I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

Chapter 120 [A Familiar Stranger]

In a desolate wilderness, a group of wandering mercenaries were having a meal when suddenly, a mercenary carrying a backpack resembling a telegraph machine, having received a message from the reconnaissance unit, approached his leader and spoke to him:

"Boss, the reconnaissance team just reported that a small transport vehicle is moving towards Lungmen. It looks like it came from a mobile city-state not far away, and it looks like there might be a lot of good stuff on it."

Upon hearing his reconnaissance unit's words, the leader of the wandering mercenaries put down his instant noodle cup and addressed the other mercenaries:

"Alright, brothers, we've got a customer. Get your weapons and equipment ready!"

Upon hearing their leader speak, all the wandering mercenaries present quickly slurped up some soup from their instant noodle cups before picking up various weapons and armor to prepare for action.

...................

Texas, with a Pocky stick in her mouth, was driving the transport truck towards Lungmen when Exusiai stepped down from the truck and said to her;

"Texas, I see a lot of dust being kicked up not far to our east. Looks like someone's targeting us."

Upon hearing Exusiai's words, Texas paused for a moment, then said in a somewhat displeased tone:

"This is troublesome. This transport vehicle is rented. If it gets scratched or has arrows stuck in it, I don't know how much it will cost to compensate for it."

If the wandering mercenaries outside heard Texas's words, they'd probably be furious. A huge group of wandering mercenaries is coming to raid you, and all you're worried about is whether they'll scratch your car or something...

"Should we get off the bus and send them all away?"

Upon hearing Exusiai's words, Texas shook her head and said:

"No, we should prioritize protecting the cargo. If the enemy is just trying to lure us away and another group of enemies attacks the transport vehicles here, that would be very troublesome."

Exusiai shrugged and said to Texas:

"Alright, then Texas, please continue driving. You and I will handle the enemy. The shooting range was a bit small last time, so this is a good opportunity for You to practice your ability to shoot at moving targets in the field."

Upon hearing Exusiai's suggestion, Texas nodded and said:

"Hmm, not a bad idea. Then please take Youyou to the roof of the car for a 'hunting' trip."

"Okay~ Leave it to me~"

With that, Exusiai went to call Yuu to the roof of the car to make some preparations, while Texas continued driving the vehicle.

.........

On the roof of the vehicle, Exusiai, holding a telescope, and Eyjafjalla, carrying a heavy mechanical crossbow, arrived at the same spot. Exusiai, looking into the distance through the telescope and kicking up dust, said:

"Hmm... let me see. Five armored off-road vehicles and thirteen off-road motorcycles. Hmm? Why do they look so familiar?"

Exusiai put down her telescope, scratched her cheek, and seemed a little confused. Then, the carefree Exusiai gave up thinking and said to Ehaka:

"Never mind, it's not a big deal anyway, Youyou."

Exusiai turned to look at Ehaka standing to the side and said:

"Are you ready?"

Yuhaka nodded, holding his heavy mechanical crossbow, and said:

"Youyou, get ready, all set."

....

In the distance, in a convoy of wandering mercenaries, the leader of the wandering mercenaries, sitting in an armored off-road vehicle, looked through binoculars at the silhouette of a small transport vehicle in the distance. Although it was called a small transport vehicle, the wheels of the small transport vehicle were larger than an adult.

"Hmm, looks like a big one. There should be a lot of good stuff on it. Hmm? What's that?"

The leader of the wandering mercenaries looked at the two flashing lights on the roof of a car in the distance with a puzzled expression. What were those? They didn't look like headlights. Then the leader of the wandering mercenaries realized that they were not headlights, but the reflection of a scope and the fluorescent lights of the Exusiai.

"call out----"

An arrow, barely visible to the naked eye, flew from the transport trucks, piercing the front armor plating of one of the armored off-road vehicles with a loud bang, pinning the driver to his seat. The mercenary in the passenger seat was also startled by the sudden attack, but he quickly recovered, gripping the steering wheel to stabilize the vehicle and speaking into the communicator:

"Enemy attack! Sniper!"

