11th Floor: Deputy Director

– Bang!!

Rebecca flies and crashes straight into the wall.

Without a moment to check on her, I fling myself to the side.

– Whoosh~~!

A strong gust of wind pressure brushes past my face, violently scattering my hair.

I raise my head and look back,

“You…”

“Haaahm… How did you undo that necklace? The system says it’s normal?”

The Deputy Director is coming down from the upper floor in his pajamas, yawning, showing no sign of tension whatsoever. His face is more annoyed than angry or curious.

“Well, we can figure that out slowly after we catch you.”

He casually extends his hand into the air.

– Woooong!!

I can see something like the air rippling very slightly, but it’s too faint.

‘Damn it, I can’t see a thing!!’

Telekinetic abilities are usually divided into two types.

One is a power like telekinesis, which moves objects completely in the air.

In this case, the power is weak, so it’s usually used more for intelligent plays or combat support than for direct attacks.

And the other is the invisible hand.

It looks like telekinesis, but in reality, an invisible hand exerts physical force directly.

In the case of this invisible hand, the actual physical force is very strong when the levels are the same. Of course, there is physical force, but it is invisible, and you cannot attack the hand. It feels similar to compressed air.

And from my experience of directly feeling his telekinesis, the Deputy Director is the second type, the invisible hand type.

– Whoosh!!

I dodge his telekinetic fist once again, and

– Thwack!!!

I get hit by another fist and go flying. I fly far and only stop after hitting the barricade in the hallway.

“Cough….”

‘Damn it…’

The size of his telekinetic fist is about the size of a human torso.

Judging from the fact that he lifted a man while holding my torso in the morning and twisted his legs, he uses at least four invisible telekinetic fists.

Even so, the power of each fist is stronger than mine.

“You’re a bunch of troublemakers. One is resisting, the other is escaping. As a reward for bothering me, I’ll personally execute you myself.”

He crosses his arms and approaches leisurely.

“Kugh… Don’t act so high and mighty…”

I run out again.

To increase my chances of winning even a little, I need to close the distance.

– Whoosh!! Hoong!!

Not seeing and dodging, but the realm of prediction.

Looking at the data from just now and the movement of his eyes, I dodge to the side as if grazing past and continue running.

But,

– Pow!! Pow pow!!!

“Oh, you’re quite tough, aren’t you?”

I get caught by his telekinetic fist in the middle and get hit forward, then get hit by the fist recovering from behind, and then get hit by the fist coming forward again and go flying.

– Bang!!

He didn’t move even one step, and I’m the only one who’s become a wreck, crashing into the barricade I hit earlier again.

‘Feels like I got hit by a car…’

The muscles all over my body are trembling from the impact.

If my defense stat wasn’t high, my bones would have already broken, or my insides would have burst.

I run out again with my aching body.

“Hoo? You’re still coming at me?”

– Whoosh! Hoong!!

‘The same one-two pattern.’

Followed by a straight-on uppercut.

At the exact timing, I bend my waist back and bend my knees to dodge. I jump high again with the recoil of my knees to avoid the following attack.

– Thud!

His fourth fist hits the bare floor.

‘I broke through four. Is that all?’

But for some reason, that guy’s expression looks very relaxed.

“Is that all…? I guess you didn’t have any hidden abilities after all.”

“What…?”

– Thwack!!

My head turns to the side.

I lose my balance.

I try to regain my posture before falling, but another hand powerfully strikes my abdomen.

“Cough!!”

My flying body is caught by the recovering hand.

Both arms, both legs, torso, head.

In an instant, everything is caught.

“At this point, it’s okay to summarily execute you, death row inmate.”

– Creeeeak….

“Kaaaaaagh…!!”

He grabs my limbs and starts pulling.

Drawing and quartering.

If this goes on, I’ll be drawn and quartered to death.

“I’ll kill you slowly! Hehehehe…”

His mouth hangs on my ear.

He’s enjoying watching me suffer with a sinister psychopath-like expression.

“You crazy bastard… You’re going down too!”

“What?”

“Rebeccaaaa!! Now’s the time!!!”

Rebecca regained consciousness a while ago.

She was lying collapsed between me and the Deputy Director, deliberately staying still.

