Rebuild World: Volume 3 Part Two [Parts 1 to 10] by Nahuse

Author:Nahuse
Language: eng
Format: epub

But there was actually another reason Shikarabe had invited Akira on the hunt, one which he hadn’t told Yamanobe and Parga—and for which he’d shelled out a considerable amount of money to get his hands on classified information from a broker.

Shikarabe had seen Akira in action back in the underground ruins, and he doubted that Akira really did drop out of the job halfway due to an injury. That went against what his intuition was telling him, and he trusted his intuition.

Was Akira just another rookie hunter, or were there some hidden circumstances at play? Because Shikarabe was unable to gauge Akira’s true skill, he felt torn between the two possibilities and decided to investigate on his own. Now he’d discovered that something had indeed happened, but he was unable to learn exactly what. He suspected it had something to do with the relic theft incident that was going on around the same time, but this was merely speculation on his part.

So he wanted to get another look at Akira in action and determine his real strength. He would have his trusted comrades observe Akira in battle and gauge their reactions, while he would get to form his own objective assessment. Then he could see if his intuition really had been on the money.

And that was why Shikarabe had become a rather proactive participant in a war between factions that he would normally have had no interest in.

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Togami sat in the passenger’s seat, staring at the wasteland pass by outside the window. He took a furtive glance at Akira, his expression rigid. Akira showed no reaction—he’d clearly noticed Togami’s gaze, but was ignoring him.

Even after Akira had defeated the behemoth on his own, they hadn’t spoken a word to each other. But something had changed. Togami now showed no sign of his earlier dissatisfaction. Instead, he seemed doubtful and wary, as if toward an unknown threat, and his anxiety and restlessness clearly showed.

Akira’s skills had shaken him.

Not only had the non-Druncam boy immediately noticed a monster from that far away, he’d hit his mark from a moving vehicle and destroyed it in one shot. If someone had asked Togami to do the same, he would immediately have sworn it was impossible.

Had Shikarabe or his comrades pulled it off instead, he might have been surprised at their skill, but that would be all. This was different—someone who he’d already looked down on had achieved such an outstanding feat.

Togami was shocked—even bewildered. In his confusion, he desperately cast about for some kind of logical explanation. Without realizing he was doing so, he glanced at Akira over and over as he continued to speculate.

Then suddenly everything came into focus and made sense.

His face twisted in displeasure. He clearly didn’t want to acknowledge what had occurred to him.

But if the novice in the driver’s seat next to him—with a lower hunter rank, wimpy appearance, and better equipment than Druncam rookies were known to have—displayed a higher level of skill than he had, it could mean only one thing: he was even more of a novice.

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