As I tried to navigate through the train now, the passengers were not seated any longer on their seat. I tried to move the fog by waving my hands but it only emptied a tine space for 5 seconds.
"This is weird.", I said.
As I walked, towards the front cabins the fog thickened and it was becoming hard to see.
Then suddenly I heard a voice of a mother and a daughter.
"You know, once upon a time there was a thief who used to steal the riches from the Rich and give it to the poor.", the mother said.
I was somehow mesmerized by it.
"Why did he steal from the rich?", the girl asked.
As I was standing, I immediately felt something rushing towards me. I immediately took out my sword from the [Dark Storage] and immediately blocked with flat side of my sword.
I was immediately pushed back.
"Fuck!", I immediately rushed towards it.
"Because in those town rich people were exploiting the poor, not paying them for their labors,"
I immediately slashed towards it but it dodged. It looked like a slime and immediately launched several attacks at me.
"Not paying for their safely,"
I then tried to block it and dodged it.
"Ha"
"hup"
"Extorting money from the weak on the name of protection."
"Fuck!", I immediately used [White blade] and tried to attack it.
"Screech", it seemed like it was hurt by it quickly regenerated.
"And a lot of other crimes."
I then tried to used a barrage of sword strikes and tried to attack him.
"Mom, but what is the guarantee that the poor people who got rich wouldn't do the same to the rich people who got poor.", the girl asked.
I then immediately used my 100% concentration and swung my sword at him.
"Zing".
It immediately got hit.
"There is none. As humanity is full of sins and other bad things."
I then saw around nothing was destroyed.
"What?"
I was confused.
I immediately understood what is going on?
I was in an illusion.
"Noel, how do I break out of the illusion?", I asked Noel.
"Noel, Noel, Fuck", I cursed as I immediately understood that this illusion not only affects my optics but also my auditory and taste sense as well as hearing and sense.
"Shit!", I cursed.
As I saw the blob regenerate itself, and screamed.
"Screeched."
Its scream now was somehow more painful on my ears.
As I looked around and trying to find any way out.
"System, system.", I screamed but I genuinely couldn't see it.
As I was trying to find a way out, I suddenly remembered the old man's word.
"Keep your eyes open."
I immediately tried to use my [Cruel eyesight].
My eyes now burned like a fire. I was now able to see a schematic of the whole compartment.
The whole train was empty and I saw the mother and daughter, and realized that they were their but not living.
Now I could see the core of the blob and immediately rushed towards it.
As I was rushing, I said, "Kid, in every living being there are good and bad. Every people are different and have different morals. You can't expect everyone to follow yours. So, live your life the way you want and be kind to people."
As I said, I immediately stabbed the core and it broke.
"Shatter!", the core shattered and the next thing I see is the demon dying.
[Congratulations! For hunting an adult demon, your reward will be given after the update.]
"Good kid. This time you were able to hunt able to hunt a comparatively high demon on your own without relying on any major weakness", Noel said.
As the demon died, I saw the fog cleared up in the train.
"Well, I like to think I almost died but you know what it was a good experience", I said as I sheathed my sword and put it in [Dark storage].
I now saw the outside view of the train it was beautiful, the sun setting down and the orange falling on the water it was quite romantic.
I then put my headphones on and started to play the mp3 file.
[Heartbreak anniversary - Giveon]
As the song played, it somehow healed my heart a little. I sat in that booth for a while and tried to sleep and rest a little bit.
….
"Don't you think it is too hard.", Rex said to Ron.
"It doesn't matter, if he can't even do that, he is not suited to be one.", Ron said.
"Why did you have to use that demon?", Rex questioned.
"The demons are growing stronger and the people from the senate with all their cybernetics what can we do with limited stable arrays and only knowledge of the forefathers.", Ron complained.
"Rex, more than 20 of us demon hunters joined and only 2 of us remained.", he said.
Rex was sad but he couldn't refuse. The number of demon hunter's going through mental health issues and just killing themselves were very high and only few sane ones remain.
"Rex, I don't know but I believe in that kid. The record he showed me was full of horrors but he didn't show any issues. So, I think he will be able to overcome it easily don't worry.", Ron said.
"I hope Ron as that kid might our lost hope to reconstruct hunt.", Rex said.
"I also wish the same Ron but it is too much of a burden for an 18-year-old to take.", Ron said.
"I will call you later. Bye.", Ron said.
"Bye.", Rex replied as the line cut.
Ron now was sighing stressed as he didn't know what to do if that kid died.
He had unknowingly put a lot of hope on Eon.
"Please be safe.", Ron said while hoping as he suddenly felt the demonic energy weaken in the train.
"Yes, kid. Yes, kill it and break through and prove me wrong.", he said excitedly.
"Yes kid.", he screamed now in joy.
"Now, I know you will for sure overcome anything that comes your way.", he said.
"Let's wait for him now.", he said as he pulled a book and started to rea but the smile on his face didn't fade as he was happy.
After a while, Eon came.
"How are you, old man?", Eon said.
"So, you passed the test huh.", the old man said.
"Yeah", he replied.
"Good.", he said.
"Would it kill you to give me more praise old man? I survived a war out there.", Eon complained.
"War! You would be killed if a proper trained demon comes at you.", Ron now started to scold Eon and the journey to the Summit continued.
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