He's in Marvel, working behind the scenes.

“However, I cannot tolerate my family’s every move being monitored.” Gokudera Hayato raised his left index finger, pointing at Barton, and said, “If you want to know anything, just send someone to ask. It’s not a big deal. To be honest, there are some things we’re also clueless about, and we plan to ask some important figures in this world for information. You’re backed by this country, right? Send a representative over, and we’ll have a good talk!”

"This world?"

Barton paid no attention to what Gokudera Hayato mentioned, but instead noticed a key word in his words.

Upon hearing this, Gokudera Hayato also became irritated. "They've said so much, and we're still completely confused. Do we want to talk or not? Don't test my patience!"

Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Unending Rage

"talk!"

Patton readily agreed.

There's no need to even consider this; even if it might be a trap, it's a choice we must try.

"very good!"

A satisfied smile appeared on Gokudera Hayato's face. He raised his right hand, and the skull spear fixed to his right arm burst into red flames. "Then, let's continue our battle, Crimson Arrow!"

"Ok?"

Barton paused for a moment, then rolled to the side.

"boom!"

A crimson beam of light streaked past him, leaving a fist-sized hole in the wall behind him.

"What do you mean?"

Patton stood up quickly and shouted, "You're the one who called for negotiations, and you're the one who called for war. What exactly do you want?"

Is that so hard to understand?

Gokudera Hayato ran his left hand through his hair, laughing arrogantly, "Negotiation is negotiation, and fighting is fighting. The two are not mutually exclusive."

"How come there's no conflict?"

Barton stared in astonishment at Gokudera Hayato.

Hayato Gokudera, disappointed by Barton's reaction, sighed deeply, "You seem to be nothing more than a simple thug."

""

Patton frowned and remained silent.

Seeing this, Gokudera Hayato sighed again, "Although we don't want unnecessary conflict, we also understand the principle that weakness is the original sin. If we didn't have a power that you feared, it wouldn't be just you secretly monitoring us now, but the main force would have wiped us out!"

Hayato Gokudera didn't say it directly, but Barton understood what he meant.

He wasn't trying to be aggressive; rather, he was flexing his muscles on behalf of the forces behind him to establish a future working relationship between the two sides.

"I understand!"

Barton closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then opened them, his eagle-like eyes fixed on Gokudera Hayato. "Don't blame me if you die."

"Me too!"

Hayato Gokudera broke into a smile.

Then, the two of them moved at the same time.

The entire sequence of actions—bending the bow, nocking the arrow, drawing the string, and releasing—is completed in one smooth motion, taking less than a second.

Patton demonstrated to the enemy what a sharpshooter truly is.

But Gokudera Hayato is faster.

He simply raised his right arm, aimed the skull gun fixed to his forearm, and fired.

Crimson Arrows and Explosive Arrows were fired one after another, intersecting in the air and flying toward their respective targets.

boom!

boom!

Explosions rang out one after another, but neither of them was injured.

Barton veered off course the moment the crimson arrow flew; while Gokudera Hayato used a weapon made of black bones, resembling a scope, to block it.

Seeing this, Barton's heart sank.

The scope has six lenses, which can block attacks from any direction without blind spots.

In other words, his most effective attack methods were ineffective.

"It seems you don't have any defensive measures!"

Compared to Patton's heavy burden, Gokudera Hayato felt much more relaxed.

He laughed wildly, and the five rings on his right hand burst into flames of five different colors. He then pressed them against the interface of the box attached to his belt.

The flame is like a key; once inserted into the box, it opens it.

And from that box, which was even smaller than a ping-pong ball, came large ammunition, about the length of an adult's middle finger.

Hayato Gokudera skillfully used the weapon, then inserted it into the back of the Skull Gun and fired without hesitation.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang!!!!!!"

Six muffled thuds followed, and six small missiles, trailing plumes of flame, flew toward Patton in a hexagonal diamond shape.

Barton's pupils contracted sharply, and he turned and ran away without hesitation.

He remained remarkably calm, observing the obstacles ahead while listening to the whistling sound behind him. Then, the instant the missile struck, he changed direction, narrowly avoiding the explosion.

