The Road to The Return of Unsettling Fear - A Monster Hunter Story

Chapter Seventeen

Steve: (whose there?),

The man: (if you’re going to fight the Abyssal Lagiacrus you need an armor that can steal the advantage from it, and what armor suits more than it’s own…),

Steve: (wha… what do you mean?),

The man pointed his hand to his left where an armor with a black blue color stands,

Steve [looking at the armor]: (… is that Abyssal Lagiacrus’s armor?!),

The man: (indeed it is. It is called The Nether Armor, this armor has a great resistance to that Lagiacrus’s electric attacks, and it also increase your attacking power making every single swing of your sword a dreadful attack),

Steve [amused]: (wow… but how did you…),

The man [taking out his hand from under his long coat holding a talisman]: (and this talisman will help you fighting underwater),

Steve: (who are you? And why are you helping me?),

The man stood without responding to Steve,

Steve: (what’s going on? Why people keep hiding themselves away from me?),

The man [turning toward Steve]: (let’s say that I have to help you),

Steve: (who asked you? What’s so special about me?),

The man: (I owe your father),

Steve [surprised]: (what? You know my father?),

The man: (some people say he is a legend, and some think he is a betrayer, and other believe he’s a demon, but I know he is a kind man),

Steve: (wait… what are you talking about?),

The man: (people know your father as a legendary hunter who killed an elder dragon and they want to become like him, and there are people who hates hunters for killing monsters and hate your father a lot for making rare creature to vanish from this world…),

Steve: (you mean the extinction of elder dragons), [talking to himself]: (so that’s what that drunk guy was talking about?), (what about who think he is a betrayer?),

The man: (I think you know who I’m talking about),

Steve: (you mean us! His family and friends!),

The man: (yes…),

Steve: (it’s not like that, its just…),

The man: (you felt that he abandoned you),

Steve was shocked about what the man said and the silence filled the room for a moment,

The man: (he kept blaming himself for not going back and leaving you alone, but he was afraid that Alatreon will threaten your father by putting his family in danger),

Steve [shocked]: (WHAT? How?),

The man: (Alatreon was trying to take control of your father’s body several time but we helped him to gain control of his body back every time),

Steve: (wait… you mean… you are that old man who helped separate my father and Alatreon? But you are not old),

The man: (no… but I helped both your father and the old sage with the separation),

Steve: (how?),

The man: (by reversing the ultimate spirit mode, the reversion was our last hope of breaking part of the curse, but if we don’t destroy the three parts the curse won’t break completely),

Steve: (I see… the armor and the weapon along with the talisman),

The man: (all those years he was with us he showed nothing but kindness, strength, courage and love for his family),