Rebuild World: Volume 2 Part 1 by Nahuse

Author:Nahuse [NAHUSE]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2023-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

The eight hunters assigned to Checkpoint Fourteen were now divided three ways as they stood guard: Akira, Mimata and his buddy, and Katsuya’s team of five. Katsuya, Yumina, Airi, Reina, and Shiori were all working together—the main reason why the men had marked the children as “farm-raised.” The older pair was already prejudiced against young hunters, and they readily assumed that the one adult in a group of children was a babysitter minding her less-skilled charges. They were wrong about that, but they could be forgiven for their mistake, since Shiori was genuinely a cut above her companions.

Both Mimata’s and Katsuya’s groups chatted to ease their boredom. Time passed uneventfully, and their tension dissipated. As long as they took basic precautions, like keeping an eye on their scanners, they weren’t likely to suffer a surprise attack.

So far, this job really was so easy a child could do it.

Akira passed the time studying and talking with Alpha. Growing up in the slums had left him with poor literacy and worse education. Without that foundational knowledge to build on, he couldn’t learn what a successful hunter needed to know. So he spent his free moments trying to plug the many gaps in his education.

Suddenly, Alpha glanced to one side. Akira turned and saw Katsuya and Reina splitting off from their group and heading toward him. Reina marched straight up to him with Katsuya and Shiori in tow.

“What’s your name?” she asked sharply, looking down at him where he sat.

“Akira,” he replied.

“Why are you off on your own? Come join us.”

“No thanks. I’m good where I am.”

Reina furrowed her brows. “Why? Do you think you can get away with slacking off if you stay here alone?”

“I’m not slacking off, and I don’t plan to.”

“Stop lying. You’ve just been sitting there quietly this whole time.”

Katsuya’s and Mimata’s groups had been standing guard in shifts. Akira hadn’t even been doing that bare minimum—at least as far as anyone else could see. From that perspective, Reina’s reproach seemed justified. But Akira remained unruffled.

“I’ve been using my scanner to scout a wide area,” he said. “I noticed as soon as you started to head over here, didn’t I?”

Strictly speaking, it was Alpha who had been doing all the scouting. At his words, she gave him a smirk, although he pretended not to notice.

Reina looked more annoyed than ever. But she couldn’t argue with Akira’s logic, so she tried a different tack. He would obey her.

“What’s your hunter rank?” she demanded.

“Twenty.”

“Mine’s twenty-three!” Reina announced, a little smugly.

A brief silence followed. Akira didn’t respond, and his attitude remained exactly as before—not at all the reaction Reina had expected. She started looking annoyed again.

“Hey, are you listening?!” she snapped. “My hunter rank is twenty-three! Higher than yours!”

“So?” asked Akira.

“What do you mean, ‘so’?! I outrank you, so do as I say! Stand up and come join us!”

“No. No one told me to shut up and obey any hunter with a higher rank, and it’s not in my contract either. I’ve got no obligation to listen to you.

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