Akira looks over toward the direction of the noise. A typical game played within taverns, although its players were usually drunk out of their minds and would come close to hurting someone, most of the times themselves every time they played it. He returns Allura's smile before explaining. "In a tavern pretty much anything is normal, order isn't exactly held up in these places as it's more likely to scare away potential patrons." He smiles once more before continuing. "If you want to join in, I won't stop you... just know you won't have to beat them, that won't be a challenge, you'll need to beat me." With that Akira reaches down to his left boot and pulls the hidden blade from its sheath as he brings it up and softly jabs it into the table so that it stands on its own. It was a very common defensive weapon for any hunter or adventurer a dagger hidden within their boots in a sheath that was purposely shaped in when the boots were originally made to keep its identity hidden. "So how about it? Think you can take me down?" Akira asks, though instead of waiting for an answer he stands up resting his hand on the grip of the dagger pulling it from its resting place as he walked over towards the other partakers. 

On his way over however Akira comes to abrupt stop as he notices something out of the corner of his eye, he turns to face a board which had paper pinned to it by all different forms of tools and broken weapons, it was a bounty board. His eyes quickly skip across the bounties 1 by 1 and he lets out a sigh of relief when he notices his own was not among them. "They haven't been here then." He mutters to himself as he continues to make his way other. When he makes it to the side of the tavern where the board was the laughing and joking of the other players soon die down upon his arrival.
"What.*hic* whada you want *hic*?" one of the onlookers is the first to speak, fortunately for him, and all the other players it would seem he wasn't take part.
"Me and my... apprentice" Akira speaks as he turns his head to look to Allura who was making her way over. "We'd like to join you all in your game here?"
"Why would we want to play with you?" One of the more sober players asked.
"Because, we're hunters if you want to make some real gold you want to play against us." Akira looks the other players up and down. "Not these... farmhands and... well I don't know what he does for a living, a wannabe adventurer mayhaps?"
"You'd dare insult us in our own town?!" one of the other partakes responds angrily to Akira's minor insult.
 "But of course, I have to provide you with some sort of drive to win. Afterall I wouldn't win anything if you walked away after the first game due to a lack of determination."
"Well excuse me mr hunter." One of the players remarks as he prods the corroding studs of Akria's armour. "But you don't look very rich to me in that attire."
"Looks can be deceiving my friend." Akira notices Allura had arrived and puts an arm over her shoulder hugging her towards him. "If I didn't have gold how was I to convince this beautiful young lady to become an apprentice hunter." 

The other players turn to look to one another and huddle around as they whisper and exchange words quietly. As they turn away Akira moves his arm away from Allura, as much as it gave him a comforting warmth he didn't want to make her un-comfortable. "Don't worry." Akira whispers to Allura "We've got this one in the bag easily, there's no way they'll back down from this challenge." He passes Allura a cocky smile as he awaits the players to cast their verdict. It was certainly going to prove a most interesting game when it would be down to just the two of them.