19th chapter : ghosts behind the scenes .
As soon as the monster appeared, Alice had to release her second release to use her flames since ghosts can’t get any damage from physical attacks.
“Well, usually the monsters attack furiously but this monster is strangely calm. He didn’t attack yet” Marco said as they were standing by while Alice was preparing herself.
She released her second release then attacked it instantly, firing a strong blue fire at the monster.
“Huh?!” Alice was confused as the fire didn’t do anything to the monster and it kept absorbing it.
“Are you kidding me? ” Alice pouted before dodging an attack.
“The flames didn’t work or what?” Marco asked as the monster started to metamorphose into a larger shape, it attacked furiously.
Alice had no difficulties in avoiding the attacks therefore it picked a few stains from the monster’s body.
“Sigh, we have a pain in the ass now!” Alice said her words.
Right after that, the stains grew larger and almost ate her. Marco felt something wrong and instantly slashed the stains with his serment, Alice felt weak and almost collapsed right after getting her serment sealed forcibly.
Marco got Alice to safety as Carla followed him.
“He absorbed her euro reserves. she just lost a lot, are you ok now?” Marco explained to Carla then asked Alice who was leaning on his back while they were running away.
“Yeah, can you put me down now?” Alice replied with a sigh.
“Well, he doesn’t seem to have any damage from my flames, and he sucked out all the euro particles I was using in that second release. sigh, does it have some intellect or what?” Alice was getting tired as Marco and Carla were preparing themselves to fight it.
Marco looked aside at Carla then told her not to meddle in the fight.
“Haah?!! why, though? I can do as much as you can do! plus we are against a monster that sucks euro particles, you want me…wait yeah I’ll take a rest now” Carla quickly resigned on going after jumping to the right conclusion.
“I’m glad that you understood by yourself. Alice senpai, don’t move a lot and call Alex senpai to give her information, that monster does not get damage from elemental or physical attacks, it’s not that dangerous but it’s a pain in the ass if you don’t know how to deal with it” Marco was quite unusually knowledgeable about that monster.
Before he could go, Marco restored Alice’s stamina with his own euro particles as he did the same to Carla earlier.
“When did you learn to do this?!” Alice asked as she just saw Marco completely controlling the flow of his euro particles like child’s play.
“That comes later. right now, besides master, I’m the only one who can take down that monster” Marco didn’t explain and went ahead first.
As Alice and Carla stood they followed him. Marco caught up with the monster that was searching for anything that has euro particles inside it.
“Sigh, what a bunch of crap, covering myself with euro particles is pointless when I wanna try to end it!!” Marco stated as he dashed towards him using his euro as a decoy after covering himself up.
He entered right into the center of the monster and took his stance focusing his euro to his arm and clenching his fist with everything he got. The monster felt the euro gathering and went after it. At that moment, Marco took the chance and punched the monster right at the center, he blew him up to pieces. The monster changed shape into slimy stains and gathered around the whole area.
“Are you sure you’re gonna suck that? my euro particles are like a poison to you, just telling” with a calm voice Marco spoke as the slimy stains started to blow up one by one.
Soon after finishing it off, Marco met up again with Alice and Carla who were after him. The monster was still burning as the euro particles looked like a green light exploding the rest of the stains.
“How the hell did you finish him off?” Carla pouted asking Marco about what he just did.
“I finished it off with my euro flow, the way I did to Alice senpai earlier was just transferring euro particles. the monster likes euro particles and so I just fed it up mine and blew it” Marco was calmly looking around as Zack came over and heard him.
After checking around the whole area and the city , Alice and the rest returned to Marco’s house since there was no sign of monsters around the palm city.
“So that’s what happened!! man, you never stop to amaze us. Euro controlling is an A rank skill, even Alice has problems with that” Zack awkwardly smiled as they gathered around.
“Is that so, Sensei said that it was no deal to do it if you have a good image about your own reserves” Marco replied.
“sensei? I don’t recall teaching you anything about the euro society stuff” Alex said with an annoyed voice tone showing that she’s upset about the sudden turn of events.
Marco sighed and served them tea and sweets.
“Sorry, master Emilis was the only one who heard about it. I meant the man who taught me about the Euro society order and other stuff” Marco said as he smiled after mentioning a hint about Alba.
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“We’d like to meet him one day, if you had a mentor you should’ve told us that before, it made me really feel easy for now” Xavier said with an awkward smile on his face.
“That to be said, you really have a good control on your euro, what’s the trick for that?” Alex asked as Marco looked at her with his usual look.
Alex changed the topic quickly with a smug face as she asked Marco about what she wanted. they all wanted to hear the answer though.
“There’s no trick actually, just give the process a good image and it’ll work” Marco replied calmly.
“Process for what?” Carla asked as she got hooked on the conversation.
“Don’t ask about it. because we are going to make master Emilis teach us that in our training next week!!” Alice said as she seemed to be mad about something.
Marco looked at her then noticed that thing.
“Sorry, it wasn’t on purpose” he responded immediately.
“What are you talking about?” Alice replied as she got close and caught his cheeks.
“I said sorry for showing off and not telling you earlier what I know” Marco said again as Alice stretched them harder.
“I seriously don’t know what you are talking about!! speak up so I can hear you!!” She kept an annoyed person’s smile on her face for a while.
