NIKKE, When the Milky Way Blossoms

suddenly!

One of the soldiers seemed to remember his identity and was frantically trying to raise his gun when he suddenly heard a slight cracking sound of bones beside him.

Click!

That was a crisp sound of bones breaking.

Lauter, who had been thrashing about like a drowning man, suddenly stopped. His struggling hands and feet immediately fell limply to the ground, and he looked like a dead dog hanging upside down.

"You! How dare you..."

Before the corporal who had just raised his gun could say anything, he saw a dark revolver already pointed at his face.

"Put the gun down since you didn't take the safety off."

The murderer sounded relaxed, and his eerie green eyes showed no sign of the tension one would expect after committing murder. For a moment, the corporal's gun barrel actually slid down slightly from his heart.

He will shoot.

The soldier's survival instincts made him realize that if he released the safety on his gun, the madman would shoot him instantly.

Boom!

With a muffled thud, Lauter's body fell to the ground.

To be precise, Lauter is not dead yet. The key cause of death was asphyxiation from a broken neck. Therefore, as long as the brain can be oxygenated in time, even a broken cervical spine can save his life.

But...

boom! ! !

The muzzle of the large-caliber revolver burst into dazzling flames.

In the distance, Marens and his recruits stood like two wooden chickens by a gun emplacement, watching helplessly as Laut on the ground had half his head blown off.

Crimson to black blood gushed from the mangled skull, flowing freely on the ground and seeping into the hearts of every soldier present.

kill……

Killed someone?

The first recruit to react swallowed hard. His eyes, though filled with fear, also held a subtle, almost imperceptible, admiration.

Then, he grinned, and the anger that had been building up for months surged towards Tianling, and he roared with all his might.

"Reporting, sir!!!"

Those who were skimming profits have been killed!

Please mount the horse yourself!!!

The young man's voice was loud and energetic. He roared so loudly that Marens turned pale and, the instant Phoenix turned his head, he dropped his rifle and raised his hands in surrender.

"Damn it."

The man, who expected a fight to break out, first hurled a curse, but then, feeling it wasn't enough, he added viciously:

"A bunch of Frenchmen."

Chapter 114 You're Here Again

Lauter's fate was like a tinderbox in winter, which Phoenix, who was looking for no excuse to cause trouble, seized the opportunity to throw into the fire.

Hunting down a Tyrant-class Rachel suspected to be an individual Rachel, rescuing two non-mass-produced Niki, discovering Niki's cybernetic body storage room, and killing over a hundred low-level Rachels, with no casualties among the entire unit.

All things considered, Phoenix's achievements on a single trip out of town surpassed the combined achievements of two or three graduating classes of military academy students.

Only in this way can

It was too dazzling, and too dangerous.

If he were to display a heroic spirit of lofty ambitions, a thirst for talent, idealism, and a plan to launch a counterattack on the ground, given the Ark's upper-level bureaucratic group, which is practically rotten to the core...

This kid is so arrogant, he's practically asking for it!

therefore,

Phoenix needs to find a reason to defend these losers and also to improve his own image.

He won't be the superhuman hero who leads the Ark in a counterattack.

He was just a madman who was very good at fighting in every sense of the word and was also very lecherous.

That's it.

……

……

"He is back."

"He killed a military sergeant who had been blackmailing him as soon as he got off the elevator."

After hearing the report from his subordinates, Anderson rubbed his nose with a headache, then helplessly threw the stack of promotion recommendation forms he had just signed into the shredder.

On the large screen in the command center, Ingrid's speechless expression was displayed.

"He's just a second lieutenant. Isn't it a bit too early for him to throw mud at himself like this? I have no idea what he's thinking."

“Ingrid, this isn’t the most troublesome thing right now.” The deputy commander, unusually, didn’t touch his cuffs. Instead, he rested his elbows on the table, closed his eyes in distress, and interlaced his fingers to support his chin.

"The central government has always been dissatisfied with the military's insatiable attitude, and the command staff has long harbored resentment towards the military's occasional extortion.

In order to maintain its own dominance, the military will inevitably target Phoenix. The problem is that his military achievements are undeniable. Not only will the intelligence department and command protect him, but those political parties that dislike the military can also use his military achievements as an excuse to protect him.

Even the reformists and hawks within the military would secretly lend him a hand.

Ingrid, this matter is only going to escalate and has already exceeded our control.

By the way, as the CEO of Gokuraku Jodo, the military is your company's largest purchaser. If the central government plans to use this as an excuse to reduce the military's spending, what will you do?

"..."

Faced with Anderson's question, the woman's face darkened.

Just as the deputy commander was more aware of the conflict between the military and the central government, she, as the CEO of Gokuraku Jodo, naturally understood better than Anderson how dependent Gokuraku Jodo was on the military.

Compared to the military's equipment upgrades every three to five years, the daily weapon expenses for the more than 10,000 Nikkis in the Ark are just a small extra.

She is merely the CEO of Gokuraku Jodo, the Chief Executive Officer of Gokuraku Jodo, whose positions are equal to those of the Chairman and the Chief Financial Officer.

When the revenue of Pure Land Park was about to shrink significantly in a predictable way, the first person to object was not even the board of directors, but the chief financial officer.

The Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss will side with the military.

In the blink of an eye, Ingrid made an accurate judgment.

"This matter is too complicated, I need to plan it out carefully. If you have nothing else to say, I'll hang up now."

"Ah."

Looking at the now-off projection screen, Anderson finally remembered to touch his cuff. After a moment, the vice commander sighed softly and muttered to himself.

"We need to think of a way to persuade the intelligence department that this guy can't be let out of the house so easily anymore."

……

……

"You, you've come again."

Inside the rehabilitation center, prison guard Worth, with a stiff smile, politely ushered a veteran inmate into the center.

They even fawned over each other by serving each other a cup of Perpetual tea.

"Thank you, this will be troubling you for a few more days."

As a seasoned veteran of the reformatory, having just committed murder, Phoenix didn't stand on ceremony. He plopped down on the sofa in the waiting room, took the black tea from Worth, and said:

Do you have iced carbonated drinks?

"Yes, yes, yes, I'll get it for you right away." The prison guard, far from being angry, happily agreed.

What flavor would you like?

"Lemon."

"I'll get it for you, just a moment, just a moment."

Watching Worth's retreating figure, the man, completely unaware of his own problem, sighed sincerely from the bottom of his heart:

"The people here are so nice; it feels like coming home."

"Do you want to stay here indefinitely?"

"?"

The voice was aloof and unapproachable, with no intonation. Phoenix turned around in surprise, following the sound, and saw D standing silently staring at him from the doorway of the staff lounge in the waiting room.

Unexpectedly running into an acquaintance here, the murderer looked surprised and, putting himself in the other's shoes, quickly asked:

"How come you got arrested too?"