Startled by his subordinate's warning, the mercenary leader quickly addressed his men:

"Attention! There's a sniper on the other side! Throw smoke grenades! Spread out!"

"learn!"

Upon hearing their leader's words, the wandering mercenaries began to remove their smoke grenades and throw them into the distance, and the formation of the wandering mercenary convoy began to disperse.

On the transport vehicle, Exusiai looked through her binoculars at the dissipating smoke in the distance and shook her head. Although the other side could keep using smoke grenades to confuse their vision, Exusiai and her companions still had ways to deal with those wandering mercenaries.

"Youyou, switch to explosive arrows."

Upon hearing Exusiai's words, Ehaka hesitated for a moment before replacing the arrows on his heavy mechanical crossbow with explosive arrows. After listening to the location of the distant engine sound, Ehaka aimed the scope of his heavy mechanical crossbow at a certain spot and pulled the trigger.

With the sound of the exploding arrow whistling through the air, it landed just in front of the wandering mercenary's armored off-road vehicle. By the time the arrow hit the ground, the vehicle was directly above it.

"Boom—!"

With a loud explosion, an armored off-road vehicle engulfed in flames was thrown into the air, spun 360 degrees, and landed on the ground. The surrounding mercenaries panicked upon seeing the exploded armored off-road vehicle. The ability to hit a moving armored off-road vehicle from such a distance amidst the smoke chilled them to the bone.

"Don't be afraid! It's just a coincidence, and there are so many of us they can't do anything..."

"Boom—!"

Before the mercenary leader could finish speaking, the sound of another armored SUV exploding came from outside. The mercenaries inside all stared at their leader with blank, expressionless faces. The mercenary leader remained silent for a moment, then looked at all the mercenaries present before speaking:

"…….retreat."

Chapter 121 [The Silly Dog is About to Make His Appearance]

Longmen, 7:00 AM

In the apartment where Texas and her friends lived in downtown Lungmen, Texas and her friends were still asleep. At the door of Texas's room, Yuhaka poked her little head out and looked at Texas lying on the bed sleeping with an OwO expression.

Yuhaka crouched on the ground like a hunting cat, slowly crept onto Texas's bed, and looked at the sleeping Texas.

"prprpr~"

Yuhaka stuck out her little pink tongue and licked Texas's face. Texas frowned and suddenly opened her eyes when Yuhaka licked her cheek.

"Uh...it was a dream..."

Texas said this while lying on the bed, and Yhaka looked at Texas with a puzzled look, probably because Yhaka couldn't figure out what Texas was talking about.

After Texas got up, she wiped the drool that Yhaka had left on her cheek with her arm and said to Yhaka:

"Alright, Youyou, I'm getting up. Go and wake up Exusiai and the others."

“Oh~òwó”

Hearing Texas's words, Ehaka responded and jumped out of bed, running with her short legs towards Exusiai and the others' room to wake them up. After watching Ehaka leave, Texas scratched her slightly messy hair and said:

"Ha...dreaming about that guy again?...He really is a persistent ghost..."

As Texas got out of bed and walked out of her room, she saw the breakfast that Yuhaka had prepared on the dining table in the living room. Texas raised her eyebrows as she looked at the breakfast that Yuhaka called a "bacon and ham sandwich". For some reason, ever since returning from Rhodes Island, Yuhaka had become keen on researching sandwich recipes.

Although she didn't know what was going on, the various sandwiches that Yuhaka made tasted quite good. Moreover, Yuhaka didn't make sandwiches for every meal every day, and Texas didn't object. In fact, Texas was very satisfied with eating sandwiches for meals while driving, since Texas wasn't picky about food, and eating sandwiches was convenient for driving.

In the bathroom, Texas looked at her messy hair in the mirror, picked up a comb and ran it through her hair a few times before picking up the toothbrush and toothpaste that were placed to the side.

