Sudden Attack

Mark just ignored Francis and turned back around while tuning out the annoying sound of Francis' voice. He was already used to this nonsense from Francis, and he knew that there was no need to respond because Francis would only start being more annoying if you gave him any attention.

PEEE! 

PEEE! 

PEEE!

"Hey, are you deaf!? I said, get the hell out of the way! Don't make me come over there!"

Francis continued to press his horn even louder, and Arit tightened her hold on Mark's waist as Mark heard her growl deep in her throat in annoyance. Francis could see that there was a convoy of cars moving, yet he was still trying to make it seem like they were wasting his time. Arit could only swallow her anger at the irrational behavior that Francis was showing. She would have gone to reprimand him, but she didn't want to cause a scene on the street.

"Isn't that car for Francis Colton? What the hell is he doing? Doesn't he know he's disturbing the entire block?"

"Can't you see who's in front of him? Those two have never seen eye to eye before!"

"Oh, it's Mark! No wonder! I wonder what Mark did that pissed Francis off so much, he has had it out for Mark since Mark transferred here! I wouldn't want to be on the bad side of Francis. His family could bury me!"

People on the street were already talking about how Francis was disturbing everyone by pressing his horn, but he ignored everything they were saying as he continued.

PEEE! PEEE! PEEE! PEEE!

Francis was unrelenting as he constantly pressed the horn over and over again, and Arit could feel Mark tensing in anger as the horn became too annoying to ignore. She knew that he was only a moment away from doing something, but she just hugged him tighter and told him not to! She didn't want him to get involved with Francis either. He knew that Francis' father was rich, and trying to attack Francis would only end badly for them!

Finally, the convoy of cars passed, and Francis revved his engine loudly as he raced around Mark and Arit. He brought his hand out of his window as he passed them and flashed them the middle finger before zooming off to school.

"He's really pushing it."

Mark only said this with a deep growl, and Arit just hugged him tight once more to thank him for not causing a scene. She knew that Mark had every justification for his anger, but she just didn't want him to get into trouble with someone as rich and powerful as Francis! It was best to just wait for Francis to graduate from school, and they could finally be free from his stupid antics.

Mark revved up his motorcycle and continued on his way to school without bringing up the topic again. He knew that it was pointless getting angry at someone like Francis, who was just a normal human being. Mark had lived as a superhuman for a long time, so he was already an expert at controlling his anger and strength so he doesn't do anything that would cause too much damage to the people around him! Imagine if he couldn't control his strength and he held Arit too tightly one day. That would be a disaster!

So something like this would just roll off his skin after some time.

...

At the docks, the large convoy of cars stopped in front of the large container that Tilda was sitting on, and Lightning Rider came down from his car and jumped up to the top of the container. He looked down at Tilda and saw that she was sitting perfectly still with her eyes closed and her sword resting on her crossed legs. If anyone else saw her, then they would definitely think that she was asleep, but Lightning Rider has seen her in this state too many times to think something so silly! He could tell that she was more alert than anyone when she was like this.

"You're late. I called for you twelve hours ago, and it took you this long to get here?"

Tilda said this as she opened her eyes and released a silent sigh, and Lightning Rider nodded. He didn't have a choice about how long it took them to get here. This wasn't their jurisdiction, and they had to go through a lot of processes to get permission to bring some of their own guild members to this area. If not that Tilda was the one who requested for the reinforcements, then the guild would have never sent these many people to help out because of how annoying all the paperwork is!

Lightning Rider was a tall, lanky man with large dark circles under his eyes and a gloomy disposition that would make anyone think he was clinically depressed. He wore a white shirt and trousers and had an extendable pole attached to his lower back. His main power was his ability to summon and channel lightning through his body because of his minor blessing from Zeus, the god of lightning and storms, and the pole he had was something that he used to increase his channeling ability to transfer as much lightning as possible into his opponent.

"We are not exactly sure why you called all for us here though. I heard Riri say something about you having a bad premonition, but that was all she said. What is really going on?"

"I think we'll find out soon. I don't know what it is, but I just have a bad feeling."

"A bad feeling?"

Lightning Rider looked at all the superhumans and soldiers that had come here with him, and he knew that they would all think that it was unnecessary to summon this much firepower just because someone had a bad feeling! It was like trying to kill an ant with a hammer. But for superhumans, the case was different. Just having a bad feeling was more than enough reason to be wary.

"We'll be on standby then. There shouldn't be too many people around, but I'll tell them to set up a perimeter around here so that nothing will get past us. There's a school nearby, and if we start fighting here, then they will definitely get involved as well."

Lightning Rider was someone who didn't like interacting with others unless it was very necessary, but Tilda knew that she could trust him to look after the citizens. He was not as strong or as fast as she was, but he was fast enough to get anyone out of trouble if the fight became too intense.

Lightning Rider cared about eh citizens and that he wouldn't want to cause too much damage to the city so there wouldn't be any casualties.

"Fine then, I'll leave it to –"

Doon!

A monster appeared in front of them!

Before Tilda could get out her response, she was immediately jumping backward with wide eyes! Because right in front of her was a monster that just jumped out of the ocean and came straight for them. There was not even a single warning before the monster appeared. At one moment, there was nothing, and in the next moment, a monster flashed out of the sea and was already aiming for them!

Boom!

"Ralph!"

Tilda screamed for Lightning Rider in worry as she watched the monster slam into the spot where he had been standing, but there was a flash of lightning from the dust, and a large lightning bolt struck down on the monster as Lightning Rider managed to dodge at the last moment and avoid the attack!

All the superhumans in the area prepared for battle as they began to pull out their weapons as well. The superhumans here were mainly C ranks and a few B ranks. There weren't any other A ranks other than Tilda, and Tilda knew that she would have to take center stage in this fight and draw the monster's attention to her because it could easily kill the other hunters if they faced it one-on-one.