SC1 0.0 – Prologue
After a moment of silence Owner Tetsuo asked me, “Sanno, do you really have to quit now?”
“Yes,” I firmly replied. “I have to go back to my home town and helping my old man taking cares our rice field.”
Actually, my hometown was on other galaxy. Not to mention, a damnable dragon had destroyed it two hundred years ago. But Owner Tetsuo would definitely think I had gone crazy if I tried to honestly explain it to him, so I kept it for myself.
As he narrowed his eyes suspiciously Owner Tetsuo asked me another question, “Are you planning to open your own diner?”
“I’m not”
“Is other diner offering you a higher salary? I can increase your salary you know.”
“Owner, I truly have to go back to my hometown.”
“Fine.” After letting out a deep sigh Owner Tetsuo handed over an envelope to me. “This is your salary this month, and some bonus for your excellent work for the last five years.”
“Thank you,” I happily accepted the money.
“Sanno, if you come back to Tokyo and need a job, just come here.”
“I will.”
After shaking Owner Tetsuo’s hand, I immediately leaved. For five years, I became second cook in Tetsuo’s Diner. Out of seven diners where I working as second cook, Tetsuo’s Diner had the heaviest work load and the strictest working procedure.
However, I loved Tetsuo’s Diner the most because in this shop I got massive skill and knowledge that turned me into a better cook. However, it was not wise to stay at once place for more than five years if you didn’t aging like normal people. So, I had to look for new diner every five years, before my forever young appearance invited unwanted circumstances.
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Pretty similar to my previous working place, I limited my relationship with other worker only as far as working colleagues. So, I didn’t feel obligation to held farewell party and just left without a trace. I also already packed my belonging into my spatial storage and say goodbye to landowner this morning.
And so, I could go straight to central station and took bullet train to other islands, if only someone didn’t tailing me.
I immediately stopped my steps and asked, “Why are you tailing me?”
A middle-aged man immediately stepped out from a dark corner. I didn’t know him, but he wore a robe that showed his position as elder in Blackwing Guild. He stopped one step away in front of me before introducing himself.
“My name is Toga, Fifth Elder of Blackwing.”
“So, you are the one who took my seat.”
“I’m.”
“And what business do you have with me? Grand Elder and First Elder have agreed to release me from my duty. Now, I have nothing to do with Blackwing.”
“Indeed, that’s why Grand Elder sends me as his personal courier and not as Blackwing’s representative.”
“Does Grand Elder need my help?”
“Yes.”
“What kind of help?”
“Prevent a calamity silently.”
“Where?”
“Planet Erra, Galaxy Adrian.”
“Who is the target?”
“A little girl named Yunno.” Toga paused for a moment before continuing, “Grand Elder has a vision that in fifty years she will become a walking calamity that destroys a few planets.”
“What is the shit that triggers her?”
“When she was ten years old, her little sister met with an unjust death. After that she had an encounter with demonic path.”
After taking a deep breath I asked, “But this is still a possibility?”
“Yes, and that’s why Grand Elder want it to be done silently.”
“I see.” So far Grand Elder never made a mistake in his prophecy, so I believed on him. “I will do it. Give me the coordinate for Planet Erra and other detail regarding the little girl. I will depart after I study it.”
“Thank you. Grand Elder will always remember this favor.”
After giving me a memory slip with Grand Elder’s personal seal on it, Toga then left. As for me, I walked to nearby park. I chose the most remote bench, took a big bag of potato chips and a canned juice from my spatial storage. Then, I studied all information I had to know before carrying my last assignment.
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Yunno and Yui, the two were a pair of sister who didn’t have anything that can be called happiness at their tender age. Yunno lost her father one month before her mother gave a birth to Yui. Then, the pair of sister lost their mother three years later.
Their closest relative was their uncle. He was a simple minded eighteen-year-old young man who gave his best to look after them. However, they lived in household that blatantly exploited them.
Coincidently, Yunno’s early life was pretty similar to mine. Even her uncle’s name also Sanno, like my name. Moreover, Grand Elder didn’t give me a clear instruction to kill her. His order was to prevent a possible calamity, which I could translate into a wide range of measure without involving a lethal option.
Well, I would decide the best measure I could take after I met her. Wasting no time, I recited the spell for inter-galaxy teleportation. As a Black Dragon Warrior, my power would be in its peak at night. I was easily teleported my body, without causing ripple or commotion. I just disappeared as if I was never there.
The journey through teleportation tunnel was still as same as usual. The tunnel wall was blurry, while in front of me I saw only jet black darkness. Everything was going smoothly and peacefully, if only cracks didn’t suddenly start to form in the tunnel wall.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have the time to find out the cause or make a countermeasure. It happened too fast. The teleportation tunnel crumbled in a blink of an eye. I could only close my eyes in resignation as my body scattered.
I failed in my last assignment. Shit killed me on the way.
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