On the eve of the day, two days after the Amazon green gate dungeon was cleared, a handso, blue-haired young man with a white face mask changed the sign of the café shop from Open to Closed while looking outside the glass door.
He could see a few cars moving on the road under the warm white light of the street lamps. Pedestrians were scarce as it was already past 10 p.m.
Percival sighed as he picked up a rag from one of the tables and went to the counter, where he began to wipe it.
Just then, the bell rang as soone walked in. Percival sighed inwardly, realizing he had forgotten to lock the door, so he calmly spoke,
"We’re closed."
His white apron and round glasses made him look scholarly.
"Oh, I know."
That sort of reply made Percival lift his head. His eyes narrowed at the sight of a mid-twenties man seated with both legs crossed on the table he had just cleaned.
Percival swiftly recognized the man as a well-known celebrity of the famous XYZ trio. He was X, full na Xerxes, known for his 200 cm height and lean athletic build that kept him as one of the big city’s leading models. He was the man with a Greek god build, a literal one.
However, one strange thing about this star that made him even more beloved was doves.
It seed like his summon had sothing to do with manifesting doves because Xerxes beca known for it.
Even right now, while seated arrogantly, he gently caressed a dove nestled within his palm. Because of this, anywhere people saw white doves, they expected Xerxes to be nearby.
"What do you want? You can’t get our services until the next morning."
Xerxes smiled. "I had to co. We had a party, and your sister told us sothing I guessed should have been a secret, so I ca to see the legendary humanoid summoner himself that’s hiding from the big city."
Xerxes brought out a phone and placed it on the table.
Percival could hear his sister’s intoxicated voice over the phone as she told whoever questioned her so deep secrets. It was like these people already had their suspicions.
But... his sister never drank!
Percival’s expression shifted slightly as he slowly stopped wiping the counter. "Where’s she?"
Xerxes chuckled. "Why would we hurt her? We just had so information about you and had to confirm it. We also t soone, a healer that once worked in Manhattan. She was a fan, so it wasn’t tough to get information out of her."
"Humanoid summoners have to look out for each other. I brought a gift, a token of friendship." Xerxes snapped his fingers, and a huge item covered in aluminium foil appeared on the table.
Percival squinted.
"It’s dove at."
Xerxes’ statent made Percival’s eyes widen to the limit.
Xerxes lifted his hand, forcing the dove to fly. "The at of your sister’s summon isn’t really good. Don’t think we did the sa to her. Like I said, we humanoid—"
"What did you do to Miss Julia?!" Percival bellowed.
Xerxes brought his legs down, staring straight into Percival’s eyes.
"Calm yourself. When the human soul chose to beco a beast, didn’t they ever realize that it would one day put them at the lower part of the food chain?" Xerxes cocked his head as he continued.
"Besides, I know you left Manhattan, ca to this island, and chose to work in this small café because you don’t like conflict. You’re the type that hides that strength and ends up rotting away. But there’s no way a summoner of your tier can just do whatever he likes... outside the Authorities’ palm of control. That’s why you’re being monitored."
Xerxes looked toward the door. "You should have known about this already. Do you see how your life is being forced into control? All this because people like you were too lazy to rule yourselves, so you decided a few should have the power, and now you’re bound. You gave them power, and yet you’re being controlled for it."
Percival looked at the at, not giving any ear to whatever Xerxes had just said.
"Is that Miss Julia’s summon?"
Even if Xerxes was right, even if leaders abused their power, it did not justify eating another’s summon.
Upon hearing that, Xerxes frowned. "So what if it was? Are you going to fight over it?" Xerxes’ voice grew deeper. "She’s already dead. It will be aningless to fight over a dead woman!"
He rose to his feet.
"I’m offering you a chance to get stronger. Your summon has potential, and the only way it can grow fast is what I’ve just offered you. The light of the great god. A chance to be welcod gloriously into the Sanctuary. You’re ready to throw all that away to keep hiding here? How foolish—!"
Xerxes froze.
His pupils narrowed greatly as he felt sothing walk out of a blue portal behind him. It clearly moved on two feet.
The humanoid summon.
