Michizugawa slowly walked upwards while pointing his rifle forward. His other teammate meanwhile is slowly ascending while pointing his rifle downward, where the smoke covered everything
Michizugawa peeked at the second floor and he could clearly see the hallway through his night vision goggles. He looked at his watch for a bit and saw that it's 11pm now, as he's thinking about calling reinforcement now. But in the end, he shook his head
'The reinforcements that I'm going to call are also involved in the operation. So no one is going to help us here. We're on our own'
The two then finally managed to reach the second floor as they kept their footsteps as low as possible. Then, Michizugawa studied the second floor. He saw many intersections ahead of them and so many rooms. He then signal to his teammate to stay to look at the intersection ahead, as they will clear all the rooms as they advance
Then, Michizugawa slowly walked towards the right as he got close to the door. Then, the all the doors in the second floor burst open at the same time! Michizugawa only managed to fire towards the person behind the door, before diving to the ground and tossing a smoke grenade ahead
Pang! Pang! Pang! Pang!
Ratatatatatatat!!
Many enemies fired towards in their direction, as the darkness of the night was shattered by the flashes of light and the deafening sounds of gunshots. He looks worriedly towards his only partner who was taking cover in the wall. While he's returning fire towards the enemies, Michizugawa instantly shouted to his partner when he saw the number of their enemies
"Retreat back to the first floor!! I'll cover you!!"
"Yes, sergeant!"
His partner answered loudly before dashing out of his hiding spot and practically diving towards the stairs. As Michizugawa sees him escape from the hail of bullets that's going in their direction, He immediately hid towards the corner while shooting flashes in the distance due to the increasingly dense smoke from the smoke grenade
But, even though the hallway was again covered in thick smoke, the bullets didn't stop whistling. It's as if they're going to destroy his hiding spot by drowning it in bullets. Cold sweat forms on his forehead. He's practically trapped in his hiding spot!
Ratatatatatatat!!
As he's considering risking it by running before jumping to the stairs. Grenades suddenly landed in front of him! He didn't hesitate any longer and suddenly dashed from his hiding spot towards the stairs! Only, he didn't jump. He suddenly falls as he slid on the floor using his momentum before he vanished at the end of the stairs
Boomm!! Boomm!! Boomm!!
The grenades went off one after another as the firing stopped. The enemies are also worried about being hit by the shrapnel as they hid behind the covers. As Michizugawa took a deep breath, he suddenly felt an intense pain in his left arm. He looked at his upper arm and saw a bullet wound that was letting out blood. As he studied the wound, he couldn't help but sigh of relief
'Thank god it's only a scratch wound. Or this is going to be troublesome'
Then his partner worriedly called out to him from below
"Sergeant, are you okay!?"
Michizugawa immediately corrected his posture as he was still laying flat on the stairs. He immediately held his rifle as he pointed it towards upstairs while saying on his partner
"Only a scratch wounds, get up here to tie this wounds up"
His partner didn't even replied as he rushed towards him upstairs. They're position is in the middle of the stairs and his partner immediately bandaged his wounds. As they're about to talk to each other. Footsteps sounded in the hallway of the second floor as their enemies got out of their hiding spots to go toward the stairs to finish them off
The two nervously looked at each other and Michizugawa made a sign of three fingers. Then, to the horror of his partner, he removed one finger after another and as the fingers turned into a fist. The two immediately stand up and fired their rifles towards the hallway
Ratatatatatatat!!
They set their rifles to automatic before they fire, so the hallway is immediately filled with their bullets. It's stupid to waste their bullets, but their enemies lined themselves up for the slaughter. They certainly not going to waste it
The enemy closest to them didn't manage to react on time as he died on the spot. But their enemies immediately fired at their location. They are many after all, and they finally confirmed that there's only two of them
Ratatatatatatat!!
Pang! Pang! Pang! Pang!
The two immediately ducked and hid from the rain of bullets. The concrete behind them got reduced to dust as they kept falling on them. Michizugawa said to his partner
"We're going to the first floor! We're heavily outnumbered here! But we need to guard the stairs as we cannot let them go to our wounded colleagues!"
His partner agreed, but before they even started their move. A fierce gunfight immediately erupted upstairs!
Michizugawa was confused at first before he immediately said to his partner
"It's the other team! We can attack them on both sides!"
"Yes! Let's go!"
His partner said as they immediately as they rushed upstairs. After reaching the second floor again, they open fire as they go each separate ways. Michizugawa go to the right and hid in the corner wall where he previously hid. And his partner goes to the left, towards his previous hiding spot
Then, they peek out their rifles and fire at them. Their enemies also release a barrage of bullets at them, but, as they're now not receiving the enemies full fire power like before. That's because they are also firing at the other end of the hallway where the surviving police officers was shooting at them
Many of their enemies fell as they rushed again inside the rooms and corners as they hid. Being caught in a pincer attack will wipe them out if they didn't hide. Although the police officers are low in number, the hallway gave them an advantage. As they stopped firing, the hallway is suddenly enveloped in silence
Then, Michizugawa broke that silence as he shouted
"Colleagues!! We-!!"
Only to be cut off by as he hears the sounds of firing from the entrance of the building they are in. He immediately remembered the injured officers that were staying there. Then, Michizugawa's eyes widened as he immediately shouted
"To the entrance!!"
He and his partner immediately descended towards the first floor. As they descended, they also heard rapid footsteps on the other side of the hallway of the second floor. It seems that the other team also recognized the danger their colleagues was in at the entrance
Michizugawa immediately grabbed the shoulder of his rushing partner and said to him
"You will guard this stairs as we figure out what to do! Hold them off as much as you can! If we all go at the entrance, we're going to be attacked on both sides, while also possibly being attacked from the outside!"
His partner hesitated, he's clearly also afraid but he nodded anyway
"Yes sergeant! I will hold them off!"
Michizugawa patted him while looking at him with sadness, he then said
"Good, you can retreat to the entrance if you can't hold them off any longer"
With that, Michizugawa immediately sprints towards the entrance of the building, as he was running, gunshots immediately sounded where he left his partner
'Maybe, we're going to be wipeout here'
He banished the thought immediately as he arrived at the entrance. He also saw the other team arrive. There's only 3 of them as they've also left one to defend the stairs on the other side
They looked at each other before immediately running towards their wounded colleagues