First time there (1)
It would be nice if I could ride a bike with them, but unfortunately, it didn’t happen that Lennok rode the bike himself.
“Please sit behind me.”
Hina goes down and puts on her bike helmet and looks back.
Under the throttle she clutched with both hands, a bike large enough for two people to ride appeared.
“………”
Although the expression was not visible through the helmet, it was clear that Hina was grinning from the elongated eyes.
If I knew it would be like this, I should have completed the boarding aid magic as soon as possible.
After a long time, Lennok, who had felt a bit of remorse, put his body on the back of the bike she was riding on without saying a word.
Woooooooooo!!
A monster bike that appears to be well over twice as large as the other freelancers.
Exhaust sound, vibration, and custom made options hanging on both sides are incomparable to other products.
As if noticing Lennok’s gaze, Hina looked back and spoke leisurely.
“Isn’t it cool?”
“……Looks useful.”
“It’s something I only use when going out on a business trip, but I spent my own money and remodeled it. For half a year, I made a mess of all the bonuses.”
“take no interest.”
It seems that you are not active at all, but surprisingly, your hobby was that way.
Lennok replied indifferently, but Hina continued with a smile as if that wasn’t enough.
“Well… I understand. Just because you’re a freelancer doesn’t mean you have to know how to ride a bike. Oh, did you think you should have rented a bicycle?”
“Aren’t we going to play around in moderation?”
Despite Lennok’s annoyed response, Hina did not stop.
“I thought there was nothing I couldn’t do, but I never imagined that I wouldn’t know how to ride a bike.”
“…so I must have asked for a car to be airlifted.”
Although he replied that way, Lennok understands why he bothered to use his bike in this operation.
Unlike the temporary base that was located alone in the desert area on the outskirts of the city, the headquarters of Falchion is a shabby factory district that exists completely outside the Balkans.
Originally planned far ahead of the Balkan urban development plan, it was created as part of a suspended satellite city development and then abandoned.
An abandoned city area that cannot be called a part of a megalopolis. It was located in a forced labor camp where people who wander aimlessly were caught and fed.
Considering that street fighting would occur around the workhouse in the course of the operation, it was right to choose a means of transportation that allows individual movement rather than gathering and moving as a group.
At Lennox’s words, Hina burst into a gentle laugh.
“sorry. I’m a little excited because I think I’m going out on a business trip after a long time. In the meantime, unwillingly, I was stuck only in the operating team.”
“…”
“Well, let’s stop chatting and go soon…!”
Hina burst into laughter in a plain tone, and as soon as she pulled the throttle, a deafening noise erupted.
Quaang!!
At the same time, a new type like a black beast that kicks off a hill and shoots out.
It beats dozens of motorcycles and runs ahead as it is.
Boaaaaang!!!
Right after that, the start sound rang out from the rear all at once, and other freelancers followed suit and started running with their bikes.
A barren plateau unfolds before your eyes.
The feeling of running through a field with a clear view of the horizon was not too bad.
Although it was a novelty, sitting on the back of Hina’s bike and gripping the handle tightly.
“It looks good, wizard!”
“I think we should move away!!”
“……..”
A bike with a sense of speed with such a scenery. At the same time, the morale of freelancers with colleagues running on the ground is skyrocketing.
It’s not just that, but if you hear that the enforcement agents directly participate in the operation, you can’t help but do that.
Among the agents, the existence of enforcement agents who were treated with actual force was the most convincing proof that the agent did not consider them to be discarded.
Chen, too, picked up a thin-skeleton bike and was waving his muffler in the wind with a pleasant expression.
It is a moment when the scenery of the Balkans gets farther away as I run and speed to my heart’s content without caring about my surroundings.
As I glanced around the forest of gigantic buildings that were rapidly shrinking, Hina noticed and said.
“If you feel uneasy about the handle, it’s okay to hold on to my waist. Don’t be afraid.”
Seeing her smirk in her eyes, Lennox let out a deep sigh.
“How long are you going to tease me?”
“Until I get off the bike?”
“It’s not that I can’t ride a bike, but I can’t help it if I want to save horsepower as much as possible…”
“I’m kidding.”
Hina smiled softly at Lennok, who was silently frowning.
“Because during the operation to recapture the temporary base, I saw firsthand how powerful a wizard Van is.”
“………..”
“I was convinced after seeing that. This operation can be successful. And for that, it is only right for you to save your mana until the very last moment.”
….Anyway, the way she used magic when dealing with Daron seemed to be deeply entrenched in her memory.
It was not incomprehensible.
He had worked with Hina several times before, but that was the first time Lennok actually used magic.
Even though she must have been aware of the way he was fighting through the data screen, the dramatic change in attitude must have been because she was confident in her own way.
In the end, Lennok’s expression, which was silent and turned his head to the surrounding scenery, suddenly frowned.
“…”
“Why is that?”
A familiar landscape somewhere.
Lennok’s eyes sank calmly at that familiar sense of deja vu.
I should have guessed to some extent when I heard that it was a forced labor camp, but I finally realized it after seeing this shabby alley.
“…….Right.”
Miscellaneous neon signs and shabby light sources. A workhouse with crumpled iron plates and worn-out signboards.
The memory of being beaten on the cheek and head for the first time in my life. It reminds me of every day I spent the night with my tired body and my eyes open because I couldn’t sleep.
The strange feeling of killing a person for the first time and the feeling of the cold pistol in his hand.
