4 August 2018
*step step step*
Luna is currently being chased by a group of people in the middle of the snow.
“HEY WAIT!!”
“THAT’S THE BRAT!!”
“Do we kill her or capture her alive?”
“Either way is fine!!”
“YAHOOOO!!!”
There are about 8 men whose age ranges between 20 and 28, and they are all wearing a black uniform and a black winter coat. One of the men, who’s the youngest, pulls out an AK-47 and aims it at Luna’s back.
“Can you even get a clean shot?”
“Don’t worry, I can!!”
The guy tries to aim while running, but he seems to be able to get a steady aim despite it.
“Hehe! 20 million dollars, here we come!!”
*SLASH*
All of a sudden, the barrel of his AK was cut by something sharp.
“W-What?”
*BAAAMM*
“AARRGGHH!!”
*THRS*
And then he was suddenly punched in his face and was sent crashing down towards the snow, with his back facing it.
“H-HUH?”
“What?”
The other seven men had just realized that their friend had been knocked out. They all turned around towards his knocked-out friend, and they saw a woman standing in front of the knocked-out guy.
“Kasumi style!”
*!*
“SWEEPING EDGE!!”
*ZRAASSSSHHH*
“AAAARRGHH!!”
“UUAARRGGHH!!!”
“OORRGGH!!”
“IT HUUURRTTSSS!!”
“AAAAAAAKKHH!!”
Kasumi swings her katana in a full horizontal slash, slashing all of their belly, leaving a shallow cut. They all fall on their backs towards the snow below.
“This is all of them?”
Quroe suddenly appears with Luna next to Kasumi with his teleportation.
“At least the ones I saw, Quroe-kun.”
“Alright.”
Quroe prepares himself to speak louder.
“All of you! Stand up, or I’ll kill you mercilessly! Let me give you a demonstration!”
There was a big rock in the distance to their west, and Quroe pointed his finger at the rock. All of the men are lying in the snow. He grows his pair of aura wings and summons countless aura blades in the air. The wings moved, and all the swords instantly reached the rock, cutting it into tiny millions of pieces.
*!!!*
His swords suddenly came back and were floating in the air. Quroe points all of these blades towards the 8 men on the ground.
“Stand up!”
All of the men immediately stand up on command, enduring the sharp pain in their stomachs. Two of the eight men also carried the knocked-out guy and held him by his hands.
“Now, lead us to wherever you all came from! Understood?”
*GULPS*
“Y-YES!!” answered all seven of them in harmony.
“T-Thank you for doing this, Quroe-san!”
“I gave you my word, Luna! I’ll fulfil my end of the bargain!”
Luna smiles to herself without responding further.
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They all walked as Quroe threatened the seven men to lead them towards a certain location. They have explained that there is an Underworld organization building on this continent. This group is called WASP, a group of bounty hunters that consists of people from the Underworld and has about 500 operating personnel. Despite being an Underworld organization, they openly accept requests from the public and ensure the client’s identity is safe from being leaked. Making this organization the most famous openly in society.
Quroe, Luna, Kasumi, and the seven men are all standing 500 meters away from a certain building in the distance. There is a square building in the middle of nowhere in this snowland, standing at 10 meters high and about 100x125m in size. The building is entirely made from metal, and it’s all gray in color. There is a gigantic satellite dish on the roof of the building, constantly but slowly rotating clockwise.
“Are you sure you all came from there?”
“Y-Yeah! We wouldn’t lie to you! We promise!”
“Alright, go back inside that building, but don’t tell them that we’re all here! If I know you snitch, I am going to storm that place, and I’ll hunt all of you down first as I have remembered all of your faces!” said Quroe with an intimidating glare towards them.
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“Y-YESSSS!!!”
All seven of them immediately run ahead, while carrying the knocked-out guy. Quroe, Luna, and Kasumi see that all of them have properly entered the building. They went through the front gate, and their bodies were scanned by a scanner above the gate, which also acts as a CCTV. The gate was properly closed off after all of them went inside. Seems there is only one entrance to the building, especially after looking at its size, to allow giant vehicles to also go inside.
