Collecting the Debt [Mission, D-Rank 364/100 words]

#11

Mission Taken:

The next mission was to find someone who owed money and remind him that he owed, as it looked that he was trying to duck payment. Sounded like another simple task. Akira walked back through the village reading the scroll. Some of the old ones noticed the work that he was beginning to do, nodding their heads silently. It seemed like Akira was on his way, among others.

The man's address looked deserted. It seemed like no one was home, and no one had been there for days, possibly weeks. The mailbox was over flowing. Or, maybe that was just how he wanted it to seem. Akira had to hang around for hours, but eventually someone emerged from the seemingly deserted house, dressed in a large coat and hat. He hurriedly stepped off the porch and into the normal traffic of villagers, not knowing he was being followed.

After a quick trip to the marketplace to retrieve several necessities, he attempted to make his way back home, not before being yanked into an alleyway, causing him to spill all of the goods he held in his arms. Turning over, the frightened man looked up at the kid Akira, staring back down at him with black eyes. "I think you forgot that there's people you owe money to," he said, folding his arms. "I'm here to jog your memory."

"Yeah, I-I know, I know! I wasn't ducking you guys, honest! I was gonna pay today as a matter of fact!" he said, trying to gather his goods.

Akira looked grim. "Sure you were," he said, looking at the man's obvious disguise. "That's why i'm going to escort you to the loan shark to make sure. Let's go."

The man's scare look turned to disappointment. Apparently he thought that if he hid long enough the sharks would forget about him and he wouldn't have to pay the money back. Things unfortunately didn't go that way. After paying he was broke, but at least he was alive. Things could have gone much worse...

364/100 words