Ryuma opened the door and entered the infirmary room. Thankfully, Rio and Mika were still there, still unconscious. He sighed in relief watching the two sleep in their bed. At the same time, Eden and Kiyo managed to catch up to him. Including Lori and Xenyi follow suit.
"Ryuma, what's wrong!" Hearing Kiyo's voice, Ryuma turns his head to Kiyo. And soon, his expression became serious.
"Kiyo..." In the end, Ryuma says that they all have been hunted by the bounty hunter. With 10 million coins for each of their head. Kiyo's face turned worried, but Eden didn't react much as he had lived a life with a bounty on his head.
"10 million huh? This is the first time I've heard of this."
"Then, what was your last bounty?" Kiyo question Eden. Eden then smiled vividly.
"Around... 100K coins."
"What the hell? That's 99% less than your current bounty!"
"Haha, 100K also is not a small amount you know? But, from the drastic number my bounty goes up, there must be someone who put it on us."
"Someone..." Someone who's known about their existence. From what they thought, it must be someone from this school. Although they do not know who.
"Then it must be a rich person. Was The Sage the one who put the bounty on us?"
"I think that's not the case. If he would like to get rid of us, he would've done so from the start."
"Then I don't know who else, unless Ten is lying..."
"No, what I just said to you is the truth." There comes Ten who came out of nowhere, almost giving a heart attack to almost everyone.
"Ten, stop scaring us for goodness sake!" Lori shouted to Ten, but he ignored her.
"I just confirmed it, the one who put the bounty on you all isn't Melium. In fact, it's none of those who know you put the bounty on.
"Then who?" Ryuma questions Ten with an anxious expression.
"Unknown. I also do not know who's the one who put the bounty on you all. Even after the process of elimination, the only answer I've got is from the outsiders. Although I don't know how he knew about every name of the student of this school, he's getting information about it somehow."
"Hang on." Xenyi interrupts Ten and starts questioning him.
"First of all, why do we even trust you? What the hell do you actually want from us?" Ten, with his straight face, just gave Xenyi a simple answer.
"Just a nobody. That's all. If you indeed didn't trust me, you all can go to town and take a look yourselves."
"Take a look? What do you mean by that-" At the same time Xenyi was speaking, the voice echoed across the school from the speaker. When Ryuma heard it, he recognized the voice which was from Zoey herself.
"ZOEY SPEAKING HERE! IT'S AN EMERGENCY! THE TOWN IS GETTING BURNED DOWN BY THE GROUP OF DANGEROUS BANDIT! I REPEAT, IT'S A RAID ACROSS THE MELISTOWN!"
"What?!" Hearing the broadcast from Zoey, everyone was surprised as they look the direction that led to the town from the window. They can see the smoke that flies upwards to the sky.
"What the hell." Ryuma tried to run to the town, but Ten stopped him before he did.
"Hey, move!"
"No, not until you've prepared for what you'll go into."
"Why the hell is that matters?!-"
"What I'm saying is, I don't wanna let you die a dog death." Words from Ten made Ryuma mad and he grabbed his collar.
"What do you think I am?... You've seen how I fought, didn't you?"
"Yes, I have. And... Who do you think your enemies are?"
"What?!" Ten brings the tablet from his hoodie and handed it to Ryuma. The tablet then was on and showed the footage of how the bandit was destroying the place.
"That's not your ordinary bandit. They're wearing a red uniform. And there's only one answer as to who they are."
"FlameBorn, they were known for illegal human trafficking, selling illegal weapons, and also one thing they loved to do. Raiding a village, town, and also cities. They were one of the people who could make Magihen themself having a headache dealing with them." Eden explains the origin of the group called Flameborn, which is one of the five biggest syndicates in the world.
"If they're that big, what could they want inside this city-" At the moment of realization clicked in their head. The bounty...
"Shit! Looking at how many of them are, we can't match them with our numbers alone! Soon, some of them will reach this school. And when that happens, more and more of them will keep coming!"
"No, wait a minute. We can defeat them with the help of The Sage, isn't that right, Ten?!" Lori shouts to Ten, which makes him close his ears.
"No, he won't show up and get rid of them." The familiar voice comes from the dark corridor making them avert their attention towards it. It was Jin, in a healthy condition. Followed by Line, Ramilia, and Tenko who walked behind him.
"Ten, The Sage entrusts me to tell this message to you.' I've decided to support your project to train them to become a monster. But first, you must prove it, from their training a month ago." After hearing the message from The Sage, Ten sighed.
"I see, he made this more pain in the ass now."
"What did he mean by that?" Lori asked Ten as they locked eyes.
"That means, it's up to you all to get rid of them." In short, Ten must prove it by letting the students from the school fight with the bandits from one of the biggest syndicates.
"You want us to fight those guys?! No way, I've decided to leave this school-"
"Suit yourselves, but remember, this just proves that I'm right that you all were targeted. I'm gonna bet you won't be surviving long enough to reach for your homeland."
"Grrr... Fine! But just this one time, but I'm gonna leave this place when all of this is ended!" And so, Lori decided to join the fight to fight the people from the syndicate called Flameborn.