“So, they are telling the truth!”
“If they aren’t, they’ll be dead, Kasumi-chan!”
“So, this is it, Luna! My end portion of the deal!”
“Yes, Quroe-san! Finally time! So, have you thought of anything for the reward?”
“Huh?”
“Well, this is a deal, remember? You’ll be rewarded for this!”
“Right. . .”
“(I haven’t really thought of anything. . . So much stuff has been going on recently.)”
“By the way, Quroe-san, what are you going to do inside?”
“Either I’ll cut off all of their right hands so they’ll never do crimes ever again, or kill them if they’re trying to kill me first. Either way, they’ll no longer chase you after today! I promise!”
Luna was a little bit surprised. For the first time ever, Quroe looked at her with a serious and stern glare in her eyes. He has only ever done those stares whenever he was threatening her for throwing silly jokes at him, but now, it looks sincere.
“T-Thank you, Quroe-san. . .”
“Quroe-kun, what’s my job?”
“You two are going to stay away from the building. Do not go inside, no matter what happens, and wait for me until I’m finished! You guys had it rough last time; this time, I’ll handle everything! Kasumi, you take care of Luna with all of your might, got it?”
“Got it, Quroe-kun!” replied Kasumi as she gave him her thumbs up.
“Well, then! I’ll be going!”
Quroe immediately engulfs himself with his red and black aura, and he flies off at the speed of sound towards the building.
“. . .I didn’t get to say, ‘Good luck inside.’ He’s so fast. . .” said Kasumi.
“W-Why do you want to say that so badly?”
“. . .No reason.”
*!*
Kasumi glanced towards Luna, and she was smiling annoyingly at her. It’s like she knows exactly why Kasumi acts the way she does.
“C-CUT THAT OUT, LUNA-CHAN!!”
“Alright, alright!”
There was a hill quite a distance from the front side of the building, and there were so many trees with their leaves covered in snow.
“L-Let’s build a campfire over the hill there! That’s a better place to look out for his return.”
“Yay! I can enjoy the scenery from up there!” said Luna with her two hands raised above her head.
They both proceed to walk to that hill.
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Meanwhile, Quroe has entered the WASP’s building from the south side. He simply flies through the metal wall, creating a perfectly round 1,5m diameter hole in the wall. He lands inside the room quickly without making any noise. He quickly turns off his aura blade.
“. . .”
He observes the room, and he realizes that he is inside a storage room of some kind. There are many wooden boxes in this room, some are stacked high, and they almost touch the ceiling. Quroe approaches one of the wooden boxes behind him.
*SLASH SLASH*
He cuts the upper part of the box with his invisible slashes and peeks inside the box.
“I see. So this is their weaponry. Lucky me!” said Quroe, smiling.
*SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH*
He proceeds to cut every single wooden box inside this storage, including all of the weapons inside, into pieces, effectively disabling and breaking all of them within mere seconds.
*BRAAAK BRAAAK BRAAAK BRAAAK BRAAAK BRAAAK BRAAAK BRAAAK BRAAAK BRAAAK*
Most of the wooden boxes and the weapons inside topple and fall over, creating a gigantic mess inside the storage. It also creates a continuous loud sound for an entire minute.
*GRRRKKK*
The metal door into the storage room slides open, and two armed men walk inside.
“W-WHAT HAPPENED HERE?”
“OUR WEAPONS!! THEY ALL FELL?”
“NOOOOOOOOO!!! DID A CAT GOT INSIDE AND MAKE A MESS HERE? FUCKING DAMMIT!!”
The two men wore similar black uniforms to the eight men from earlier, and were holding AK-47s as well.
“Found my guides!”
*!!*
Quroe sudeenly appears in the middle of the two men.
“W-WHA-!!”
*SLASH SLASH*
Before they even react, Quroe cuts their AK-47S into pieces.
*!*
Their weapons crumbled quickly before their very eyes, and they were immediately filled with fear. Their body starts shaking and trembling.
