Rebuild World

The rain keeps falling. It doesn't get stronger, but it doesn't get weaker.

Akira is out of the room regularly to be on guard around her. If you need anything, you can go right back to your room. Check the surrounding conditions while keeping your distance. The information-gathering equipment is working properly if it is also indoors. I never even bowled in with a monster who came to the rain shelter.

Talk about what Akira somehow thought.

"I hope nothing happens like this."

Alpha answers with a bitter smile.

"When Akira tells you that, it feels like some kind of foretaste."

'Nothing happens. Easy win. If the rain stops, let's go home.'

"I don't think that's a good idea."

'I get it. Why don't you just shut up?

Next to the fun laughing alpha, Akira distorted her expression like she was a little infidel.

Cheryl was in a bad mood when Akira returned to her room after several patrols.

Cheryl had a palpable, grumpy look, but when she noticed Akira, she smiled and tried to greet her. But because of the frustration in my heart, the smile was a little too much.

Akira asks Elio, who was nearby, before going next to Cheryl.

"Hey, is something wrong?

Elio looks at Cheryl on the side. Cheryl was smiling and looking at Elio. Don't say anything extra, those eyes spoke eloquently.

Ellio just broke Cheryl's mood the other day. You can't damage Cheryl's mood any more. But Akira's mood can't be damaged either.

A dangerous person who has no hesitation in killing and boards the body in the base of the person who killed him. Harmless if not even hostile. If you don't tell yourself so, someone who just needs a lot of courage to talk to. That's what Elio knows about Akira. Cheryl's holding the reins, so he thinks it's safe for once, but it must be someone he doesn't want to upset.

Elio answers Akira's questions with caution so as not to compromise Akira's mood and not Cheryl's mood.

"There was a little rubbing or a dispute. I'm done."

"Right."

Akira sat next to Cheryl saying just that.

Elio is relieved first of all that Akira was not in a bad mood. And let's take a look at Cheryl. Cheryl was looking at Elio without breaking his smile.

It's not obvious. So I'm not in a bad mood. I'm sure he'll be fine. That's what Elio thought, and decided to take it and pray for now.

Cheryl quickly got back in the mood as Akira, his own heart support and tranquilizer, returned. When Akira saw how that Cheryl was doing, she decided it would have been no big deal and stopped worrying about the rubbing.

Sebra comes before Akira, who was about to rest until his next patrol. Cheryl's in a bad mood again.

Sebra talks to Akira.

"I need to talk to you for a second..."

"I don't. Go back."

Cheryl interrupts the conversation and finds Sebra.

"I'm telling Akira."

"I'm the boss of the prison party. I'm telling you to go back. Go back."

"That's just what's going on, isn't it? I don't care what you think. The boss is Akira."

Cheryl and Sebra meet.

Some of Cheryl and the others consider Cheryl, the boss, to be merely Akira's surrogate. The more those who later joined the detachment party, the stronger the idea. The fact that Akira was more important than Cheryl as a member of the detachment party earlier fuelled that misunderstanding.

I mean, if you talk to Akira, you can ignore Cheryl's will, and some people think so. That's right in a way, but wrong as a means.

Akira is basically just helping Cheryl individuals, not Cheryl's inmates. So someone jumped over Cheryl and argued directly with Akira, and that person's opinion would not be the first to pass.

Says Akira after exhaling lightly.

"So, what's the story?

By showing Akira how to listen, Sebra gently sneered Cheryl. Cheryl glanced at Sebra harder, but pulled back. Because Akira is about to listen.

Sebra keeps talking.

"Oh, it's hard to stop the rain, and in the meantime, I thought I'd explore the hall."

Akira is silently waiting for the conversation to continue. Sebra awaits Akira's reply. Silence flows between them. Akira opens her mouth when her grin disappears from Sebra's expression and she shifts to a suspicious (keen) look.

"... so?

"So why don't we go explore?

Answer Sebra as if Akira had been somewhere foolish.

"I'm not going. I'm at work, escorting Cheryl and the others. Maybe you didn't notice?

Sebra tells Akira while she is frustrated.

"So you're our escort!?

"No. Cheryl and the others are escorts. Cheryl and the others are people who make Cheryl the head of the instructional system and act in an organized manner. The one who ignores Cheryl's will and tries to go somewhere on his own is not eligible."