However, although he avoided the explosion and was not injured, he was still hit hard by the blast wave and crashed into the wall. His internal organs were impacted and he felt very uncomfortable.

However, even so, he forced himself to stand up immediately despite the pain.

Because, in the instant he turned to run away, he saw Gokudera Hayato open another box the moment he finished firing the missile, from which machine gun ammunition belts were ejected.

With his skill in dodging missiles, the enemy could easily link up the missile belts and launch them. If he didn't move away quickly, he would most likely be riddled with bullets.

Sure enough, no sooner had Patton left than an endless hail of bullets tore the wall apart.

Patton ran quickly, dodging the bullets.

The enemy's machine guns are powerful enough to tear through brick walls, and it's difficult to find any cover to defend in this unfinished building.

Fortunately, the unfinished building was large, providing him with ample space to wander around.

"Hey, are you just going to keep running away like this?"

Hayato Gokudera shouted as he kept firing while moving around on the red discs to keep up with the pursuit, with six scopes hovering around him to guard against hidden attacks.

Patton ignored him, focused only on escaping.

The two chased each other upstairs.

This floor doesn't even have brick walls; the empty floor only has rows of cement pillars.

By the time Gokudera Hayato caught up, he had already lost track of Patton.

But he knew that he couldn't have run too far in such a short time, and the other party must be hiding behind some pillar.

"hehe"

Hayato Gokudera chuckled. "You're thinking I'll come in looking for you, and then take the opportunity to get close to me and engage in close combat, right?"

While it's hard to imagine what close-combat abilities a sharpshooter like you would have, there are indeed geniuses in this world who excel in all aspects.

Therefore, I will never give you a chance!

After saying that, Gokudera Hayato opened another box and a bomb popped out. He caught it, inserted it into the Skull Gun, and fired it randomly.

A crimson beam of light shot out, then split into a net-like structure resembling tree roots, covering half of the room.

"Boom boom boom"

The stone pillars broke, and the building trembled as if it were about to collapse.

Hayato Gokudera, unconcerned, opened another box, loaded it, and fired. The crimson arrow flew out, then, as if under control, changed direction in mid-air, bypassing the concrete pillar to attack from behind.

Hayato Gokudera maneuvered the Crimson Arrow around the stone pillars, launching a zigzag attack that swept across a patch of space once more.

Then he opened another box; he had sixteen boxes attached to his belt, each containing different weapons and equipment.

Besides the moving disc, the six defensive scopes, and the free-attacking panther, there are also eight ammunition magazines, each made according to the different attributes of the Death Flame and having different effects.

Hayato Gokudera is the Guardian of Storm, possessing the most destructive Storm Flame, which has a destructive property. However, he also possesses five attributes that can be combined to unleash attacks with different properties.

He unleashed a barrage of projectiles, including split attacks with cloud-attribute proliferation effects, armor-piercing attacks with rain-attribute calming effects, and various projectiles with lightning-attribute hardening effects, without pause, like an endless, turbulent storm!

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Victory and Defeat

"Boom boom boom..."

Hayato Gokudera stood at the top of the stairs and launched a barrage of attacks into the building, with various missiles, beams, and projectiles flying everywhere.

In an instant, cannon fire roared, smoke filled the air, and endless shockwaves, carrying rolling flames, swept across the entire floor, causing the whole building to tremble.

Won!

Gokudera Hayato mentally brought this battle to a close.

Under such firepower, without corresponding defensive measures, hiding anywhere is useless.

But at that moment, Patton suddenly appeared from behind... or more accurately, from the upper level of the back staircase.

In the previous battle, Barton had already witnessed Gokudera Hayato's fighting style and firepower, so when he took refuge on this floor, he thought of the possibility of the enemy bombarding the area with firepower from the outside.

Therefore, after taking cover behind a concrete pillar, he immediately climbed to the next floor through a pre-existing pipe hole in the building. While Gokudera Hayato focused on bombing the floor, he came down the stairs and launched an attack from behind.

Drawing the bow and nocking the arrow...

Patton, like a ghost, silently fired three arrows.

Six scopes were still floating around Gokudera Hayato, but the space at the top of the stairs was too small, so the six scopes could not be distributed properly, leaving many gaps.

Patton was targeting these very gaps.