Killing in the Shadows

"When was the last time I came here? Has it been a few years?" Yuri asks himself as he stares at the bustling city that he had not seen in a long time. One of the bystanders saw him walking needlessly and plans to snatch his belongings away in which he easily apprehended the guy with a single movement.

               "What is wrong with you?" Yuri said with an indifferent tone and then takes away his stuff and leaves the man in shock.

               "What just happened? What in the world just happened?" the man ask to himself as his friends come to his side while looking at Yuri walking away.

               "Damn man. Why did you do that? Do you not recognize that guy is?" they turn to him with the expression as if they are asking him a question. "That guy is called Yuri. He is someone that the other veteran hunter calls 'Vanishing Reaper" for the way that he disappears and reappears in the city after a few years. I don't know why he came here now but I guess that is something about the new bounties."

               With Yuri's identity revealed to the others, they did not consider taking revenge on him due to the fact that the other hunters are wary of him just by seeing their reaction on the side of the streets.

               "You are one brave kid but that is not someone that you should mess with. He can kill you and before you know it, you are dead." One of the old man says as he laughs with his mates.

               "Let's just go and leave this place. I don't want to see that guy again." He said to his friends who then runs along with him. "Is it possible for a human to have reacted to something like that so easily?" he still thinks about what just happened and how it ended in just a matter of moments but he still could not wrap his head around it.

               Yuri finds himself standing in front of the building where the guild is located, the instant the receptionist saw him, a smile appears on her face as if she had seen his long lost husband. "There he is! He is back at last! My valentine!" she tells herself as she watches the graceful small movements that Yuri makes, that is, all in her head of course, the typical fan girl thing that goes on even in different ages.

               "Look at him, so tall and handsome- wait, I have not even seen his actual face did I?" She said to herself and then tries to figure out if she actually have seen Yuri's face under the mask in the past before Yuri reaches her desk. "Think! Think! Think! Think! When was it that you have seen his face?! Nothing!" she calms herself down as Yuri stands in front of her.

               "Ah- are you okay? You look at bit red or never mind." Seeing that the receptionist is well enough to nod her had countless times. "I was told that there is a new bounty that was put up earlier, someone told me to check it out right after I arrive at the foot of the city." He looks at her confusedly after seeing how close her face is to his, Yuri immediately distance himself right away and without thinking much about it, he moved as if he was surprised and disgusted about the actions that the receptionist had done.

               "Sorry about that. I was just surprised when you did that." He said with a worried tone but to his surprise, the receptionist did not take it badly and is rather pleased about it. "No, no, no. it was rude of me for doing that please forgive me." She said with a beat red face and then moves like she had been drunk or something.

               She hands him the paper and ask if it was the same thing, Yuri confirms it after seeing the bounty poster that the man told him earlier. "Then I will inform the guild master of your arrival, please wait here." She gives Yuri the seductive look but he doesn't seem to affect him in any way and instead of getting embarrassed or feel down, it made her look even more excited.

               "He ignored me! That was so hot!" she could not contain her excitement and let out a giggle that made all the other employees stare at her in amazement since she is not someone that would act like that in any other normal day.

               "What is it with her?"

               "Dunno, she doesn't really act that way."

               "What in the world was that?" Yuri ask himself this as he waits at the reception and one of the employees offers him a chair but he respectfully declines saying that he had been sitting on the carriage the entire trip so his legs are stand. "Thank you very much but I am fine. I will not be staying here any longer as well so I don't think I will need one." The employee then accepts his reason and goes back to cleaning the floor.

               "Look who it is. No wonder Stella here got a bit excited so it was you." The guild leader walks in the middle of the hallway with his arms crossed and a huge smile on his face. "Nice to meet you again guild leader. I hope you heard about me asking for the new bounty post. May I have a go with it?"         

               The guild master made an expression as if Yuri is free to do whatever he wants since he is not affiliated with the guild anyway which gives Yuri as sense of relief that he guild master had gave up on the idea of persuading him in to joining the guild just like the others who tries to do so everywhere he goes.

               "Come to my office. I will tell you about it." The guild master then grabs Yuri's shoulder but the latter refuses and tells him the name of the demon that is in the poster, which greatly surprises the guild master.

