Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 392

Chapter 392: Dog-Eat-Dog World
James narrowed his eyes in confusion as he wondered what was going on with the anima.

“Growl~!”

The anima released another growl, but this time, it was a subdued thing that made it sound more like a wounded animal than an anima. Its eyes locked on a particular direction in the forest, and James turned there as well, wondering what was in there! Don’t tell me that there was an even bigger anima coming! We already have a hard time dealing with this one! If there’s another anima out there that can scare this one, then we won’t stand a chance!

Within the forest, Arit’s blank eyes glared at the calamity class from a distance. Arit was still in her anima form, but she was hidden within the thick trees and bushes out of sight of James and Talia as she released her pressure on the approaching anima.

The anima was both confused and terrified! Normally, the anima would never be afraid of a human glaring at it! Anima were humans’ natural predators, so they didn’t feel much fear at all when facing off against a human, but this was the first time that the anima was experiencing something like this! Was it a human? Was it an anima? Arit’s nature was so confusing to the anima!

The anima didn’t know where to classify Arit at all! But the one thing that the anima knew at that moment was that this was not an anima that it could go against! Although it was a high-level Calamity, Arit’s pressure was still enough to send shivers through its entire body! The anima automatically began to think that the two children there were Arit’s prey and Arit was angry at it because it was trying to take her prey away.

The anima thought about whether or not it should fight for the prey, but it eventually decided that it was not worth it since there was plenty more prey out there for it to take. It would leave these ones to the stronger anima.

The anima turned around and trekked back into the forest, and James looked on in shock as he watched it go. What the hell just happened!? James didn’t understand anything at all! It was too shocking to see an anima leaving without attacking humans! James turned back to the area where the anima had been looking, and he narrowed his eyes at that spot in fear, waiting for whatever was there to show itself. He pulled Talia closer and held her tight against his chest. If the thing that came out from there was too dangerous, then he would tell one of the trees to take them and run.

“James, are you okay? Oh my goodness, what happened to Talia!?”

A voice suddenly came from the other side of the clearing, and James turned to it in shock. His eyes lit up in happiness as he saw Arit running towards him with a worried look on her face. James looked back at the forest to see if any anima would show itself, and when he was sure that whatever was there wasn’t going to come out, he sighed in relief.

“What are you looking at? Is there something over there? Is it an anima?”

Arit spoke up in a way that made her sound genuinely worried, and James just shook his head as he told Arit that it was nothing. He thought there was something there, but it was probably gone now. Arit nodded as she turned to look at Talia. She asked James what happened to Talia, and James frowned as he told Arit the basics of what he and Talia went through. Selina was still tied up with a lot of vines, and she was out cold from James’ punch. Arit narrowed her eyes when she turned to look at Selina.

Just knowing that Selina came here as part of the group that was plotting to take down the king was enough to make Arit’s anger resurface! A small part of Arit’s skin began to turn purple again as her eyes flashed a dangerous yellow, but James suddenly spoke up and snapped Arit out of her anger.

“My parents. I haven’t been able to find them since. Please, are they okay? Did you see them at all? I need to find them.”

Arit smiled at James, and she put her hand on his head kindly while telling him to calm down. His parents were safe.

“Your father is injured, and I don’t know how bad it is, and your mother was knocked out. But they are both alive. I found them while coming here and I took them to a superhuman where they would be safe. Don’t worry about them, okay?”

Tears welled up at the corner of James’ eyes, and he brought his hand up to try and clean it quickly. He didn’t want Arit to see him as a crybaby, but James just couldn’t hold back his happiness as he heard that his parents were alive. He really thought that they had been eaten by an anima.

Arit smiled at James’ attempt to hide his tears and she stood up and spoke to the trees around James and Talia, telling them to carry them back to the hotel. She then gave directions for the path to follow so they didn’t run into any anima.

James was shocked by her order, and he asked if she would be alright. Wasn’t she coming with them? Arit smiled at James and pat his head again with a smile.

“I’ll follow right behind you. Don’t worry about me.”

James felt a blush rising on his cheeks as he saw Arit’s smile down at him, and he ducked his head shyly with a nod and allowed the tree to take him up. Arit watched them go for a few moments to make sure that no anima came near them. Since most of the anima were terrified of Arit, they wouldn’t try attacking as long as Arit was there.

But first, Arit thought, as she turned to Selina and a surge of anger shot through her entire body, she was going to deal with this piece of shit.

…

The city F coast looked like a scene straight out of a Godzilla movie. People were running fearfully from the port as they tried their best to get away from the monster that spawned from the ocean! The port was large with many ships and boats docked there. There were containers on the port grounds that had been brought in by cargo ships earlier. But right now, more than half of them had been destroyed by the mere appearance of the large Eldritch anima!

One of the superhumans on the ground was a short woman who looked to be in her late thirties. She wore a pair of shorts and had on a Sailor Moon t-shirt that she had bought when she was at the festival. She had been busy enjoying the festival when the announcement for this emergency rang out, and she didn’t have any time to change out of her outfit before she had to come and help.

“We need to form a perimeter around the port. Make sure the monster can’t make it to the festival! It’ll kill everyone!”