Sebra told me she wasn't going to escort you in the dark. She distorted her expression. But say it provocatively soon.

"What, are you scared? Or are you not sure?

"You're scared, and you're not sure"

Akira lightly affirmed Sebra's provocative words. Sebra wandered and Cheryl, who was listening beside her, also gave a surprise look. Akira continues the conversation.

"I'm scared of monsters. That's why they call me a monster. You didn't even know that? And there's a priority for the escort. Protect Cheryl first and foremost, and protect Cheryl and the others together. I'm not sure I can protect Cheryl and the rest of them from the monsters."

Akira made a mockery of Sebra's recklessness and declared that she would abandon Sebra first. Cheryl, who was told that Cebra would be more diluted and protected as a top priority, is about to be happy.

Akira keeps saying with a troublesome look on her face.

"If you want to go exploring, go. I won't stop. My job is to escort Cheryl and the others. That doesn't include stopping your suicide with all your might. Whatever you want."

Upon hearing from Akira, who had no pulse at all, Sebra gave up using Akira as an escort to explore the hall. However, there was still a desire to explore this hall in Sebra.

I wonder if there are still high priced relics left in this splendid building. If you find it and sneak it out, you can buy yourself some awesome weapons. If only I had such a weapon, I could live a better life as an awesome hunter. Sebra has been thinking that ever since she came to this hall.

There is a person in front of you who has fulfilled Sebra's desire to be convenient everywhere. For this reason, Sebra was locked up in ideas that were stronger and convenient everywhere.

Sebra thinks a little silently. Then he lowers his demands and speaks pointing to the AAH assault gun that Akira is equipped with.

"... then lend me that weapon"

I don't think Sebra is going to explore the hall without a weapon. In other words, he thinks he can handle himself as long as he has a weapon. Sebra's perception is that Akira is doing something about it that is not so different from her, except for her gear.

Akira answers by strengthening her nerves to Sebra.

"What are you talking about? You're not lending it to me, are you?

"You're not using it!

"Are you serious? You seriously think that's why I'm giving you the weapon? You okay? Actually, aren't you confused?

Akira has no reason to lend Sebra a weapon or other shards. Akira's handing over weapons to Sebra is almost synonymous with losing gear without any meaning. Given the possibility of that muzzle going to Akira, it's worse than simply losing it.

Akira was passing through him and was beginning to doubt Sebra's sanity.

"Hey, you're still my escort for once. As long as we're adults. If you're going to say any more messes, decide you're in the way of my job and I'll remove you completely from the escort. If you find out, lose it. Out of the way."

Akira took her gaze off like she lost interest from Sebra when she said it with a slight tone at the end.

Sebra sees Akira only slightly with a remorseful look before returning to the other side of the room. And as he sat back against the wall, he was bent over and began to whine (crumble).

Cheryl was in a good mood. I felt comfortable with Akira taking my side, smiling (cheeks) in a good mood, and watching Sebra go away feeling even mild superiority.

Rain continues to fall.

As Akira was patrolling the perimeter of the room again, Alpha circled in front of Akira and pointed out the window.

"Akira. That."

Akira looks out of the hall. Visual augmentation by alpha highlights what the alpha is pointing to. There was a car appearance approaching this one.

"Are you the other hunter? Hopefully it won't be a hassle...... '

A good hunch comes off, and a bad hunch hits. Akira decided to stop anticipating any more and return to her room to tell Cheryl and the others about the situation.

When Akira and the others lived in a rainfall hall for a while, a car was aiming at the ruins of the Higalaka residential area. It's a roofed car with wilderness specs. On the side of the car, there was a large label indicating that the car was rented by a vendor who rented the vehicle for hunters.

There were three hunters in the car. There are three of them: Guiba and Corbe, sitting in the back seat, and Dale, sitting in the driver's seat.

Guiba tells Dale.

"Hey, shouldn't we go back directly to Kugamayama City after all?

"I told you. Not while it's raining."

"'Cause it's okay. We're far from that ruin, and that shitty monster was already there, wasn't it?

"You might encounter it on the way. Above all, this car is a rental car. What if you get attacked and the automatic return function moves and becomes unmaneuverable? Worst case scenario is this car might try to take that monster back to the city. Try that. Bringing a monster like that to the city will destroy every monster in the defense."

"You think too much"

Guiba smiled as thinking too much about Dale's judgment. Dale restrained himself from getting grumpy.

