AutoTerra: Operating Systems
Chapter 9: The Gardin
Along the hallway Astan and Arni walked while chatting lightly about various things. Actually, things like this are not uncommon. Astan is a friend of Suda and very familiar with the brother of this girl, but he never once had a chat this familiar before with Arni.
When Astan visited Suda and Arni's cabin first, Astan only occasionally greeted Arni, it was only replied with a thin smile. Suda said that his sister is shy and rarely friends, the number of friends can still be counted as the least finger.
“Ahaha…. You are different from other guys.” Arni tried to hold back laughter after hearing the various babbles Astan.
With his pedal Astan restores his hair. “From which side, anyway? Bull, yak?”
“Not.”
Instant face instantly flat.
“Hihi…. Usually most of the guys want to look cool, pretentious’an sharp, calm,” said Arni, “If you are even really cherry-wis like a mother-mak.”
Instant start giving a confession, “So, Dek Arni. From the nature of me being a bit tilted 360 degrees, I just want to say that what I said was right waiting for the tram was really.”
Arni knitted an eyebrow. “Which one?”
“Yang ghibah with mom-mak. I often hang out with the cafeteria mothers, hang out that way,” replied Astan with a waving hand.
Now Arni's flat face responds to it.
“Not just the same mother, sometimes also like to hang out with the fathers in the cafeteria,” continued Astan, “Sitting casually with one leg raised on a chair, smearing coffee continues to belch, and, sometimes we laugh at our fathers. Aaaahahahaha..!”.
Tiba-tiba Astan tertawa terbahak-bahak sambil membungkuk memegangi perut ratanya, dan sesekali memukuli pahanya sendiri ketika mengingat lawakan para bapak-bapak kafetaria. Arni yang melihatnya cuma nampak kebingungan dengan perilaku aneh Astan, mempertanyakan kesehatan mental pria itu.
Dari segi mananya yang lucu?!
“Eh, eh! Pernah enggak dengar lawakan bapak-bapak yang ini?” tanya Astan mendadak antusias.
Arni menggeleng dengan muka masam. “Enggak, dan enggak mau ta—.”
Astan langsung menyela tak peduli kalau Arni sama sekali tidak mau mendengar lawakannya.
“Agar tanaman di Dek Hidroponik subur….”
Arni diam seribu bahasa, perasaannya sudah terlalu masam untuk mendengar lanjutannya.
“Kita berak sama-sama! Nyahahahaha…!”
Lagi-lagi Astan tertawa keras, bahkan sekarang ia berlutut sambil memukul-mukul lantai hingga air mata kegirangan mengalir dari matanya.
Arni sama sekali tak ada respon, mematung di tempat. Dia bingung ketika melihat Astan seaneh ini. Dalam pikirannya terlintas pertanyaan begini saat mengenang senyum surgawi dari Suda,
‘Abangku itu mungut dari mana orang antik kayak begini…? Mungkin benar pikir orang, begini jadinya kalau centong sayur dikasih nyawa.’
Setelah selesai tertawa terbahak-bahak, Astan langsung berdiri tegap sambil menghapus air mata tawanya.
“Gimana? Gimana? Lucu, enggak?” tanya Astan dengan wajah ceria.
Arni tersenyum dibuat-buat. “Lucu, Bang. Tapi lucunya mental ke akhirat.”
Arni hurriedly walked ahead of Astan without caring that the man was looking at her with an innocent look.
“Lho, in terms of where it's not funny?” gumam Astan is confused. “I'm the same father in the cafeteria aja often ngak kok if someone throws jokes like that.”
“Oi, Arni! Wait!”
Astan hurriedly chased after Arni who would soon arrive in front of a gate.
….
“Welcome to the Dek Kru training field.”
The two robots guarding in front of a large gate invited Astan and Arni to enter the place.
Arni seemed to be fascinated by the place. That place is a training field for beginner hunters to practice, raising the rank to the Wood Rankings. This indoor field is a spacious room dominated by ivory white with blue and metal accents.
This area now looks very quiet, boring. There was only a novice hunter like Arni shooting three live wooden puppets that were usually used for training.
“Wah…! Is this a beginner hunter-specific training field?” arni asked enthusiastically, but then began to feel astonished. “But how quiet?”
“Ya, reasonable deserted.” Astan's eyes looked at the corner of the field. “Our Guild is among the most unpopular Guilds in the galaxy. Few people are willing to join our Guild, it is also the residents who live here.”
Sometimes Astan stepped slowly with both hands inserted into the pocket of his pants, still near Arni.
“Guild Thornic, who knows? This Guild of ours is too passive, rarely as active as other Guilds in hunting activities,” Astan explained casually. “No ambition to become the best Hunter Guild. Doing a hunting mission just to make money, survive. Guild and ship are only used as a shelter for the homeless, shelter, survival.”
