Buji stood in front of the blue shimring portal, adjusting his uniform as he gazed at the portal in his front. He glanced down at his weapon—a sword, not too long but has sharp edges enough to slit a throat with one swing. 'Not bad, from an old friend anyway.'
He suddenly rembered what had happened the night before then. He was in his room, practicing the new moves he learned from sneaking around combat lessons when he had a knock on his door.
Even though he was hesitant to open the door at first, on a later thought decided to check out who it was. Lo, and behold, it was Emra. And that kept him thinking, 'What was she here for this ti?'
Allowing Emra to co in, he poked his face sideways, from left to right, to be sure it was only Emra who had co. Nobody seed to be working on the corridor way, so, Emra was here alone.
But why? Was it not risky for a boy to visit a girl's room or vice versa?
Whichever the case might be, he hoped nothing was wrong. However, he closed the door behind him and was sure not to lock it, in case things turned out unexpected.
Emra would be a tough match for him. So, if what he was thinking should co, he could easily run out of his room.
On his right hand, was the mob stick which he used to practice, held in a slant position. While hung on the room's ceiling fan hanger, was a pillow.
Emra chuckled after observing this. Putting her observation behind, she decided to start up the discussion.
"You're going for your first raid tomorrow, no?"
"Yeah. Why do you care?"
"Well, I won't be engaging myself with the raid tomorrow that was why I ca by."
"Excuse , what do you an?" Buji asked to clear the confusion that was about setting in.
"You should have known. Everything is there in the student's group chat."
"And what if I say I've gotten no ti to check out the thousands of ssages in that chat? That day, my phone won the award for the best beep sounder and dancer. All as a result of bothering ssages."
"Buji, no ssage you will find in the group is bothering anyway. They just ease of bored most tis, and pass out information sotis. You should only get used to it."
'Even at that, stop blabbing already and state your reason for being here.'
As if reading Buji's thoughts, Emra continued.
"Well, I'm just here to be sure a friend was ready for the first raid," Emra stated and with a mocking tone, she asked showing her white teeth in a smile. "Am I not caring enough?"
'Shits. Even after what you did the other ti, you still had the guts to ntion the word "friend". Just, what kind of human being are you?'
Ignoring Emra's mocking question, Buji drew her back to the group chat stuff she talked about. "Earlier you asked why I haven't seen the ssage in the group chat."
"Yeah. The first-year students were rged into teams with the second-year students."
'And what's about that? She always has the habit of not going straight to the point.'
"You see. Of course, you're not as blind as you are weak," Emra mocked, giving out a low brief smile. "My bad, don't take it against please."
'It's okay with the crap, just talk already.'
"Well, the school always created a fake dungeon as a ans of teaching students so that they can get acquainted with the hunting technique. The three weeks they had spent with their instructors and all they have learned was going to be tested through this ans."
"But just so you know, they were called fake dungeons not because real beasts were extinct in it, but because they were created to hold beasts captured alive and as a ans to help in the student's ability growth."
"Even though it was regarded as a fake dungeon, it held at least thousands of bodies already. The dungeon raid is a do-or-die affair, or worst still, a do-and-die affair."
Buji unknowingly listened to Emra. Unknowingly because he had not been paying careful attention while he talked, but since she drifted to this current topic, he had to focus his mind. Maybe because he was going to be needing the information the next day.
"But, Buji, are you really ready for the dungeon raid?" Emra asked. Shockingly to Buji, the question ca with a tone of concern in the voice that asked it.
"Why do you ask?"
"I just wanted to know, because, you are an exception."
'Exception? Not again.'
Was he always going to be different even when it cos to a brisk opportunity for survival? Should he term it torture? Or probably, simply restriction?
"Of course, I don't have to await your reply. Let be straight to the point. Only you won't be raiding the fake dungeon tomorrow, you were tead with the second year's team to raid a real dungeon."
"You're getting confused. What's all this fuss about real and fake dungeons? Make things clear, at least this last ti," Buji managed to ask.
"The only difference between these two kinds of dungeon was that treasures weren't hidden in the fake dungeons."
'Did she just say treasure? What treasure? Oh…'
The findings any team will make after a raid determined the amount each mber of the team was going to be receiving as paynt. Totally, the hunters will be earning the stipulated salary for their rank plus the worth of their gifts or treasures.
So, in a day, soone can make up to a million huncoins. Solely depending on the treasure found inside. Most high paid hunters were the B, A, and S-rank hunters, because, they found more expensive treasures inside.
'Now, I get the whole jerk,' Buji analyzed, nodding his head in affirmation of his thoughts.
He, however, decided to listen to Emra's sermon. Sohow, he felt she hadn't told him what she had co to his room for. But he has decided to trail the bull at the back until it clears the way for his path. He decided to wait a little longer.
"I really don't know how well you've prepared since I had for this past weeks, you weren't with an instructor that would guide you. So, I brought you this since I'm sure you have got none," Emra claid, unfolding a wrapped clothe on her hand to reveal a short sword.
Normally, once you begin lessons, you are made to choose your best weapon for use, especially the Combat awakeners.
Handing over the sword to Buji, Emra let him know that it was from her dad. He had asked to give it to Buji a day before his first raid. And beside her was a book, the book Buji had longed to get but knew not how to.
'Why am I just seeing these now? Had she co inside with them?'
Just then, Emra handed out the book Buji had seen earlier. It was his old book which he was instructed to read a day before he went for his first raid.
Buji dropped the sword on the desk beside his window and quickly collected the book from Emra. He rubbed his hands against his front and back surface as if welcoming its return and his mind drifted back to what Emra had said earlier. He just didn't understand.
"Excuse . Had you said I was going to be raiding a real dungeon?" Buji asked, and the reply he got was affirmative.
And that was how he got himself in front of this blue-lighted portal, which shimred with intense energy.
'What… just what am I going to et in there?'
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