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nTori still saw this as an opportunity as the girl had just used both methods to attack her, so she swung her katana, focusing on speed more than anything else.

nThere was no need to go for a killing blow, all she had to do was take advantage of this opportunity to hit the girl once. Even if she were to take a hit after, it would still be better than nothing and not a complete loss considering that they had the advantage of numbers, so it was still a relatively fair trade.

nUnfortunately, before her katana even made it halfway, the paddle in the girl’s hand whipped forth.

nAnd slammed against the side of her face.

nThe girl was simply much faster than Tori, giving her no chance.

nSomewhere along the way, Tori had forgotten that the girl didn’t have to only use the ball attached to the paddle to attack and that the paddle itself could actually be used.

nHer last thought as she was blown to the side, was that she was still too weak.

nShe became quite dizzy.

nBack on Kairos’ side of things, they were still trying to deal with the two guys.

nHe and his father were right up close, but it also felt far because of how difficult it was to hit them. Chase was approaching, but not in any super big rush. In technicality, it was still three versus two, so they had the numbers advantage.

nHowever, Chase really did have a bad disadvantage in this fight as he wasn’t going to use his bow, while they had already lost Nicole and Sydney without even trading back a single hit.

nAt this point, Kairos had to acknowledge that their abilities were definitely more than he expected. In fact, he could tell that each of them had already evolved simply from their basic physical stats.

nThe only person that could compare, was his father.

nAnd that wasn’t exactly his own effort, but more so that Kairos’ mother spoon-fed him kills whether he wanted them or not.

nKairos decided that it was a fight worth taking off his glasses for, thus he did so, clearing up his future vision.

nIt was at that point, he saw the guy with green hair detach the microphone from the stand. The microphone had a tiny little string at the end, which the guy grabbed onto, and in just a few moments it extended out to be a meter long.

nKairos couldn’t help but wonder why all three of them had string-like tools, but decided to focus on closing the distance.

nHe saw with his future vision that the microphone would whip out and wrap around his sharpened bone. Then, the microphone would morph into some sort of latch that would bind it in place.

nNot wanting that to happen, Kairos moved his sharpened bone out of the way. The microphone flew past him. His father followed up, swinging his own sharpened bone.

nThe guy was forced to block with the stand, causing the two of them to be in a deadlock once more. However, because Sam was using both hands while the guy was now using one hand, Sam was slowly gaining the advantage.

nKairos didn’t even blink as he rushed forth, wanting to take advantage of this opportunity.

nHowever, with his future vision, he saw that a red ball would shoot over, wrapping itself around his target’s waist before pulling.

nKairos saw himself missing with the sharpened bone, thus decisively chose another option.

nHe began casting the fire spell, but injecting the bare minimum mana required.

nOnce the red ball shot over, wrapping the string around the guy’s waist, a tiny fireball had formed on Kairos’ finger.

nThen, he let it loose.

nThe guy with green hair widened his eyes as he tried to sidestep out of the way, but the fireball was too fast, landing on his abdomen, bursting into flames. He quickly slapped them, putting them out the next second, before laughing.

n“Alright, alright, you got me once. Was not expecting that!”

nKairos tilted his head to the side, dodging a microphone that had come back for him.

n“…You guys really like your strings, don’t you?”

nThe guy with white hair smirked.

n“Naturally, we gonna pull on some heartstrings, yo!”

nKairos rolled his eyes as he considered his options, and quickly realized that they were in a bad position. Those two simply had a way of attack that was far more flexible compared to them rigidly swinging some bones around.

nOn top of that, their teamwork was nearly seamless, despite it only being a few days in the apocalypse. Though it wasn’t like Kairos wasn’t close to his father, there was no way they were going to have that much coordination in the way they fought.

nKairos took a peek behind him, at Chase who was just a few meters away.

nIf he couldn’t do something, then they would probably lose the spar.

nKairos continued to take the initiative to approach, as if they really began creating more distance, then they could just harass with their far greater range. Sam seemed to have the same idea and took the lead due to naturally being faster.

nThe guy with white hair decided to take the front this time, letting his teammate get behind him. Then, he let the red ball in his hand loose towards Sam, letting it expand into a giant set of jaws.

nSam narrowed his eyes and shot off to the side, while Kairos shot off towards the other side. That red ball still had a surprising amount of flexibility, able to change its direction and chase after Sam.

nThough, it was definitely far more sluggish as compared to when it was smaller.

nSam slammed his sharpened bone against the giant set of jaws, forcibly keeping it at bay. Then, after a split second of hesitation, he pulled out one of the other bones on his belt and lunged forth to slash.

nThough the guy with white hair naturally wasn’t going to stand there, so he dodged to the side.

