"Huh? What the hell is happening?!?"

Instead of seeing a city, all I can see is thick, billowing smoke. I let my hoverbike run at its full speed, but after a few seconds of riding, I stopped in front of a group of hundred people migrating from the village.

I get down from my hoverbike and walk to one of the villagers who is looking at me with fear. Before I could say anything, the middle-aged man suddenly spoke.

"Please! Please don't kill my wife and child. Take me and whatever you want, but please spare us."

I look at him with a confused expression before saying.

"Whatever you think of me, that is not true. I'm a hunter who wants to resupply in Himawari village. Here is my license."

I give the man in front of me my newly made license, and I can see a relieved expression on his face. After a few seconds, he gives back my scroll and says,

"I'm sorry for thinking you are a bandit. While I want to ask you to help us reclaim our village, I know that one hunter cannot defeat more than thirty bandits. However, can I ask you to help us get to safety?"

"Of course, follow me."

I decide to lead them to my submarine. While I did not want them to know about my submarine, it was the only safe place in this forest infested with Grimm. With the barrier I create the area around my submarine, I know that a Grimm will not attack us even with this much negative emotion in the air.

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|3rd POV|

A black crow watches a group of civilians resting on the coastal area a kilometer away from Himawari. This black crow is not an ordinary crow. This is Qrow, One of the strongest hunters in Vale, The drunken huntsman, and The unluckiest man alive.

He is in Mistral because he just finished investigating Higanbana village in search of his target, Angelo. If the people of Higanbana hate Leonardo for his inactivity, they respect Qrow, for he is the only hunter that keeps helping them every three months.

Because of this reason, Qrow knows who is the one that is helping the people of Higanbana.

So when he sees a man with the exact description of his target leading a civilian through a forest, Qrow decides to investigate. Qrow is impressed with Angelo's work and even more surprised when he sees a massive submarine sitting next to the shore.

'I guess this is the reason why I can't find him on the land, ' Qrow thought while looking at Angelo, who was taking out a bed from his submarine. 'And here I thought it was because of my luck and the thick jungle.'

Angelo placed down another batch of bed and food for the villagers, who accepted it gratefully. After giving them food and a bed, Angelo looks at where Qrow is and moves his head to the side, inviting the blackbird.

Qrow raises his eyebrow before flying to the tree above Angelo. A few seconds later, Angelo said,

"So, who are you, strangers?"

Qrow tilted his bird head to the side but kept his silence. Angelo sighed before saying.

"You can change back to your human form. I know you use magic to change your body into a bird."

Qrow looks at Angelo with a surprised expression and decides to change into his human form.

"How?"

"First thing first, a crow did not smell like alcohol."

Qrow shrugs and takes an alcohol flask from his pocket before drinking the liquid inside.

"Fair enough."

"Second, you are the only human that can use magic."

"What?"

Instead of answering his question, Angelo created an Aard sign. A second later, an invisible force destroys the small tree next to him. Qrow really wants to tell Angelo that it was a semblance, but the feeling he got from that sign told him otherwise.

He can feel the magic coming from the sign. While Qrow is not a master of magic-sensing art, he can feel magic when he focuses on it.

"I don't know how you get your magic as I thought that I'm the last of my kind."

"Last of your kind?"

Qrow looks at Angelo with a shocked expression. Ozpin never told him about other people that can use magic. The old wizard only said to him that eight people could use magic: Ozpin, Salem, the four maidens, Raven, and him.

"Aye. We are called the Witcher. A small group of people who can use magic to create a sign. Before you ask, a sign is a symbol I create using my hand. We used to be a group of people that hunted Grimm for money, but around one hundred years ago, we were hunted down by a group of people we did not know. The same with my parent who murdered my parents when I was in the academy."

Qrow drinks his alcohol once again while looking at Angelow with interest.

"This group… Can you tell me their description?"

"Sadly, I don't know. This is the reason why I decided to explore the world. I want to search for any kind of clue."

"I see. Then what about-"

Before Qrow could finish his sentences, his ear heard something. Angelo looks at Qrow before whispering to him.

"Do you hear that?"

"Yeah. Three. No, five. Coming from the northeast. Twenty meters."

"Do you know who they are?"

"Garian Tribe. They are the bandits that rule this part of the kingdom, and they dwell in kidnapping, slavery, robbing, murder, rape, and illegal drugs."

"That means you don't mind me killing them."

Qrow snorted a little before saying.

"I will dance on their corpse, kid. Not only do I not mind, but I will also be happy seeing them dead."

"You those three on the right. I will be dealing with the two on the left."

"Fair enough."

A second after he said that, Qrow ran toward the bandits, who were surprised to see him with his weapon drawn. With a single swing, he cut one of the bandit's heads. Seeing their fellow bandit is dead, the other two begin to take out their pistol and start firing. He then changes his sword into a scythe and begins to spin it, blocking all the incoming bullets.

After blocking all the bullets, Qrow put down his weapon, and two barrels moved to the ground and fired a gravity bullet. Qrow flies toward the bandit on the left in an instant and kills him with a single swing. After killing the second bandit, he changes his weapon back to its sword form and throws it toward the last bandit stabbing the poor man right in his heart.

Not too far away from Qrow, Angelo uses his Aard sign to throw him away toward the bandit. Unlike Qrow's opponent, his target is prepared and shoots him with their pistol. However, before their bullet could hit Angelo, he used the Quen sign to create a barrier around him.

When Angelo lands between both of them, he thrusts his sword forward and pierces through one of the bandits' necks. After stabbing the bandit, he then swung to the left, cutting through the neck.

The second bandit tries to stab Angelo with her knife, but he dodges the attack by crouching down and shooting her with his pistol.

Angelo looks at the corpse underneath him and releases a sigh. He always thought that killing a fellow human would make him guilty or something, but after knowing what those bandits did, the only thing he felt was… nothing.

He did not enjoy doing so, but at the same time, he felt like he would do it again if he encountered another of those bandits.

"Oi, kid. What took you so long?"

Angelo snaps from his thoughts and looks at Qrow, who is standing near him.

"I'm just thinking."

"What are you thinking about?"

"These bandits. I have a feeling that they will come here in numbers."

"... That is most likely."

Qrow even knows that it will happen. His semblance will always make sure the worst thing happens.

"We should get moving."

"Where? The only places that are willing to accept them are Shion village or Higanbana."

"Then we will take them there."

"The bandits know about this kiddo. While they cannot take on a village with a dozen or so hunters in them, they can block the path to those villages. While I can take a few dozen bandits just fine, the Garian tribe has at least a hundred members and at least a dozen rogue huntsmen. Combine it with Grimm that will notice our negative emotion? Not good. I think we should stay here and search for a cave or something to stay in. I will call for reinforcements; my scroll still has a signal."

Angelo looks at Qrow for a second before smirking.

"Yes, but we have other ways to get around those blockades."

"You don't mean…."

"Have you ever gotten inside a submarine?"