Perilous Escape

It was an extraordinarily spectacular and shocking scene. Ninja pursuers stood behind him, while thousands upon thousands of armed Japanese Army soldiers had formed a blockade ahead. Countless hostile eyes and gun barrels were all focused on one person.

"Well, this really isn’t looking good."

Kyle stood in the dojo courtyard with a wry smile. Muramasa and the Energy Pistol had already turned back into cards and returned to the Card Space. His hands hung weakly at his sides, as if he had given up any thought of resisting or escaping.

"Demon Kyle, you have nowhere left to run! Surrender peacefully!" An officer stood outside, within the sufficiently safe perimeter of the massive army, and shouted his persuasion.

The ninjas who had chased after him and stopped frowned, saying coldly, "Absolutely not! This demon’s methods are strange and unpredictable. Shoot him on the spot!"

"But…" The officer hesitated, making Kyle shrug helplessly as he said, "Please, do I really look like I’m at your mercy already?"

As he spoke, a Blue Item Card suddenly slid into his lowered palm, pinched between two fingers.

He still hadn’t used some of his trump cards. Stalling for these few seconds was only to wait for the chance to escape. Now, it should be almost time…

Kyle silently murmured to himself. Clouds and mist cast a vast shadow over the open ground where he stood. The armed soldiers around him seemed to notice something in horror, and some of them raised their heads toward the sky in a commotion.

"What’s that, a monster?"

"What a huge eagle—and it has blue feathers."

"It looks like it’s coming this way…"

The officer also looked up. When he saw the enormous Blue Eagle diving toward the dojo courtyard, he seemed to realize something and cried out, "Not good! Everyone, open fire!"

"Too late." Kyle lightly shook his head. A powerful tide of energy erupted beneath his feet, and an invisible force propelled his body upward like a rocket.

Aerial Sprint!

Boom—ratatatat!

The dense barrage came less than half a second too late, landing where he had just stood amid lingering white air currents and grinding chunks of stone and dirt into powder.

Screee!

The diving Blue Eagle arrived just in time at the courtyard’s low altitude. With perfect coordination, it caught Kyle at the peak of his ascent in its talons. Its enormous wings, spanning ten meters, beat fiercely, and several hastily fired rockets below were directly blown off course by the raging wind, exploding in the low air beside it.

The Blue Eagle let out a piercing cry as it burst from the blaze and smoke of the explosions. Its wings struck the air, accelerating and climbing higher as it carried Kyle toward the noonday sky.

"Where are the fighters? You have to intercept that monster!" The officer watched helplessly as the Blue Eagle was about to disappear into the distance and roared at the communications officer beside him.

Just then, a small black object fell from the Blue Eagle and struck the open ground before the dojo gates. It was a little black sphere with a green light, still rolling across the ground.

"What is that…" A group of armed soldiers ahead instinctively backed away. No matter how they looked at it, it resembled a grenade—but what country’s grenade fell from such a height for so long without exploding?

"A dud?" The officer stared at the round object ten meters away. Its green light flashed continuously like a countdown, soon turning red.

Then, there was no then.

Beep beep—

The round object exploded into something resembling a black hole, beginning to devour everything within it.

In the blink of an eye, it rapidly spun and expanded from the size of a fist into a gigantic sphere with a radius of fifty meters. Everything covered within it—ninjas, armed soldiers, buildings and streets, trees and rocks, even sound and light—was swallowed completely.

Only after sound and light returned to the area did the black hole gradually dissipate, allowing bright sunlight to shine down once more. In Tokyo’s Kanagawa district, centered on the original dojo building, the ground now held a massive smooth hemispherical crater.

At the Tokyo border, more than a thousand meters in the sky.

Held in the Blue Eagle’s talons, Kyle naturally had no idea what consequences the Alien Bomb had caused. He was a little delirious now, with more than half of his body numb and difficult to move.

Kyle barely opened his eyes, hoping to find a safe place. Instead, he saw the clouds behind the Blue Eagle tear apart as more than a dozen single-seat fighter jets roared toward them at full speed.

Will this never end…

Kyle no longer had the strength to complain. His mind was muddled, and his willpower and strength were slipping away—he wanted to sleep so badly.

The Blue Eagle cried out anxiously. Pursued relentlessly by more than a dozen fighter jets, it gripped Kyle and fled forward at supersonic speed.

Ten minutes later.

Kyle lost the sensation of powerful talons gripping his body, and the freezing wind blew upward from below.

He realized that he was in free fall.

What happened to the Blue Eagle?

Kyle squinted. Through the narrow gap in his eyelids, he could see fragments of the Blue Eagle flying into the distance, with fighter jets pursuing it.

His consciousness sank into sleep again. Losing control of his body, he fell stiffly toward the enormous snowy mountain below.

Kyle did not know how long he had slept before gradually regaining consciousness.

The first thing he saw upon waking was that he was inside a cave, surrounded by karst tunnels. Beside him was a natural hot spring steaming with heat.

"Venom, what happened?" Kyle murmured. He was still wearing the Venom Suit. To have fallen from high altitude and suddenly ended up here, it must have been Venom’s doing.

Venom proudly conveyed its thoughts to him. Before long, Kyle understood the current situation.

No wonder he was starving. It had already been three days since the last battle.

When he fell onto the snowy mountain, Venom had spread gliding wings to land, then controlled his body and brought him into this cave beneath the mountain to hide.

"Good thing I have you." Kyle let out a breath. After sleeping for three days, not only had the nerve-paralyzing poison worn off, but even the slash wound on his back had fully healed.

He took off the Venom Suit and retrieved all kinds of steaming, fresh food preserved as Item Cards from the Card Space. While quickly eating to replenish his strength, he stripped naked and jumped into the hot spring beside him.

"Comfortable." Kyle sighed. The temperature of the hot spring was just right, greatly easing the tension in his mind from the battle.

Right, this place was comfortable and safe.

As if remembering something, Kyle pulled a rare blue Creature Card from the Card Space. With a physical summon, an enormous oval egg fell into the hot spring with a plop.

Unhatched Monster Egg

Current Status: In the current environment, time remaining until hatching: thirty-three years, nine months, and seven days.

Kyle: "…"

You sure can sleep, Egg Bro! In over thirty years, I’ll probably already have a son.

Kyle shook his head. After filling his stomach and washing himself, he put on his underwear and the Venom Suit, returning to his peak condition.

Following Venom’s mental guidance, he prepared to leave the cave by the original route. But after only a few steps, he abruptly noticed faint footsteps coming from a naturally formed tunnel beside him.

There was actually someone here.

Kyle reacted quickly. Camouflaged in black, he pressed himself against the wall. As the footsteps drew closer, a strange Japanese man wearing a gas mask and a white lab coat came into view.

The Japanese Army arc was a transition and turning point. It would probably end in another two or three chapters. I’ll post earlier tomorrow so everyone can finish reading it. Don’t worry.

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