Handicap?, Skadi and Specter Part 2

One of the crowded cities in the cosmic adventurer hub, two entities were quietly blending walking to a certain place.

Pika "We are almost there so what do you think he is doing now"

Gladiia: Of course eating, what can a fatso do if he is in a city full of gourmet restaurants.

Pika "A chef yet a foodie, everyone is"

Soon the two arrive in a busy avenue where a huge event stage and crowd was in, the road was being blocked by countless entities watching a food fight without anyone interrupting like it was just a normal day in this city. As for those traveling by a mobile spacecraft, a mount or by flying had no choice but to pick up another route just not to disturb the event.

Pika "There he is" Chopin was pointing at one of the three judges, the entity in the middle the munchlax wearing an apron.

Gladiia eyes was not fix on Lex but to the other judge in his left.

A lady with bunny ears, an entity in this race, not high nor not low in bloodline. Everyone in the crowd can see or feel the air around her was an entity that reached the pinnacle of a tier.

Chopin didn't disturb Gladiia, she checked the three judges, every individual in the crowd yet she didn't try to use any appraisal, observation nor any skill that can be used to acquire information about anyone from past, present to future.

The other judge in Lex right was a humanoid one. The entity had 8 arms, a normal handsome male face yet when it opened up its mouth this being had sharp teeths and three tongues.

The audience are hyped for the cuisines that each contestant is preparing in front of the judges, unveiling each the aura of the foods burst and the smell scattered in the whole area.

Those who are low in tier were benefited and those who had a cooking class or mastery also achieved enlightenment just by joining this cooking event.

...…

When the event finishes by just selecting the winner, this event is also to test nor for advancement of the contestant qualification of being a cook the cosmic adventure hub.

Lex the munchlax flickered appearing in front of Chopin both bump their fist and do some kind of bro greeting then they move where Gladiia was.

The lady with bunny ears silently walked out of the area without anyone noticing yet someone made her stops, a simple isolation in the busy road she had been taking as a route to go home. The being stood in front of her was of course it was Gladiia.

Gladiia: Can we talk, a little conversation. I already know the cause why you attacked me back then 7 months ago on my 1st time visiting my lovely grandma.

The bunny lady smiled bitterly but she still nodded to her as an approval.

Just a second Lex and Chopin appeared next to Gladiia like a full time bodyguard.

 Her tier was higher than the three and yet all her passive skills for detecting danger situations, assessing the beings in front of her, calculating the winning percent against them if she fought nor every perception she had was ringing non-stop.

 Gladiia: Nice timing, next stop big sis restaurant. I'm sure she left some meals for us or to any member of the family that will stop by.

Munch "Let me lead the way" like a doraemon he pulled a key out of his pocket apron, waving it and a door materialized in front of everyone.

people ah I forgot, every entity that traveled forward or the other side didn't stop nor intervene in their affair. They all entered the door one by one and it slowly faded that didn't even leave a thing.

The group appeared in front of a regular family restaurant that had a name on it " The Hunter's Lodge ". 

Lex moved forward to unlock the door but before he did, he turned around then said. The door is open?

Chopin by passing him entered the restaurant then everyone followed slowly.

Pika pika "I did a good job ma'am, how much food did the young boss left for us too?" Her happy voice echoed within the place and her question was not for the three to answer but to the entity that was standing in front of the human sized Pikachu.

The three saw a beautiful lady with red hair tied to a twin tails hairstyle, her voice was beautiful enough to captivate anyone. She was patting Chopin then she looked at them with a smile.

You guys were on time, I'm just readying myself to eat my little payment for helping Nameless a while ago in serving the customers. I dunno why some of them shiver while I'm asking for their order and some decide to just make a take out order. Why is it so? Am I that scary? She moved to her own chair and picked up a gyoza with her chopstick slowly biting at it while her gaze was focused at the three who paused.

Chopin walks in the kitchen to check the fridges. Gladiia shrugged looking at her grandmother Ame Warashi and floated where an empty space in the table was, Lex decided to help Chopin in the kitchen while the bunny lady sat facing Gladiia. 

