Renn looked toward the direction the bullet had come from.
A dark figure flashed past.
“You take a shot at me and think you can just run? Things have never been that easy.”
Renn leaped straight through the window.
“Activate—Gunner!”
He gave chase, but he didn’t let his guard down.
The attacker was clearly targeting him specifically, which meant they probably knew quite a bit about him.
There might even be an ambush waiting ahead.
Under circumstances like these, Renn had to remain cautious.
He couldn’t afford the slightest carelessness.
The attacker glanced back at Renn before sprinting toward a garbage heap.
Renn’s thoughts shifted.
“Activate—Mage!”
“Magic Missile!”
A sphere resembling starlight shot from Renn’s staff and sped toward the attacker.
The attacker’s pupils contracted, and he hurriedly dodged.
But the instant he moved, Renn controlled the Magic Missile and changed its trajectory, sending it after him once again.
“Boom!”
That was the advantage of Magic Missile.
Its direction could be changed at any time.
As long as Renn controlled it properly, it would eventually catch its target.
The attacker was struck and stumbled violently.
But he forced himself to remain on his feet.
Renn’s expression grew serious.
“He actually managed to withstand Magic Missile. He’s definitely a Nen user.”
“Who is he?”
Renn rapidly went through the possibilities.
He hadn’t made many enemies in Meteor City.
There had been the Kro brothers, but both of them were already dead.
Then there were the people who had tried to kill Machi and steal her supplies, but Renn had killed them too.
His conflict with the Jackal Gang hadn’t been serious enough to warrant something like this.
“Other than them, I haven’t offended anyone else.”
“Unless someone has their eye on something I possess.”
Renn thought of Victor.
The only people he had recently developed a financial relationship with were the Whale Gang.
“Do they not want to pay the three hundred thousand Jenny?”
“But if they wanted to maximize their profits, shouldn’t they wait until I finish cleaning the entire residential district before making a move?”
The attacker plunged into the garbage heap.
Renn slowed down.
“There’s definitely a trap.”
“I need to be careful.”
The moment Machi heard the gunshot, she woke up.
On the other side of the hallway, Uvogin and Nobunaga also emerged from their room.
The three exchanged glances before heading to Renn’s door.
Uvogin punched it.
“Boom!”
The door burst open.
When Machi saw that Renn wasn’t inside, her expression immediately turned grim.
“Someone attacked Renn.”
Nobunaga jumped straight through the window.
“If that’s the case, what are we waiting for? Let’s go after him.”
Machi nodded.
She glanced at Nobunaga and Uvogin.
She hadn’t expected the two of them to take the initiative and chase after Renn.
Her trust in them rose slightly.
The attacker suddenly stopped.
Renn switched Character panels.
“Activate—Agent!”
A gun appeared in his left hand and a sword in his right.
The attacker stared coldly at Renn.
“Attack!”
At once, six figures leaped out from the surrounding garbage.
Each held a blade.
The moment the attacker gave the order, all six of them, together with the attacker himself, charged at Renn.
Renn didn’t dodge.
“Gyo!”
He could see clearly that three of the six had aura wrapped around their bodies.
Including the original attacker, that made four Nen users in total.
An ordinary group could never field that many Nen users.
“Are they from the Whale Gang, or remnants of the Shark Gang?”
A grenade appeared in Renn’s hand.
“G-Type Grenade!”
It was one of the Agent’s skills, essentially an enhanced version of Rising Shot.
Everyone within the blast radius would be forcibly launched into the air, and it also dealt considerable damage.
Renn waited until all seven attackers had entered the blast radius.
Then he detonated it.
“Boom!”
A massive explosion erupted.
At the exact same moment, Renn switched Character panels.
“Activate—Mage!”
“Substitute Strawman!”
The instant the G-Type Grenade exploded, a straw dummy appeared where Renn had been standing.
Renn himself reappeared more than ten meters away.
Every attack—
The blast from the G-Type Grenade and the attackers’ blades—
Landed on the straw dummy.
Renn remained completely unharmed.
“Activate—Gunner!”
“G-14 Grenade!”
Renn hurled a grenade into the air, directly above the seven attackers.
“Boom!”
Compared to the G-Type Grenade, the G-14 Grenade possessed far greater destructive power.
All seven attackers were blasted away and crashed to the ground.
The three who couldn’t use Nen died instantly.
The four Nen users were still barely alive.
With a thought, Renn summoned his ability.
“Disassembler!”
He first threw the three corpses into the Disassembler.
Then he walked over to the four Nen users, raised his handgun, aimed at their foreheads, and pulled the trigger.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
Renn killed three of the four Nen users.
He spared only one.
The same attacker who had fired the first shot at him and lured him here.
Renn threw the three Nen users’ corpses into the Disassembler.
Then he tore the mask from the last attacker’s face.
“It’s you!”