"After all, what if you say, slapped someone's back, would that be considered violence? Well, the cities don't consider that violence. Why? Because the other person didn't resist," the man explained.

"As long as the other person doesn't resist, you can do anything you want," the man continued, emphasizing the word, anything. "That's why the robots did not confront me when I made your sister sleep over there."

As he was explaining, Tai was taking in the information. If all that's needed is resistance, then doesn't that mean that he could just kill the man in front of him fast enough so he wouldn't resist?

The man laughed. "I know what you're thinking, but it's not going to work. The cities don't like murder, and they will detect murder, resistance or not, also, knocking me out won't do either. If you really want to make sure that your sister stays safe, just follow me."

Tai let out a growl, but there was nothing he could do, or was there? The man said that knocking him out wouldn't work, but what if he did it fast enough for him to not react? Resistance was vague. What if he just didn't want to get knocked out, and that would be considered as resistance, either way, he wasn't sure, so he decided to play it safe.

"Fine."

The man turned around and started heading to the closest entrance from where they were, and pulled out a radio. "We're heading to the north-west gate."

As Tai followed the man, he was carrying Anna in his arms. He looked around to see if there was anyone else, but he couldn't see anyone. Even though he saw no one, he was almost sure that there were other people, or else how would the person in front of him be so confident?

Closing his eyes as he walked, he channeled his ki and extended it around his area. The ki that he had extended was invisible, unseen from the naked eye, and Tai was using it kind of how a bat would use sound to see its surroundings.

From his left on top of a roof was a person, behind him was another, and there were two to his right that he had just passed.

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Tai obviously knew what the man wanted to do. He had heard what he said on the radio and guessed that they wanted him to leave the city to possibly kill him since murder wasn't allowed in the city.

Well, he definitely won't just stand there and be killed, but what would he do about his sister? She was his biggest liability.

Arriving at the city gate, the man told him to leave the city and that he would take care of his sister. Tai wasn't crazy, he wouldn't just leave his sister here, especially when she was unconscious and couldn't show resistance.

He also couldn't take her with him out of the city since leaving the city needed one's own permission, and she couldn't exactly give that since she was unconscious, so Tai got an amazing idea.

Tai looked around and called a robot drone over for help.

"What are you doing? The robot can't help you, I haven't done anything that it considers violence," the man asked, visibly confused.

"Oh, I'm not calling it for that." When the drone arrived in front of him, he asked the drone if it could take his sister to her home because she was lost and couldn't move.

The robot agreed and grabbed his sister using a technology that Tai was clueless about.

When the man saw this, his face turned sour because he didn't think of that, but since his face was covered, Tai couldn't see his expressions.

"Now..." Tai cracked his fingers and stretched his legs. "Let's get this over with, huh?"

Upon leaving the city, he was greeted by a tall man, much taller than him. The man was wearing a UEE uniform, but not the same as all the soldiers that he had seen before. This man was obviously in a higher position than normal foot soldiers. He had a katana by his side, as he stared at Tai.

"You must be Tai Zenith."

"I thought that the UEE worked for the people? Why would you blackmail me into coming here by putting my sister to sleep?" Tai asked in an angry tone.

"Because you're above me in the level rankings. Now, I can't let that happen, can I?"

Tai's face turned sour. All this just because he overtook him on the leaderboard? "So you're that Berthold guy, huh. Well, after this, you won't even be on the leaderboard."

Tai was serious. If anyone threatened his family, they wouldn't get away with it easily. He was planning to destroy him.

Berthold chuckled. "You think that just because you're a few levels higher than me that you are better? We'll see about that."

Taking out his katana, Berthold surrounded it with his ki. Like Tai, his primary energy source was ki, but unlike Tai's ki, his ki was white.

Tai formed his naginata and watched as Berthold charged at him with a smug face. Using Berthold's shadow, he made chains extend from it and bind him.

"What was all that tough talk about?" Tai slowly approached him, his naginata becoming darker and darker. It was so dark that even the bright light from inside the city was having a hard time entering Tai's area.

Berthold struggled in the chains, but they didn't budge. "You forced me to do this..."

Berthold covered himself with his ki, his strength becoming stronger and stronger. The chains creaked as they were bent until finally, they broke.