I teach judo in Tokyo.

Sosuke waved his hand to indicate that he didn't mind.

"What are you doing heading to the outskirts so late, Sousuke-kun?" Mature asked with a smile.

"It's nothing," Sosuke said calmly with a slight smile. "A good friend who lives in the suburbs is about to leave for another city, and he asked me to come and see him off tonight."

“Oh~” Mature smiled, “So you’re going to see someone off. It’s late at night, and it’s not safe to be out in the middle of nowhere. Sosuke-kun, be careful not to get hurt, like—being bitten by a snake or something.”

"If I were to get hurt, I would feel heartbroken and regretful."

"That's natural..."

Atobe Sousuke raised an eyebrow. The other party was deliberately saying such things, clearly revealing his identity. He wondered why.

However, since she was still using this indirect tone, Sosuke was happy to continue playing along.

After all, he was now facing two powerful individuals who were over level 40, and even among the "Absolute" level, they were among the strongest.

Even with the system's support and a similar level of protective skills, he was confident that he could easily defeat opponents of a higher level by leveraging the increased physical strength from "liberation."

But that doesn't mean he should recklessly take on two top experts alone.

Moreover, these two mysterious women have a bunch of question marks on their panels; who knows what terrifying trump cards they might be hiding?

It's best if we can live in peace!

So he put on a silly grin and said, "Thank you for reminding me, Sister Mai Zhuo. I will definitely pay attention."

At this moment, the driver, who had already filled up the tank, returned. He first looked at Mature and Vice with amazement for several times before saying to Sosuke, "Sir, the tank is ready. Shall we... depart now?"

Sosuke nodded, then smiled and said to the two beauties, "Sisters, I have to go now. Let's talk again next time?"

Mai Zhu smiled charmingly and nodded, making a phone call gesture towards him: "I'll ask you out shopping another day. Weiss and I will be staying in Tokyo for a while longer."

"No problem, you can call me anytime if you need anything, I'll be there whenever you call."

Sosuke opened the door and got into the taxi with a smile.

Then, as the taxi started moving, he rolled down the window and waved goodbye to the two beautiful women.

Mature waved to Sosuke, then chuckled and climbed onto Vice's motorcycle, which was already running: "I must say, this handsome young man is quite interesting."

Weiss didn't understand her meaning, but simply said, "You brought up things like 'snake bite' with him, which has definitely aroused his suspicion..."

Mai Zhuo hugged Wei Si's slender waist tighter and said with a grin, "It's on purpose. Look at this kid's attitude. If things go smoothly, we might have a chance to cooperate in the future~"

Weiss paused, her expression somewhat surprised: "You think he's a good match?"

Then, she turned back and looked at Mature with some suspicion: "Don't tell me you want to recruit him into our 'familia'..."

Mai Zhu smiled: "An eighteen-year-old 'Peerless' level expert, wouldn't you be quite suitable to be our 'Familia'?"

As she spoke, she pinched Vice's waist, who seemed lost in thought: "Alright, stop thinking so much. We haven't even reclaimed our rightful 'power,' so developing a 'familia' is still a long way off. Let's gather our 'other companions' first."

"After all, only when all members of our clan gather can we possibly open the 'Gate' and recreate the 'Great Age' lost for ten thousand years."

"Mature, instead of saying so much, why don't you hurry up and find 'Teeth's' location? I doubt he's really in Japan."

Mature and Vice's voices gradually faded into the air as the motorcycle sped away.

......

On the other side, Sosuke arrived at the roadside about one kilometer away from the villa area a little over ten minutes later.

After getting out of the car, he walked straight into the wilderness by the roadside, and then, following the location, he quickly arrived at the meeting point he had agreed to meet with Subaru Akai.

Beneath a towering tree, Subaru Akai and Shin Kyogoku, the two aces of the Countermeasures Bureau, stood quietly.

"Hey, you're pretty quick." Akai Subaru greeted Sousuke with a smile as he saw him walking alone.

Then he immediately looked at his hands: "Tsk, you actually caught up with that runaway guy and killed him. The materials of these arm guards and this knife... good stuff."

Sosuke glanced at the spoils he had already equipped and asked curiously, "Do you recognize the materials of these two things?"

