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"How unfortunate. She seemed so young and promising. Too bad you couldn't save her in time, Slasher," Jale cynically expressed, trying to provoke the golden wolf. Hazard merely looked over his head and saw that it was right in the middle of the day, the sun beaming directly on top of them.

"Yeah, unfortunate indeed," Hazard replied, his rage turning into a soft calm. "But at least it makes me feel less bad about finishing you off." He held his sword up in one hand.

"Oh? Still with the violence? Remember, one step, and they blow their brains out," Jale threatened.

"Don't sweat it, I'm going to show you a little trick," Hazard said and placed the bottom hilt of his sword over his index finger, balancing it steadily.

The raven looked oddly at the wolf. "What the hell are you doing?"

"Just keep your eyes on the blade." Hazard smiled cunningly and flipped his sword up high into the air with a quick flick of his finger. Everyone around him watched the sword fly up high, disappearing into the flaring glow of the sun and emitting a bright shine as the sun rays got reflected by the metal blade, blinding them for a few moments. Jale grunted and covered his squinting eyes with his hand for a couple of seconds to protect them from the bright shine, then gaped in surprised when he finally opened his eyes again, only to see the remaining tranced police officers fallen on the ground, totally knocked out and unconscious.

"Shit!" Jale cursed through his beak and couldn't believe he was fool enough to actually fall for such a primitive trick. The sword was on its way down and neatly landed right on Hazard's hand, who was back on the same spot as if he hadn't moved a step.

"I guess that takes care of that," Hazard stated, now freed from his restraints, then dashed towards the stunned raven.

"Why you...?! Don't try to antagonize me!" Jale angrily yelled and tossed one of his feathered darts directly at Hazard's head. Hazard ducked in time and avoided the speeding blade, heading straight on at Jale and did a swift roll, passing by the raven with a slash, cutting him deeply on his right knee. "Urrgh!" Jale groaned and dropped forward and on his knees, but he didn't have a chance to even agonize on his pain when Hazard grabbed him from behind and choke-held him tightly.

"And I just proved to you that you don't need to have an I.Q. of a rocket science genius to one-up a heartless bastard," Hazard said, tightening his grip around Jale's neck and making him choke out.

"Ack... w-well played..." Jale grunted, unable to break free.

"Now tell me, what are you after?" Hazard firmly asked the raven, who answered with a stifled chuckle.

"Or what? Kill me? You wouldn't; you're too kind for that..."

"Looks like you don't know me very well," Hazard said in a cold tone and then Jale felt a sudden piercing pain of Hazard's blade stabbing him from the back, tearing through his flesh and coming out from his torso.

"Uuuaaaarrgghh!!!" Jale screamed out loud, his eyes opened wide as he watched the tip of the sword barely missing his beak in front of him, drenched and dripping with his own blood.

"I missed any vital part, so maybe I am a bit too kind. But my kindness has a limit, so you better start talking," Hazard threatened as he impaled the raven, pushing in more of his blade and making him groan out more.

"Eugh! F-Fuck...! You... You really are... the fucking Slasher..." Jale gurgled, blood spewing from the side of his beak.

"And you talk too much shit. Maybe I'll do the world a favor and shut you up for good." Hazard was losing his patience and pulled out his sword from Jale's back, holding the blade against his throat instead and was ready to slit it.

"N-NO! No, w-wait! D-Don't do anything hasty! I'll tell you! I'll tell you anything you want! Just don't KILL me! Please!" Jale desperately pleaded the golden wolf to spare him, realizing how deadly serious he was.

"Too late. I lost interest." Hazard said and was about to cut Jale's neck, but he sensed an attack coming in from behind him and immediately moved out of the way, forcedly releasing Jale from his grip and pushing him forward as the raven dropped on four, coughing and gasping for air.

"Fuck! Almost had him!" Megalo snarled as his claws missed Hazard's back.

"Damn, you guys are relentless," Hazard griped irately as he faced the black panther and made some distance between the two of them.

"Meg... Megalo...? You came... for me?" Jale breathed, turning over to the panther.

