"Over there!"

"There he is!"

Several people were rushing through the tree-covered mountains.

Moving on is him and the girl in the white coat.

From time to time, the two men in pursuit turn around and climb the slopes of their scaffolding desperately.

This is followed by just over a dozen men.

With a non-lethal weapon in his hand, he was about to capture two fleeing men.

"I can't climb my legs anymore..."

"Move your legs even if you can't!"

He blasts the girl who makes a weak noise.

It was also worth setting fire to the noise, and he and the girl succeeded in escaping from the building where they had been captured, through the gap of confusion as they aimed.

But they managed to get out of the building, but their movements quickly became known to the opponent, and in less than half a day they were discovered by a chaser.

How long has it been since I started running away from my chaser?

A specially trained man didn't know, and he and the girl were close to their limit of health as they fled.

Aaah!

It is only natural that fatigue affects the movement of the feet.

The girl slipped her leg.

Reflectively, they try to grab a branch that extends from a nearby tree, but their hands cut through the sky with little reach.

There's nothing around to support the girl's body.

If you slip down like this, you won't be able to avoid being caught by men chasing you from below.

You realized that instantly, and there was a sad expression on the girl's face.

But at the next moment, the girl's hand, stretched out into space, suddenly gained support.

"Ah...."

His hand held the girl's wrist firmly.

He managed to pull the girl up as he grabbed the other arm to a nearby tree.

"Eh...?"

Don't stop! Move your legs!

Ignoring the confused girl, he raises his voice.

With his shoulders up and down and his breath down, he nevertheless began to climb the slope again, pulling the girl's hand hard.

I can't afford to be with him that much.

It was not the case that I was using useless words now.

But a shadow leaps out before them, blocking their way.

"Wait!"

"Shit!"

A man wearing a white coat stops to stop him and the girl from going anywhere.

Even though he's unarmed, he's a much better adult man than he is.

If you're surprised, you're not going to be able to fight from the front right away.

He flickers his eyes to a chaser approaching from behind.

There's still enough distance.

But if you hold your hand here, you'll be caught up in no time.

In that case, there will be many defenceless people.

He can't fight alone.

It was only for a moment that I checked the back.

But the man standing in front of him jumped into the gap.

"Be quiet!"

"Who the hell!"

He is inevitably subdued by a man.

The man used his weight as a shackle while pressing his head against the ground with one hand.

His body was too different and his resistant hand couldn't even reach the man's face.

In the meantime, the chaser coming from behind is approaching.

There was little time left.

When he searches for a fist-sized stone from outside his sight by hand, he throws it as hard as he can towards the man's face.

Oops!

The movement seemed to have been seen by a man and avoided even from close range.

But thanks to that, the man's waist floats a little, and his body regains slight freedom.

"Even this!"

He banged the other fist into the man's crotch as he cried out with his heart.

Grind!

Men agony with meaningless screams.

He squeezed all his strength out of the man's restraint at that moment and kicked down a nearby rock and hit it.

A man is pushed by the momentum of the rock and slips down the slope.

"Let's go!"

Once he takes the girl's hand again, he moves his legs to escape the chaser.

If there are rocks or fallen trees that you can move from time to time, kick and roll them towards your chaser, earning you as little time as possible.

I suppose it was worth escaping desperately.

By nightfall he and the girl had finally succeeded in spreading the chase.

It is dangerous to walk in the mountains at night.

In addition, fatigue had accumulated so that it could not be ignored.

When they find a small cave in the corner where the trees are dense and their sights are blocked, they finally take a breath.

No warm beds, no lights.

It's a cave that only prevents the cold wind that soothes the mountains.

Still, it would have been better than being blown by the wind at night.

There was a slight distance between the two men who sat down in the cave.

Even though we have acted together for a day, it is not impossible beyond the fact that we do not know each other's identity.

In a cave where no fire could be found by a chaser, I relied only on my own body temperature.

Even though it was cold, it would have been fortunate for both of us that it wasn't as cold as snow.

A girl who was silent with her body wrapped in fatigue breaks the silence.

