'Damn, this place is a shithole…'
{heads up, you got company}
"The boss wants to talk with you" stated the one with a dog head.
"why?"
"Miss Eliza wishes to talk with you, and she isn't the owner of this place"
"Sure, why not"
He followed them to a room where he saw the woman who was singing.
"You brought him. That's a good job, boys"
"It was our pleasure Miss Eliza"
"Now, time for presentations. I'm Eliza, and those two are my servants; Horas and Albus"
"I'm nobody special"
"Do you really think that you can fool me? I know that you're a bounty hunter, your eyes are giving you away"
"What do you want?"
"I know that you were with a girl that had a parasite in her hair. I want you to bring her to me"
"What if I don't want to?"
"The moment I'll snap my finger, the moment everyone will know that you're a bounty hunter, and you won't be able to leave this place alive"
"You don't scare me, I've seen uglier things"
"My poor little thing" Eliza's face began to melt, revealing a bone head that looks like a cat's head "You don't know who you're talking to, do you? I thought that Samson was smart enough to warn you about me… and all what I did in the past"
He suddenly coughed up some of his own blood.
"Samson should have told you that you're not on our level"
"Like I said, you don't scare me"
"Strength and no brain to think of what's happening around you. I wonder how you survived with such a low intellect, you were maybe lucky from times to times. But let me assure you, you're going to need more than luck with me" Eliza's face was now back "I suggest you to think of my proposition"
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Vince couldn't help but wonder how a place like this works.
Everywhere he looks, someone is either being killed or raped.
"Stop right there"
Vince didn't know if that was directed at him, but he stopped anyway.
He looked around until he saw something.
A tall, lythe figure approached, her height towered over his, well over six feet.
She had a humanoid upper body with the usual torso, arms, hands, and fingers. Her arms and hands appear very human, if not for them being covered in purple vestigial feathers from elbow to wrist, looking very much like natural arm warmers and incapable of flight. She has noticeable hips that give her a graceful stride, and her shapely rear end fills out her clothing nicely. A long shark-tail trails down from her backside, swaying to and fro while giving her a dangerous air. Halfway across it grows a smaller dorsal fin. She has a pair of powerful legs, with clawed, plantigrade feet, strong enough to propel her through water. Her middle is fairly well-toned.
'Holy shit…'
The figure stopped in front of him.
"Uh, hey"
"Hm, figures you wouldn't remember me"
"Have we met before?"
"Two years ago, a place called Mhen'ga"
His eyes widened.
"Kuuya?"
"Took you long enough"
"What are you doing here?"
"I'm a mercenary, what do you think?"
"Here to kill someone?"
"Yeah, he was all over the bulletin in Tarvaros"
"Who is it?"
"Some guy named Azrael, came here to ask if anyone knows him"
"I suggest that you stop looking for him if you value your own life"
"Why?"
He told the mercenary about his plan, and why Azrael is so dangerous.
"No one could ever be that strong"
Vince simply pointed at where he was before.
"Damn that monster" muttered a muscled man with a broken hand "No matter what we do his hand won't budge"
"No wonder he got a hot chick like her with him" said another one.
Vince was close by, he listened in.
"So, you still don't know where Kuroka is?"
"We narrowed a small area around where she had used her power before, the lizard said that she will try to point where the cat really is before sending me"
"I never thought that you would accept to work for her"
"I help her, she get to find for me someone with who I can fight with full strength"
"You still want to fight someone who can survive facing you without your limiters?"
"That would be the best for me"
"That aside, did you think of what Ophis asked you?"
"Trying to get me to fight those who are outside the limit of reason… that would seem like a tempting offer, but there's no satisfaction with it"
"How would you like your final opponent to be like?"
"He need to be stronger than that red lizard"
"Well… I have a question"
"What kind of question"
"What do you think of… romance"
"What the hell is that?"
"Nothing… it's nothing"
They left.
"Well shit…."
"Yeah, but I have a plan, you could join if you want"
"Count me in, the bounty on his head could set me up for several lifetimes"