Enemies from Heaven?

  Mass clusters floating like spirits circling around innocent twelve-year-old girls. Jinyo's brain throbbed painfully as if breaking into pieces. He raised hands covering his mouth like people about to vomit, walking away from stages most bustling and intense.

  Like when fighting Chimera Wolf. Interference waves entered churning brains until heads almost exploded. Jinyo gritted teeth looking at Luciria with that mass cluster from afar. Suddenly systems started working.

  [Luciria Halfrin. Girl with talent and endless possibilities. Heaven doesn't want her having long lives. She will die within 4 hours from now. As system holders, you receive two choices]

  [Choice One: Interfere with destiny +1000 Hostility toward Heaven]

  [Choice Two: Let fate proceed as before +0 Hostility toward Heaven]

  Must die? This child? Jinyo's scalp tingled when thinking about one frightening possibility. Unknown that systems claimed as Heaven representatives wanted this child dying, and she'd die in 4 hours ahead. Did that mean it deliberately took her life?

  Unknown was disaster-like things. Like floods, storms, earthquakes. Because no one knew when it'd appear or had what purposes. That it deliberately took twelve-year-old girls' lives specifically was strange. That meant it wasn't disasters but living beings moving by logic.

  Disasters didn't selectively specify creating damages or killing anyone. If fires occurred killing just one person, that wasn't fire disasters but murders. Luciria with healthy strong bodies would die in 4 hours. If not accidents, must be murders.

  Jinyo picked mobile phones calling people he trusted.

  "Hello." Rina answered. Her voice slightly hoarse. Like training hard.

  "Rina, trust me. I encountered Unknown and it's targeting a girl's life."

  "???" Rina silently processed momentarily. Though not hearing a single word, Jinyo knew what women at line ends were showing faces. Tensions spread through silence. No current era technologies could detect Unknown's existence. No evacuation announcements or any surveillance. That meant besides Jinyo, no one perceived its existence. Jinyo Rina knew wasn't nonsense people speaking randomly. Though unbelievable, she had to believe what he spoke had truth.

  "What's it doing?"

  "It's circling around children named Luciria. I don't know what it's doing. But she'll die in 4 hours."

  "From doctors to masseuses. Now fortune tellers already, even predicting others' death times. Your versatile abilities are quite good."

  "Rina, I'm serious."

  "If it hasn't shown itself, can't do anything. Unknown elimination methods have one way—waiting for it possessing monsters and killing it with three conditions I told. If you predict that child will die in 4 hours because of it, what we can do is surveillance and waiting for timing it acts. Regrettable because besides empty words, no evidence for officers moving. Plus can't persuade Luciria-named children's families believing. Do you have methods proving Unknown truly exists?" If having evidence, she'd use state authority granting that child protection rights. Fastest would contact Luciria's guardians, increasing security levels to maximums. Would help increasing her survival chances greatly.

  "None. Regrettably, none." Jinyo shook heads disappointedly. Don't know why only he could see that spirit mass cluster. Besides system messages stating it was Enemies from Heaven, nothing letting Jinyo connecting that mass cluster with Unknown.

  "Then we can't do anything."

  "But knowing one child is dying, ignoring idly pretending not knowing? Straight talk—I can't do it, Rina. Can you help me a bit?" Jinyo begged pleading. He had nothing to do with girls named Luciria. Getting involved risking wasn't worthy matters. But as one human, he couldn't let innocent children dying idly. Especially, Jinyo himself already determined becoming enemies with Unknown. If Unknown desired Luciria dying, whatever their reasons, he must obstruct to the utmost.

  As one father, he didn't want Ryse dying. He himself didn't want any fathers losing daughters either.

  "You still like worrying about townspeople like before. Turn on GPS. When you die, I'll collect corpses properly." Finished speaking, Rina hung up. Jinyo turned on GPS and sent locations for her tracking. He picked one technique manual pretending reading while surveillance observing Luciria. Spirit masses flew away from Luciria somewhere until Jinyo ran chasing unable catching up. But if targets were Luciria anyway, must return.

  Time passed until dusk periods. People gradually traveled out from training centers. Luciria got escorted by men wearing suits beside into luxurious black cars. Cars drove on main roads, making Jinyo have no choices except driving cars chasing. Chasing luxurious cars accelerating full speeds with turtle cars plus lousy driving skills like monkeys learning driving golf carts wasn't easy at all. Jinyo almost prostrated begging seven-generation ancestors not making him crash into electric poles dying first. Chances Jinyo would die from road accidents more than Luciria getting murdered.

  "Today's debut succeeded well, Lucy." Inside pitch-black luxurious cars. Strong wide spacious structures. Thick opaque glass surveilling invisibly. High-durability reinforced metal sheets bulletproof and magic attack resistant up to level three. Looking superficially just ordinary luxurious cars, but truly were leather limousine-wrapped tanks.

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  Sven opened conversation scenes with younger sisters having nothing at all similar. Whether faces, hair lines or eyes. Luciria hugged swords sitting calmly dignified. Though both sat same seats, but had gaps between them enough for adults sitting interceding another person.

  "Yes, Brother."

  "Like this, Grandfather must be satisfied for sure. What's left is just finding some good teachers teaching. Teacher Nephrin lady is interesting. Exam scores 1st rank. Had work experience for hunter guilds in capitals. Plus women too. Though regrettably she doesn't specialize in sword techniques. But if hiring teaching supplementary techniques, should be fine. What does Lucy think?"

  "Whatever Brother and Grandfather decide." Luciria had no life sparks in eyes or tones. She was like fragile dolls deserving cherishing. Dolls sitting quietly and obeying excellently as if easy teaching. Because obedient easy children would receive more affection from elders than stubborn children not following orders. She looked out bulletproof glass reflecting countryside city scenery views. Had light poles, forests and mountains now seeing nothing except things artificial lights shining along roadside.

