The main vehicle that we hunters use is the train. This train that we use runs across the country, it would not be built if it were not for the help of the government and the protection of hunters.
We also have other means of transport.
Examples: cars, horses, small planes and motorcycles. However, it is very difficult to use them, it requires a lot of discussion to agree that we use them, as they are used only in emergencies. In our case, we just need to escort a hunter from one city to another, so let's go by train.
Travel time from south to north is a few long hours using the train.
And in those hours on the train things like this happened:
Rika - sanae, please get out of the bathroom.
Sanae - IT WON'T GIVE!… Huuum… !!
Emilia - is she still in this bathroom? I warned you not to overeat ...
Sanae - Shut up! if you were in my ... place, you wouldn't say that!
Emilia - for the love of the moon, are we by chance in a shounen book for silly boys?
Sanae - Emilia How many times have I told you not to break the fourth wall? .. Hummmm .. !!
We were almost thrown out of the train twice because of the sanae fighting with the waiters. Sanae must like to draw attention, because of what happened to her in childhood. I don't blame her, but sometimes she looks like a child, she's adorable.
In the midst of so much confusion, there was a conversation between me and Rika.
Rika - tell me, you're friends with this "Eleanore" girl, aren't you?
Emilia - what? How do you know??
Rika - well, when Soris quoted the name "Eleanore" her expression soon changed to something like she wanted him to say that ... you must be wanting to talk to her a lot ...
Emilia - eh… um…
Rika ... I don't know much about you, emilia. I don't know your goals and ideals, sometimes you seem to be hiding something.
Emilia - eh ... Okay, okay, it just happened ... something happened ... that I can't explain, and the only person who saw it happen on another occasion was Eleanore.
Rika - um ... Are you saying about you defeating that demon and the beauty alone? I was also wondering how you did it and how you survived.
Emilia - yes ... Eleanore was the only one who saw me in that state, I need to be sure of what I'm doing.
Rika - I see ...
Emilia - the worst thing is that I don't remember anything ... Eleanore was the only one who saw me doing something out of the ordinary, I beat her in less than a day. Eleanore never spoke to me about it, my friend Stephen told me about it, but he wasn't there too, so I need to talk to Eleanore. Something is happening to me, and only she can tell me what it is ...
Rika - I was going to ask who Stephen is, but I think I already know. He was your master, right?
Emilia - yes ... what about you, what was all that talk with Belor that night?
Rika - well ...
Rika started to count:
After I fell, Rika received a fatal blow to the chest, belor used magic to hit her, that power threw her away.
She got up and started to crawl through the forest, she reached a cliff, down there were waterfalls and rivers.
She looks back, what she sees is beautiful ready to make another attack.
Rika - I ... I will not let ... You touch them !! ...
Her legs were trembling, her throat swallowed dry, she was slightly afraid of dying, but her determination to protect her companions spoke louder.
Belor - << hakai hankei !! >>
A purple ray came out of the wand towards Rika, it advances in the purple ray but it was so strong that it threw it off the cliff, falling into the river, sinking into the river.
She hears voices, voices like Emilia and Sanae crying out for help.
She opens her eyes and finds herself on the banks of the river, as if someone had taken her there
Rika - I will not abandon my sister, nor my friend ...!
At that moment, something had awakened in his heart.
Rika - strength increase level 2 ..!
Rika's body was not as strong as Colossus', but her strength increased grotesquely, until then her body had only supported the level 1 strength ability, something changed at that bottom of the river.
And when she fought belor, she almost reached support at level 3, she was amazing in that fight.
Back in the real world, sanae appears interrupting the conversation.
Sanae - what are you talking about?
Emilia - it's not a big deal. What were you doing?
Sanae - I went in the food car, so I was thinking, are you afraid to die?
Emilia - of course not, I am the protagonist of this story.
Rika - Me neither, people admire me, nobody has the courage to kill people that everyone notices.
Sanae - I don't have it either, I am the group's comic relief, without me this book would be very boring.
Emilia - Don't you think we should stop breaking the fourth wall?
Sanae - the fourth who?
Emilia - forget it ...
Japan, over the years has increasingly seemed that the battle against magical creatures will never come to an end.
The government decided to create 4 major forces in the country.
These forces are known as the 4 hunter organizations. The four bases are located in the 4 main regions of the country, north, south, east and west.
The north is the most livable region, with the largest population. Unlike the north, the south has a duty to protect a small city and some habitable regions.
It also has the east and plague bases, they say they are even bigger than the north base.
The northern base is known as the smallest.
Despite this, the wall that protects the city is the largest, with sophisticated and state-of-the-art weaponry. On top of the walls is the government army, they manage to contain an attack on the wall, but they are terrified of going down and hitting the monsters head on.
To enter the main city you need to do a blood test, drill a hole and put a drop of blood on a paper that will be delivered to us at the entrance.
Our blood is completely different from the blood of creatures.
Sanae - I wonder ... Do the firearms that the government supplies to the army affect monsters?
Rika - silly, of course, yes. However, there are many monsters that are immune to attacks.
Emilia - there are two protection forces in the city, they are the army and the police. The police handle small cases. Nor do they compare with hunters
Rika - I heard that the police sometimes deal with extremely important cases. There is a rumor that the local police have already managed to defeat a medium-sized demon.
Sanae - I've heard about it, they even say it wasn't exactly the police, but detectives.
Emília - Detectives? Seriously?
Sanae - I don't know if it's true, it's a rumor in the north city.
Rika - they must be really good, because the police are not so efficient in battles.
Sanae - How do you know?
Rika - I saw ... The policeman was shooting at an invading Ogre, he was almost killed, if it weren't for a hunter who was walking around ...
Emilia - yes ... We are the ones who do the dirty work.
Rika - And most of the time we do not receive credit for our actions, it is usually the police who receive this credit.
Sanae - But what about the northern hunter base?
Emilia - I've seen her from afar. It's small compared to the south base, but there are some good people there…
I look to the side and see the base in the distance, there were several machines of destruction around it.
Emilia - no ... they will break the base!
We run towards the base and see Eleanore and other hunters watching the base being destroyed.
Emilia - eleanore !!
Eleanore - Emília ..?
Emilia - what's going on? Don't you see that they are destroying the base?
Eleanore - I know. The base was no longer supporting itself, the government no longer recognized us, so the head of the north and I decided to gather all the personnel so that we could get our due recognition and, if they, the government personnel did not want to help us, we threatened to undo the north base.
Emilia - wait, then you ...
Eleanore - Exactly, the north base is no more.
Emilia - but ... What about people?
Eleanore - When they all realize that we are the ones who keep the country going, we will be back with pleasure. Until then, the north base is no more.
"The north base is no more." that phrase resonated over my heart, so I felt a tightening in my heart.
To be continued…