Star Rank Hunter

ess, that was the fuse that detonated the chaos that had been brewing in GAL for a very long time.
To be honest with you, everyone you mentioned could’ve leaked this—but only if they knew the truth of Oskulos’ death, I think.” Eudy freely shared his thoughts with Cillin even though Ji Feng was the admiral of Vanguard.
He also shared a summary of the info he gathered during this time in hopes that they would be of help to Cillin.

When Eudy was done speaking, Cillin smiled at him and said, “You must’ve spent a lot of effort to gather all this information, am I right? Allow me to add a piece to your puzzle then.
Yes, Oskulos is definitely dead.
I’m the one who killed him.”

Eudy nearly stumbled on his feet.
Dough actually fell off his shoulder and rolled on the ground before it climbed back up its shoulder in a hurry.

“You… you’re serious?”

“Oskulos was the reason I left the base back then.
That being said, I would’ve died a hundred percent if Czedow and Wheeze didn’t show up in time to help me.”

Eudy scratched his hair a couple of times before he let out a chuckle.
“I’m serving under an amazing commander, huh?” A pause later, Eudy remembered something and added, “Don’t worry, I won’t tell this to anyone.
By the way, does this mean that the people you mentioned earlier all knew about this?”

“Yeah.”

After that, the two of them spent a while analyzing the global situation for a moment until Shusag contacted them.
Apparently, his team had run into two seriously wounded hunters.

“What’s wrong?” Cary and Xiao Shang emerged from the nearby foliage and asked Cillin.

“It’s nothing.
Eudy, go with Cary and Xiao Shang and continue toward our target destination.
I’ll go meet with Shusag’s hunters myself.”

Cillin started running toward Shusag’s location after informing Wheeze what happened.

Shusag and Tesoro were in a team with Ba Dao.
They were interacting well with each other because they were all fellow aliens.

Lying on the ground in front of them were two severely wounded hunters.
Their bones were broken in many places, and their internal organs suffered varying degrees of damage.
There were both signs of alien and human inflicted injuries.
Regardless, it was clear that these people required treatment ASAP.

The younger hunter of the duo was the one who carried his companion up to Shusag’s team and requested for their help.

“If you are not in a position where you can help me, I don’t mind buying some boosters and nutrition agents off your hands,” said the young man while pulling out his blood-stained debit card.
Cillin entered the scene just in time to see him swiping a finger across the card and showing the team the amount of money it contained.
Through this action the young man was hinting that the team would be better off dealing with each other peacefully than violently.
They might be severely wounded right now, but that didn’t mean they have the power to drag them into their grave if necessary.

Cillin watched the young man with an odd expression on his face.
What a coincidence.
Should I say that he’s unfortunate or beyond fortunate?

“Commander.”

Ba Dao spent a short moment report the incident and the young man’s request to Cillin.
Although he had the boosters and the nutrition agents the hunter requested, he had been a hunter long enough to witness all kinds of deceptions.
That was why he wasn’t sure if he should cut a deal with them or just end their lives outright, which eventually led to Shusag calling Cillin on the communicator and leaving the final decision to him.
The team wasn’t expecting Cillin to show up himself, however.

Cillin glanced at the duo before crouching on the ground next to them.
Then, he said, “Repeat to me everything you said earlier.”

The young man patiently repeated his request, but didn’t mention anything about their identities or the circumstances that led to their wounds at all.
Being a hunter himself, Ba Dao hadn’t bothered to ask because he knew they wouldn’t reveal such sensitive information—or at least nothing truthful—no matter what.

“Mm.” Cillin made a noncommittal sound before saying, “How many boosters and nutrition agents would you like to buy?”

The young man was about to answer when he noticed something and looked to the side.
He saw a fat cat holding a sparrow in its mouth running and bouncing toward his direction at a speed that didn’t match of the size of its fat at all.
It was clearly in a good mood judging from the fact that it was jumping up and down a tree repeatedly.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that all the words he wanted to say died in his throat the moment he saw the fat cat.
The expression he was wearing on his face right now could only be described as distorted.

Shusag, Tesoro, Ba Dao and even the young man’s companion couldn’t understand why he looked like this.
He had frozen up like a corpse, and he looked like he would rather die than meet the cat.

