Villain's POV: A Monster's Odyssey-Chapter 25: An odd sound?

Her unsettling emotionless was so chilling, even Ekidna who couldn't hear what the other side of the phone said shivered.

"Huh, well I have 4 seconds left right now"

After 3 seconds, Yuuta's lips curled up as he looked outside at a specific building far away, around 2 km from the building he was at.

A sniper using IR goggles.

"It so happens your precious sister is in a building filled with CIA agents that will do anything to kill her"

The table that Santiago and Mikhail were on was immediately flipped as the food scattered on the ground.

'The food!'

Yuuta's eyebrows furrowed in anger for the first time. He hated wasting precious food, no matter how twisted his mind might be. In the end, millions of people around the world starved to death out of the lack of the food, and yet, here they were wasting the food.

However he understood the weight of the situation and merely gritted his teeth in anger.

Without a single world, Santiago and Mikhail immediately went to the corner of the room and grabbed their automatic rifles.

Without hesitation, Santiago looked outside the building and was surprised at the red and blue color flashing everywhere.

Using the butt of his rifle, he shattered the sound-proof glass and heard the wailing sirens of the cars surrounding them along with black suspicious SUVs.

"Bloody f*cking hell !!"

He cursed as he took aim and began shooting at the cops stationed outside.

Despite their current anonymity, because of their lives being at stake, they decided to make a temporary alliance and kill each other later.

The incoming unexpected cop cars were shocked by their cars losing track after being shot by a bullet in the tires, and a few of them even flipped over, making explosions everywhere and burning the local streets.

"AAAAAAAAAAGH!!" A woman who was walking with her child and ran to take shelter was immediately swallowed by the flames, reduced to charcoal in no time.

Her son, a mere 5 year old toddler cried as he wept.

"Nooo! Mommy, please don't go like papa!"

The boy cried and ran to his blazing mother and embraced her, only to be met with the unmerciful flames and screamed in agony as he went where his mother had gone.

CLICK CLICK

Meanwhile, Santiago who was shooting blindly, cursed under his breath with an irritated face as he realize he had emptied his magazine and looked around the room in rush until his gaze landed on a loot box that was placed there.

Rushing, Santiago was about to break open the box but his wrist was grabbed mid air.

Angrily, he growled at Mikhail who slung his rifle on his shoulder and held his wrist with his other hand. Mikhail, undeterred by the menacing look he was given sneered in dismay.

"You fool, don't you realize that we have a limited amount of ammunition? What do you think will happen if we run out?"

Still with a glare, Santiago look down for a moment as if he was pondering over his words, before he looked back to Mikhail in challenge.

"What do you expect us to do then? Wait until they kill us? Huh?"

Stealing a glance, at the calm demeanour and Ekidna who was backing up her bag quickly with a serious expression, Mikahil's eyes went to Yuuta who had a sly smile on his face with the phone on his ears, he closed his eyes for a moment.

His eyes slowly opened with a new glint of determination.

"We need to use the ammunition smartly. Only use the bullets to pierce through the tires of vehicles and their gas tanks! We cannot afford to die in this place, and I, personally, will not die until I kill you for the humiliation you showed me today!"

Taken aback from his determined and fierce belief, Santiago took of his mask, as his red short hair and eyes came into view.

Throwing his mask aside, a grin spread on his lips from corner to corner.

"Is that so? Well, I won't die either until I kill you myself!"

Mikhail took off his mask, revealing his thin handsome face, and silver hair.

He raised eyebrow but a smile broke on his face, betraying his emotions.

"Well then, lets see who kills the most, shall we?"

With determined and confident grins, they both broke off the lock on the loot box with the butt of their assault rifles before picking up as much ammo as they could, running towards the broken glass as they set the chairs, couches, and tables to barricade the door and the class in case of incoming bullets.

And they were luck that they considered the idea.

BANG!

A bullet pierced through a table and only stopped when it pierced the expensive and thick couch.

On the other side was Santiago who was heavily breathing, slightly trembling as he touched his bleeding ear. If it wasn't for Mikhail right now... who knew where he would have been.

Outraged but with his rational mind still present, he quickly loaded his magazine, pulled back the hammer, and switched from full-auto to semi-auto.

He stood for a moment and aimed at the vehicles outside and began shooting.

Ra-ta-ta-tatata!

"You f*cking motherfuckers, one day I'll f*cking burn you alive!"

Mikhail also shot from time to time, switching between hiding and aiming. Hearing Satiagos hot-blooded and crude language, he clicked his tongue.

