He arrived at the old man's store and opened the door as everyone turned towards him and started whispering.
The old man saw him and said "Hey kid I need some help over here" Natsu immediately ran and helped the man out which he ended up doing till the man closed.
The old man looked at Natsu and asked "Do you still want a job?" Natsu was happy to hear this and said "Yes"
The old man then said "You're hired, and here's your pay for today" Natsu was so happy and excited about it. It wasn't much but he was happy because he could use it to buy something or either save the money.
"I heard you had a brawl with Tetsuya, is that true" the old man asked.
"Kinda, I won't say I brawled with him since he almost obliterated me" Natsu said while scratching his head and laughing weirdly.
The old man laughed and asked "Are you new to this city?"
"Yes, I'm new to the city, but the worst part is that I don't even know how I got here. Well I know but I'm still confused" Natsu said.
"I'll tell you all you need to know about this city for a price" The old man said as Natsu immediately passed the coin bag him and said "Then let's begin"
The old man laughed and said "You're a strange kid, very well I'll tell you"
Natsu then said, "I want to know the history of this city"
"Okay then" the old man said after taking the coin bag.
"This is how it all started" the old man said as he started narrating the history of the city.
"Long ago this city was called Inteco and it was a very peaceful one at that. It had it's up and downs but it was more like a regular city without beasts although there were magical creatures then, they weren't as terrifying as the ones we currently see.
It was truly peaceful until something unexpected happened. A portal opened and some weird looking creatures came out from it.
The creatures that came out were about 5 if not more, they were all covered in black.
One hand wings only, the other a tail, some even had horns and some had a mixture of either two of them and the seventh one hand both wings, horns and a tail.
They tormented the people of this village that we now call a city.
It was truly horrific, later on the god's sent some beings down to help us which they did, and they sealed the demons in different places across the dimensions and leaving the monsters and evil creatures for us to deal with.
After a while the god's later blessed humans with a system which makes them overpowered, not everyone was born with a system, some people acquired it due to some unfortunate incident.
After the system came into place hunters and adventurers were created, the job of a hunter is to slay powerful beast while an adventurer's job was to protect the people. After a while, the village which was called Inteco was changed and now called Omipa city.
The villages you see around us were all from Inteco, but due to some few reasons they spit and became a city or village of there own. That's why this city is know as the great city of Omipa currently.
That was the history of this great city", the old man said as he concluded.
Hmmm....
"That's nice. I now understand the origin of this place and how stats came into existence" Natsu said
The old man stared at him while cleaning a glass cup saying "Hey kid, you know I can tell you more if you want"
They both spent the whole night talking and later went to bed.
It was a very bright morning, Natsu began to clean the whole place and prepared food for the old man.
When you think of it, Natsu was already used to cleaning the house when he was with his grandma so he didn't consider it as a job or something that's stressful.
"You're up already kid" the old man said as he slowly walked down from the stairs.
Natsu greeted him respectfully and wrapped up the cleaning as he went to sit down close to the man.
"Sir I'd love to know everything you know about this city" Natsu said.
The old man laughed and playfully said "That will cost you a lot, just say about 200 thousand gold coins".
Natsu nodded his head and said, "Okay no problem, but you'll give me time to pay the money"
The old man saw Natsu determination, so he explained how the system works.
"Sir if you don't mind me asking, What is the fastest way to get one million gold in 20 days" Natsu asked as they were talking.
The old man spit out his coffee and coughed a little, while saying "That's impossible even for Hunter or an Adventurer.
"What do you even want to do with that much money" the old man asked as Natsu then replied, "To buy a house."
"I hope you didn't make any deal with a demon" the old man said cautiously.
"It was an old man who was begging and I promised to buy a house from him which I intended to keep" Natsu said.
The old man said "If he told you in return you'll become he's slave then his a demon"
Natsu kept silent not realizing the gravity of what he has done.
"What do you mean by that?" Natsu replied later being confused.
"I didn't say they destroyed all the demons. They only sealed the seven most powerful demons.
The rest are still lurking in the shadows you know" the old man replied being serious and drinking a glass of wine he recently poured for himself.
Natsu then asked "So what's the highest paying job?"
"It's being a hunter" the old man replied.
"How am I going to get money by killing monsters" Natsu asked.
The old man looked at him and smiled and then said "By taking a vital organ like it's heart or kidney then showing it to a Hunter association, oh and don't also forget about its bone it's also valuable for making some weapons"
"Okay, so where can I sign up as a Hunter" Natsu asked.
The old man replied, "Look for it yourself" and to the man's surprise Natsu said his farewells and left the store.
"He's an interesting one" the old man said to himself as Natsu left.
Natsu looked for the Hunters and Adventurers guild and later found it.
"That didn't take much time" he said to himself as he walked into the building.
He saw that the place was busy and decided to head towards the counter.
Reaching there he saw a young man at the counter and he said very boldly "Good day sir, please I want to become an Adventurer and also a Hunter"
The young man saw a kid saying that but because of the rumors about him, everyone thought that he was really strong, so the man gave him a form to fill which he did.
The man then asked Natsu to lay his hands over a crystal like ball, which he did.
At first no value showed and the man thought it was bad and check his own which worked, he the looked at Natsu and said concentrate on this ball and to everyone's surprise the value that came out was unbelievable.
"A five!" someone in the counter screamed not still understanding, they told Natsu to try again and it still came out a five, other people started surrounding the place as they heard that.
A person from the background said "I thought the lowest is 100 and that's when the person barely have magic"
As people where side talking about it, the girl who he saw previously who kinda made the fight to occur in the first place told the people at the counter to go ask the guild master what it means which they did.
It was the first time in a long time that the guild master came out. He looked at Natsu and said, "I'm surprised, I can't believe that I would ever see a failure like you"
Everyone was shocked by his statement and he continued, "It's settled, your our city's new and first F rank"
Natsu felt totally humiliated because the ranks that exist in the city was S,A,B,C,D and E, ranking from top to bottom and to become the cities new F rank meant he was the weakest of the weak.
The guild master then said, "For breaking history, I'll give you your title as both an Adventurer and Hunter and also as the 'Weakest man in history'"
Natsu took his ID card and walked out embarrassed, he felt like the whole ground should swallow him up or that the person should have just killed him.
He immediately went to a weapons shop and saw a very old and wrecked blade.
The man who was selling the weapons said, "That one isn't for sale, it's trash just throw it away and pick a new one"
Natsu replied, "How much does it cost." The man saw how down Natsu was and said, "It's free"
Natsu took it and went deep into the the forest, he used the blunt knife to cut down hard trees and dragged it all the way to his house up the hills.
Natsu spent a whole week working and finally finished decorating his house and building a training ground for himself.
"I'm going to get strong no matter the consequence!" He said to himself and after everything, he went back to the old man's shop and told the old man that he would be working at night as a waiter and in the morning his going to go to work as an Adventurer or Hunter.
The man didn't know what to tell Natsu after hearing that he was an F rank so the whole of the day the man didn't talk to Natsu.
As Natsu was leaving the man stopped him. "Don't worry about me, I'll soon be back on my feet" Natsu stopped and told the man.
The man didn't know what to say and just told him, "Okay then, take care of yourself"
Natsu left that night after his pay and on his way home he bought a new sword.
It was very blunt and old but it was also very strong.
After arriving at home, Natsu went and took the blade he used to cut trees and sharpened it, he sharpened both of his swords and headed to the forest to hunt for beasts.