Hamasaki, Airi - Missing.

Abe, Haru - Missing.

Hashimoto, Haruki - Missing.

Akio was standing outside the bar " The Rum Tum" looking at all of the missing person posters. So many people had been dissapearing lately, but what troubled him the most, was the fact that they were all bounty hunters like him. And all of them were looking for the monster that has been terrorizing the surrounding areas of Melgard... The Fazstar, the fazstar was a bird-like monster, though it's not able to fly that far because of it's lack of feathers on its wings.

The Fazstar is a mix of brown and red. It's wings being a mix of both. The main torso brown, the head also brown and the neck and eyes red. It wasn't actually that big, like a dragon or anything like that, but still not the same small size as a parrot. It was somewhere in between.

When it stood on both legs, it was probably around 2 meters tall and that was enough to scare the crap out of village people and farmers. That and its massive sharp teeth.

Akio had just gotten his new gear too, that he had been wanting for some time, but it required him to be level 50, so when he finally reached 50, buying the new gear was the first thing he did. He rocked the black metal plate and the black long sleeved shirt underneath it. His whole outfit was actually black now and it looked good on him, with his short dark brown hair and his brown eyes. But the stats is what truly matters on these things. But with +500 to both strength and agility, he didn't need new gear the next 15 levels or so.

Akio looked away from the "missing person" posters and continued onto the "wanted creatures" posters on the other side of the bar door. There was already a lot of other bounty hunters standing there, reading the diffirent jobs that was available. Akio could just exactly see the posters, when he saw the one that everyone feared. "WANTED FAZSTAR. LAST SEEN NEAR THE VON ZAAR FARM. BOUNTY: 100,000 KWIZIMI GOLD COINS"

100,000 kwizimi gold coins.... wow

Akio couldn't stop looking at the poster. The only thing he could think about was how proud his dad, one of the best bounty hunters in not just the city of Melgard, but all of Kwizimi would be of he killed the Fazstar and came home with 100,000 kwizimi gold coins.

Akio stared at the poster a little longer and pushed his way through the other bounty hunters looking at the job offers.

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He stood in front of the Fazstar poster, and could feel how the other bounty hunters started staring at him. He reached for the poster and pulled it off the board.

The other bounty hunters were shocked and you could hear them mumble, things like "Is he stupid? Is the really gonna try and go after that thing?"

"Oh my gosh! He took it!"

Akio could feel the hair in his neck starting to rise, and all the eyes staring at him from behind.

He turned around and suddenly there was a whole crowd standing behind him. It seemed like everyone that lived in Melgard was gathered, here to see him accept the job.

Akio didn't make a single grimmace, but looked down into the ground and pushed his way through the crowd and into the bar to accept the job offer.

He walked into the nice little bar and could instantly smell the beer and hear the drunk travellers and knights yell and talk. There was always so nice in The Rum Tum, because of the moody shandaliers and the little bar with the beautiful bar-maid, Asuki standing there with all of the diffirent coloured drinks in the back.

Akio walked up to Asuki and slammed the poster against the desk. There was a traveller sitting next to him, and his eyes went wide when he realized, what Akio had just slammed against the desk.

"Are you sure about that son?"

"Yes.... I am sure...." Akio looked up with a poker face and waited for Asuki to get to him.

Asuki walked back into the bar and over toward Akio. She looked down onto the desk with the poster for the Fazstar, and looked back up at Akio with a worried face.

"Akio...? Are you alright?"

"Yeah... I'm alright, now sign me up for the offer."

Asuki took the poster and looked worringly at Akio while turning around, to sign him up for the offer. She wrote his name on a contract looking piece of paper and hung it on the wall.

"Alright, you are signed up. Good luck."

"Thank you...."

Akio walked out of the bar and the crowd was still there, on both sides of the door, making it look like he was the king walking out of his castle.

When Akio got home, his dad and little sister were still sleeping.

He took off his shoes, and walked into his bedroom, where he took off his new armor, and sat on the right side of his bed, facing towards the window, looking out over the city of Melgard.

After 10 minutes of staring out the window, Akio went to bed. Tommorrow is the day he has to fight the Fazstar.