SS1 5.5 - Shimon Family
Long time ago, a few hundred years before state of Israel being founded, lived a small but happy Jew family. They bore Simon as their family name. The husband and his wife worked as labor in a big olive farm. Their children, Ariel, a 12-yeard-old fine boy, and Ariella, a 10-year-old sweet girl, helped them as minor labor and received a piece of plain bread and water as their only payment.
It was only peasant among peasant life, and as Jew they received lot of discrimination and limitation from the society they lived in, but Simon family happily lived their life. Unfortunately, their happiness didn’t last long.
One day, Ariella got a fever and Ariel had to look after her, so the siblings couldn’t go to help their parent as usual. Never did the two will imagine that in the afternoon, they would receive news that their parent had passed away. Looter who raided the olive farm had killed them the news said.
The olive farm owner then took the siblings as their servants and forcing them to convert and left their faith, but it was not the worst part of tragic life they had to go through. The farm owner turned out was a child predator, and Ariel and Ariella became his favorite toys and soon as the two entered his household.
Later, Ariel and Ariella also found out that their parent didn’t die in the hand of looters. The other farm workers killed his father, and then raped their mother to the death. Everything was being done under the order from far owner. This revelation crushed the siblings’ tender heart and soul into pieces, but it also gave them a rebirth.
The siblings then secretly changed their family name from Simon to Shimon, and concocted a plan to revenge their parent unjust death. It took eleven years of unbearable pain and suffering before Ariel and Ariella could full fill their revenge.
The sibling didn’t only kill everyone who was taking part in their parent death. They also crippled the olive farm they have grown to the biggest and richest farm in the country by taking away 90% of its liquid asset.
They then ran to a country in other continent where the people were more tolerance to Jewish folk. In this country, they started Shimon Family from scratch and they established an iron rule for Shimon lineage, ‘If you encounter child predator in your path, kill them without anyone knowing about it, and take care of the victims as best as you can.’
That was the story about the birth of Shimon Family, and I recited it to W 0-2 after we had our breakfast.
“And that’s the reason, why master have decided to kill Sum Ting Wong and the rest from the start?” W 0-2 asked while giving me a curious gaze.
I firmly nodded. “Consider it as their bad luck, to bring a Shimon lineage to a quiet place.”
“In your previous world, did master actively hunt child predator?”
“Nope,” I casually replied. “In my previous world, other than sex to minor service provided by black market dealer, some tradition and religion allow a legal marriage to a minor. So, the number of child predator is rather huge.
It will bring nasty repercussion to Shimon family if we hunt all those animal. Therefore, Shimon lineage killed only child predator they encountered in their path, in silence. Then, help the victim using family resource.”
“Mhm.”
“And just so you know, if Sum Ting Wong or the others made an attempt to kill you, I would risk my life to stop it.” After taking a deep breath I added, “Or, I won’t be able to face the family founder. My father would also definitely disown me if I did nothing.”
“Mhm.”
“Now, if you want it, you can join Shimon Family,” I calmly said to W 0-2. “And it’s not a forceful offer. Even if you don’t bear Shimon as your family name, I will still do my best to take care of you.”
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“I want to join Shimon Family,” W 0-2 firmly replied, almost in instant.
“In that case, I represent the head family to give you Shimon Ariella as your name.” After a smile I added, “Ariella has meaning Lion of God. I know your physical trait is a wolf and human, but it doesn’t mean you can’t have lion heart.”
“Mhm,” W 0-2 firmly nodded. “W 0-2 now is Shimon Ariella and will do the best for the family.”
After a smile I said, “My full name is Shimon Bergensen. You can call me Berg and I will call you Ariel, and starting from now we are sibling and we will take care of each other with our utmost.”
“Understood.” Ariel nodded and then asked me, “Berg, what is the meaning behind your name?”
“Bergensen is name of a musician. My father gave me this name because he wished I would become a musician, a profession that never popped up from Shimon lineage.” After a smile I added, “But I found my calling in the military.”
