Carl was pacing up and down the aisle waiting for someone. Now it was night and the street was deserted. Two days ago he ordered three packs of cigarettes from a delivery service, he couldn't buy them directly at the store because he was underage.
"Haah... where exactly is the delivery man now? He said an appointment here at eight, but now it's almost half past nine." Carl hugged his body feeling goosebumps until a loud bang outside the alley caught his attention.
Carl walked forward slowly, the closer he got the more he could hear strange noises outside, sounds of bones cracking, and also sounds like someone was chewing flesh. Carl swallowed his saliva silently peeking over the wall, his eyes widening as he saw a dismembered human body and two strange monsters eating its flesh. Carl saw a plastic packet filled with cigarettes lying on the ground, and at that time he realized that the human the two monsters had eaten was the delivery man who delivered his order.
Carl hides behind the wall in fear, but he doesn't know that demons have a very keen sense of smell. Carl closed his eyes praying to God, he would run away soon after the two monsters left this place.
"This one looks delicious!" Carl was surprised when he opened his eyes, the two monsters were now next to him.
Steven walked down the street carrying a wooden stick in his hand. The streets around here are quiet because this place is known to be dangerous. The system ball detected something, he found a point where there are demons around here.
"Haah…Please let me go…." Carl walked backward and saw two Devils who were already crawling with drool immediately wanting to eat him. By this time Carl was cornered, he could only cover his face as the Demon jumped and wanted to eat him.
Sraakk
A soundless slash, only a splash of blood that hit Carl's face. Carl slowly opened his eyes, he saw slowly a man standing proudly holding a sword in his hand after finishing off the two monsters.
"Steven?" Steven looked over to see Carl who was crouching in fear now looking at him. He turned around ignoring Carl, he opened the point system and asked for the system ball.
"What level of the devil is this?" The system opened the statement column and explained.
"This is a level 2 B devil, sir. You got 33 points after killing two devils at once, now your total points minus sword items are 44 points." Steven still doesn't have enough, he walks away to find the other Devils.
Carl saw Steven walking away, immediately called out, and followed him.
"Wait, how did you do that? What creatures are they?" Steven felt lazy to answer and just kept walking away. Carl looked behind the dead two monsters and he was scared. Carl held Steven's hand making the man stop.
"...That...If you would take me out of this way, I would be very grateful." The blonde man asked, taking Steven's hand but still a little arrogant.
"I do not want!" Steven let go of his hand and started walking again.
"Wait, I don't want to die here, I won't bother you anymore… No, from now on I'm your underling." Carl shouted while kneeling. He owes a huge debt of gratitude to Steven.
Ting!...
"Additional mission! Get Carl home safely… Mission reward 10 points!" The system orb beeps turning on notifications and granting additional quests.
Steven was surprised. "What kind of mission is that? And the reward is the same as killing a level 1 demon beast!"
"System designed for the future of this world, that man has the potential to become a knight that will be with you in the vanguard!" Steven heard it as if he couldn't believe it. Small and cowardly kids can become knights later? Steven thought hard, then turned around and made up his mind.
"Hey... Hurry up if you want to go home!" Carl, who was looking down, was surprised to hear Steven's voice, who hadn't left yet.
"You still don't want to walk? Then I'll go alone!" Carl looked up and immediately got up, happily smiled, and ran to catch up with Steven.
Carl thanked and bowed 45 degrees in front of Steven, thanks to Steven he was able to get to his house safely. "Thank you very much!"
Steven just kept quiet and didn't respond, then turned and left. "Never mind, next time don't go there anymore, stay at home more, lately it's not very safe." Carl nodded in understanding. He waved his hand from afar and said see you tomorrow.
On TV and in the news today, there are reports of cases of missing persons and murders. There is CCTV footage that captures images of a strange, monster-like figure who allegedly kidnapped and killed the missing people. Several boys and girls gathered around and seeing the news gave them goosebumps and fear.
"Crazy, is this for real? If there is a monster, maybe I won't dare to leave the house anymore!" The Students gossiped while hugging their bodies out of fear.
Ting!
"Additional Mission! Open a martial arts and swordsmanship course, then teach them all! The points to be earned are 150 points." The system notification sounded again, Steven pressed the understand button then propped his chin on his hand looking at them all lazily.
"You want to eat my bento?" Carl came over and held out his lunch box.
"I told my parents what happened yesterday. Hearing that they got worried and now spend more time at home, even though they used to come home only at night and would leave immediately in the morning. Oh yes, they want to meet you to thank you." Steven glanced at the bento then took a rice ball and ate it.
"Thank you! But I can't go to your house." Steven got up and was about to go out of the classroom. Steven stopped and then turned to face Carl who was sitting eating his bento.
"You… Are you interested in learning swordsmanship and martial arts?" Carl was biting into his roast when he was taken aback by Steven's question.
Gulp…
Carl swallowed his food and then fell silent while thinking. Steven saw Carl look doubtful and immediately turned around and left him.
"If you don't want to, that's fine too." Carl immediately got up when see Steven walking away.
"WAIT!"
"I WANT… I WANT TO LEARN SWORD AND SELF-Defense…." The whole class now looks at them when they hear Carl scream. The whole class was stunned, some even laughed when they heard that Carl wanted to learn swordsmanship and martial arts from Steven.
"Why are you guys laughing? You probably didn't know yesterday he fought two monsters at once. Now that the world is even more insecure, we must train to be strong if we want to live!" They looked down on Steven and then went back to their usual activities, ignoring what Steven and Carl had just said.
"I want to register!" Amidst the cacophony of laughter and ridicule, a brown-haired girl sitting at the front raised her hand.
"Emily?"
"You accept girls, right?" Emily smiled confidently walking up to Steven. Steven scowled at Emily lazily. Steven hates women, especially the last time he died because he was killed by a woman.
"Master, just accept Emely. Even though it's a woman she's from the sports club and is also very smart. Steven sighed heavily, the requirement for a club to be at least three people except for Steven, if he accepts Emely now it's already two. But even he still lacks one.
"Can I come too!" Someone standing outside the door raised his hand. The silver-haired man wasn't one of this class's students.