Now Corbe asks Dale.

"So, why are you looking for the Higalaka Residential Area ruins?

"There was a big house over there, wasn't there? That's where the rain stays."

"You don't have to go that far, you just have to stop until the rain stops."

"I don't know when this rain will stop. I want to get some rest in a big place, not in a small car."

"You're my best friend."

A wrinkle (wrinkle) comes between Dale's eyebrows when he hears Corbe's light mouth. Only this time, Dale suppressed himself.

(Shit) There's a broker! Let me introduce you to the jokes! I'll definitely protest you!

Dale continued to vomit his frustration (needlessly) and dissatisfaction in his heart to the intermediaries who introduced Guiba and the others.

The three Dales are not the hunters we usually work with. We're just tentatively teaming up through the intermediaries Dale and the others are registering.

There are numerous vendors in the east that produce intermediaries between hunters. Refine the difficulty of the sites you attack, the content of the requests you receive together, how you distribute rewards, equipment, hunter rank, background, age, gender, personality, and a variety of other criteria to introduce hunters who match each other's wishes.

Many hunters make use of intermediaries. Because hunters introduced by good intermediaries are relatively trustworthy. Hunters with poor predisposition, in extreme instances where the person they work with goes missing or dies one after the other, intermediaries often also refuse to register or refer them. The same goes for hunters who cause a lot of problems after the introduction. In the process, hunters are eliminated and relatively trustworthy.

If a company makes a request that cares about the public, it may also ask a hunter with good bare lines to take precedence. Hunters who are registered as good referrals are easy to choose from. Because I already have a track record.

There has also been a management effort by the Unified Enterprise to keep hunters from turning them into powerful armed robbers, and it is now also one of the foils (haku) of hunters to be registered as good referrals.

Dale basically works individually. I have decided to work with other hunters in the short term via intermediaries if necessary.

Dale was trying to explore the ruins that seemed to make quite a bit of money from a certain muscle. Only the location of the ruins of that old world was obtained by legend, but information such as the type of monster that inhabited it was not available. Because of this, I decided it was difficult to go to the site search alone and asked the intermediary for an additional hunter of combat power. And it was Guiba and the others who were introduced by the vendors.

Results theory, but Dale and the others' search for the ruins ended in failure. He hastily escaped from the ruins without having access to the great relics either. Moreover, in the process, we encountered powerful monsters, and they fled the ruins in a hurry.

Dale thinks the Guibas are responsible for the failure to search for the ruins.

(Giuba wanders around the ruins without a fight from Busy and the monsters find him! Corbe can't hide and let go and make things worse! I should have gone alone! I'm never gonna work with these guys again!

Those are just Dale's subjectives. Guiba and Corbe believed that Dale's actions and decisions, which were too cautious to move agile, were the cause of the biggest failure.

Perhaps they were simply incompatible, but anyway, the failure to search for the ruins left the three of them with great discord.

Dale and the others who arrived at the hall and stopped the car noticed Akira's car.

Dale looks at Akira's car and says:

"Are you a customer? Well, it's this rain. Is it the same to think"

Look and talk about the carrier where the giuba is covered in camo seats.

"You're loading up a lot. What relic?

The carrier is heavily loaded with relics of the old world, but they are covered in camouflage sheets, so we don't even know the exact contents.

"It's here, isn't it?

Geuba, who heard Corbe's reply, answers as if he had made a fool of himself.

"There are only rubbish relics left here. There's no way we're going to carry that stuff out to a towable carrier."

Corbe speaks in dissatisfaction.

"Then what artifact is it?"

You know what?

Guiba threw up short.

Dale and the others enter the hall and explore the surroundings. There's nothing suspicious about something with a little more monster carcasses. And Dale and the others found Akira at the end of the aisle.

Akira stands at the entrance to the room, guarding her surroundings with a CWH objective assault gun and a DVTS minigun. Akira soon noticed Dale and the others as well.

Akira speaks where Dale and the others are approaching somewhat.

"I'm sorry, but if it's raining, go somewhere else. We use this room."

Dale raises his hand gently indicating that he has no hostility.

"Calm down. We're hunters, too. I just came to the rain shelter on my way home from the ruins. You guys are on your way home from exploring the ruins, right? I don't want to be hostile."

The Guibas also put down their guns. Akira also lowered her guard against the Dales by lowering her gun.

