a calming scenery, with a soothing song in the background, the three girls began to unpack their belongings in a room of a hotel
"*yawn* well, that was unexpected, are you fine Liliya?"
"yeah, that was a nice way to relieve my stress. Osiria's been more demanding lately so I haven't been resting as much"
Liliya put down Osiria on the bed and laid down with her
"you do know that we're still unpacking right?"
"ahh, sorry but do... you have... time to spare..."
"haahhh... immediately snoring... seems like you really did need sleep..."
Rin exited the room and bumped to a man in a lab coat
"a-ahh, sorry, my bad"
bowing to Rin, he immediately left without saying another word
"hmm... well, I need to look at the buffet right now..."
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arriving in the main hallway, Rin asked a couple of the employees...
"sorry but we're not providing food for today, but we have a cafe and a diner in the neighborhood"
"ahh, thank you."
"I guess I'll go to the cafe for now... I really don't have that much with me..."
Rin arrived on the cafe and ordered a latte and noticed the man he bumped in the hotel
"ahh, hello. do you mind if I sit here?"
"I don't mind this sit is free"
sitting just on the side of the table, Rin's cup finally arrived. the man was minding his own business with the laptop he was carrying with him.
"am I disturbing you?"
"ahh, if it's that then no, actually, I've been feeling lonely in the past few days so I do like your company"
"then do you mind if I ask about what you're doing? I'm curious"
"well... I don't know if you'll understand, here"
Rin took a glance on the screen and understood the complex anagrams and symbols
"hmm... well I do understand it quite well, are you researching on magic?"
"yes, since the global apocalypse that I have been looking in to the mechanics behind it"
"you're quite diligent"
"oh! I didn't catch your name, I'll introduce myself, I'm Rin Aiha a member of the corrupted invaders... well I say that but it's not really my real surname and I'm just taking some pictures on the fight, I don't fight myself but I do have some abilities like them"
"so you really were one of them, I don't mind though. I'm Kealii O'Connor, I'm an Irish researcher but I quit a long time ago to travel the world and investigate magic. I'm quite capable with my fighting abilities despite my looks"
"it's nice to meet you"
Rin and Kealii conversed with each other for quite a while until a man in a police outfit entered and warned the people nearby
-translated for the sake of understanding the circumstances-
「Help! there's a Tikbalang in the city! hundreds of them!」
「what! that's absurd! they shouldn't even be involved within the city」
「I swear! my town is being ravaged right now! please help us!」
Rin heard his cries but didn't quite understand it
"hmm... what's happening?"
Rin was in question and Kealii explained it to him
"apparently there's a horse-human monster horde making chaos in a town nearby... I'm afraid that I can only help on the side, what about you?"
"I'll help but I don't think I can help that much, I can only guarantee the people's safety"
"then we'll go, It's also a good way to gather information on the different monsters of Philippines for me so I'll be investigating them in the process"
both of them nodded and prepared for the extermination, a couple of people also come with,
「I didn't think that they could exist...」
「I know right!? hahaha if this was in the old world of Earth then we would've treated them as people who lost their minds」
「hahaha but with magic users in demand right now, we can certainly say that this is the best way to earn some」
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all of them arrived in the area, the house wasn't as ravaged as expected but only a few houses were half-destroyed
"I wonder what caused them to run wild... any Ideas Rin?"
"don't ask me, I'm just a visitor of this world"
as soon as the conversation ended, humanoid horses began to show themselves, about 12 ft. tall and varying in builds.
one conversed with the people with the natives as if giving a warning
「we are not going to harm you, but aim for another head of us then all of you expect us to run amok, we will overpower you all and we'll kill everyone if you ever target us again」
「don't be stupid! you'll just aim for us again if we live you all be! keep talking like you overpower us and you'll see the end of your life!」
Rin asked what's happening and a local translated the argument
"It looks like this won't end well... Rin, what do would you try to do?"
magic began to fire from the human's side but the monsters were standing as if nothing happened
「it looks like you still dare to fight us... I'm afraid that this will not do...」
「shit! all mages! fire! everyone give it all you got!」
mana began to excrete from them, turning the place into a bloody battlefield.
some of the monsters were injured but not fatally, even what seems to be the weakest of them wasn't terribly injured from everything
「fools, you can't even lift a finger compared to us, this will be your ends, prepare to die」
as soon as the strongest one charged in, Kealii formed a white skeleton bone in his arm just barely before the monster was there
「I see that you are stronger compared to them, what's your name?」
"sorry but I don't understand what you're saying..."
「well then...」"is this to your liking?"
"ahh, yes thank you for your understanding"
Rin was surprised, but not because of the Monster's understanding but because of-
"miss Rin, I do thank you for accompanying me it's been a fun day, well.. 'Treyfin Voyhy, Rin'"
Rin was in shock, surprised, she couldn't imagine the emtions she's going through right now, all he could think of right now was-
"Kirin!?"
blurting out the name, Kealii was already nowhere to be seen.
"this... should be a great story for Liliya..."
walking back to the hotel with a satisfied and a lamenting feeling
"so this is where you went to... haha..."