               "The demon in the poster is called a Stalker, they are agile and can only be killed by beheading it since it's ability to regenerate their lost limbs are too fast because of their own magic, a normal hunter would lose their lives after only a few minutes of struggle." Yuri looks at the poster and then hands it to the guild master.

               "Just as I thought, this is not something that any typical hunter would be able to take on. Are you sure you will be fine? If its able to take on Captain Gladius then it would be a big burden even for you." Yuri is glad to hear that the guild master is worried about him but he knows that the guild master is acting like that because he is still not giving up on the idea of recruiting him so he brush his worry off saying that he had encountered countless of those demons in the past and that he is more than aware of what it can do as well as it's weakness.

               "There is no need to worry about me guild master, I have my ways of doing things and a stalker will not be enough to take me down. Just advise the people seal that part of the land for the mean time but there is something that is bugging me." The guild master hears the last part of what he said and ask Yuri about it but the hunter shakes his head to the guild master and then left.

               "He really is a strange fellow. He told me not to worry but why do I get the feeling that there is something wrong with what he said?" he looks at Yuri who is now long gone and just shakes the feeling off since there is someone that will take care of the demon for good.

               "Stalkers, they should only be found in the northern region on the edge of the world. For their kind to be found here, there must be something that is happening. More importantly, how in the world were they able to appear here? Is there a rift that opened nearby? No- that would be impossible. If that was the case then I would be able to sense it but there is nothing. What is going on?"

               Yuri thinks about this as he gets everything ready for the hunt but since it is not confirmed if the stalker is alone, he made some preparations in case that other stalkers would appear uninvited.

               "They are known to move individually but considering the change of their habitat, they might be in groups as well." He gets everything ready, all the things that he needs to take care of the stalker.

               Meanwhile,

               "That meal was costly, I did not expect that a single meal alone would cost a few coppers. now that I thought about it, the price of staying in the inn is costly as well."

               Jiniro walks around the city, concealing them money that he has just as what he had seen them do, some of them embrace their bags and some even walks wit weapons on their waist to warn anyone not to get any funny ideas but since Jiniro is not knowledgeable about holding a weapon of any kind, he pretends that he doesn't have anything in him.

               After getting his stomach full after eating that much, the night slowly settles in and he is forced to go back to the inn before darkness take over the skies since he had seen what could happen even in daylight, worse might happen especially when the night comes. Just as he is passing by an alley, he hears a pleasure moan which greatly intrigues him since it is the first time that he heard something like that and stops on his tracks.

               He takes a good look inside the alley where it is already dark and when his eyes got used to the darkness of the alley, he can clearly see a couple making out and having sex in the alley, there are dozens of people that are passing by and they don't seem to care about what is happening inside. Jiniro quickly retreats back when he realize what was happening and recognize the woman having sex as one of the girl that talked to him when he was still looking for a place to stay.

               "Yes~ **** me harder!~"

               "Auh~ heut~! Auh~ Auh~!"

               The woman sees him and is quite surprise, the man she is having sex with immediately realize this and makes the woman crawl on all fours and rams her from behind, Jiniro stands in shock as the girl seems to invite him to join them in pleasure, with his first time seeing a woman's naked body, he can feel his body starts to get warm and his ears started ringing but among all this excitement that he is feeling for the first time, Jiniro still manage to control himself and run away from the scene.

               "What a shame that he left. Should I have invited a friend to appease your thirst for my sword? I forgot that you enjoyed playing with two swords at the same time since I was too excited to have fun with you- ah this is good!"

               "Still it is quite surprising that there is someone that is able to suppress their desires. That guy must be a virgin."

               He looks at his partner's expression and sees how excited she is after being seen by a stranger completely naked.

               "She is tightening up! She must really like that!"

               The man smiles when he realizes this when all of the sudden they saw as shadow and a presence behind them that excites the woman even more. The man did not hesitate and invites whoever it is behind them to join them in sex.

               "Join us, you can use the other hole on the other side. I swear it's so good."

               But when there is no response, the man is suddenly worried and so he turns back to look. His eyes shot up when he sees an enigmatic figure standing behind them as he gets chills just by looking at the figure and ended up making him ejaculate prematurely. Enraged by what just happened since he is someone that is able to last long during sex, he lashed out at the man only to find that his head is already rolling on the ground without struggle.

               "What in the world-! KYAAAAAAAA!"

                CHUK!