Life Hunter

Either it was because of his Life Hunter disposition or because of his unusual thoughts toward humans, Arimane answered this: "Yes, I think I can."

He said with an unshakable determination that even made Tiria speechless. Erin just nodded like he already knew the answer. The rest of the squad just smiled.

"I expect no less from our little genius," Jin commented and everyone started chuckling.

Arimane groaned "I don"t feel flattered at all…"

Erin smirked "Anyway, you should rest this week. Be prepared to leave." He declared.

"Yes, yes, Captain." Jin waved his hand and stood up first. Everyone else started to stand up and leave the room too. Arimane tried to also leave but Tiria, of course, grabbed him before he could.

"Let"s go, Arimane." She said and dragged him outside along with a group composed of Jin, the older guy, Farro, Gano, and a girl who was Tiria"s friend, Tieria. Since the two of them were brought in the orphanage the same day and have the same age, they were called similarly and were raised as sisters.

Their individual personalities were completely the opposite of the other. Tiria was the energetic and playful kind while Tieria was the silent and calm one.

Quoting Arimane"s words at that time, he was a lot more comfortable with Tieria than her sister. That group left the orphanage with a permission and headed toward the city near the facility. They boarded a black van. Seemingly normal from the outside, but it was reinforced to resist even explosions.

"Is it really necessary to take a military vehicle to go to the city?" Arimane couldn"t help but ask.

"It"s fine. It"s the only car we can use anyway." Tiria casually answered and opened the sliding door before jumping inside the van. Followed by everyone else, Arimane sighed and entered too.

Then when everyone had sat down, they all remembered something at the same time, "Who"s driving?" Arimane asked and everyone inside looked at him.

"Isn"t there a GPS guided auto-drive?" Jin raised his voice.

"It"s a military vehicle, they don"t use the auto drive in fear of being hacked," Arimane responded like it was an obvious thing.

Jin stared at him "I"m not a freaky little genius, sorry I didn"t know. So, who knows how to drive here?" Jun raised his head and asked everyone and none of them answered or said anything. That lasted a minute until they all turned to look at Arimane.

The latter frowned at Tiria"s smile.

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In the end, Arimane ended up in the driver seat and drove the van toward the city. When they arrived there, Arimane glanced at the streets through the tainted windows. He admired how the city was clean and calm. The circulation had absolutely no problem too.

You could see some small automates wandering on the streets, picking trash up whenever they stumbled upon some. Arima observed that modern environment and then his eyes fell on multiple billboards and posters, about propaganda, equality, discrimination and many others. When Arimane saw that, he grunted.

"The magnificent result from decades of research on technology, polluted, not by physical trash, but by human trash…" He said in a strange and annoyed tone.

Tiria laughed when she heard that. "Don"t say things like that. People like them are totally different from you, that"s all." She said from the back of the van.

"Yeah, yeah, as she said." Jin casually answered while playing a game of cards with Farro and Gano while Tieria was silently reading a book.

"You shouldn"t worry about that at your age, kid." Farro said to Arimane without turning his eyes away from the cards. "Ah!" He suddenly exclaimed and put down a card on the seat of the van.

The more Arimane heard them, darker his expression became. "Do you all have no shame for letting at twelve years old drive for you?" He almost shouted these lines.

"What can we do? You"re the only one who ever learned how to drive among us." Tiria shrugged and said.

Arima started cursing under his breath until he thought of something "Where are we supposed to go by the way?" He asked.

"Just stop around the center of the city. We"ll wander a bit, we can do some shopping and visit a café." Tiria smiled and said.

Arima frowned and pressed on the screen of the console, he opened the map of the city and directly went toward the center. For the rest of the day, the group walked around the city to pa.s.s time. And the one who enjoyed it the most was surprisingly Arimane who commanded five full cakes for himself at a restaurant.

Everyone seriously wondered where he was putting that, it broke their understanding of the human body. They also came to know Arimane"s love for sweets that day.

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Lilis looked at the scene patiently then sighed, she touched the water of the lake with her finger and drew a line on the surface. The image on the water started to accelerate and seven days in the rewind pa.s.sed in an instant for Lilis.

She then watched as Arima"s group left the orphanage to do their mission.

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Back to the present. In Arima"s room, he and Night were sitting at a table. Arima was flipping through an empty book and his sigil was slightly glowing. His pupils were also constantly moving from left to right.

At the same time, words appeared on the pages of the book as Arima flipped them. "So, what are you doing?" Night asked when he saw the big pile of blank books on the side. He was casually eating a cake while looking at Arima.

