52nd chapter : red mermaid’s new look .
As things have passed the point of evolution, the red mermaid returned home to find a new problem that shocked even the one called the strongest.
Present time, somewhere in the palm city,
“Huff, huff!! like I told you!! it’s not ok to do anything without taking our parent’s approval first!!” Maria said as she was hiding from a huge grizzly.
“As long as they don’t scold us!! I’m ok with fighting for the sake of the city like they do!!”, Ralph came from behind, blowing the monster away with his serment.
As most of the civilians were worried and frightened about what’s going on, Maria and the others who were able to move around, found themselves fighting against the packs of monsters that popped out from the dungeons around the city.
Mostly one dungeon made the whole mess but it was rough for retired holders and mostly the ones who live there are non-combatant holders, making Maria, Ralph and four others ones , the only ones able to fight.
“Don’t close your phone!! I’m not able to contact you if you guys are closing your phones!!” Rachel came from behind the alley too as she was worried about her friends’ safety.
“Idiot !! The navigator never leaves their post!! You’re defenseless!!”, Ralph said as he rushed at Rachel therefore a sudden attack from another monster blew him away.
Caught in the middle of that, Rachel went after him as she was willing to protect him with her life.
“No, don’t!!”.
Maria was unable to move as she yelled after seeing that the grizzly was fine and able to attack again. The second that she yelled, everyone in the city could feel the euro pressure crushing the area as the second thing that Maria saw was chains slashing through the second monster and a person crashing the grizzly with a single hit.
Marco came in at the last second demolishing the monster.
His appearance was different, so Maria and Rachel didn’t recognize Marco until he spoke to them.
“You know, you said that you like watching the night hunting not participating in the hunting”.
Maria felt a relief as she thought that her friends were about to get killed because of her not moving an inch.
“Marco san!!” cried of joy Rachel.
Rachel was overjoyed, forgetting that she was about to get killed, Maria on the other side rushed at Rachel and hugged her tight, crying silently at her own mistakes and what would’ve happened then.
“It’s ok, red mermaid members are all here now, and..”, As he spoke, Marco pulled some chains, catching some monsters around them and restricting them from moving.
“Where were you?!”.
Maria asked as she saw that Marco caught most of the monsters easily.
“We were training!! So forgive us!!” Carla came from the west side as she slashed through the monsters then leaped to where they were standing.
“Those were mine you know?” Marco said ignoring her words.
“That’s your punishment for leaving me behind!!” Carla replied, teasing him.
Marco looked aside as He sighed then unleashed a wind thrust at a sudden passing monster.
“Show off!!” Carla yelled at him before he went to the rest of the hunt, “Sorry for you guys to experience this, red mermaid is here now and we will take everything from here so just cross this portal now and don’t think about it, we will finish the job”.
A sudden portal opened next to Carla as Sophie’s head got out from it.
“Come here!!” Sophie said with a smile as she took the hand of Maria and went inside.
Rachel did the same as she smiled at Sophie, right after closing the portal Carla realized that some of the monsters that Marco caught were still there in addition to a few that spawned around, she went and finished them off.
“A cocky slippery monster”.
Marco said as he was trying to catch a monster that looks like a squid. Since the red mermaid were there most of the barriers got left up letting them do a better work. seeing that the squid ran away and entered a house, Marco sighed as he followed after it and entered the house.
“Sorry, the red mermaid will take care of the damages, I’ll send someone to fix the window for you!”.
While talking to the people inside the house who were scared of the monster, Marco was swiftly moving around, trying to minimize the movements of the squid with the chains as well as passing through the house. It ended up with the squid breaking the window to get out, eventually it was Arthur who finished it off as soon as it got out of the house. Marco heaved a sigh and finished off another monster.
“Don’t complain and work harder!!” Zack passed next to Marco as he slashed his way through a pack of slimes by burning them down with his lance.
“I know, But let’s stop stealing the preys, ok!!” Marco yelled before leaping away to a different place.
“As if we can do that!!” Carla came from behind again as she unleashed an ice slash freezing the monster that Marco was about to fight.
The red mermaid was having fun in teasing Marco who sighed and looked east to see a giant monster getting out of the sea.
The monster was getting to the beach straight to where most of the refugees were. Seeing it made Marco smile at Carla as he spoke through the phone
“Since Alice is taking care of the dungeon, I guess no one would try to take that”.
