Cp 3

"Shit..." I look at the wave of people bombarding me with questions. "Woah calm down guys!" I yell as I raise my arm in a placating manner. "Uhhh..." I look around and lock eyes with the security guard that opened the door for me. "This guy is my secretary. He will answer all your questions!" I push the poor man in front of me and run off. Leaving him to the hands of fate. 'May you have a peaceful rest.' 

After a few minutes of running away, I stop at a shop. *Ding* Bells announce my arrival, causing the clerk to look in my direction. "Yello!" I wave. "I'm looking to buy a cheap phone." I say as he nods and shows me the different phones in store for my price range. Almost making me cry blood at the prices.

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'My week of hell has been amounted to a single shitty phone!' I bite my fist and register my number. After going through the steps, I go onto the Hunter's Forum. Now what may I be looking for here? Easy. People post here to look for party members to raid a gate. Although they are all low ranking gates, I need money to start up a guild.

Scrolling through it, I pause at a particularly weird post.

[Looking for fill members. High payment.]

Mmmmmm... This does seem suspicious... It's only a C-Rank Gate... But the payment is extremely large for fill members. They only need two more people to fill the gate entry requirement. Seeing as how there's still a spot left, I register and call the number on the post.

[Hello?] a Deep voice spoke after the call went through.

"Yes, I'm calling regarding the post for fill members?" I say in a questioning tone.

[Ah, yes. Come to this location in 2 hours.] The voice spoke. Sounding quite excited for some reason.

Step 1.5 in progress!

---2 hours later---

I walk to the group of 9 people gathered in front of a gate. All of them wearing extremely shiny armor. Looks expensive. 

a Man turns to me and extends his arm, beckoning me closer. "Mr. Seiji?" I nod at the blatant fake name I gave them. But they didn't question it since I'm just a fill. "We'll be entering the gate now after my teammate over there is done talking to the Association's agent." He says, mentioning to his teammate talking close to the gate. 

I look at the people gathered here. It's all six Fighter hunters and one Tank. But what stood out to me is the other fill member. a Plump male with average armor. Nothing special. But his shield... 

"It's huge." I mutter as I walk towards the young man. "Yo fatty!" I greet him, ignoring his frown at my nickname. "What shield is that?" And boy was that something I shouldn't have asked. The look on the fatty's face changed from a frown to disgust. This motherf-

"This isn't just a shield. This is a shield forged with the image of the Shield of Judas Maccabee, a red shield emblazoned with a golden eagle. This is an A-Rank item." He says to which I raise an eyebrow. "By the way my name isn't fatty. It-

"Yeye fatty." I wave him off. "You rich or something?" I ask him. 

The fatty sighs at my question. a Sense of longing envelopes him. His eyes twinkle, tears ready to flow. "No... When I was younger..." 

I cut off the poor man and shake my head. "I don't like long stories fatty. Sum it up." I tell him with the same friendly smile that never left my face. 

"Tsk." Fatty clicks his tongue and shakes his head. "No I'm poor." 

"Let's go!" What seems to be the team leader yells as we all inch closer to the gate. Me and fatty at the rear. "The two fills stay behind." He commands as we all step into the gate.

---(3rd Person)---

a Feeling akin to water gushing over my body is felt as Jin Mori stepped into the gate. 'That was weird.' He thought as he looked at the team in front of him. They all seemed experienced. As soon as the stepped in, they went into formation. The two Tanks at the forefront. Each Tank having two Fighters flanking them on both sides. And the last two Fighters watch the rear. 

"Let's move forward." The leader, one of the flanking Fighters, commanded before they moved forward at a steady pace. 

"Monster ahead!" One Tank announced as he and the other tank bumped shoulders, locking close to each other. In front of them stood a single bipedal reptile with a spear in his hands. "It's a Kobalt scout." The Tank said as he banged his shield on the ground, attracting the Kobalt's attention. 

"Kree!" The kobalt ran towards the two tanks, striking his spear on the shields. 

"Dealers!" The leader bellowed as he and the other three Fighters at the forefront flanked the kobalt and easily took him down. "Let's keep moving." The team leader said after they inspected the kobalt remains.

"That was easy for them." Fatty said in we to Jin Mori. 

Mori nodded at Fatty's words. "Ye they have good teamwork." 

And so the next few minutes went by as they encountered groups of kobalts ranging from 2~7 kobalts. 

"Something's weird." The team Leader spoke after they easily handled anothergroup of kobalts. "This is going way too smoothly. The measured rank of this gate was almost B-Rank..." He spoke to his teammates. "Let's keep moving forward, but keep your guards up."

They soon reached a huge tunnel. Stopping there the leader spoke, "This is most likely the Boos's dwelling. Let's rest here for a minute before trudging through." He smirked and patted one of the Tank's shoulder. "Must be tired by now. I know. Let's get this over with." 

They all stood ready after chatting and rehydrating for a while and resumed formation. "In." The leader spoke as they walked through the tunnel, spotting a huge clearing at the end of it. 

In their sights stood hundreds of Kobalts beneath a throne. Above the throne sat a bigger and buffer bipedal lizard. "Kree krr." The Big Kobalt hissed to the others. 

"Shit!" The leader cursed at the sight. "These kobalts have greater intelligence than most. Or at least the king does, since he gathered most of the gate's forces here." His expression turned sour before he turned around to face the two Fighters at the back with Jin Mori and Fatty. "You two take the two filler member out and contact the Hunter's Association. The rest of us will stall for time and wait for reinforcements." 

That command shocked Jin Mori. 'This isn't supposed to be how it goes... They're supposed to be bad people who attack me and Fatty for Fatty's shield.' Mori thought incredulously. 'Fuck. They're actually good guys. And seeing as how he sent out the youngest two Fighters to escort us out, he clearly didn't want them to experience this.' Mori's eyes started watering at his thoughts. 

"No." Mori spoke up, grabbing everyone's attention. "I will be handling these guys. You guys head back first." He said, moving to the front of them all, his clothes changing and the loop of binding appearing around his head.