Chapter 7: Rebirth (2)

The system had an alert sign for something but I couldn't tell what it was for. All of a sudden the pain that was holding me down vanished and I went back up to my feet. I walked towards the corpse of the goblin and found that it dropped an axe. It kind of looked like the one that it was wielding but it had engravements on it now.

I didn't understand one bit of at the time but in the future this axe would be the one to help me achieve my goal.

Above the axe showed a name for the sword, it was called "Heirloom of the goblin tribe." From this I could tell that the goblin I had just fought was going to become a goblin lord someday. It felt good to know that I had just killed a D+ monster by myself. I picked up the axe and asked the system to examine the weapon.

Heirloom of the goblin tribe: Super rare; grants the weilder double strength maxed at 100, can be upgraded or used as material.

It was time to finally fix up my stats and try to reach the level of a c-rank hunter. To start off I currently held 30 stat points.

Pow: 28 +(10) Def: 16 +(10)

Mana: 20 +(5) Agi: 15 +(5)

The luck stat was still question marks but it had a +1 next to it. My stats were looking better and I finally reached lvl 45. Surprisingly all the level ups gave me double stat point? That seemed odd but I just shrugged it off and went back to the cave. In there I saw Katie sleeping there in her cat form so I gently picked her up, and carried her. She started moving around a lot when I picked her up so I traveled a little further south from where we were. We were near the village I had left and I slept with her next to a tree.

I started dreaming... I dreamt about a girl... She had reddish orange hair, I couldn't see her face vividly but I could tell she was sad for some reason. I tried reaching out my hand to her and as I did, I woke up. Wow that was one hell of a weird dream I thought. Sitting right next to me was Katie and she seemed to be looking for something. I turned to her and said, "Are you looking for something Katie?" She nodded and I said, "Would you mind telling me what this thing might be?"

She looked at me and said, "I feel like I'm missing something, but I can't tell what that might be... I can't remember what it was but I really need it. If you don't mind me asking would you help me?"

She looked so worried and cute with her looking at me in distress so I looked at her and said, "For you anything." At that moment I think something sparked in me but I wasn't sure about what it was. It felt as though the whole world changed colors, from black and white to all sorts of colors. She smiled so brightly that all my memories of past grudges I may have had vanished.

I took her hand and asked for her to guide me to where she last saw this thing. Her cheeks turned as bright as a tomato when I grabbed her hand and I just smiled and ran towards the village. I told her that the villagers may know where this one thing might be and she looked a little nervous. Now that I think about it she does look like a human with cat ears and a tail. She would probably be classified as beast-folk or people that look like humans but have animal like traits.

I've always had a love for manga characters that had such qualities, but I don't know about how the villagers will react when they see her. As I finally arrived inside the village with Katie hiding behind me for some reason. I looked around for the chief of the village, but couldn't find him. All I could see were the glares of disgust the other villagers were making when they saw Katie. I looked back at them with eyes of killing intent and they ignored her.

Katie tugged at my shirt and said, "We should leave, these people clearly do not like me." I looked at her and said, "You're probably right about that, but I need to find this special thing for you... These people might know what it is." She nodded and kept her head down for the rest of the way until I finally spotted the chief. I ran to him and asked if he had seen anything out of the ordinary around here, and he shook his head.

Slowly but surely Katie caught up and I asked her to tell the chief what it was she had been looking for. She looked up at him, seeing his face she started crying... I looked back at the chief and saw the face he was making, it was the face people made when they saw something disgusting and intolerable. I couldn't help but remember all the moments when I had been looked at like that. Including my parents, a lot of people have looked at me like that and seeing that face once again, I couldn't bare it.

The system started giving alerts all over, but I didn't give one shit about how bad the penalty would be. I stared at the ground for a few seconds until I couldn't take it anymore. I clenched my fist, grit my teeth and looked back at the chief who was about to say something. I already knew what he was going to say so I said, "Shut the fuck up old geezer. You think I will tolerate you looking at Katie like that?" Katie tried to stop me and told me to leave him be, but I let my rage take control of me...