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Little Wing It

Volume 1

The Holy Light's Blessings On This Wonderful System!

Prologue

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"This site must have a hot shot sponsor to bring out this many people. There's money to be made."

I heard someone say from behind me.

It was a CAST with black helmet and armor.

CASTs are a race of humanoid robots that can think, act, and live exactly like a human can.

Anyway.

I heard some people discovered a new relic site some time ago and I decided to check it out.

Life as a freelance mercenary can be hard at times so I gotta take whatever opportunity I can get to keep myself afloat.

"You look like a mercenary yourself."

The CAST speaking to me observed for himself, obviously spotting my mercenary gear.

I nodded at him to affirm his statement.

I've never been one to talk much.

"Not with any company though, are ya? Freelance? That's impressive."

Pretty observant, he is.

"This place is bound to draw the best. Just recently discovered, you see. Mostly unexplored as well."

He sure likes to talk, though.

But he does have a point. This place has lots of loot that can be sold for some nice amounts of money since it's mostly untouched.

And of course, extermination requests for the hostile residents.

Monsters, if you will.

"Name's Vasque. Freelance mercenary as well."

"Kara. Kara Draken."

I responded in kind so as to not be rude.

But the moment I did, Vasque's face turned into one that had a question, but then decided against it. So as to not be rude as well, I assume.

I think I know what he wanted to ask.

Everybody asks me that certain question whenever I say my name.

"Can we go home now? Please?"

A voice, certainly not Vasque's, t'was like a screech, echoed throughout the imminent area.

I looked a bit around and it seemed to have been from a blond haired girl nearby.

What's a kid doing here?

It should be safe enough in this area but there are no promises further in.

"This is no place for children. And I'd wager she's no mercenary."

Vasque commented, looking like he's wondering where in the heck this kid's guardian was, if she had one, that is.

If that was the case, then that was one irresponsible guardian.

"This is a relic site! A relic site, did you hear me!? Come on, you can't make me stay here!"

Oh dear holy light, what an annoying person.

Did she have to screech like that?

I'll keep those comments to myself, though. I don't like making a fuss.

On closer inspection, she seemed to be with a scruffy looking male beast.

"Feh. Remind me why I pay you."

Payment? Since there's payment involved, maybe she is a mercenary, after all?

That's a little... strange.

It's not uncommon to find young mercenaries but this person didn't strike me as the merc type. At all.

"Look, I'll go find some work for you to do. Just don't wander off, you hear me? Stay. Put."

The beast man left her there while she looked around looked like a lost kitten.

"Oh, man, what now? I don't like this place at all..."

She seemed to be looking for help but considering how her, what I assume to be, boss treated her, and the annoying way of talking...

I didn't want to get involved.

I know it's quite judgemental but everyone seemed to have the same idea.

I was about to bid farewell to Vasque and leave the area when the ground suddenly started shaking.

And of course, the people panicked.

"That doesn't sound good. C' mon, let"s bail."

Vasque said in a hurry, and I managed a quick nod before we started gunning for the exit.

Everyone was scrambling for the exit since it was closing. It was a stampede.

I started running for the exit but with all these people, I'm finding it a little hard to move any considerable distance further!

It was absolute chaos. Everyone was shouting, panicking, pushing each other. People were falling down and grabbing whatever they could.

This is the ugliness of humanity as a whole, no matter the race. You can preach equality, cooperation, unity, or whatever any day you want.

But at the slightest bit of trouble, it's every man for himself.

That's not a surprise to me anymore, though. As a mercenary, I've learned long ago that this was a dog eat dog universe.

And with my abysmally bad luck...

"Hey, watch it...!"

I shouted out in surprise as I felt a nasty shove from behind and I stumbled.

i was about to feel relieved that I was still standing but another push made me fall down flat on face.

And then I quickly learned that I couldn't stand up. Every time I tried, I would just get pushed down again.

God frickin' damn it.

After a while, the stampeding stopped, and the doors started closing.

The last thing I saw beyond the exit before it closed was Vasque looking worried and rushing back to me but before he could, the doors slammed shut.

Great, I'm stuck here. Of all the rotten...

"Open up will ya? Ugh, Come on! Let me out here!"

Huh?

A screechy voice echoed around the chamber along with a furious banging on the closed doors.

"Is this any way to treat somebody!? I know you can hear me! Open this tin can up!"

Oh no.

"Sigh~. I said we should go home but did he listen? Of course not."

It was the annoying blonde girl.

Seems like she got unlucky in making it out too. So now, I'm not just stuck in an unexplored relic site, I'm stuck with her too.

And so with that, I plopped my face back down on the cold hard ground.

It's truly amazing how fast karma strikes.