"Hey...."

"What is it?"

While showing a little hesitation, the girl answered the question.

"... why did you... help me?"

"What do you mean?"

"You helped me slip my leg earlier, didn't you?He said he'd leave without mercy..... "

He said when he took the girl out of the building.

I'm sorry, but I can't afford to help you.I'll leave you there mercilessly. "

But it was his literally stretched hand that helped the girl who was about to fall out of reality.

Without even thinking about it, it would be more likely that he would run away if he abandoned the girl on his feet and hands and became alone.

In that situation, the pursuer definitely gave priority to the girl's captivity.

In that gap, he made a distance and might have managed to escape as it was.

"... I just got my hands on it.I didn't do it for a reason. "

He answered with a grumpy face.

I don't know why he did such a thing himself.

As a result, he was safe, but perhaps he wasted his time by helping the girl, and both of them could have been caught in the chase.

In that sense, it can be said that the behavior was puzzling to him.

"I don't think you'll be able to help me again."

"Yeah... I know."

What is between the two is neither bond nor companionship.

It is merely a companion with the same purpose.

Naturally, there was no effort to lick each other's wounds, and there was no time for conversation with a smile to wipe away anxiety.

There is awkward silence lying between two people who only speak the minimum necessary words.

"... but thank you for saving me."

The words of gratitude that the girl spoke were very small voices, but clearly reached in his ears in a quiet cave with nothing to block them.

And because he felt uncomfortable, he stood up silently and began to walk slowly towards the outside of the cave.

"Ah...."

A worried voice comes out of the girl's mouth.

I'll be right back.

He left the cave early enough not to know why he said such a word.

Sigh a little further from the cave and close your eyelids standing.

Cold winds shake the leaves of the trees.

A nocturnal bird squeal filled the midnight sound.

A quiet world of darkness.

I hear a small footstep in his ear as he closes his eyes and leans into it.

"... a chaser?"

When he snaps in his mouth, he approaches the sound carefully.

As he walked through the shadows of the trees surrounded by the sound of the leaves, a chasing shadow appeared in his sight as he breathed.

"Alone?"

The shadow of a chaser is walking slowly without tension.

I don't feel like I've come to arrest him knowing where he and the girl are.

But the problem is in that direction.

It was clear that if we continued straight ahead, we would eventually reach the cave where the girl was.

"Oh, no."

He climbs up to a tree near the leaves and hides himself.

Eventually, you'll see the chaser over time.

"Earlier..."

A man who managed to defeat the girl while he was being assembled.That was who the shadow was.

The distance between him shrinks, and the man walks to the tree where he hides.

"Damn, I'm the only one who has to search in the middle of the night.I was the one who was unconscious and let them escape... but if I told you that, you wouldn't catch up with them. "

Dammit, the malicious language reveals the man's troubled situation.

Apparently, he was blamed for his daytime troubles and punitively told to search at night.

"Can you go up that hill?I'm on my own anyway, and you won't know if you rush your time around here appropriately. "

A man tries to pass under him while saying so.

But I can't let him go like this.

He made an instant decision.

Remove the small knife from the jacket pocket and hold it in your opposite hand.

The moment the man walked barely under the tree and his nose became defenseless, he jumped out of the tree without a sound.

A sharp blade tip added to the rate of fall is sucked into the back of the man's neck.

Ugh!

A man moans in unexpected pain.

Subsequently, the metal made a dry sound.

The thin blade of the knife could not withstand the impact and broke.

"Gah... oh, front...!"

A man turns around and sees him.

It seems that the knife's lack of strength did not result in fatal wounds in a blow to the body.

Nevertheless, a man torn from neck to back is no longer able to move properly.

When he took another knife out of his pocket, he flashed the neck of the man he was trying to grab.This is definitely a fatal wound.

Blood sprays out from the man's neck.

Taking it from the front, he takes a step backwards without having to take any more risks.

He was a man who looked at him for a while and had a distressing expression on his face, but a lot of bleeding from the front and back of his neck wouldn't help.

Eventually, he slowly fell to the ground and stopped moving.