Themis, The Flower of Justice
Chapter 7 — Difficult decision (3)

“Delta-001, was that what you did?

The man looked at Nielson sharply. Although he asked her in a flat voice, the pressure from her speech and gaze made Nielson freeze.

“Ahahaha, what do you mean? I don't understand what you said—“

Before Nielson finished his sentence, he immediately turned 180° backwards and kicked the temple of one of the men who attacked him. Because Nielson's power was strong enough for the person, his kick was able to push both people at once. Nielson felt he could not waste time here so he would definitely take the opportunity to attack whenever there was a chance.

‘They are just a supervisor, so they shouldn't be so strong,’

After toppling the two men, Nielson immediately rushed towards Alice, but there were two large-bodied people blocking him. They looked trained and like they were focused only on fighting. Nielson fiddled with his watch once again. This time the clock did not remove the needle again, but took out a knife that was quite long and stuck to his arm.

Nielson darted swiftly towards them and thrust his weapon towards their stomachs. Nielson's first attack was a bit missed and only able to scratch the stomach of one of the men. But Nielson continued with a surprise attack he turned his stabbing attack into a slash to the side so he injured one of them deep enough.

The other large-bodied man was shocked due to the unexpected attack pattern from Nielson. Seeing the large man bewildered Nielson did not waste a chance, he immediately shot towards the opposite direction and jumped up. Nielson slashed at him quickly and forcefully but the big man still caught him. When the knife was caught Nielson immediately pulled his gun back into his watch.

The two men are shocked by Nielson's change of watch into a short-range weapon so they can't . If it was a long-range weapon, they could estimate it because they saw the attack earlier, so they could dodge the attack well. Yet even though they could not estimate Nielson's weapons they could still fight well and only receive minimal injuries.

But a minimal injury to Nielson is enough, because that is the goal. Nielson counted in his heart and suddenly they both looked like they were suffocating and convulsing, then they fell to the ground instantly. Nielson smiled seeing the two big men fall to the ground simultaneously.

‘Stupid, you should be on the lookout if I use poison the moment I throw the needle. But you guys just focus on my movements and ignore if there's any chance of my weapon in the poison. Even if you are a ‘Beta’ devoted to combat though you will not be able to withstand the poison with this lethal dose,’

Nielson immediately shot up and continued the goal of going to Alice's place. Alice who was mobbed by horrible people just huddled in fear on the floor. Seeing an attacking opportunity, Nielson turned his clock back into a needle-firing mode. He looked for a massage and jumped very high on them. While spinning, Nielson aimed and shot them in an inverted position while he was in the air. Those who were shocked by Nielson being suddenly on top of them were unable to avoid the needle fired by Nielson so 80% of them died in one jump Nielson.

The rest of them froze when almost all of their comrades were killed, Nielson continued his attack and fired needles at the remaining people as well. They did not move and looked like a target for Nielson.

“Nona Alice! You okay?”

“T-mister Nielson? Is that you?”

Alice, who had been cowering in fear, was relieved when she saw Nielson. He went and hugged Nielson.

“Huhuhu, Mr Nielson!”

“Already, don't waste time here. To waste time here is to waste our lives. So let's hurry up!”

Nielson brushed off Alice's embrace, telling her to get ready and hurry to leave. Nielson immediately pulled Alice's arm and went rushing outside the room.

While in the hallway heading out of court, Nielson faced several people at once, and was able to handle it quickly without wasting ammunition. Because Nielson felt they weren't strong enough to make him use his inventory.

Nielson, who was running to get out of the court, suddenly changed his direction and headed to the front of the sink in a hallway. Nielson knocked on the tap several times and suddenly a hologram scanner scanned Nielson.

When the scanner finished scanning for Nielson, the scanner confirmed Nielson's identity and suddenly an iron door opened automatically. Alice who was surprised to see the secret passage could not help her sense of amazement. But a rough pull from Nielson pulls him back to reality.

Nielson rushed into the secret passageway with Alice. When they entered in a moment the hallway immediately closed quickly. Inside the room Nielson pulled something out of his pocket in his suit. He took out two pendants and handed one to Alice.

“T-lord Nielson, what is this?”

Receiving the pendant gift from Nielson, Alice's face became blushed. He thought that this was a statement of his feelings when his life wanted to end.

“Appearance modifier tools, wear only. Even the scanner tool won't be able to scan you,”

“A-appearance modifier tool? Isn't this thing precious? I've never even seen it anywhere!”

“Just use it, with it then you will be safe. Go down this aisle. At the end of this hallway is an exit leading to a ditch in the harbor. We'll meet there,”

“What?! Did I go alone? Aren't you coming with me,”

“I must draw their attention, if I come with you then they will trace our escape route and we both will not be able to survive. But if we both split up, then the chances of us surviving will increase,”

Hearing Nielson's farewell, Alice felt unwilling. He knew that Nielson's words were correct and the best decision at the moment, but thinking about Nielson having to buy time for him to escape made his heart hurt because he would be in danger.

