It's close to midnight when they exit the cave, Anna still holding her bear close to her chest with one arm while giving the other arm to Minazuki, so she won't get lost. As they go through the forest, they head south west to where Minazuki believes the Capital should be. As they're walking though, they hear the sound of howling wolves, and they sound pretty close by.
"What was that?", Anna nervously asks as she looks around in fear.
"Don't worry, we'll be fine.", Minazuki reassures her in a calm and collected tone.
She just nods and Minazuki tries to pinpoint where exactly the wolves are if they're even that close by. He eventually finds them and sees that they're pretty close and forming a perimeter around them, trying to find the perfect time to strike. He stomps his foot and spikes jut out of the ground, piercing the wolves throughout their bodies, instantly killing them. Anna heard the sound of the spikes stabbing through the wolves' flesh and asked, "W-what was that noise? Are they getting closer!?"
"We'll be fine, trust me. The Capital should be this way.", Minazuki replies as he continues to lead the way.
They continue on their way to the Capital in silence before Minazuki asks, "So, do you know your father's name or what he does?"
"Oh yeah, our village elder told me that his full name was Ken Shinu and that he's a blacksmith on the east part of the Capital.", she happily replies as she smiles up at the masked boy.
"Well that saves me a lot of trouble, thanks, Anna.", Minazuki warmly replies as he glances back at the girl. "At least I don't have to track this guy down. That'll save me a whole lot of time. I'll just drop this girl off, then head back out here for training. I just have to make sure nobody else sees my mask and nobody will be allowed to see my real face.", he thinks to himself as he tries to formulate a route from where their at to get to the eastern gate.
A man jumps out of the bushes with a knife and shouts, "Give me your money or die!", before pointing the knife at them. Minazuki isn't phased by his threat and just punches the man in the face so hard that it shatters his nose and sends him flying deep into the forest.
"Wow! That was amazing!", Anna exclaims in amazement as her eyes fill with wonder.
"It was nothing. Let's keep moving.", Minazuki replies as he takes her hand again and keeps heading for the Capital.
They continue on their path and Anna tries to strike up a conversation by asking, "Where are you from, Mister Monster?"
"It's best you don't know that. I'm just making sure you get home to your father alright.", Minazuki tells her, trying to keep her out of his business.
"Well, I grew up in Hana Village. It's a pretty small village. We don't have much, but we have lots of fish. Maybe I can show you it sometime?", Anna happily explains as she remembers her home.
Anna continues to make small talk until they finally arrive at the eastern gate and are met by four armed guards, one of which asks them, "Who goes there? It's past curfew!"
"I found this child in the forest. It seems her father lives here in the Capital. I am simply reuniting her with her father.", Minazuki answers as he motions to Anna.
"Please remove your mask. We'll need to see your face to verify you aren't a wanted man.", another guard requests, but Minazuki shakes his head.
"I'm sorry, but I can not. I am a Monk and it is against my religion to remove my mask. Doing so is strictly forbidden outside of the temple.", Minazuki replies, lying perfectly through his teeth.
"I see, go ahead then, but do be careful. Dangerous men walk the streets at night.", the guard says before letting them through.
"Thank you, gentlemen.", Minazuki replies with a bow before heading through the gates with Anna.
The two head to the main part of the eastern district and Anna asks, "This place is so big, how can we ever find Father's workshop at night!?"
Minazuki stomps his foot and senses the area around to find all the shops. He finds that this place only has one blacksmith and says, "This way, his store should be in this direction.", before heading toward the store.
"How do you know that? Have you been here before?", Anna asks with a confused look on her face.
"Not at all, just call it a gut feeling.", Minazuki replies as he continues to guide her toward the store. They arrive where Minazuki believes to be Anna's father's shop, which is named 'Ken's Blades & Armor.' "This seems like the place. Only one way to find out.", Minazuki thinks to himself before walking up to the door.
He knocks on the door and hears a man shout, "I'm coming! Who the hell's knockin' on my door so late?" A man with a bushy beard wearing only his boxers answers the door and bluntly asks, "Whatcha' want?"
Anna looks up to the man and shouts, "Father!", causing the man to look down and his eyes to widen with glee.
"A-Anna!? You're alive!? Thank God, you're alive!", the man exclaims as he drops to his knees and hugs her.
