Chapter 47: [47]:Gamers Gear
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The first two rooms were empty of everything but dust bunnies. The third through fifth rooms had a small chest in them with ¥1000 in them. The sixth through eighth rooms had a rack of [Crude Steel Ninjatō] and a pouch of thirty [Average Steel Shuriken] in them each. This made Issei practically jump with glee at the free weaponry. It would be some time before he ran out of weapons.
The next few rooms were empty, with only bloodstains on the floor indicating that something odd had happened here. Infighting among the ratmen? Or had the Purifiers tried and failed to initiate Project Rat Poison? The mystery was starting to make Issei’s brain hurt. Why couldn’t things be simpler? Kill the rats, kick the Purifiers’ asses. Bim-bam, thank you ma’am. Now he had to wonder who he was really fighting here.
It was in the thirteenth room that Issei was ambushed by both of the remaining Gutter Runners...at once. They began with a hail of shuriken and throwing knives that forced Issei to put up a [Lesser Barrier Shield] in order to block them. Then they tried the tried and true ratman tactic of a pincer assault, ninjatō slashing at him from both sides.
Dodging one and blocking the other, Issei lashed out with his left leg, smashing it into the Gutter Runner on that side’s face, sending it back howling in pain from its clearly broken muzzle.
That was a bit unexpected. Then again, his STR was in the low seventies. That would put a crimp in most people’s days if they were hit by him at full strength.
The other one lashed out with its tail, hoping to score a hit with its tail spike while Issei was locked blades with it.