Ame Warashi was like a mediator sitting in between the two. There is no tension in their dining table.

Gladiia: 1st thing 1st while looking at the bunny lady she said, I Am me and if there is a being that had the same name as I that was not me nor a part of my existence. I will never go old depending if my dad took a wife in the other term of me having a mother.

2nd my actual appearance before becoming Gladiia Bloodborne was a cosmic chaos being that was proficient in hunting, surveillance and protecting.

3rd I'm different because I'm an actual hunter who hunts entities.

4th I'm a daughter of the 1st bystander, a supreme taboo existence of the three realms yet his blood flows within me made me who I was now.

5th she's my grandmother. That's all with a haughty voice she said this while pointing her finger at Ame Warashi who was enjoying the development of the situation between the two.

From the very beginning I didn't know you nor I'm a part of anything that can relate to you, a world with a story or a world made by an author, a world borne based on a book with a lot of chapters.

She grabbed the food in front of her, biting it. The crispness of sound was loud from her mouth and she added, I really don't care about what happened but one thing if grandma was not there, even if there is a gap in our tier you will still be hunted and killed by me.

Did you really need to say that ha ha ha. I Am the one who picked her up when she was still confused even though she already received the knowledge of the tiers or all the information of being an entity within the three realms, she's quite a lucky one.

Gladiia: So you have found the author of your story. The maker of your world and what did you do? She had guessed from the information she had received from her grandma back then about this being.

Ame Warashi: Give her an answer Amiya, she is a curious one yet the only thing is if someone tries to harm her, they will be dead. My niece, her father, is quite protective. That's how an entity is to their childrens.

Amiya swallow the portion of the food she had eaten and said: I try to replace the author yet that world consciousness was too strong repulsing me, trying to kick me out then I change my approach in conquering it yet before I did a administrator of that territory detected me, fighting and escaping was not my option neither I am not capable of doing it. In my last struggle not to be killed her ladyship appeared.

She was my savior, my teacher until I reached a certain tier. I've worked for her as a capable manager of one of the branches of the cosmic adventurer hub.

Correction, I just did it because I'm bored. I picked a lot of beings that can't be saved to let them be themselves. To live in what direction of life they wanted.

Gladiia: Life of us entities was long, we will never die as long we didn't seek it. We move, move just to keep living.

Dad always said that he didn't restrict me nor my other siblings that were troublesome to deal with. My two big sisters put limiters to those troublesome guys just as a prank because they keep messing around yet as one of the older I only be allowed to beat them in their game nor solve their mischief. Being in the handicap section does not mean that I'm losing something or i'm lacking of a certain part that a human had, it was just my excessiveness my bloodthirsty sense of hunting, it was just an impulse that a hunter's need to hunt for us to lessen our blood thirsty nature in killing entities.

The mood in the area was broken by the two Pokemons, Lex pushing a food trolley while Chopin was carrying a huge serving plate filled with cuisines.

Pika Pi "Food, food, time to eat until we are full"

Ame Warashi: Normal day for my normal family members, they don't know how to read the mood, that's how carefree they are.

Gladiia: Let's just dig in, this is just an appetizer because I'm sure when I get home the first thing I will see is plenty of food being placed on the dining table for dinner and their warm welcome.

Ame Warashi: You guys always love to enjoy traveling in different ways and taking different routes just to see the beautiful side of the middle realm.

Gladiia and the two Pokemons didn't deny it yet they know Ame Warashi also does it.

An hour later the trio bid their farewell to Ame Warashi who was duty in closing the restaurant while Amiya was helping her tidying and checking every corner of it.

The group flickered, appearing in front of a busy station.

Gladiia: So what kind of travelling method should we try this time? They had tried anything to travel in different territory from riding a mechanical form to colossal entities that can ignore any space disturbance, cosmic storms or any kind of cosmic disasters in traveling the road made of hard dark matter.

Pika pi "That's it" Chopin just pointed at a random poster while the two looked in its direction.

