Chapter 49:

The Unexpected Invitation

The Creature Hunter: Soul Of The Wind


After they separated their way on the port, Orano, Caitrin and Lydia started to walk once more.

Although they were no longer in a chase, they had no means of transportation and they had to walk all the way.

So Caitrin asked with a tired and sarcastic expression on her face,

"Well, what do we do now? After all, we can't walk all the way to the third Kingdom."

Lydia looked around for anything useful and said,

"I'm sure we can rent a carriage around here somewhere. But I don't know exactly where."

And while they were talking, Orano held his Zon Device and started talking,

"Hey, Yuma! Can you hear me?"

Caitrin was surprised when he started talking out of nowhere to someone. But she then remembered that she had completely forgotten about the Zon Devices, and Tatsumi's plan to meet his friend, and said to herself,

"Oh, right! Yuma was going to be here too!"

Lydia asked confused,

"Who is Yuma?"

"Oh sorry, I forgot to tell you."

She then added,

"Yuma is Orano's friend that he talked about. Before we came here, we made a plan to meet in Idrisud, but since we got into a chase, we couldn't either contact him or know where he has been."

"Is that so? I understand." Lydia said as she looked at Tatsumi once more.

Caitrin then said with a tired and sarcastic expression,

"But I hope he has something with him that can take us faster because I can't feel my legs."

And while they were talking, Yuma finally replied to Orano and said,

"Yeah, you sound pretty clear. So you finally made it here, huh? How did it go?"

"It was the same as usual but I can't tell you those right now. We have to get to the third Kingdom as fast as we can, and I need your help with something urgent. So I'll be waiting for you at Bubbleshore."

"Really? I'm in Bubbleshore too!"

"That's better. Then meet me at the nearest place."

"All right then, I'll be in the town square soon, wait for me there."

Then Orano closed his Zon Device and started walking again.

Caitrin asked,

"What happened?"

Orano said as he walked past Lydia and Caitrin,

"Just follow me. We're going to the city square right now and will wait there."

Caitrin caught up to him and asked once more,

"Hey! At least tell us something! How is Yuma going to travel with us? We don't have anything with us neither!"

"Don't worry, he always has a backup plan in mind. So don't get hung up on the details and hurry up." 

Caitrin looked at him with an annoyed and confused face. It made him annoyed once more because she was left unanswered, but she sighed and followed him anyways.

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And after walking for about ten minutes, they arrived at the city square and started to wait there. Shortly after Yuma arrived with a carriage and waved at them. They were surprised since they didn't expect something to travel with.

And while they were looking at the carriage, Yuma said,

"Hey! Orano, I'm here!"

They approached the carriage and started talking,

Orano said,

"So you found yourself a carriage."

“Ah! Yeah! Actually, that's why I couldn't contact you all this time."

As all of them looked at him confused, he added,

"All this time that I have been in Idrisud, I was on a mission with my friend that I told you about. She said that she needed immediate help, so I tried my best and I helped as much as I could. It was a successful mission at last, and she finally decided to give me this in return. I am very happy that she did."

Then Yuma looked at them and asked,

"So what did you do? I haven't even received a letter from you all this time either. You all seem fine, but what happened in Emperal so suddenly? And who is your new friend?"

Lydia stood up and said,

"I'm Lydia Shimuzu. I'm an Earl's bodyguard at the Emperal. Actually, I was."

She then added,

"Now that we have been through some events, I've been traveling with Mr. Tatsumi and Caitrin for a while. Nice to meet you."

Yuma smiled and said,

"I'm Yuma Daisuke nice to meet you too."

Orano then said,

"She's someone we met at Emperal. At first, she was one of the Earl's bodyguards, but she helped us and said she didn't want to serve such a person. And since an incident that had happened, We've been traveling together ever since."

"A series of events, huh? Do you want to talk to me about that?"

"No need. I'll tell you what happened once we start traveling, but right now I have to ask you something else."

Yuma smiled and said,

"So it will be as usual. Anyway, what is the problem?"

"Because we are involved in a couple of events, it will no longer be good for our faces to appear in the crowd. So I'm gonna have to ask you to take us to Abingora secretly. Stay away from any checkpoint and use other paths. No matter what we do, we have to act quietly."

Yuma sighed and said,

"So that's all you got into. Then we'd better leave without wasting any time."

Orano and Caitrin entered the back of the carriage and sat down. Lydia and Yuma, on the other hand, were in the front, and sat there. 

And then, as soon as they got on the carriage, Yuma said,

"Then let's go!"

And they quickly left there to head for Abingora. 

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After a while of driving and silence, Yuma finally decided to talk and said with a serious expression,

"I'd like to give these to you later, but since it's urgent, I need to tell you about these now."

At first, all of them looked at him confused, but then he took out three letters from his pocket and gave the letters to them. 

At first, the letters looked like normal letters. But when Lydia looked at the back of it, she saw the logo of the Royal Society, and on there was a purple ribbon attached to it. That meant that it was an important letter.

Lydia looked at the letter scared and said,

"It's the royal seal!"

Yuma said,

"Exactly. This letter was sent to almost all Creature hunters and sorcerers as a top-secret letter. But since everyone now knows the incident that happened in Faye, everyone knows what this is about. But still, since they are too scared, no one wants to be involved in such a mission."

Then Caitrin asked nervously,

"But why would the royal society send such letters to everyone?"

As they looked at the letter nervously, Orano said,

"We have no choice but to open it and find out."

And he finally opened the letter.

The letter said,

"All this time, it was so easy for you to live without our presence. You did what you wanted, you had fun as you wanted, without fear, without discipline, without pain. You've become so naive, you've forgotten what true justice meant. But don't worry, I'm here to fix it, and I'm not going to go back without fixing it.

I'm calling out all The Creature Hunters from here! Nuzuki Serumu has finally stepped on this land and has already begun to do what is necessary!

If you want to stop me even a little, I'll be in Idrisud until April twelve. But if you are even a day late, I will finally release my soldiers, and all the kingdoms will gradually be mine.

I promise to give you back the leader you haven't had in all these years and you will see what true power is.

And also, I have a message for a special person. I think I owe him something for killing my pet.

I took the lives of your worthless friends, and now it's your turn, Orano Tatsumi."

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