A bullet sped from Jesse's gun toward the Stranger's body, piercing its stomach in the middle.
The wound closed, and the entity pounced on its enemy.
And with a swift swing of its sword, it delivered a direct strike to the shield, launching Jesse far into the air.
While he was in the sky he spotted the monster out of the corner of his eye.
He tightened his hand on his gun, so the sound of bullets echoed through the air.
Using its sword the Stranger wounded itself and scattered its blood into the air.
The moment they hardened they shattered from the projectiles without any noteworthy effort… but that was what the entity was aiming for.
The moment the bullet collided with the crystals it caused their stability to be disrupted.
That led to them deflecting from their target and settling into the ground near the enemy.
Meanwhile Jesse fell onto the right side of his body, resulting in a massive fire of pain in his right arm.
His shield fell far from him, leaving him alone without a means of defense against direct attacks.
His vision was a little hazy, but he could see the monster clearly as it approached him with slow steps as if mocking him. "This hurts badly. I think my arm is broken… my wounds are getting worse and my condition is terrible to the extreme. I don't know if the boy is still alive or not, or if I'll even make it out of this situation alive, damn how much this hurts!! I don't have time to think or suffer, I have to do something before that thing kills me, or the worst happens, the Wanderers arrive… I have to live."
He straightened up on his feet with difficulty, his eyes red from the pain.
He sighed deeply and began taking quick steps toward the car that was only a few feet away from him.
Specifically under the driver's seat he pulled out an old metallic weapon covered in rust from every side.
He grabbed the ammunition and reloaded it despite the fires of pain in his arm.
He turned toward the monster that was only a few meters away from him..
Aiming both of his guns at it, the first toward its foot and the second toward its head.
He took a deep breath and pressed both of his fingers on the triggers of the two guns at the same time.
The first bullet hit its foot while it avoided the second.
It severed its foot from the rest of its body, and it fell onto its face with force.
Its blood returned to fill its wound and stop the bleeding. The Stranger looked with animalistic eyes toward Jesse.
And without prior warning it lightly wounded its arm and before its blood hardened, it extended its hand straight and spun it in a quick circular motion.
The blood flowed from the wound in the shape of a crimson crescent.
To transform into a sharp-edged crimson crescent shape that cut its way relentlessly toward its target.
The latter felt a kind of shock but recovered the situation before it was too late.
He raised his gun firing several shots at it, so the crescent cracked and turned into small shards that scattered around.
Jesse and the monster exchanged sharp looks.
Both of them knew they had reached the end of their confrontation.
Where the final blow would decide who would survive and who would perish.
The monster prepared its remaining foot to propel itself toward Jesse and cut its second hand and made the blood flow downward, forming it into the shape of a long sword with a sharp edge.
And in the blink of an eye it propelled itself forcefully forward, launching its body like a bullet toward its enemy.
At the same time Jesse aimed both of his guns at it as fast as he could and pulled the trigger.
Announcing the winner of this battle.
In those moments, the boy slowly opened his eyes with the pain spreading throughout every part of his body.
To slowly rise while his eyes scanned the place right and left with a mix of surprise and pain dominating his face.
The screams of the Wanderers could be heard from afar, while the place was covered by the light of the setting sun's rays.
The boy gathered himself and got out of the car.
When the boy placed his foot on the ground he noticed that Jesse was lying in front of the car with a serious wound extending along his face and in front of him the corpse of the dead monster.
It was lying on the ground without a head, and a huge patch of its hardened blood took the place of its head.
And dozens of dead Wanderers around it.
The boy looked at Jesse with the worry clear on his face and slowly and in a suppressed voice said to him: "Carry me to the car right now."
The boy carried him into the car.
While Jesse started it and looked into the shattered rearview mirrors, which reflected dozens of Wanderers coming in their direction.
To speed out of the city leaving the deformed corpse of the monster behind him as decoration in this miserable featureless city.
(The End)