Rebuild World: Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 6] by Nahuse

Author:Nahuse
Language: eng
Format: epub

The more Carol learned about Akira, the more mysterious he seemed. Hmm, as I thought, he really doesn’t look that impressive. I wonder why? Is it just because he’s a kid, or is something else going on? While she couldn’t go so far as to say that he looked like a weakling, he certainly didn’t look strong—at least not strong enough to tackle these ruins on his own.

“Hey, Akira, how old are you anyway?” she asked nonchalantly.

“Hm? Dunno,” he replied.

“Classified, eh? Well, if you want to keep it to yourself, that’s fine. I don’t go around telling people my age either, since keeping it secret’s more convenient for my other job. Usually I just pick a number my client’s into and go with that.” Carol thought that Akira was playing dumb because he didn’t want to answer, and she brushed it off with a grin.

But Akira shook his head. “No, I really don’t know how old I am. I don’t know my birthday either. I don’t even know whether I forgot it, or simply didn’t know from the start.”

Carol deduced that Akira must’ve been born in the slums. And since she knew many slum children considered their upbringing a touchy subject, she decided to not pry any further. “Okay, then how long have you been a relic hunter?”

“Oh...” He hesitated before answering, and when he did, it sounded evasive. “Well, you know, not too long. At least, it feels like I only started just yesterday.”

So he had immediately admitted that he didn’t know his age, but seemed reluctant to answer how long he’d been a hunter. Carol wasn’t really surprised, though. “Becoming a hunter” could mean different things to different people, like the day you registered yourself as a relic hunter in the Office’s records, the first day you went out to the wasteland, or the day you reached rank 10 and became official. There were those who’d already headed into a ruin fully armed before they’d registered as a hunter, and others who didn’t count anything before becoming rank 10 as “true” hunter work. Some purists would even treat other fledgling hunters as “impostors” before they met certain criteria regardless of how much effort the newcomers had already put in. (In fact, this was a common cause of many arguments between hunters.)

Carol guessed that Akira was being so cagey because something similar had happened in his past, likely brought on by his youthful appearance. Still, he’d admitted that he hadn’t been hunting for very long, and since he didn’t give her the impression he was lying, he was probably as young as he seemed. In other words, he wasn’t using an artificial body or physical augmentations to make himself look younger.

“Really?” she said. “Then you must still be a rookie. Which, in my book, makes your strength all the more impressive.”

“It’s not that big of a deal. I just got lucky in a number of ways.” Akira found her overt praise hard to accept at face value, but it would have been far too unnatural to deny it at this point.

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