“I see.”
“And here is your tablet,” I said as I put a hunter tablet on Ariel’s hand. “I have put 20.000 mollar on it, along with the rest of your clothes, shoes, and some other things.”
“Mhm.”
Ariel happily received the tablet and examined it with sparkling eyes. She must be very happy right now. Well, she couldn’t help it.
As demi-human, she didn’t receive money from monster kill she scored. The money went directly to House of Hunter. She only received food, clothes, weapon, and hunting equipment and other basic necessity, no matter how much money she produced.
But now, after I took her under my wing and granted her a hunter tablet, everything had changed. She could receive money, buy anything she needed on her own, and possessed inventory with unlimited capacity.
“The tablet is still ownerless. Use it to scan your face and right palm, and it’s fully yours.”
“Mhm.”
Wasting no time I taught Ariel how to scan her face and right palm. A moment later, she received a notification that she had become a full-fledge hunter under my direct authority.
“Do you need anything else?”
Ariel nodded. “Can Ariel wear my old leather armor?”
“How much protection you can get from your leather armor?” I curiously asked.
“It’s only low-rank passive magical equipment, but it’s enough to protect my vital from direct thrust of edge weapon launched by low-rank monster,” Ariel explained. “In a close combat against multiple low-rank monster, it will help Ariel a lot.”
“Wait a second,” I said as big question mark popped up on my forehead. “You can use magical equipment?”
“Mhm.” Ariel firmly gave me a nod. “Ariel is DD-rank by birth. It means Ariel can use passive magical equipment and has physical fitness equal to new C-rank.”
“I see.” I deeply looked at Ariel as I asked her another question. “How many monster kill do you have so far?”
“A little above five thousand,” Ariel casually replied.
‘Holy cow! That’s some insane body count.’ Shocked gripped my heart, but then I realized that it was still too low if Ariel truly had physical fitness equal to a new C-rank.
After taking a deep breath I said, “If you do a full-time hunting, I believe you will have far higher score than 5000 monster kill.”
“Mhm, Big Sis also said that a lot.”
“In that case, our life won’t be so bad even if we hunt only low-rank monster,” I happily said. “We will be able to enjoy a good steak on weekend at least.”
“Mhm.”
I then taught Ariel how to make purchase using her tablet, and asked her to buy new protection equipment with color that could blend with her new clothes. Without second thought, she bought soft-armor long vest to protect her torso and upper thigh, along with shoulder protector, arm protector, and shin protector.
Every piece of equipment she bought was in ranger green, had thin and compact shape, and very light. She wore the soft-armor vest by sandwiching it between her field shirt and chest rig. As for the other piece she wore it like regular protector equipment wore by anti-riot personnel.
Her new protection equipment cost me 70.000 mollar, but I happily paid it as it would boost her survival rate when she was in a pinch. After that, I bought two cones of strawberry ice cream from a store in Tokyo, and enjoyed it while continued our talk.
I couldn’t just tell Torrak that Sum Ting Wong and his pack were on permanent leave after they put wrong chili oil in their noodles. So, I had to prepare an alternative to explain the situation.
“We will report it to Manager Torrak that after a quarrel, I make a rush bet with Hou Lie Fuk. We will go to separate hunt,” In a casual tone, I explained the cover story for my morning murder to Ariel. “I will take you with me while Jie Ten Bie will take your Big Sis with them, and the loser has to pay 100.000 mollar to the winner.
And that’s the last time we saw them and your Big Sis.”
“Understood,” Ariel firmly replied.
“As for now, let’s carry out a low risk hunt for two days. Get some monster kills, and then go back to Karmen.”
“Okay. Ariel knows Sidra Forest well. We will definitely score a good monster kill.”
“I see.”
Without further ado I and Ariel made the last preparation for the hunt. After that I put the HMV into my inventory and then we approached Sidra Forest on foot.
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