My Last Hunt

Level Four (27)

Punishment:

The old bookstore owner had given him a certificate and his book was certified too. Qiao had also brought out the certificate and placed it in front of the senior. He had nothing to fear. But as far as the grudge with this hunter went, it will be long lasting until it was settled by him. 

He didn't want to become a killing machine or a cold-blooded killer that knew no reason and would kill just for the sake of settling a small grudge. He was only a student until recently so he could not be like that, but a lesson had to be taught to anyone who messed with him. 

He believed in giving a second chance to people because in his world, it was believed that a second chance could change the life of a person. But he wouldn't be naïve and act kind with everyone. He had to learn how to face such problems and issues. 

Qiao belonged to a common class and he believed in fate just like many others do. As far as this hunter was concerned, if he was to try and trick him again, he would definitely pay him back for it. 

The senior picked up the certificate and observed it. He then saw the stamp and smiled, 

"Oh, you bought it from my retarded buddy, he is truly a generous one to always handover the original script. For me, generosity is a disease but if he gave it to you then he must have thought about it," The senior commented and as the stamp on it reminded him of past and about his old friend. 

"Young man don't take it for granted right now. You don't know my old friend. If he gave you this book willingly, this means you are under his critical observation and if my buddy is observing, then I will have to move against you to make him come look for me." 

The senior laughed heartily and mischievously thought for a moment. 

Both the old bookstore owner and this senior organizer were comrades who had survived through thick and thin. Now that he accidentally met someone who had reminded him about his buddy then he was going to make an excuse so that they both could get a chance to meet each other.

His expressions were that of someone who wanted to tease his old buddy through someone else. Qiao was also laughing in his head to see such expressions on the senior's face. This also reminded him about his childhood friend who always helped him through a lot. 

Their friendship was deeper than a blood relation. But later he went abroad to work. He would always say that he would become big, he would send him a passport and they both would work and learn in university together. But after sometime he stopped contacting him and Qiao kept himself busy in his routine and also forgot about him. 

But now he had decided to contact him when he would return back to his world. There must be some reason as to why he could not contact him. Being a good buddy, he should try to reach out when the other person wasn't able to. 

"Young man I will punish you for breaking the rule as no one is allowed to fight a duel in or out of the encampment. Does not matter if you were aware or ignorant of the rule or not." the senior raised up his brows and smiled wickedly. 

There was rule that if a chaser was ignorant of the rules then he would not be given a strong punishment but this senior was going to give a severe punishment just to trigger his old friend and make him come out.

"You will be sent to the senior teams and it is up to their mood as to how they would treat you in the team. Even if they throw you in front of a stronger monster, I don't care." he shrugged his shoulders and then handed him back the certificate. 

Qiao got speechless. Between the friendship of two old buddies, he was going to become a scapegoat. But he was also somewhat excited because leaving that team was also beneficial much. He needed to learn and get more information about various aspects of hunting. And bigger teams were going to be beneficial in this aspect. The team leaders of bigger or senior teams had a lot more information. 

"You can go and join the team who will be guarding the third part of the encampment in the night. Show them this paper and they would not ask you any question." He wrote some words on a paper and handed it Qiao. 

Qiao took it and went toward his tent, he was going to inform his present team about his shifting or in true words about his punishment. So that the team leader could recruit one other person for a complete team. 

After Qiao left, the senior hunter angrily looked toward the hunter who had tried to scheme against the other chaser. He strongly abhorred such chasers who not work hard but play tricks on others to get something precious from then by scheming against them. 

If he did not punish this hunter today, he would get a reason to do the same tricks again. He sent someone to announce that the organizers were going to punish a chaser because he broke the rules of the encampment. 

When he would punish him in front of others, the others would get a lesson from him and never think to break rules again. In the evening when all teams were encampment around, the senior organizer asked the chaser at hand to attack the scheming guy and when he did, the senior directly gave a fatal injury which caused him to lose a level. 

It was the hardest punishment ever given to a chaser in this encampment and those who witnessed it trembled, resolving never to break rules. Though the other organizers wanted to stop him but he did not listen them. It was because he wanted to tell his buddy that he didn't mistreat his chosen young man. Also, he wanted to stay true to his friend by punishing such chaser who wanted to harm that young man. 

But this also created a strong abhorrence in the heart of the chaser who was punished. He also gnashed his teeth in anger as he resolved to  himself to kill Qiao in the future.