Munch "A promo, a new cosmic mechanical train?" its speed is above normal and checking in my time that link to our home we three will be home before dinner.

Gladiia pulled a coin then called the attention of the two Pokemons chosen tails, she flipped the coin in the air and let it land to the ground showing the result.

Gladiia: Are the two of you cheating yet she still pulled her phone out to buy three tickets online. Within a minute she receives a notification and the three walk into the crowded station.

The party move to each stall available to buy foods within 10 minutes then a call for passengers with the tickets #******* should enter the door line 92598. The movement of entities didn't stop and systematically followed the protocol of each call being announced without any traffic congestion nor delay same with the three.

Gladiia look at their ride then look at the two Pokemons. I thought we were going to ride a mechanical lifeform?

Pika pika "The train is a mechanical one yet the owner of it was the coiling dragon wrapping itself around it"

Munch "A protective being to its creations or maybe just tagging alone, wanted a joy ride for fun"

Gladiia: That's an early tier 15 being for goodness it's real just for fun yet she felt a gaze. The dragon was looking at them, sending her a mental message. Gladiia didn't block it then a female voice reached her indicating Lex was right this being was just joining the ride to check the speed of her new creation. Gladiia had no choice but to accept, the being was sincere and knew she was a real hunter, it even asked for a signature to sign in the entrance or a compartment that they will be assigned.

Chopin moved ahead leading the way followed by the two entering the train. The hall was so spacious and every compartment was like for VIP's yet there were still the super privacy rooms.

Mu Munch "Months ago we still can't believe things like this were possible" Before he continued a blue screen pops up in front of them.

Pika "Economy Class Room? how to find it, can you check the ticket for more information in your phone little Gladiia"

Gladiia: Compartment 7 room 301 then a beautiful woman appeared this one was a virtual being their guide and the one who check Gladiia phone scanning the three tickets in it, registering them properly that they already in board. It opens a portal redirecting them to their room.

Upon entering the three pauses because how wide it was yet this economy class room is for 4 entities.

Their roommate was sitting in the living room with an orange cat next to it. A human in western old clothing yet it had a design exceeding those modern styles in terms of coolness. Its left hand was a machine, this being greeted them with a small bow then it continued drinking his tea and flipped a new page of the book he was reading.

Munch "What a pleasure to meet a stalker worthy of the name Mr. P"

Pika "Legendary eh"

Gladiia: Who never knew I would meet one of my grandma's best students here. 

Lex moved and sat next to the man reading, he picked up the cat placing it on the large marble table. Chopin's direction was of course the kitchen while Gladiia hopped on the couch opposite the man.

Gladiia: Mr. Pinocchio, this should be a coincidence right not my grandma sending you to monitor our movements. It happened once, surely not the second one.

P: Her ladyship never does the same thing nor to continue to annoy the beings she cared the most and you already don't need a guard if these two powerful beings are with you. Family guardian beasts in peak devourer tier state. He pulled something in his inner clothing, a pamphlet then letting it go slowly floating until it reaches Gladiia's front.

Gladiia catches and looks at it, it contains worlds with nice places for sightseeing, camping locations and every information of it was all for vacations.

Gladiia: Taking a vacation I see eh, hmph what's the matter Chopin. Seeing the Pikachu dejected she asks her.

Pika pi "A kitchen with empty fridges yet it had connections to every market place to order ingredients and fast foods.

Munch "We already bought a lot, why are you still looking for free stuff?" He pulled all the food they had bought and distributed it equally.

P: Why do I even have a share?

Gladiia: Lex is a Munchlax. He needs to consume a lot of food for him to be full yet if he eats the food made by any member of the family it's easy for him to be satisfied, me and Chopin love to eat too. It serves as fuel and motivation in performing movements or maneuvers especially in fighting. My dad always said never fight a battle with an empty stomach. She materializes a pair of chopsticks, picks up the huge bento and she starts to eat at a normal pace, savoring the taste of each dish on it. The lunch box covering her whole face, an anime sight if an otaku sees it.

