"Why? Why isn't her wound healing?"
Frenchie looked around at Butcher and the others in panic.
"Kimiko... Kimiko's powers aren't working."
At that exact moment, a deafening explosion went off.
Boom!
The entire laboratory shook like it had been hit by an earthquake.
And that was only the beginning.
Under the continuous bombardment from outside, the ceiling above them began to buckle, raining dust and debris down across the room.
"Shit!"
At a time like this, Butcher had no room to worry about Kimiko.
He immediately looked toward the laboratory entrance, which was also their only way out.
Just as he turned his head, the passage leading to the exit collapsed with a thunderous crash.
"Fuck!"
Butcher's face darkened.
"Those cunts outside definitely brought tanks. I can hear the engines. T-72B3s, unless my ears have suddenly gone to shit. They're planning to bury us with this whole fucking lab."
"How the hell are we supposed to get out?" MM asked anxiously.
"Fuck me, we never should've waited this long. Now we're not getting out unless we fight our way through them."
Butcher's expression remained grim as he glanced at Frenchie, who was still kneeling beside Kimiko.
"She's not dying anytime soon. Wrap the wound. We're getting ready to break out."
"Break out how?" MM snapped. "There are at least four or five fucking tanks out there, plus more heavy machine guns than I can count. The second we stick our heads out, they'll turn us into Swiss cheese. We'll have more holes in us than a goddamn showerhead."
After Soldier Boy's chest blast and the bombardment from outside, the temperature inside the laboratory had risen sharply.
With the ventilation system already wrecked, the entire place had turned into an oven.
Hot, stuffy, and barely fucking breathable.
Sweat covered MM's face.
"The lab should hold for a little while longer," Butcher said. "We wait and see."
Then he looked toward Ivan.
"Does that bastard have a death wish?"
What Butcher hadn't expected was that the badly injured mysterious man was still gripping Soldier Boy by the throat.
He showed absolutely no intention of letting go.
Wait.
No.
He hasn't lost his powers.
Butcher's pupils contracted.
The wounds covering Ivan's body were healing right in front of him.
Fast enough to see with the naked eye.
What the fuck is going on?
For the moment, Butcher couldn't make sense of it.
Could Soldier Boy only strip Kimiko of her powers?
Bullshit.
There was no way something that convenient existed.
"Let go!"
Soldier Boy growled.
He grabbed Ivan's right arm and tried to break it.
Because half of Ivan's superhuman factors had been suppressed, his physical strength was far below normal.
Under Soldier Boy's overwhelming force, Ivan's right arm slowly began to bend.
A spark of excitement appeared in Butcher's eyes.
"So the cunt's not invincible after all."
Then what happened next froze him on the spot.
Ivan calmly glanced at his right arm, which was on the verge of snapping.
Then, without the slightest hesitation, he drove his left hand into his own chest and pulled out an empty glass syringe.
Crack!
Ivan crushed the syringe in his palm.
Under the stimulation of Compound V, the superhuman factors that had been suppressed inside his body abruptly reactivated.
Ivan's lips curled upward.
"Let's see how many lasers you can take."
In an instant, six slits appeared across both sides of his face, centered around the bridge of his nose.
The slits split open.
Eight eyes now occupied almost his entire face.
Sizzle!!!
Boom!
Eight dense beams of purple laser light erupted from Ivan's eyes.
The sheer destructive power was so extreme that even Soldier Boy's absurd durability struggled to withstand it.
With his head completely engulfed by the lasers, Soldier Boy let out an agonized roar.
At the same time, his chest began glowing red once again.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!"
Boom!
The massive shockwave from Soldier Boy's chest blast sent Ivan flying.
He smashed through two walls in a row before the raging column of fire finally began to die down.
"Jesus Christ... I'm looking at two fucking monsters."
Hughie had only recently gained powers himself, and until now he had been feeling pretty damn pleased about it.
But as he stared at the mysterious man buried under the rubble, every trace of smugness vanished from his face.
All that remained was shock.
"What the fuck? He has laser eyes too? And not just one pair?"
Hughie almost wondered if his eyes were playing tricks on him.
When the mysterious man had been blasted away just now, it had looked like there were four pairs of eyes on his face.
"Is that guy some kind of alien?"
"Wouldn't rule it out."
At some point, Butcher had moved up beside Hughie.
He glanced toward Soldier Boy, who was clutching his face and roaring in pain.
It looked like the mysterious man's lasers had badly burned him.
"I'm gonna fucking kill you!"
Soldier Boy's rage had already hit its limit.
He charged straight toward Ivan's position.
He grabbed Ivan and slammed him violently into the ground.
Boom!
The floor shattered.
Chunks of stone flew everywhere.
"Your durability really is impressive. Even that didn't kill you."
Several tentacles resembling flowing magma rose from Ivan's back and lifted him upright.
"Die!"
At this point, Soldier Boy had only one thought left in his head.
Kill him.
His legs exploded with terrifying strength.
Like a charging bull, he drove Ivan forward, smashing through wall after wall.
Boom!
The two of them burst out of the laboratory.
Cold moonlight fell across their bodies.
Their sudden appearance instantly drew the attention of every soldier outside.
"A demon! I swear I just saw a demon straight out of Hell!"
One of the soldiers stared at Ivan in horror.
"Turn every gun on them!"
Boris stared at the tentacles extending from Ivan's back, equally shaken by what he was seeing.
But as a senior officer, he had no choice except to force himself to stay calm.
"Get your shit together! They're just supes! Supes can die too! Blow them the fuck apart!"
Hearing their commander roar, the soldiers barely managed to recover some of their fighting spirit.
Some climbed into tanks.
Others manned heavy machine guns.
Most of them, however, had nothing more than heavy rifles in their hands.
In the next instant, the entire area looked like a battlefield ripped straight out of World War II.
Cannons fired.
Machine guns rattled nonstop.
Gunfire filled the night.
"Annoying as hell."
Conventional weapons were little more than an inconvenience to Ivan, but having artillery shells constantly explode against him was still enough to piss him off.
So he simply changed direction.
Several tentacles whipped outward, wrapped around multiple tanks, and hurled them toward Soldier Boy.
Bang!
Soldier Boy was smashed backward.
Before he could get up again, another heavy tank came crashing down on top of him and buried him deep underground.
"Should we go help?" Hughie asked.
"Help who? Soldier Boy?"
Butcher and Frenchie supported Kimiko between them as they moved toward the massive hole Ivan had smashed through the wall.
"To be fair, every rational part of my brain is telling me we should quietly fuck off while nobody's paying attention."
Even Butcher had been shaken by the level of power Ivan had just displayed.
Whatever little schemes he had been considering before, he abandoned them without hesitation.
"We can't go outside right now," Frenchie said anxiously. "What if Kimiko gets hit by a stray bullet?"
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