"I'm guessing you're Ken Shinu, Anna's father, right?", Minazuki asks as he looks down at them.
"Yes, that's me! How could I ever repay you for bringing me my daughter!?", Ken frantically replies as he holds his daughter.
"Don't worry about it. Just keep her safe.", Minazuki modestly replies as he waves him off.
"Thank you, Sir. Thank you for bringing my sweet Anna back to me. And please, where has my son gone off to?", Ken says as he looks up to Minazuki.
"Your son? I do not know. I happened upon a little bear in the forest and found a cave full of bandits, then one thing lead to another and now I'm here.", Minazuki explains as he starts walking away.
"Ah, so they probably got separated and bandits got my daughter. He'll be here sooner or later I bet! My son's a resourceful one, he is.", Ken says with a smile on his face.
"Yes, well, I better get going. I'd rather not stay in the Capital any longer than I need to.", Minazuki says as he starts walking away.
"Mister Monster!", Anna shouts, begging for him to turn around. He looks over his shoulder to see her waving to him. "Thank you very much, Mister Monster.", Anna says as she continues to wave.
Minazuki just chuckles to himself before saying, "Have a peaceful life, Anna.", and waving back to her while he continues walking away.
He continues to walk through the Capital, considering whether or not to leave and make camp out in the forest or to just take shelter underground here in the city. He happens upon some wanted posters and sees that they're posters for a group called Night Raid. There are three posters up, but it seems like there was a fourth one torn off the wall recently. One is an assassin named Akame, another is a former soldier named Bulat, and the final one is an ex-general named Najenda. The posters say that they're all wanted for various crimes including assassination and treason and that there are large rewards for whoever brings in their bodies and/or their Imperial Arms.
"Assassins, huh? And they're supposedly working for the Revolutionary Army. I should probably avoid pissing those guys off.", Minazuki says to himself before walking off. As he walks by the posters, he senses something odd down the nearby alley. When he walks down the alley, he feels the vibrations and it seems like there's some sort of meeting going on in one of the nearby buildings.
He hears a girl shout out, "Let us go, you freak!", before hearing the sound of someone getting hit. He senses three girls being held by three large men as seven men and a dog watched. The screams were from one of the girls and for her actions, the guy holding her punches her in the face and knees her in the gut.
Minazuki quickly busts down the steel door that was keeping him out with a single punch, sending it flying across the room. As it crashes into a wall, everyone looks over to see his ominous figure standing in the doorway.
"Hey! Who the hell are you!? Get the hell out of here!", one of the men demands, dressed in a white dress shirt, black dress pants and belt, and a red jacket and neck tie.
"Hey, get him out of here, now!", one of the men dressed in kimono orders as he points to Minazuki. On his request, three guards dressed in black suits and sunglasses rush toward Minazuki with knives, but Minazuki doesn't even flinch.
As one of the men runs up to him, trying to stabs him with his short blade, Minazuki dodges his attack as he knees him in the gut. The man reels back from this as his two comrades rush Minazuki down. Minazuki dodges in between the duo as they both go to slash at him, grabbing one of them by their hand as he moves along. With one quick motion, he forces one of the men to run their comrade through the eye with his knife as he runs the man straight into the other knife. As the third man rushes him down again, Minazuki stomps the ground once and a stone spear jets out of the ground, stabbing the man through the heart and causing everyone to look at him in horror and fear.
"W-what do ya want? Money!? We have money! Here, take it!", one of the nobles, who's wearing a kimono and a silly hat, exclaims as he tosses Minazuki a bag full of gold coins. Minazuki looks down at it before kicking it across the floor, then looking back at the four men with a glare.
"What's with this guy!? Does he want the girls!? Take them if you want them! You can do whatever you want with em, rape em, torture em, even kill em, we don't mind! Go right ahead, DO IT!", the guy in the dress clothes says nervously.
Minazuki ignores him and starts walking towards the girls before suddenly jetting stone spears out of the ceiling, right into the three guards' skulls, before retracting them back into stone. As their bodies fall to the floor, the girls let out shrieks of terror as they move away from the boy. Minazuki doesn't target them, however, and instead turns his attention towards the nobles and the well dressed man, who are shaking in terror as they look for a way to escape.
The third kimono wearing noble starts to get extremely nervous as Minazuki starts walking towards them and releases his dog as he orders, "Sic him Dog! Get his throat!"
