Genius

Having put away his gun, Hyena had completely abandoned any desire to attack again.

The target was clearly still within sight, and he clearly held the high ground, yet he retreated along the planned route without the slightest hesitation.

Grabbing the zipline with one hand, he slid straight down the building with the gun case on his back.

There was no chance. Even with Killing Intent Concealment, the other side had directly helped the target evade him. He did not believe he could count on luck or a miracle.

Damn it, how had he run into something like this?

The plan had clearly been perfect. Using the advance notice provided by the Promotion Mission’s characteristics, he had spent the remaining time gathering limited intelligence.

Combined with the Mission Space’s information, he had continued organizing and collecting data after arriving in the mission world.

Only then had he identified the optimal target before him!

Feasibility, likelihood of success, personality, abilities, guards, interpersonal relationships, influence on the Mission Space, final settlement rewards—every factor had been considered before choosing this target.

After waiting so many days for the target to come to Japan and watching the target’s residence every day, he had finally seized the best opportunity today!

Wind whistled past his ears. After landing, Hyena rolled to disperse the impact, then fled along the designated route without slowing down in the slightest.

Tch.

Hopefully his identity would not be exposed, and he could still hang around Wings of Freedom. Otherwise, those arrogant bastards probably would not tolerate him…

Yet at that moment, the fastest woman among the pursuers had already arrived before him.

As they raised their hands, two pistols slid from their sleeves simultaneously and collided directly…

Gun Fu?

Fuck, how did the other side know it too?!

The same thought flashed through both their minds…

"The sealed memories and fabricated memories will become confused after death. That might cause me some trouble, so it’d be best if she doesn’t die."

Standing guard beside Euphemia, Xu Yue looked in the direction they had chased without paying it much mind.

Although he did not know what the Life Casket did, the memory scenes implanted by his Tsukuyomi far outnumbered the scenes of him destroying the Knightmare. Mixed together, they might raise some suspicions, but it should not matter much. At worst, if she revived, he could patch things up afterward.

Thus, Xu Yue did not pay much attention to that direction. He had not even considered keeping the assassin behind.

Anyone who had reached this point in their first Promotion Mission could not be an idiot. They would definitely have arranged an escape route, and finding them would be rather troublesome.

Better to strike while the iron was hot and raise Euphemia’s favorability.

She was an important figure who could absolutely change the plot significantly. Euphemia, with her somewhat innocent aspirations, would later propose a Japan Special Administrative Region plan, intending to restore the Japanese people’s original names and status within the special zone.

It sounded like an impractical fairy-tale plan proposed by an innocent young girl.

Yet it was precisely this plan that directly dismantled the foundations of the Black Knights in the later stages, rendering their slogan meaningless and dealing Lelouch a fatal blow.

She had even managed to persuade Lelouch to help her through her own charisma, combined with Lelouch’s Sister Complex. Unfortunately, Lelouch’s Geass later went out of control. He joked that Euphemia could make the Japanese kill one another, but Geass’s loss of control turned Euphemia bloodstained, into the executioner of a massacre…

However, the timing was not yet right to establish the Japan Special Administrative Region. Zero needed to make things even harder for the new Governor-General first.

The new Governor-General, Euphemia’s sister and Lelouch’s imperial sister Cornelia, was also a ruthless character. She had conquered the Middle Eastern colony known as Area 18 and could be said to have been sent here to put out the fires.

During her first clash with Lelouch as Zero, even though he possessed Geass, he was thoroughly beaten due to his useless teammates.

By the normal progression, even if Xu Yue influenced Euphemia and made her implement the plan early, she would not be able to gain her sister’s approval for quite some time.

A bunch of defeated clowns—were they worthy of making her compromise?

Just crush them head-on!

In the original plot, it was only after Lelouch’s Black Knights began winning battle after battle and gained massive civilian support that she was forced to compromise and agree to her sister Euphemia’s naive plan, one that could dismantle the Black Knights from their very foundations.

She needed to suffer a little in advance. Otherwise, he would lose quite a few evaluations and missions for nothing. The main body’s rate of progress would not follow his rhythm…

"Damn it! How could such a stupid woman be so strong?"

Hyena used a hemostatic spray produced by the Mission Space to control the wound on his arm, then continued fleeing.

