Chapter 259: Teleporting monster (4)

3rd person view

The special tries to use its tentacles to get a lot of hit on Grace, but no use, Grace is just countering offense with offense and even some of its tentacles got blown to bits.

It try to teleport to Karen, but Grace anticipate it as Grace, dug his fingers into its flesh and teleport alongside it. With his other hand free, Grace land a punch so hard in Karen's head that her head got blown to bits and died immediately.

"Take that you bitch!"

"Grace leave this guy to me" Kelly insisted "I'm releasing the damage I took throughout the day"

"You don't look well, just rest and leave the rest to me"

"Just let me have this guy, go help the others" she pleaded "Come on, you like to fight, right?"

"...Fine"

"Encore" Kelly shouted as she threw the special down and the attack from Grace earlier repeated and hit its face

Grace then jumped onto help the soldiers on their side who are vastly outnumbered.

"Shit! Grace the destructive..." one soldier shivered "Glad to know he's on our side when his personality switches"

< I heard he even beat up an instructor before and had to be forcibly held down by several people before he could calm down > Liam thought < And with that personality, he won't hesitate to bring down an old building, if it meant taking down the enemy with him>

Due to the mass amount of energy loss, Kelly is having a more equal ground defeating the special as it is no longer teleporting, only fighting with its damaged fist and some of its remaining tentacles

"Encore!" he shouted as the he suffered 2 more repeated hits, he then use her 'Absorption' ability and her hand started to have a faint yellow glow. She then punched it in the chest and blew the upper half of its body off

"Encore!" And she repeated the attack to erase its lower half as she knelt down in exhaustion and cough out a lot of blood. Her body was already covered

< I got revenge >

< Fuck > she cursed < I don't think I can go on, my ribs are probably breaking in a lot of places, and->

Her thoughts got interrupted as she got shot through the chest. She turned to see that it's Karen's squad who shot her.

"Leave her, after that shot and her injuries, she's a s good as dead" One said

"Yeah, it looks like we're too late, Karen is dead, and we can't afford to fight Grace even if the guy's injured, let's go back and report to the higher ups" the second one replied "This mission is both a failure and a success since we lost Karen and this city is about to be reclaimed"

"Yeah, let's leave before those other guys see us and fight us"

*****

1st person view

"No no no no!"

I saw Kelly lying on the ground with the special nowhere to be seen. I calmed down a bit after the fight, I didn't see her so I came running to only see her lying on the ground.

"I'm...still alive, but not for-" Kelly tried to say

"Which direction did the special go?"

"No, it was..."

She then told me what happened, the only reason that she's still alive was the fact that the bullet narrowly missed her heart.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have left you..." I apologized as tears come out of my eyes

"Live..." she then cough up blood "Retire and live *cough* peacefully for the rest...of us..."

"Kelly, please don't...don't leave me alone" I begged with tears flowing out of my eyes "I don't want to lose you too"

"Heh, sorry" she apologized "Maybe we'll all reincarnate like those characters...in those novels of yours *cough* We'll get to be protagonists of our own stories"

Her breathing becomes much slower and she was coughing blood more frequent

"I'm...scared" she responded while looking upwards and tears flowing out her eyes and her lips trembling "I have so many things I want to do, I don't want to die..."

"Why can't those medics come, damn it"

"Grace...please stay by my side..."

"I am here for whatever you need, jus-just tell me anything"

I didn't even have time to cry over Kenny earlier, and now...there's nothing I can do to help. The safe zone is still quite a distance away and we won't even make it in time to have her treatment.

"I'm glad that I met you all, you guys really are my everything"

"Thank you, Grace" she smiled "I'm glad to have met you"

Tears just started flooding out of me as the last person who was dear to me pass away in my arms. A part of me resented myself afterwards, why did I have to leave her alone? Was her death the fault of my negligence?...Why did I have to always be the one left alive? It felt...lonely.

*****

Me and the other soldiers make it back to the safe zone and try to report about what happened, but when we arrived, we saw Karen's squad there. The remaining survivors including me were so angry that we attacked them without any mercy and held to be held down and tranquilized.

We all woke up in cells and were interrogated about what happened, most of them didn't even believe the few survivors that came out of the mission, the fact that the number 1 soldier was now dead and apparently worked with gorgers were too shocking to them.

The remaining survivors including me even got accused of murder, Karen's squad apparently have an alibi of being far away despite Kelly clearly seeing them on the scene of the fight.

The news itself spread like wildfire, the accusations against the number 1 squad even got spread out to the public due to some internal leaks. The military tried to calm everyone down and hide it, but too late...everyone demand a proper investigation as the family of the fallen and the public wanted justice.

And fair enough, they found evidence linking a large sum of soldiers being a part of the worshippers and they have made their way up the military of many countries and many similar cases like ours starts to pop up.