Marco instantly vanished from the sight leaping to where the monster was. As soon as he reached it, he was about to land a hit but ended up dodging an enormous euro ray attack from Xavier who had a smug face on him saying back to him.
“This is a competition my dear kohai!! Gotta do better!!”.
Marco was pissed off by that as he vanished from the sights again as the next second that he appeared a huge black gale demolished the sea monster.
“A competition you said, sigh” Marco said as he appeared after that next to where Xavier was standing.
“You really hate to be teased but well” Xavier responded as the two were going back to the restaurant.
“Yeah that’s why” as Marco responded, he teased Xavier for not being fast enough on releasing while he was the one who took down a big tiger that was heading at them only with a wind thrust.
Xavier sighed, grinning at him. They all looked like they’re having fun using their serments in the plain sight of the day with no restrictions or anything. Alice was taking her time so she finished the dungeon easily and Zack did his part of the mission too, he rescued the people that were captured by monsters as food packs.
The hunt was over in an hour with all the citizens being secured, the red mermaid members returned to the restaurants not even tired.
“You guys are ok?” Marco asked as he saw Rachel and the others taking some rest inside the restaurant along with the old holders who were there to help.
“Yeah , thank you for helping us earlier!!” Rachel smiled at him.
Marco responded calmly as everyone looked at him for that sole sentence.
“That was only our job”.
His reply was cold but Rachel was happy with that as she didn’t mind it, on the other side, the others were a bit bothered by it.
“Anyway, where did you go all this time the euro society was all searching about you?” Shoko asked as they were all waiting for answers from Emilis.
“Well, we were training in the toss realm” Emilis responded as he drank some coffee to regain some of his senses.
“If it’s you then I don’t think that would be impossible, but I think this won’t explain what happened”,
Phillip, Maria’s father said as they looked a little down. The holders that were there, were the only ones who knew about the existence of the euro from the beginning of their lives, and so they accepted that Emilis was the strongest all along. They felt down that he wasn’t around when things went bad.
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After taking some rest in the restaurant without returning home to think of something Emilis sighed and said to everyone.
“If the council said that it’s time to show ourselves then I guess that’s the only thing to do as red mermaid’s guild master, everyone here gonna help with that I guess. Since the monsters are all wiped out of the city now, I guess it’s time to make an announcement.” Emilis spoke with a smile regaining his composure.
“I’ll take care of talking with the mayor. Alice, try to speak with the people around the eastern part. Shoko san and Zack, gather the people in the western part. Marco and Xavier, look after the northern part. Minerva san and Carla, look after the southern part. As for the rest, you’ll follow Vanica san to prepare the beach for the people so they would hear the announcement. Master, please use that thing you told us about to create a stand and other things. Ah right, Phillip san please help me with the mayor. That’s all for now, you may start !” Alex said as she pointed out everyone’s task.
No one complained and went with her plan, as they were already on the move to start their work.
“She’s doing good as the main navigator of the guild, I’m proud of you Alex chan!!” Cedric appeared next to Marco as he grinned, therefore that didn’t shock Marco much more than Alex responding to Cedric’s words with an awkward smile on the line.
“You can see him?” he asked.
“Of course she can because he made a contract with her, I really hoped that Arthur and Sophie could see us too” Yuna responded as she appeared after Cedric.
“Don’t worry Yuna nee!! we can see you well!!”. Arthur spoke, then Sophie continued as she was climbing Marco’s back.
Yuna was overjoyed as Marco was impressed that both Arthur and Sophie could see them now, it was a different sensation for a fresh new start. It made him see the red mermaid’s new look.
After taking their leave, Rachel and Maria along with Ralph decided to stick with the red mermaid members. As Rachel went with Alice, Maria took her leave with Marco and Xavier while Ralph wanted to stick around Zack and Shoko.
“How are we supposed to make the people come out of their houses?” Maria asked, walking behind them.
“I don’t know, and why did you come with us in the first place?” Marco responded as he made her feel offended.
Maria pouted as she answered coldly.
“To take care of Sophie first!! and because I was feeling down since you started talking the usual way you do. Xavier san!! What are you thinking of doing for the people?!”.