The mont the Sea King appeared behind Xerxes, now twelve feet tall, the entire island quaked as the sea beca restless.
Xerxes felt incredibly small before the aura radiating from the blue-scaled, majestic humanoid behind him. This being could sink the entire island!
Knowing that this nineteen-year-old young man had such a powerful summon alard Xerxes. And he also had the Leviathan, the most dangerous aquatic predator, beast lord of the sea!
"W—!"
A golden trident pierced through his back and out his chest, lifting him up. Xerxes spat blood as his eyes lost their light.
However, his body crumbled into dust.
***
In one of the highest floors in the Pagoda Guild headquarters in the heart of Manhattan, Xerxes woke up, breathing heavily.
He was on a sofa, and two n, Yi Ming, known as Y, and Zane, known as Z, were seated on other chairs.
Yi Ming’s summon had the ability to freeze a point in ti, but that left a physical copy in whatever posture they were before the freeze.
"What happened?" Zane asked solemnly. The only explainable reason for this state, which was frozen so days ago, to unfreeze was that Xerxes had been killed.
"He rejected my gift, and whatever his summon is... it’s insanely powerful. Even the island was affected by its presence."
Yi Ming looked out the window. "Good thing we decided to send the recording to the police. They currently have his sister. I had a feeling you’d end up dead, that Percival has no place in Sanctuary."
Xerxes touched his chest, his eyes gleaming. "He’s about to have a feel of what it truly ans to be a humanoid summoner close to the infamous Godfrey. I guess soone will be popular soon."
***
While this went on, a female Agent knocked on the café’s glass door.
Percival sighed. "Priscilla... you should have left that guild." He knew before an agent ca here, they must have checked his house.
The mont he retrieved the Sea King, the agent opened the door and walked in.
"Percival. It’s best you co with us quietly. We know you have a Throne Tier Leviathan. It grew really quickly after the Great Vanishing. You would have been made a great naval officer." Her smooth voice rang as he saw her long silver-white hair that almost went beyond her waist.
Odette Ouroboros.
"You speak like I’m a criminal. All I have is a humanoid summon that my soul created, just like your beast." Percival said. The lady before him had graduated two years ahead of him from London Summoner’s High.
"Humanoid summons are not solely created by your soul like beast summons. That’s why we can eat other summons, or would our summons accept it? They’re made of our souls; despite looking like beasts, they aren’t truly beasts. But your humanoid summons..."
Odette stepped closer.
"...are made from the dying souls of humanoid races rging with yours to survive. Those with just humanoid summons aren’t truly summoners. Their evolution was never completed."
"Let be here and work in peace. I won’t cause any trouble for the Authorities," Percival stated calmly.
"No. We can’t bend laws for a few. It will be unfair to others." Odette said firmly. "Give your hands." She added as she brought out suppressor cuffs.
Percival’s eyes glead.
"If I refused to go to the Readjustnt Program for years, what makes you think I’ll do it now? I’ve seen what your Readjustnt did to my father. It broke our ho, making him distant from us. You won’t do the sa to ."
Odette blasted forward with a step. The wooden floorboards shattered, tearing down a portion of the wall.
Thick, jagged blue scales manifested all over Percival with a powerful horn protruding from his forehead. He spun backward, launching a kick right at Odette’s face.
Her eyes narrowed, and though she tried to block it, the kick launched her out of the building, through another, and right into the wall of a third.
The clouds rumbled, and it suddenly began to drizzle as Percival walked out of the now half-destroyed café.
I guess I’ve lost my job, he thought as he saw ard agents on both sides of the road, their rifles pointed at him.
They unleashed fire the mont he appeared, but Percival simply looked at them wasting king-tier bullets as they bounced off his thick scales.
With a thought, a six hundred-foot-long Leviathan burst out of the sea, roaring so loud everyone on the island could hear it.
The clouds rumbled, lightning crackling within them. The sea rose and slamd hard against the shores, a great wall of water flooding the streets as though alive!
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A/N: Welco to volu IV: Rise Of The Vagabonds
Thank you for reading so far, I hope this Chapter is entertaining to you all. We’ll get to the commander.
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