To his surprise, Minazuki lets the dog get close, almost biting down into his neck before he grabs the beast by its open jaw. He quickly snaps the dog's neck before throwing its corpse at the man's feet.
"T-this guy isn't human! He's a demon! A demon!", the noble with the silly hat shouts before Minazuki shoots a spike through his head, killing him. He quickly kills the other two nobles with a few spears through their chests and heads before turning his attention to the red suit wearing guy trying to escape. Minazuki prevents his escape by quickly blocks off the exit, forming a wall over the open doorway he was trying to sneak out through.
"Hey, we're both reasonable people here. Come on, we can talk about this. You take whatever you want. All you have to do is let me go, and we won't ever see one another ever again. Okay?", he confidently tries to bargain, but Minazuki stabs him through his hands and feet, pinning him to the wall. The man screams out in pain, but Minazuki ignores him and turns his attention to the girls trembling behind the nearby couch. There are three of them: one dressed in pink, one in blue, and one in yellow, all of which had the same color hair as their clothes. The yellow one picks up one of the guards' knives and holds it as if she's about to cut him.
Minazuki quickly disarms her before saying, "You shouldn't try to use a weapon you know nothing about, you'll hurt yourself."
All three of them prepare to die as the man shouts, "Go on, have as much fun as ya want with em!"
Minazuki just pats the yellow girl on the head while saying, "You're alright, I'm not here to hurt you."
The girls look up at him in disbelief before he kneels down to them and says, "I'm a monk. I heard the commotion and decided to do something. How exactly did you three end up in this situation?"
"T-that man, his name is Bach. He bought us from our village. He was supposed to be our master, but he was trying to use us to make money off those nobles you killed a minute ago.", the blue one sheepishly replies, still somewhat nervous around Minazuki.
"So, that was his plan? I heard this place was full of all kinds of evils, but I didn't anticipate this kind of work. I guess it can't be helped.", Minazuki says as he gets to his feet.
He turns to Bach and says, "I guess you have to die then, Bach."
"No, please! I was a slave, just like them! I don't do this by choice, I swe-", Bach begins to beg before an earth spear goes straight through his skull, killing him instantly. The spikes in Bach's body retract and his body hits the floor with a thud.
The girls all yelp in fear, but Minazuki just moves the dead bodies over into a pile. He checks all of them for money, slowly getting a small fortune for his troubles on top of the bag full of gold coins that's still on the floor. Minazuki looks to the girls and says, "You three should head back to your village. There's no point staying here in such a wicked place at your age."
"B-but we don't have any money...", the pink one says as she starts to tear up.
Minazuki finds a coin purse big enough to hold all the money he's found on the corpses and stuffs it full. "There, that should be enough for you to get home and still have some left over to keep yourselves safe.", Minazuki says as he tosses the hefty coin purse to the yellow girl.
"T-there has to be thousands here! Are you sure?", the yellow one asks as she looks inside the coin purse.
"Well, it's not like they're using it now that they're dead. Just take it and get somewhere safe. Leave this place and never turn back.", Minazuki says as he opens the doorway and starts to head out.
Before he can leave, the pink girl shouts, "Mister, wait!" He looks back to see they're rushing over to him.
They all hug his legs while the pink one says, "Thank you very much, Mister."
"Yeah, you saved our asses back there, thanks.", the yellow one adds.
"We're in your debt.", the blue one says in a slightly less sheepish tone.
"You can thank me by surviving. Head home and try to avoid the Capital until it's been either reformed or destroyed. This place is full of evil, and it's no place for children.", Minazuki replies as he pats them each on the head.
"O-okay... we'll try our best to survive.", the pink one nervously replies as they all nod.
They let go of Minazuki and he heads out back into the dark city known as the Capital. "We'll never forget you!", the three girls shout happily as he walks down the alley and back into the street.
He continues through the Capital, heading for the northern gate, while taking in the few nice sights on the way. He sees what seems to be a clock tower in the distance and hears it gong twice before thinking, "I bet it's a nice view from the top of that tower. I should be able to do some recon from up there and find the quickest way out of here.", before making his way to that tower.
When he gets close enough to see the time, he sees there's a battle going on between an Imperial soldier, her bear sized dog thing and two young girls, one wearing a purple dress and the other wearing a pink dress. The dog is mostly white with some black spots, bigger than eight feet tall with giant arms, standing on its hind legs.