“Do not make a sound or I’ll decapitate both of your heads, and you won’t even see it coming!” said Quroe in a threatening tone.
The two men immediately nodded and raised both of their hands. They realized how serious Quroe is.
“Do you have any room inside this building that has all the records of everyone’s past jobs?”
“W-we do!”
“Lead me to that place! And try to stay out of any attention! If anyone found me out, I’ll immediately cut your heads off, understood?”
“W-WAIT!! WAIT A MINUTE, SIR!! PLEASE!!”
One of the two men suddenly tried to plead in panic.
“What is it?”
“T-There’s no way we can get to the records room without anyone finding you out, sir! This building is fully filled with CCTVs everywhere! No one can possibly move from one room to another without being spotted by a CCTV camera! Even this storage room has like 45 CCTVs alone!”
Quroe looks above and to his left and right. The man is telling the truth, as Quroe immediately saw about 11 CCTVs with one glance.
“Tch! So there’s no point in being sneaky. You two! Confess your crimes! What kinda requests have you partaken in the past while being a member of this WASP group?”
The two men were a bit shocked that Quroe knew about this building belonging to WASP, as there were no indications or signs of it whatsoever, both on the outside and the inside of the building.
“W-Wait! Just now, some of our members were hurt, and one of them was unconscious. Are you the culprit, sir?”
“Correct!”
The two men were shocked once again. Their faces show fear even more than they already were.
“What’s wrong with your expressions?”
“T-The eight men who were hurt just now were one of our best squads of this entire organization, sir! And you injured them and came out untouched as well! Of course, we are scared now!!”
*?*
“(What? Is this an organization full of weaklings or something?)”
“Tell me! Are there any Believers amongst the 500 members of you?”
“No, sir! This organization is strictly filled with Non-Believers who banded together so we can do our Underworld works properly!”
“Why is that?”
“Sir, most people would prefer to hire a Believer to accomplish their illegal requests! It may be a lot more expensive than our fees, but Believers always accomplished their missions and rarely failed. Compared to them, we Non-Believers have so many uncertain factors about completing the requests. There is always the chance of bumping into a Believer during work that can easily jeopardize the entire mission. It’s basically live or death for all of us, and our chances of survival are much lower compared to Believers.” explains one of the men.
“Failures in this line of work mean your reputation is ruined, and some people might never hire you for the rest of their lives. If we can’t find work, then we have no money! Without money, we can’t survive! That’s why one Non-Believer in the past found this organization to let people like me and him to be able to get jobs, regardless of our reputations!” adds the other man.
“I see. Though I don’t really care about all of your struggles! You’re all criminals anyway! Fine then! Just lead me openly towards the records room! There’s a certain mission that I want you to cancel and to never take part in again in the future!”
“I-Is that why you’re here, sir?”
“It’s the only reason I came all the way here!”
“Phew! Then we can arrange that, sir!! Wait a minute!”
One of the two men pulls out a walkie-talkie from his pocket.
“Now hold on a second, what are you planning with that?” asked Quroe.
“W-We’re planning to explain the situation, sir! No matter what we do, we cannot defeat or kill you anyway! Since you already destroyed our weapons too!”
“. . .”
“(I don’t see any way that they can kill me, nor counter my Faith power. . .)”
“Alright then! But here’s a little demonstration!”
*?*
The two men were confused as Quroe walked towards the south wall of the storage room.
*SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH*
*!!!*
And the entire wall of the storage room falls apart into tiny pieces onto the floor and onto the snow outside. The storage room is now fully exposed to the chilling air outside.
“As you can see, any of you who tried something funny, I can cut this entire building and everyone inside with ease, and none of you would’ve seen it coming! Now use that walkie-talkie in your hand while keeping my demonstration in your head the whole time!!”
The two men started sweating like crazy. They genuinely didn’t see anything when the wall was cut into pieces. One of the two men slowly raised the walkie-talkie to his mouth. His lips were shaking, but he finally started talking to it.
