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The stresses of panic and anxiety were starting to set in as I wiped the growing sweat off my brow. We were not out of the woods yet. In fact, we were actively charging into it!"Sis?!"Shit... "It's fine!" I called back out to Livia. I guess my outburst was loud enough that she heard it in the driver's seat. "We'll pull through. Don't worry!"With a sigh, I hurried back out to the APC's roof, leaving Arya to Lace's capable hands as I readied myself for yet another bout. Love already had an arrow nocked into her bow as I stood beside her; her eyes scanning our trail as we moved."There is no sign of Lady Static giving chase, Lady Crimson," she relayed. "The storm cloud has dissipated. However, I highly doubt that she will simply give up.""Well, let her chase then," I threw out. "We're runni
Fucking shit... The engine just died! "Livia?! Why'd we stop?!"I didn't hear a response as I pulled myself back up to the roof of the APC. Love looked alert as all hell as I tried my best to keep myself upright, the contrast making the situation all the direr as the one guy that kept blasting us with fire suddenly appeared beside Mr. Baldhead himself."I know not what sort of Denominator Runing could enable such a heavy contraption to move at such speeds, but if it is as strong as it looks, it will clearly be suited to be of use for the Empire."Oh my fucking god, this bitch.I felt Love stick to my side as she aimed her bow at the two Primes. Meanwhile, I held my sword at the ready, my eyes not even taking the time to assess the potential damage in favor of not getting blindsided by these people again. I could only ho
Fuck! Why do I keep forgetting about that girl?! Was I that inconsiderate of someone that actually looked up to me?! "Livia! I need you to drive us to the city!""What?!" my sister protested. "Weren't we supposed to-""And leave Bennie behind?!" I tersely cut her off. "Do you want to starve?!"It was a utilitarian way of thinking about things, but right now, we were in a life or death situation where we might actually need to cut losses. Bennie was a non-combatant whose role in the party was mostly just to cook good food for us. Granted, she might be better at us at it than Livia and I combined, but ultimately, a cook wasn't really needed in a group that was constantly on the move and ultimately utilitarian. She won't be missed, unfortunately, except for when everyone gets withdrawals from her divine cooking....Okay, m
I saw a glance of Love letting loose a bunch of light-tipped arrows when Ruby finally managed to get up from the hatch. The blonde was looking absolutely terrified, what with her face looking as flushed as a tomato and her shallow breathing. If I didn't know any better, I'd say she was having a panic attack worse than I was having right now."Are you okay!?" I carefully guided her down to her knees. "You can leave the tools if-""I'm fine, Crimson!" Ruby smiled at me. "Just... Nerves..."Okay? I guess I'll have to take her word for it, "Sure! Now take a look at the treads!"The ground beneath us zoomed at an alarming rate as Ruby and I dipped our heads down towards the treads. The damn thing spun at a rate that would surely take an arm or any other limb off, but here we were about to risk our lives trying to do repairs
Love was panting when she let loose yet another volley of arrows onto her former colleagues. It wasn't the ideal scenario that she had trained for, but she knew she had to push on lest they all die a horrible death.And there were more pressing things to worry about than being murdered by the Emperor's lackeys."I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"Love merely blinked the building annoyance away as she fired off a trio of light-tipped arrows at Lady Static. The girl kept apologizing for things that were completely out f her control, and it annoyed the archer to no end that the Prime kept attacking them anyway. Why bother apologizing if she was going to continue heckling their group despite her apparent misgivings?Another bout of lightning threatened to strike the APC, only for Love to intercept them with her own blasts of light.
In her relatively short life in this world, Tesla never considered herself a fighter. Even after being tested for having the potential to be a Num, the teenaged girl couldn't even fathom the thought of hurting another person in her life. Sure, her sheltered upbringing had not exposed her to the harsh realities of the Empire, but she could still see the reasoning in why most people turned to crime and banditry to make ends meet. As a soldier, she did her best to resolve incidents with the least amount of bloodshed possible; a feat that somehow elevated her into a Factor position, and eventually, into being a Prime before she could even protest such a decision. At first, Tesla thought that her new position as one of the Thirteen could help her prevent the growing unrest in her country. But as her orders came and went, the grim reality of her true purpose was made known to her.She had to kill people.
The concept of stress was something that I had to contend with back in the old world. Proper sanity management was a very important thing for me. The fact that I explicitly skipped classes simply for mental reasons was a big part of how and why it deteriorated in the first place. I suppose that short-term gains really suck for the long-term viability of actually passing my exams, but it still worked out, I guess. I mean, I just knew that I was only an allowance away from buying pesticide and killing myself back when I was still in med school. Still, the amount of shit that I had gone through had molded me into someone that panics first, then thinks clearly later. It circles back into itself every once in a while, but in general, I can cycle through emotions fast enough that I could somehow get myself out of the horrible holes I dug myself into.Unfortunately, now wasn't the right time for me to be useless
The ride went relatively well. That was what I wish I could say as I squirmed around in the driver's seat. No. The ride was a fucking nightmare of me doing maneuvers that I haven't even done in real life up till now. Meanwhile, poor Lace was just about finished bandaging up the rest of my body, which in turn, gave me some sort of breathing room in terms of feeling like I wasn't going to die in the next five minutes. It wasn't an ideal scenario, of course, but it was still leagues better than bleeding to death in a tattered dress and crashing everyone to death along with it."You know what to do, Leader," Lace nodded more to herself about a job well done. "No sudden movements or your wounds start bleeding again.""Of course," I scoffed. "Just focus on keeping everyone alive.""Will do."And with that, the nominal medic o