“Alright, make sure you meet me there,”

Alice's expression darkened, she was very worried about Nielson. Although they had only spoken for the first time, yet having already experienced a life and death situation with them became close.

“Sure, I'll meet you there,”

“Can you promise me?”

“..... I promise,”

Hearing Nielson's promise, Alice rushed down the aisle as she knew they were running out of time. He trusted Nielson because he had been saved by him once, so surely Nielson would do it again this time.

However, Nielson was silent for a moment when told to promise by Alice, because he did not know if he could keep his promise to be safe this time. He felt that it was very difficult to survive in this situation, even though he had already predicted it and made a plan, but the success percentage of this plan was very low.

Nielson shook his head and patted both sides of his face to reassure himself. Since he had to focus in order to survive this situation, even if he did not survive at least the Alice that I helped his life survived, then he would not regret having sacrificed his life.

‘At least Alice will be safe, because there is Zeta-003 waiting for her,'

Nielson pressed a button and the closed secret door opened again and took him to the spot. Nielson walked outside and saw the 2 people he had killed lying on the ground.

Nielson dragged one of the bodies and unbuttoned the corpse. He scratched the bag in his suit and pulled out a pendant exactly like the one he gave Alice. Nielson banged the pendant against the wall until it broke, then he removed the shards and revealed the shape in the pendant containing a microchip. Nielson took the microchip and stuck it in the body of the corpse and then covered his clothes again. He pressed a button on the remote and the appearance of the corpse suddenly changed to look like Alice.

‘Good with this second stage of the plan finish’

Nielson then lifted and carried the corpse with Alice's appearance on his back. He made it seem as if Alice on his back was dead and made the enemy focus his attention on Nielson. He ran and continued his journey to the outside door. As far as the journey Nielson did not encounter a single enemy again, but at the entrance he came across a man in formal clothes and disheveled hair waiting for himself at the entrance with 4 men behind him.

‘He must be someone executor, I must be careful,'

Seeing the man standing in front of him Nielson instantly recognized his identity. He is the executor, whose duty is to execute if there is someone who betrays among the humans of their creation. In addition to the executor there is a supervisor, unlike the executor, they are only in charge of supervising someone from Project Alphabet and will report it if there are suspicious signs.

Both units are units created specifically for Project Alphabet. Because if the human results of Project Alphabet betray it will be very dangerous for the organization. They are all exceptional individuals with different abilities in each alphabet.

‘The four people behind it... They must be Betas with a high enough rank, they felt different from the one before. However, what worries me the most is—‘

Nielson glanced at the formally dressed man with the disheveled hair. He felt that the ability in his fight must be quite high, plus he was an executor in charge of executing, surely he had advanced equipment capable of supporting him in killing an Alphabet.

“Ah so you're the traitor? You're a Delta, aren't you?”

The man asked her but Nielson kept quiet and did not respond.

“Don't answer? Ck, whereas only a Delta does not know how to fight but they did send me and some high-level Beta. They're really too careful,”

The man humbled Nielson while burning his cigarette. But hearing himself humbled Nielson did not feel annoyed, instead he felt it was an advantage because the opponent would be more careless in dealing with it so that it increased the chances of victory.

“The four of you take care of him, I think it's too much for all of us in the face of one nerd,”

The four big men came forward because of his orders. Nielson focused his gaze, because the one he was fighting was a high-level Beta, of course he had to deal with it with everything he had.

‘It is a good thing if he really underestimates me, but just in case I have to keep my cards as good as possible. Because he could have just pretended to be condescending and sent them to me to analyze my abilities,'

To increase the chances of victory, Nielson launched his 180° twisting kick as the first strike to a large man standing in front of him. But the man simply swung his hand and lightly brushed it away like the attack was nothing to him.

Because his attack was unsuccessful, Nielson tried to launch a new attack. He took a few steps back from the man and put some distance. Looking at Nielson who put up the distance, the big man now put up the horses.

Nielson took a breath and exhaled through his mouth. He immediately shot towards the big man and this time he tried to kick to the side from in front of the man. But instead of fending him off he took a step forward and launched a punch when Nielson was about to kick.

‘Caught,'

Nielson quickly landed his kicking leg and made it into a pedestal. Nielson then dodged the man's blow by moving to the side then he darted and cut the distance. Then Nielson launched a very powerful blow to the heart. But the man did not even flinch when he received an attack from Nielson, as if it were just a trivial attack from an insect.

Looking at his opponent who had deliberately received his attack Nielson smiled and instantly kept his distance. Then he darted towards the second and third person very quickly, he had to defeat the two of them as quickly as possible before the poison placed on the man worked and they became wary of him.

