A day passed slowly. During the time they were traveling, Rem taught Alex and Izel how to control their mana by meditating. As for Chloe, Rem told her to practice shooting Karasu using the gun Rem gave her. For every meal, they shared some food and water for the people traveling with them.
Thanks to Rem's presence, the latter didn't encounter any monsters. Fortunately, no monster who didn't fear Rem appeared throughout their whole journey towards Leroy City.
Rem decided to stay in her beastman form after finding out the fact that Leroy City is a place that has mostly beastmen or half-breeds living there.
"Thank you for the ride. Here's a tip." Rem gave the man who guided them here a silver coin.
"Thank you, I really appreciate it! If you need to travel anywhere, just ask me! Here's my card. You can find me here at those times." The man grinned as he put the silver coin inside the hat he was wearing.
He put his hat back on with the coin and many other things inside before leaving.
"So that's why his hat looked buff!" Alex pointed out, causing Chloe to giggle softly.
"We really don't have a card! Please, let us in. We have traveled very far to get here...!" The father of the family Rem, Alex, Izel, and Chloe were with, in the wagon earlier.
"I apologize, but we cannot let anyone without a card pass." One of the guards claimed, shaking her head.
The mother of the family was crying while she hugged the two kids tightly.
"They look like they're in trouble..." Chloe looked at the family with pity.
"We... We can't help them. Never pity anyone!" Alex tried to convince himself.
"Izel thinks we helped them a lot already. We gain nothing by helping them. That family will die sooner or later." Izel said coldly.
Rem walked towards the guards. The other three follow her like ducklings.
"Excuse me. We would like to enter." Rem calmly said, showing the guards four cards, one for each of them.
"May I ask why you have their cards?" The same female guard asked, staring at Rem with suspicion.
"We're traveling together. You see, I'm the oldest in the group. The younger ones seem to lose things often. I can't let them lose something this important now, can I? I need to take responsibility. Losing a card is problematic after all." Rem explained casually.
"I understand. You kids may enter." The guard announced.
The family all looked at Rem, hoping that she would help them once again. However, Rem didn't. She didn't even look back once.
'It can't be helped.' Rem thought, finally entering Leroy City.
"How do you get a card of ours? We never registered for a card." Chloe stated.
If you can't tell already, Chloe's an extremely curious person.
"I made them." Rem answered.
Rem used her Creation Magic when she was inside the wagon to create a card identical to the one she has back at Arka City, using the invisibility skill to make it so nobody could see what she was doing.
"Are you stupid or what? What kind of question is that???" Alex asked, pissing Chloe off.
He gave off a "you're the stupidest person I had ever met" look at Chloe.
"If I'm considered stupid, then you must be trash." Chloe snapped.
"Pah, you're stinker than tra—!" Alex tried to argue back.
"Quit the bickering." Rem butted in.
This immediately stopped Alex and Chloe's argument.
'I need to help them level up some time. I haven't made much progress lately... At this rate, I can never get my revenge. Wake up, Rem!' Rem scolded herself.
"Come one, come all! If you can beat this man over here, we'll let you spar with the hero!!! The prize once you beat the hero is ten gold coins!" A man with a mustache wearing a black top hat yelled.
'Hero...?'
Rem walked towards where she heard the yelling. She stopped in front of a small ring that had been set up in the middle of the shopping area. This was something that piqued many people's interest.
"I'd like to try!"
"Let me try!"
"No, let me go first!"
People shouted. The onlookers betted on who they think would win the fight.
'Hm...? Where's the hero?'
"Which one is the hero?" Rem asked an onlooker.
She wanted to make sure she was correct. All Rem saw was a muscular man inside the ring, the man wearing a black top hat, the person standing next to the man wearing a black top hat, and many other onlookers.
"You see that dark blue-haired man who's carrying a staff over there? That's the hero." The onlooker Rem asked the question to replied.
Rem couldn't tell which one was the hero because she didn't sense anyone in this crowd who has a strong aura.
'I never met a hero before, but... Are all heroes this weak? Are they weak because they had just been summoned here or is it because that person over there isn't actually a hero?'
{That's definitely a fraud. If that person was a hero, you would have sensed some kind of God's powers on the hero.}
Master, whoever that is... They're lying! I don't sense any Godly powers on that hero.
'I see... Thank you for telling me. I still want to spar with that fake hero though.'
"Please wait in a line! If you want to fight, it will cost ten silver coins to enter!" The man said.
"I'm here first. Take this and let me fight that man." Someone who's closest to the man wearing a black top hat claimed, throwing a bag that contains ten silver coins in it to him.
"Alrighty! Stand here please. Once I count to three, the battle will begin!" The man began, letting the contester stand to where he was pointing.
"Three...! Two...! One...! Begin!" The man yelled, blowing the whistle he has around his neck.
The contested rushed in at the man he's fighting, but with only one punch from his opponent, he instantly passed out.
