Ch 26 - Ambush

It's been more than an hour that Porche-chan and I have been waiting for Carina to begin the operation, and finally our time is here.

Carina and her contacts have just entered the establishment and should be out any minute now.

Therefore, we sneak our way down from the roof we were camping at and walk into an alleyway nearby, from there we could view the front of the building and have a nice spot where we can launch our attacks once the deal is complete.

And just a few minutes later we see 5 silhouettes coming out of the building, once they are out of the establishment's door, we see them talk to each other for a minute before Lamb Burger hands over a large bag of belly and another smaller bag containing a round green fruit inside.

Once this happens Carina quickly closes the distance between them and makes the gesture of shaking hands in order to finish the contract.

Lamb Burger does the same, except that at the same time the 3 large men surround Carina from a distance where she wouldn't be able to notice too soon, but we could.

"Oh, I guess you were right, this was a trap the whole time. Good thing we are here for Carina-chan," Porche comments seeing this.

"Hmmh," I nod in agreement, anyone could see that this was an obvious trap.

Just as they touched palms and began shaking hands, we speedily began to close the distance between our two groups, in order to knock out those guards, the fat man, and take Carina-chan and her fruit out of harm's way.

But just as the deal was done and the group of guards began to act, as were we, something unexpected happened.

A loud *whizzing* sound comes from the other direction, and a large ornate knife lands headfirst in the ground in between Carina and the group.

And not a second later a group of 5 gray-clad and masked individuals appear surrounding Carina and the fat man.

This startles everyone, including me, but not because of the intrusion.

I already guessed that something like this was probably going to happen, but I originally believed it was going to be from the backstabbing contractor, not from some unknown third party – which is confirmed by the startled and scared look the fat man is giving these figures.

And I definitely did not expect the newcomers to reveal themselves this way, Instant teleportation, using the knife as a marker it would appear, and by the looks of these figures and the unique masks they wear, I can make a pretty decent assumption on who they are, the Cipher Pol organization.

A secret agency created by the World Government in order to act in the dark, apprehend and eliminate future threats to the World Government, and in the case of the stronger CP agents, act as the mouths, ears, and hands for the World Nobles.

These new figures are wearing long gray cloaks and strange unique masks, and as far as I can remember, mask wearing agents are considered to be higher on the totem pole then non-mask wearing agents.

I haven't heard of gray wearing agents, only black and white, but if I had to make a guess, it would be around the CP-3 – Cp 4 range and considering all of the abilities these agents are said to master, if I don't act quickly not only will our task fail, but there is a high probability that none of us will make it out alive.

With all these thoughts going in my head, which was less than 1 second in real time, I quickly put my hands up for extra concentration and start to create a mental image of an attack that I've been practicing for a while now.

And then to add more power to my attack I quickly yell, "Slow-Flake Beam!" as I fire it off.

Now this might sound dumb to do when in front of trained agents, but I've found that most people don't react immediately to some rando yelling something, and also probably due to the fact that this is an Anime world, I've discovered that when you vocalize your attack before you do it, it actually increases its power by at least 100%.

This must be why so many people name their attacks and such.

Anyways, what happens after I yell out my attack is that a blinding purple light, far stronger than any I've produced before, comes out of my hands, and this seems to blind the whole world for a second, because when I set off the attack…I completely forgot a crucial detail in my excitement… I forgot to close my eyes for a split second!

Therefore, I was blinded for a second, thankfully it didn't last long and when I'm finally able to see the results of my attack, I'm amazed and proud.

"It's been a long journey but, in the end, it was worth it," I mutter when I see such a beautiful sight.

Around a large 50-meter area everything inside seems to be frozen in time and unmoving.

Within this area there also appears to be a pattern, the pattern of a large intricate snowflake, with almost no area left uncovered due to the amazing amount of complexity in the pattern.

Now the reason I am so proud is because it took me around 5 months in order to be able to produce this attack in such a low amount of time.

I could technically also freeze a large area using a simple enlarged slow-slow beam, but the difference is that this attack is again not only much more potent, which increases it stopping abilities and time limit, but most importantly, the beam is near instant since every single part of this snowflake design is comprised of angled slow disks.

I soon stop paying too much attention to the whole of the attack and focus specifically on the individual targets, and that's when I notice something amiss.

Everyone is frozen, including Carina, but I quickly notice that one of the figures is actually missing from the picture.

And just as I notice this, I immediately duck my head as *woosh* a large knife slashes where my head was a moment ago.

If I hadn't reacted so quickly it seems that I would be without a head right about now.