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【This is... a grenade! 】
After rolling over and quickly stabilizing his body, Shuichi Akai immediately saw the grenade that was still in the air.
His brain responded instantly. Shuichi Akai quickly pulled out the pistol from his waist, aimed at the grenade at an extremely fast speed, and then pulled the trigger.
"Bah!"
"boom!"
As the explosion sounded, after getting rid of the grenade, Shuichi Akai did not stand there stupidly, but quickly turned around and ran to the side of the ambulance behind him.
"Boom boom boom!"
He had just run away when several gunshots rang out from the car behind him. Toru Amuro, who had finally arrived, rushed out of the car, holding a pistol and chasing after Akai Shuichi, shooting continuously.
In the medical bay of the ambulance, hearing the gunshots outside, Judy hurriedly pushed James' stretcher and pushed him to the innermost side of the medical bay.
However, she was obviously worrying too much. Although Toru Amuro's bullets kept hitting the ambulance, they only left shallow dents on the body of the ambulance. Some bullets hit the rear window, leaving only a few white spots on the window, without even a crack.
The sudden attack with a small pistol achieved temporary fire suppression. With his vision blocked by the ambulance, Toru Amuro lay on the ground, trying to find Shuichi Akai's position under the car.
Almost at the same time, Shuichi Akai also ran to the front of the ambulance, flipped over and jumped directly onto the front of the car, half-crouching and leaning on the hood of the ambulance.
"Tsk!"
Without seeing Shuichi Akai's feet under the car, Toru Amuro immediately guessed his location. He pulled out another grenade and threw it to one side of the ambulance, while he quickly ran to the other side of the ambulance.
"boom!"
The explosion sounded again, and the violent impact caused the body of the ambulance to shake left and right twice.
Toru Amuro rushed to the other side in time, but he did not see Shuichi Akai who was supposed to hide on this side to avoid the explosion, and there was no one on the hood of the ambulance.
【Oops! 】
After a moment of hesitation, he quickly realized a possibility, but before he could fully react, a chill suddenly came over Amuro Toru's head.
After hiding under the car from the hood to avoid the grenade explosion, Akai Shuichi then jumped onto the roof from the other side of the ambulance and, with the help of the earth's gravity, kicked Amuro Toru with a whip kick.
"Cough!" Although Toru Amuro blocked the heavy blow with his hands crossed in front of him, he was still pushed by the force from Shuichi Akai's leg, and he staggered back several steps.
After falling to the ground, Akai Shuichi took advantage of the victory and, while Amuro Toru had not yet stood firm, he rushed forward again and tried to knock him down completely.
"Don't think about it!"
Knowing Akai Shuichi's intention, Toru Amuro, who was still retreating, raised his arm and aimed the pistol in his hand at Akai Shuichi.
"Bah!"
When the gunshot was heard, Akai Shu, who had been prepared, bent sideways to avoid the bullet, and at the same time raised his hand to grab Amuro Toru's wrist holding the gun and twisted it hard.
With his wrist captured, Toru Amuro let go of the pistol in pain, but his other hand quickly pulled out another pistol from his waist.
[Do you have any more? ]
Seeing his actions, Shuichi Akai's pupils contracted. It was obviously too late to unload the pistol now.
Without hesitation, he immediately let go of Amuro Toru's wrist, grabbed the first pistol that he had just unloaded halfway, quickly stepped back, and aimed at Amuro Toru.
At the same time, Toru Amuro finally stabilized his body and aimed the pistol in his hand at Shuichi Akai.
In the darkness of the night, the two men were less than two meters apart, and each of them aimed his pistol at the other's head.
"That's really great, rye whiskey."
In the tense atmosphere, Toru Amuro spoke first. While aiming his gun at Shuichi Akai opposite him, he shook his other arm which was still aching.
Although he had taken this FBI ace agent as seriously as possible, he did not realize that he had underestimated him until they actually fought.
In the brief fight between the two just now, it was obvious that he suffered the loss in the end.
"Long time no see, Bourbon." Akai Shuichi also aimed at him with a gun in both hands, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
First it was Kille, then Bourbon. Is he going to fight all these "old acquaintances" tonight?
"It's indeed been a long time since we last met, especially after you betrayed the organization, traitor." Staring at him closely, Toru Amuro replied with a smile.
Although the two were very close at this time, and they were always aiming at each other, the whole situation looked as if as long as someone pulled the trigger first, the other person would be killed immediately...
However, this is not the case.
Neither of the two people here is half human. In this situation of high concentration and staring at each other, neither Toru Amuro nor Shuichi Akai thinks that their first shot can hit the other.
In other words, both of them have a high probability of dodging the first shot fired by the other, and firing back at the other at the same time while dodging.
This means that, for the two people present, the one who fired first has a higher probability of being killed.
Driven by this concern, the two men fell into a strange standoff in which neither of them was willing to fire the first shot.
"Traitor..."
