I See One Second Into The Future: Loner In The Apocalypse

"Dodge the person shooting at us!"

Kairos shouted that as he twisted his torso to avoid a small red ball shooting towards him. Because of all the dodging he had to do, he was naturally unable to close the distance.

On the other hand, both Sam and Chase were now next to them.

Sam started it off, swinging with one of his sharpened bones towards the guy with white hair. Unfortunately, like every other time, his target dodged with a confident smile plastered across his face.

Sam quickly followed up with another swing, but missed once more. As that happened, the red ball began ignoring Kairos entirely, shooting towards Sam instead.

Naturally, Kairos warned him.

"Dodge!"

Sam looked over his shoulder and twisted his body out of the way. Kairos wanted to use this moment of reprieve to step forth, but felt a fresh pain rip through his leg in his future vision.

Kairos quickly stopped himself, and once he did, the pavement in front of him exploded, scattering pieces of street everywhere. He spared a glance over his shoulder towards the girl with blue hair once more.

She still had a casual smile on her face, but her eyes were locked onto Kairos intently. It seemed like she already figured out that Kairos could somehow predict her shots.

And used that to force Kairos back.

Chase attempted to rush forth as well, but the guy with green hair had set his eyes on him, not willing to let him do as he pleased.

The guy with green hair waited patiently, until Chase was three meters away. Then, he flung his microphone, sweeping the ground underneath him. Chase promptly jumped up, avoiding it entirely.

However, the guy with green hair wasn't done with that. As the microphone was sweeping out, he held out the microphone stand to get caught in the middle of the cord.

And in that way, the cord wrapped itself around the pole, which then made the microphone whip around once more.

Chase frowned.

Despite knowing that it was almost impossible to get out, Chase tried to move his foot out of the way. Unfortunately, not only was he too slow, but he was also midair, making dodging basically impossible.

Chase's ankle got caught. The cord wrapped itself around, and then the microphone soon transformed into a strange latch, attaching itself to his ankle.

Practically immediately, Chase realized that he wasn't going to get out of this hold unless the guy with green hair wanted him to. And with that realization, he acted the moment the guy with green hair attempted to tug on the end of the cord.

Chase pulled his caught leg back, forcefully straining the cord and screwing up his balance. Although the guy with green hair seemed caught off guard, he only stumbled a little bit forward.

Still, he decided to swing with his microphone stand, aiming for Chase's shoulder.

Chase did not even try to dodge. In fact, he even tugged on the cord with his free hand, both pulling himself forwards and the guy towards him.

Then, his hand shot out like a spear, and tapped him on the chest right as the microphone stand crashed into his shoulder.

Chase's expression twitched.

And in the next moment, he grimaced as he felt a ripping sensation through his leg. He had been shot by the girl with blue hair.

The guy with green hair laughed.

"Guess we are both out."

Chase smiled bitterly, brushing some of the blood off from the new injury.

"Guess so."

The two of them walked to the side to watch the battle that was still going on.

Kairos continued to run forth with the small gap where he wasn't being attacked. At the same time, Sam was using both of his sharpened bones to fend off the red ball that was snaking around him. Dodging the red ball itself wasn't too difficult for Sam. In fact, he wouldn't even need to use his sharpened bone for that sake.

However, the guy with white hair wasn't holding back his trickery anymore. He was causing the string to twist elusively, trying to wrap itself around either Sam or his weapon.

Sam constantly slammed his sharpened bones against the red ball to forcibly divert its trajectory so that he wouldn't have to move his body too much in order to avoid getting caught by the string.

Kairos chose a slightly more roundabout way to approach so that he wouldn't get caught up with the string.

But that was when he saw his father duck down in order to avoid the red ball, but pay the price of getting shot in the leg. He wanted to tell his father to dodge but quickly realized that it was pointless.

Sam either had to get caught by the red ball or get hit in the leg. Either way, that essentially guaranteed that he would get hit.

Kairos kept his mouth shut and continued advancing, all the while contemplating over the teamwork that they had shown. Though their attacks weren't the most flashy, like his max power pulse spell, they were very reliable because of how they worked together.

It was reliable in the sense that it forced a person to choose either one unfavorable situation, or another. Though there may have been one that wasn't as bad as the other, it still meant that the person wasn't getting off scot-free.

Sam grunted as his leg was torn open by the girl's bullet.

At the same time, Kairos had reached the guy's side and swung with his sharpened bone. The string distorted to stop his attack, but Kairos saw how it would distort, and snaked his way past.

The guy with white hair raised an eyebrow as he shot backwards, dodging his attack.

At that point, Sam let the string wrap around one of his sharpened bones. Then, he let out a grunt as he threw his sharpened bone towards the guy.

