of Excalibur, sister?" Hiro asked Trance as he grabbed the arms of the man with a rifle in his grasp and aimed it at his comrades, causing him to accidentally shoot him that giving him a lethal wound. Trance kicked the man's abdomen before she knocked him off using the other side of her katana. "I'm not stupid to figure out, Hiro. Don't act like you're not, I'm older and I know your kinks." Trance pulled out the katana from its sheath and swings it to the three men, deriving in a dire cut.

"Don't hang out with Apollo and Nine again, you're getting scarier."

"Wait! You're not scared of that anymore?" Trance glared at him before she punched the guy who tried to get close to her. "Since where I feared over lame things?"

"I'm sorry!" Hiro yelled. Hiro takes the gun from the dude he just knocked earlier and aimed it at the rest of the men. Trance instantly duck when she saw Hiro aiming the gun in her direction. Hiro pulled the trigger and shoot the rest of the men who are pointing their high-caliber guns at his older sister.

"Find it funny when you're gone for a year, many changes are happening here. Felix always went to our house and always talk about you which is very odd for him." Hiro told her. Trance furrowed her brows before she knocked off the remaining conscious man on her left. Her eyes widened before she went back to her katana on its sheath.

"I rejected him."

" 'Yo--Nani?"

"I.rejected.him.end.of.the.story."

"But why?"

"Not into professional stalkers. I'm having fun being single and I don't see any reason to commit. A suicide maybe."

"You got a team up with a wise rookie and best agents from Excalibur, Kai!" Raiden said. He throws the dagger on the guy who tried to shoot Kai on his back, the blade pierced on the guy's neck.

"I'm also one of them, Raiden." The brunette said before he shoots the guy with many piercings who tried to shoot Raiden.

"Yeah, I probably forgot. How's being a doctor by the way?" Raiden asked him. They stopped after realizing that the building where they are is already clear. Kai replaced his gun's empty magazine with a new one. He cocked the gun before he looked at the male beside him.

"I'm the one who's going crazy." He mumbled in a low voice, low enough for Raiden not to hear. Raiden gives him a questionable look after pulling his dagger from the goon's neck.

["Code red."] Artemis said on the other line. Kai looked at Raiden with wide eyes. "What is it, cousin?"

"Eww, stop calling that." Kai's expression turned sour while Raiden laughed.

"You're always hurting my feelings, Kai. You act like we're not relatives." He dramatically said with a hand clutching his chest.

"Whatever. Nine only killed the dummy."

"Nine is what?!" Demeter exclaimed after dropping the gun on the ground. Yen kicked the lifeless impostor on its head while Artemis secretly and carefully peeked on the window then she looked at both of them.

"You heard it right. Now, both of you will help Hera on guarding the Mayari square." She commanded, the two nodded before Demeter created a chasm that serves as a bridge or a passageway to the back of the building near the square that was surrounded by the bushes and trees. Artemis did the same too but the portal she creates connects to the roof of the main entrance of the school to check if there's another batch of goons that will enter the place and stop them.

Trance and Hiro silently stepped from the hole behind the mastermind who's holding a gun on the blonde's head while Nine and Martin remained in their position.

"I'm telling you to know, those teenagers can kill you." Nine sneers but she remained her arms crossed while her left hand that she's using to grasp her golden gun remains hidden inside of her black coat. Trance and Hiro silently walk towards him but batches of bullets fly in the sibling's direction.

"Oh! Are these two are the kids you're talking about? Aren't you a teenager too?" Martin sneers. Nine put back her golden gun on her coat's hidden pocket before she turned around to face the man standing behind her.

["Code red."]