Becoming a Hunter in a Dark Fantasy - Chapter 113
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Episode 113 Mine Floeta (5)
The members of the Spero unit were shocked at the sight of their comrades who had been babbling away suddenly disappearing. It was an unprecedented situation that they had never experienced before.
Your colleague suddenly disappeared?
Calix looked back at Sercia urgently.
“Sercia. Was that magic just now?”
“… … Just a moment. Let me take a look.”
A look of bewilderment was evident on Sersia’s face. Her lavender eyes pierced through the space where Gale had been, scanning it thoroughly.
Perhaps it’s to analyze the remnants of magic left there.
“At first glance, it seems like magic… … . But it’s not really magic… … ?”
Sersia covered her mouth with her hand in embarrassment. Her pupils shook violently.
“This is… possible? No, how is this possible? The basic formulas and arrangements of magic are different! Is it possible to concentrate and manifest magic without the Magia Formula?”
Calix frowns in disapproval at the sight of him muttering nonsense to himself at the machine gun.
“Stop talking nonsense. Explain. What is going on… …!”
The moment Calix, unable to bear it any longer, tried to urge Sercia.
Hwaaaaak-!
When Gale disappeared, something like a portal filled with crimson energy was created, and something fell out of it.
“you……!!”
“Mr. Gale?!”
It was Gail, groaning and groaning. Was she tortured during the brief time she was kidnapped?
They were worried and were about to approach Gale to check on her condition.
“no!”
Suddenly, Elwin shouted like lightning.
There is a faint shock in the voice that shouts urgently as if he has noticed something.
“It’s not Gayle! That person… …!!”
Even though he had passed out, he still had some sense of smell, and his whole body was drenched in cold sweat as he groaned.
But what was different from before was that there was a black sign flower stuck in his ear and a bright yellow sign flower stuck on his chest.
“It’s Mr. Nero!!!”
* * *
“Huh?”
Gail, who had been dragged to a strange place out of the blue, blinked her eyes stupidly.
A dark and gloomy place where not a single ray of light enters.
“Ah, ahhhh!”
It looked as if it had been left abandoned for hundreds of years, with dust blowing around in the air.
“Where is this place?”
I tried to move my arms and legs absentmindedly, but all I could hear was the rattling sound of chains.
So Gail realized that her limbs were tied up tightly.
“her.”
It is also displayed in an ‘X’ shape.
‘I’m not some piece of meat from a butcher shop.’
“Kidnapping?”
Just by looking around at my surroundings and my condition, Gail got a general idea of what was going on.
“Hey, come out for a bit.”
He chuckled, then spoke in a voice that was devoid of any trace of anger.
“To kidnap a dark-skinned man with no money in such a dark place… … The culprit must be quite idle. With nothing to do, he must have been watching me from the side. Hmm~ gloomy.”
Of course, I wasn’t saying this because I really thought that way. I was just trying to provoke the culprit who had personally brought Gale here, the unknown person.
Although Gail was usually a very playful and easygoing person, that didn’t mean she was inherently gentle.
“Huh? Could you please answer?”
Gail was also a rebellious person with a tendency to resist any situation or person that oppressed or coerced him.
Honestly, it wasn’t Gale’s turn to scold Elwin.
“Oh, are you deaf? Can’t you even speak properly? Didn’t you learn to read? I’m sorry about that~ I guess you’ve never been educated at home!”
Gail grumbled angrily, not showing any sign of apology.
As Elwin commented, the mouth that could open wide even while floating on water began to move very actively.
“Hello, hello! You’re awake?”
At that moment, a light, bouncy sound approached.
“I’m Floetta! Nice to meet you! As expected! It’s nice to see you in person like this, rather than a fake that looks real!”
She was a beauty with crimson hair wearing a dress like red petals.
“And to answer your question just now… … I’m still deaf! I think I can speak pretty well! Hehe!”
“under?”
“The letters… … are not very well written. Yeah. There’s nothing I can do about it.”
The crimson woman grumbled something incomprehensible, saying, ‘The world changed, so the characters we used changed. You gave us the ability to speak as a dimensional traveler’s privilege… … If you’re going to do it, you should’ve given us the ability to read and write, too.’
“Lastly! I have never been homeschooled before! My father doesn’t know and my mother abandoned me!”
“… … .”
“Amazing-! How did you know?!”
One thing I discovered was that his kidnapper had a very bright mind.
“That’s what I’m saying. I almost died without leaving a body because of one mistake! A special hunter of the Blue… … Ugh! I didn’t know there were monsters like Imrasu here. It was so scary all this time… …!!”
I really wasn’t curious at all, but the woman laughed heartily and told me her stories in a haphazard manner.
However, although the woman was a good speaker, the content and time point of her story were disjointed and lacked context.
It was as if I had never talked to anyone for a long time, and had never had anyone listen to me.
Slurp.
“huh?”
Then, suddenly, she checked the hourglass on the floor nearby and stood up from where she had been crouching without any hesitation. The sand in the hourglass had all gone down.
“Oh my! I was having so much fun that I didn’t even realize how much time had passed. What a pity! Time is up now.”
“……ok?”
The woman smiled, her spiderweb-shaped eyes closing prettily.
