Chapter 83 - Us Against The World : Part 1

"...ugly?"

Axel's face twitched into something sinister. There was an aura of darkness that started to surround the boy. "Who?"

"You mean Adreanna is ugly?" His words sent shivers down to the police officers. Some of them started to back off a little.

Axel tilted his head down and glared at the leader. "You take that back."

The said leader felt sweat running down the side of his forehead. He tried to keep his ground high. Despite the apparent tremble in his hands, the man still fiercely aimed his gun at Axel.

"You dare insult my sister's beauty!" The 16-year-old snarled. He began his attack with a right overhand punch. The leader dodged the sudden attack and fired his gun three times at the boy.

The boy flipped to the back by kicking the man's chest and danced around the bullets in the air. He was not given the time to rest as another swarm of bullets came at him from all over the place.

The boy's feet touched the ground slightly before he jumped again, easily dodging all the bullets like it was some kind of a dodging ball game. He launched himself to the leader again and strangled him onto the floor.

Axel choked the man with both of his hands, causing him to desperately grasp for air. "You may insult me, but you can't insult my family." He dangerously uttered at the leader.

The man's eyes moved to the left side and tried to shoot Axel's left shoulder with his unguarded right hand. The boy quickly noticed it and darted to the right. The bullet managed to slice his skin a little, causing some drop of blood to come out of his shoulder.

There were other bullets that tried to shoot him from the back. The mute murderer clicked his tongue and quickly brought up the gun that he stole earlier.

He swirled around the bullets and fired his shots. There were no bullets missed as they all found their place inside six police officers. Everyone who got shots dropped to the ground while trying to brace the pain.

There was a shot that came from the sky and almost blew Axel's head off. It went just an inch away from his ear in a flash of lightning. He looked up to see the shooter inside the helicopter.

Right, he forgot about it. He was too caught up with the leader-

Oh no.

Axel ducked and hit the ground in a roll to avoid another bullet coming from the leader of this supposed to be arrest. He ran to a nearby wall and bounced off it, spinning in the air as he let more bullets find themselves on the police officers' shoulders.

The leader was the only one who managed to dodge. As expected from the head, anyway.

There was a rain of bullets that tried to eat Axel away again and caused him to grunt a little. He went sideways and threw himself to another wall and ricocheted from it.

He aimed the gun at the helicopter and-

And the gun fell from his hand.

Wait, why did it fall from-

The boy looked down to see nothing. His hands had disappeared entirely alongside his arms that kept reappearing and vanishing as they wanted. He shook his arms a couple of times, hoping they would come back again.

This was just great timing, wasn't it?

There was a tremendous sound of gunshots from the air, and Axel just chuckled slightly at himself.

"Crap."

This was really not a good time for the disappearance thing to act up. The world really hated him that much, huh?

Upon having no arms invisible right now, Axel relied on his legs only to dart around the bullets and hoped for the best. It was way harder, and the boy could not land a single attack without his hands.

He could kick the people around, of course. But the helicopter was a lost cause.

Axel knew he was blinking only for a moment as an average human would do. He swore he just did it without even reaching a mere second. But when he opened his eyelids again, there was already a woman standing in front of him, shielding him as she took his fallen gun.

Adreanna's gaze was colder than before that it could freeze the people who saw it. She shot the helicopter's blade and caused it to sway, trying to stabilize again as it went farther away. It probably would crush somewhere soon.

She looked back at Axel, and surprisingly, the cold gaze turned into the usual emotionless eyes. "I suppose if your identity is already revealed, there's no use for me hiding." She stated flatly.

"The cage that you spoke about," She paused and gave a really slight smile that Axel could miss easily. "-I'll accompany you in it."

The boy's face went red at her words and action. He never knew that Adreanna cared about him this much.

"It's a really scary nightmare to get your identity revealed, you know? I feel like I've been freed from a cage just to get into a bigger cage." His words earlier rang in his ears as he stared at his sister fought in silence.

