Eliza stares at Fred who keep sighing beside her. She doesn't know for what reason is he sighing for and was about to question him.
"Fre-" But her voice got interrupted by loud manly voice from behind her.
"Squad 1, Evacuate the civilians to safety!"
"Yes sir!"
It seems that it came from the entrance of the mall as the sound of loud footsteps thunder through the mall.
The two of them, Eliza and Fred, look towards the direction where the sound is coming from like the rest of the people around them did.
Then they saw a group of men wearing what seems to be a seat uniform heading towards them, more specifically, to the restaurant where the Kobold is at.
Fred look at them while thinking that they might be the SWAT unit that will handle the stuff about monster.
But he noticed that unlike the SWAT from his world which usually is holding a assault rifle or a gun, this SWAT have varying kind of weapons.
There are some in the group who is holding tightly to the handle of their swords that is hanging from their waist, some also have knife tuck in behind them.
Of course there are also those who is holding guns, but their guns is probably miles away from what the SWAT in the original world is like as it light up like lightning like current around it.
'That is surely not a normal gun that I'm used to seeing.' thought Fred as he look at the running blue current on the gun.
He did not stare at them for long as he took away his eyes off of the group.
As he look away, he thought of something and paused for a second, then he look at Eliza beside him.
Without thinking too much, he said to her, "Uhh, Eliza, I remember that I have something important to do right now. So I will not be able to escort you, I have to go now bye~"
Then he walk away with rapid footsteps, he pass by the group of armed people as he headed to the exit.
In that moment, just by being near them, Fred learned that they are very strong from the pressure that they are letting out.
He did not think anymore and speed up his walking speed heading to the exit.
The group saw him passing by them and only glance at him, but the leader like figure at the front of the group seems to feel something and look back and stares at the leaving figure of Fred.
Then a strong looking dark skin buff guy walk beside him and spoke, "Is there something wrong, Ron?" he asked with a deep rough sounding voice.
The leader, who is named Ron, continued staring at Fred's back for a few more seconds before turning back and looking at the front again, as he do so, he replied to the buff guy,
"Nothing, I just thought I felt something... maybe just my imagination." the latter part he said silently with a voice that is only audible to him.
Then he look up straight ahead and said, "Let's Go!"
Then the group keep moving forward towards the restaurant, but when they arrived at the scene, they only found a dead body of a mutated kobold in there, lying quietly at the side.
That caused a ruckus within the group.
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As for the man who made that previously strong and full of energy kobold into a corpse, he was already inside a taxi by that time.
Inside the cab, Fred browse through his camera, looking at the videos that he captured today and is already making a rough outline of how he will edit it later.
As he go through the videos, he did not pay attention to the road and to the driver.
But after he look at the videos for a while, he felt something amiss, he lift his head from bowing down and saw that around him is already a jungle, not the steel jungle type that is use as a metaphor for the infrastructures in a place like a city, but a real fricking JUNGLE!
Fred frowned and started massaging his head as he can already smell the trouble that is about to come,
'Why do I have to be unlucky today? First, a kobold break into the restaurant that he was eating at, disturbing the public's peace and safety. Interrupted his lunch and cause havoc at that restaurant.
Now he is being brought to a jungle even though he only rode the taxi to get back home. Is this a kidnapping case or what?
Is he gonna be brought to the black market and get his body parts and organs dismembered to be sold to other peoples?
Fred sigh as he think about those things, then he turned to the driver leaned his body towards the driver seat and said,
"Uhmm... Hey, Mister. this is not the way towards my house, where are you bringing me?" he ask with a voice that is still polite but interrogating
Fred keep leaning like that to the driver for about a minute as he waited for a reply at his question. But it seems like the driver did not hear a things as he stayed silent and just keep looking forward to the road on this jungle.
Fred also look at the road while waiting for a reply and noticed that it seems to have been used as a road to this jungle for a while now, meaning that the driver have a certain destination and not just randomly driving around this place that is full of green.
Fred look at the driver again and with an obvious irritation in his voice, he said, "I will ask again, for the last time, where are you bringing me?"
The driver, like before, keep his silence and just look straight ahead.
A tick mark appeared on Fred's forehead... or nah. Well, he is angry nonetheless.
Without waiting for the driver to answer like before, Fred decided to just f*ck it up and claw up his hands and grab the drivers head before slamming it to the steering wheel.
*Bang*
*Crack*
Fred did not put that much power in that but the steering wheel still broke while the head of the driver is now bloody and the previously nonchalant expression on his face like there is nothing that can harm him is gone and is replaced by a panicked look.
"You don't want to tell me? Fine then, hehe" said Fred with a sinister smile on his lips and his eyes looking like a snake's eyes that is staring at you with darkness in it.