Akira tells Dale and the others.

"I'm a hunter, too, but I'm here today as an escort on request. If you don't need me, I want you to get away from here..."

Akira, who wants to reduce the element of uncertainty, wanted Dale and the others to get away from here if possible.

But Dale eats down.

"Don't say that. This is also on the edge of something. Let's exchange information."

Dale wanted to relieve the stress by telling someone a lot of stories about ruin attacks and other things, mainly stupidity about the Gulbas. Plus, connectivity is important to hunters. If you can hire a hunter as a pure escort rather than an artifact collector, it is also where you want to keep the edges connected if possible.

Guiba laughs and talks lovingly.

"I don't mind exchanging artifacts. Besides, if you're hired as an escort, isn't it your employer who decides whether to see us or not?

Guiba was concerned about the contents of the artifact that had been piled on the carrier. If you bring the owner an exchange of artifacts, you might be able to find out what's in it. That's what Guiba thought.

Akira decided to check with Cheryl once after a little trouble. The fringe with the other hunters will also be important to Cheryl and the others. It's not for Akira to decide on her own. It's from that kind of judgment.

"... wait for me because I'll get confirmation"

Akira entered the room where Cheryl and the others were left behind.

Cheryl heard about the situation from Akira and decided to meet with Dale and the others. As for Akira, it was a little unexpected, but if that's what Cheryl decided, there's nothing to complain about. Akira let Dale and the others in the room.

After putting Dale and the others in the room, Cheryl had done a mild introduction before continuing his colloquial conversation with Dale and the others. Akira held on to the CWH objective assault gun and the DVTS minigun, silently holding back next to Cheryl without neglecting (grazing) her guard.

It's Dale talking to Cheryl primarily. Dale had a very comfortable conversation with Cheryl.

Cheryl laughs a lot when she looks at them and shines her eyes to show that she's interested in their story. Repeat the gavel (Aizutsuki) encouraging the conversation to continue, expressing empathy for their dissatisfaction, and praising them for the hard work they have achieved.

Cheryl understands the impact of her confident beauty on her opponent, polishing her hair and skin without lacking daily care. The old world-made clothing worn looks quite luxurious because of its ripeness. The sense of luxury was more pronounced because the clothes of the other children were to an extent superior to those of the slum city.

That Cheryl is bickering as she smells her fondness for them. Dale continues to talk to Cheryl combined with the stress of a ruin search failure. Dale was intoxicated by a conversation with a beautiful younger girl.

Dale, who has grown more interested in Cheryl, starts asking about Cheryl and the others when he cuts his brags up as much as he does.

"So, uh, Cheryl's doing some representation?

"Yes, you are the representative of a small district in the lower division of the city of Kugamayama, and you are the head of the party."

"You're so young. What kind of party is that?

"It's a small prison party, so we don't give it a name. Because sometimes that's all that stands out when you name it. We are committed to careful activity so that it does not cause extra discord"

"Heh. That's a lot of trouble."

"No, compared to the struggles of all the hunters facing horrible monsters in the dangerous wilderness, my struggles and so on are insignificant. We will not sit down to reward you for your monster crusade or to match the value of the relics you have collected. What artifacts have you found lately?

"Right. Recently..."

Dale continued the conversation remembering a relic he had recently sold off.

Akira, one step away without joining Cheryl and the others in their conversation, remembered something close to mild surprise, cold sweat. Ask Alpha to include the meaning of confirmation, taking care not to put its insides on the face.

"Hey, Alpha. Maybe it's my mistake... '

"Cheryl is trying to root out their information while hiding it to such an extent that it is not unnatural. I agree with Akira on that. I'm probably doing it deliberately."

"... I see."

The bulk of the bickering is about Dale and the others. Sometimes I turn to Cheryl and the others, but sometime I'm back to Dale and the others. And Dale probably doesn't realize that.

Dale tells Cheryl all sorts of things. For example, if you're talking about ruins in the old world, the structure of the ruins, the monsters you encounter, the contents of the artifacts you discover, etc. Normally, I'm starting to talk for words of empathy and praise from Cheryl, even to the point of not being asked but not answered, and to the point that if I teach other hunters, there's no wonder I take information fees.

And Cheryl is smiling back words of empathy and praise in response to Dale's expectations. Dale's mouth was getting lighter and lighter.

