For You This World I'll Destroy

Predators

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When I reached the hiding place, I heard a noise inside. Curious I peeked and found Dagger fighting with the senior Hunters there.

“Without Ration we will die. The only way for us all to survive is to defeat that S-type Malice?” said Dagger jerking hands at the table.

There was a male voice growling, “Then, you want to sacrifice the safety of everyone on this team for that ridiculous opportunity. Huh, Dagger the hard nature of your head makes my head hurt,” lamented that accused Dagger, “What is it that Ruin Hunter whose name I never even heard could beat the Predator? Even Nadja, even the strongest Pathfinder is nothing!”

U-Uhh. I caught my breath and slipped into the meeting. Fold my hand and lean against the wall, “What are your plans...Eh, Saber?!” I said I looked up at the blond guy sitting there.

However, different from Saber I remember, the man had a grim countenance. His once bodo face is now full of incisions. His innocent eyes had now turned into a veteran who had seen and lost a lot of things. Strangely again.A Lightbearer badge was stuck in his knight uniform.

He's not the Saber Aivelstadt I know.

“Who are you? Are you one of those fucking Malice kids?” saber's shout followed by her knights drew guns on me.

Dagger immediately protected me and said, “Saber, he is the Pathfinder I mean, Ruin Hunter.”

Saber bends her skeptical eyebrows, “Pathfinder, this snot boy? Huh, your jokes are outrageous, Dagger. I can see in his eyes, this snot boy has never even once fought against Malice type S, where maybe he can defeat Predator,” he said who approached me and forcibly removed my Pathfinder badge, throw him on the floor and stomp him to pieces.

“H-Hey!” my shout that grabbed the collar of that brash man, but Saber easily brushed my hand away.

“Go, Fake Pathfinder. And Dagger, stop your bullshit about fighting the Predator,” Saber said.

Oh My Goddess.Rarely my emotions get ignited. But seeing this blatant humiliation, my self-esteem felt crushed. He thinks I got the Pathfinder position easily? God fucking. I held my hand and said to the man.

“You doubt my abilities? Heh. results speak more than talk. Give me a day, and I'll deliver the Predator's head in front of you, Blonde Boy,” I said pointing my head at the damn man.

“If you want to kill yourself, please. But don't drag us along with you,” replied Saber who sat back in her chair haughtily.

The blond boy.. Urgghhh!

Stepping away I came out of hiding, but Dagger pulled my hand. Worried, the girl said, “Chyrsant, you really want to go against the Predator alone?”

“What do I want to do again? The blond boy questioned my position as Pathfinder. I want to poke his mouth with Quartz Moon,” my scolding is sloppy and fold my hands, “I didn't expect to have handed my Brother over to that brash man. Uurgh, sucks.”

Dagger laughed awkwardly, “T-Wait, meant Chrysant, My brother... and Sister Seraphina?”

“Iya, they are engaged,” answered me suddenly stunned,” T-Wait too, Dagger meant.. You and the Blonde Boy...

Dagger scratched his cheeks awkwardly, “U-Um. We twins more precisely,” he said who also touched his lips thinking for a moment, “He said coming from five years in the future, but how strange? If for example Bang Saber and Seraphina's sister were married, shouldn't she know Chrysant?  How come Saber doesn't know you at all?”

“Ten years?” I asked with eyebrows raised in wonder.

“Yup, time distortion in this area causes people of all ages to meet here,”, said Seraphina who pointed to a hunter in an old-fashioned Black Company uniform, “This man, who is a, Anos Alkava, came in time before Junon was smashed into the Underworld. Not only that, there are some people who come from the next 1 to 5 years. But nothing comes with a time difference of more than 5 years.”

I folded my hands according to Dagger, “Huh, interesting. Then, can I dong nanya to them where Cryptomagi whose price rises in the next five years?”

Dagger laughed and knocked on my head, “Ih, Chrysant, had a moment to think of finding money. Basic,” said.

“The opportunity will not come again.”

Dagger shook his head, “But when I asked him about their time, only a question mark I got. According to my brother, in the year 2278 there was a split in the Black Company that led to a civil war that devoured the six space fortresses in a sea of fire,” said the girl raised her shoulders puzzled,

“While as Chrysant knows himself, there is no smell of war happening right? I feel like I'm at a different time than Bang Saber. Especially after hearing that.. Dagger in his time line was kidnapped as a child and died horribly,” he continued.

… A-It's weird, I thought. Want me to say, Saber just made it all up. But the gaze of the Blonde Boy pulled back my words. He looked like a man who had lost everything.