He noticed that although Kyogoku Shin didn't say anything, he seemed quite interested in the arm armor on Kyogoku's hands, clearly recognizing the equipment.

Subaru Akai nodded: "Of course. The cutting-edge equipment that the Serpent of the World uses black technology to mine special metals and make is said to cost even members of the organization a considerable amount of money to exchange for and use. The Countermeasures Bureau has seized some in the past, but unfortunately they were all requisitioned by the laboratory, and we didn't get any."

Seeing the longing looks on their faces, Sosuke smiled with satisfaction. He asked cheekily, "Huh? Is it that precious? I don't see any special functions."

"You look so cheap... I don't want to talk to you anymore."

Subaru Akai sighed, indicating that he didn't want to talk to Sousuke Toritobe.

Shin Kyogoku, standing beside Sousuke, stared intently at his arm armor, his eyes brimming with desire. He said, "The Serpent of the World calls this metal 'Orichalcos.' Its characteristic is that once forged using a special method, both weapons and armor become extremely lightweight while possessing almost indestructible properties, making it a veritable 'absolute rigid body.'"

Absolute rigid body?

Sosuke immediately understood the value of the spoils in his hands.

Although it can only be described as an absolutely rigid body.

But that's enough to explain the characteristics of these two things.

***

Chapter 257 Firefight (Bonus Chapter)

Although it can only be described as an absolutely rigid body...

But Sousuke immediately understood the value of the spoils in his hands.

After thinking for a moment, he handed over the arm guard on his right hand, amidst Kyogoku Shin's surprised and incredulous gaze.

Then, he said quite frankly, "Tonight's operation is dangerous. I'll lend you one. Remember to return it to me after the operation."

"And what about you?" Kyogoku Shin wanted to decline, but his hand instinctively and quickly took it.

Pshaw! Humans, your name is hypocrisy.

Sosuke smiled slightly, raised his left arm guard, and then drew the straight sword that was temporarily tied to his waist with his right hand.

"In a critical moment, I can use my left hand to block, and then my right hand is protected by the blade and handguard, so it's relatively safe."

Subaru Akai, standing nearby, watched with envy, but knowing that the two of them would be going to the front lines for hand-to-hand combat, he didn't say much.

Instead, he gritted his teeth and reminded them, "Alright, the Countermeasures Bureau's combat team is almost here. You should set off."

"Shall we set off? What about you?" Sosuke glanced at him.

Subaru Akai pointed to the top of the big tree next to him, then patted the sniper rifle on his back.

"I'm here to support you."

"Understood..."

Sousuke expressed great envy for the safety of the marksmen in the back row.

Subaru Akai took out a pair of high-tech-looking sports glasses and handed them to Sousuke.

"What are these glasses?"

Sosuke took the glasses and tried them on.

"The AR glasses specially supplied by the Countermeasures Bureau, also known as augmented reality glasses, are considered a semi-cutting-edge technology. They have communication, night vision, video recording, and map positioning functions, and can last for half an hour at full power after being turned on."

While explaining the process, Subaru Akai taught Sousuke, who was already wearing glasses, how to use them.

Sosuke tried it out and found the extremely simple and user-friendly operation method to be quite convenient. He couldn't help but give Akai Subaru a thumbs up: "Great stuff. Only now do I feel that your Countermeasures Bureau is somewhat decent."

The three of them quickly came up with a battle plan.

It's actually quite simple. Sosuke and Shin Kyogoku, two close-combat experts, infiltrated the villa complex beforehand and located Hisanobu Snake Fang.

They monitored the situation while remaining on standby.

Once all the countermeasures team's combat squads were in place and launched an attack to lure the minions away,

The two then joined forces to arrest Snake Fang Jiuxin and the other illegal superhumans who remained behind.

If capture is difficult, you can kill them directly.

In addition to the AR glasses, Sosuke also received a handgun.

“Although you haven’t trained, with your superhuman control over your body, your accuracy with a gun is naturally beyond question.” Akai Subaru gave Sousuke a simple lesson on the basics of using a gun.

Then, with a serious expression, he instructed him: "Although you will be required to write a report of more than a thousand words for every shot fired, if you encounter a dangerous situation, you should fire the gun."

