ge in such a dangerous situation.

He was all alone inside the snake’s body. He no longer had the support that allowed him, an untrained slum boy with minimum equipment, to win against a fully armed veteran Hunter. He no longer had the miracle that allowed him, a Rank 21 Hunter, to be worth more than 100,000,000 Aurum.

Akira started hearing banging sounds, it seemed that the snake had started crushing his vehicle from its sides. He no longer had the driving support that would help him get out of that dangerous situation. As the strange liquid dripped onto his augmented suit, it made a sizzling sound. It was the liquid produced by monsters to digest vehicles and mechanical monsters. It was only a matter of time before it melted his augmented suit too. In case if his augmented suit’s control device got melted, the augmented suit would start moving on its own and that would spell doom for Akira.

He understood the reason why he was inside the overgrown snake’s body right now. It was not because Alpha made a mistake, it was simply because of his bad luck. To be more precise, it happened because Alpha’s support could not win against his bad luck.

Akira had spent his lifetime-worth of his luck when he met Alpha and he had been relying on Alpha’s support to overcome his bad luck up until now. But to be honest, somewhere inside his mind, he knew that one day he would not be able to rely on that. He always thought when that happened i.e when he lost Alpha’s support, that would be the moment he died. And now he was facing that very moment.

In the midst of that dangerous situation, Akira compressed his time perception as much as possible. It had been just a few seconds since the snake swallowed him. Because he could not see anything inside that total darkness, there was nothing that could help him gauge just how slow his time perception was right now. He did not notice that everything around him was already running in an extremely slow time.

Inside that pitch-black world, Akira laughed.

“So my resolve to charge straight to this snake is not enough, huh! Alright alright! I get it! Steeling my resolve is my responsibility, yeah?!!”

Akira screamed on top of his lung and laughed as hard as he could. He was mockingly laughing at his bad luck that caused this predicament.

The voice that he produced while in that extremely time-compressed state was severely distorted, he might not be able to properly listen to sounds in such a state. But it was not a problem, his outburst was just a statement, or to be more precise, it was a declaration of war against his bad luck that caused this unfortunate situation.

He was there screaming all alone and he was the only person there to listen to his screams. But that was okay, it was a statement to ridicule, resist and fight back against his own bad luck.

Akira probed around for his DVTS minigun’s handle. When he found it, he gripped it tightly and pulled the trigger.

The loud sound of gunshots reverberated through the snake’s insides. The muzzle flash illuminated Akira’s surroundings as he released bullets indiscriminately through the inner walls of the snake’s insides. The already grotesque insides of the snake were turned even more grotesque as the countless bullets ripped through its flesh and fanned out meat and blood in Akira’s surroundings. As the pressure vanished, his vehicle returned back to its original shape.

Akira quickly grabbed a tube-type medicine and emptied its content on top of his head. With this, it would buy some time until his head got digested, after all, unlike his limbs, his head was not covered by his augmented suit. The medicine paste that covered Akira’s head made a hissing sound as it made contact with the snake’s digestive liquid.

He then swallowed a handful of medicine pills as if he did not care about their side-effects. It was in order to help prolong his body’s durability under that constant stress. He forced his body to move past its own limit inside that world where time was extremely compressed. The nanomachine inside his body immediately kicked to action as he forcefully moved his body with the help of his augmented suit way above the capability of a human.

Akira reached to the driver seat and set the vehicle to auto-drive mode through the vehicle’s control device. His vehicle received a simple order as it spun its 4 wheels as fast as it could to drive forward. Since there was no way back, there was no other choice but to move forward.

Akira was grinning in that situation, but he did not let go of his finger from his DVTS minigun’s trigger. There was no need to take an aim, his bullets would hit the snake no matter where he aimed. He kept on spewing bullets in all directions as he drove through the inside of the snake while cackling.

Unlike the exterior part of the snake’s body, its inner part was way weaker. The flying bullets wreaked havoc inside its body as if they tried to push the outer scales inside-out.

The overgrown snake screamed and wriggled in agony. Although it was wriggling up and down, Akira who was inside its body could not feel it since he did not even know which way was up.

But even so, Akira did not stop coursing through the snake’s body. The kickback from the DVTS minigun pushed his vehicle downward, thus exerting pressure and preventing the wheel from spinning. But with that being said, his vehicle still forcefully pushed forward while being under such pressure. The violent shaking that caused its body to collide with the snake’s inner wall and the digestive liquid that was dripping from the snake’s inner wall shaved the durability of the vehicle.

Even on top of that violently shaking vehicle, Akira did not let go of the trigger and laughed like a mad lad. He had exchanged the empty magazine for a new one many times as he fired ammo randomly inside the snake’s body.

The overgrown snake that was wriggling violently eventually fell down and stopped moving. But even so, bullets were still flying out from the inside of its body. And then, from a weakened side of its huge body, a vehicle flew out with Akira in it.

As it flew out with a lot of momentum, the vehicle landed on its side and flipped over, throwing Akira off-board. He then landed and rolled over on the ground.

“...I’m out?”

Akira was lying on the ground facing upward, the big blue sky was presented in front of him, he finally realized that he was outside.

“Akira! Are you alright?!”

Alpha looked at Akira with an extremely worried face. He stared at her, dumbfounded. The image of Alpha in his vision was slightly blurred. After she called his name a few times, her image finally returned back to normal.

“... Uhhh, welcome back, Alpha.”

“I-I’m back?”

To that strange reaction from Akira, Alpha could not help but give that awkward answer.

“Alpha, can you check if that snake is dead for good?”

“Eh? Ah, sure, wait for a sec... It’s alright, it’s dead for good.”

Akira laughed a bit.

“That’s good news. If even that didn’t work, then nothing would have worked.”

It was rare for Alpha to look so confused, she then asked Akira a question.

“Akira, what exactly just happened?”

Alpha did not know what happened during the time when her connection to Akira was cut. Although it seemed that Akira survived the fight, it was important for her to get the gist of what had happened when she lost her connection to him as soon as possible.

“...Sorry but, can you put that for later? And also, can you check if there are any monsters in the area?”

“Alright, make sure to tell me all the details later.”

“Ahh, and also, you did say that we just need to destroy its body to the point that I won’t need to rely on luck, right? I’ve done it for you, but I’m super tired right now because of that.”

Akira smiled confidently when he said that. He then relaxed his body as he was still lying on the ground while looking at Alpha’s face. It was really rare for Alpha to look as confused as she was now.

According to her calculation based on the situation right before she lost connection to Akira, there was a 100% chance that he would be killed. He should not have been able to return alive from that situation without her support.

But even so, Akira managed to return alive. He once again overturned her calculation.

Akira, who was under her grasp, had started to change. She kept on recalculating whether his growth that exceeded her expectation was a good thing or not. She focused all of her processing power on the recalculation to the point that she neglected to control her expression.

Athena13: Akira is a real mad lad!!!

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