Hunt Part 3

( Outside the Fortress..., very far far away. )

" Why did you only order those Djinns to that fortress? "

" Should've we destroyed it with our might? "

" 'Monarch of Curses'? " said a woman Spirit to the Curse Monarch who watch the Djinn attack event with his eyes that could see far away.

" Why do you even ask, little girl? " he asks back the woman behind him.

" I'm just wondering, great Monarch...? " the woman's spirit growls while the Monarch still picks her.

" Why does a 'powerful' being like you decide to let bottom-feeder Spirits hunt the Soul Knights? "

" Shhh..., shhh..., my little girl... "

" You have gone overboard this time, didn't you? " the Monarch says to the woman spirit she brings.

" No.., no... " the woman gasps, feeling weak as the Monarch's Astral Aura subjugated her immediately, silencing her.

" Oh my, it seems the little girl is not used to talking with her elders. "

" Did you think you can be confident after you're able to kill one of us, little insect? " the other Monarch says as she still doesn't show her face.

While mocking her, she refers to many of the woman Spirit's achievements all over the years, telling her how great her achievement is and how lucky she was right after she enter the Astral World.

" I must say, you're such a lucky woman, little insect. "

" Just look at you, you can make armies based on your desires and even won against a Monarch? "

" Isn't that right, Carroñero Queen? " the woman Monarch asks the Carroñero Queen, who is being carried by the Curse Monarch/Monarch of Curses.

" You..., "

" Are you mocking me!? I'm just saying the truth...! "

" The Soul Knight is right there and I can also sense that Ordinario Hollow who fight me back then in that place! " she says which made the other Monarch interested.

" Oh really, how nice! "

" We too had some curiosity about 'that one', but first. "

" We must bring you immediately, to our place. "

" Let the Djinns do their job. " Curse Monarch says as she tells her that the Soul Knights in that fortress are all insects and thus, not a worthy problem to be done by the likes of the Monarch.

" Insects should fight insects... "

" There's no need for Predators like us to lower ourselves in fighting insects," he says as he still brings the Carroñero Queen with him.

" No matter how the insects fight, whoever wins, in the end, we the 'Upper Echelons' will feast on them. " Curse Monarch says as he then assures Carroñero Queen that there's no need for her to have a concern about the Fortress attack.

" How about the Ordinario? will you reconsider taking him too? " Carroñero Queen asks, wondering if she can have Shiro again, for she still wants to hurt him more after that battle.

" You want revenge? " Curse Monarch asks.

" Yes! "

" Fine then, but first you and us must return. "

" After we return, we will discuss that 'Ordinario' you were curious about. " the Curse Monarch answers the Carroñero Queen as he brings her with him to their place.

......

( Meanwhile. )

" Captain Raymond... " Tracker 101 asks as he sees Raymond close one of his eyes.

" It's nothing... " Raymond says while Tracker is unaware that he is talking to Aruka, the Djinn who possessed him, still struggling to have full access to Raymond's body.

"( Dammit, this Soul! )" 'Raymond' says as he then asks Tracker where is Shiro.

" Shiro? I haven't seen him, I thought he was still with you, earlier. " Tracker asks him back for he had no idea about Shiro's whereabouts.

" I... see... " 'Raymond' replies, still feeling awkward while Aruka is currently scouring Raymond's mind to see the information he needed.

"( Shit, he left him back then, so it means he doesn't know that the Hollow Spirit he brings here is killing my Djinns! )" Aruka says in his mind.

"( Hollow Spirit! you mean Shiro! he already woke up!? )" Raymond says in his body's mind, still trying to free himself from Aruka's possession.

"( You fool, shut up and let me walk with your body for a while! )" Aruka says as he continues to walk with Tracker.

As they walked, Tracker then stops as he hears a voice screaming from afar.

" Please, young Spirit... "

" I beg you, akkhh!!!! " a voice screams as it comes, running away in fear for something.

"( This voice, it's one of us... )" Aruka says as he knows that it seems he's getting closer to the person who's currently killing his men.

"( After I get here, I heard from my men that there's a Hollow Spirit in the Knight's side, they tell me with their last breath that this Spirit is killing them relentlessly as he tells himself to be part of the Souls. )" Aruka says as he recounts his men's reports.

"( Dammit! )"

"( I wish this, Tracker... was it? )"

"( I wish my men killed this Soul first before even getting killed by that Hollow... )"

"( And now I have to follow this little brat, in order to gain his trust... )"

"( After all... )" Aruka sees more to Raymond's mind and looks at Tracker who is walking in front of him, guiding him.

" Those screams...! "

" I heard that the other guards followed you to attack the Djinns...! "

" Hearing the screams, I can tell that it's the Djinns who was dying. " Tracker says, unaware that Captain 'Raymond' is sharply staring at him with his red crimson eyes.

" Hey captain, should we help them? "

" Surely with you around, we could've helped to annihilate them, can't we? " Tracker asks innocently, still unaware that the captain behind him, slowly changes his hands, as it seems his body can now slowly transforms into something monstrous.

"( This, little... )" Aruka says while changing Raymond's hand to be more spiritualized, trying to warp his Soul Astral Form Particles by corrupting and polluting it with his Spiritual Astral Form Particles, despite Raymond's will still halting him from completing it, making him reverting Raymond's hands to normal again.

"( Fine, if it takes much time then I won't do it. )"

"( But after we get out and we go to more silent places. )"

"( I'll make sure that you'll die together, before...- )" Aruka says as Tracker opens the door, showing Shiro is killing the Djinns.

< You obtained an item. >

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< Mission Completed >

< EXP Gathering Failed >

< Obtaining Rewards >

" Tracker, Captain Raymond? " Shiro asks as he kills another one, still not gaining EXP from it, sadly.

< (!) Message (!) >

< New Quest (!) >

" Hmmm... " Shiro looks at the two sharply which shocks the two of them.