A young girl around middle-teen age blocked the road. Her wavy green hair and bright golden eyes look unnatural. Is she an otherworlder?
I instructed Hiromi to stay in the car while I'm going outside with my kodachi in my right hand.
I unsheathed my sword and pointed it towards the girl. "Tell me what is your purpose for blocking the road?"
"Damn, I just want a ride. Are you perhaps going to that portal?" Asked the girl with her variety of green colors, clothes blew off by the wind.
Damn, this girl likes green.
I sheathed my sword. "First, what is your name?"
The girl offered her right hand. "Isanash Sina. You can call me Isa."
"Yamahoshi Kyuushi. You can call me whatever you want." We both shake hands.
"Alright. Miss. Whatever you want." She laughed at her joke.
We continue our ride with the new girl in the backseat to the portal. Hiromi fell asleep again before I noticed it.
A moment of silence interrupted after the girl asked me. "I see that you got fine swords here. What's your awakened ability?"
I raised my eyebrows. "What's awakened ability?"
"You seriously don't know!?" The girl gave me skeptical narrowed eyes.
I tried to recall an event that caused all of this. I think the system gave me a prompt about my awakened ability. System, what is my awakened ability?
A load of information entered my brain all of sudden. This feeling is like something just fucked my brain.
It seemed like information about my awakened ability, but I can't tell what the ability is.
"You just got your ability there. I also experienced that today."
That kinda hurts my head.
"How about your ability? I can't tell mine yet." I tried to focus on the road while looking at her through the rear view mirror.
"You will eventually remember your ability soon. My ability is about witchcraft." She told me without hesitation.
She doesn't seem to hesitate to tell me about her ability. Let's try to push her more.
"What do you know about the system?" I asked.
"System? I thought you were just ignorant, but you did read some manga."
She is not wrong. If Alessio didn't tell me, then I don't know what it is.
She scrolled through her invisible screen. "I found out that you can communicate with another user using the system, just like a message or chatting app."
Suddenly, a pop-up appeared on my screen. Something is written.
[ This is quite convenient, right? ]|
There is a prompt for me to reply as well. I tried to reply to it, but it didn't work.
"How did you do that?"
She pointed to her majestic and noble forehead. "You have to think or imagine the person you aim to message, then send it by clicking the button."
I tried it again. This time I imagined her in my mind.
[ Does this work? ]|
"Yup. There is another way to communicate and it's more simple, but I'll only tell after you reveal that ability of yours, okay?" She gave me a wink.
"Fine. I didn't lose anything anyway."
Oh! I'll ask her about merging maps.
"Do you know about merging maps?"
She put her thumb and index fingers on her chin. "Hmm? I don't know, tell me about it so maybe I can tell you something in return."
She guessed my intention. System open map.
The usual screen emerged in the middle between Hiromi and me. The map is smaller than the one in the dojo.
I slid the map to her. "Try to open your map."
She opened her map and both merged into one and registered the marked monster, but it seemed she hadn't encountered one. Though, she did meet another person if she knew about the message system.
"What is this Malevlusk? A monster huh."
I showed my kodachi with my left hand and right hand still on the stir. "If you encountered a monster and killed it. Energy or something coming from that monster will be registered into your map and you can detect the said monster you just killed if they are nearby your location."
"Ah! That's really helpful." She answered and continued. "Now-"
Before she finished. A monster as large as a skyscraper emerged from thin air can be seen from away. The reason why we can sense it without even seeing it directly due to the heat it generated can be felt from here.
Hiromi is awakened by the sudden rise in temperature.
Isa with her widened eyes. "Isn't that direction our destination?"
"Everyone! Sit tightly." I stepped on the gas pedal and sped towards the toll road to the monster direction.
The cry from the exhaust filling the silence of dark surroundings. Avoiding abandoned cars while driving with full throttle.
A half-hour has passed. The closer we are with the monster, the hotter it gets.
A large platform with pillars surrounding the towering national monument can be seen. We arrived at the portal, Central Jakarta.
I parked the car near the train station. "Everyone. Packed with everything you need, we'll get to the portal and escape as soon as possible."
The two rushings to the monument followed by me from behind. However, everything is not as smooth as we planned.
The monster scorching the surroundings and keeping everyone from reaching the portal.
Before arriving here, we couldn't see its form because it's so far away, but now we are here. The monster looked like a manta ray from the sea but it's flying in the sky. Revealing the combination of red and white skin.
In this dire situation, the system popped up. I hope it was a help.
[ "Defeat the monster"
Bet by: Zise Altrich
Success Rewards;
• Altrich Katana
• Monster Energy ×100
Bet by: **** Altrich
Failure Rewards;
• Death
Betting in progress. ]|
What is this? Death!?
"Hey, you got the same bet?" Asked Isa.
"About defeating the monster?" Asked Hiromi.
"Y-yeah." Everyone got the same betting, does this mean everyone will be dead if they win the failure bet?
All of sudden. Everyone froze while looking at the thin air with the hopeless expression they made. This has turned into a difficult situation. Without anybody taking the lead. We'll definitely die in this place.
Tch.
I unsheathed my long sword–odachi. Grabbing it with only my right hand, while the other hand gripped the unsheathed kodachi. System, buy one small health potion, and one small mana potion.
[ The products are transferred to your inventory. You may use it by command it with your thoughts. ]|
Alright! That's good.
I used my body reinforcement, and jumped to the nearest building, then leaping through the building to another building to reach the monster.
I ran on the tallest skyscraper towards the monster. This is an unbelievable feat achieved by humans.
Just some more stories and I can kill this bastard. Suddenly, a quick beam shots the monster. It swayed the monster but didn't kill it. This is my chance!
My muscles tightened.
My heart pumped up rapidly.
My awakened ability.
I remembered it!
I used the skyscraper as my footing, the last jump. I launched myself towards the monster.
Imagining two powerful slashes. Cutting through the opponent.
I opened my eyes.
"Execute."
I swung my swords and slashed the monster causing four, instead of two slashes.
I lose my momentum and falling to the ground. I spent the rest of my mana reinforcing my body and landed safely on the ground.
The monster made a crackling sound and generated even more heat. It didn't die!?
"Hey! Wake up!"
Huh? I think I heard Isa's voice inside my head, but I didn't see her. Don't tell me I'm dead!?
"This is the communication I was talking about! Do you have the monster's blood on your blade? If yes, come back here and hurry!"
Alright.
I dashed to them without the body reinforcement.
I fell and laid on the ground again. "The... blood is… on the blade."
Isa took my sword. "Thanks! Leave it to me. Inventory!" Then, she pulled out a doll from thin air.
A voodoo doll!?
She dripped the blood on the humanoid doll made of sticks, and let the doll float by an unknown force.
She gripped my sword with two hands and cut the doll in halves.
The monster let out a loud holler, then exploded and destroyed the surrounding skyscrapers.
Is that bastard finally dead?