Chopin opens up the huge virtual screen then selects a sports channel while slowly putting rice balls in her mouth one by one and Lex on the other side setting up his own hot pot with the things they had bought. The being called P had no choice to join this session even though he is a human entity yet his old origin was a puppet.

...…

A Terra World a perfect peak one with #8********-332, this world was created to train hunters or dungeon divers to a transcendence, a constellation or becoming an entity itself. Dungeon cracks can be spawned anywhere yet they will have special methods to detect it, those dungeons were connected to some ruined world's inhabitants of monsters, this world also had a tower connected to different worlds that this territory had. Those who reach the top of the tower will have the biggest chance to leap or to breakthrough, breaking their human or what race you are the shackles of their body to reach the transcendence tier.

Those humans or any race that became hunters were on name only, they had different professions, they cannot be called a real one like Gladiia or Nameless the perfected hunter.

Korea - Busan Citizen park, a huge black gate slowly turning bluish indicating that this dungeon was now cleared. Hunters walked out of it and a manager in a suit greeted them normally. Reporters, paparazzi and people who chase their idol hunters were here to have a chance to get a glimpse or to interview these hunters yet we are not here to discuss these guys but the other group waiting and preparing to dungeon dive this cleared gate. The gathering team can be a miner, a porter or any life profession that has the best abilities to gather raw materials or minerals inside the dungeons.

A well built man with sharp blue eyes, silver hair, long eyelashes and pale skin. He has short, messy hair and bangs that reach down to his eyes called their leader. Lloyd it's time for us to work yet seeing his boss happy face while checking his phone this man flickered to strike the back of it's head yet the man called Llyod dodge it just by ducking.

Lloyd: Oh come on man, I heard it clear. Look at this, is she cute and lovely like her mother, my great granddaughter who just received a medal for taking the top spot in a nationwide mathematical contest.

The man ignore yet he also pulled out his phone then showed a group of kids in their jerseys, the middle kid was holding a golden trophy. Look at them my friend, these are my grandkids that won the children's world soccer cup this season.

Lloyd: You you... he was ready to argue yet someone had arrived, a member of their team he intently grabs it shirt to become the judge. Mr. Sung can you help me here, he looks at Javier that also moves next to them and both show the picture of their descendant.

Su - Ho: My dad said not to meddle with you old entities in their little fights. Oh wait Sir Javier these kids are your grandchildrens? I did watch their matches even thou in the finals that their opponents are consists of A hunters and 3 S hunters they did win it and as for you Mr. Frontera, I can only say that your great great granddaughter excels other children or some children of other entities living in this world in mathematics yet I can really judge them, their subjects and specialities is not my forte, literally I cannot nor technically make my judgement. He was sweating, two old beings still looking at him with sharp eyes yet he tried to shift his gaze to the other members of the team who were a little far from them preparing to enter the dungeon.

A fully built man taller than any of them, if this man was wearing a normal shirt in this world his muscle was surely visible to anyone, a proportional body following him was a white fat guy wearing a scarf that had a chess design walking with him to their location with concealment.

His voice made the three stops, they looked at the man slowly materializing, canceling his concealment. Su Ho was in the middle and still looking away for an exit.

Lloyd: It should be your off Mr. Bloodborne and Grand. 

Javier: Ah, you didn't check your email. Your son in law had a message that Sir Tobi will be joining the team today. Yet he only sees Lloyd scratching the back of his head and playing dumb.

Tobi: I already told you guys not to add Mr. and Sir in my name or to my last name, I'm still young though. You two are making it hard for the young ones, Su Ho go get your gear up, I and Grand also need to do mine to get some rocks to add to my collections.

Su Ho saluted and ran to the main truck where all the gear for their team had been placed. Bystanders randomly pick colleagues in different styles so in this territory was quite an exemption because there were a lot of them, entities mixed in ordinary daily life, this also includes this whole team. Every member of it was a friend of his sister's kins.

Lloyd: Tobi your body is but not you entirely, your whole existence was older than us, we still need to add some formalities in the start of meeting. Should we go now too, starting the work now means we can finish early. His attire slowly changed to his own mining outfit and a shovel appeared on his hand.