He stared at Atobe Sousuke: "No matter how strong your flesh and blood body is, it can hardly withstand the kinetic energy of a firearm. You are a promising master, so don't die an inexplicable death from a bullet that is worth less than a bowl of rice. If that happens, I will laugh at you to death in front of your tombstone."

Sosuke strapped the pistol, which was slung over his shoulder, to his body.

Then, speechless, he spat at Akai Subaru: "Pah, don't talk to me like that, I'm leaving!"

After saying that, he nudged Kyogoku Shin with his elbow, who was still stroking his right arm armor.

So the two of them set off into the villa area under the cover of night.

......

Three minutes later, the two arrived at the outer wall of the villa area.

After exchanging a glance, they didn't speak, but they simultaneously turned on their AR glasses in perfect unison.

Suddenly, the previously pitch-black vision became much brighter, not quite like daytime, but more like wearing sunglasses during the day.

Most importantly, there is a simple and clear location map in the upper right corner of the field of view, with a small dot flashing to indicate the location of Atsushi Yokoi.

The locator was inserted by Sousuke himself, and he did so while Yokoi Atsushi was unconscious, directly into his wound.

Atsushi Yokoi's current location is very likely the same location as Hisanobu Snake Fang.

Sosuke and Shin Kyogoku nodded to each other and easily scaled the wall to enter the villa complex.

Although this community is located in a remote area and has a low occupancy rate, there are still a few houses where light shines through the curtains.

Security guards and property management personnel also patrol the area from time to time.

Of course, it's a pipe dream for ordinary people to discover Sousuke and Kyogoku Shin's infiltration.

The two moved at a very fast pace and found the target villa in less than a minute.

They were two villas very close together, each with curtains covering the windows, making it impossible to see inside.

However, in the thermal imaging display of Sosuke's AR glasses, there were people standing behind every window and door of the two detached villas.

Due to limited positioning accuracy, neither Sosuke nor Shin Kyogoku could determine which villa the real target was in.

"I can see what's happening in your glasses. Reinforcements will arrive in about two minutes. Don't panic, stay hidden. I'll give you the instructions, then you can attack together. When you hear me, make a '1' sign in front of your glasses."

Subaru Akai's voice came from the ear loops of his glasses.

Sousuke and Kyogoku Shin exchanged a glance, then simultaneously held up a finger in front of them.

Immediately afterwards, Sousuke stayed where he was and hid, while the experienced Shin Kyogoku left and went around to the back of the villa to hide.

......

Meanwhile, on the second floor of one of the villas, Snake Fang Jiuxin frowned, looking at the medical staff who were trying to save his disciple with a gloomy expression, and asked with slight impatience, "How is he? Can he survive?"

The instruments and blue ointment used by the medical staff to treat Atsushi Yokoi were highly similar to those Sousuke had seen during the brutal duel. He calmly nodded: "His life is not in danger, but the comminuted fractures in his ribs and limbs will require a long period of rest before they can be repaired with the organization's medical technology..."

Snake Fang Hisanobu's expression relaxed slightly upon hearing his words.

Although this disciple was utterly useless, he was still the disciple whose martial arts talent he had discovered and who had been taught by him since childhood, so there was still some affection between them.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have abused his power to send his subordinates, assigned by the organization, to the rescue.

Thinking of this, he remembered something and turned to look at his subordinate who had rescued his disciple: "By the way, you rescued him, but what about 'Ghost' and 'Destruction Fist'?"

The powerful man leaned back comfortably on the sofa, looking relaxed: "Before I left, I saw that the two of them had already put that kid in a desperate situation. I guess they've already killed him and are off having a good time, right?"

Snake Fang Jiuxin frowned: "Didn't you use the communicator to confirm with them?"

"I contacted them, but neither of them replied. I don't know what they're up to." The subordinate seemed indifferent.

He had personally witnessed his two partners nearly kill their opponent in just a few seconds, so there was nothing to worry about.

Snake Fang Jiuxin inexplicably thought of Mature and Vice, who were in such a hurry to leave that night.

A sense of foreboding flashed through my mind.

Just as he was frowning in thought, a sound suddenly came from outside the room.

"Damn it! The gatekeeper said the Countermeasures Bureau is here!"

"We've been exposed!"