Chapter 5: Tousou (The Struggle)
Carla's head tilted to the side, her eyes wide open with surprise as a trail of blood flowed down the side of her cheek. She slowly brought her right hand up to touch the wound left by the bullet she barely managed to avoid due to her cat-like reflexes, and felt her heart tremble.
Never in her life had she come so close to death. Even fighting against those blasted Espers, she had never suffered this much!
But her trial was not over yet. From the muzzle of the pistol aimed at her face, there was only a distance of about two or three meters. With her reaction speed at exactly 600 milliseconds, she was hard-pressed to avoid the next shots fired from the gun by Kaizer, who simultaneously shifted the car into Sport mode.
However, his expression became grave when he noticed that the monster opposite him easily—relative to his perspective—dodged the bullets by a hair's breadth, wearing a vicious smile on her face as her right hand manifested claws. She was grinning crazily, the blood flowing in trickles from the side of her face highlighting her madness.
"I am going to skin you alive!" she shrieked as she swung her claws forward.
At this time, Kaizer could only duck and avoid the crushing blow that tore off the roof of his vehicle, reducing the headrests into sliced leather with ease. While leaning, he didn't forget to step on the reverse sharply, sending his car flying backward and startling the assailant on the hood who was so focused on him.
Carla was thrown off the hood but did not hit the floor, as her back turned at the last second to allow her to land on her feet. She glanced upwards to see that, unlike what she expected, Kaizer did not try to hit her with his car but drove out of the park at full speed while trying to escape.
"Hoh? Interesting, hehe," Carla chuckled as she leapt up and reached the top of a nearby building along the route Kaizer was passing.
The young man himself was sweating as he cursed audibly. The moment he saw her dodge bullets as if she were a character from The Matrix, Kaizer understood that no offensive means he possessed could deal with her unless it completely evaded her superior senses and monstrous reflexes.