Editing City Series:Volume6e Chapter4 (section)

===Part 9===

Just as Hazel’s group prepared to face the killer intent, a deep voice reached them from behind.

“Our answer? Well said, fellow werecat!”

A stream of motion raced forward, instantly splitting through the killer intent on the left and right.

At first, she could only see the flashes of several blades moving quickly.

A moment later, a tearing sound passed by either side of Hazel’s group from behind.

A moment after that, the Neue Kavaliers on the walls were knocked back into the open air.

Seven on the right and five on the left were launched from the wall.

They all had holes in the chest of their uniform and the breastplate within was shattered.

“––––!?”

They shouted in confusion and looked to a point on the elevated railroad before they started to fall.

Everyone was looking to a point in front of Hazel’s group.

Four AIF soldiers stood between Hazel and Müller and at the center of the remaining Neue Kavaliers. They took combat stances in the center of the whipping wind and the man leading them looked back Hazel’s way.

He had short blond hair and a scar on his cheek. He had green feline eyes.

“Good to see you again. We met on Commander Corelle’s ship back in ’39.” He smiled with his eyes. “We got delayed trying to enter Germany, but I am AIF Army Anti-Hound Assault Battalion Commander Major Robert E. Coolers. Commander Corelle carried us here, so I hope we were in time to save the day.”

Hazel nodded.

“We can use all the help we can get right now.”

“Perfect.”

He faced forward while a light shined in from behind her. She knew what that light was.

…''The other truck.

She heard Coolers’s voice.

“I shamelessly survived after our humiliating defeat to the Gard-class in ’42, but after a year of grueling battle, it’s time to settle the score. I’m sure you’ll take issue with being matched up with an opening act kind of guy like me, but you’ll just have to deal.”

A gunshot burst from up ahead.

Coolers twisted his body to dodge the bullet.

Hazel faced forward.

Müller was aiming his handgun their way.

“Such foolish resistance. Reinforcements are coming from Tristan as we speak. It will be too late to complain once they arrive.”

“Once they arrive? You had better hope it isn’t already over by then. We’re already on the move, after all.”

Coolers leaned forward with his feet spread somewhat apart.

He shrank down and lowered his head to let his next line fall to the cement ground.

“Hazel Mirildorf. We still have 5 minutes until the artillery fire from the east and west and my commander’s arrival. We will guide the way until then.”

She nodded and watched him and his three men crouch even lower.

Then the truck headlights behind her came to a stop. She heard footsteps kicking off the ground and several uniformed people gathered behind Coolers and around Hazel’s group.

“Follow me, everyone, and don’t look back,” said Coolers. “The major will clear as long a path as he can manage.”

Before he was even done, he took off running like the wind. Hazel’s group ran forward along with him. Killer intent exploded around them and grew into a torrent that attempted to surround the wind.

The two sides clashed.