Brutal Perpetrator

The crackling, the turning barbecue, the melting fat. I remember.

I... I will never forget any of it.

It's time. Let's not keep the beast waiting any longer.

Hm? A fire from that direction...

The abandoned camp?!

Who could be there?

Someone cooked here...

This fire...

The Terran night sky looks just about the same as ours... but the stars apurr to be in completely different pawsitions.

Mrow... So meowny strange clouds covering the sky tonight, like nothing I've ever seen. I should note this down.

From what Noir Corne has told me, Terra's climate is not meowch different from ours.

Wind, thunderstorms, rain, and snow... Similar environments have similar natural cycles. Nothing strange about that.

But he also mentioned a phenomeownon called... Catastrophes? What could be so cat-astrophic to deserve a name like that?

If his description is accurate, then they're as terrifying and destructive as the Amatsu turning out, only caused by this Originium they seem so obsessed with...

How could rocks pawssibly be the cause of anything when they can't even move? I can't make heads or tails of how this works.

Not that I'm one to acknowledge a phenomeownon I've never observed myself, but... it seems nearly everything unique about Terra has to do with Originium.

Oh... If only I could see a Catastrophe with meow own eyes...

Mrow? Is Noir Corne back?

Huh? Who's that...?

Akira...

Akira.

Hah, you're not dead yet, old timer.

Indeed, not yet.

Unlike you, these fierce but dull-witted beasts will never defeat me.

Life is stubborn, huh? That's what you think? Just like those beasts who keep crawling forward even with their skulls pierced?

Not bad. You think that's what you've become.

Listen up. I will keep hunting.

It doesn't matter if there are a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand of those beasts in the forest. I won't stop until they're all dead.

It doesn't matter what I am up against... One by one, I will kill each and every one of them with my own two hands.

I have to hunt the big one now. I have no time to deal with you or your word games.

*cough*—Scratch marks, and huge ones, too.

It must've been here not too long ago... It's hungry, and it's on the hunt.

You don't stand a chance tonight.

Preposterous.

You're old and battered, and you've just been through a brutal struggle. Plus, it's raining, and there's no one to help you here.

If you keep going like this, you will die. You're no wild beast. You know that.

I'm not like you... I won't go down so easily.

You know who you are.

...Look at these fallen leaves. If I cover these marks with them, no one will know they weren't washed here by the rain.

No one else will find its tracks. This hunt is mine and mine alone.

Really, old timer, sometimes I don't get what the point of all this is.

So now you're going to criticize me?

All I did was take your place and do what you would.

Really now?

Chasing beasts into the forest like it's the end of the world... hacking and slashing at them, carving out their hearts, and coming home covered in cuts and bruises...

You used to blabber about hunting day in and day out. Isn't that what you loved the most?

Even after all this time, you still don't understand me.

Oh? I don't understand you? Then what about you? Do you think you all your actions were correct?

You've never once listened to what I say. Have you ever tried to understand how I feel? Even once?

That night, if you had listened to even a single word I said...

If you hadn't charged into this damnable forest, you wouldn't have turned into an unrecognizable pile of minced meat.

And I would never have left you behind like those guys did.

......

Do you still not understand? Everything that I do... I'm doing it for you.

No, Yoshitaka, you're doing it for yourself.

And you know it.

He can't hear your voice.

We meet again, Kashiwau.

So that was you...

I warned you not to enter the forest.

We're free to come and go as we please. We have no reason to be intimidated by you.

You stubborn kids don't know what's good for you... You don't know what real fear is!

You will die! Do you get it? Die!

Maybe. But more importantly, nothing can scare us off from completing our mission.

And may I ask you to set down what you're holding?

This is my hunting equipment... Mine, you thieves!

Feel free to take what's yours, but please put down the things that belong to us.

You won't need them, and that's because you're leaving this forest right this instant! Don't even think about getting in my way!

Preposterous.

Alright, I see now... You're just here to make trouble for me, aren't you? You want to take everything from me, don't you? Just like them.

You're overthinking this. I'm only worried about your safety.

You see, Kashiwau, you came here too. Which means we share the same objective.

I don't understand why you feel the way you do, and naturally I don't need to know either.

But I have a suggestion. Let's set aside our differences and work together. We can solve a lot of problems that way.

Not a chance! That quarry is mine and nobody else's!

In that case, I ask only that you not interfere with our work anymore.

Furthermore, considering we have the same objective, your actions will likely affect us one way or another...

So I suggest you wait at the camp until daybreak. You're free to return to the village after that.

Yato, that's a bit...

You... How dare you!

Begone! Crawl back to wherever you came from!

I refuse.

Hold on, you two.

I... I'll have the lot of you...

I see it!

Smithy, what do you see?

Hunters! You need to leave this place and put out that campfire immediately!

That voice... You're...!

The firelight has attracted the Rathalos's attention. It'll come attacking any second now!

The Rathalos?

Rathalos!