PATH OF THE STAR HUNTER-Chapter 74

74 Chapter 74 The crisis of the military.

(Third person POV)

The central military base had been in chaos since the night before and this had not stopped even at dawn six hours later; Since the explosion that took place at the entrance of the building, the pursuit of the suspect and the discovery of the bodies of an entire Esper squad.

To add to the insult all the Espers found were in deplorable condition, a couple of them had shattered arms and intense burns all over the front of them although they survived the encounter certainly were not unharmed, the squad’s sound user was found with only a few remaining pieces of the skull still clinging to his body and the rest scattered around the area, the squad leader had his torso torn to pieces by what appears to be both a sharp and blunt stab wound; in fact, the only body that was almost intact was that of the assassin of the squad who was found with a broken neck, although after the autopsy it turned out that he had practically every vertebra in his neck shattered. The higher command was furious.

But their anger at obtaining results did not matter much, what worsened the humor of these pompous military men, even more, was the fact that much of what took place can be attributed in one way or another to their negligence.

From the moment they let an Esper of enormous combat prowess and unknown ability into the base, wearing a disguise that completely disguised his identity, to the fact that they overlooked checking the man before letting him into a room. full of military officials without even taking away their most basic weapons.

Of course, no one expected the man to have stolen an upgraded stun grenade from the squad in charge of his escort beforehand and used it to quietly leave the room with the briefcase carrying the bribes they planned to use to recruit him; They also didn’t expect him to be crazy enough to plant some kind of explosive measure that he later used to complete his escape.

While all those errors were in one way or another preventable, what no one could have predicted was that the man was capable of completely massacring the Esper Squad sent to capture him. The only exceptions to this were the two defensive skill users they found heavily wounded in an alley near the place where the killing took place and the only female in the group a healing skill user who was currently missing.

It is believed that the users of defensive abilities were presumed dead and that alone survived, but the fate and whereabouts of the last member of the squad are still unknown; the military is so angry they are already planning to put all the blame on this latest member of the Esper squad and wash their hands. 𝒇𝘳𝐞𝚎𝓌𝑒𝑏𝒏𝑜𝙫ℯl.c𝚘𝒎

Just as the higher-ups were pondering how to handle the situation and get out of it with impunity, a lieutenant ran into the room to pass a report.

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′′ We are in an incredibly important meeting, better be good Lieutenant or I will see that he is punished for espionage. ′′ Exclaimed the commander irrationally.

′′ Sir, the missing member of the Stigma Squad has just appeared at the entrance to the headquarters. ′′ I present the report of him the sergeant in a serious way.

′′ what?. . And what are you waiting for? Have them bring it here. ′′ Impatiently the commander expressed his new order as he stood up from his chair.

′′ Sir, she is already here. ′′ Stepping to the side, the lieutenant revealed another soldier holding Paulina by the shoulder.

′′ Let him come in and close the doors when he leaves. ′′

′′ Yes sir. ′′

(Paulina POV)

I arrived at the headquarters just as the note I made said and prepared to perform the most important act of my life. As I staggered through the entrance while holding the shoulder that had been wounded the night before, I was quickly attended by a soldier and after telling him who this was he quickly directed me without further questions or medical attention to the office where the higher-ups were having a meeting.

Upon entering I can feel how everyone is watching me with disdain and doubts not even hidden, I could get an idea of ??what they were thinking, they probably believed that being a small and weak girl I cowered in the fight fleeing to save my life or something like that; of course, if they knew the truth of the matter they probably wouldn’t bother to see me that way and would just execute me outright.

′′ We were worried, Officer Blossom, would you mind explaining to us what happened the night before with your squad and where you have been until now ′′ Expressed the commander of the base in a serious way but he could not hide the hidden aggressiveness in his questions.

′′ Yes sir. ′′ Executing a standard military salute, I replied to the commander, but quickly faked an expression of immense pain as I lowered my supposedly injured arm again. I got some reactions from the people around me as the note said, the pain I seem to have and my stubbornness to maintain military discipline earned me some compassion from some of the men in the room.

′′ Sir, last night returning from helping the medical team to save as many of our companions as I could after the hard battle, my squad and I were filling out some documents when an order came to persecute the man who had been previously escorted to the barracks. We met the objective while taking a shortcut to the barracks, our squad leader took a step forward and made a powerful fiery attack against the masked man; but it seemed to stop in midair only to be redirected towards our defensive users catching them off guard. With his destination unknown, we tried to mount an offensive, but we had no chance, our opponent was too powerful, calmly dodging our attacks he began to launch some kind of invisible attack from a distance, shortly after we observed our stealth specialist fall dead with a broken neck. Our sound user tried to immobilize him, but he only found brutal retaliation from the masked man who using a gesture like this ′′

I extended my hand using my thumb and middle finger and made a gesture of giving a finger.

′′ He pierced the throat of our sound user, our leader tried to attract attention for reinforcements with a whirlwind of fire, but performing a lunge with his hands in the distance, the whirlwind faded revealing our dead leader. ′′

Finish that long and altered narration of the events that took place at night, only the details regarding the means used to carry out the attacks that killed my companions were altered, after all after the autopsies the military would probably catch me if the details of how they died changed.

′′ I see, but where were you when all this happened? ′′