"Pulverize them, Koro!", the soldier shouts as she points at the girls. The dog rushes toward the girls and starts throwing wild punches, leaving very few openings.
"What the hell!? That's impossible to dodge!", the short pink girl with the gun shouts in disbelief.
The purple girl with a giant pair of scissors steps in between her and the dog before saying, "Mine! Stay behind me!"
She holds up the scissors to block the attack, but Minazuki jumps between her and the dog, punching its attacks at an equal speed and force to cancel out his attacks. "Who the-", the purple girl begins to ask before Minazuki starts to force the dog back, slowly overwhelming it.
"Reinforcements? You evil doers are no match for justice!", the soldier says as she tries to identify Minazuki, but fails as his face and mask are hidden by the hood of his cloak, before blowing a whistle.
"She's calling for reinforcements... This is quite the pinch!", the pink girl notes with a slight grin. She jumps up in the air and shoots down at the dog with one giant beam while shouting, "Then let's do this!" The shot melts half the dog's body, but it quickly starts to regenerate after just a few seconds. "Shit! It's already regenerating!? That's so annoying!", the pink girl growls in her frustration as she lands behind the dog.
Minazuki notices that the purple girl is missing and thinks, "Where did she go? She was here a minute ago. Doesn't matter now, I have to focus on taking this mutt down." He rushes toward the dog once more and starts landing blow after blow on it, putting holes in it with every punch.
He suddenly senses the purple girl coming out of a bush behind the soldier as the soldier says, "It's pointless, Koro's durability is beyond your comprehension."
The soldier suddenly sees the purple girl approaching as the purple girl says, "The Imperial Arms are just tools. Without their user, they're useless! That means all I have to do is take you out first!" The purple girl shouts, "Ecstasy!", and a bright flashing purple light starts to come from her weapon.
"So these weapons are all Imperial Arms. Interesting.", Minazuki thinks to himself as he continues to fight Koro. Minazuki and Koro glance over to see the purple girl stabbing at the soldier, but she seems to be holding her own pretty well.
Koro tries to go back to his master to help, but the pink girl shoots off one of his legs. "Hey, where do you think you're going? You're a little busy here.", she says confidently as she aims to fire again. Minazuki notices this and rushes in for another wave of attacks while Koro's still on the ground.
The purple girl also manages to force the soldier on the defensive and pushes her back into the nearby park where Minazuki can't see or sense them.
After a minute of combat, they hear a single gunshot over from the park before hearing the soldier scream out in pain. "Koro! Use your trump card! Go berserk!", the soldier shouts, causing Koro to become even more buff, his sharp teeth to become somewhat sharper, and his fur to turn a dark red. He lets out a terrible roar that forces the girls to cover their ears while Minazuki is punched full force by one of Koro's giant fists.
He's sent back first into a tree before falling to his hands and knees. "That little shit!", Minazuki thinks as he holds his chest in pain. Koro quickly grabs the pink girl as she's still reeling from the roar and starts to squeeze her.
"Crush her! Turn her into paste!", the soldier shouts maniacally. Minazuki hears the sound of the girl's arm snapping as Koro starts to crush her in his giant hand and she screams out in pain. Minazuki tries to get to his feet to save her, but before he can, the purple girl comes to her aid. She uses her Imperial Arm to cut off Koro's arm, freeing the pink girl from his grasp.
Minazuki starts to relax before hearing the sound of a gun preparing to fire. He senses something like the barrel of a rifle coming out of the soldier's mouth and turns to see she's about to shoot the purple girl in the back. "I seem to have made it just in time, huh Mine?", the purple girl says to the pink one.
"Sheele!", the pink girl says happily. The soldier fires her mouth gun, but Minazuki punches the ground and forms a wall that blocks the shot, saving the girl named Sheele.
"What? Where did that-", Mine begins to ask before Minazuki moves to their side and says, "Her reinforcements will be here in a few seconds."
"How do you-", Sheele begins to ask before the soldier shouts, "Koro, eliminate them! Now!" Koro leaps at them with his giant mouth wide open, still missing his arm, trying to eat them all at once, but Minazuki launches twenty earth spears through Koro's body. Koro is stuck in place, suspended mid air by the spears that pierced his body.