Shortly before Nielson's punch hit the man, Nielson slipped a small needle on the end of the punch so that when his hand hit the man's body firmly the needle would be stuck to him even though his body was very hard.

‘I have to reduce their number as much as possible before they become wary of me!’

When Nielson suddenly attacked the second big man, the big man was shocked to discover that Nielson would face him even when he was dealing with his partner.

The big man took a stance to face Nielson. Unlike the other one, this big man even immediately shot up to launch an attack on Nielson. The man raised his fist strong yet light. Nielson was quite difficult when avoiding the fist because despite having strong strength, the fist was lightly and quickly cast, and again the pattern of boxing attacks is difficult to read, making it difficult for Nielson to analyze the next attack.

Nielson closely watched his opponent, from his posture, breathing, to the look in their eyes so that he could avoid all of the attacks. He did not even once take his eyes off all his enemies, his senses were still wary of the entire surroundings as he knew that they were all meddling in his fight as it saw his comrades being defeated one by one.

When Nielson got used to his attack pattern, the big-bodied man changed his attack form into a super-fast attack by reducing the force on his punch. The punch drifted rapidly towards Nielson. He who was used to his enemy's attacks, Nielson became unable to respond well to the rapid attacks that led to him.

‘Cih, impossible to avoid. Then..’

Nielson decided to accept the attack. Although the power used was reduced to increase the speed of the punch, the power of the punch was still very large for Nielson to deal with given how much power his opponent had.

Nielson made use of his opponent's punch that landed on his face to shorten their distance. Nielson in an instant took out a knife attached to his hand and slashed at the large-bodied man. The man was unable to dodge his attack due to the short distance and the fast and unpredictable tempo of Nielson's attack. The attack managed to hit the man quite severely so that the resulting wound was quite deep.

Not wasting a chance, Nielson climbed up and made the big-bodied man in front of him as a foothold and jumped into the air while spinning. He aimed at all his enemies and shot each of the two needles at each enemy. Both men were hit by Nielson's needle attack, but the executor managed to avoid his attack as if he could see the trajectory of the very small needle attack.

“Wah~, what was that? Are you trying to attack me?”

“....”

Nielson did not respond to questions posed by the formally dressed man with disheveled hair or the executor.

‘Those needle attacks are not impossible to avoid. Although the needle is slowed in the air because of the long distance and allows to see the trajectory of the attack, the, but the extremely small needle and the unexpected attack directed at him should be more than enough to hit him,'

Nielson gritted his teeth. He felt that the executor was very dangerous, and since his surprise attack had failed he would be more wary of Nielson if there were another surprise attack.

“Wah-wah~, I did not expect that taking care of a Delta would be this difficult. I know that you're number one in your alphabet, but even you're not an Alpha who's good at everything. How can you be this strong?”

The executioner man issued a very wide and creepy grin. The look on his face described him as having regained his pleasure after a long time.

The two of them looked at each other for a while. The exchange of views for a few moments seemed to convey a message to them. They had to fight with all their abilities and finish off the opponent in front of him.

“Let's have fun, boy!”

“Who is a boy? I'm older than you, you shrimp brain!”

The two of them were blurting at each other and darting forward simultaneously. They both launched attacks together. Their first attack collides. From each other's blows, they realized that they would lose when they didn't mean it in fighting each other.

Feeling wary of his opponent, Nielson immediately launched a punch attack quickly and blindly. Nielson did not want to give his opponent an attacking chance and had to put an end to this as quickly as possible knowing that his opponent was extremely dangerous.

“Wah-wah, from the beginning already launched a quick attack yes,”

The executioner said it in a mocking tone. He was able to dodge Nielson's quick attacks easily, as if he could see all of them, and his body was able to adjust to his vision.

‘Cih, this will be very difficult. I still have one needle, because of the previous all-out needle attack I think he thought that I had run out of ammo. I have to use this last needle at the right time!’

Nielson sighed in his heart. He was tired of all the fighting that happened today, before running out of energy Nielson had to end it immediately.

The executioner caught one of Nielson's attacks and pulled Nielson's arm. Then he launched a counterattack by hitting the heart of Nielson hard. Nielson who was unable to respond from the attack with such a close range received a crushing blow at his vital point.

“Ughh,”

Nielson groaned, but he did not relax his position. Instead, he instead made use of his opponent's attack by tightly grasping his enemy's hand and hitting back the upper part of his heart hard. They were both hit hard to their vital point. But the executioner was more benefited because Nielson is in a state of physical and mental fatigue after undergoing it all.

The two of them continued on with each other launching quick attacks. Their attacks were so fast that they were difficult to follow even the eyes. They exchanged attacks, they attacked, dodged and fended off. They continued to hit and kick each other until the executioner man realized there was something strange with the flow of the fight and also Nielson.

‘This Delta Man.... She's mimicking me?’