Hunter of the Perished World

[7] Hunter and Cat Thief (1)

It was common for a free city to have a large safe in the city at great risk of theft. Keeping chips in the house is for idiots. Merchants form an alliance and store everyone’s chips together in a secure vault.

Of course, the vault is the safest place to be, although the guards don’t usually run off with it. There is a good chance that chips will be stolen from your home, but if you store them in a vault, only them will be stolen. Eventually, people established strange rationalities.

The safe is the safest place to put Bondi, and the safest place, of course, is the safest. People think alike. That’s why the vaults were usually located in plain sight. Gene entered a four-story, well-maintained, abandoned building on the ground.

The vault is usually in a secure building, underground. I don’t remember losing this principle. Humans may instinctively think that the earth is safe. Gene was occasionally grateful to the audacity of humans.

As he goes down to the basement, Gene stops walking in front of his nose.

But, wow.

One of the ghouls sits down and bites something excitedly. There were, of course, three bodies.

‘He died trying to rob the safe.’

On the way down to the basement, while blocking the stairwell, the carnivorous ghoul was eating the corpse hard, not caring about the gin. Perhaps even in this tragedy, he was killed robbing the vault to take away my greed.

Getting too close is also not good. If he tried to pass by, the ghoul must have reacted. Fortunately, there was only one ghoul on the stairs, and it wasn’t that hard for Gin to handle this.

Jin pulls the iron scaled gloves out of his arms and places them in his right hand. This weapon, called ‘Blade gauntlet’ was very easy when dealing with small monsters.

Then slowly, killing the footsteps, he approached the ghoul showing his back.

Woodpeck! Woodpeck!

Glug! Glug!

The ghoul, eager for its prey, had no gin at all. Gene moves slowly as if he had stopped. Like a first-time walker, it moves very quietly until you finally see the worn pores on the head of the grill.

Hunting is simple.

Slowly when approaching, and.

Qajik!

Faster than sound when caught.

“Queek! Queek!”

Thump, thump! Phew!

“44761;!”

Gene grabs the Ghoul’s neck and rips it out while crushing its cervical spine. The sharp iron scales and fingertips on the razor gloves pierce the gouge’s neck. Gene squashes over the tumultuous body of the ghoul and crushes the ghoul until it completely suffocates.

Hunting and fighting are different.

Hunting includes all times it takes to reach an enemy, including combat, or to arrive an enemy.

Exterminating an enemy in a heartbeat is the ideal hunting. Combat is important but low in hunting.

A blue-chip extractor was mounted on the corpse of a mangled ghoul. A total of 3 chips were extracted. Jin retrieves the extractor and heads down to the vault.

The old tin door is securely closed, but all locks are unlocked.

Tin Door was a very heavy door for three ordinary people to open. Three dead bodies would have died trying to steal the chips to open this door. And there were dozens of claw marks on the tin door.

However, Gene was not difficult to open the thick tin door by himself.

Gain on moss

A heavy tin door scratches the floor and opens.

Gene stiffens in the lantern’s light. Gene tilts his head toward the thing in front of him. It looks at Gin with difficulty, whether she opens her eyes to the sound of the tin door. It smiled faintly.

“A person….”

A girl lay on the floor.

The girl was strangely engulfed in the flesh. The girl mutters slowly, her dying eyes.

“Hey, I need some water…”

The girl lost her mind after saying so. Jin gazes down at the fallen girl tied down.

Jin slowly began to flip over to determine the danger of the encased girl.

Even the way Gene treats people like objects, she doesn’t wake up to see if she has any energy.

Hunters think.

‘He’s not a vagrant by the color of his eyes, and he can’t be a child slater.’

‘A civilian.’

‘I’m famished. It’s amazing to be alive.’

‘Is this safe heavy enough for the baby Giant Wolf to push open? Is that why he survived? Wolves tried to open the door after smelling it, but it didn’t open. Is that why there were claw marks on the door?’

‘On the contrary, on the inside, this kid must have been heavy enough to open the door. The Vault saved your life, but you were dying because of it. Then I wonder how you got into this safe.’

‘Did the dead robbers imprison you first?’

Hunters judge.

‘We can use it as evidence.’

This girl is a survivor of her own self. This means it can be used as a Witness for the Asd Point quest. If it bothers you, you can leave the testimony alone. Taking the child back to Ad Point was a hassle just thinking about it.

Gene searches the vault, leaving the girl down.

Soon, the hunter found another reason to save the girl.

‘There’s no chip.’

There was not a single blue chip left in the vault.

When the girl woke up, the first thing I saw was a man boiling something in a pot. It was still in a sealed vault, and the man boiling something with the heat from the ignited core looked at the girl.

“You’re awake.”

