The Cold Blooded Hunter: Seeker of Peace
3. A woman named Dusk
I walked quietly, but my heart felt uneasy, as this was the first time I walked out of the house without my family.
Well, even though I often do it when going to the park near my house to play with my friend, but this is the first time I went, without telling my family.
Plus the situation is still chaotic like this, I was slightly expecting that there was an older person who survived the big tremor earlier.
I still do not understand whether the tremor could be said to be an earthquake or not. But I don't know what's right and what's wrong, because I'm a kid right now.
I actually had other thoughts about the cause of the vibration. The monster attack.
The news on television is arguably dominated by Monsters and Hunters, two ever-hostile camps.
I don't really understand why Monsters and Hunters can be hostile, because the news on television always airs about Hunters fighting Monsters.
About Hunter, my father once told me that he was a former Hunter, he retired when my mother gave birth to my brother ten years ago.
As a simple count of a seven-year-old child making this count after remembering his father's age, his father is currently thirty-five years old.
So, I think my dad retired when he was twenty-five. Well, this isn't really important information either...
My father also told me that some Hunters have great power, which he said is able to face many powerful Monsters.
I don't know if it's true or not, but for sure I don't want to be a Hunter because I don't have a strong body, just a flabby body.
My brother had a dream of becoming an SS rank Hunter, the Hunter I told you before could fight against many powerful Monsters. But the dream ended...
What was that? Is it afternoon or afternoon, actually?
I stopped when I saw a woman sitting on the swing all by herself.
The woman's clothes were very shabby, I guessed that she was the same fate as me.
"His clothes are the same as mine, could it be that he intends to go to school?" I muttered, trying to digest the situation by myself.
Before long, the gazes of the two of us met and the woman turned out to cry.
The conclusion I took after seeing the look of his eyes that seemed empty, not staring at anything, even though his face was facing towards me.
I walked up straight and approached the woman while scratching my head.
Awkwardly, that was all I could feel after approaching the woman and standing before her.
"Are you hungry?" My toot.
The woman was silent, so I didn't know what the answer was.
I raise my eyebrows, I feel something on my left wrist.
I raised my left hand and saw what was on my wrist.
"It... It's jam!" I shouted, for some reason today I screamed a lot after escaping death.
The woman was surprised and she intended to run, but I held her back and told her to sit on the swing again.
"Sit down!"
The woman was stunned when she saw me yelling at her, making me feel a little guilty.
"Ee, I'm sorry, I've been through a terrible thing..." I let go of his hand and sat down on the ground, in front of him.
The woman raised her eyebrows before she said, "This city is under attack from the Monsters..."
"Eh? How'd you know that?" I don't know if this woman is lying or not, but for now I have to receive valuable information, even from a sandal vane.
"How long have you been here?" My toot.
"Since this morning and until this afternoon, I haven't eaten..." The woman replied, adding, "My name is Dusk, who knows you need it..."
I scratched my head, how could I forget such an important thing?
"My name is Sky, greetings yes..." I stretched out my hand and Dusk welcomed my hand.
"Since you and I are both hungry, how about we go to a place that might provide food?" My proposal. Dusk nodded.
I pulled out my twilight hand and walked away from the park, going somewhere that might provide what we wanted.
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"I was left in this garden as long as two of my parents took their guns in our house, so I don't know the fate of both..."
I lowered my head, at least I understood what it was like to lose because I already felt it.
"As I sat on that swing, many people ran around without direction in panic, making me panic and want to run as well, but I remembered the messages of my parents..."
"Don't panic when you see panic, panic will only worsen the atmosphere. Calm down and try to figure out what happened..."
"Is that your parents' second message?" I bite down on the big bread I hold.
"Yes..."
Right now, we were in a small shop that happened to have a considerable supply of goods near the park earlier.
We took each one of the loaves of bread while apologizing many times to the shop the owner had left behind. Well, we were actually forced to take a stealing step because we had no money, in addition, no one was looking, hehehe...
"Then? What happened during the panic?" I asked again and folded the bread and put it in my school uniform.
Dusk told me again, while I cleaned my uniform that I could not clean with just my hands.
Since I didn't carry a bag, only carried myself in a dirty school uniform, I was forced to put my bread in my uniform.
Well, I was actually going back to my house, looking for my bag among the ruins of my house, but I undo my intentions when I think of the person I brought. Plus, I don't know where my bag might be, hehehe...
I didn't wear shoes at first, just now at this store I picked up a pair of sandals as my footwear for a while.
"Emm, Sky..." Dusk called me as he folded his bread and put it in his bag, "Enter your bread here..."
He stretched out his bag, I raised my eyebrows, almost asking where he got the bag from, but I smiled and put my bread in his bag.
Dusk wears a full school uniform, from top to bottom, his uniform is very complete and he also wears shoes.
But his shoes and his uniform were dirty, I had heard his story earlier when we rested while eating bread.
After he was abandoned by his parents, he saw panic and he planned to run after the panic, but he abandoned his intentions and chose to hide in the bushes. He said that's what made his uniform dirty, so I get it now.
Dusk saw the attack of the Monster, which ate the human he saw. If he does not see it, he will not eat it.
Dusk said that he was very grateful for his luck, not eaten by the man-eating monster, because he had a dream that he wanted to achieve.
"Oh yes, Dusk..." I unbuttoned number two from the top of my uniform, displaying the thin shirt I was wearing before my uniform, "What is your dream you want to achieve?"
"Dreams, huh?" Dusk closed his eyes as he exhaled, "My dream of becoming a Hunter, like my two parents..."
"It's not ordinary Hunters who aren't able to protect this city, but Hunters who can fight many powerful Monsters alone..." Dusk clenched his hands.
I who heard it could only lower my head, could it be that my dream can be determined from now on?