Chapter 72
“Hello, little one?”
A sharp right arm was swung at my neck after the sudden explosion.
As my body flies back, I reflexively hit her arm that reaches for my neck and aim [Al Capone’s Tommy] at her face and pull the trigger.
“Your greeting is rough!”
Bang.
As the sound of rain echoes from Tommy, she pushes her body back with both arms covering her face.
“You’re just as rough…!”
She licked her arm that blocked the bullets while looking at me with a sharp look, as if she was in pain.
It was a close-range shooting, but there was no visible wound on her arm.
She was a very tough opponent in the game, so it wasn’t incomprehensible, but I didn’t know I couldn’t hurt her at all.
“What did you pour out? The guns that the guards shot in Niflheim didn’t hurt this much, what the hell did you do?”
I shook the gun in my hand and taunted her as she licked her arm.
Then she frowned.
“…That toy won’t work on me, too bad?”
“I was going to sweep you away by surprise. I’m sure I killed my presence, but how did you know I was there?”
Blanca covered her mouth with her hand and laughed as if it was interesting.
“Are you curious about that? If you answer my question, I’ll tell you.”
“Question?”
Do you want to answer each other’s questions?
That’s interesting.
She smiled brightly and clapped her hands as I nodded my head.
“I didn’t expect you to accept so easily! Okay, then I’ll ask first?”
Blanca smiled brightly as if she was very happy.
“Where do you belong?”
…You’re trying to figure out who I am from the start.
But, thanks to that, I learned an important fact.
“Judging by your question, Rate hasn’t opened her mouth yet.”
“Oh, her? She’s surprisingly stubborn. I hope you’ll answer me a little easier. Huh?”
I glanced at Rate’s figure behind her.
A woman tied to a chair, slumped. The clothes she was wearing were already covered with blood and dust, making it hard to recognize her original appearance.
For now, let me answer.
“I belong to Familia.”
“…Familia? I’ve never heard of it.”
“That’s natural. It’s an organization that hasn’t been around for a month.”
Blanca leaned forward and suddenly closed her eyes as she heard my words.
A moment later, her nose twitched.
“You don’t seem to be lying… Okay, then is it my turn to answer? You asked me how I knew you were outside the door, right?”
She pointed to her nose and said.
“Smell. There was a smell I had never smelled before.”
She smiled slyly and confidently answered.
“…Did you smell the aura?”
“Oh, you have a good sense? That’s right. And I can also tell lies by smell. So, do you want more?”
She stopped licking her arm and lowered her body slowly and clenched and unclenched her fingers.
It was one of Blanca’s attack patterns, the precursor to a dash attack.
Her characteristics were fast mobility and strong defense.
[Al Capone’s Tommy] was useless, so I put Tommy in the cube and clenched my fists and looked at her.
“What? Wasn’t the gun your main weapon?”
“Are you dissatisfied?”
“No, I like it better barehanded.”
She licked her lips and disappeared in front of me at the same time.
“Then let’s start by tearing your mouth first?”
As she flew towards me with a kick aimed at my face, I blocked it with my arm and exploded the aura in an instant, blowing away the dust around me.
“Huh?”
“You only make me feel bad.”
Blanca was a villain who enjoyed dogfighting style fights.
That is, she enjoyed fighting dirty and tenaciously at close range.
Interestingly enough, I also preferred that style.
I spread [Bloodline: Corleone] all over my body and looked at her.
“…Red aura? You did that before too, but it smells familiar. Are you really from Familia?”
“Your nose told you the truth.”
“That’s true, but you could be affiliated with another organization at the same time. Like that rat over there…!”
As she looked at me, Blanca suddenly turned her body and ran towards the room where Rate was.
She tried to take Rate hostage and gain an advantageous position but I put aura on my feet and slammed the floor with all my strength to prevent that from happening.
Then there was a loud sound of breaking air and the floor completely collapsed.
Thanks to that, the concrete floor collapsed and our bodies fell to the lobby on the first floor.
“Hahaha! You broke the floor of the building just by turning your body?”
She said from the dust that covered the surroundings.
“That’s what you get for leaving your seat during a conversation. Haven’t you heard of that?”
