The aerial overlord, having lost its balance, instantly turned into a kite with a broken string.
Its massive body spun in the air like an out-of-control bomber, crashing headfirst into the dense forest below.
A series of crashing sounds rang out.
Countless trees were snapped by it, dust flew, and the commotion was so great it felt like a small earthquake.
"My god!"
Strange sat on the branch, his mouth open wide enough to fit an egg.
His eyes, which had witnessed countless precision surgeries and believed he knew human anatomy and physical limits like the back of his hand, were completely unable to comprehend everything that had just happened.
"This isn't scientific, this is absolutely not scientific."
He muttered to himself, like a child whose worldview had collapsed.
"The G-force generated by that device is enough to snap her spine, and that gas propulsion—Newton's coffin lid is about to fly off."
What left Strange completely baffled was precisely the terror of the Ackerman lineage.
That was a modified human body, possessing bone density and muscle explosive power that surpassed mortals.
Coupled with the System's rule corrections, it made those unscientific anime moves possible in reality.
The battle wasn't over.
Alice retracted the steel wire in the air, sprayed gas again, tapped lightly on a tree trunk to change direction, and dove toward the place where the Pterosaur had fallen.
"As long as the head is still there, it's a threat."
This was a dogma carved deep into Mikasa's soul.
In the dense forest below, the severely injured Pterosaur was struggling frantically.
It used its remaining intact wing and strong legs to thrash on the ground, its huge long beak biting crazily at everything around it; trees as thick as a bowl were snapped like chopsticks by it.
It wasn't dead yet; it was still lethal.
Alice descended from the sky silently like a white falcon.
"Whoosh!"
Two steel wires shot out again; this time, they precisely nailed into the ground on both sides of the Pterosaur's frantically thrashing neck.
The winch spun rapidly.
Alice, using the pull of the steel wires, became like a bullet shot from a slingshot, skimming close to the ground at an extremely high speed, charging straight for the Pterosaur's abdomen.
The Pterosaur sensed danger; it lowered its head, intending to peck this little bug that was rushing over to death.
But Alice was faster than it.
At the moment of imminent collision, she slammed the gas spray button, her body instantly vaulted into the air, executing an extremely agile backflip, perfectly avoiding that lethal peck.
Subsequently, she landed on the Pterosaur's back.
Right there, where the wound Strange had stabbed with an arrow was located.
"Sorry, your pilot's license has been revoked."
Alice said coldly.
She gripped her twin blades in a reverse hold and raised them high.
Then, in the last rays of the sunset, she stabbed them fiercely into the Pterosaur's hind neck spine.
"Pfft!"
The blades sank in up to the hilt.
Alice twisted her hands with force, then yanked them violently to the sides.
This was the standard execution method of the Survey Corps for hunting Titans.
Sever the nape.
The Pterosaur's struggling stopped instantly.
Its pair of golden vertical pupils, filled with brutality and unwillingness, rapidly lost their luster.
Its massive body twitched one last time, then slumped heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Deathly silence once again engulfed this forest.
Only the slight hissing sound of gas leaking from the Omni-directional Mobility Gear could be heard.
Alice knelt halfway on the Pterosaur's corpse and slowly pulled out the dual blades.
Thick blood dripped along the blade grooves, staining her pristine white Survey Corps uniform red.
She shook the blood off the blades, her movements as elegant as if she were completing the final step of a ritual.
"Click."
She triggered the mechanism, and the two blades, already chipped, detached and fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
Subsequently, she drew a pair of brand-new blades from the scabbard on her waist and finished reloading.
This entire sequence of movements was fluid and smooth, filled with a kind of cruel industrial aesthetic.
"Hoo..."
Only then did Alice let out a long breath.
As the adrenaline slowly faded, the cold murderous intent belonging to Mikasa gradually subsided, replaced by a trace of fatigue from Alice herself.
"That was close; if that big loop just now had been 0.1 seconds slower, I might have turned into bird poop by now."
She thought to herself with lingering fear.
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