"Tsk... Such crude language, unbefitting of a gentleman"

This 𝓬ontent is taken from fгeewebnovёl.co𝙢.

Santiago merely ignored the criticism and continued shooting outside with a bloodthirsty grin on his face.

'HAHAHAHA! Take that you piece of shit! I hope your rot in hell!'

----

"So you knew"

A sigh was heard from the woman on the other side of the phone.

"Did you know this would happen, Yuuta?"

For the first time, although Yuuta had never revealed his real name to anyone other than Vladimir, the fact that she knew his name was not Mr. Olympia spoke volumes about her relationship with him.

Swiftly ignoring her question, Yuuta spoke in an indifferent voice.

"Why don't we meet up after this, if I make it out, that is?"

"...."

"Well, lets hope you'll die in this shootout. If you don't, I'll be there to watch your execution at court myself"

Her voice was emotionless, but a hint of sadness could be heard from her tone.

"Yeah, I hope to die too"

"...."

She became silent for a moment, swallowing her sorrows as she sighed in impatience.

"I will be sending a helicopter to Ekidna to pick her up from this mess. If there are other lords there, tell the copilot to pick them as well. They still have their uses."

"... How much?"

"How much what?" Her voice hinted at a tinge of confusion and irritation.

"How much will you pay?"

In an outraged voice, she gritted her teeth in anger.

"Can't you do this as a favor of 'that' time?"

"You know I don't return favors. I just take, but never return"

In a fit of anger, the sound of shattering vases came from the other side of the phone.

"I swear I will be there to watch you on death row, and watch you get executed in front of me"

"Yeah, I hope so too. How much will you be paying?" He spoke dubiously.

With a resigned sigh hiding an uncontrollable rage, she spoke.

"50 million"

"Too low for the life of your sister and business."

"100 million"

"... Still too low"

"I saved you on the brink of death, you ungrateful, fucking bastard. I wish I never took you in and left you to die there rotting! 500 million!"

"Deal" With a sealed deal, Yuuta licked his lips in anticipation at the amount. The boy had no guilt whatsoever in extorting the one that saved him from the brink of death and raised him with gentle love.

"Anyways, I'll see you at my execution. Have a nice night"

Without answering, the other side immediatly hung up the phone, which led Yuuta to laugh. He handed over the phone to Ekidna who had gathered everything she needed and was seated at the table, looking at Yuuta in interest.

Dietrich was no different, as he had an expressionless and bored expression on his face despite the explosions every few minutes that made the room tremble under its pressure.

Ekidna, ever so the curious cat she was asked Yuuta in anticipation

"Lil bro, do you know big sis?"

"... Kind of"

Seeing his indifferent gaze, Ekidna wanted to ask more but understood that this was not the best time, and furrowed her eyes in seriousness.

Santiago and Mikhail had multiple wounds, as bullets grazed them and some even lodged in unfatal parts of their bodies such as their shoulders, legs, arms, etc.

However, exhaustion was soon overtaking them.

Even Mikhail who had incredible mental power was starting to get exhausted.

"What will we be doing now? Do you have a plan?"

Everyone looked towards in hope, as if he was their light in the moment of their darkness.

He shrugged his shoulder in indifference.

"Help is on the way"

Hearing his casual manner, they couldn't help but frown. Help is on the way? What is that supposed to mean?

When would help come? Would they make it out alive, or as corpses?

BANG!

As if their fears were confirmed, the sound of the door getting pounded that they had barricaded came.

Ekidna jumped in fright at the sudden sound. Even Dietrich, with a serious and dangerous glint in his eyes, took out his twin revolvers.

Santiago and Mikahil who were busy in the shootout were startled as they looked at the door that was being pounded.

*BANG* *BANG*

"Break down the door! Don't make them escape!"

A masculine and clear English tone came from the other side of the door, and the pounding grew more enthusiastic.

"SHIT!"

Both of them panicked, which led a stray bullet to hit Mikhail in the stomach, dropping his handgun to the ground with a yelp and pained groan.

"FUUUUCK!"

Santiago turned on full-auto and started to shoot crazily everywhere, until his rifle ran out of ammo.

Upon realizing, he looked around with a fierce expression, but it quickly turned blank as he realized they had used up all the ammo left in the room.

They were done for.

Yuuta's eyes widened and a frown etched upon his face as the desperate situation turn a took for the worse.

The door started slowly surrendering under the pressure of the pounding and even Yuuta was about to get prepared for a life-or-death situation.

Well that was until he heard an odd sound.