Rebuild World: Volume 6 Part 2 by Nahuse

Author:Nahuse [NAHUSE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 179: The Nationalists’ Declaration

When Sheryl awoke on the sofa, Akira was in the middle of talking to Noguchi, Inabe’s subordinate and the person who had originally introduced Sheryl to the city executive. Inabe had dispatched him to address the current situation at Sheryl’s base.

“According to what I’ve heard, you didn’t harm any of the bureau’s personnel in Zone 1—you even escorted them back to the highway,” Noguchi said, clearly in shock. “Couldn’t you have handled these guys the same way?”

“No,” Akira said flatly.

The city official buried his face in his hands. “Well, just for future reference, can you tell me why you couldn’t?”

“’Cause they were aiming guns at me, that’s why. I just shot first. Besides, they hurt Sheryl, and since I can’t be here all the time, I had to do something to make people think twice before they came here and tried this again.”

“Did it never, in fact, occur to you that rather than deterring your enemies, your actions might cause them to go after you even more aggressively?” Noguchi demanded.

“Then I just need to do more to make them back off,” the boy replied calmly.

Only then, hearing his nonchalant response, did Noguchi realize for the first time that Akira was truly dangerous.

Meanwhile, Noguchi’s subordinates placed the remains of Suwong and his men in body bags. They also stuffed in any chunks of flesh large enough to be picked up, but of course they couldn’t do much about the blood splattered all over the room.

“Noguchi, what do you want us to do about the mess?” one man asked. “Should we clean it up?”

“You don’t need to go that far,” he replied. “Just get their bodies out of here and go on back without me.”

“Got it!”

His underlings left the room, carrying the body bags with them. Once they were gone, Noguchi turned an extremely annoyed look onto Sheryl.

“I hate to bother you when you’ve only just recovered, but I need to get up to speed on what happened here. Do you have a few minutes?”

“S-Sure,” said Sheryl. And there, in the middle of that bloody, macabre scene, she sat down to talk again.

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Later on, submerging herself in her bathtub full of hot water, Sheryl let out a tired sigh. Her wounds were all healed now, thanks to the medicine, but her mental fatigue remained. So she’d decided a bath with Akira was in order, not only to wash the bloodstains from her body but also to heal her weary spirit.

“Say, Akira. What do you think’s going to happen now?” she asked in an exhausted tone. Regardless of the reason, the crime of killing a city official merited severe punishment—the more so in the slums, since the city might use this as their excuse to finally burn the whole area to the ground.

Yep, she couldn’t see any good coming out of this situation, to say the least.

But Akira replied serenely, “Well, whatever happens, happens, I guess.”

Sensing his complete lack of concern, Sheryl felt better, and even managed to grin.

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