When Shuichi Akai heard this, he seemed to be thinking of something happy, and the expression on his face suddenly looked like he wanted to laugh.
"You say I'm a traitor, but I wonder if you feel the same way, Bourbon..."
"Hmph, put away your boring little tricks. Rye Whiskey, I have already proved my loyalty to the organization." Amuro Toru smiled crookedly and replied in a proud tone.
At the same time, on the other side, Mizuno Rena, who was resting with her eyes closed in the car, suddenly shook her head and smiled after hearing the conversation between the two people on the communication.
"Oh? It seems you are really loyal..."
Shuichi Akai also noticed the earphone on Toru Amuro's ear.
No matter what Toru Amuro's purpose is, he doesn't have time to continue to entangle with Toru Amuro here.
There are one after another tonight, God knows how many more will appear if we continue like this.
Must get out as soon as possible.
Chapter 232 Evacuation
In the ambulance, Judy also noticed the confrontation between Akai Shuichi and Amuro Toru outside the car.
The two men were aiming at each other at this time, and out of concern for each other, no one dared to shoot first.
Judy knew very well that the advantage of time was not on their side. As time passed, the possibility of them being entangled by the organization's follow-up support increased.
She couldn't hide in the car any longer, she had to find a way to help Shuichi Akai break the predicament.
This shouldn't be difficult. With Shuichi Akai's ability, he only needs to make the opponent reveal a small flaw and he will be able to turn the situation around.
Thinking of this, Judy picked up the pistol that Shuichi Akai had thrown to her earlier, walked quietly to the back door of the medical cabin, and raised her hand to open the lock.
"Click."
With a crisp sound, Toru Amuro, who was confronting Akai Shuichi nearby, noticed the abnormality of the ambulance at the first time.
Looking at the back door of the ambulance being slowly pushed open, his pupils contracted to the extreme.
【Oops! 】
He was so immersed in the duel with Akai Shuichi that he completely ignored the fact that there was someone else in the ambulance!
It was obvious that the FBI in the car also noticed the situation here and wanted to come down to help.
Judy succeeded, and Tohru Amuro's attention was indeed attracted to her for a moment, and in a duel with a powerful opponent with the same extraordinary strength, even for just a moment, that was an extremely fatal flaw.
"Bah!"
The moment Toru Amuro looked away, Shuichi Akai seized the opportunity, aimed at the pistol in Toru Amuro's hand, and shot directly.
His shot was extremely accurate, and the bullet hit the pistol precisely, knocking it away.
"Bah!"
The second gunshot quickly followed, but the person who fired the shot was not Shuichi Akai, but Judy who had just rushed out of the ambulance.
[Damn it!]
A flower of blood burst out on his shoulder. Forced into a desperate situation in an instant, Amuro Toru gritted his teeth and made a final counterattack before death. As he fell to the ground, he quickly pulled out the last grenade hanging on his waist and threw it towards the ambulance.
Watching his actions with his own eyes, Shuichi Akai held the gun with both hands, aimed at the grenade, and then pulled the trigger.
"boom!"
Once again, the grenade hit the target accurately and exploded above the ambulance, causing no harm to Judy who fell to the ground at the first moment.
And Amuro Toru took advantage of the moment when Akai Shuichi turned around and quickly rushed into the woods beside the street, disappearing under the cover of night.
"Shuichi!"
Fearing a surprise attack from Amuro Toru, Judy closed the back door of the ambulance and leaned against the side of the vehicle.
"Did you let him go on purpose?" she asked, looking at Shuichi Akai.
She knew very well that with Shuichi Akai's ability, he could easily shoot and knock Toru Amuro down before he threw the grenade, leaving no time for Toru Amuro to throw the grenade.
And with the first shot, if Shuichi Akai wanted to, he could have shot Toru Amuro in the head instead of shooting at Toru Amuro's pistol.
This can only mean that Shuichi Akai was deliberately letting Toru Amuro leave.
"Ah, yes."
A shot shattered the earphones that Amuro Toru dropped on the ground. After squinting to make sure that Amuro Toru had run far away, Akai Shuichi put away the gun and explained.
"He's Bourbon."
"Bourbon?" After a moment's pause, Judy remembered the code name.
During the previous incident in Curacao, they learned that one of the undercover agents, like Kiel, was lurking in the organization.
"So Bourbon is him?" Judy was a little surprised after recalling Amuro Toru's dark-skinned and blond appearance.
It was the first time she saw Bourbon's real appearance. She had only heard of this code name before.
"Well, he is someone we can win over in the future. It would be a pity if he died here now..."
As he spoke, Shuichi Akai picked up the sniper rifle he had dropped from under the ambulance.
"Well, we can't stay here for long, let's go."
"Ah."
After the words fell, the two quickly got into the car, and Akai Shuichi started the ambulance again and drove towards their planned destination.
This time, they did not encounter any pursuers from the organization and arrived at the safe house safely.