Jin handed the girl a cup of water, and the girl took a hard drink of water. With such a refreshing feeling that the hunger of the soul fades, the girl finds a little energy.

“Who are you?”

“I’m a hunter.”

“I see…. I thought you were dead. Thank you, sir.”

“No need to thank me.”

Jin handed a bowl of boiled meat to the girl, and she was afraid to eat the soup. Even though it was hot and painful, the girl did not spill a drop.

“I give you water and food, and you answer my questions.”

I understood what Jean was saying. Gene was not a very friendly person, and said mechanically.

“There are three questions.”

“…….”

“First, did the poem fall by any raid? Second, how did you get into that vault? Third, where did you take all the chips from the vault?”

When three questions came out in a flash, the girl looked at Gene cautiously. Safety in this wilderness is the story of a strange country. Hunters don’t know what to do if they don’t get the answers they want.

“What happens if you don’t answer?”

“I’ll make you answer.”

“How?”

“Well, are you curious?”

Gin’s question hardened the girl’s face. The girl slowly said in a voice full of enemies.

“Will you kill me if I tell you?”

The girl’s suspicions were reasonable, as it was inevitable to hear the necessary information and kill the annoying man.

“If I told you that, you wouldn’t think I’d kill you if I didn’t.”

“…….”

“Tell me.”

“Then let me ask you a question.”

I was really excited when I saw how dangerous my life was and what I was going to ask myself in this situation.

But it was a world full of tasty people, so there was nothing new. Gin asked.

“What is it?”

The girl reaches out her empty bowl.

“Here, I chewed some meat.”

I was scared to death, but I felt something like the texture of meat. I was quite tired and enjoyed it badly. I tried it once, but it made me nervous after eating it. Most importantly, meat is not common enough to give to strangers.

“Of course meat tastes better since it’s meat.”

“…… What kind of notice?”

The hunter points to the vault door as he sweeps the soup.

“I hunted a ghoul earlier.”

“Huh, huh? What?”

“You seem to lack understanding.”

“W-what kind of meat is this…?”

“Well, it’s grilled meat.”

“Ooh, ooh!”

The girl pushes up to the top what she fears to hear. Gene sighs as she sees the girl vomiting back what she ate.

“These days…”

Jin grunts like an old man and eats the roast beef soup.

The girl ate and pushed the meat soup back and forth, enduring the disgusting feeling that she was hungry. Seeing that he was nauseous and eating, he firmly believed that he might die if he didn’t eat now.

“Phew…”

However, the girl looked better because she ate something.

“I’m Leona. What’s your name?”

“I don’t want to know your name. Answer the question just now.”

Leona pouted.

“If you forget, I’ll ask you again first…”

“I remember everything. You don’t have to tell me everything.”

After cutting Gin’s words, Leona suddenly changes her eyes.

“But how can I trust you to let me live when I’ve answered them all?”

“Well, I intend to take you to Ardpoint, three days west, as a witness to the quest. I don’t have 100 blue chips without you, so taking your life is entirely a conflict of interest to me.”

“…… It’s hard for me to say. Easy for you to say.”

Leona frowned because she didn’t understand Jin’s vocabulary properly, and Gene has been complaining about the educational status of ‘young people’ lately.

“You’re a survivor here, so you know the details of the collapse….”

“What does the channel mean?”

Gene is obsessed with how to make this kid understand. Gene thought for a moment and said, looking at Leona with a puzzled expression.

“You’re the best one who knows why this place is a wreck, so we need you. Without you, I can’t solve the quest cleanly, understand?”

“Ahh… That’s what I said. It’s confusing.”

Gene sighed once again, seeing Leona who understands me so well in slang, but he had no obligation to care about anything like that.

“So you have to tell somebody why the poem’s fucked up, and I’m the one who knows it best, so you have to take me to your boss, and you can’t kill me?”

“Though I don’t have anything in my head, I understand.”

“…… I was a little upset right now.”

“Never mind the empty words.”

“Empty words?”

Leona tilts her head, but doesn’t ask again. Leona answers Gene’s first question.

“I don’t know the date, but suddenly there were wolves everywhere, and the big wolves and the little wolves started killing people.”

“Weren’t you locked in a vault?”

“When the monsters came, they locked me in the vault. To keep me from escaping.”

“Hmm…. Those Giant Wolves are not originally a herd… No, monsters. Do you know why you’re a herd?”

Leona shrugs.

“How would I know that? He just said.”

Survivors were naturally unaware. Leona answered the first question as well as the second. Suddenly, the raid begins, and Leona is locked away in a vault. It was not a voluntary entry.

“Did something happen in this town?”

“I killed two people.”

“Why did you kill him?”

“One tried to steal my chip, the other tried to rape me.”

“Oh.”

Gene was a little surprised at the fact that it was possible for a little boy of this stature to kill two people in cold blood.