I remember them all vividly.
This workhouse was the same factory where Lennok first woke up.
‘I’ve thought it might be somewhere outside the city, but…’
I never thought to look for it myself.
Lennok before he mastered magic was just one of the workers who fled the factory just before dying.
It also took the supervisor’s pistol and killed more than three people.
However, after Lennok frantically tapped and trained his talent and stood tall as a wizard, he buried that memory along with fear.
Has it already been over a year?
I never thought I would come back to this place this way.
Memories bite their tail and keep coming back.
‘Come to think of it, the supervisors here were donating some items to an organization called the Guild. And the thing that the union sells is…’
“…It was a grinder that warlocks use to grind corpses.”
“half. What are you talking about?”
Hina looked back at him with a puzzled expression.
Lennox opened his mouth to explain what he had just realized, then just shook his head.
I knew that the relationship between Craig and Falchion was longer than I thought, but it doesn’t mean much now.
The important thing right now is to find the main base of Falchion in the street where this workhouse is located and quickly attack it.
“It is nothing. The distance is slowly approaching, what are you planning to do?”
“Falchion’s stronghold is located in the deepest part of the workhouse. Can you see it?”
Lenok raised his head at Hina’s words and looked up at the sky.
The sky that encompasses the huge workhouse. A pitch-black curtain that looked like a dark cloud was sitting on the son-in-law and descending darkly.
“From the moment we started approaching, it started to emerge and its shape became clearer.”
“………”
“The ‘Crow’s Curtain’, a barrier technique used by black magicians… It is famous for its iron fortress, which freely allows intrusion from outside, but never allows escape from within.”
It wasn’t hard for Lennox to understand the meaning of the words.
“It’s us who have to go inside anyway. Did you think there was no reason to hide it from the moment you found out the location of the headquarters?”
“It is very likely. There are two ways. Either finish everything before the curtain closes or come out…”
“Just blow off the head of the warlock named Craig.”
Cheisha interrupted, blowing bubblegum.
On both sides of the bike she rode, huge cartridges the size of a human body hung on both sides, giving it a rather unusual appearance.
It looked like a design that wouldn’t be strange even if you drove it once in a narrow alley and received a barrage of bullets.
A huge black curtain that covers an entire area.
I don’t know what that figure means, like a huge curtain that covers the sky, but what I have to do doesn’t change.
“Of course, it would be better to give a light greeting before entering. Slowly, the other side will also notice our approach.”
“Hello?”
“Are you asking because you don’t know Mr.
The answer came not from Hina, but from Cheisha, who was driving a huge monster bike several times her size right next to her.
Clap!!
With those words, the cartridge on the side of her bike burst open, and mechanical equipment emitting bright red waves came out.
I fully released the handle of the Cheisha bike and grabbed it with both hands.
Lennok’s expression frowned for a moment at the sight of her grabbing the bike running with only the strength of her thighs.
When the mechanical equipment in her hand unfolded and turned into a giant bazooka over 2m in length,
Lennok had no choice but to open his mouth slightly.
“Artillery exists for moments like this.”
Fighting!!
Grabbing a missile fired from the wheel of the bike in the air, she pushes the heavy iron mass into the muzzle and corrects her posture.
At the same time, the enormous red magic power generated from her whole body wrapped around the bag and turned into a heavy wave.
Weeeeeeeeing!!!
She aimed her muzzle at the sky and pulled the trigger.
Aaaaaaang!!
A flash of light soared across the cloudy sky, scattering red waves.
All the freelancers who were running after the heavy roar that seemed to rip the air raised their heads in unison.
[What are you aiming for?]
Chen’s voice came through the earphones through the roar of the bike.
It must have been difficult to guess Cheisha’s intentions after seeing the vague advance shot without an accurate target.
However, Lennok had some idea of her intentions after seeing the flow of her magical power right before she pulled the trigger.
That’s probably because Lennok, too, has been using assistive shooting magic for a considerable amount of time, and he has some sympathy.
“Is it a wide-area machine…?”
“what?”
Cheisha, who understood Lennok’s muttering at once, turned her head.
The eyes that could be seen through the inflated bubblegum were wide open.
“how did you know?”
[What are you talking about…]
Before Chen finished his words, the dark clouded sky opened wide.
Dozens of red flashes poured down from between the shattered curtains.
Doo doo doo doo!!!
A loud noise, like machine gun fire.
The endless rain of shells hits the center of the labor field where allies are heading towards their goal.
Explosions, including dust, exploded here and there, turning the streets into a mess in an instant.
In the midst of this, I couldn’t even care about the freelancers who rode their bikes and entered the inside of the workhouse upside down.
Whose hands did the bombardment from beyond the sky come from?
And the other freelancers who finally understood why she had done this all of a sudden looked at her in horror.
[Crazy. Is this the skill of an enforcement agent?]
[To think that such precise concentrated fire is possible while riding a bike…!!]
Just like the candid admiration of the freelancers, Lennok also saw the flow of mana being chopped into small pieces in Cheisha’s hands. I saw it and guessed it, but I was also surprised.
Is it different from other freelancers?
Cheisha, who ignored the admiring gaze, put the bazooka bigger than her body into the bike cartridge again.
As if this kind of thing is nothing.
“Then let’s go.”
There was no answer.
Boaaaang!!
Dozens of bikes are shooting into the shabby streets of the workhouse all at once.
There was no one to stop them in the black smoke billowing streets.