Javier was now wearing a top tank and ordinary jeans following Llyod.

Tobi turned around, he didn't need to wear his own gear to mine yet he stood in front of Grand who was trying to put on his mining helmet.

You're getting big or someone messes up your equipment again.

Genga "Nah, master trainer it was just the effect of it if I don't equip it. The consciousness it had was quite lazy"

Tobi touched the helmet and it slowly expanded then put it on Grand's head. Looks good, let's go the moment he said that the two materialized their mining pickaxe then followed the group in the dungeon.

...…

Later two small figures slowly approached the entrance of that park. Cute children both had white hair and red eyes, the one in front was eating cream puff with her right hand while in her left, she was pulling a large cart filled of lunch boxes that they had bought in different shops, if the two were not in concealment something amiss at her because of a thing attach in her head, it was a shark plushie biting her hair. The other one that hymn a song was wearing a western hat yet there was a rubber band in her right hand. This one was a limiter that would punish her if she tried to pick up girls or beautiful ladies she had seen.

Specter: You now sis we just finish our grounded days yet we are out of the house without any permission, I'm quite scared if we get back and big sister is already at home you already knows what will happened to us, your the one at fault last time not controlling your anger management issue and force cutting the pacific ocean into two, luckily Lim was monitoring us and dad also in that area, fishing.

Skadi: I thought a peak world can put a limit to beings below tier 15 yet I know that we are an exception, a finger downward slash with minimal aura Nen-Qi with some powers in 25% did that. 

Specter: Dad paid the damages and Lim helps the consciousness of this world. Some entities living here with a lot of limiters also question him why we can do stuff like that without being kicked out.

Skadi: Pops answer because they were my childrens, it's quite funny the reaction of those entities yet we know we cannot beat any of them if we are out of this world. You know dad was so cool.

Specter: Reality was really different from that timeline, who never knew that original entities live a normal life rather than being in fame or high positions.

Skadi: One thing for sure, living like this was also a part of retreat, a train, a silent stocking of powers to break through to the highest tier, the unknown.

Specter: I cannot deny that, dad also banned us from reaching tier 15. Consolidate your foundation 1st, we both understand that yet I cannot formulate the family common sense in how everyday he and our big sisters become strong bit by bit. Confusing yet it was fascinating.

Skadi: We just need to wait for dad to teach us, we both hatch 2 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 8:01 am. We are still young, he even gave us some regimen to improve our body foundation like our 3rd sister did.

Specter moves ahead to check if anyone is guarding the area, a few seconds later she gives Skadi a signal and both sneakily enter the park. Two didn't even notice an entity following them, an iron eater the size of an adult human eating a bag of popcorn.

Skadi: can we just do it normally, we are in perfect concealment that dad teaches us so no one is really going to notice us. Specter only laughs a little, I know I know, races in this world live in harmony. I'm just making sure that no one will suddenly pick up a fight ok.

Skadi: Whose in the right mind gonna do that, those who are the same tier to us will also have a hard time noticing us, the two were at peak tier 14 a chaos entity. She moved forward walking straight to the several huge trucks that were parked in front of the cleared gate, some of the gathering team were going in and out putting their gain in the truck.

An entity who had just finished putting down a large monster corpse notices them, it slowly looks at the two and moves in front of them.

Specter just smiles and looks at the 3 meter dreadful teddy bear with multiple eyes and sharp teeth.

Skadi: Uncle it's really ok you're in that form, scarring kids is not fun though.

Specter: yeah not fun yet they both heard him clear.

The two of you should not be here, using telekinesis. The far away sign floated in front of them, on it said "Men at work". looking at the two of you, I think you two are here to find your dad, Mr. Bloodborne. The two of you are out without permission, the being rubs his right hand on his forehead. How about this the two of you find a place to wait for us to finish our job and before he continues its gaze shifted to a direction shrugged. Skadi and Specter also check what's in the direction it was looking. 