The guy with white hair was already a little off balance from doing a hasty dodge, and grit his teeth in order to forcibly shove his body to the side, just barely dodging the bone.

But that was when the corner of Sam's lip turned up.

He pointed towards the direction that the guy was moving in before a sudden stream of water shot out. It was rather thin, perhaps not even five centimeters wide, but it shot with decent speed and hit the guy with white hair right in the chest, whose eyebrows both shot up from shock.

Though at the same time, another invisible and silent bullet ripped through Sam's leg.

Both the guy with white hair and Sam were out.

Noticing this, Kairos immediately looked behind him, towards the girl with blue hair. She was looking back with the corner of her lip turned up, clearly still quite confident despite being the only person left.

She pointed a finger gun down towards Kairos' foot before letting her thumb fall down.

"Pow!"

The bullet was both silent and invisible, but Kairos could tell that it would rip through his foot if he continued to take a step forth. And so, he stepped to the side, avoiding it.

Kairos couldn't help but think that this ability was quite unfair. If it wasn't for the fact he had the ability to see the future, his own unfair ability, he would be helpless.

But thankfully, the girl with blue hair wouldn't be able to hit him unless he was negligent.

She had tried to predict his dodge by shooting towards the side. However, whenever that happened, Kairos would just continue forth without dodging.

The girl quickly realized that Kairos really could tell where exactly the bullets were going to hit. She decided to continue shooting anyway for fun, but didn't run away.

After all, the only way this fight would be decided is when the two of them began fighting within close quarters.

And so Kairos continued to dash forth with the steady beat of his feet slamming against the pavement. He would occasionally dash to the left or right, avoiding the miniature explosion at his feet.

His shirt flapped wildly in the wind, while his face was expressionless as ever.

Kairos' dead eyes stared right into the girl's cocky eyes.

It did not take long for the distance between the two of them to get closer. And now, Kairos was only about twenty meters away.

It was at that time the girl pulled her paddle back before whipping it forth, causing the spiked ball to shoot forth. Kairos watched as it expanded to a diameter of five meters and ripped through the ground in his future vision.

He threw himself to the side and twisted his body, letting it brush right past him. At the same time, he felt a strong pain rip through his leg once more.

Kairos bent his knees slightly before straightening them out, causing both his feet to slide backwards. It almost seemed like he was trying to dance.

Then, pavement flew up into the air from the spot where he just was.

Kairos continued to close the distance, but also took note of the loud ripping sound coming from behind him. He went forth while the girl closed one eye, aiming at his leg.

Then, she let her thumb fall.

Kairos suddenly felt a ripping pain in his leg, thus he moved it to the side. However, because he did that, he killed his momentum and could no longer dodge the rampaging spiked ball behind him.

His mind quickly whirred as he suddenly thought of something ambitious.

He looked behind him, but only in his future vision.

Then with that knowledge, he swung behind him with the sharpened bone.

With a clack, it hit the end of one of the many spikes on the ball, pushing both Kairos forth and keeping it at bay. Considering both the spike and the sharpened bone were both very thin, the margin of error was almost next to none.

In other words, had Kairos even been slightly off, it would have missed, he would've swung the sharpened bone for no reason.

In reality, it looked like he had kept his eyes on the girl the entire time, but swung his sharpened bone back, hitting the spike magically. Almost like he was a psychic.

The girl with blue hair raised an eyebrow for the first time and began backpedaling. Originally, Kairos would have been slower than the girl, but with the help of pushing on the spiked ball, he was able to steadily close the distance.

The girl seemed to notice as she tugged on the string, causing the spiked ball to slide to the side, causing Kairos' sharpened bone to disconnect.

Kairos naturally expected this, thus pulled back at the right moment.

As the spiked ball rushed to one side, the girl then pulled on the string the opposite way, causing the spiked ball to pull in and bulldoze its way towards Kairos at an angle.

And as that happened, she pointed another finger gun at him.

Kairos could immediately tell that the situation he was in wasn't the best. However, he wasn't going to give up now.

He looked towards the spiked ball and counted on his future vision to tell where the bullet would go.

With a small frown, Kairos focused hard as he held the sharpened bone somewhat horizontally to block the spiked ball. He suddenly felt a sharp pain at the top of his shoulder.

Kairos then quickly moved out of the way.

However, the expected shot did not come. There was a brief moment when his future vision warped. And in that time, Kairos did not sense the bullet go through his leg.

And as such, he suddenly felt a ripping sensation through his leg, but not in his future vision. At the same time, the giant spiked ball collided with the bone, which just barely remained in place, pushing Kairos forth.

He narrowed his eyes.

Kairos had now been hit once, while the girl hadn't.