He had completed three missions that earned B-Rank rewards. Each time, he had practically survived nine deaths, exhausted every scheme, and calculated everything.

Yet a woman who seemed to have no distinguishing features beyond being pretty possessed a combat skill centered around B-Rank rewards as well!

Of his three skills, one had gone into Killing Intent Concealment, one into Advanced Sniping Mastery, and only the last one into Gun Fu, the same skill she possessed.

Yet he had been completely unable to do anything to her. The other side had far too many little tools, and those two weapons were also quite concerning.

What use was being pretty? For 500 Reincarnation Points, he could hire several women in the Mission Space.

This was fucking ridiculous.

And those lackeys were difficult to deal with too. They clung to him tightly.

An elite squad from a large team? Their reputation was indeed well deserved!

But since all of them had come over here, then he could temporarily change the plan.

A plan meant designing a general framework, preparing multiple contingencies, then constantly responding, changing, and refining it according to developments!

Hyena immediately deviated from his original escape route and took a backup route around toward another direction. The mission to kill Reincarnators had already been completed, so he would not need to show himself again afterward. With no further worries, he could indeed take a gamble.

There should be one person left on the other side. That person was the one who had helped the target evade his sniper shot.

As a newcomer who had only just entered a Promotion Mission like him, that person only knew how to methodically grind minor missions. The total Plot Points they had earned definitely could not compare to his. Since they possessed such sharp perception, they had to be a scouting or sensory-type Reincarnator. Combat strength would absolutely be their weakness; they no longer had spare points to learn combat techniques.

All the advantages were back in his hands!

Sun Lin, likewise clutching the wound on her shoulder, which had been controlled with hemostatic spray and wrapped in bandages, looked at the corpse of one of her teammates on the ground with an equally ugly expression.

With the B-Rank Plot Points gifted by her brother, the core combat skill she had exchanged for, and powerful lethal tools like firearms, she had absolutely been able to run roughshod over ordinary newcomers. She had never encountered an opponent capable of matching her.

But this time, she had truly come close to capsizing.

Not only had the opponent been stronger than her, wounding her and shaking her off after their exchange, but he had even killed one teammate who had come to support her and injured another along the way.

Only by relying on the two teammates, one dead and one injured, to hold him back had she managed to wound him in return.

Yet he had still escaped.

In a Promotion Mission, as long as their squad was not too unlucky, every member should have been able to pass. They were an elite squad!

Yet a Knightmare had appeared right at the start, forcing them to flee in disgrace.

They could accept the first setback, since the other side had brought out a terrifying weapon like a Knightmare and they had not lost any members.

But this time, not only had the B-Rank mission in their grasp slipped away, they had suffered one death and two injuries counting herself!

If word got out, what would people say about her? Even her brother would be mocked because of it!

"B-Boss, are we still chasing?"

Wu Mo hastily treated his gunshot wound, removed the bullet, and used specialized bandages. His voice carried a trace of fear.

If one of his abilities had not been Basic Bullet-Resistant Skin, then although that shot had not struck a vital point, the tearing bullet designed specifically for the human body would still have been enough to kill him.

The guy beside him, whose eyes remained open in death, had died that way. The two of them had just appeared to provide support, yet before they even had time to react, he had been approached and killed in only a few moves.

He had even served as a human shield while being approached, blocking the boss’s attacks.

The opponent’s terrifying strength was simply incomprehensible!

How could they encounter such a powerful opponent in a newcomer Promotion Mission?

He was actually even stronger than their boss, who had the support of a future big shot!

Ding~ The Princess's Assassination achievement mission has ended. Reward: one B-Rank mission.

The capture had failed, and the mission prompt had arrived. Since the target was unharmed, there was at least some compensation…

Huh? One B-Rank mission?!!!

Everyone who received the prompt felt a wave of joy fall from the sky.

They could actually receive a B-Rank mission reward. Did protecting the character and injuring the assassin alone qualify for such a reward?

Or had that guy died from excessive blood loss after being injured by the boss?

Either way…

This was truly fantastic!

Two updates done. That’s it for today~

A tiny bone got stuck in my mouth while eating. I can’t get it out, so uncomfortable…