Nero, the Legendary Hunter

"Stop looking at me like that." Choko said red.

"As?" Nero smiled.

"Geeh, like, with your eyes shining like you're looking at the person…" She didn't finish what she was going to say.

But Nero added: "What do I love? Yes, I love you." Nero smiled.

"..."

"I love you too..." Choko's voice was as low as a mosquito's voice.

Embarrassed, she lowers her head and continues to chew her bread.

"Are we going to dungeons again?" Nero asked.

"I think Jana, Jair, and Breno are arriving today, we should wait for them," Choko said.

"Oh, they were quick. By the way, how do you know?" Nero asked.

"I forgot to tell you yesterday, but I received a carrier pigeon and the note said 'we're arriving, signed: Jana.' Choko said.

"Only that?" Nero asked.

"Yes, she likes to be dramatic sometimes. Anyway, I'm glad they're coming." Choko smiled.

"The same. They will be surprised to see what level you are currently at." Nero laughed.

"Truth." Choko laughed along with it.

Leaving the inn, Nero and Choko wore their armor. Since you never know.

When they arrived in front of the city gate, Jana, Jair, and Breno still didn't show up.

"Let's buy a drink and wait," Nero said.

"Yea." Choko nodded.

There were some stalls selling, and they bought a cup of sugarcane juice for two coins each. With ice and lemon, it was delicious in this hot weather.

"If I say it's a thousand [Essence Coin] a day, it's a thousand [Essence Coin] a day. But if this pretty girl wants to accompany me for a day, I can make a discount and let it go for 100 [Essence Coin] a day." The man holding a spear hit the ground and with a wicked smile said.

"Son of a bitch, I'll kill you if you go too far!" It was a boy's youthful voice.

"Isn't that Jair's voice?" Nero had very good hearing, and he listened and Choko did too. Going to the city gate, they saw Jana, Jair, and Breno being stopped by the guards.

"Idiots, what do you think you're going to do to my friends." Nero pulled some sugarcane juice after speaking.

"Who is it?" They turned and shuddered.

Mainly the man holding the spear.

"Hey, can you answer me, are they trying to screw up again, and this time wanting to extort my friends? Huh? Tell me, I swear I won't hit you." Nero smiled with a flower bud.

As beautiful as she was, at that moment, they saw the image of a demon and it made them back off.

It wasn't just because of what happened the first time she was in town, but because in the dungeon morale, those who manage to clear the third floor of the dungeon have their name automatically written there. And Nero's, Choko was there. There were other people they weren't seeing, but from the armor of Choko and Nero, they knew they were the real deal.

"I, I, I was kidding... Hahaha... Of course, it's only 50 [Essence Coin] a day, the other 50 we'll pay ourselves, won't we?" The spear guard looked at the other guards who nodded quickly.

Jana, Jair, and Breno were amazed. And something that didn't go unnoticed from Choko's eyes was that initially, Jana and Breno were holding hands.

'Is something going on between these two?' Choko guessed.

"What's going on, degozaru?" Jingu appeared.

"Nero, you're in trouble, well in this little town there shouldn't be someone who can make Nero trouble, so is it the other side that's in trouble?" Honda laughed.

"It's the other two girls that are marked who cleaned the third floor of the dungeon…" They started whispering when they saw the two.

Nero's group was the sensation of the moment, it had been a while that Hunters couldn't clean the 3 floors, after all, although, in the Nan Empire, this is only one of the smaller cities, almost no strong Hunters are in this city.

And the reason I recognized them was that they've been in trouble before and know them. Mainly Jingu, who quarreled with the local gang.

Jair, Jana, and Breno were very surprised, not only with Nero and Choko's armor but with the way the others feared them, especially Nero, even had that guard who held the spear that was protecting his ass with his hands? Very strange.

Paying for the 16 days left for Hunter School registration, the three entered.

"Jana!" Choko didn't hold back anymore and jumped into her arms.

The two hugged and cried.

Nero also hugged Jana, but it wasn't as dramatic as Choko.

"Well, since everyone's here, are we going to the dungeon?" Nero asked.