The next day,
“Uhm, can I have another please?” Carla said as the two of them were eating breakfast.
The night was calm because the ghost-like monster had drained the other monsters before heading to the city. it made the city clean for them so Alice had given them the right to sleep for the rest of the night.
“Yeah sure, it seems you got a really good sleep?” Marco replied as he gave her another piece of cake.
“It was a relief to know that there will be no monsters for the rest of the day, keeping them outside the city is sure a rough work” Carla’s reply was expected making Marco grin a little.
“You got a point for that, still it’s kinda quiet without Sophie and Arthur here” Marco pleaded.
“Don’t be that pushy, you need to tell them more about the current situation you know. The festival is coming and we need to start training, Arthur will notice sooner or later” Carla responded with her mouth full.
“Strangely, I understood what you meant. don’t speak with your mouth full, also Arthur had already noticed, I told you didn’t I? my eyes were dark and Arthur remembered that, I don’t know much about it but it’s already something inevitable for him to know about what I’m working on” Marco replied calmly.
After finishing breakfast Carla and Marco were washing dishes together.
“Say!! I don’t wanna go to work today so let’s just go downtown to the beach” Carla suggested out of the blue.
“Huh? Alice senpai would be mad about it but I’d rather skip work than get my cheeks pulled out by her every time she sees me, also if we are going to skip work I’d rather go outside the town” Marco went with the idea of Carla who was joking but she accepted what Marco proposed too.
“I called Alex senpai and told her about our plans, so are you ready? we’re gonna be late” Marco said as he was wearing his shoes at the front door.
“Sorry, I was caught in choosing what to wear. Well, what do you think?!” Carla awkwardly giggled as she turned over to show him her clothes.
“Are you waiting for me to praise you or something?” Marco coldly replied, crushing her hopes.
She kicked him a few times after making him say his opinion about it.
As they closed the door, the two went for the train station and took the one to the new city.
“Taking the train is much more safer but I would’ve preferred if we went to Uduru or Granddam” Carla said as she was getting bored even though it was still 10 am in the morning.
“We don’t know where the door is, and our palm city doesn’t have any entry itself. sigh, this makes me remember how much we are hated” Marco had the same feeling, “It’ll take a time to make them know about us, but as long as it’s peaceful, I’d rather leave things the way they are now” Marco replied while sleeping a little.
“You’re surprisingly enjoying this trip though we take the train more than once in a week, is it because it’s a day off?” Carla asked, tilting her head on his shoulder.
“Of course, we are on a day off after all. let’s enjoy this day” Marco said as he tried to act cool.
“You suck at playing cool so at least act the way you always do, also of course I’m enjoying it!!!” Carla had a smug face teasing Marco.
After getting to the new city, the two decided to go to the next station at a city called Lavesta.
“We came to a city where we don’t know anyone on purpose or what?” Carla asked.
“I don’t wanna meet up with Cor or Ruby san, they’re really pushy” Marco responded and went ahead with her to the nearest café around.
“One café latte please?” Carla ordered.
“Make it two, with extra cream please as well as the crunchy cookies extra please” Marco continued ordering after Carla who was surprised to hear him.
“You know about this kind of stuff a lot, have you come here before?” she asked curiously.
“Huh? They have a small part in the palm city. I worked there for a small time so I know a little about what they have” Marco casually replied as they took their order.
Having their order and finishing it quickly, both Marco and Carla looked aside. they couldn’t help but to notice a sudden monster roaming in the sky of the city.
“You noticed it too. well don’t worry, Alex senpai told me that the council calls these monsters symus, the Yomus or the normal people can’t see the monsters that we fight, strangely the cords that master Emilis should’ve planted around keeps the symus calm and not attacking and the system that the council uses makes it easy for them to trespass the symus and control them. That’s strange isn’t it?” Carla explained why a monster was roaming free around the city and flying like it’s nothing dangerous.
“Well, if you say that, I’ll pretend that I didn’t see it” Marco calmly stood up and went to pay for what they took.
After drinking that big coffee, they went sightseeing around the city. though the monster that was roaming kept a slight spicy chill in their throats knowing that they were hunting monsters the whole night just to see a different monster roaming free here.
“Ah, a door to one of the cities, wanna go inside or leave it for another time?” Marco asked.
“Nah, leave it next time, I wanna go and buy some stuff for Sophie” Carla refused and went ahead to the mall.
Before the two could enter they felt a strange aura roaming around the building.
“Looks like we have something to do, are you willing to let the council take care of it?” Marco asked as the two sensed a strong bloodlust and a faint pressure around the building.
“It’s our day off, so I don’t mind saving someone. sigh, monsters could be really troublesome” Carla replied then they set off to where the aura was.
Meanwhile at the closest council department,
“We picked up a B level Symus around the northern part of Lavesta city!! please proceed to the gray lions and give the order to eliminate it quietly” a councilor announced as soon as they picked the signals.
“Hai, I’ll send one of my members at the moment,” Alexander replied to the phone call he suddenly got from the council. “sigh, I’m already feeling a strong presence there and I don’t wanna send anyone. Well, no one is going to go for such a trivial thing, Rayan!! Alia!! I’m heading out for a little work” Alexander said as he went outside for the quest job that the councilor had put.
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