"Let her go!"
Luckily I arrived in time, and I yelled at the man.
"Um……?"
The middle-aged man turned his head toward me, looked me up and down, and a hint of disdain appeared on his lewd face.
"Tch... Where did this piece of yarn come from? It's none of your business, get lost!"
The man appeared to be around 30 years old, with greasy hair falling across his forehead and a shiny, oily face, which gave me a feeling of "disgust".
I have no liking for this kind of person, just like that human trafficker before, he's the epitome of despicable.
"mud……"
I wouldn't give him a chance to escape. While blocking his movement with mud, I quickly rushed forward.
"Hmm... what's going on!"
The middle-aged man looked at his feet in panic. The ground, which had been hard, had become like a swamp. He tried to struggle out, but he sank deeper and deeper.
I punched him in the arm, and in pain, he had no choice but to let go of the girl. I took the girl and put her aside.
I never let such scum go easily. I walked up to him and looked down at him with a condescending expression.
"ah……"
He seemed startled by my gaze and began to panic, struggling incessantly in the mire, but to no avail.
"Hey! Do you think kids are easy to bully?"
I feel like my art style has changed; it has a kind of demon king descending to earth vibe. In short, to deal with this kind of person, you have to be even more ruthless than him.
"No, no, no!"
He shook his head like a rattle-drum, and although a hint of displeasure was revealed in his eyes, he dared not express it.
"Are you going to turn yourself in to the guards, or should I take you there...?"
I emphasized the word "I" very much, just to put an invisible pressure on him and make him feel uneasy.
"Go by yourself, go by yourself..."
I naturally didn't want to make a big deal out of it. Since he said that, I believed he would be in trouble with the guards.
After clearing the mud, I turned to the girl, who had already fainted and could be in mortal danger if she didn't receive timely treatment.
"Go to hell, you brat!"
Just as I turned around, that sleazy man, oblivious to his own mortality, lunged at me while cursing incessantly.
"Tch...what a hassle!"
I knew this sleazy guy would be unwilling to give up and would become hysterical, but in the end it was all in vain.
A huge fireball appeared out of thin air above my head, illuminating the entire alley.
"ah……"
Of course, I couldn't just kill the pervert; I just wanted to scare him. And as I expected, when the pervert saw my big fuss, he was so frightened that he ran away.
"mud……"
Of course I wouldn't let him get away like that. He probably wouldn't turn himself in on his own, even though I'd already given him a chance.
I first used the turquoise crown to remove the strangulation marks on the girl's neck before bringing the girl and the lewd man together to the patrolling guards.
Upon seeing the guards, the lewd man became much more obedient, like a child who had made a mistake, not daring to raise his head.
"If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have done it in the first place."
After some investigation, it turned out that the sleazy man was just a local thug who bumped into the girl as he was passing through the alley.
Despite the girl's repeated apologies, the lewd man remained unmoved.
During the argument, the girl slapped the perverted man...
"That was so satisfying! I should have slapped him too!"
What happened next was my appearance as the hero who saved the damsel in distress...
"However, the girl seems to still be unconscious. Is she destined to be a sewer hero...?"
"None of that matters anymore... I need to go back to sleep, I'm so sleepy..."
After the guard promised to take the girl home safely, I left. It wasn't that I wanted the girl to thank me; as for offering herself in return, my wallet probably wouldn't allow it.
"The feeling of fighting crime is really great..."
When I got back to the hotel, it was already late at night, and I fell asleep almost as soon as I lay down on the bed.
After all, Philip and I had drunk quite a bit, and the alcohol was really getting to us. That's what it felt like, the kind of feeling that comes after you've only just realized it.
...
When I woke up this morning, another amazing scene unfolded.
Lilith hugged me naked, suffocating me until I could hardly breathe, and that's when I suddenly woke up.
Last night I was so stressed about that that I completely forgot Lilith was still in bed with me.
I know that when Lilith wakes up, she'll definitely spout all that "flirting" stuff like before...
That was a situation I couldn't handle.
They could only slink away in disgrace...
"Ugh... I feel so tired."
It seems that being a good person isn't easy.
Once outside the hotel, the glaring sunlight forced me to squint. It took me a while to adjust before I realized that the street vendors were already preparing for their day's work.
"Want to take a look around?"
"It's so cold..."
I had originally planned to stroll around the center of the lake, but a sudden gust of cold wind forced me to abandon that plan.
"Let's go to the guild..."
When I passed through that alley last night, the traces of the battle were still there, left by my use of the Mud Swamp skill.
Although the snowfall has stopped and the scattered snowflakes have covered some of the area, probably no one but myself knows what happened here.
"An unsung hero?"
"Hmm...that's good too..."
Upon arriving at the guild, I ran into Pro and his group. Martha was also there; they must have been planning to accept a quest after the snowfall.
Good morning, Pro!
"Oh, it's Leon... Good morning!"
"cut……"
Leah is still the same as always, which is really frustrating.
“Martha, it’s been a long time! And Leah… too.”
I waved and greeted the two of them, though I was met with a fierce glare from Lia in return. Martha, however, returned the greeting with a smile.
After a brief reunion, Pro and his group left, apparently having accepted an investigation into the cause of the monster disturbances in the wetland forest.
These types of missions are the simplest, and there is almost no direct conflict with monsters, so Pro and his team don't need to spend a whole day specifically gathering information.
It seems they plan to prepare some necessities before heading to the wetland forest.
I had no intention of going along; I was thinking of taking a break and enjoying a day off.
Although Wallet is in a precarious state, it hasn't reached the point where it needs to take on commissions every day.
After breakfast, I still wanted to take a good stroll around the city of Brienne...
After all, it is a city of equal status to Teruneia.
For the past six months, I've been busy earning tuition fees for Anna, and I haven't really had a chance to properly experience the unique charm of Lake City.
"Where should we go first?"
"The castle in the middle of the lake?"
That's the symbol of the city of Burjeni, and it's said that a "lake spirit" lives there, a beautiful older sister...
Rumor has it that children who don't come home by midnight will be snatched away by the "lake spirit" and eaten as snacks...
"Just a fairy tale for kids?"
"Hmm...? Is that really true?"
In short, you'll know once you go and see for yourself; you won't encounter the "Lake Spirit" during the day.
So, I'm not worried about being arrested...
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