Humanity Return

Ch. 128 – Back

“Hey, have you heard? Yesterday at the academy gate..”.

“Yes! I happen to be having some business in town, so I can see that in person.”.

Two young men could be seen talking quite loudly and managed to attract the attention of a few people as well when one of them said that. Several other people began to gather around that one person to hear firsthand about what he saw.

“Ugh..”

Two girls in the same uniform walked past the newly formed group, with one turning towards them and the other looking seriously at his Linker.

“So...that's them?”

Aura looked at Adeline's expression while showing a worried expression, after seeing the reaction of the girl who said she would check out the new news that happened yesterday in the academy. It seemed like he had managed to find something while accessing the news page of the Red Dawn Academy News Group.

And on the front page of the news can be clearly seen a video showing two young men who were seriously fighting in front of the academy's gate.

“Ya..”

The quarrel was not a big deal as all the spectators there could see two Contracted Beasts they were just watching, signaling the fight was not something serious.

And after several tens of minutes, they finally stopped and walked out of the academy with their Contracted Beasts.

“At least we can get an answer.. from there”.

Eventually the two of them were able to see their destination, which was none other than the Red Dawn Academy Mission Center.

Aura and Adeline have changed their plans to take afternoon classes to find out where the two young men who left suddenly without notice were headed.

They had already spent their time walking one side of the academy to the other side where the Mission Center was located, while checking their Linker for the information that was in the Academy Data Center.

Actually Aura had thought about Leinn's problem for a while in the afternoon earlier, though, but the ability that Leinn had displayed the past few days made him quite confident that the young man could complete a Rank B Mission in order to obtain sufficient Merits easily.

So now that another question had arisen, why would he need Roland to join him in completing this mission?

With those few questions, Aura and Adeline walked into the entrance of the building, with the first sight they saw...

“Huh?”

“Oh hey!”

It was a black-haired young man who was leaning against a long table on the other side of the room, who was also waving his hands towards them.

Beside him was a blond-haired young man who looked only to notice the arrival of the two girls, then immediately turned his head and showed a small smile.

“Um..”

Aura and Adeline were completely unable to understand what was going on in front of them, looking at the two people who should not be here, turned out to be here.

...

“...haha! So that's the story”

Leinn finished talking and began to turn his head towards the girl on the other side of the table where he was leaning, who was seen contacting someone with a blue-colored Linker in his hand.

It turned out that the reason the two of them were in this place was very simple.

“...it looks like the new Hunter Guild received confirmation of its veracity. Congratulations Springleaf Pupils and Azure Pupils, on your successful completion of Rank B+ Urgent Mission”

Since they had already finished their affairs outside of the city, it was precisely completing the mission that Leinn had taken the previous afternoon.

The distance between Blazing Sun City and Greentree village was not small, which still required several days of using an ordinary Beast Train. But it was back and forth in a day from these two places was not a difficult thing for a giant Beast like Twig, who had an extremely high speed of his size and stamina that made him not need rest.

The result was that they left, until just before sunset, completed the mission, then returned to the city before sunrise.

The receptionist girl, Isla put down and shifted 50 pieces of gold coins in front of Leinn who just kept silent while staring at the pile.

“That's pretty much”

Leinn said as he grabbed his shoulder, then realized he was not carrying anything. He was still not used to not carrying his large bag while reporting on the completion of the Mission.

He then realized he also had nothing to store the coins in front of him.

“Hm. Just take the rest of my share as my first payment, Roland”

Leinn took out and inserted three gold coins into his pocket, then shifted the rest to the side of Roland who was talking to Adeline.

Roland turned his head and looked at the pile at a glance, then looked at Leinn who was smiling faintly in front of him.

“...are you sure? Don't you need money for your sword later?”

“Just calm down, he won't be coming anytime soon. I still have plenty of time to collect money again”

“How about Uther's sword, Etalib-“

“Yes will be later! Just take this money, first from the rest of my money owed to you!”

Roland could see the stubborn young man in front of him would not budge and could only shake his head. He then swung his right hand over the pile of coins in front of him.

“...!”

Isla saw all the coins disappear without a trace in front of her eyes, then realized the identity of the ring on the finger of the young man in front of her.

“Dimensional Ring!?”

One of the most famous and rare Runed Gears on the Gaiafell continent, which currently only has no more than 1,000 people. The Runed Gear uses Dimensional Magic Theory to make the wearer able to store and pull out items in a space different from this dimension.

Isla was still very surprised because this was the first time she had heard one of those extremely famous Runed Gears with her own eyes. But he still had to be able to continue his duties as a senior receptionist.

The existence of the ring carried one other possibility that had not crossed his mind before.

“U... Is there a... Beast body you want to exchange here? Rank C Beast body upwards can be exchanged for money and if you have a Rank B body that is still in good shape, you can get Merit with a lot of”

The first to react from that explanation was not Leinn, but Roland who looked like he had just remembered something.

The blond-haired youth then swung his hand to one empty spot beside him, and a golden magic circle suddenly appeared.

The bham!

And from that golden magic circle, a huge body suddenly appeared and fell smashing into the floor below.

The other few disciples in the room became quite shocked when they saw the Beast appear from the empty air. They thought someone had used summoning magic to summon their Contracted Beast here, before realizing that the newly-appeared Beast was completely motionless.

“...”

And it looks so charred.

“Ups!”

And no longer have a head.