Timeline: 3rd June 2005 [2 days since last Chapter]
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Change of POV: Morgan Le Fay
Ah...
Today was certainly interesting day, I along with Issei were 'playing' at the park, but in reality more like talking about Anime and Manga that interests him, I was just going with the flow at this point.
It's not like we can talk about actual stuff without me looking too out of place, but It will suffice for now.
I just hope my patience will pay off...
His favorite is truly Ultraman and Guyver too.
As we were talking, another boy joined our 'group' shall we say?
But then another 'boy' in question joined us.
"Hi! I couldn't help hearing you talking about Ultraman, can I join?" 'Boy' appeared to be the same age as me and Issei, with light brown hair and violet eyes. Just as short hair as Issei's.
But not in that idiotic hair cut with flat side.
Stupid Anime logic, and everything is cartoon-like.
"I'm Irina Shidou! And you are..?" Ah, the childhood friend that Issei remembered as boy. I'll need to keep distance from her, or rather her house. They have Holy Sword there and I don't know how Holy Swords will react in my presence due to my talent. I better be careful.
Cautious, Irina Shidou marked as 'avoid' for now.
"Ah, well.. I'm I-Issei Hyoudou.." Issei replied while smiling nervously, he is still shy. Can't really help with that.
No one is going to change their personality 360 turn like a flip. It rarely even happens in Anime.
Irina frowned, before she slowly turned her head to look at me with expectant gaze.
Ah I see, my turn then.
I smiled and waved at her. " My name is Morgan Le Fay." I replied to her, before when I introduced myself to Issei, he didn't care about my name nor had any reaction to it.
Issei is good kid now, he is not corrupted by some 'old man' in the park yet.
I'll have to keep an eye on that one..
But Irina is different, her eyes widened..
"Ah! Weird name!" Ahh....
A thick vein popped up on my forehead before I forcibly exhaled to calm myself down, I knew this was going to happen anyway sooner or later, someone is going to point out my name.
Ah life, I love it.
"~Sigh, It's still a cool name." I sighed before crossing my arms over my none-existent chest yet.
+Added effect from pouting too. Have to keep the appearance while dealing with children.
"Weird..."
"No! Morgan-Chan's name is not weird, it's Irina-Kun's name that is weird!" Oh! My hero in shiny armor defended me! Issei stood up, moved in front of me while positioning himself as if he was a hero, protecting a princess from darkness.
Nah, can't be.
This can't be happening.
Irina looked baffled for a second before she grinned and then bowed.
"Ahh! I'm sorry Morgan-Chan and Issei-Kun! I didn't mean it like that, it's just that I got carried away.." She apologized while bowing. With sincere expression, she might meant it.
I waved her apology away.
It doesn't matter, child's words anyway.
"It's okay, I didn't take it to heart. " I said, now time to change subjects. I slightly pulled the back of Issei shirt, alarming him to sit down on the brown bench. "So you also watch Anime?" I asked Irina as I turned to look at her.
Change of Subject!
"Yes! My favorite is Ultraman!" She had taken that weird pose, punching air above her head." But can I sit with you two and talk? My mom says I need friends around my age and you two seem fun to talk with.." She said the last part with quiet tone as she turned her head away, with red face.
I smiled at her request, I and Issei looked at each other before making more space for Irina to sit beside us, on the middle of the bench.
"Here!" Issei motioned at the bench, just between us.
This immediately caused Irina's face to beam with light, light just as holy as if it was from heaven, as she with excitement sat beside us.
And we continued talking about Ultraman, then shifted to Guyver.
Conversation took place for another couple dozen of minutes.
After that I got another Quest, a pleasant surprise honestly.
[Quest: Walk 500 steps!]
[Description: Walk at least 500 steps!]
[Progress: 500/0]
[Reward: 50 Gold]
I noticed a weird thing about this quest, it's like a daily quest without time limit and reward is either 25 Gold or 50 Gold.
There multiple similar quests, 100 Steps, 400 Steps for example. Rewards are always 25 Gold or 50 Gold.
So anyway, After talk about anime we 'played' a bit for an hour or so before our guardians picked us up.
And that's how I became friends with Irina Shidou.
Friendship that will not last long, after all, no matter what butterfly effect you create, some things are always 'Meant' to happen.
Destiny, if you want to call it like that.
Next Day.
4th June 2005
It's 9: AM.
Currently all three of us are inside my house. Me, Kosu Ikari and Goto Ryuji.
'Enjoying the freedom'. Your's truly.
"Till now, we have Accumulated over 523,000$ in our Bank accounts since 10th May. Money has been split between three of us evenly for now, but in case of emergency it shall be merged and used as a fund.." Spoke Goto Ryuji, he obviously meant between him, Kosu Ikari and Mizu Kage.