That was...nice. Huh, it really felt nice.

Axel looked up to see Adreanna spun in the air and shot a ridiculous amount of bullets in one go.

Oh.

Axel's face suddenly morphed into panic. "Don't do the ultimate raining bullets thing!" He yelled.

Adreanna froze at the shout and let her bullet waste to the ground before she finished her attack. She snapped his head over to Axel. "The ultimate...?"

"The badass thing you do when you want to kill a bunch in one go." Axel tried to explain in a hurry. "I will really much prefer it if you didn't kill them."

There was a beat of silence as she stared at Axel. The youngest never knew what she thought whenever she did that to him. The oldest blinked, letting her eyelashes flutter and nodded.

"Okay." She put down the gun in her hand and looked over to some police officers that were still standing.

She turned back toward the attackers and did a quick spin. Adreanna aimed for the nearest person's neck and made him pass out.

She did not stop moving and leaned back to avoid a bullet coming her way from the left. She gave the person a cold glance and targeted the man's jawline by throwing a fast jab that was followed by a crack.

Adreanna easily wiped out the rest of the police officers and stopped right in front of the leader. She kicked the gun from his hand when he tried to shoot her.

The oldest Vergessene walked slowly and cornered the poor man. She moved her head close to the man to the point that their nose almost touched each other. The leader's face was as red as a tomato now as he could not divert his gaze from her.

"You're hideous too." She spoke to him without any attached emotions in her words. Adreanna bumped her head to him and knocked the leader out in a second.

She coldly gazed down at the man on the floor before turning her back on him. Her gaze landed on Axel's disappearing hands and stared at them for a very long time.

She looked up at the boy and noticed that Axel was staring bewilderedly at his hands too. Adreanna made her way over to him and patted his head, making the boy snap out of his panic.

"You're good when you were handling them." She complimented, and it almost made Axel think that she was getting possessed.

Or maybe she was always this nice. He just never got the time to actually spend real time with her.

"Ah, yeah. I learned it from you." A blush crept on his cheeks as he shyly stared at her.

Adreanna just stared at him, almost disapprovingly. However, she was too emotionless for Axel to actually know what she was expressing.

"Uh..." Axel awkwardly hummed and moved his blue eye away from her. He was focused on the blood on his bandaged legs instead.

"You were supposed to compliment back or say thank you," Adreanna stated.

The youngest Vergessene blinked sheepishly. "What?"

"When someone compliments you, you should return the compliment or say thank you." She repeated her words.

"Ah." He opened his mouth in understanding. "Thank you, then. You are good too."

She patted his head again and nodded in approval. "There is a bakery near this way. It opens early in the morning."

"But it's still night-" Axel cut his own words and stared at the sky, which was not as dark as before.

"Oh." He tried to scratch the back of his neck and realized his hands were missing. "Nevermind."

Well, being in an alleyway with two tall buildings that almost covered the sky caused him not to notice the sunrise that tried to show itself to this cruel world.

In the end, with some blood dripping from Adreanna's hands and bloodstains all over Axel's body, they made their way to the nearest bakery.

"W-welcome!" The baker welcomed them sternly, trembling in their sight. "Take whatever you want, i-it's free."

"Really?" Axel tilted his head happily.

With a delighted grin, Axel beamed. "Give me your best cupcake."

The baker warily stared at the two. Adreanna had some bloodstain on her neck and hands that were covered in red liquid. The boy only had his legs with the red stain that was etched on his bandages. Not to mention his disappearing hands as well.

"Stop staring. He wants a cupcake. Right now." Adreanna said, and the baker caught it as a threat.

"Y-yes, right away!" The poor baker quickly took all the cupcakes and put them in a bag.

That was a really weird night for Axel.

"Wipe your hands, you'll have blood all over the cupcake." He chimed, making Adreanna obediently clean them off.

But strangely, Axel felt free.