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Pamela tried to hide her vigilance toward Akira as she exasperatedly looked at him, and completely ignored his question.

“I did not expect you to be still alive. To think that you’ve pretty much killed everyone.. It was the right decision to evacuate Milady first. Though, I didn’t expect it to end up like this and confirm it with my own eyes. After all that, it seems that you’re close to your limit already. So, what are you planning to do next? If you change your mind here and let us have the card, I don’t mind withdrawing now, you know?”

Akira also completely ignored what Pamela said.

“You still refuse, huh.. You’re really stubborn.”

After that, a short silence waded in. Akira was only standing there in silence in order to have as much time to recover as possible. He had no idea why his opponent had not started the fight yet. However, if he could buy more time, he was happy to oblige.

Pamela also only stood there in silence. She was buying more time for Carol to get away as far as possible from them. With the rest of Chloe’s men in the area essentially dead, it confirmed that Akira was way stronger than she had predicted. It hadn’t been long since Chloe evacuated. Akira might defeat her too and chase after Chloe. Thus, Pamela wanted to buy time so that Chloe could get away as far as possible from this place. So, for now, she was allowing Akira to recover.

It was Pamela who was the one to decide when she had enough.

“It seems that you will not change your mind no matter what. In that case, I will need you dead. Milady has ordered us to kill you, so we will accomplish that without fail. It would be bad to keep Milady waiting for the after-report, after all.”

Akira, who wanted to have a bit more time to recover, finally opened his mouth.

“Didn’t you say that you’ll leave if I give you the card? Was it a lie because of your master’s order?”

“No, that was out of my own volition. And, I did not lie, you know? If you say that you are willing to give it to us, we will leave. It is indeed regrettable that everyone failed in their mission. Though, that only means they are allowing me to inherit this opportunity to make up for their failure.”

“What do you mean?”

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“This is what I mean.”

Pamela smiled and said.

“Wake up.”

With that order, Chloe’s men started to rise. No matter whether they were still alive or not, all of them rose up. Even those who lost their arms or even their head. So long as they had their legs, they stood up. Seeing that, even Akira could not hide his surprise.

“Everyone here is so earnest, aren’t they? I’m really proud of them.”

Chloe’s men were equipped so that they could fight to their very last. Whether it was through a remotely controllable powered suit or control device. They were made such that someone else could control their body even when they lost consciousness.

These people had given the control rights of their bodies to their superiors. Of course, it was for the best if they could control their own body, but in case they could no longer do so, their superiors would be able to control them. Be it too fatigued to move till outright death, their bodies would still be utilized.

Since Pamela was the superior of the maids, she normally would only be able to control the maids, but since Latis lent his rights to her, she could currently control the butlers as well. Therefore, there were quite a lot of bodies she was controlling.

Akira had no wish to kill any of them when they fought. In the first place, Akira’s main objective was to render them unable to fight. Killing them was his second priority. After all, he did not have the leeway to go around and finished off those who were already gravely injured. Nor did he have the chance to destroy all of their limbs to make sure that they would not be able to move.

“To be honest, I might not be able to win against you if I fight you alone. I don’t believe I am strong enough to take you on. But this is fine, everyone is here to help me.”

Although she had the privilege to freely control others’ bodies, it was normally a difficult feat to pull off. Such skill needed comprehensive training, after all.

But Pamela was able to control multiple bodies. It was exactly because of this that she was assigned as Chloe’s right hand.

“Well then, you can die now.”

The headless bodies readied their rifles. But they suddenly stopped. That was because their controller, Pamela, was confused by Akira’s reaction.

Akira was smiling mockingly.

Akira had no idea why the corpses started moving again, but that did not matter to him.

“..Even that guy had his head blown off and returned back alive. When I judged him to no longer pose a threat to me, he survived. I see, so you would go that far to kill me, huh? To move again even after I killed you. I see, fine, fine then. I get it. I guess dying is no longer enough, huh?”

Akira’s smile vanished. What was left, was only the dark emotion that filled his face.

“I’ll tear you to pieces.”

With that sentence, Akira started to make his move. Pamela also immediately responded accordingly.

Akira’s dark emotion fuelled his already exhausted body, to the point he was able to fight just like before. He did not even notice that Alpha was nowhere to be found ever since the fight had started.