Floetta and Gale’s eyes met. Red and blue eyes recognized each other. Deep, deep abyss.
“Did you think I was just rambling on and on? No way! I don’t care about you at all!”
Gail suddenly felt goosebumps. The eyes were filled with something blind.
It belongs to someone who is a fanatic.
“… … Then why did you kidnap me? Weren’t you interested in me?”
In the history of mankind, every action of every human being has a reason and purpose that triggers it.
If you weren’t interested in Gale, shouldn’t you have at least kidnapped him so he could be of some use?
“Huh? Do I need to know about you? Why?”
But Floeta tilted her head innocently as if she had no such intention.
“I know and I care about you, but you’re not?”
“Then why did you kidnap me!”
“That’s me, not you… … .”
Floetta playfully poked Gale’s chest with her long finger.
“Because I wanted to see the One inside you!”
Ah, Floeta suddenly grabbed him by the collar. The distance between Gail and Floeta became shorter in an instant.
The distance where breath and breathing intermingle.
“When I saw you on the screen in the city I had accidentally visited… … I was so happy!”
Floetta laughed from ear to ear. Her eyes, sparkling with madness and enthusiasm, drew graceful curves.
The Rampas Hunter Exam, the third practical exam, will be broadcast worldwide.
Always and everywhere, the Rampasians have paid great attention to the Hunter Exams, and have been enthusiastic about their results every year.
So, in any city of a certain size, a huge screen is placed in the square.
Then, the World Hunter Association controlled video spheres located all over the world and broadcasted the test in real time.
-This year’s aspiring hunters are pretty good, aren’t they?
-I wonder how many people will be selected as hunters this time!
Among the people chattering away, Floeta’s gaze was fixed on one place.
In the video, the man with gray hair. To Gail Garib.
-Ah, aaaah!
Floetta knew. She knew even though they had never met face to face.
It’s ‘him’.
My joy, my breath, my garden!
─My everything!
It is clear that ‘he’ has also come to this world!
But he was trapped inside that human being, having been let down by some evil thing.
-What a powerful seal! How cruelly it suppresses his freedom!
If she hadn’t been the sixteenth ‘Apostle’, I wouldn’t have guessed!
-Poor thing! How suffocating it must be inside that human!
As an apostle, it was Floeta’s duty to liberate our great One.
Now is the time!
“I apologize in advance. You’re probably going to die, Bowl!”
……bowl?
“No! It is a noble cause to restore his freedom, so be grateful! Die gratefully!”
“What?! What the heck… … Ugh!”
But Gail had no time to question or to make a fuss. The next moment, their tongues mingled.
“Eww!”
Gail resisted fiercely, but it was no use with her limbs bound.
Through their touching mouths, a sinister and evil aura seeped into Gale.
I felt a ticklish sensation, as if flowers were blooming in my mouth.
It felt like the flower petals were slowly digging into his insides… … His breath was, suffocating.
Gail felt herself gradually losing consciousness.
-It’s you? The human he brought here. He said he loved him very much~ In the last moment when his consciousness was sinking, he heard a voice in his ear.
-Human friend, what’s your name?
That was… …Gail, his own voice.
* * *
“Hurry up!”
Meanwhile, Hake and Zeraph were escaping from Depicio’s hideout with the children of the Gnaud clan.
“Zeraph! Can’t you go a little faster?!”
“Damn! This is top speed-!”
It was a method of moving underground, making full use of Zerap’s abilities.
Once they learned that the Gnaud clan had been taken away by a woman, presumably a Depicio collaborator, they felt it was the right decision to evacuate the children first.
“……!! this?!!”
But then, Zerap, who had been steadily moving the tree roots and digging the dirt to make a path, cried out in surprise.
Then he gathered all the moving tree roots together and made a defensive barrier.
“Gyaaaah!”
“mom-!”
“Eww! Hey! What are you doing!? Can’t you drive safely?!”
Because of that, even the tree trunk that Hake and the children were riding on shook violently.
Hake reflexively attacked Zerap, but he was also quite skilled. He quickly noticed the problem.
“Ugh. It’s noisy… …!”
Boom! Bang!
Now they were under attack!
‘… … How do you know we’re underground?’
Because the strong whirlwinds were constantly blowing on the ground, most sounds were drowned out by them.
Because it met the condition of a ‘closed’ space where one could dig and move underground, Hake was using his own unique magic, ‘Daydream’.
So that the people on the ground right where they are passing through won’t detect anything.
Hake took away their senses for a very short time, just one second, making them unable to sense their presence.
If it was just Zerap alone, it might not be noticeable, but if Hake and the kids moved in large numbers, they would definitely notice.
‘But how?!’
Such doubts about Hake were immediately resolved.
“… … I’m sorry. This is my limit!”
Zerap frowned at the attacker’s roots, which kept forcing his roots up into the ground.
If I were alone, it would be fine, but with the children behind me, it was difficult to cope any further.
Phew!
Finally, Zerap leapt upward, using the extra tree roots as a stepping stone. The cold air from the ground brushed his face.
And then a familiar man appeared quietly in front of them.
“These are such welcome faces?”
The head of Depicio was an old man in the mountains.