"Waaah... Youyou, really, you bit me here..."

Hearing Exusiai yawn and complain, Texas looked towards the bathroom door and saw Exusiai scratching her burgundy short hair. She gave Exusiai a strange look, not because of anything else, but because Exusiai was only wearing a pure white pair of panties.

Texas looked at Exusiai, who was only wearing panties, and said:

"Exusiai, where's your underwear?"

Exusiai picked up a comb from the side and smoothed her slightly messy hair, saying:

"Oh, that? Maybe it got rubbed off accidentally while I was sleeping last night?"

Exusiai, looking somewhat dazed, patted her chest and said:

"Perhaps it's because this place has gotten bigger again?"

Seeing the Exia's chest thumping in front of him made a cross-shaped vein pop out on Texas's forehead. Although Texas didn't care much about her size, that didn't mean others could show it off in front of her.

Without hesitation, Texas reached out and pinched Exusiai's chest hard, and Exusiai's scream immediately echoed in the bathroom.

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Meanwhile, in the wasteland on the road to Lungmen...

Pfft!

As a jet-black blade pierced through the back of the wandering mercenary leader, the leader looked at the black blade in his chest with an expression of resentment before collapsing to the ground, motionless.

"Hmph... Is that all? How boring..."

A Lupo girl with long, greyish-white hair walked to the corpse of the wandering mercenary leader, carrying a bladed weapon with a unique style reminiscent of an Eastern samurai sword. She pulled the black longsword stuck in the corpse, then flicked it to shake off the crimson blood from the dark blade.

After sheathing her twin swords at her waist, the Lupo girl turned and walked toward a small transport vehicle parked not far away. Around her, numerous chopped-up corpses and motorcycle fragments were scattered on the ground, turning the surrounding earth a crimson red.

"What a twisted sense of humor..."

Warfarin watched from the window of the transport vehicle what the Lupo girl had just done. Not long ago, a group of rogue mercenaries tried to attack this Rhodes Island small transport vehicle, and then the Rhodes Island operator known as "Lappland" eliminated the group of rogue mercenaries in a very cruel way.

At the beginning, Lappland used her black and white twin swords to destroy the vehicles of the wandering mercenaries one by one. After the vehicles were destroyed by Lappland, the wandering mercenaries had no means of escape, and then a massacre began.

Lappland's bizarre and ferocious fighting style, combined with her insightful observations and special skills that could destroy Originium Arts, made the wandering mercenaries no match for her. Then, accompanied by Lappland's maniacal laughter, the wandering mercenaries were dismembered like animals, their limbs cut off and their heads severed. Sometimes, Lappland would even disembowel the wandering mercenaries, causing them to die in agony.

Although Warfarin had seen such cruel methods before, and even some more brutal ones, Lappland's methods were considered relatively mild.

However, for some reason, Warfarin felt as if Lappland, who had just fought, deliberately killed the leader of the wandering mercenaries at the end. Was it just her imagination?

After Lappland boarded the train, she found a seat and sat down randomly. Warfarin, who was sitting next to her, could smell a strong stench of blood. Warfarin pinched her nose to hide the blood smell, which was like rotten eggs to her, and said to Lappland:

"Lappland, I suggest you take a shower. After all, we're heading to Lungmen now, and the Lungmen Guard might easily spot your scent."

Upon hearing Warfarin's words, Lappland also tried to smell the odor on her own clothes and said:

"Hmm, indeed... well then I'll go take a shower first."

As she spoke, Lappland headed toward the bathroom inside the transport vehicle. After seeing Lappland go to take a shower, Warfarin shrugged and continued looking at a book in her hand.

...............

In the bathroom, Lappland, with warm water running through her face, looked at her pale reflection in the mirror and grinned, saying:

"...I'll see you soon, Texas..."

Chapter 122 [Warfarin: Damn it, where is everyone?]

"Texas is so mean, she actually pinched me..."