The Hunter System
Chapter 174 - Mina's Past
Anna could see the curiosity in Cyntia's eyes on Miyuki.
"He'll explain it to you later" Anna told Cyntia.
"Yes?"
Anna turned, looking at Miyuki who was standing beside her as she opened a portal to the secret underground laboratory of the cute girl. "Miyu, all the rest of our magic crystals, can you give them to her?"
Miyuki nodded slowly. "Sure" he said, then turned to Cyntia. "Come with me."
Cyntia seems hesitant to accept Miyuki's invitation which she knows wants to invite her to go inside Anna's gate.
"He will tell you everything while helping you to get an increase in Mana's energy capacity" Anna told Cyntia, seeking to allay the woman's worries.
"If you want to help this man save the world, come with me" Miyuki added.
Alvin smiled faintly at Cyntia who was looking at him with a hint of worry emanating clearly from both eyes.
"It's okay. Come with him" said Alvin.
"All right..."
Miyuki allows Cyntia to enter first into the gate while she turns again on Alvin.
"You won" said Miyuki, smiling sincerely as congratulations to Alvin. "Don't forget the lesson I gave you."
Being admitted like that, naturally took Alvin by surprise. He did not expect that this teenage version of Mina had a much better heart than Mina in her body.
"Thank you for your help. I certainly won't forget it."
Miyuki nodded slowly, then left following Cyntia into the gate made by Anna.
After Cyntia and Miyuki leave, Anna uses the opportunity to get Alvin to move. He had an important thing that the goddess Ann asked him to tell her.
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"You don't need any help getting rid of them, do you?" alvin asked after he finished admiring how he could switch places instantly as Anna took him to teleport in front of the huge red gate that was in Tianjin city.
In that place, he saw there were hundreds of orc and elf troops, which he knew as the troops Anna had, it was fighting against millions of blood red-skinned monsters that came from a magic gate that had a length of many kilometers with a height that exceeded a building with 100 floors.
Alvin admired the army of elves who each possessed strength equivalent to Cyntia, there were even some elves who possessed strength many times greater than Cyntia.
But Alvin did not just admire their strength. He also admired the extremely graceful form of the elves when he first saw the elves in person.
Elves were indeed very rare to appear in a Dungeon. Only dark elves were usually there. But, Alvin had never met a dark elf either.
.........
"They can handle it" said Anna.
Alvin nodded slowly. He could also feel the vast difference in strength between the army of elves and orcs that only numbered in the hundreds with an army of red monsters numbering in the millions.
"They are very strong. But, how can you make that army of elves and orcs your subordinates?" ask Alvin.
"They're not my subordinates. They're my friends."
"...Alright."
Anna laughs.
"It still makes more sense to be friends with them than to be friends with an army of insects, right?" said Anna and managed to make Alvin surprised again.
"You know that?!"
"Of course."
'As I recall, I never summoned an army of insects as long as he existed.'
["Once again. Neither this man nor the platinum-blonde woman confused me."]
"We should all three speak directly" said Anna, cutting off the conversation Alvin and Mina could hear.
Alvin furrowed his eyebrows together, not understanding what Anna meant.
"Let's go."
"Where else to go?"
"Rin... I meani... Rimi, please open the inventory" Anna said.
A magic portal that should only be accessible and visible to Alvin suddenly appears before them. Without permission, Anna entered the portal first.
He noticed the situation inside the hologram before going to a chair and sitting on it.
Outside the hologram room, Alvin was still staring at the portal with his mouth gaping wide.
'Don't I have to give him permission to go there first? Isn't the inventory only accessible and accessible to me?'
["...As a System maker, I am also ashamed to say this. I also don't understand why he could go in there without your permission."]
'...'
Alvin finally went into the inventory and looked at Anna who was sitting waiting for him with an inquiring look.
"Because I can. Coincidentally, Rin and I are close friends."
"Yes?"
Alvin finally realized that there was something strange here. Rimi shouldn't have obeyed anyone but herself and Mina. But, Rimi who had been silent since then, even opened the inventory immediately after getting an order from Anna.
"You... Did you hypnotize Rimi?"
"Yes." Yeah."
Glup...
"W-how did you do it?"
"Because I can."
"..."
"Sit down first. Don't worry about him. He's fine" Anna said, pointing to one of the empty seats nearby.
After Alvin sat there, Anna spoke again, "You too, Miyu. I even bothered to come in here to meet you in person."
"Miyu?" ask Alvin astonished.
Alvin instantly knew who Anna was referring to when the figure of a teenage girl suddenly appeared inside the hologram room.
She had the exact same look as Miyuki Nakano, who had just fought with her.
"You... Can you show your human form?!" alvin cursed at Mina who immediately scuffed and threw away her face.
"Why didn't you ever show it to me?"
"I'm afraid you'll like me" Mina said.
"What?! Don't dream!"
"Tsk... Your face is red."
Mina lied about her last words. He just didn't want his lies to open up so clearly.
"I'm not interested in teenage girls at all!"
"Why did you watch that girl group?"
"..."
"The two of you are very familiar" said Anna, mediating the commotion that seemed to be going on between Alvin and Mina.
"We are not familiar" Alvin and Mina said almost simultaneously.
Anna laughed for a while before finally patting the empty chair next to her, asking Mina to sit there.
"You must be confused by what happened in this age, right? About the monsters that should not have appeared but have sprung up in the past year" Anna said, moments after Mina sat beside her.
Mina nodded.
"What's really going on?"
"That's because we've made a mess of them making them appear faster."
Mina nodded again. He already guessed about it.
"There's been something that's been bugging me all this time" Mina said. He turned to look directly at Anna, then continued his sentence, "You seem to have a relationship with that platinum-blond woman, right?"
"The goddess's name is Ann."
"alright. I also want to know, shouldn't you die when you're 18? If you're this strong and alive, why don't you come help us in the future? Why are you hiding?"
Mina's tone sounded a little harsh when she asked that.
He realizes that Anna has powers that are beyond his reasoning as the only powerful hunter left in the future. Mina thought, if Anna was helping humanity at that time, then she would not have to bother going to the past as she had done.
.........
Anna smiled bitterly before responding to the question.
"Because I don't live beyond 18."
"Huh?! I saw you exchanging bodies with that goddess Ann and I knew that she had brought you back to life. You want to lie to me?"
Still with a bitter smile on her lips, Anna gave an answer, "I've only made it past the age of 18 in this life. Not with previous lives."
"uh? Whatchu mean?"
"You must be wondering why you who are in this age also Rin, Kevin, Bimo and Gina already know each other, right?"
Mina nodded.
"Because the world we live in now is not the same place you once lived."