Seeing those two fighting was a unique sensation, they fought fiercely, even though according to the colossus they were not using their powers to the fullest. Their fight flowed like a dance, a dance of life and death, a show just happened before my eyes.
Rika - incredible…!
Sanae - so they really are the legends of the south ...
Colossus - to think that they didn't even give everything they could offer in this battle ...
Emilia - what do you mean by that?
Colossus - have you forgotten what I told you? The real power of these two is nowhere near what you just saw. It is a pity that they contained themselves.
Emilia - Is there someone strong enough to go head-to-head with these two?
Colossus - most likely so. After all, they are only ranked as the best here in Japan. There are reports from travelers who have visited other countries, and seen people very similar to us hunters, who saved normal people from the creatures out there.
Emilia - other countries, right? Hmm…
Rika - My grandparents have already visited another continent, but they say that this entire continent was dominated by creatures.
Sanae - our grandmother always talked about this other continent, Rika as a child was always talking about this continent, as if she wanted to know him, right?
Rika - Well, the way our grandmother described it made it seem like that place seemed to be quite incredible, like not wanting to visit a place where there are trees and more trees as far as our eyes can't see.
Emilia - what continent would that be?
Rika - somewhere in south america. My grandmother visited some very interesting areas in that place, she said that all the trees were equivalent in size to the titans that exist today. I don't remember the name of the place well ...
Colossus - indeed, there were many forests on this continent. But much of that forest was killed by people at the time. Explorers say that today this continent is just a gigantic forest, almost endless.
Emilia - how sad ...
Colossus - the people who lived on the continent died, paid for the harm they caused to all world society, but unlike those who lived in that country, today the country lives, without human life, but still alive.
Rika - did the other continents also fall?
Colossus - yes ... Some were also deceived at first, but resisted, like a North American country, which resisted strongly, but after 2 years of war, a huge wall appeared on the borders of that country, until today it is a mystery how they built the wall that covered the country in less than 1 year. Since then there has been no news of what happens to people inside that wall.
Sanae - what country is this?
Colossus - united states of america ... I think ... But anyway, the countries that surrounded it, in the end also fell, however, part of its inhabitants live within the wall.
Emilia - it must be quite a power ...
Colossus - maybe it is ... or not. The wall is rumored to have fallen a long time ago.
Sanae - and unlike North America, all of Europe has been neutralized.
Rika - you know that, right?
Colossus - This is already a myth. There are still survivors in Europe, some live here on the walls of our continent, others choose to stay, fight or live in that hell.
Emilia - what about the African continent?
Colossus - that entire continent is a black hole, no one dares to enter.
Sanae - bizarre ...
Rika - and our continent? Has it endured as much as North America?
Colossus - by the way, you didn't teach history lessons to yourself ... But, as far as I know, no. It took years to get used to fighting these monsters, firearms barely had an effect on them, we had to spend almost a box of bullets on just one monster. Many young men launched themselves into the war and most died in combat. Our continent almost fell twice, we had to resist and we managed without the help of any other continent.
Emilia - well, well, well ... But what about the person who can defeat May and Merlin?
Colossus - I never said that such a person exists. But…
Colossus is thoughtful for a brief moment.
Colossus - but, maybe there is someone ...
Sanae - wait, anyone who can stop them? But how?
Colossus - well, it's hard to explain, but that person somehow succeeds.
Emilia - Mr. Colossus, tell me where I can find this person.
I look at him with a determined look.
Colossus - Unfortunately, I don't even know where that person is. They say she hides from everyone or has become an explorer, but I find it difficult for her to become an explorer.
Emilia - how sad… I wanted to meet you…
Sanae - um ... so this is your dream. Get stronger, don't you, Emilia?
I look at sanae, when I hear her quoting my dream, a smile appears on my face.
Emilia - exactly, and no one is going to take that dream from me.
Sanae - you know, I admire that about you, Emilia. Okay, count on me to make your dream come true.
Emilia - what ..?!
Sanae - from now on count on me in your missions, and together we will make your dream come true.
Colossus - and why do you want to help her out of nowhere?
Sanae - well, Emilia reminds me of my mother, a person ... A dreamy person who always tried to make her dreams come true. She died without fulfilling her last dream. Seeing Emilia with all this determination to make a dream come true, aroused in me the desire to fulfill the desire that my mother yearned for.
I run up to Sanae and hug her tightly, start to cry on her shoulder.
Emília - Thank you… thank you really…
She returns my hug.
Rika - I feel like I lost my sister to a stranger.
Later that day, the three of us, Rika, Sanae and I went to an inn together.
Emilia - how nice of you to come with us, rika.
Rika - Sanae is the stupidest of the three of us, so she might be able to die because of her stupidity. However, unlike me, she knows how to cook, her food resembles Mom's, so I can't live without her ... And you could die if you depended on her in your battles.
Sanae - what do you mean? We fought until it was a draw, you can't say you're better than me.
Rika - oh spare me, you kept dodging so much that I got tired.
Emilia - wait, but didn't you tell me you drew in the final?
Rika - we draw. She deviated so much that she got tired and passed out.
I look at sanae with a look of pity.
Emilia - a poor thing.
Sanae - In my defense, I had just eaten, so I was not perfectly prepared.
Rika - the same excuse for everything ...
Sanae - is what ?! Repeat what I said !!
Emilia - calm down, please ...
They had only 2 beds and we all have trouble sleeping, basically all three like space to get a good night's sleep, and since there were only two beds, two would have to sleep in the same bed, while the other sleeps alone, we decided this with a coin.
The day cleared at the south base, the three of us slept in an upstairs room, Rika slept in the bed alone, while sanae and I slept squeezed in the same bed. Sanae literally spent the whole night hugging me and I sulked because I wanted to sleep alone.
We got up and dressed.
Emilia - did you sleep well?
Rika - it could have been a better night.
Sanae - I woke up ...! don't sleep because angel doesn't sleep, angel dozes.
We left the room. Outside the room there was a staircase that led downstairs, and rika and I stared at the stairs for about two minutes.
Emilia - you first, Rika.
Rika - be kind and go, Emilia.
Emilia - what's up? Are you afraid of the stairs?
Rika - I have trauma with stairs ...
Emilia - what kind of traumas ...?
Sanae runs past us and hurries down the stairs, stumbles and rolls down the stairs, only to fall when she hits a wall.
Rika looks at me with a carefree look.
Rika - that kind of trauma.
We left the hostel, walked around the city and learned more about how to get work for beginners. There was a kind of 'guild' in the center of the city. They gave us more information about how hunters are classified.
Bronze, gold, platinum, emerald, diamond, ruby.
Currently, the three of us are from the lowest class, the bronze class, this means that the missions they give us are at the level of a beginner. The mission they gave us was: to look for a band of bandits who disappeared with the food from a village not far from the base.
I was a little discouraged, because the mission I really wanted was a ruby-level mission, killing demons and giant monsters, gods from another world ... But, I am going to hunt simple bandits, at least the reward is good.
Arriving at the attacked village, we noticed something strange, the residents were performing a primitive act. Two people were being burned alive, their screams scared the three of us, Sanae vomited right there, I was very scared, but rika looked angry, she launched herself at that cruel person furiously.
Rika - what the hell is going on here? You are killing people !!
(Man) - It was necessary to kill the witch ...
Witches, beings who can use black magic, one of their abilities is to change their appearance.
Rika - even though there are witches here among you, that doesn't justify killing innocent people!
Seeing those people being burned resembled scenes from old horror movies, but that was real.
It was supposed to be just a mission to catch food bandits, and we're dealing with witches now, am I ... scared?
To be continued…