"Don't flatter yourself, blackie," Megalo scoffed, not even looking back at his injured companion. "I'm just here for the Slasher. You just happened to be on the way."

Jale chucked wearily, sitting up on one knee. "Heh... I see... thanks, anyway, Meggy."

Megalo just replied with a grumbled growl at Jale's remark, glaring back at his opponent. "Time for some payback, Slasher! I underestimated yesterday, but I'm not holding anything back now!" Megalo said heatedly, baring his sharp claws from both hands.

"Jeez... It's just one thing after the other..." Hazard sighed jadedly, getting weary of these kinds of challenges.

"Hey! What the fuck are you sighing about!? Are you looking down on me?! Just because you're the Millennium Slasher doesn't mean you're stronger than me! You might've lived longer than me, but I've killed more than you can imagine, and still counting!" Megalo retorted snappily.

"Your mother must be very proud of you," Hazard said sarcastically.

Megalo's eye twitched irritably as a pulsing vein almost burst on his forehead. "I had no idea I would hate you this much, fucking Slasher... I'm gonna wipe away that confident look on your face! You're dead meat!" the black panther snarled and prepared to attack, but he was interrupted by a voice speaking inside his head.

"Mr. Megalo."

"Fuck! What now?!"

"Mr. Megalo, retrieve Mr. Jale and Mr. Onyx and retreat."

"No fucking way! I'm not finished here!"

"That's an order from Master Khan. I repeat, retrieve Mr. Jale and Mr. Onyx and retreat," the female voice calmly ordered him.

"FUCK! Grr, FINE!" Megalo growled furiously as he retracted his claws. Hazard blinked his eyes in confusion as to why Megalo was growling to himself; he thought he was crazy in the head. "Where is that ugly lizard anyway?!"

"Here I am, Megalo..." Onyx suddenly appeared from the black panther's shadow, shamefully defeated and beaten up.

"Holy fuck! I told you MANY times not to DO that!" Megalo exclaimed after being startled by the chameleon sneaky appearance.

"B-But Megalo, that white-fuzz muscle-bound buffoon killed my puppies and hurt me bad! So much hurt!" Onyx whimpered.

"Le-Let's just get the hell out of here..." Jale choked out as he struggled to get up while holding his wound from bleeding, wiping off the blood from his beak.

"Grrr! You guys are pathetic! You got lucky this time, Slasher!" Megalo snarled sternly and helped Jale stand up by carrying an arm of his over his shoulders, before they rushed out of the scene by jumping off to the next building.

"Wait for me!" Onyx cried out and dived into the nearest shadow.

They vanished out of Hazard's sight soon after and he let out a relived breath. He sure wasn't in the mood to fight all three of them at the same time. He looked over to the knocked-out cops and saw that they still hadn't regain conscious yet. Hopefully they won't be remembering any of the things that occurred here once they come to. However, they'd still have to deal with the unexplainable death of their colleague, which might be even worse. Walking to the edge of the building, Hazard looked down and saw the horde of people gathered around the jumping female officer's dead body, with sirens of the ambulance and police blazing on the way. He wished if he could've done something to save her, but he wasn't quick enough. His cell phone then rang and derailed his attention from the accident scene, picking it up.

"Hey Haz, Sassy's fine," Panja's voice comforted Hazard's ear.

"Yeah, I was kinda tipped off on that. Nice job, Panja," Hazard said with a smile, content with the good news.

"Of course! I'm your man! In more ways than one!" Panja remarked and made Hazard roll his eyes. "How're things on your end?"

"I'm good. They're gone."

"No surprise, no one's a match to you, Hazzy!" Panja exclaimed elatedly. "Anyway, we're on our way home. See you there?"

"Yeah, great, see you back home," Hazard replied and finished the call. He looked one more time over the edge of the roof. "I'm sorry," the wolf softly muttered regretfully. He knew he couldn't possibly save everyone in this world, but he wasn't going to let them get Sasuga. Not even over his dead immortal body.

To be continued...