Akira looks at Dale and asks her past behavior in disgust.

I've been talking to Cheryl a lot, but you haven't said anything weird, have you?

'I think you'll be fine. If Akira is going to say something far-fetched, I'm going to stop it. "

'Right. Well, I don't know what's bothering me about Alpha. Are you all right?

"Akira looked at me unexpectedly, and Cheryl used to follow it with her eyes. Akira has a habit of seeing strange directions when she's thinking. Maybe to that extent."

'... well, that's the fault of Alpha's weird outfit, isn't it? Is that my fault?

'I didn't say anything about Akira. And I'm sorry about the weird outfit. If you say that, you'll be dressed in a weird mood with a gaze nail?

Alpha replied with an invincible grin.

'I'm sorry. Stop me.'

Akira immediately apologized. Because I don't want to see Akira either, like Alpha dressed in a strange, inexperienced outfit that would drain Akira's temper.

Side by side Dale, who boasts of his own martial arts tradition, Guba was similarly observing Cheryl and the others in a step-by-step fashion.

Guiba, who entered the room, was a little surprised by the sight that was very different from his own expectations. I thought a team of hunters was taking a break in the room. There was only one car parked outside. It would be about six if I packed it and rode it. I thought the hunters were in the room and Akira at the bottom was watching.

Hire other hunters as force personnel and keep the relics found by their employer, Hunter, to themselves. Some hunters adopt such an activity policy. Guba thought Akira was also a hunter hired by such an employer.

But what Gyuba saw inside the room were Akira's employer-like stature girls and children dressed in poor minister clothes. There is no such thing as a hunter except Akira. On the contrary, no one is even likely to be able to convert it into a force of war.

Even while Dale and the others were talking to Cheryl, Guba looked inside the room, checked on the other kids, checked on Akira, and extrapolated Cheryl and the others from the conversation.

Geuber interrupts Cheryl's conversation with Dale and the others as he finishes some extrapolation from the fragmented information he gets.

"You got a second? I suggested it earlier, but this is also on the edge of something. We're going home to collect artifacts from each other. Why don't we exchange artifacts? It's a small amount, but we've got good artifacts there, too. What do you say?"

Not all hunters bring artifacts found in the ruins of the old world into the hunter's office shopping mall for everything. It is common for hunters to exchange relics between themselves in order to efficiently collect relics of the kind preferred by the buyer they associate with. Guiba's proposal itself is basically a profitable story.

But Cheryl says no to Guiba's suggestion with regret.

"I'm sorry to bother you. All the artifacts we collect are priceless, and I don't think they match yours."

"What, buyers also have preferences and habits. Even if it's low value on that buying route, it might add a good value on this one. Never mind the value. It's not like we're ever gonna have to replace it."

"Loading can be tricky."

"This is the one I'm suggesting. That's how much I can help."

"... No, I plan to leave as soon as it stops raining, and it's a waste of time to load again..."

Guiba is eating down on Cheryl who says no. While Dale wonders about Cheryl, who is trying to say no somehow, he turns to defending Cheryl because of his fondness for Cheryl and his opposition to Guiba.

"Hey, it's not about forcing you"

…… Right. Sorry. "

Giuba, persuaded by Dale, pulled back slightly.

Cheryl's reluctance to exchange artifacts is to prevent Dale and the others from being discouraged when they see Cheryl and the others with only low-value artifacts.

Cheryl realizes that Dale and the others misunderstand themselves. Perhaps Dale and the others recognize Cheryl as the head of a party of some magnitude, or someone holding some money. Cheryl decided so.

Actually Cheryl is not only the boss of a small prison party, he has no money. The original Cheryl can't even be here. Cheryl is on the spot, using the means of travel provided by Akira and escorted by Akira. And for this reason, Akira is virtually paying for the expenses. Cheryl's reward for the request is insignificant, and even that is the money he earned from Akira's favors.

Just a child with no power or money in Slam Street to such an extent that it is difficult to have low-value artifacts stacked on the carrier. If Dale and the others recognize Cheryl that way, there's a good chance they'll change their attitude toward Cheryl and hit him the worst. At least, that's what Cheryl was thinking.

Cheryl relieves herself of being intimate when it's good to earn Dale's fondness. Thanks to this, we haven't solved Dale and his misunderstandings yet.

I don't know if that was really a good thing for Cheryl and the others.