She addressed Xavier who was looking around him how the people were afraid of stepping outside the houses, he felt multiple glares from behind the windows of the houses.
“It’s not something we will have it easy but I guess this is the best thing to do!!” Xavier released his serment and shot a blue arrow that exploded in the midair, “Yo!! I’m Xavier Alles!! Please listen to me!! There’s nothing to fear now!! The monsters are gone now!! And so our master!! Emilis vengeance said that he’ll hold an announcement!! Please get out of your houses and head to the beach!!”.
Xavier was yelling as he was waiting for a good answer therefore someone threw junk food at them.
Marco and Xavier sighed as they figured what to do because of that. As Marco threw his black sword next to the guy who threw the junk food, Xavier shot another at a different person. He roared afterwards.
“You have five seconds to get out of the house or else I’ll hunt everyone down!”.
Xavier released a thin euro pressure, making the whole northern part run outside their houses.
“I guess that wasn’t hard but was it necessary to threaten them?” Maria asked curiously.
“They threw food at us, so it was like a declaration of war for us” Marco responded.
“Easy peasy lemon squeezy” Xavier said after him.
Maria didn’t have any other words as she thought it was that dumb to argue with them. Soon after that she saw a pillar of blue flames going up to the sky from the direction of Alice, another on Zack’s side and a mountain of ice in Carla’s direction.
“You guys are helpless” she said as she felt like it was useless to think of any other comment about what they did.
“Yeah but that way is much more funnier than the normal way anyway” Xavier had a smug face while looking at the people going towards the beach.
It took them a little bit of time to reach the beach as all the citizens were surprised by the stand that appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the beach. Even the ones who were there on a vacation found it impressive and stuck to see the end of it.
“You guys did the same as me huh?” Xavier spoke as he was teasing Alice, Zack and Carla about it.
“We didn’t really think about it and it was kinda the same as our style I guess!!”,
Carla responded, laughing about it as the red mermaid members were standing next to the stand so that they would let Emilis do his announcement.
“I guess it’s time for that silly dream to come true, huh?” Shoko spoke out of the blue.
“What do you mean?” Arthur asked her.
“It was long time ago but there was a silly dream that the orphanage kids in Mustfit started, one day we will be able to use our serments and say we are holders in front of the entire world and the euro society will grow bigger than anything” Vanica answered his question as Alex and the other senpai giggled at it.
Marco and Arthur looked at them then Arthur spoke back,
“I guess that dream was the thing that I wanted to hear today” he giggled along with the rest of them as they finally felt a change in their own lives.
As the whole citizens of the city were gathered, Emilis looked around and sighed then he took a step on the stand. He clapped his hands to take their attention as his witchcrafts were doing the microphone work.
“Uhm, well everyone in this city here know me so I’ll keep the introduction short. I’m Emilis Vengeance, I’m the owner of the red mermaid restaurant. However. The restaurant is only a facade to what I own actually, I’m the guild master of the guild called red mermaid”,
He stopped talking because of a lot of chattering was going around showing the reaction of people, after calming them down he continued to speak,
“First, I apologize for not being present during the recent events three days ago. Because the euro society was a hidden thing from the world, my guild members thought it was a good thing to get moving and train somewhere else, therefore that resulted in this so I deeply apologize”.
Emilis bowed to the crowd as Alice and the rest followed him to bow after stepping to stand behind him too.
“As our master said, the introduction should be kept short as you people know us mostly, I’m Alice Rayleigh, the vice master of the guild red mermaid. Our guild had two purposes, first was to subdue the monsters and keep the secret of the society as well as the holders who lived with us here in safety, I hope you thank them for their brave attempt of saving the people around too”. Alice spoke, pointing the light at the three houses’ members who were present that time and everyone who tried to help back then.
“Most things have been said, the red mermaid will be in charge of the safety of everyone and will be helping any person who wants help just call for us. And, any person who needs more information shall proceed to ask help in the restaurant, I’ll make sure to listen to everyone’s requests” Emilis said as he smiled at them.
A lot of questions were asked at the time that Emilis stopped talking but the negativity wasn’t zero as a question was asked out of fear.
“You said you’re a guild master!! What will happen if a monster that you can’t take down appears!? How can we know that you’re strong?”.
The questions were kind of hurting as Emilis thought it was normal for them.
