>>279701669>>279703570>"""phantom assassin""" no one knows about!!!It's strongly implied that the US military concealed their backgrounds of both Axel and the assassin. They use them for black ops shit.
>basically 9/11's a highway, yeets infinite grenades into the middle of trafficNot the first time. Lazarus did a bunch of high profile crimes like shooting up a tanker filled with Russians along with a club with billionaires, but it was covered up by the government during a court hearing. Additionally, the US military did a 9/11 in an airport with Skinner but that event was concealed as well.
The main rule of the Lazarus universe is that the government is powerful enough to get away with committing high scale crimes in public.
>said phantom assassin proceeds to not shoot him, still, but instead fight... hand to handIt's an action movie trope where the bad guy plays with his equal in order to learn about him. I love that trope, but it's not for everyone. It started in heroic bloodshed films like a better tommorow 2.
https://youtu.be/nNLLxRXJTa4?t=400
Cowboy Bebop had the same trope where Vicious threw the sword back to Spike as opposed to gunning him down at the final scene.
https://youtu.be/pHxRpwvDo7w?t=64
Yeah, it's not realistic but I'd be lying if I said that it wasn't fucking COOL I have the feeling that Axel will have that fight with the assassin at the end.
>chris shows up with a rifle, decides to wait until axel gets a spear to the gut before charging like a dumbass when she could've taken shots at rangeEven when she was close all of her shots were inaccurate, she didn't want to hit them from what I was guessing.
>muh flashbackWe're going to learn more about Axel's background, I am guessing that he was involved in glowie shit and they were trying to kill him to cover it up.