Waiting for this moment, her red eyes burning with revenge.

– Whoosh…. Boom!!!

The flames that Rebecca had been secretly gathering explode.

They spread instantly along the hallway to both sides.

“Damn it, you crazy bitch!!”

The Deputy Director urgently retracts his hands. If my prediction is correct, the flames will engulf his body before all these hands are damaged…

But,

The hand he had hidden until the very end pushes back the flames. And the remaining hands, which were quickly retracted, block the flames very stably.

‘Damn it…’

The flames engulf not only the Deputy Director but also me.

But I don’t back down here.

 

 

Rather, I run out through the flames.

I go into the fire, my clothes burn, and my body is scorched.

“Kugh…”

Still, I run out.

The last chance.

“Hahaha!! You thought I’d be defeated by such a shabby ability…”

Vision obscured by fire.

I run out through the flames through that gap.

“Dieeee!!!”

“Where do you think you’re going!!”

Hot air and burned ashes scatter in the narrow hallway.

And the heterogeneous white space in between.

His hand is closing in, but now I can see it.

Not the faint rippling of the air, but the complete outline of his telekinetic hand.

– Whoosh!!

I dodge the one-two that comes out again out of habit.

I jump to avoid the fist flying low straight ahead, stick my feet to the ceiling, and run.

In the past, the secret technique of the Mecarto family, Spatial Footwork, which I learned to close the distance to a target attacking from a distance in a narrow space.

Since it’s not a skill entered in the status window, I can’t fully implement it using divine power, but since I know the principle and technique, I can implement it similarly, even if only briefly.

As the fist flies to the ceiling, I dodge to the side and run along the side of the wall.

It’s the same as having four ground surfaces for me now.

“You little rat!!!”

He’s flustered to see me going back and forth between the ceiling and the wall, and sends all the remaining hands, but—

With the hands already visible in my field of vision, he couldn’t stop me.

Moving along the wall with movements like acrobatics, I avoid the large hands.

And,

I finally arrived in front of him.

“You think you can win if you get close!!”

He throws a fist at high speed. His superpowers are two: telekinesis and body enhancement.

If I didn’t know, I might have been hit by his surprise punch, but I already know.

I lower my body naturally like flowing water, dodge the fist, and strongly strike the vital point in his side.

– Pow!!

“Ugh!”

The sound of air bursting is heard, and he reflexively covers his body and bends his upper body.

I grab his head coming down and slam it up with my knee.

– Crack!!!

It’s hot.

The flames flickering behind me flicker as if to burn us all.

Bearing the pain of my body burning, I move my feet.

I knee his head once more and go behind him as he falls back, grabbing his neck and twisting it.

“Keeeugh!!!”

The Deputy Director resists and tries to control his telekinesis, but

– Snap!!

I was faster.

His neck breaks, and his body collapses powerlessly to the ground.

– Thud…

The muscles in my body, the burned skin, are screaming.

“Haa… It’s over…”

It’s okay.

I’m almost there.

I’ve caught the final boss, so all that’s left is to get out.

“Rebecca!! Can’t you put out the fire?”

“Cough!! Can’t… put it out…”

I could put out the fire and leave, but if I wait for it to go out, the guards we locked up will put out the fire first and run over.

A hallway without any cover like this is a great place to get shot and die. The outside is the same.

The problem isn’t just the power of this prison.

Perhaps a request for support has been sent to a nearby military unit or something because of the incident that happened in this prison. Would a superpower prison not have that kind of insurance?

From the moment I killed the guard, a time attack has begun.

“I have no choice…”

I put my hand in my pocket, hold the authentication key tightly so it doesn’t fall out, and run back into the flames.

– Sizzle…

“Kugh…”

I endure the feeling of the soles of my feet burning and make my way through the flames. In the distance, I can see Rebecca sitting down in the flames.

I approached her, but her condition seems worse than I thought.

“Rebecca? Can you get up?”

“……”

“Hoo…”

I can see it in her expression.

Anger, regret, and despair.

I can feel various emotions.

“I… I can’t move my legs. Escape is impossible… You go. I’ll hold them back here…”

Rebecca, who really has no ability other than spewing flames well.

