The Frustrated Sabretooth

"You’re overthinking it…"

Kyle’s tone was cold, carrying a trace of mockery. Sabretooth’s face darkened on the spot, and the veins on his forehead bulged one after another as his already volatile temper flared.

His voice was low and chilling. "Once I kill Logan, I’ll use my claws to rip open your stomach, pull out all your intestines, and hang them from this rooftop to bleed dry."

With that, Sabretooth’s fierce gaze returned to Logan on the ground. He let out a low growl and pounced, intending to deal with his enemy first.

Kyle watched coldly. His severe injuries were not enough to stop Sabretooth, but he had called for help in advance—

Just as Sabretooth leaped forward and his claws were about to strike Logan’s throat, a massive beastly shadow descended from the sky on a gale. Its wings, broad enough to blot out the sun, beat down powerfully and sent Sabretooth flying back through the air!

Sabretooth, as large as a brown bear, had yet to realize what had happened when he was swatted off the rooftop of the third floor, tumbling down past the parapet.

"Trying to snatch food from my mouth? I don’t care whether you’re Sabretooth or a polar bear. Stay out of my way." Kyle sneered as he looked at the Blue Eagle circling several meters above the rooftop.

The Blue Eagle bobbed its head toward him, as though it too was worried about his safety.

"I’m fine," Kyle said weakly. Then his expression shifted slightly as the faint sound of claws climbing the wall came from below.

The third floor was less than ten meters high. It was indeed unlikely to injure Sabretooth, whose physique was slightly tougher than Logan’s Lone Wolf Gene-enhanced body.

"Quick, take him away first!" Kyle waved his left hand and decisively gave the nearby Blue Eagle an order.

"Chirp—"

The Blue Eagle gave a soft cry and obediently swooped down, grabbing the heavily injured and immobile Logan from the ground in its talons.

Just as it was about to take Kyle as well, Sabretooth climbed back up the wall at the side of the building. With a growl, he lunged at the low-flying Blue Eagle with his claws.

"Chirp!" The Blue Eagle cried out in pain. More than a dozen bloodstained blue feathers drifted from its body as it furiously beat its wings and shot upward, carrying Logan swiftly away from the rooftop.

"Damn it!" Sabretooth’s eyes widened as he angrily cursed at the Blue Eagle vanishing into the distant sky. Then, as if realizing something, he looked toward Kyle, who remained in the middle of the rooftop. In a hoarse voice, he said, "That giant bird listens to your orders? Call it back and hand Logan over to me. I might consider sparing you!"

Kyle smiled faintly. Beneath his battered, grievously wounded body, the floor was already covered in a pool of blood flowing from him. His life force was steadily fading, yet he still slowly gave Sabretooth the same three words: "You’re overthinking it."

He had always been the one taking the initiative when negotiating terms with others. Being threatened was something he had hardly experienced!

"Hahaha! Interesting. So you stayed behind to sacrifice yourself?!" Sabretooth laughed instead of getting angry. The claws extending from his left hand pressed against the rooftop wall, effortlessly tearing through brick and dust and leaving behind five smooth claw marks.

"I heard about you back in Germany. Kyle of the United States—the military’s God of Slaughter and demon. You were one of the German military’s top targets during the war."

As Sabretooth spoke, his eyes turned faintly red with savage, brutal ferocity. Staring at Kyle, he said coldly, "I wonder whether a War Hero like you will also let out weak cries like a woman when facing death."

"Sorry, but you really are overthinking it." Kyle said listlessly, his face utterly calm without a trace of panic.

Unhurriedly, he spread open his right hand. Resting quietly in his palm, wrapped in Vibranium Metal, was a green bean.

No matter how one looked at it, it was merely an ordinary green bean. Yet it brimmed with verdant vitality, and one could vaguely sense the vigorous life force and mysterious magic contained within.

This was one of the life-saving trump cards within the Card Space.

Kyle glanced at the green bean with slight regret, then turned his right hand over and sent it into his mouth, which was still bleeding.

"Hm? Poison? Or some kind of stimulant?!" Sabretooth’s broad, rugged face froze at the sight. His beast-like instincts immediately flooded him with a bad premonition.

Whatever that bean was, he could not allow Kyle to eat it!

Sabretooth made his judgment and instantly burst forward, charging at Kyle like a tiger hunting prey, his claws drawn back for a powerful strike.

"Crunch, crunch—"

Kyle paid it no heed and bit through the bean in his mouth, swallowing it together with the blood that carried a metallic tang. Watching the claws draw ever closer, he seemed to be waiting for something.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Inside Kyle’s heavily wounded and weakened body, his failing, fragile heart suddenly began to pound with strength. A mysterious power surged through his entire body like a spring in an instant.

The next moment, recovery far surpassing natural healing took effect. In the blink of an eye, the claw wounds deep enough to expose bone and the injuries to his internal organs were all completely healed.

It could revive the dead and regrow flesh on bone. Even someone severely injured and on the brink of death could be restored to peak condition with a single bean—such was the miraculous effect of the rare Blue Item Card, the Senzu Bean!

"My strength is back!" Kyle’s eyes widened, and brilliance returned to his azure eyes.

Watching Sabretooth’s lunge close in before him, he swiftly raised his clenched right fist and met the attack head-on without backing down.

Bang!

The right fist clad in a Vibranium Bracer collided with tiger-like claws!

Sabretooth was completely dumbfounded. He had never expected Kyle, who had seemed grievously injured and near death moments ago, to recover completely in an instant—and return to peak condition at that.

Even worse, his strongest claw strike had struck the Vibranium bracer. Caught off guard, all its force was completely dispersed.

"Get lost!" Kyle sneered. Without giving him a chance, he swiftly raised his left leg and drove his knee hard into Sabretooth’s abdomen, sending him flying again like a giant ball.

Sabretooth smashed through the rooftop wall and, in utter frustration, tumbled off the third-floor rooftop once more, kicking up clouds of dust.

When he growled and climbed back to his feet, looking upward, he saw Kyle standing tall atop the parapet on one side of the rooftop, coldly looking down at him.

"Are you sure you want to keep fighting me?" Kyle mocked from above.

Sabretooth clenched both fists. His pent-up rage turned his face livid, but he did not utter a single word. He simply turned around and quickly left.

He considered himself only slightly stronger than Logan, yet even Logan had been defeated by Kyle. After repeatedly weighing their respective strengths, he realized his chances of winning were practically zero.

More importantly, Kyle was simply too strange and mysterious—first a giant bird, then a mysterious bean, then special equipment. Even his physical constitution was not much weaker than Sabretooth’s.

"No wonder even the German army couldn’t do anything to this freak. Logan, I’ll take your life another day." Sabretooth gritted his teeth and soon vanished into the streets of the city.