Akemi
Akemi tissée et dérobée sous l'énorme poing qui s'est écrasé sur elle plusieurs fois, en utilisant la force du Monolith contre elle-même, et les autres menaces qui ont essayé de vomir sur les chasseurs "Allez! C'est tout ce que tu as?"
Peu de temps après, le lac de Larmes était en vue, le Monolith lâchait un rugissement guttural alors qu'il remarquait enfin le tour rusé de ses adversaires. Ses jambes se sont coincées dans la boue jusqu'aux genoux, chaque pas qu'il a pris était plus dur que le précédent et tout comme Akemi le prévoyait, il est devenu complètement coincé à quelques mètres de la marge d'un étang particulièrement profond. En quelques secondes, la boue désolée fut obscurcie par un mince nuage de brouillard, frayé par la lave qui fit bouillir l'eau, créant une vapeur qui se refroidirait presque instantanément dans l'air froid et non naturel.
Akemi a utilisé la couverture impromptue pour se cacher alors qu'elle se brisait entre les jambes du Monolith et glissa les pieds sur la boue lissée, tournant son corps pour gagner de l'élan avant de faire confiance à sa main droite, invoquant une lance d'ombres que tout ce que Tatsumi avait créé jusqu'à présent pour déchirer la jambe du Monolith et la forcer à tomber sur l'eau froide glacée. Un sort d'ombre ce fort était quelque chose que seuls les chasseurs expérimentés pouvaient faire sans subir un choc sévère, et même alors, seulement une fois, mais c'était tout ce dont Akemi avait besoin de toute façon.
Un second dernier rugissement énorme a été entendu dans toute la région du lac de Larmes, alors que le géant en pierre fondue tomba sur la piscine et commença à se solidifier, devenant dur et fragile « C'est tout à toi, maintenant! » Akemi a crié à Alto "Le reste d'entre vous, les nouveaux! Elle a commencé à dire, avant d'être coupée par un ensemble de tentacules visqueux qui tournaient autour de son corps "Pourquoi sont..." était toute la femme renarde pouvait dire avant d'être paralysée par le poison incrusté sur eux.
Comme si sur le signal plusieurs autres monstres comme celui qui a embusqué Akemi rampait hors des piscines de boue autour des chasseurs. Ils ressemblaient à des homards, mais étaient aussi gros que des poneys et leurs coquilles avaient une teinte jaune tachetée, mais ce n'était pas de loin l'aspect le plus troublant des bêtes. La vraie menace venait de ses pincers, assez forts pour récolter à travers l'acier et les tentacules qui venaient de l'intérieur, qui étaient revêtus d'une boue paralysante. En outre, à la place des grands yeux percés que les homards ont, les monstres avaient un orbe rempli de gémissements et de visages écœurants d'êtres humains et... si les chasseurs prêtaient une attention particulière, ils trouveraient même leurs propres visages tourmentés parmi ceux-là.
Les chances avaient tout balayé contre les chasseurs maintenant, semble-t-il. C'était vraiment fini? Ou leur mystérieux harceleur serait capable de renverser les écailles à nouveau? Tout cela n'était pas encore vu...
Name:  Akemi
Age:  Unknown, looks to be around her late teens
Appearance: Akemi is a young looking girl that stands at medium to small height with a light built body, she generally goes around wearing a hooded cloak to hide her inhuman features, resulting from the forceful fusion between her and a dying demonic entity a long time ago.
Magic: Thanks to the demonic blood coursing through her veins, Akemi is able to perform all types magic, though she has a natural talent to handle the elements of fire and blood. Whenever she casts a spell, her eyes will glow with demonic power and her voice will gain a second much lower pitch that's slightly off-sync, making hiding her non-human nature much more difficult. In order to use her fire magic, Akemi carries around several flasks full of highly flammable liquid that ignite instantly when in contact with air thanks to a special trigger made of powdered magnesium and white phosphorus that she buys from a shady alchemist.
Weapon: Apart from her black scimitar, Akemi carries around a concealed dagger that she uses only as a weapon of personal defense. She doesn't have any ranged weapons, trusting on her magic to carry her through any long range engagements. As a very last ditch move, she can also fight unarmed employing both her claw-like nails and a strange kind of martial art that no one else seems to know.
Personality: Akemi is a stoic person that rarely talks when not asked something directly by someone. She carries herself around with an air of aloofness to her actions, though it's actually a way to keep people away from her, as Akemi have already had her share of disappointments when dealing with people.
Her behavior and strange accent make clear that Akemi isn't from any know region of the world, though she lacks any memories regarding her childhood or how she arrived at this place. She tends to move in calculated ways, never spending more energy on any task than it might be needed and always keep a vigilant eye and a sharp ear to whatever is happening around her.
Only two situations are able to affect Akemi's usual persona. When someone really pisses her off (which is generally easily achievable by touching her in places she doesn't like to be touched), in which case she'll assume a very vengeful disposition and won't rest until she has enacted vengeance upon her aggressor. Or, when she's delighting herself in her favorite food, udon noodles along with the dreaded mapo tofu, which is pretty much to only situation that will invoke sight of a smiling Akemi and make her tail swish happily as her body trembles with pleasure after every bite of the hellish spiced food.
Bio: Akemi, like many others, doesn't know much about her past except that she clearly hasn't been born at this place. The only thing that she can recall clearly is having her body all bandaged up and laying on some kind of bed. When she woke she wasn't human anymore, her body had been somehow fused with that of a dying demon, supposedly to save her from death too, though Akemi doesn't know who, or why they did that to her. She has been living on this world for so many time already, her demonic body unchanged by the passage of time, that she has melded in and became a member of the local population and they simply don't care for what her true nature is, thought it's not uncommon for Akemi to run into problems with overeager Hunters that confuse her with the other beings that stalk the shadows of the World of Wasted Dreams. She also no longer has any desire to go back to whatever place she came from, having long since made her peace with the fact that she will never be able to live anywhere else. These days, all that Akemi wants of life is hunt monsters for money and use said money to buy her food and pay for the place where she would be sleeping for the night and once in a while indulge in her hobby, as long as she's able to do this, Akemi sees no use to try and change her life.
Other: Akemi has a very... interesting hobby that she likes to keep as private as possible. She's really into writing poetry (more specifically haiku) into pretty looking paper and then, using said paper to do origami of the most varied shapes. The room that she rents at her usual inn is full of these strange works of art, though Akemi really doesn't like when people peer into her intimacy, so very few people know about that.