"You filthy Night Raiders! I'll get you and make you taste justice!", the soldier shouts as after the barrel goes back in her mouth. Minazuki goes to end her life, but finds that they're all surrounded by a hoard of Imperial soldiers with guns, spears and swords.
"Over here! They're battling!", a soldier shouts as the entire group aims their weapons at them.
"It looks like we're surrounded.", Sheele notes with a slight frown.
"Yeah, looks like we have an uphill battle ahead of us.", Mine adds before trying to aim her weapon at the enemy, but fails as she grabs her arm in pain.
"Mine! Don't over do it!", Sheele begs, concerned for her health.
"We're getting out of here. Stay close.", Minazuki coldly suggests before glancing through the crowd, noticing all the soldiers aren't wearing eye protection. He sees there's a lot of dirt on the ground from how much damage they'd done to the area. He launches Koro's giant body toward its user, trying to make a small distraction. It works and her reinforcements are mesmerized by the giant dog being tossed so far by seemingly nothing as one of the soldiers exclaims, "W-what's going on!? Is that dog going wild!?" Minazuki uses this to his advantage and stomps the ground, causing dirt to go flying through the air, creating a small sandstorm that blinds the soldiers.
"W-what the hell was that!? Where did this come from!?", one of the soldiers shouts as they all cover their eyes for their own protection.
"No, you idiots! Fire, FIRE!", the beaten up soldier shouts in frustration as Koro's giant body almost crushes her. The soldiers all open fire at the center of the sandstorm, but when it dies down, they see that there's no trace of anybody there.
"They got away.", one of the soldiers notes in frustration as they look around for their targets.
The wounded soldier sits next to her Imperial Arm before shouting, "Don't just stand around like idiots! Go find them! They couldn't have gone far! Move, move, MOVE!", causing all the soldiers to salute and run off, searching for their targets.
With Minazuki and the two Night Raid members, they're in the sewers of the Capital heading north in secret. "That was pretty resourceful. How did you know there was a sewer system right under our feet?", Sheele asks as the three of them walk through the underground tunnels together.
"I just knew.", Minazuki bluntly replies before abruptly stopping. The girls both bump into him and Mine growls, "Why did you stop? We need to get out of here quickly, right?"
Minazuki takes her Imperial Arm out of her hand before giving it to Sheele and saying, "We need to set that arm of yours. The longer we leave it the longer it'll take for it to heal. I have some medical supplies in my bag."
"Like I'd let some stranger touch me like that! Just get us out of here!", Mine shouts aggressively as she pushes the boy away.
He quickly makes a sling out of some bandage wrap from his bag and sets her arm before tying it together over her shoulder as Mine tries desperately to push him away.
"Hey! Keep your hands off me! Or I'll-", Mine begins to shout before Minazuki says, "You'll what, try to kill me? I could bring this whole tunnel down on us with a thought, so just calm yourself for a moment." This causes Mine to stop instantly, looking around to see that the tunnels are all made of stone as her eyes begin to widen.
"He's right Mine, you need medical treatment. And if he's nice enough to help us once, I don't see why we should turn him down now.", Sheele says as she hands her back the gun type Imperial Arm.
Mine groans and reluctantly says, "Fine, but if you try anything funny while we're down here, Sheele and I will kill you, got it!?"
Minazuki turns and starts leading them through the sewers heading for the north side of the Capital. "So, what's your name? And where did you get that Imperial Arm?", Sheele kindly asks, trying to make small talk.
"Imperial Arms? I don't know anything of the sort. I'm just a simple monk.", Minazuki replies, trying to convince them like he did Esdeath.
"A monk? Yeah right, monks don't fight like that. You want to tell us what you really are?", Mine shoots back with a glare.
"Can we at least get your name?", Sheele gently asks with a slightly saddened look on her face.
"I don't think so. The less anybody knows about me, the easier it'll be for me to disappear.", he coldly replies with a slight glare at the two over his shoulder.
They arrive northern portion of the tunnels and Minazuki opens the man hole above them, letting them escape out into the forest outside of the Capital's northern gate. After he jumps out, he reaches down to help them up. Sheele wraps one arm around Mine before taking Minazuki's hand with her free hand and waiting to be lifted up. To his surprise, he lifts them both up with little effort and thinks, "They're surprisingly light. I guess that's the power of Quake's strength boost."
