"Thoughts/ Text"
Two days since the last chapter, as it's 8 pm, and Monri is wearing a full black outfit, and he is on the elevator with a bag of groceries to teach Cassandra to cook, he has some all the quests except the hunting one. While on the elevator, he takes out his phone and starts texting Aria as he gotten her number after the reunion.
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Monri: I should be free to be your hunting buddy
Aria: HELL YEAH, wait, do you even know how to hunt?
Monri: Nope
Aria: Heh, looks like you will be my student, Andy, calling to see you soon
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He puts his phone back in his pocket as the elevator stops and the doors open. He steps out and walks to Cassandra's apartment. As he reaches the door, he sees it's slightly open. He slowly opens the door as he sees everything a mess, like it was ransacked, but in the middle of the chaos is a wooden stool with a card on it. He looks around while walking towards it, and when he gets close, he grabs the paper and reads what's on it.
"You don't know who we are, but we know who you are. If you wish to meet your friend again, come to the coordinates that are on the back of this letter."
At that moment, Monri's protective instincts took over. He grabbed his sword from under the couch, and then he went to Cassandra to find something to cover his face. He finds a white mask that is minimally shaped to resemble an owl. He puts it on, and with his sword, he leaves the apartment. And he looks around and sees a man getting on a motorcycle. Without hesitation, Monri runs over to the man and pushes him off and takes the motorcycle for himself as he speeds away. After a few minutes, he is about 10 minutes away from the coordinates, his adrenaline rush starts to fade away as he starts to regain his usual clear mind, and he starts to slows down the motorcycle and takes a deep breath.
Monri: Calm down.... Maybe they just want money... It doesn't matter what they want; I just need to get Cassandra back.
From his phone, he hears Al's voice.
Al: Why are you so determined to save her? And why didn't you ask your friends for help?
Monri: Well....I... Just think of her as my little sister.... and I don't want to get my friends involved in my mess.
Al: You see her as your little sister...so does that make her siblings and me?
Monri: I guess so
Al: Then she is our family, as our father said, you never turn your back on family, no matter what
He keeps driving as he sees grass fields to the right and left of the road and one big building on the right with a metal fence perimeter with armed guards surrounding it, as he drives past it.
Al: The building you have passed is the coordinates on the letter
He drives off the road, then he slows the motorcycle to a stop. He gets off with his sword as he slowly approaches the building and sees the metal gate that's surrounding it has a bit that's torn off that he can squeeze through and between the gate and the building he sees multiple wooden crates and forklifts spread out with armed guards in full black tactical gear patrolling, luckily the opening in the gate is directly behind a stack of crates. He quickly moves to the opening and slowly moves the fence and enters as he peeks and sees a guard going to the right and the left. He unsheathes his blade, he holds the sheath in his left hand and the blade in his right, he slowly moves to the guard, walking to the right as he drives through the guard's back, as it goes all the way through, as the guard makes a sharp exhale, quickly Monri uses the sheath to choke the guard to death.
Monri: "It's been a while since I had to do this... And I still don't feel a thing when I take another's life."
He quickly does the same thing to the guard on the other side, and when he is done, he peeks over the corner and sees two guards in front staring straight where the way to enter.
Guard 1:how long do we have to keep standing here?
Guard: About half an hour more, then we will swap with the guys inside
Monri goes back to the dead guard and finds a few coins
He takes a quarter and drops it from a few feet, so it makes a noticeable sound.
Guard 1:did you hear that?
Guard 1:yeah, let's look.
Monri: "Damn it, I thought I would only bring one guard. I just have to be fast."
Tbc...