Battle of Ascension

The sun is at its peak

Somewhere in the forest, a man holds a sword with blood and his in surrounding many scattered carcasses beasts. In front of him there are 5 beasts that are still alive, this beasts has black fur and red eyes, has a size slightly bigger than the hyena on earth, has a nimble movement, this beast is Black Wildcat but in front of this man, Black Wildcat unable to escape or fight back with their nimble movement, they were slaughtered mercilessly.

This man is Randy, from morning till now he's killed a lot of Black Wildcat and this is the third nest of Black Wildcat that he found. Initially Randy thought hunting this beast would be more difficult than hunting Demonic Rabbit but it turned out he only needed one attack to kill Black Wildcat, therefore, he decided to directly attack the nest of the Black Wildcat rather than looking for the wandering one.

Then Randy looks at the live cat in front of him, these 5 cats seem wanted to avenge their kin but they are also afraid of approaching Randy but Randy does not care what the cat thought, he rushed to attack these five cats.

Randy's movement is so fast for this cat to react, within 5 seconds 3 of Black Wildcat was dead from Randy's attack. Seeing 3 of them die, 2 other cats intended to escape but impossible for Randy to let them escape.

With the total Agility he has now, he's easy to catch up with Black Wildcat who is trying to escape and kill them in one hit.

After killing all Black Wildcats, Randy started collecting the carcasses and storing it in Storage System. In Storage System stored 117 Black Wildcat carcasses, which he managed to kill from morning until this afternoon.

Randy was not too familiar with the environment in the Black Wildcat area, so he decided to return to the lake where he used to eat lunch or rest after hunting.

It takes 10 minutes for Randy to reach the lake. Upon arriving at the lake, Randy pulled out the Demonic Rabbit carcass for lunch. It's been 3 days this carcass is in Storage System but this carcass did not rot.

"Maybe this is one of the functions of System Storage," Randy muttered.

For some reason he never got bored or even fed up with Demonic Rabbit meat, he had been eating rabbit meat for over two weeks, he just was a bit bored of eating roasted meat.

"Maybe I'll bring some ingredients and spices to make soup from tomorrow," Randy muttered.

As the rabbit's flesh is beginning to cooked. Suddenly Randy hears sound a bush and footsteps behind him. He immediately let go of the stick he used to roasted the rabbit meat and took his sword on the ground right next to him and pulled out his sword out of the sheath, preparing for the fight.

The sound of the bushes and the sound of the footsteps did not stop, as if the unknown creature was walking toward where he was. Randy is getting ready to use [Basic Detection] skills, if [Basic Detection] failed then he will use [Burst Agility] and run away.

The sound of the step closer, Randy's heartbeat become faster.

"Something unknown is more terrible than something that known," Randy said in his heart.

Moments later the creature appeared. After seeing the creature appeared, Randy was relieved. The creature is human, one man and one woman. The man has a simple face with short brown hair but he has sharp blue eyes.

When the man saw Randy take out his sword and in a position ready to fight he became alert and took out his sword from his sheath at his waist.

"Who are you?" that man said warily.

After a while the man spoke, Randy heard the voice of the woman behind the man muttering, "Is this the man Yoshiteru ordered to hunt us down?"

Although the woman's voice is small but Randy can still hear it. Randy thought they misunderstand him so he puts his sword back into the sheath.

"It's okay, do not get me wrong, I heard footsteps so I guess you guys are beasts and therefore I'm in a position ready to fight" Randy explained with a friendly smile.

Though Randy had explained with a friendly smile, this man and woman did not reduce their vigilance of Randy.

Randy only smiles wryly when he saw the two guys still alert even though he's explained it but he can understand why they stay alert. There is no way they will loosen the vigilance to the stranger who just took out his sword that almost fought with them.

Randy ignored these two people who are still wary of him. He picked up the nearly cooked rabbit meat that he had thrown on the ground when he heard footsteps behind him just now. Randy cleansed the meat that fell to the ground before he roasted it again.

Randy roasted the rabbit meat by facing these two strangers. the two strangers were still looking at Randy cautiously, they were separated by a distance of about 15 meters.

Actually, they walked in this direction after smelled the grilled rabbit meat. After they smelled the fragrant scent from the meat they approached the source of the smell and intended to ask for the meat for their lunch as well but they did not expect to meet with Randy who in position ready to fight, which is why they are so wary of Randy.

But after they saw Randy roast the meat, they came to know the origin of the smell of the meat they smelled. The aroma of the meat comes from the man in front of them.