"Nero, do you only think about fighting? But I agree, let's go to the dungeon?" Honda laughed and said.

"They just arrived, they must be tired, let's go to the inn first and give a potion to regain strength and go to the dungeon," Choko said.

"..."

Initially, Jana, Jair, and Breno thought that Choko was on their side, and was going to let them rest for a day, but what business is this about having a drink to regain your vigor and head to the dungeon once they arrived in town? Who turned Choko into this fight maniac?

"By the way, I'm already at Rank E- I'm level 9 now~" Choko puffed out her breasts and said proudly.

Now, even Honda and Jingu were surprised.

"You're already at level 9 so fast, degozaru?" Jingu almost had a heart attack, she was happy to be able to go to level 7 and wanted to tell the good news, and Choko drops a bomb like that.

"How can it be so fast, tell me, did you take some miracle potion?" Jana shook Choko over and over.

"Haha! I can't say, it's a secret." Choko laughed and said.

"You all, come to my room and Choko's. I'll tell you how she got it, but you guys have to keep it a secret." Nero said.

"You'll trust us that easily, Nero, I'm a trustworthy person, but how will you know if I'm really trustworthy, degozaru?" Jingu asked.

"Simple, if you count, I'll hunt you down to the ends of the earth and kill you, Hahaha." Nero let out a sinister chuckle.

Jingu and Honda shivered.

"I'm kidding, relax, it's not as serious as you guys think. It's something only I can have and no one can steal. Anyway, you'll understand when you get to the inn." Nero said.

She spent a few days with both of them, but she already has some degree of confidence. And what she was going to say was not the truth, but a harmless lie.

It was to be able to help them, after all, she liked their personality, and as they are also going to enroll in the Hunter School, it would be good if they were a little stronger to continue making groups with her.

Arriving at the inn. Nero took out a talisman he bought before isolating the sound and said, "I am a girl who has been abandoned. Along with me was a Hunter Card."

She already spoke to the system yesterday, and it managed to replicate a Class A Hunter Card. It was very real, but it cost a few coins.

"This Hunter Card is Grade A. You know, you can't use someone else's Hunter Card, but my case is special, it seems my mother was a Grade A Hunter and gave me the rights to the Hunter Card. Because of that, I can use it. And here comes the big question, unlike the other Hunter Cards of low rank, the Monster Core that I <Plunder> comes with almost no impurity, so it makes it easier to get mana from us Monster Core."

Nero observed well, especially Honda and Jingu, if she felt a simple index of greed, she would kill them. It didn't matter if they were already partners. She didn't want traitors on the team and luckily, other than surprise and amazement, she didn't see greed in them. And she trusted her instincts since she was at level 12. It would be hard for a lower level to fool her.

"Wow! That's a good mother, she did everything for you and gave her greatest treasure, I bet she had a good reason to abandon you, *degozaru*" Jingu cried: "Uwaaa, waaaa..."

"Nero, I know this isn't enough, but I swear on my mom that I won't tell anyone this!" Honda said.

Crying Jingu also took the same oath.

Followed by Choko, Jair, Jana, and Breno.

Of course, they thought there was something wrong with this story, but they still decided to believe it was true, and if Nero told it because he wanted to help them, even though he was hiding the true truth, they wouldn't ask.

"Oh yeah, I saved most of the monsters we hunted before, degozaru" Jingu said, "Can I give it to you now?"

"Yes, of course, I will <Plunder> and return it to you right away." Nero nodded.

The same was done with Honda.

Jair, Breno, and Jana already knew they needed to guard the monsters, as warned in the letter, now they know why. They also passed the monsters on to her.

After making <Plunder> for all of them, Nero saw them create pentagrams on the inn floor and began to meditate. Looks like they were impatient to increase their strength.

Mainly Jair and Breno who was their dream to be powerful Hunters.

Jana wanted to always follow Breno, so she knew she had to be strong, so she also didn't save time and meditated diligently.

In the end, everyone was training.

While Nero was thinking, "We weren't going to dungeons!?"

Helplessly, she sat in a corner with Choko and waited for them. There is nothing to be done, as they decided to strengthen themselves all together.

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