Rebirth: A Cat with a System-Chapter 48 Strange Things,

Author's note: sorry for the late chapter update, after pasting the last chapter I did there was a power cut, apparently, some wire broke due to the cold and couldn't be fixed due to snow blocking the roads for days, without any battery in my phone or laptop for last 7 days I have lived like a caveman, it felt relaxing in its own way, but even so, I lost my streak of writing continuously this month, well anyway I checked the comments and stuff as soon I could charge my computer again, and well there were quite a lot, the number of power stones has also decreased so, please give your power stones to this novel.

well anyway enjoy this chapter,

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The voice resounded in the room, and every squad looked towards us, all gazes focused on a group of four people.

There were looks of envy and some looks of jealousy, even hostility.

"Why can't we have girls on our team?"

"Lucky motherfuckers" there were manly faint whispers that were going around,

"Shut up" Lieutenant shouted from the front at that moment. Everyone became silent just in a matter of seconds at that moment, there was only the sound of breathing that was left after that.

"Sara go and stand with your squad so we can start the briefing for our next mission," the lieutenant said as he looked back at Sara, "SIR! YES! SIR!" she said with a salute, there was a constant smile on her face that she couldn't hide even when Addressing the Lieutenant. f𝙧ee𝘄𝐞𝚋𝐧૦ѵeƖ.c𝘰𝓶

Every recruit has that smile on their face before they face a true battle, and after that, it changes, those eager and excited smiles vanish after their first kill, and if they survive even then and kill more emotions start to have no meaning, they might crack a joke or laugh, but deep down everyone in this room knows what they are truly feeling, they ignore it, try to put it to the side.

'It's going to be ok they say, 'you'll get used to it they say, but to be honest, they are just lying you never do, everyone remembers how their first kill went, they remember what it feels like when you thrust a knife to someone's heart, throat or brain.

The sound of cutting the first layer of flesh and then hitting the hard surface of the bone, the sound of the bone splitting open the discussing vibration that comes after the knife slides in between the cracked bone, and finally when it reaches its target, the feeling of piercing the soft tissue. 𝑓𝚛𝚎ℯ𝘸𝙚𝘣𝚗𝘰νeƖ.c𝒐𝐦

Everyone remembers it, every second of it playing in their mind when they go for another kill, or when someone asks them to spare their life.

Well, it's not like I am any different, I am the same way. we are humans we have flaws that we can't get over so easily or get used to some stuff that easily.

I can't help but wonder how much longer she will be able to keep that lovely smile on her face; how much longer before it fades away completely? How long would it be until she breaks? As Sara made her way toward us, I couldn't help but notice that there was a slight skip to each of her steps. A pleasant scent filled my nostrils when she went by me, and she walked with her blonde hair waving behind her. It was just a moment when she went past me, but it felt like time had stopped for me. As I questioned myself and wondered what the fuck was going on, Sara stood right behind Kidd.

"Alright squad Destroyers, Bounty Hunters, Gunslingers you are Dismissed, other squads will remain here, I will give you the information about your next mission," the lieutenant said.

"SIR! YES! SIR!" Everyone said in unison, as some squads exited the room, and only a few squads remained,

"Hay I am Randy," Randy said as gave Sara a charming smile or at the very least he tried to do so, but a punch to his stomach stopped him, "hay, sorry about this guy, I am Cindy, its nice to have another girl in the Squad, and this is Kidd," Cindy said, as she pointed towards Kidd, who just nodded his head in response he has always been a quiet type of guy, I thought.

"And this here is our captain," Cindy said pointing towards me, "Allen," I said as I nodded and then turned around, to look towards the lieutenant, "don't worry about him, he is a bit cold to everyone when you get to know him you see his worm sides too, anyway what I am trying to say is that he is a good guy deep down" Cindy explained,

"Alright everyone quiet down, we are starting," Lieutenant said as he started the briefing,

"This time we will be Conducting the mission in dark, we will be delivering Ammo and fuel to the front lines, we will be taking this route, and then we will take a detour from the jungle, to get there faster, we have recently found this way so be on guard, we don't know what might happen" He said as he pointed towards the map, everyone listened to what he was saying carefully, "get ready we will be leaving in 3 days from now at 1100 hours, do I make myself clear?" Lieutenant shouted,

"SIR! YES! SIR!" everyone shouted in unison,

"Alright you all are dismissed" he gave us our final orders and left the room, after he left the room slowly everyone also exited the room, as our squad exited the briefing room, without even saying anything we all made our way towards the same place, it had always been like that, each squad had a room to live in, with beds and their personal belongings, the only thing that differentiated each other, the personal room was a piece of cloth that separated our beds.

"So where are we going?" Sara asked, she looked around, her eyes looking from one place to another, In a fast motion, she was like a curious puppy the first time looking at his new house.

"To our rooms," I said to her as I walked,

"And why is that?" she asked, "to prepare the stuff that we are going to take on the mission," Randy said, "so this is how it feels to go on a mission huh?" Sara asked,

"Well ya," Cindy said,

? "By the way, I wanted to ask it before but why is our squad called Headhunters?" she asked with a smile on her face, "let's not talk about that, are you hungry we can get something to eat, the cafeteria doesn't have that good tasting food but it's edible," Cindy said, as she changed the topic,

"Y-ya sure, I haven't eaten anything as of yet," Sara said accepting the change in the topic without asking for any details.

"It's right beside our room, so we can go there after we are done getting our bags ready," Randy said, we moved to our rooms, and as we did though I felt as if there was something odd, something different than usual.

"Hey guys, let's get to the Rooms quick," I said as I started to walk faster,

"Hay, but you are going towards the armory instead," Cindy said, looking at me with a questioning gaze,

"I just want to do some maintenance on our guns," I said as I moved toward the armory,

"I'll go with you," Kidd said, as he came and started walking beside me.

"Why don't you guys show Sara our room till then," Kidd said, he spoke with no emotions in his voice.

"Sure," Cindy said, "I'll lead the way so follow me, ladies," Randy said,

"A-alright" Sara said as she followed Randy and Cindy, as they walked in the distance they both looked at me one last time, I know what those gazes meant, they had caught on pretty fast,

"You can feel it right," I said as I looked at Kidd,

He silently nodded, "alright then let's go," I said as I looked towards him one last time and started to walk towards the armory at a fast pace, as I walked around I looked around observing everything, through the years I have trained or I should say honed my senses to perfection, I could notice slightest of sounds and I knew for a fact that this base isn't supposed to be this quiet, I could still hear faint sounds but they were different from usual, there were many things that were missing.

"Kidd cover my 6, we will hide as soon as we make contact"

"Yes sir" Kidd nodded and started walking backward his back touching mine, and our speed of walking had come to a crawl. We were moving slowly however we were on full alert,

As we reached the armory, strangely enough, it was unguarded, there are guards always stationed at the entrance, but there was no one there.

I stopped when I saw that and Kidd stopped with me, he looked towards me I gave him a hand signal, and then we both separated and then moved to either side of the door.

It was open, we both looked at each other when we saw that, it looked like our hunch was spot on.

"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM"