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Chapter 3 - II

After stepping through, The camera was facing toward an inn across the street. The camera turned to the right. It was (Redacted), leaning on the bench, cracking his neck. 

The place is pretty lively, for an inn on a crossroad in the middle of nowhere. People coming in and out, drinking and generally having a great time.

A blue panel took over the screen.

{Translating vuliari language to English language

 accessing the Archive, accessing Dictionary, finding the target language

 Language found, live translation has now begun}

Just beside the cross road, There is a sign, pointing where each road leads to. The left sign said "Kurai Yokumori", the right sign's "Căzuregat". The camera went up into the sky. The camera was blessed by a great, and eye pleasing scene. 

On the left, An extremely dense forest. Before the dense forest, grass plains with a lone dirt path leading to the forest exists. A river, coming from the mountains, runs through the sides of the forest and the plains. A few streams diverged from the river, into the forest, and some other areas. There is a beach like area ingrained in the plains. 

On the right, another plains, now with a village here and there. If you follow the dirt road, There's a kingdom in the horizon. If you look closer, The kingdom has 2 walls, The outer wall, and the inner wall. There exists a pretty nice looking castle inside the inner wall. That's all about you can see from this far away. 

The camera went back down to the bench. (Redacted) after stretching, started to talk. 

- We're planning to go to the forest, by the way. There is an …

[Cough, cough]

- "establishment" in the not so deep part of the forest. 

He got off the bench, got into a crouch start position. Mechanical noise came from his body. His exoskeleton is warming up. 

- GO!

[Poof] 

Only a dust cloud was left, on where he started. He has disappeared completely. The camera caught up to (Redacted).

The way he is running is bizarre. The best way to describe it is, if you catch a glimpse of him, You would mistake it for a beast. For the speed he's going at, It's oddly silent. On the way, He passed many travelers and animals. Some didn't notice, some freaked out, some shocked, but He stayed unbothered, just kept running. 

The sun is slowly going down. As he approached the forest, the day was ending, entering twilight, The sun peaks out from between the mountains to shine over the river, which is oddly very shiny for some reason. The camera captured a wallpaper worthy shot of a scene. 

Not long after, he entered the forest. The light of the setting sun was replaced by the eerie darkness of the dense trees. 

He is running through the woods, instead of the dirt road made by previous adventurers.

More noticeably, His left arm has morphed into a black biomechanical looking arm. The whole arm is not fully attached to each other, they are floating. Between the missing areas, There's a red mist like thing, pulsing. The 5 fingers turned into 4 claws, which are extremely sharp and tough, They were cutting the thick trees like it's knife on butter. The entire arm looks like, it came right out of a dystopian scifi movie, and attached itself to (Redacted). 

The camera cuts to a point of view angle. He's quickly approaching an open area in the forest, which was dimly lit by the setting sun. The camera cuts to in front of a building in the woods. He jumped out of the dark forest onto the side of the dirt road leading to the building.

He took in a breath. 

- Phew, That was quite a work-out. 

He swiped off some sweats off his forehead. 

He turned toward the camera, gave a thumbs up with his monstrous hand. 

- I'm ok. The forest wasn't too much, I need to train after this. I'm still not used to this stuff, yet. 

After resting, He turned toward the building. The night has completely covered the sky, and the building's lights came on. 

The building is of a medieval style, an inn like building. The building is only one floor, and very small for an inn, but It seems to have way more advanced lighting. They even have colored lighting. The building seems like, the one you would imagine, how an ideal brothel looks like. 

- if you want to know what this place is, CM will show you. 

The camera slowly turned around. A sign slid into view that read, 

{Goodbye from Yokumori Monsuta satayshin} 

- What you are probably are seeing is a translated version, What it say is "Goodbye from Yokumori Monster Station". This region is in Chilki region of this world. This region is, compared to your world, would be a more of Japanese like region. 

He was speaking off camera. 

The sound of him retracting his monstrous hand was heard. The sound of both flesh, and metal, colliding, and shrinking. 

- Let's go in. 

He casually walked to the front door of the building. He readied himself, and opened the door.

The camera cut into the inside of the building. 

The room is of an office room. Just a glance away from the entrance, There's a lady working on papers on the table. Beside the table, there is a circular stone slab with an engraving on it, a sort of magic circle. Those are all things remarkable on the left side of the room. On the right side, There are 2 couches with a very nice looking small wooden table with a flower pot on it. The room also has a shelf with a lot of decorative items, such as, a small ritual knife, A potion with black liquid in it, a globe, and many other miscellaneous items. 

(Redacted) came into scene. The lady noticed (Redacted), dropped all her papers, got up, to greet (Redacted).

The lady is a not much special, average medieval lady. The more remarkable about her is, She resembles more to a woman working in an office job. The medieval clothings are what she wears, but the way she wears it, just gives office lady energy. Her eyes are a peculiar pale red color/ 

Lady - Welcome to Yokumori Monster Station, how may I help you?

She asked with a smile, bowing her head. 

(Redacted) - I would like a room, please. 

Lady - Please sit on the couch first. I'll prepare the necessary things. 

She went back to her table, to prepare some papers, and items. (Redacted), as said, went to sit down on a couch. He crossed his legs, leaned backward. He has some thoughts in his mind, it seems. 

After a bit of waiting for Mr.(Redacted) … 

[Ting]

The camera cuts to CM getting chopped in the head by a hand. Its face expressed a pained face. 

CM - OW! What was that?

(Redacted)- Cut the mister. I don't want people calling me Mr.(Redacted). 

CM - Why? 

(Redacted)- It's just kinda weirds me out. You can use it, but only use it in a joke. 

CM - K. 

The camera cuts back to the room where (Redacted)'s waiting. The lady has finished preparing. She's carrying a crystal globe, and a contract?

She sat down, put the 2 things down. She first handed him, the contract, and a pen. 

Lady - Here's the contract first. You have to fill in all the details that the paper asks for. Please, fill in the contract first. 

(Redacted)- On it. 

He leaned forward, grabbed the contract, and the pen to started filling in all the details. The contract asks for pretty normal stuff like, name, age, etc. The more concerning things are, safety measures, drugs, and other stuff You probably shouldn't know. 

(Redacted)- Done. 

He put the contract down. She picked it up, and read over it. She made a somewhat baffled face, but she quickly fixed her face. 

She snapped her fingers, and the contract went up in flames, Not even ashes of it are left, they all burnt with the flame. 

She handed over the glass globe to (Redacted). 

Lady - For the next step, Please close your eyes, and hold this globe. The globe will guide you through the process. I'll be waiting here, You can take time choosing. 

(Redacted) immediately picked it up, closed his eyes to do the thing. 

A voice came out of nowhere. 

Cm - Umm, I won't show you the choosing process here. It's too risky. Here's a list of things he picked. 

[Ding]

{Race: Succubus

Body Type: Normal 

Mood: Casual

Clothes: Casual 

Tools: None

Name: Marian} 

- Bye. 

The camera cuts back to (Redacted) and Lady talking. 

He handed back the crystal ball. She inspected the crystal ball, as in the same way (Redacted) used it. While, inspecting, she recoiled faintly, seemed bamboozled. 

Lady - Please sit here for a moment. I'll be going to prepare the needed things. 

She stood up, spun around. She disappeared in a white swirl of cloud. 

He leaned back, and sighed.

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