Chapter 610 (1/2)

Chapter 610: The Hunter

Translator: TransN Editor: TransN

While Danny was waiting, a short guy ran toward him along the trench.

“Captain, you’re early.” He panted, took the sack off his shoulder, and put it at Danny’s feet. “Here’s your ammunition.”

“If I was hunting in the mountains, I’d have come back by this time already,” Danny said carelessly. “How much ammunition for me?”

“30 bullets.”

“So few…” Danny murmured. “Bloody machine gunner.”

The short guy was the youngest soldier in the army, only 16 years old. His name was Malt. He came to “protect” Danny.

Every sharpshooter was paired with a protector so that when enemies drew close, they could quickly suppress the enemies and won themselves time to run away or switch to bayonets.

Danny did not think that he needed a protector, especially not an underaged one. The reason he accepted Malt was that he could not turn down Karl Van Bate’s implore. He had been neighbors with this Minister of Construction for years, and they had lived in the same street of the New District. Naturally, he understood that Karl viewed all the kids graduated from Karl College as his own children.

Since the sharpshooter’s position was usually at the back, the protector was actually at a safer place compared with the soldiers at the front line. Danny knew that His Majesty hated his employees covering up or colluding with each other, so taking Malt as his protector was one of the few things that he could do without offending His Majesty.

Looking at Malt who was squatting there picking bullets, Danny could not help asking, “Have you thought of changing for another job?”

“Leaving the First Army?” Malt answered without raising his head, “No, I like it here very much.”

“But this isn’t a game,” Danny said, raising his eyebrows. “We could be killed at the battlefield anytime. You don’t have to take this risk. As a Karl College graduate, you’re totally qualified for a job in City Hall. There you can work quite decently and earn more than here in the army.”

“But I don’t like running errands for the officials every day. I just want to hold a gun to protect His Majesty.” Malt put the 8 mm bullets he picked before the trench. “Besides…” He suddenly paused and seemed to be blushing.

“Because of Miss Nana?”

Malt did not reply, yet his cheeks reddened.

Danny could not help bursting into laughter. “At least half of the soldiers in the First Army admire Miss Angel. I don’t think you even have a chance. Besides, her father is a baron. Even he currently doesn’t have lands, his daughter isn’t someone you can dream of.”

“I, I’m not thinking like that,” Malt said, craning his neck. “I’m satisfied as long as I can see her every day.”

Danny shook his head and stopped persuading Malt. He knew how strong or stubborn one could be once he was in love. He himself was no exception.

Whenever he had time, the image of a green-haired woman would appear in his mind as soon as he closed eyes.

If she had not reached out to save him, he might have lost his life in the forest.

But at that time, she was still a minion of the demons’, the embodiment of evil. Danny buried his affection deep in his heart and dared not to tell anyone. Unexpectedly, the second time they met, witches had been proved to be innocent. Consequently, she had moved into the Witch Building in the castle area and opened up various experimental fields in Misty Forest.

He could not enter the castle area as he wished, so whenever he was on a vacation, he would always pick up his bow to hunt in Misty Forest. He even decided that when he no longer served as a soldier, he would apply to the City Hall for the forest ranger job and take Misty Forest as his new home.

“Woo… Woo…!”

At that moment, he heard the blare of the horns.

It signaled the arrival of enemies.

Danny stopped his wandering thoughts and fixed his gun holder.

No matter what, he was still a warrior at the moment. He should fight to protect His Majesty and overthrow the church who was hunting witches.