"Can"t you see? I"m writing." Arima answered and closed the book he was working on after he finished writing on it. "I"m just recording my lectures on books, both general and detailed parts. I"ll do a book of each then I"ll duplicate them and give them to my students. I"ll also give one of each to the academy for them to reproduce it." He explained.

"You"re surprisingly very dedicated." Night commented and took the book Arima just put away and flipped through it. "Yeah, it will certainly be useful, it"s more detailed and organized than if it was said orally." He concluded and looked at Arima as he started the second book.

After a few hours like that, and Night quietly reading the books Arima produced, both of them suddenly froze and a few seconds after that, the earth trembled a bit and the furniture in the room shook a bit.

It lasted for a few seconds and Night frowned. "Was that what I think it was?" He asked.

Arima smiled and resumed his work. "Yes, probably. The gate is forming. Well, it will still take another few days though." He said and finished another book, the one about s.p.a.ce.

"Do you know what will happen when the path will be completely formed?" Night asked, "How will the summon take place?"

"Well," Arima mused, "It should be something like a huge portal appearing in the sky." He said with an unsure tone, to which Night sighed. He then continued to read without any other comment.

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The next day, as always, Arima went to the FDA. When he arrived at the cla.s.s with Night, he instantly spotted Lanya and Karma, calmly playing a chess game.

Night was shocked when he saw that, to the point he gaped, totally translating his reaction on his face.

"What are you so surprised about?" Arima glanced at him and asked.

Night pointed at Karma with a trembling finger, "How? She actually can focus and concentrate on something so seriously..."

"Hey, hey…" Arima smiled wryly and went to sit on his seat. The cla.s.s was still empty and no one arrived except Lanya and Karma.

"She"s even winning…" Arima heard Night"s muttering voice as he sat down and he almost laughed.

"Night," Arima called, "If you continue to treat her like that, she will definitely tease you even more." He said. Night looked back at him with a blank look, then his expression turned as hard as a stone. Arima finally laughed and got the attention of the two "players".

"Oh, you"re here," Karma exclaimed when she realized they were in the cla.s.s. It was necessary to mention that Arima and Night had both the habit of concealing their presence at every moment, if Karma was lost in her game, of course, she wouldn"t be able to sense them.

While Karma turned back to talk to Arima, Lanya still continued to stare at the chessboard with her eyes burning with fighting spirit. Then, she suddenly smiled and moved a p.a.w.n, "Check."

"Eh?" Karma turned back and looked at the game and her eyes widened. She looked the p.a.w.ns very closely and determined that Lanya hadn"t cheated. This time it was her turn to ponder very intensively.

"h.e.l.lo, Arima, Master." Lanya said after looking at them.

"By the way Lanya, you really should stop calling me like that. I mean, Arima is already more a master for you than I am, definitely." Night declared and Lanya wryly smiled.

"Sorry, I was just used to it." She nodded, "I"ll try to change it, Night." She said with an awkward expression.

Arima listened pa.s.sively while reading at high speed the books he had written, looking for possible mistakes. Even him could have lost concentration for a second and make a mistake, so he was checking it.

Night glanced at him while he was doing that, "I know it"s necessary to re-read yourself. It"s really important to avoid any mistakes." Night nodded "But, the problem is," He paused and stared at Arima "How the h.e.l.l didn"t you find one already?"

Night shared his thoughts and Karma laughed. Lanya smiled and moved a p.a.w.n one more time, silencing her. Arima shrugged and continued to read.

In the next hour, the students arrived and sat down. Some of them also spectated the chess game between Lanya and Karma. They were going for so long now that they were very close to a tie.

It was only after Lanya won and smiled cheerfully while Karma pouted, that Arima announced the start of the lesson. The happy winner of the game obediently sat down on a seat and Karma followed her.

Arima sat down on the desk and Night took his place on the seat. Arima waved his hand and a pile of books appeared beside each student.

"Those books are basically my usual lessons completely written and detailed," Arima explained to his students which brought a great shock to them. They all picked the first book of the pile and flipped through it. It was perfectly organized and detailed. There were even images to describe some theories.

"Is it really all right for us to take them?" Ofia asked.

"Sure," Arima nodded, "You can take it. The ones I"m giving right now, are the only ones I"ll give to you all, you can also share it anywhere you want. I plan to give one set to the academy anyway."

Ofia observed the pile of books on her desk and nodded. She was already impatient to look through it.

"Well," Arima clapped, "That aside, we"re here to talk about the three spiritual forces. Then I"ll follow with the magic I found." He declared and the students focused on him.