nSeeing this, Kairos decided to try and throw his sharpened bone to get a hit in. Worst case scenario, he could get the other bone on his father’s belt.

nHowever, in his future vision, he saw that a microphone would whip out and the cord attached to it would grab onto the bone.

nKairos immediately stopped himself from throwing the bone.

nInstead, he decided to continue running forth.

nSince the guy with white hair dodged to the side, it gave Kairos enough time to catch up normally.

nAnd once he was one meter away, a microphone whipped towards him. In his future vision, he wasn’t able to keep up, and got hit in the face. However, since he saw it happen, he was able to dodge to the side.

nAnd right after, he saw in his future vision that the ball would collide with his back.

nKairos furrowed his brows and threw his body to the side, but that still wasn’t enough. He then did the same thing that his father did, slamming his sharpened bone into the giant set of jaws coming back for him.

nSam lunged forth swinging with one sharpened bone, which the guy with white hair easily dodged. But then, he followed it up with another swing which forced the guy to lean back, temporarily forcing him to remain in place.

nThat was when Chase dashed in from the side.

nBut before he could get too close, a microphone stand whipped in his direction, forcing him to back off.

nAnd through all of this, Kairos finally saw another chance, by using his hand to attack.

nAfter all, the lethality didn’t matter so much as getting the person hit in the first place, since that was the rules they were playing by.

nHis hand shot out, fingers outstretched like a sword. The guy with white hair immediately recognized his intentions, thus he tugged on the string with both hands, causing it to bend in a strange way.

nIn Kairos’ future vision, he saw that the string would bind his arm tightly. Then, instead of getting a hit off, he would be the one completely vulnerable instead.

nHowever, Kairos didn’t decide to dodge the string. Instead, he bent his fingers slightly and moved his hand to the side, just barely avoiding the coiling string.

nThen, Kairos grabbed onto it and tugged.

nThe guy with white hair wasn’t expecting this and was even pulled forth. Kairos then grit his teeth and whipped his head forth.

nA clear bang resounded.

nKairos butted heads with the guy with hair and did not hold back for the sake of moving faster. The end result was that the two of them were somewhat disoriented due to the force put behind that strike.

nThe guy with white hair and his companion both retrieved their respective weapons and backed off to recover themselves. While completely focusing on retreat, only Sam could barely keep up, so they made quite the distance.

nThe guy with white hair held onto the side of his head and smirked.

n“We both got hit, but cause you were the one that reeled yourself back for it, I’ll give you that one.”

nThe corner of Kairos’ lip turned up.

n“I see you have either a lot of confidence or sportsmanship.”

nThe guy with white hair raised an eyebrow.

n“Heh. The secret is that it’s both.”

nThat was when someone else’s voice called out from afar.

n“Confidence is the first step to success, after all!”

nKairos looked over to see the girl with blue hair standing on top of a roof. She had the paddle in one hand and held onto Tori’s body with the other. As of now, Tori seemed to be in a half conscious state. She seemed to be trying to resist, but was having difficulty in moving her body in general.

nShe was hit on the head a little too hard.

nThe girl with blue hair gently laid down Tori on the roof before hopping down, landing with a light tap.

nKairos’ eyebrow couldn’t help but twitch.

nIt seemed like it had already become a three versus three. Though Kairos somewhat expected the others to fall, he didn’t think it would be this easy.

nTheir advantage of numbers was already lost.

nBut at the very least, two of them had already been hit once, and for now, the girl with blue hair was still quite far away.

nKaios clicked his tongue and called out while rushing forth.

n“Finish off those two while the last one can’t catch up!”

nAll three of them ran with that very intention, but the only problem was that those two guys really were fast.

nIt was then that the guy with white hair surprisingly stopped, turning around to face them. He flung out the red ball once more, but kept it at its small size. He let it shoot out towards Kairos, who promptly dodged.

nIt then twisted while in mid-air, forcing Kairos to dodge once more, but that was expected because of both his future vision and what he had seen before from this ball.

nYet, all of a sudden, Kairos’ eyes flew open despite dodging the ball.

nHe felt a sharp pain tear through his leg in his future vision.

nKairos shifted his foot to the side jarringly, affecting his balance and almost getting himself hit by the ball.

nAnd it was then, the ground beneath him broke apart with a bang.

nAlmost like someone shot a bullet.

nKairos looked over his shoulder and saw the girl with blue hair pointing a finger gun at them with one eye closed. Her paddle was casually laid down at her side. It was clear that she never actually intended on getting closer to attack, but rather staying at the back and shooting at them.

nKairos quickly realized that this fight was actually going to be even harder than he expected.

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