Checking the time and the sun, it was almost the end of the day. A cold breeze envelops the park, murmurs and broken voices are scattered around echoing the area. The three can see it and of course some of the team members of the gathering team only look at it in a glimpse. One of the members called the teddy bear, a female crew, it looks like an elf but she was not. Mr. Zang you should ascend the visitor, for goodness reapers and hunters with exorcism jobs are really useless this day letting a black spectre with its red spectre henchman to move in time like this.

I know Mrs. Salvos, some of those reapers and hunters are my kins disciple, they can at least do their job and appear on time. He flickered and those ghosts were instantly captured by him in an invisible cage. The leader is enough to kill a group of S hunters. What a pain and looking at its hatred these guys were killed by some villains from the last dungeon break 11 years ago. Well it's not my problem in how these guys hide himself yet before he finishes a female wearing a suit appeared sweating in front of him.

Grandmaster I yet Mr. Zang teddy bear hand patted her.

Mr. Zang: This place was your jurisdiction, why not deploy all exorcists or let them roam everyday, not to wait for a call if an incident related to ghosts happens. He started to give a sermon to this reaper.

Skadi and Specter already found a good area to wait for their dad, creating a square type barrier and activating redeploying their concealment. The crew only smiled at them and they returned to their respected work.

...…

Time 4:36 PM, not everyone is out of the dungeon. Lloyd walked out and moved to the resting area while Javier was the one commanding the others in fixing their cargo.

A minute later Su Ho just sat in a random place yet he accidentally put his drink in an empty place but it didn't drop. He pauses and looks at everyone resting, swallowing his saliva he activates his anti concealment ability and soon he sees them.

Su Ho what's the matter, Lloyd looked at the place he was looking and laughed then turned around to the others only receiving a small bow at them.

Javier: don't disturb them, let's wait for Tobi to come out.

Mr Zang tapped Su Ho's shoulder and said: both of them are a dangerous existence against an entity who had fallen, you can feel it right, a tingling sensation that you wanted to fight or test them yet that's also a test to you. Su Ho looked at the old beings and gave an awkward smile, he stood and took a breath intending to look for a new place to eat his own snack that his wife prepared.

7 minutes later Grand and Tobi were now out of the dungeon, both already knew that the two kids were here. The Gengar move in an instant appeared at the back of the barrier that the two deployed.

Poking the barrier, dispeling it. There Skadi was sleeping in a plastic chair, the huge chart was in a mess of empty boxes of foods while Specter was on her own world concentrated in playing a game in her console.

Grand pat Specter right shoulder, Specter reacted in second yet a huge tongue reflected in her view. A multi combo licking her face rendering her movements.

Genga Genga "Ha Ha Ha, in response in times like that you should back a little, activating your EN to scan if the being had bad or good intention nor to check who it is, still far in hiding your existence to a being like me nor to entities high than your own tier" he flick his fingers and his saliva that stuck in Specter dried.

Specter: For real not cleanse and cleaning magic but drying, looking at Grand with a teary eyes.

Grand ignored her, he looked at the pile of trash then burned them to nothingness. Specter who was being ignored aside was ready to throw a tantrum yet a huge hand picked her up hugging her.

Specters: Pops Grand is bullying me. Burying her face on his hard muscle chest.

Tobi: It's just a clean saliva ok, a normal habit of any guardian beasts in our family. He let go of his hand yet there was now a baby carrier fixed for two children, he picked up Skadi who was sleeping and put her next to Specter.

Tobi looks at his crewmates that are also ready to go home and the others who need to deliver the cargo back to the guild headquarters.

Tobi: Lloyd and everyone i'll be going 1st see you guys tomorrow, without receiving a reply he and Grand faded in that place appearing in a compound. A huge farm, both entered and walked to the middle of it where a huge country house stands.

Genga: Senior Koko, you've been following the two right.

Specter, who was sobering pauses, looks up and sees her dad's face smiling back at her then she pouted. 100% she and Skadi had been caught escaping yet Koko only monitored them.

Koko materializes there was a smirk on that iron eater face, she opens up the door while Grand rushes in and Tobi follows.