I couldn’t see anything because of the thick dust but because of the earthy smell that filled the building but she couldn’t track me by smell anymore.
I was able to seal one of her abilities with this then I raised my fist slowly while watching the surroundings.
“Manners. You’re asking too much of me.”
She said in a voice that sounded from the dust.
“I’m… a villain!”
As she shouted, she kicked at me but I blocked it with my arm and blew up the aura in an instant, blowing away the dust around me.
“Blanca.”
[【Trait: Hitman】is activated!]
[2. Hunter of Villains – You are a Hitman who is very familiar with hunting villains. Villains will fear you and you will find it easier to hunt them.
The fear that villains feel towards you increases by 1.5 times.
Your ability to use aura against villains increases slightly.]
As expected of a named villain, I blocked her kick properly, but my arm was sore.
Of course, Blanca was one of the famous villains with high attack power in the game, but it felt so real that I wondered how she got that strength.
I tried to grab her ankle and slam her to the ground, but Blanca pulled her foot back and bent her body completely and aimed at my lower body.
“Stay down.”
I squeezed the aura into my fist and pushed it in, as a crackling sound came from my fist and the aura on my fist began to shake.
It was the technique that amplified the repulsive force of the aura, which tore apart the chest of Shin Chul-Gwimol.
I had a lot of elixirs anyway, so I decided to finish her off even if I get hurt in the process but she smiled as if it was fun.
“That sounds fun!”
As soon as she said that, she raised both arms and a white light cluster began to wrap around her.
It was like she was wearing clothes made of animal skins, arms and legs as it stuck to her body and began to take the shape of white aura clothes.
Soon, the two auras collided and a huge shock covered the building.
A strong wind swept around as I noticed two shapes fluttering above her head and one white object behind her.
It was a triangular white ear and a dog’s tail that reminded me of──
“…That’s why you’re Blanca.”
“Pretty, isn’t it?”
It was literally Blanca (Blanca: shine white).
It was her awakening skill and the technique that made her popular with those who had a lot of money.
It was a complete aura that formed one shape and wrapped around her whole body.
Compared to me, who still had trouble forming a solid shape, her aura manipulation was beyond imagination.
“Oh, and I remembered something.”
She pushed up her arms that blocked my fist and kicked my chest with her foot.
The shock was more than I imagined, and I gasped for breath as the pain crept up and my body flew back.
I hit the wall with my back and endured the pain and didn’t take my eyes off her.
It was a shock that I might have fainted from if it wasn’t for the maestro’s suit [DisPater].
Did she find my appearance funny? Blanca smiled and opened her mouth slowly.
“You smell like him.”
“…Who?”
“Vito Corleone. The bastard who put me in Niflheim.”
She smiled with both arms and one leg down.
“…You’re Corleone son, aren’t you?”
She finally figured it out.
“Yeah, that makes sense. The organization that can put her in Niflheim and tries to dig behind the Villain Alliance, your young age and skill. Everything makes sense if Corleone, that bastard, intervened.”
Now that it’s come to this──
“Vito Corleone son, how much can your father sacrifice for you?”
There was only one way.
“Rate!”
I squeezed out the aura to the end and wrapped my body with aura as I shouted at the top of my voice and covered my head with my arm.
“Huh? What are you doing──”
At the same time, a bright light and a loud noise burst out.
It was a booby trap, flash bangs and explosives that I had located before going up to the second floor.
I protected my body with aura and closed my eyes tightly against the loud noise and light, but I couldn’t help but feel the tearing noise, the light piercing through my eyelids, and the recoil from the explosion.
─────────!!
My body hit the wall and a tremendous heat covered me.
It was a gamble that I couldn’t even try normally but in the end, it was all thanks to the maestro’s masterpiece [DisPater] It went according to plan.
And since I’m like this, I don’t have to see how she is.
“Kuaaa──!! Damn Corleone brat!!”
She clenched her eyes shut and swung her nails shaped by aura as she smashed the building wildly behind me.
I pulled out a flare gun and aimed at the ceiling that collapsed due to the explosion.
The flare that flew out of the flare gun meant one thing.
‘Annihilate.’
It was my last resort.
