บท 11: Chapter 9 : Silent city
"We're almost at the rally point, I think we'll be able to reach the black area by tonight."
Fujiwara said as he folded the map laid out in front of him while looking at Aron who was stirring the contents of a large pan and Tae-Wook who was trimming his beard with scissors holding a mirror in his other hand.
"This wave of mana is almost the weakest ever recorded in history, except for the weak demons that have reached the red and pink zone, almost no high level demons have come out of the portals, something is wrong and they won't tell us."
Aron and Fujiwara forced their eyebrows at these words, while Tae-Wook continued to trim his beard.
"I wonder what kind of thing could be so terrifying as to stop these hypocritical political bastards from evacuating Category 3 and 4 cities in the red zone."
Aron said as he continued to cook, glancing at Fujiwara who looked pensive.
"First the insane bounty they promised for this mission, second the 20,000 mana users posted to the black area, third the involvement of more than 27 rank S, fourth the refusal to send evacuation troops all of this is becoming more and more worrisome, I almost feel like abandoning this mission, don't you?"
Hearing Fujiwara's words, Tae-Wook and Aron were silent for a moment before Tae-Wook slowly shook his head as he put down the scissors and mirror before cleaning the hair that had fallen on his clothes.
"We are mercenaries, we work for money, we already accepted this mission so we have to complete it to the end."
Fujiwara and Aron could only sigh at Tae-Wook's words before continuing their own activities.
. . . . .
"Hey, kid come eat!"
Miles was panting in the distance, running across a school sports field, his body covered in sweat, his legs shaking as he heard Fujiwara's screams, and he looked up at the roof of one of the nearby buildings where a small amount of smoke was visible.
He stopped running and fell to the ground vomiting the contents of his stomach.
"That son of a bitch one day I'll kill him, one day I'll gut him, I swear."
It had been a week since Miles had managed to sense and accumulate mana, after what was supposed to be a happy event, his ordeal began.
On the first day, when they set off Fujiwara, without saying a word, threw him out of the pickup by simply saying the word "Run".
Miles, still in shock, saw the pickup truck driving away and quickly came to his senses and ran after them with all his might, shouting at them to stop, but he was completely ignored by the three of them who didn't even glance at him.
He managed to follow the car for about 10 minutes before falling to the ground without any strength, that's when he remembered that he could now use mana.
He concentrated then and accumulated with difficulty the mana in his body while running after the car, he succeeded in holding then envrion thirty minutes before falling on the ground completely exhausted it is then that the pick-up stopped and that Fujiwara threw him in the back like a bag of potato.
Thinking his ordeal was over, he rested until the car stopped a few hours later.
When it was time to eat, Fujiwara spat on the ground.
"Who told you that you could eat so easily? Go make me 1,000 around the car!"
Miles wanted to answer to Fujiwara's words and received a slap in the second that sent him flying more than 10 meters away. Fujiwara's screams pierced his eardrums.
"10,000 laps!!!""
He could only accept their sad fate and honestly run the ten thousand laps imposed.
The next day he was thrown out of the car again by Fujiwara and after that he had to run ten thousand times around the car.
The same thing happened the next day and the day after that for almost a week.
Miles then understood for the first time in his life the meaning of the sentence "vomit all his guts".
"Hurry up before I eat your share."
Hearing the shouting from the roof in the distance, the tired Miles rose from the ground at the speed of light and raced up the fire escape of the building on which the three were making camp.
A few minutes later Miles was lying on the roof floor with a big smile on his face while Tae-Wook looked at him laughing.
"Miles, are you sure you can run after eating like that?"
The smile on Miles' face gradually dissipated as if he had just realized a terrible thing making Tae-Wook laugh out loud.
Shortly afterwards, they began to break camp as a cold wind from the south began to blow harder and harder.
"A city is truly terrifying without human life."
Aron whispered in his usual deep voice as he looked back at the buildings that stretched as far as the eye could see, surprised that Miles got up from the ground and helped Tae-Wook and Fujiwara pack up their things.
"At least the people who were there had time to get away.
Miles said as he walked down the stairs next to Aron, who frowned slightly at the remark before sighing as he looked back at the town of Miles and others he had passed along the way.
"You're emotional earlier despite your horror movie face, come on down it's your turn to drive."
Tae-Wook added as he got off the roof followed by Fujiwara.
Aron stood alone for a moment looking at the landscape with a melancholic air before following the others and going down the stairs.
A short time later the sound of a car engine echoed through the quiet city before gradually dissipating into the distance.
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