The Hunter's Life SataiRolePlayingGuy x Venus

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

Even the strongest empires had to deal monsters on the borders.  The army could not take care of all of it either, especially when the army seemed to on a crusade to conquer the world.  All that really meant was there were those who were paid to hunt and kill them.  Some did it for the money, some for the challenge, others because they had a grudge against monsters for one reason or another.  Lunnur was one such man, who had taken up the job.  He was the third son of a minor noble.  Technically nobility, but with little chance of inheriting anything.  He could have joined the army, but he thought his sword would be more useful against non-human threats, lingering on the frontiers.

He had just woken up from the bed in the inn he was staying at.  Waiting for his sometimes partner in the job.  A rare case of a woman who had chosen to fight.  A woman who had grown up fast.  He did not a lot about her, but apparently had her family killed by monsters, leaving her all alone.  He could not blame her for wanting to kill them.  Was happy to help.  He certainly enjoyed watching her, fighting and in other cases.  He had not so far made a move on her, maybe that would be another time.  It was something to consider another night when they were back in town.  Nice as would be to do in camp at night, it was too risky to do around monster territiory.  Could not let their guard down, or give them ideas.  Many monsters would be just as eager to have their way with a woman like her.  You occasionally heard stories of raiding monsters having their way with any human woman they could.  Though that was rare in the empire and tended to only happen in border villages, which harsh response to the monsters involved.

Once she was up, they would figure out their plan for the next day or days.  Choose a destination and monsters they hoped to hunt.  There was some randomness involved though.  Often you just hunted what you ran into.