As they come to the surface they look around to get a feel for the environment before Mine and Sheele look to Minazuki. "I guess this is where we part ways?", Sheele asks with a smile.
Minazuki just turns away from them before starting to walk off, heading north as he leaves the girls behind.
"Hey! She's trying to be nice, you jerk!", Mine shouts in frustration as the boy ignores Sheele's kind gesture.
"You know, Night Raid could use someone like you. Would you, like to join?", Sheele offers as she starts to follow him.
"Sheele! We can't just hand out applications to Night Raid to strangers!", Mine shouts at her, scolding her for doing such a thing.
"Come on, Mine. We could use all the help we can get and this guy seems more than adequate at our line of work.", Sheele suggests, trying to convince her to join in.
"You can stop arguing, because I'm not joining your little assassin squad. I'm not a fan of this Empire, but I have my own plans.", Minazuki bluntly replies before walking off on his own, leaving the two assassins to do as they please.
He walks off alone, making sure to keep an eye out to see they start following him. After a while, he stops to check if the girls were just following far behind him, but finds that he's completely alone. He decides to take a break and finally check his body for wounds.
"That Imperial Arm managed to land a good punch on me back there. Now that I've got some time, I should do a quick check.", he thinks to himself as he sits his bag down. He gently pats his body down, looking for any wounds and as he feels his left shoulder, a sharp pain shoots through him.
He slowly takes off his cloak and shirt to see he has a decent sized cut from hitting the tree so hard and that he'd been bleeding this whole time without even realizing it. With a loud sigh, he says to himself, "I couldn't just catch a break and get through one night without a scratch, could I? I guess I should feel lucky since I've been in three fights so far tonight."
He sets up a small camp for the night, building a small fire with a log for a seat before starting to patch up his wounded shoulder. Once he starts patching himself up, he senses a danger beast heading straight for him through the forest. A few seconds later, he's met by a large black bear that roars at him before trying to slash at him with its giant claws. He wails the bear in the face with a mighty punch before stabbing it through its skull with a stone spear.
"I guess I don't have to hunt for dinner tonight. I just love it when things just fall into place.", he thinks as he glances over to the bear's corpse.
After tending to his wounds, he roasts the bear's meat over the fire and makes somewhat of a blanket out of the fur, using it to keep warm. He suddenly remembers the book that Yata gave him and pulls it out to see what exactly he was talking about. When he opens the book, at first it seems to be written in some sort of impossible to explain language, but then it starts to clear up into simple English. As he reads through it, he sees drawings of weapons along with names in large text.
"Pumpkin: Weapon Type: Gun. Abilities: Long and short range attacks and powered my emotion. Trump Card: The power of Pumpkin's shots are increased depending on the amount of danger the user is in.", he reads to himself as he looks at the picture to see it looks just like the gun that girl had with her.
On the next page was the other girl's weapon, Ecstasy. "Ecstasy: Weapon Type: Giant Scissors. Abilities: Highly defensive and offensive since the steel to make the blades is able to cut through nearly any material with ease along with blocking most attacks. Trump Card: Ecstasy is able to produce a bright flashing light from its blade that will distract and blind most enemies. This is an odd Trump Card, but can come in handy in a pinch.", he reads as the words become legible.
"So, is this a book full of Imperial Arms? Who wrote such a book?", Minazuki asks himself before flipping to the first page to try to find the author's name somewhere. He flipped through the entire book searching for any names of any kind, but it wasn't until he reached the last page and read it that he knew who exactly wrote this book.
"To any who wield my mighty gauntlets, Quake, I leave to you my journal. It contains all the other Imperial Arms that I've encountered through my travels. I heard talk of the Great Emperor making himself one for himself, but he's more of a man of peace than battle, so it's unlikely that he'll make too much of a dangerous weapon. Use this knowledge to help the people and bring evil to its knees. -Shoryu", he reads out loud before looking at the name in aw.
"Shoryu wrote this book? And it probably has almost all the Imperial Arms in here if I had to guess.", he thinks to himself as he quickly flipped through the book.
He then flips to a page that shows a sword and a set of armor. "Murasame, The One Hit Kill Sword. Incursio, The Demon Armor. All these Imperial Arms, they sound incredible. And they were each made from an S class danger beast? How did they even find so many?", he says as he continues to read through the book. After reading every entry thoroughly, he puts the book away for the night and leans against a rock to try to get some sleep.