Goto-San lifted the cup with green tea as he drank it, he enjoyed it 'if' sigh leaving his mouth is anything to go by.
Over half a million dollars in less than a month for hunting down over several Low-Class Stray Devils and Mid-Class Devils is decent amount.
I slowly lifted the cap with my own tea as I drank it. 'Lives for Low-Class beings are meaningless in this world, A Low-Class Stray Devil may only have a highest bounty of 20k $, And that's nothing in grand scheme of things.' I though.
I like this green tea more than orange juice or apple juice.
Lives in this world are way cheaper compared to what Hitman on Earth would receive.
But once more, the payment depends on Targets Power Level and if target needs to be alive or dead.
Some Targets maybe be more 'worthy' or exceptional compared to others, from their 'races' they were before being reincarnated, to bloodlines or Sacred Gears, it all depends on these factors.
And for the money of the client, of course.
If client has money, Goto-San is going to do them a great service.
"That's fantastic! Huge improvement compared to before. But is there anything you need to notify me about?" I asked, I put the tea cup down on the table as I watched Goto.
Goto-San leaned further in his chair, Kosu Ikari proceeded to imitate his movement on her own chair as she looked at him with her undivided attention.
'Jeeh, admiration much?' I though as I glanced towards her way before my though process got interrupted by Goto-San's words. My eyes narrowed at what he said.
"Church has been attempting to come into contact with us from their first and only active church in the Kuoh." He began, his face uncaring as he glanced at me. I raised an eyebrow. " One of their priests or is it exorcist, I'd say a Mid-Class level has investigated the abandoned Church we used as our base of operations. "
My eyebrows furrowed with worry. Then it shifted into a small frown.
"But don't worry, Morgan-Sama. We have checked and destroyed all evidences from tracks in the abandoned Church, there is not even a single particle from our mana, let alone a drop of blood remaining there. But rather, how do you wish for us to proceed with this, I can eliminate all priests and put blame on nearby Fallen Angels.." He suggested, raising his palm and then firmly squeezing it with a 'pop' noise. "After all it would be easy to just blame Fallen Angels when all three factions are constantly attacking each other in some way, mostly small skirmishes though." His palm faced table.
But, a screen, [System]'s transparent screen manifested in front of my eyes. With a quest it seems.
[Quest: Investigate Church in Kuoh!]
[Description: Send a Hunter to investigate numbers of Exorcists in the Church !]
[Reward: 5,000 Gold]
My eyes almost popped up from their sockets. 5,000 Gold for task like this?! I like this, easy man! I'll order Mizu Kage to investigate it. Easy, just get their names, numbers and it should be enough to pass this quest.
Change of plans. I smirked, then I looked towards Goto-San.
"No, don't do anything for now. Instead I want you to investigate priests and any members they might have in the Church. I want to know who is exorcist and who is normal priest." I instead ordered. " Send Mizu Kage for that task." I paused. " Actually no, I want you to Investigate it with him, while main attraction would be Mizu Kage, I want you to be the 'Shadow' in this case."
Goto Ryuji quirked his eyebrow at my order, but his hand waved. Asking for elaboration.
I nodded.
So I elaborated.
"It's another Quest, it wants someone to Investigate Church and how many exorcist they might have. Reward is 5,000 Gold, it's a not a risky quest, it should be easy to finish if you pull a connection or two, at this point in time but reward is good enough." I explained as I motioned for Kosu Ikari to sip me more green tea.
I like green tea at this point, one of my favorite tea's right now.
Goto Ryuji nodded in understanding, after all they already know that I have [System] which allows me to buy weapons and summon Hunters from their worlds. But I just told them about 'Quests' option they didn't know. Since being summoned they have been imparted with 'Instant knowledge of how my summoning works'.
It would have been ridiculous otherwise, imagine explaining to someone where i'm pulling Satan-Class Humans from?
One funny thing is, while Hunters are absolutely loyal to me, it doesn't mean they couldn't be mind controlled, but no matter what, even if in under any influence, they would not be able to spit out beans about my [System].
Magically 'inbound' in soul. If someone tries to read their 'memories' before they appeared in the world, they would only 'see' that they were normal citizens, doing normal thing before 'joining my cause'.
Or at least that's what [System] said, I trust it for now.
"I see, then I will investigate this matter soon enough. " Goto Commented before drinking a sip from the cup of tea " But let's move to another issue."
I quirked my eyebrow, motioning for him to continue.
What is the issue now. I fear him coming here at this point, every time he barges into my house it's almost always with something serious.
He never visits for the sake of visit.
"Despite being only A-Rank, Mizu Kage was in completely different league compared to other A-Rank and so it would be advisable if you, Morgan-Sama could buy a better sword for him than the E-Rank Katana he used." He closed his eyes as he requested for me, a simple request, thankfully it's not anything serious this time.