Wheeze leaped up Cillin’s shoulder with the sparrow in its mouth, only to be slapped right back down to the ground.

“Play with your prey anywhere that isn’t my shoulder.” Cillin knew Wheeze well enough to know that it had captured the sparrow purely for entertainment’s sake.
If the sparrow was still alive by the end of its “ministrations”, it would devour it whole.
If not, then it would toss it aside.
It disliked eating dead prey.

So far, the sparrow lodged in Wheeze’s mouth seemed pretty lively.
It could flap its wings much because they were punctured by the cats’ teeth, but its legs were flailing wildly.

Wheeze was just about to do what Cillin said on the nearby grass when it glanced at the fallen hunters and felt its eyes widened.
At the same time, the young hunter looked like he wanted to hide his head between his thighs.

“Oh my meow! You’re that Ghost Butterfly something who owed us 1.1 million credits back then!!” hollered Wheeze while specifically emphasizing the words “1.1 million ciredts”.

Ghost Butterfly Seventeen was hollering inside his own head, “Fuck me! How the fuck is this happening again!?”

Ghost Butterfly Seventeen kept quiet despite the mad howls inside his head.
At the same time, he realized that Cillin must be nearby if the gray cat was here.

Wheeze thought that the young hunter wanted to deny his debt, so it immediately spilled everything.
Less than two minutes later, everyone present learned exactly how Ghost Butterfly Seventeen got swindled by Cillin and paid 1.1 million credits for a booster and a nutrition agent.

“What debt?? I already paid you back your money!” Ghost Butterfly Seventeen uttered through gritted teeth.

“So what? Doesn’t change the fact that you owed us money before.” Wheeze didn’t even care about the sparrow that escaped far, far away on its feet anymore.
“Say, are you planning to buy medicine from us again?”

Ghost Butterfly Seventeen was silent.
The guy next to him was silent as well.

Shusag felt like laughing, but held back because he felt that it wasn’t the appropriate time or place.
As a result, his face twitched like a balloon that might explode at any moment.
Seeing that Ghost Butterfly Seventeen wasn’t answering, Wheeze turned to Cillin and asked,

“So? Are they buying medicine again, Cillin? If they are, how much are we going to charge them this time?”

Ghost Butterfly Seventeen abruptly stared at the cat before facing to the guy crouching next to them.

“You’re… Cillin?”

“Yep.
It’s me.” Cillin nodded.
“You don’t recognize me, do you? My looks changed.”

Ghost Butterfly Seventeen felt like his luck was absolutely rotten these days.
He had imagined countless scenarios in his head before he decided to call for help, and he had considered what to say very carefully when he encountered the hunters, but never in a million years did he think that he would run into Cillin and Wheeze again! Although the young man looked very different from his previous self, the way Cillin spoke was something he wasn’t going to forget anytime soon.
Add the cat to the mix, he was more or less certain that the guy in front of him was definitely Cillin.

And how could he forget? Cillin and his cat were some of the biggest scums he had ever met in his life!

But despite the clear look of reluctance on Ghost Butterfly Seventeen’s face, Shusag noticed that the young man had relaxed considerably compared to the beginning.
It was because Cillin was someone he knew.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the forest, Sigma successfully located a couple of good saplings.
However, they were surrounded by brambles that were so thick that it was impossible to reach even from the air.
They knew this because they had tried it already.
It looked like it would take considerable effort to procure them.

Sigma was about to stretch his metaphorical muscles when Moon stopped him.

“There’s no need to go through all that energy,” said Moon while raising its arm and pointed his palm at the brambles.
His fingers retracted unto themselves, and his palm turned into a cannon.

BOOM—

When the dust settled, almost all the brambles except the ones surrounding the saplings were gone.
It was now a lot more manageable than before.

“See? This is way easier now!”

Not far away, a group of hunters who thought they hid themselves pretty well wondered if they had misjudged the robots’ strength, and that they should seek out other preys.
Before they could come to a decision, Moon pointed his cannon at the foliages they were hiding behind.

Another boom later, Moon looked at the escaping hunters for a moment before turning to Sigma.
“Come on, let’s go grab your seeds and saplings.”

Sigma: “…”

Unbeknownst to Moon, the commotion he caused added quite a bit of difficulty to the crew’s hunting efforts.