“Ehehehe!!? These questions hurt deep down guys!!” Emilis said as a sort of a joke then gave them a vigilant smile, “Don’t worry, I’m the strongest”.
He said his words as the whole people stopped talking as the atmosphere went silent. In addition to that, Phillip and Shoko who are well known persons in the city too stood out and answered the crowds’ doubts.
“We confirm that, even if it costs us our life. Don’t fear anything since this man is the strongest in the euro society’s history!!” Philip shouted as he was looking sure about his own words.
“Despite knowing that his words will make a lot of things happen to him during his family meetings yet he said it, I’m not thankful enough Phillip san!” Emilis said as he bowed to him after that.
The people who doesn’t know about the euro society wanted to know more things but Emilis didn’t let them ask questions,
“For now, my guild members will be in charge of helping around the city, anything that you need will be present and as the last notice, in the next few days I’m sure that the council will do a live presentation and talk about the things, presenting the basics of the euro society, I’ll be present there so just remember that the palm city will start to be a punctual pillar to the euro society’s job in this new era. That’s it for now so everyone can return to their daily lives now!! Thank you for your cooperation with us!! Red mermaid members will always be present for help!!” Emilis and the rest of the guild members bowed to the whole people who were there.
After finishing that announcement, most of the people rejoiced and went to open their works again as the city became lively more than ever. Right after seeing all the people off. Red mermaid members were gathered at the restaurant again until night to process the situation.
Marco told Emilis that he’ll need his help in something since Vanica, Nora and Minerva came along with them. Shoko said that she can take care of the house where Alice and the other three are living since they didn’t have any luggage to speak about. Right after that Zack tried to go on his own somewhere as Marie went to meet up with her husband so she can take care of her baby, leaving only Alice, Alex and Xavier in the restaurant as they took a rest in the office room.
The things that happened made them unable to talk for a while, the three sat there silently for a while looking at how things had been going for them so far.
“Sigh, so after all these years, we can finally walk as normal as the people around huh” Alice said as she sipped coffee for herself.
“I guess my job as an observer in the school is no longer needed anymore” Alex said after her, taking the cup from her hand.
“I guess we can say that we will be able at least for the next two months to draw some attention” Xavier said as he took the cup of coffee that Alice sipped after that too.
“Then maybe you can get a girlfriend” Alex tried to tease him, although the two got a hit on the head from Alice beforehand.
“Haha! how funny, I’m not interested in dating and I don’t wanna be in a position to be laughed at like Zack” as he mentioned Zack the silent came in the room, “Good luck for him, If his little girlfriend accepts the fact that he’s one of us and don’t play dumb around him then he’s good to go” Xavier continued as the three of them sighed.
“You’re right, at some point, Zack was the only one who took a step into normal life even when we were kids” Alex said as she pinched Xavier’s cheek.
“I guess so, he’s strong enough to bear that life. Unlike us who stood alone all the time avoiding people just because of that” Alice spoke after that as they drank a sip of coffee at one time to let out some silence across the room.
“Take it easy, frankly I don’t see myself talking to normal people, sigh! kinda complicated now!” Xavier was yawning around therefore he stopped as Alex said,
“We gotta live with what we got”. In that second Zack joined the three of them on the last word as the four of them said, “Whatever it takes till the end”.
The three of them were surprised as they weren’t waiting for him to appear out of nowhere.
“I thought you went ahead with Shoko san?” Xavier asked him, startled for a moment there.
“Not really, I was thinking of eating outside before going back to clean and before these two go home too, Shoko san said that she’s heading back to her home for now” Zack responded as the three of them looked at him.
Xavier sighed as he stood,
“Man, what a cheap!! you just want me to clean instead!! we’ll order some Italian food and you’re going to pay!!” said Xavier.
Xavier kicked Zack’s ass because of what he said then went outside. Looking at what Zack said, Alice and Alex chuckled on their own then went after them as Alice yelled, adding to what Xavier said.
“Wait for us!! As long as Zack is the one who’s going to pay then I’m good with cleaning the house!!” Alice smiled a joyful smile.
Seeing that smile, Alex went out of the room last turning the lights off before looking at the three’s backs. For a first she felt a heart warmth that she couldn’t understand, a smile came along with it and a word slipped out of her mouth.
“Ah right, Whatever it takes till the end”.
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