Adopted Soldier

Oliver was not one to hold back even when the fight was rigged. Alex already told him that he and the others should go all out since there was no way they would win. Oliver was a little bit, just a tiny bit irritated by that statement. Now that he had all his memories back, he knew that he and Alex were considered to be equals, and now he was telling him that he was left in the dust. 

Niel and Kei started shooting at Alex, who simply diverted the trajectory of the bullets using his sword and evaded Oliver's attacks by swaying his body. The way he moved and smiled was like he was simply enjoying a little game with his friends, but the truth was one slip-up could possibly injure Alex severely. To make the fight look real, Oliver, Niel, and Kei were all aiming at Alex's vitals. Yet no matter how much they attacked they couldn't hit Alex who was moving around like a monkey. 

...

Richter who was watching the fight between friends was at first skeptical, but as the fight proceeded and he saw the expressions of the four boys fighting, this made Richter almost fully believe that they were really trying to kill each other. He was really pleased to see how arrogant Alex was acting like they were all beneath him. This was the way of the Greyhounds, their true original nature. 

It was in their nature to be full of pride, Alex might think he was above that, but Richter knew deep down he was the same. 

Still, Richter's suspicions weren't fully gone, as he remained a tiny bit skeptical. 

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Oliver was getting a bit irritated that no matter what he did he couldn't hit Alex. What made it even more irritating was that cocky smile Alex was showing. As Alex evaded his spinning back kick Oliver spoke to him.

"I liked it better when you were stoic." 

"Really? I kinda like the new me." Alex happily replied while shooting at Niel who evaded while running towards him. 

Niel knew that shooting Alex from afar while covering Oliver, was pretty much useless so he tried to fight up close with Oliver. They only needed Kei for the cover fire. Also, Niel was better in close quarters combat than range. Niel used the wires from his glove to entangle Alex's leg, but it was too obvious which made it easy to avoid. 

Even though Niel has been using the same fighting style as Lyner, his skill was nowhere near enough to handle the wires as fluently as Lyner. Though he could still use them for distractions. 

Alex who was evading the onslaught of attacks from all sides was still finding it pretty easy. He was amazed at how fast his reflexes were. Even though he fought Leon before, he couldn't really get a feel of how strong he was since they were both of equal strength. Now that he was fighting people that used to be at the same level as him, Alex finally knew just how much he had improved in this one year apart. Though it was apparent that Oliver and Niel, even Kei had improved greatly over the past year, but compared to Alex's improvement it was nothing much. 

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Seeing how calm and collected Alex was, coupled with that cocky smile of his, Niel, Oliver, and even Kei shared a look and nodded their heads. The three of them only planned to fight a bit realistically so that they won't alert Richter to their plans but seeing Alex like that was pissing them off a bit. 

Well even if they went all out, base on Alex's current strength he would be able to handle it, at this point they weren't even thinking about how they're being made to kill each other. All the three of them were thinking was to get a hit on Alex, and pull him down a peg. 

The three of them stopped attacking and changed their stances. Oliver lifted his sword in an overhead position. Niel went down on the ground and looked like he was a lion about to pounce on his prey. Kei, on the other hand, changed from kneeling pose, to crawling pose. 

Alex who saw them changed their stances, knew that things were about to escalate. He for the first time in the whole fight took a stance and was ready to receive his friends. Without any signal, Niel was the first to move. Even Alex wasn't able to see Niel's initial movement, but he felt a wind blow which alerted him of Niel's location, which was behind him. Alex lifted up his sword, but Niel's wires got a hold of it. While Alex was trying to pull his sword away, he suddenly let go of the hilt and did a dodge roll. A bullet passed by where Alex was standing moments ago, Kei was able to shoot without Alex noticing he fired. 

Alex who had successfully dodged, lifted his hand in a prayer position as he caught a sword that came falling down from above. Oliver had attacked with perfect precision, it was a good thing Alex's reflexes have improved or else he would have been sliced in half. 

'These guys are seriously trying to kill me now!' Alex screamed in his head. He then felt Niel was about to strike, so using the downward sword momentum, Alex made Oliver bump into Niel. Using this opportunity Alex charged at the weakest member, Kei.

Kei who saw the fast approaching Alex tried shooting at him but to no avail. Alex then punched Kei in different points of his body with speed and precision. After that one combo attack, Kei fell his body stopped moving. 

Oliver and Kei were surprised to see that happen to Kei. 'Did Alex actually kill him?' Both of them thought of that at the same time, which was not a good idea. Even getting distracted for a fraction of second was enough for Alex to exploit. He used the same attack on Niel next, which gave a similar result as Niel fell down looking lifeless. 

"Alex what have you done! Why did you kill them! I thought you had a plan!" Oliver suddenly screamed as Alex attacked him the same way. As Oliver's consciousness was fading he heard Alex speak to him in his normal stoic voice.

"Killing you is part of the plan."