"Let go of me, you smelly bastard!" Lucia ( The green-haired girl with a glass eyeball) struggled to break free from the fatso as he tried to hug her despite being stained with meat sauce.
"Oh come on, give me a kiss." The fatso was out to get on her nerves and for the most part, he was successful.
With no other choice, she abandoned the bonfire and moved out to get some fresh air.
"Oh come on, where are you going?"
"Fuck off!" She stumbled out of the ruins with a bottle of alcohol.
"Hehe." Having completed his mission, the fatso turned to find his next victim to disturb.
Meanwhile, once she got outside, Lucia dropped to the ground and lay against the broken wall before taking a swig from her bottle.
Sighing heavily, she began to calculate how she would use the reward they would receive tomorrow.
"I guess I should go home for a few days. Hopefully, that old bastard hasn't laid a hand on mom else I'd castrate him."
Coming from a dysfunctional home, Lucia became a Scavenger to support her mother since her father was too much of a prick to do so.
She was relatively new, unlike the others that were around from day 1.
"It's cold tonight." She muttered as she tried to look at the night sky only to pause.
A grown man was currently making his way toward her with small steps, a sword in hand while mumbling something incomprehensible.
She frowned instinctively as she tried to get to her feet.
Alas, the alcohol did a number on her, messing up her coordination.
Glancing at the man that was a few meters away, Lucia felt her heart palpitate at the killing intent he exuded.
"You…" Lucia trembled. "Who are you?"
As they made eye contact, she realized there was nothing on his face.
No expression, nothing at all… even his eyes were void of feeling.
She tried to step back but the man charged at her.
Before she could raise an alarm, her vision split.
"Ah…" was the best she could manage before her body split in half and her blood dyed the ruins.
***
"Why is Lucia taking so long?... She should be back by now." The fatso remarked jocularly as he stuffed himself with more meat.
"Hmmph, you annoyed her to no end and now you ask where she is?... You are a piece of work."
The fatso was about to retort when the redhead sprang to his feet with a frown. "Something is wrong."
"Huh?"
"What's wrong?"
Unlike the others that were quite drunk, the redhead looked sharp as he looked back and forth. "Someone is here."
Immediately, the others shot up as well as they became cautious of their surroundings.
"Where is the intruder?"
"Grab your weapons."
"What about Lucia?"
They abandoned the feast and rushed to pick up their weapons before activating their bionic attachments.
Just as they picked up their weapons, something flew into their midst and dropped with a dull thud.
The fatso was the first to take a look before he retracted his eyes in horror at the terrible sight.
It was a part of Lucia's face.
"Fuck!"
"Kill that bastard!"
They unleashed their Plasma guns at the area the head was thrown from, only stopping after everything had melted.
Alas, the only thing they managed to hit apart from the rocks was Lucia's split body.
"This…"
Something suddenly tore threw the air before piercing the back of a Scavenger.
"Ugh." The last thing he saw before he blanked out was a metal rod as tall as him protruding through his chest.
The rest immediately huddled together, facing every direction an attack could come from.
After what seemed like forever but was only a few minutes, the Scavengers began to reach their wits' end.
"Come out you rat bastard!" the redhead cursed with his eyes darting back and forth but received no response.
His fingers trembled as his mouth felt dry.
This reminded him of a time when they went on a scavenger hunt.
This particular hunt was also the reason why they weren't keen on going into the wilderness any longer.
It was against a terrifying mutated beast.
It was an Apex predator and it treated them like prey, picking them off one by one.
By the time they fled, the creature already had its fill.
That day they lost five of their people.
"Why am I recalling that now?" The redhead gulped as he tightened his grip on the plasma gun while holding onto the chest they took from the crazy lady.
Taking a deep breath, he shook his head to get rid of the negative thoughts. "Get your act together."
The moment he made that conclusion to calm his nerves, they were attacked.
Five crude sword beams with barely any cutting power but just enough force to destroy rushed out of nowhere and struck different parts of the building.
Boom
The already collapsed building shook as the remainder of what was still standing fell.
"Fuck, run!"
Without waiting for the other, they rushed to escape but just as they were about to make it out of the danger zone, a shadowy figure emerged with a flashy sword, and from him, yet another sword beam rushed toward them.
The redhead instinctively ducked on instinct but the others were not so lucky.
The beam barely had any power but was enough to push the Scavengers back a step… and that was all that was needed.
Crash
They were buried underneath the rubble, never to see the light of day again with a dust cloud covering the area.
"Cough…" The redhead was lucky to survive as he struggled to crawl out of the wreckage.
Suddenly, he felt a tingling sensation at the back of his neck causing him to look forward.
There, he saw a pair of eyes so deep, it was possible to get lost in them.
At that moment, he realized why he had recalled that Apex predator that took five of his comrades.
the person before him was just like it.
"You…"
Puchi
His world was dyed red as he breathed his last.