"Leticia, are you saying the thing you mentioned is just chasing a thief!"
"Can a regular thief move at this speed?"
"Stop talking, you two! Keep your eyes on him, don't let him get away!"
The trio was currently sprinting down the street. Pedestrians were scared off the road by their fierce expressions, which actually made the chase a lot less troublesome for them.
Their target was a person wrapped entirely in black fabric, clutching a small black safe in their arms, though it was unclear what was inside.
As for how things ended up this way, it's a long story.
Ten minutes ago, after Kamanato requested reinforcements from the Hero Association, the blond-haired guy proposed a plan to wait for the target to come to them.
"How about we just go to where the incident happened and block that person off?"
"That's a good idea." This time, Leticia didn't refuse. "Let me check again... Hmm, it's that spot up ahead. That person will come rushing out from here in a moment."
Leticia pointed to a dark alleyway and said, "Be careful, that person might be carrying a weapon."
Under the confused gazes of the surrounding crowd, the three of them crouched at the exit of the alleyway. To be safe, the black-haired girl even laid a few rope net traps at the alley entrance.
This looked foolproof, right?
As it turned out, the three of them hadn't expected that the guy wouldn't come out from the alleyway, but would instead burst out through a window of a small building nearby.
One could only say that Leticia's predicted location had a slight deviation this time.
The trio and the black-clad figure who had burst through the window locked eyes, and for a moment, the atmosphere fell into an eerie silence.
The person in black hadn't expected anyone to be waiting for them at the exit, and the trio hadn't expected the person to make such a flashy entrance.
A second later, the blond-haired guy reacted first and lunged straight at the person in black.
The person in black reacted immediately, throwing a few small, round objects onto the ground. In an instant, gray smoke engulfed their figure.
But the smoke was quickly blown away by Momo manipulating the wind. By then, the person in black had already run nearly fifty meters away.
Just like that, a chase began.
The person in black ran in front, and the trio chased from behind, both sides maintaining an awkward distance of fifty meters.
If they tried to chase, they couldn't catch up; if the other tried to run, they couldn't get away.
Anyone unaware of the situation might think these people were having a long-distance race on the street.
"Stop right there!" the blond-haired guy shouted loudly. "We are a Hero Association hero squad! If you put down your weapon and surrender on the spot, it can count as turning yourself in; otherwise, prepare to rot in jail!"
Hearing the blond guy's words, the person in black ran even faster. Just kidding—the things they had done were already enough to make them rot in jail.
Just like that, the four of them chased and fled, gradually leaving the central district and about to enter the sparsely populated transition zone.
The person in black no longer had the panic from the beginning; their mission was about to be completed, and the handover location mentioned by the employer was right here.
Two weirdos, one in black and one in white—this was the information the employer had given.
Scanning the street quickly, the person in black happily discovered that there were indeed two weirdos, one in black and one in white, standing at the intersection in the distance.
Almost there, almost there, just a little faster. As long as the item was handed over, everything would have nothing to do with them.
One hundred meters, fifty meters, twenty meters...
The two weirdos noticed the commotion. The one wearing white even waved at them, which made the stone in the person in black's heart drop to the bottom.
Sure enough, they were the people coming to support them.
The moment they passed by the person in white, they shoved the case to them. "My mission is complete."
After saying that, they took a turn and disappeared at the intersection.
"Stop!" The trio finally arrived late.
"Blond hair, gray hair, black hair... Oh, so it's these three. Little White, you want to go?" The person in white who had received the case looked over the three young people and asked the person in black beside them.
"You deal with the gray-haired one." The figure of the person in black suddenly vanished. The next moment, a fist wearing a black glove appeared on the blond guy's face.
"Your reaction is really slow." Watching the blond guy fly backward nearly ten meters, the person in black commented coldly.
"You guy!" Seeing her comrade attacked, Momo knew what the situation was. Without hesitation, she flew directly into the sky, wanting to unleash her abilities fully.
This place was sparsely populated, so she could use her abilities boldly.
But the person in black didn't give her that chance at all. Before Momo could fly into the sky, the person in black appeared beneath her feet and reached out to grab her ankle.
With a forceful swing, Momo, who was halfway up, was slammed hard onto the ground.
In just two moves, two A-rank heroes were injured.
"Sigh, actually, she alone would have been enough." The person in white shook their head, then turned their gaze to Leticia. "Miss with the gray hair, how about we make a deal? You just stay where you are, and you won't have to end up in such a sorry state like your two teammates. How about that?"