"Oh, by the way, I saw the plushie on your bag you had brought with you today. I didn't think a new follower would get a plushie as a souvenir."
Hazel joked as she was organizing the files by the date they were made. Noah heard the joke and was about to say it wasn't a souvenir that the church gave me but rather something that supposedly would be able to help him with mana flow given by the head priest stationed there. Before he could even say something she also continued on and started to ask questions about him.
"Father Christ already told us some information so I'm going to confirm some."
Hazel said as he neatly stacked some papers into a corner of the car. This in turn made the place much cleaner than before.
"Ok, you barely have mana and you are here to do community service. To add on to that you are able to use incantation to help with the bullet issue."
Noah was then shocked by the sudden information. He had not known the incantation used for the bullet and was about to ask Hazel, but Satan replied earlier. So, he was stopped by Satan being nosy.
[Oh, that spell! I can just say it to you when you get there. There is no need to remember the spell, it's too much of a hassle.]
Hearing this from Satan made him relax and just nodded at Hazel. Then she just waved the back of her hands and looked at the paper and went back to organizing them.
Do I just relax in the car for the next 4 hours?
Noah thought to himself while Anxin started to snore in the background. The sound that was also made was the rustling of papers, so Noah opened his back from his side. The movement from Noah got Satan to curse at him from the movement as he was dangling on the backpack.
[Stop moving! Seeing the car from this perspective is scary! Put me somewhere else!]
Noah just ignored Satan's plea and took out headphones. It was a black headphone with an integrated design of a star on the outer part which showed the company's logo that it had been bought from.
Putting the headphones on, Noah put his head on the windowsill and opened his phone to search on his phone for music. After finding a playlist he turned off his phone and closed his eyes.
Noah quickly fell asleep and the other hunters in the car watched everything unfold.
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"Noah woke up, also you were snoring."
Hazel said as she shook Noah's shoulders. Noah rubbed his eyes in a daze and looked at Hazel wondering why he was woken up. Anxin was awake in the background with a paper in his hand.
Noah noticed this sat up straight in a heartbeat and Hazel also did the same thing. Anxin then started to speak after staring at the two for a momentary pause.
"Let's see what we had left off."
He paused which looked like he was trying to think about the topic for the conversation. Then looked at Hazel with an awkward smile and told the group he forgot the topic and it would be great to know what they were speaking about before he fell asleep.
Which in turn to the expression Hazel just said the topic was about information of the hunter's association and what role he is going to be playing for us. And joyous from that reply started speaking again.
"Ok, you are going to be healing the bullet, the plan is for us to capture the Skinwalker and keep him in place long enough for you to use the incantation. So, you should stay behind the rest of us. When we arrived near the foot of the forest and started casting the spell, the estimated time for other volunteers was about 15 minutes so if you need more time please tell me."
Hearing this Noah quickly remembers he doesn't even know the spell at that moment. In a brief moment he grabbed the plushie on his backpack trying to signal Satan to say something telepathically.
Satan, noticing the swift moment, cursed a bit before realizing the situation and quickly spoke to Noah.
[Oh shit, yeah, the spell isn't hard, judging from how much mana you have at this moment it should be the same for the loading. 15 minutes is fine. It would be easier if I just tell you how to cast it when we arrive though.
Quick on the uptake Hazel noticed that Noah held the plushie in his hand and pointed at it.
"Are you going to hold the plushie the entire mission?"
Hazel said with a pitiful tone.
Noah looked at her and replied with a no and put him in his inner jacket pocket. When doing so he spoke again.
"If you don't want to see him, I can just put it in here, and I don't need more time on the spell."
Anxin nodded and then continued to speak again.
"You should already know the structure of our organization, since it is public knowledge. But we don't want to take the chance on you not knowing. So, we have to have this conversation before the mission takes place. We are a subbranch from the government and we hunt monsters that overpopulate in the large forests ever since they started mutating in 2020. At first everyone thought that ghosts, and supernatural phenomena are all imaginary and fake. What changed was the increasing evidence of it after 2020 hit. The government had originally been keeping all of it secret but could not anymore after noticing the spike of accidents and the beings mutating to be more dangerous."
Anxin paused a bit before he dropped the paper down on the ground and crossed his legs. His arms were now crossed, and he took a deep breath.
"Now onto the parts that you shouldn't know, the reason I'm telling you the next stuff is because of safety reasons. Every mission has at least a percentage of everyone dying. Even though this one is easy."