"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one...! And, that's the end! This contested has lost." The man announced.
The onlookers were all shocked except for Rem. Alex, Izel, and Chloe all wondered why Rem was watching this pointless fight.
Seeing how everyone was hesitant, Rem decided to go next.
"I'll go." Rem said confidently, handing ten silver coins to the man.
"Ahaha... I see that we have another person who wants to challenge this man here. Please stand over there. At the count of three, the fight will begin. Three... Two... One... Begin!" The man blew his whistle.
{Why don't you check his stats?}
'I don't need to inspect their stats... I don't feel the need to.'
Master is strong!
'I'm not at the strength I want to be...'
The muscular man charged at Rem, head-on.
'He's not using any magic... Then I won't use any either. Knocking him out should be fine, right...?'
Right before the man hit Rem, Rem used her right hand to chop her opponent's back of the neck.
Rem attack was so quick that no normal person could see it. The man collapsed in front of Rem, clearly passed out.
"How did that happen?"
"What did she do??!"
"Wow... She knocked that man out with just one hit!!!"
The onlookers were all chattering. This made the area louder than before.
"It's okay, I didn't kill him. Now let me fight the hero." Rem demanded.
Alex has a smug expression on while Chloe laughed at how weak that man was. As per usual, Izel stood next to Chloe with an indifferent expression.
"O-Oh, uh... Y-Yeah, of course! Here he is!" The man pointed at the dark blue-haired man with nervousness in his eyes.
He whispered something in that man's ears before letting him fight. Whatever the man whispered, Rem heard it all despite the loudness of the other people speaking.
'What pill? Huh... How suspicious of them. Isn't that illegal?'
{It is illegal.}
'Anyway, that's not important. That so-called hero doesn't seem to be anything special.' Rem noticed, waiting for the "hero" to stand at the opposite side of where she was in the ring.
"If you want to give up, you should do so now. This is the last chance I'm giving you before I break your arms." The blue-haired man smirked confidently.
How ignorant! I want to cut off his tongue this instant...!
"What's going on? Why are none of you fighting??!"
"Yeah, fight already!!!"
"Fight, fight, fight!!!"
The onlookers yelled.
"Let's see whose arms will be broken after this match." Rem smiled, making sure to seem as weak as possible.
"Hah! Then let's see!!!"
The blue hair man began to chant a spell.
'His chanting speed might be impressive for others... Looks like his element is water.'
Rem easily dodged every attack.
'Why is trash like him being called a hero? I don't understand what's going on in those people's heads.'
"Hahaha!!! That young girl is dodging the hero's attacks! Just look at that man embarrassing himself...!"
"He can't even hit that little girl once?"
"That man must be a fraud!"
Many people have begun to doubt whether or not that man was a hero.
"You, brat...! STOP DODGING!!!" The man yelled in rage, attacking Rem with more of his water element attacks.
Rem stopped dodging. Instead, she blocked all of the man's attacks.
"I can't believe I thought that man was a hero! He can't even harm a little girl..."
"The man that girl is fighting must be trash. How can a grown man like him act like this?"
"What a flippin' fraud!"
The man began to sweat after hearing the onlooker's reactions. Rem decided that this was the perfect moment to attack the man. She dashed towards him so quickly that almost nobody noticed Rem move from her spot.
'He said he would break my arms...'
{Break his arms if you know the consequences.}
Master, he deserves his arms to be broken.
'Alright...'
Rem grabbed the man's non-dominant arm and broke it by using her elbow. Her great strength immediately caused a horrifying bone-shattering sound to be heard, shocking everyone.
"GAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" The blue-haired man screamed in agony.
The man with a black top hat on rushed to the blue-haired man, surprised to see a broken arm.
"Whose arm is broken, I wonder?" Rem exited the ring.
"You, brat! How dare you break the young master's arm??! You need to pay for what you did!!!" The man wearing a black top hat yelled in anger.
"Who was the one calling himself a hero? You guys even have the guts to fool everyone here. Would you like one of your arms broken too? You're the ones who need to pay the price." Rem said aloud.
"That's right! That girl didn't do anything wrong! It's you b*stards who need to pay for what you did!!!"
"We need justice!!!"
"Go to hell, you b*stards!!!"
The crowd threw all kinds of garbage at the three inside the ring.
"So... Cool...!" Alex muttered, looking up at Rem with an "I want to be like you" gaze.
"What's going on here??!" A loud voice yelled.
'How troublesome. The knights from Leroy City are here.'
Rem sighed. She wanted to leave this instant, but the knights surrounded the crowd already.
"Explain." The woman knight demanded.
{Dang, she is muscular.}
'Women can be just as strong as men, you know? Anyways, I'm guessing that she's the leader of these knights.'
The woman suddenly walked towards Rem with a fierce look on her face.
'Please don't talk to me, please don't talk to me...'
"Hey, you. The black-haired girl over there!" The female knight said loudly, causing many to flinch at her tone.
'Fudge!'