Astan stopped stepping, turning to Arni. “So, we as hunters in the Thornic Guild can't expect more. The Guild Leader only wants the Guild members and the entire occupants of the Thornic Ship 035 to be safe, he does not want us to engage in competition with other Guilds. And I'm comfortable with a Guild like this.”
It does. During this time the Thornic Guild had never been seen actively competing with other Guilds like the hunter Guilds in general. What the hunters did here was only on a hunting mission or protecting Guild members and fellow occupants of the Thornic Ship 035.
There was no harm in deciding not to incur competition with other Guilds for security reasons. But for some reason, Arni thought that the passivity of this Guild would not even yield any progress.
Supposedly, if they could participate more actively hunting, could compete with other Guilds, then there would be many advantages they could get. For example, money, items, and items for ship equipment and the needs of the residents.
But how else? Such an opinion can only be harbored by an Arni. He could not argue because he realized his position was still a new hunter. Astan who had already six months of joining the Guild alone did not comment of any sort, instead he was grateful for the current situation of the Guild.
“Why bengong aja? Not training, here?”
Arni is shocked, aware of her daydream when Astan reminds her to practice. The black-haired girl shook her head for a moment, trying to shake her mind about the Guild earlier.
As the two began to step into the middle of the field, Astan's fad greeted the only hunter training here.
Arni's whims check data from the hunter through his system.
[Name : Gardin Ananta]
[Gender Type: Male]
[Age: 18 years]
[Profession : Hunter]
[Lift : None]
[Level: 4]
\=\=*\=\=*\=\=*\=\=
[Main Weapon: Basic Gun (Grade-D)]
[Additional Weapon: -]
[Supporting Weapon: -]
[General Capability: Summon Type-1]
\=\=*\=\=*\=\=*\=\=
[-Strength: 7]
[-Agility: 8]
[Vitality: 6]
[Intelligence: 12]
[-Dexterity: 7]
[ Luck: 5]
The hunter named Gardin stopped shooting the wooden doll, smiling at Astan.
“Nguli, Bang. Yeah, another exercise…. See for yourself, here,” Gardin said.
Both of Gardin's eyes widened, noticing Astan's figure. “You're that level 3 Iron Rank hunter, right? What are you doing here? Exercise too?”
“Yeee…. Where are Iron Rank hunters training in the day again?” Astan pointed at Arni beside him. “This.... again nemenin temen. He just signed up to be a hunter.”
Arni waved her hand with a friendly smile at Gardin. “Hai, Mas.”
“Ooo…. New hunter? Serve his son.” Gardin started wondering, “What's his name, Neng? Meet me, I'm Gardin. I also just signed up to be a hunter.”
“Hilih~ Pake PDKT all nih skin bengkoang,” ledek Astan. “Ei, he's the brother of a mechanical engineer. Until his brother finds out you're anything, so’in petromax, won't be a person again you later.”
Arni chuckles to hear the words of Astan as usual always cherry.
Arni pranks on Astan's arm. “Hihi…. Bang, he just wants to meet. Not wrong, kok.” Arni introduces herself to Gardin. “I Arni. Greetings, yes.”
“Salam know also.” Gardin smiled at the sumringah. “If later ‘dah until Wood Rank, how about we become a Squad?”
“She's already one Squad with me,” between Instant rather sewot.
Gardin was a little stunned to hear that. “Heh…? Yesterday this sweet Arni wants a Squad with horse teeth?”
“Hiiih! Want to take your gelud, yak?!” Astan get ready to take a swing for jotos. “Our level difference is still far away. Want me to make you my darling man?!”
“Waduh?”
Spontan Gardin held his own waist. Horror is also imagined if he suddenly became a human kayang like in horror films.
“I-iya sorry…. I ‘kan just— Ayak! Sift it! Kayak!”
Gardin is upset because a wooden doll is attacking him. Luckily, the young man shot with a gun.
Astan who saw the incident back chirping, “Makanya, focus!”
“You're the one who bothered from earlier!”
“I ‘kan just nyapa!”
“But you've been cheating on me!”
“Udah, udah!” Arni mediates. “This is if you two make a fuss, when do I train?”
“Ya, already. Follow here.”
Astan dragged Arni towards the end of the field. While walking away, Gardin tries to aim at Astan with his gun, but is caught by Astan himself.
“Shoot aja! I'm wearing a Shield! Caught shooting me, I made you a pedal!”
Hurriedly Gardin lowered his weapon in a panic. “Si-who wants to shoot there? I ‘kan want to shoot these wooden dolls!”
Gardin tried to sneeze, even though his wooden doll had lost.
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