To be hit once by a telekinetic hand and become paralyzed in her lower body like this…

Her…

Without abandoning her, I pick her up in a princess carry.

“What are you doing… It’s going to be hard to escape even if you abandon me…”

‘I wonder what I’m doing.’

I was told never to get immersed in the characters in the Tower, but I couldn’t help it.

No, it’s already too late.

When I heard the story that she had been betrayed by a friend she had trusted for five years, I was already immersed.

‘Yeah, I might still need her.’

Even if she’s paralyzed in her lower body, it doesn’t seem to be insufficient to use her superpowers, so you never know.

I carry her and cross the flames.

Holding the authentication key in one hand, I run through the flames with my wounded and burned body.

My whole body is stinging.

My clothes have already burned and I’m almost naked.

I unlock the barricade with the authentication key and move my legs without rest.

Just a little further.

If I go past the main gate of the main building and pass through the empty parking lot, there is the prison gate.

If I take care of the guards in the towers on both sides and open the thick iron gate with their authentication keys, I can get out.

– Clang.

I leave the last door of the main building.

Bright light shines on us and obscures our vision.

– Rat-tat-tat-tat!!!

At the same time as the door opens, a merciless barrage of bullets pours down on us, whose vision is obscured.

– Thud thud, thud!

“Kugh…”

“Gasp!”

I reflexively pull my body back and use the iron door as cover, but

I am injured in my left arm and shoulder, and

Rebecca has a hole in her stomach.

“Cough…!”

She coughs up blood, coughing up blood mixed with blood.

“Damn it, you bastards!!!”

I hide her behind the door for a moment and run out.

There are about 10 enemies. The personnel working outside and the personnel remaining inside the main building must have joined forces.

“He’s out again!! Fire immediately!!”

They are making a temporary barricade with three vehicles in front of the main gate and shooting.

– Rat-tat-tat-tat!!!

I quickly go outside, avoid the bullets, and use a nearby pillar as cover.

Because my defense is high, my body is not pierced by a single rifle bullet, but my skin is torn, I bleed, and my body stiffens from the physical force of the bullets. I shouldn’t get hit if I can help it.

“He’s hiding behind the pillar. Throw a grenade!”

‘You stupid bastards…’

– Thunk…

As soon as the grenade touches my feet, I grab the grenade and throw it at them.

The flying grenade goes straight behind their cover.

“Huh?”

“Aaaagh, get out of the way!!”

– Kaboom!!

I run out in the gap where they are lying on the floor.

– Tu-da-da-da-dang!!!

A few people who were beyond the blast radius of the grenade try to shoot again, but it’s not easy to hit a person running at high speed without a proper fire net.

Even more so because I go near them and use my comrades as shields, so they can’t shoot properly.

“You bitch!!”

A man running at me with a riot stick.

‘Ah, this bastard…’

The guy who sold me to the computer.

The man who humiliated me while I was trapped in the ventilation shaft.

– Squish!!

I swing my fist strongly and completely blow his head off.

“Aaaagh!! What is that…”

“He’s a body enhancement ability user!! Just shoot him!!”

Having witnessed a person’s head explode, the guards start firing indiscriminately.

But I was already among them.

Though a bullet or two pierce my body, they end up shooting each other, killing more than half of themselves.

In that chaos, I get behind a guy nearby, take him hostage, and snatch his gun.

“Just shoot!! We’re all going to d…”

– Rat-tat-tat-tat!!

– Rat-tat-tat!!

Bullets crisscross.

My hostage gets riddled with bullets, and the rest of the guards fall to my gun.

Familiar faces.

The guy who bought me three free hamburgers.

The guy who handed me a strawberry cake and kindly explained the prison rules.

“……”

I don’t feel sad.

It’s just that they weren’t all bad guys.

We just happened to meet in the wrong way.

My vision turns red.

A bullet grazed my left eyebrow, tearing it and causing blood to flow.

“Hoo…”

And as I head towards Rebecca…

“Surrender.”

A guard is holding Rebecca hostage at the door, pointing a gun at her head.

Rebecca, looking half-dead, is quietly held captive, unable to resist.

“Ah…”

A voice that makes my womb tremble as soon as I hear it.

The guard who searched my body.

He’s holding Rebecca hostage.