I while not seeing anything wrong with his request, opened [Shop] and immediately searched into [Weapon] section and scrolled trying to find D-Rank Katana I found yesterday. It's more than enough right now.
As I continued scrolling, Goto Ryuji continued talking, not minding me not paying full attention to him anymore.
"And also, we need to expand our influence, and at least create a network of our Agents around Tokyo." He took another sip, I glanced from the shop to look at him. " Since Kuoh Town is already near Tokyo, it would be better to expand our influence to nearby Towns first, and then expand to Saitama City." He added.
I see, I let him continue. He is the Army leader here while 'I'm the boss Summoner'.
I slowly nodded.
"You want me to summon Hunters so soon already?" I asked him for confirmation, he nodded. Before pulling out a paper from his pockets and then extending his hand with it towards me.
I took it.
"On this paper are three names, Hanekawa a capable A-Rank Hunter with leadership Skills and experience in B-Rank and C-Rank Dungeons. And other two names are her 'underlings' if you will call them like that. They what would young people these days call ' top of the cake' for their respective classes that is. Other two are C-Rank Hunters who worked with Hanekawa, thus have experience with team work." He explained, before taking the pot with tea and filling his cup once more.
I nodded, taking one look on the paper. One is Assassin-Class and other is a Mage-Class.
" I'll need 144,000 Gold to summon three of them. 12k Gold for chosen C-Rank and 120k Gold for chosen A-Rank. At current stable speed it will take us 2 months or more to reach enough Gold for them." I elaborated, I'm speaking truth, I looked at the small screen floating in my left vision, and I noticed my 'Wallet'.
[Gold: 11,800]
I can't buy even one right now, but if we keep getting quests like the one with investigating Church then we might as well be able to collect enough Gold in two months for One A-Rank or at least B-Rank.
I rubbed my none-existent beard in though.
At my elaboration, Goto Ryuji did not lose his composure even for a moment, he still has that un-caring expression on his face. As if everything we are till now is boring for him.
Could..
Could he be a battle maniac? Or he has a hero complex?
But..
Kosu Ikari raised her hand, both of us looked at her, prompting her to speak. And she did.
"I have a friend, he is B-Rank Assassin Hunter who was raid Captain on dozens of B-Rank Gates. He might be good enough." She added. " And he was powerful enough to clear a C-Rank Dungeon by himself."
I see.
I nodded, at least I don't have to blindly click one of the random tickets now. A 60k for a Strong B-Rank, that's equivalent for High-Class. Even so, 50k is still equivalent to High-Class, the catch is that random B-Rank Hunter may not come with leadership skills, skills like stealth and similar.
"Acceptable, I did not pay attention to remember faces of those weaker than A-Ranks anyway."Goto replied before he drank his entire cup of Tea before standing up.
This caused me to look at time on my watch, small digital watch on my left hand.
It's 10 AM already, time sure passed since I talked with Goto Ryuji.
"I and Mizu-San shall investigate this Church and finish this Quest by tomorrow. Hopefully we might be able to gain another Quest like this in short time,. "He paused before bowing in acknowledgment " Now if you will excuse me, Morgan-Sama." He said so as I and Kosu Ikari-san waved him goodbye.
He left the kitchen, walked towards the door, quietly followed behind by Ikari-San.
I felt like I forgot something?? Something important?
I rubbed my temples before I realized.
My eyes widening in disbelief.
Ah sh#t! I forgot to give him a Katana for Mizu-San!
I sighed as I leaned on my chair.
'Ah, doesn't matter, I'll just give it to Ikari-San before my Grandmother comes home, so Ikar-San can carry it to Mizu-San, after all, the three of them are still living together right now..
~Growl..
My stomach growled in protest.
And just then, Ikari-San walked back into the kitchen, upon hearing my stomach growling she did not even attempt to hide her own giggle.
~Giggle~
I slowly turned towards her.
I smiled sheepishly as I looked at Ikar-San grinning face.
This sly fox!
"So, can you prepare something for me to eat?" I kindly requested of her, causing her to giggle even more before standing up from her chair and pushing it away.
"On it, Morgan-Sama!" And here she goes to Kitchen.
With one nuisance less, I took a sip from Tea, before I once again scrolled on [Shop] on [Weapon] section.
Going through more countless E-Rank Weapons and some D-Rank weapons I found it.
[ [Katana] D-Rank = 350 Gold]
[ Description: A magnificent Katana with : Attack + 5]
Without further ado, I brought it.
I'll give it to Ikari later anyway.
Then I checked the current time on my watch once more.
10:04 AM
Grandmother still has four hours more, today she ends her work earlier than usual.
"But at least her job pays very well for now, enough to provide right now. And with these Hunters and bounties they catch, I won't need to worry about money issues any time soon."
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