"Ishigaki!!" Kazuki yelled when he got close to them. Kazuki could throw his sword, but he wouldn't want to take the chance of losing it forever. We didn't have any projectiles. "Shit, the hunter's too fast,"

We chased them out of sector 24's coverage. I was worried if there were more dangerous enemies here. We were approaching sector 16. Different aura emanated from the sector, my vision suddenly turned darker, it felt like my soul was sucked out the moment we stepped on the area. Ishigaki struggled to free himself from the hunter's choke. Because he didn't have a Zodiac sword, he didn't have any means to attack the hunter. He tried to punch the hunter with his Auric but with no success.

"We have to get back! There's no way we can get him!" Kotetsu warned us to stick to the mission, but the rest of us disagreed with him and continued chasing. Kotetsu looked worried, he was a really disciplined person, so he really wanted to follow the rules. But our teammate was at stake here, we had to save him.

I ran past Kotetsu while still holding my wound, because he was slowing down. He slowed down to make sure no one followed us into this area, and honestly maybe he just didn't want to wander far away from sector 24. The hunter who grabbed Ishigaki finally released him, and let him fall into the ground, but before his body hits the concrete, he summoned an aura to protect him from the impact, and lands somewhat safely, but still bruised his knee and elbow.

When Kazuki jumped past a building, he was suddenly hit by a possessed from the left, a hunter with high speed. He fell and went through a glass building. I panicked and tried to follow him, but as I turned my head to the right, someone dashed towards me from my left, my incredible instinct went a little late and I got hit by that person.

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I smashed a wall to my right, my wound from that hunter's dagger was hurting even more. When I saw the attacker, I realized that he was the lost Jaeger-Yamato. He used his Zodiac sword, but also his left arm was imbued the darkness.

"I was waiting for you to come," he said, while looking at his black arm, "This is the first time we met, I believe," he continued to stare at me sharply in the eyes, "You know, up to this point, I think you should end your adventure," the blade of Yamato's sword shone with sunlight reflecting on its steel.

I stood up, grasped my sword and was ready to fight. My stomach started to bleed again from the impact, but I held onto it. At this point, we were not ready for what's about to go down. Yamato seemed annoyed, and went into a fighting stance.

Soon a fight broke out between us, Yamato's sword pierced the ground and spawned a giant trunk of tree towards me. I tried to avoid his attack by jumping onto the building behind me and tried to run upwards. He then stood on one of the tree's branches, and it rose up with him to my level.

When I arrived at the rooftop of said building, we started to duel. My ice element was weak against Yamato's wood element. Yamato fired wood spikes towards me, I tried to deflect his projectiles, while dodging some more. Yamato's speed was equal to that of Karito, he was very agile in jumping and dashing around. Some of the spikes finally managed to graze my right cheek. As my cheek bled slightly, Yamato rushed forward for a final thrust.

I managed to dodge again, it was a close call. There's a point where I utilized my ice element to fight him, but my ice spikes keep breaking again and again. I soon realized that this fight was not balanced. I tried to bail, but I remember my teammates are in this area, and I didn't want to just run.

What should I do?