  "Hope Lucy isn't angry. Choosing teachers isn't just teaching well. But must consider fame and connections. Good teachers will grant foundations giving more than techniques. Will be beneficial to her futures. We can't choose unknown people becoming teachers."

  "Yes, Brother." Luciria's tone bored until Sven wasn't sure whether she heard this brother's words. Sven sighed heavily, yawning widely. Family people set expectations toward this young-aged girl too much. Halfrin families succeeded in tourism industry businesses and real estate. Counted as newly born families creating bodies within fifty years. Though wealthy with money, but didn't have much social faces. Family leaders or Sven's grandfathers set expectations for all four sons becoming hunters elevating family fame but completely failed.

  Grandfather's expectations fell onto grandchildren generations. Among all third-generation children, children with most talents were this annoying ice dolls.

  "Tomorrow's hunter exam days already. If performing especially well, want any rewards? This brother will prepare champagne coaxing Grandfather."

  "Want traveling with Mother." Luciria hesitated for a while before speaking simple wishes for Sven hearing. Brothers twenty years older froze momentarily. What she requested was extremely easy for ordinary people. Didn't even count as rewards. But for Luciria, these were things she didn't dream of.

  "Mm, that's quite possible." Sven laughed deep inside. What genius girls spoke requesting when passing exams was just traveling with Mother. If written into future Luciria biographies, Halfrin family people's images should be destroyed without good pieces. No conversations until atmospheres froze. Black cars ran middle of roads near passing under V-curved bridges. Honking sounds echoed without warning signal signs. Six-wheel trucks lost control crashing bridge edges. Broken cement pieces fell with entire cars.

  "Dodge!!" Sven screamed loudly but not in time. In split-second moments when cement masses fell, driver feet kicked brakes instinctively. Car speeds slowed until almost completely still. Six-wheel truck shadows covered gazes and thoughts. Luciria looked at vehicles depriving her life with weary tired eyes.

  Split seconds thinking lives were ending. Engine roaring sounds echoed. Cars running from behind had no speed slowing. No brake touching even split seconds. Rushed crashing into black cars Luciria's group rode. Forces pushed their cars forward, escaping from cement pieces and trucks falling from bridges like miracles.

  Black cars swerved sides. While another car collision sides crushed into metal scraps. Metal engine part pieces scattered all over roads. But all that didn't come from Luciria group's passenger cars but from small turtle cars accelerating maximally. Sven hurriedly opened doors going out with panicked faces. Sounds and flashing emergency lights from both six-wheel trucks and turtle cars made it hard for him keeping calm coolness.

  Almost died! If he didn't crash in, we'd definitely die. Sven thought inside. He ran to small turtle cars. Crashed that hard. Tremendous compressing forces enough killing people in blinks. Two bodyguards ran chasing Young Master Sven to turtle cars. Pulled injured people behind steering wheels out from cars becoming scraps.

  "Hey you!?" Seeing men pulled from cars, Sven immediately remembered who he was.

  Jinyo sat panting. He smiled wryly.

  "Sorry. My driving skills aren't very good." Not just not very good but extremely terrible! He looked at rented turtle cars with despairing frightened faces. Like souls got sucked from bodies. Selling potatoes not yet clearing old debts already got new debts! Disasters from Unknown still made him less frightened scared than bank debt bills.

  Jinyo controlled cars chasing Luciria group's cars since training centers. Wherever stopping at gas stations, passing what intersections. The more time counted down approaching zero numbers, tensions surged exponentially. In split-second moments when trucks broke falling from bridges and front cars suddenly slowed speeds, Jinyo's hearts almost fell into eye sockets. He thought Luciria's death causes would come from monsters, not accidents. But since wanting helping, he must help to maximums.

  Jinyo didn't just reduce speeds but increased speeds higher. Calculated steering wheel turning degrees to crash causing minimum damages and hitting Luciria's cars escaping from truck crushing paths. Crushing forces from crashes almost sent Jinyo to other worlds. If not because stronger bodies through cultivation.

  Jinyo opened system windows. Countdown times now remaining [0.22.45]

  Missions didn't show success or failure. That meant it wasn't finished.

  "Hey you, still okay? Hey you!" Sven waved calling Jinyo's consciousness spacing out.

  Luciria opened doors descending from cars. She stepped onto roads almost without traffic but full of chaos. She cast gazes looking at young men spacing out looking at car wrecks with despairing eyes. He glowed under moonlight. Not affected by artificial lights along light poles or under bridges. He was like moons reflecting sunlight. Special identities she could sense with instincts.

  Girls widened eyes. Luciria trembled for some reasons when encountering strange men who happened being her benefactors. At times she was confused acting improperly, interference waves invaded attacking her brain. Ice-cold needles stabbed directly into heads until she screamed.

  Energy mass clusters exploded. One grasshopper somehow flew into small lights packed with energy. It absorbed crazed life forces it shouldn't receive. Grew and expanded bodies tenfold. Twenty times. Thirty times.

  Cement pieces and iron engine parts flowed melting merging as one with energy mass clusters. Gray insect-form demons leaped lunging at girls with powerful leg forces. One bodyguard lunged blocking in time. However—

  Punishment Wave!

  Rare techniques only grandmasters in combat had. Packed planar entering bodyguards without defenses. Sharp sword blades from arm blades. Cut slicing deep to bones. Fresh blood splattered staining Luciria's faces convulsing all over faces. Images she saw were giant grasshoppers opening mouths swallowing eating bodyguard brother heads taking care of her for many months. It used teeth crushing grinding his head like fresh-squeezed tomatoes.

  Take a guess why they want to kill her.