Kazuki Isles - Island 3-Ikizuma
Gigi's POV
The night was dark and I had just collected the reward from the bounty office for Chuck Charlie, a 30,000 beri criminal with and now, here I sit in this dim local tavern enjoying a drink to celebrate. though quite honestly, it wasn't a particularly difficult hunt. I take another sip of my drink, its not terrible as far as cheap beer goes.
The door to the bar swings open again and I glance out of habit. 'Am I that drunk already??' i think to myself as, at the door is a person, but they look like a shadow. A person made of shadow? The shadowy figure goes to the bartender, unbothered by the stares and orders a drink.
"I know for a fact that I'm not that drunk so are you made of shadows?" I ask them curiously. They glance at me and I see its face and freeze, its face is terrifying, like its wearing a mask, right eye being a dimly glowing golden X and the left a circle and a smirk that looks like its been stitched on except their glowing and golden on its skin that looks like liquid shadow.
"Close enough." the shadow figure says amused by my obvious terror. "um n-no disrespect meant of course, I was just curious." I stammer and compose myself.
"'Kingslayer' Gigi yes?" they ask still amused taking a sip. "y-yes? why-how do you know about me? what do you want?" I ask trying to not stutter but damn, it is terrifying and I'm a little worried.
"You are good at what you do, good work gets recognized." they say simply and straighten as they face me. "What I want... isn't particularly relevant. I have a job for you."
My eyebrows go up, "A job?" The figure nods "This is not like your usual jobs, I do think its a rather odd one but it has good pay." they say, knowing that they have my attention. I take a sip of my drink slowly "Go on, you've got me interested now."
The figures smirk feels like its genuinely a smirk now, "in two days, someone will arrive at this island and I am hiring you to protect them. Keep them safe." they explain and I nod slowly.
"Who and how much we talking?" I ask, eyes gleaming as my mind races with the possibilities. "two billion and one hundred ninety-six million beri" they state and pull out a case from their bag. I gasp, compared to my recent hunts that is ridiculous! Who is worth this much?
I crack the case open an inch and see all that money. 'jeez what the actual hell is happening??' I look up to the figure and they can see my shock and I can feel their smugness and amusement. I can imagine my face right now, so frankly that's pretty fair. I compose myself and look at them "Two days right? Who?" The figures smirk widens