A place where various time lines come together, hmm. Khanza's mission to collect the Chalice of Impurity. Is it possible that Khanza deliberately distorted time in order to summon Endless to this world again? If so, then Khanza is more dangerous than I thought.

“Chrysant so want to fight Predator?” ask Dagger who prepared his giant bag.

“Ya of course to help you dong, bodo. I.. actually also curious about the technology that White Order used to create the Predator, hihi,” said Dagger touching his reddened cheeks.

Oh, my God, this automachina maniac. Despite facing a dangerous situation, Dagger still fielded himself to get ancient books or unique Automachina from the ruins of civilization. No, it was his madness that caused him to never rise to the rank of Lightbearer despite having more than enough qualifications.

“As long as you do not become a burden anyway okay,” I said.

Dagger is a capable hunter. He has an assortment of Automachina who can help me fight. Even his flagship style, World Destroyer Bahamut, was equivalent to the magic used by a Pathfinder. Therefore, I was somewhat relieved when I heard that my best friend was coming with me.

Dagger patted his chest proudly, “Duo Street queen is impossible to beat, hihihi!”

— + —

It was impossible to distinguish the night and morning when Chrysant was outside the Space Fortress. But, the red light that illuminated the city created a surreal scene that gave me goosebumps. Especially with time distortion that makes the building wander strangely, forming trees from asphalt, electric poles and various city debris around it. I feel like I'm stepping inside a horror fairy tale.

But, Predator we didn't meet as long as our eyes looked. Dagger and I decided to go deeper into the city.

And in the middle of Junon city stood a gigantic crystal tree that glowed a sinister red. Frozen in eternity, the asphalt tried hard to resist the fall of the ground in the huge hole that Chrysant and Dagger had leaped through with great difficulty. Rust began to eat electricity poles, breaking them down into road bridges.

“Wait.. this is right,” muttered when I saw the lonely iron bench that was present in the middle of the chaos. There I could imagine a little Chrysant figure jumping around being bullied by Khanza, just like in my dreams.

“What's Chrys?You look tired, rest first while I read the map,” said Dagger worried to see me twitching my sore forehead.

I shook my head, “Tida, just a weird de javu. Perhaps the distortion of time here also affects our minds. Dagger, you are also careful yes,” said I who sat for a moment on the bench.

Dagger followed and opened a map from his bag, “Hmmm, from my observation, around this hour, the Predator always circled the crystal tree in front,” he said who then matched the map with his notes,

“If not wrong, first in the city of Junon there is a large Automachina capable of producing Magicite automatically. They named it.. Magic Reactor.”.

“He ? Seriously? Is there such a cool technology? Jeez, then, Hunter's job will be extinct dong!” I said shocked.

Dagger chuckles, “Yup, and Chrysant will be unemployed!” her canda nudged my waist, but then was busy reading her notes again,

“But according to ancient records, the Magic Reactor turned out to create a huge magic radiation that lured the Malice there. There is a hypothesis that says that Automachina is what caused The Reaper to successfully track Junon's whereabouts and hit him to Underworld.”

I also closed my eyes and tried to endure my head pain, “So, you mean, the Predator circled the tree because it was attracted by the magic radiation?”

“Only my hypothesis alone.Perhaps, Predator was created precisely to protect it. Magic Reactor was created by an organization called White Order.”.

I snorted amusedly, “Ho, so... he is the guard dog of White Order yes,” my murmur who also jumped up and continued the journey, “Ayo, Dagger, time is essential for a hunter!”

But I immediately spread my hand, blocking Dagger, “Sst, wait. I heard something,” I said.

The vibration in the old fabric ground was getting clearer I guess, along with the sound of something rolling that was getting closer. I pulled out Dagger's hand and hid in one of the rubble of the building, then pulled out my bow and prepared.

The longer, the more clear the sound of the rolling was heard. Great tremors like earthquakes make the three witches shrewd. Until suddenly... DAR!!! Break the asphalt in front of Chrysant, becoming a giant hole that slowly sucks up the ground and the surrounding electrical poles. Striking like a spear, eight feet emerged from underground. Slowly lifting the giant body of the head monster with a smile of fangs that make the guts of a lion was shriveled.

With a red liquid flowing down the muluntya, exhaling poisonous gas, the monster raised an echo of death. Damned Chrysant, my God, the monster looked more disgusting and closer.

Malice type S, Predator!

Me and Dagger nodded at each other, then grabbed our magic crystals and whispered,

“Ignition.”

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