They loosened their vigilance a little, then the man approaches Randy and said politely,"Hello, do you still have meat that like the one you roast now? if you still have it can you give us some or I can also pay for it."

Randy finally understood why they were heading to where he was because they smelled the scent of the meat he had roasted. Indeed, the aroma of Demonic Rabbit meat is very fragrant and the tastes very good too, the meat is soft and not greasy.

Then Randy pulled out two Demonic Rabbit carcass from Storage System and handed it to the man in front of him.

"You do not have to pay, I have a lot of this meat," Randy said as he gave the Demonic Rabbit carcass.

"Oh, this is the spices if you want to roast it and you can clean the meat in the lake behind us" Randy explained to the man in front of him by giving him the spice he used to roast his meat.

"Thank you"

Then the man called the woman who was with him and walked to the lake to clean the meat.

While Randy's meat was cooked and he was eating his meat while watching the two strangers cleaning the rabbit meat.

"Looks like they are lovers," Randy said in his heart after seeing the movements of these two men. Their faces look very happy, laughing while cleaning the meat Demonic Rabbit.

Then they came back to where Randy was carrying the cleaned Demonic Rabbit meat.

"Thank you for the meat and spices," the man said, then he introduced himself and the woman with him, "My name is Kojiro Sasaki and this is my girlfriend Asuka Ogasawara."

Randy's guess was right, that they were both lovers.

"Oh hello, my name is Randy Christian" Randy introduced himself.

"If I may know what meat is this? this is the first time I have smelled such a fragrant scent of meat" Asuka Ogasawara asked Randy. Kojiro Sasaki also looks at Randy, he also curious.

"Oh this is the meat of the Demonic Rabbit," Randy told them.

"Demonic Rabbit? The level 1 beasts that often roamed in this area? But it seems there is no Demonic Rabbit wandering around here again" Asuka surprised when Randy said that this is the meat of the Demonic Rabbit because usually the higher level of the beast the more delicious the meat, based on what they know.

They also ate Demonic Rabbit meat but they did not remember that the Demonic Rabbit meat could produce such fragrance scent.

When he heard Asuka's words, Randy just smiled and did not tell them that he had killed all the Demonic Rabbit in this area.

After that they did not talk anymore, Randy finished his lunch and is lying under a tree while Asuka and Kojiro eat their freshly cooked meat.

After Randy lies down for 15 minutes he finally decided to continue to hunt again. Usually, he will take nap about 30 minutes but because there is a couple who always intimate in front of him he decided to go hunting again.

Though now he's married now but he didn't through the dating process so he did not know what it's like to be dating, Randy could not bear to see Asuka and Kojiro who are intimate so he decides to go.

"Okay, I'll continue the hunt, I will go first, Asuka, Kojiro" Randy said goodbye, waving his hand.

"Uh, Asuka?"

"Uh, Kojiro?"

Asuka and Kojiro feel awkward when they are called by their first names. In Japan, they are usually called by the surname if they just know each other. If they are family or close friends then they could call each other by the first name because it Asuka and Kojiro feel awkward or feel weird when they are called by their first name by Randy.

Seeing the response from Asuka and Kojiro, Randy is confused.

"Am I wrongly called their names?" Randy said in his heart.

"Uh, why? Did I get your name wrong?" Randy asked in puzzlement.

Hearing questions from Randy, Asuka and Kojiro are realized that Randy is not Japanese.

"Oh that's okay, it's just weird when you call with our first name" Kojiro replied.

Randy is more confused, why they feel weird when he called them by their first names.

Seeing Randy getting confused, Asuka explained to Randy, "Usually we Japanese people call by surname if we just know each other, so we feel weird and awkward when you call us by our first names."

Hearing this Randy understood. Then he said, "Okay, so I'll call with your surname from now on? Ehmm Sasaki and Ogasawara."

"Oh, it's okay, you can call us by our first name, even though we just know each other but we already regard you as our friend," Kojiro said with a smile.

Hearing this Randy gets a little annoyed, they were felt weird when he called their first name, now when he called them by surname, they said that it's okay to call them by their first name.

Of course Randy did not say this to Kojiro and Asuka and also after saw the expressions of Kojiro and Asuka, they seemed sincere when they said regarded him as their friend.

"Well, since you guys have regarded me as your friend I'll give this to you guys," Randy said with a smile and then he took out 10 Demonic Rabbit carcasses from System Storage and gave it to Kojiro and Asuka.

After this Randy directly continues his hunting.