The Misery

"Time hunter? What is this? Some kind of boss or something?" 

Sanix asked, since he understands that time beasts are like subordinates. They are weak. It's normal for them to have someone stronger as their role model. 

"Kind of. However, the power of the Time Hunter is ten times stronger than the time beasts all along."

Alice stated this while looking at the Time Hunter with a serious expression. 

"I see…"

Sanix reacted as his eyes shifted to his flintlock. He thought, 

'Will I be able to defeat this Time Hunter with my weapon? It is just a firearm. How can it damage this huge beast?'

Then he shook his head and thought, 

'No! I don't have to be so demotivated. I have a firearm and I'll take this beast down with it.'

Then, his eyes fell on that massive turtle-like Time Hunter, and he commented, 

"Let's try to knock him."

"Yeah."

Alice replied while nodding. 

Then they both dash toward the Time Hunter.

"VRAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!!!" 

The Time Hunter screams and opens its mouth, and suddenly some energy starts gathering in its jaws, creating a huge spherical ball of energy, and in the next moment,

"GAAAAWWWWWWWWWHHHH!!!" 

The Time hunter fires the energy blast at Sanix and Alice. 

"Dodge!"

Alice cries out as she jumps. 

And as a natural reaction, Sanix leaps to dodge the blast and shows his flintlock at the time hunter and fires the bullet, 

*BANG* *BANG* *BANG* 

"GRUUUAAAGGHHHH!!!" 

The time hunter howled as the bullet hit his left eye. 

"I did it!" 

Sanix claimed, with a thrilling smile, after seeing that the bullet successfully hit the Time Hunter. 

However, 

"Sanix!! watch out!!!" 

Alice yells as she notices something quick speeding toward Sanix. 

"Huh?" 

Sanix responds as he notices something on his left. 

He turned his face toward his left, 

however, 

"UGH?!"

He got hit by something leaden. 

He falls some distance away while coughing up blood.

"Sanix!!!!!!!" 

Alice yells as she runs toward Sanix. 

However, 

"VRAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!" 

"Ngh!!" 

She jumped back as the time hunter slammed its right leg toward Alice. 

"W-What's…this…?"

Sanix mumbles to himself as he feels so uneasy. 

He didn't feel his left arm anymore. 

"I-It hurts…"

He called out in a lifeless voice while he wasn't able to open his right eye either. 

The bones of his left ribs and left arm were broken by the blow launched by the time hunter. He was battered by the attack, and now he wasn't able to accompany Alice, who was dodging and attacking the Time Hunter all along.

He tries to stand, but his limbs are shivering in pain. 

"Damn…I have to…get up…"

He said to himself in a wobbly voice, but despite saying that, he still wasn't able to fully stand up. 

His scared expression changes to a perplexed one. He thinks, 

'Grandpa knows about the danger, doesn't he? Still, though, he sent me here to train. Why…? Did he forget about the Time Hunter?'

While he was lost in his thoughts and trying to stand up, Alice, on the contrary, fought with the Time Hunter. 

"Tsk!!"

She clicked her tongue as she dodged the blow from the time hunter and tightened the grip of her blade, saying, 

"Juncture Outbreak…"

Then a red light surrounds her blade, and she launches a slice attack at Time Hunter, yelling, 

"Blade of Destruction!!!!!"

Then a red-colored shockwave from her blade darted at the Time Hunter, and as expected, the shockwave hit the Time Hunter's right leg, and blue-colored blood steamed out from its leg. "GRRRRRRAAAAAAHHH!!!" 

After getting injured, the Time Hunter yells in agony as his red gaze falls on Alice. He opens its mouth and again some energy starts to gather in its mouth. 

"Hmph!" 

Alice frowns her eyebrows and launches a slice attack at the Time Hunter's mouth. 

"GWWWAAAAKKKHHHH!!!"

Time Hunter screams in misery after being hit in the mouth. Some smoke appeared on his mouth area, and as soon as the smoke disappeared, its mouth, full of blue blood, was seen, and now the outrage of the Time Hunter has increased rapidly. 

"Hmm? It's still not enough?" 

Alice said to herself after seeing that the Time Hunter is still alive.

"VRAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!"

In agony and outrage, the Time Hunter launched a sneak blow that it did with Sanix.

However, Alice is not as amateur as Sanix. 

"Hiyaaa!"

She jumped off and launched an attack on Time Hunter's right leg. 

"GWWWWWAAAAAAHHHHHKKK!!!!" 

Time Hunter's pain has increased because of the blow on the right leg.

"Hmm. I'd better end it here."

Alice said as she closes her eyes and red-colored energy surrounds her as she tightens her blade and calls out, 

"Now then…"

Then she yells, 

"Meet your demise!!!!"

And with the speed of thunder, she launched a red-colored shockwave at that Time Hunter. 

"...?!"

Time hunter was taken aback, but it would be pointless to die without making an attempt at survival. That's why the Time Hunter launched a red beam attack from its bloody mouth. Yet, not at Alice, but at Sanix, who was kneeling on the ground on the right side. 

*BOOOOOOOM* 

However, the shockwave launched by Alice hit the Time Hunter and sliced the Time Hunter in half.

"Wha….?!"

Alice responded, flabbergasted as she saw the beam darting toward Sanix. 

"Sanix, run!!!!" 

She yells. She got exhausted by her powerful attack, so she failed to run toward Sanix. While Sanix, 

"Alice…?"

Sanix mumbled while looking at Alice with his right eye.

His vision was blurred and his ears were deafen by the injury. That's why he wasn't able to see the beam coming toward him. 

"She's…saying…something…But... what?"

Sanix mumbled. 

"Get away!"

Alice yells at the top of her lungs. However, a supermassive explosion occurs where Sanix was kneeling.

"Ha.."

Alice was left solemn in shock after seeing the explosion. 

She failed to protect him, and now the explosion has already happened.

"No…way…"

She said in a miserable voice, then she yelled,

"Sanix!!!!!!!!!"