Arthur was incredibly happy that he had succeeded, even though it had taken way less effort than he had originally calculated. Soon the sky turned dark and night descended.
As soon as it was night, Arthur and Kaine started to go back to the town because they wanted to have dinner somewhere else. So they returned to town and walked towards a restaurant side by side.
The nightlife in the town had a different ambiance than the day. It was lively and the night market was just coming alive. People were working hard as always.
It wasn't easy to earn much less money, especially with the monopoly on the economy in the city. No matter how much they work hard, but the ultimate benefit of making money was preserved for noble or those with sufficient power. Weaker people work hard to earn money while the purpose of money was to enhance strength. But those stronger didn't allow the weak to rise in power. They always had a way to suppress them in the name of the tax, gang fee, protection fee, war funding, city development fee, etc.
Arthur grabbed her hand which greatly surprised her. As they were in the middle of a crowd, Kaine was surprised and embarrassed. Her feelings of shyness turned her face a little bit red.
"What are you doing?"
"Holding my lover's hand."
Arthur shrugged his shoulder casually and spoke like he didn't care about anything.
"Save me!!!"
A shrill scream rang out in the alleyway beside the road, Arthur looked towards the direction of the scream and witnessed an extremely terrible scene.
He saw a girl wearing a floral embroidered back dress surrounded by 5 guys who were crazily pulling on her clothes and harassed her. She struggled and screamed continuously but it was all in vain.
Who would have thought that they would run into something like that?
Just then...
THUUMP!
Kaine punched two guys from the back with her two hands and they immediately coughed blood and fell to the ground. They were ordinary people so they were weak and definitely not a match for Kaine.
"Uaaaahh.."
A painful cry escaped from the two guys whom Kaine punched.
"Oi, what are you doing to her here?", Arthur questioned them.
"Bitch, how dare you to beat up people working for boss Jim beb? ", one of the remaining three hollered, completely ignoring the city's third young master.
Arthur's face twitched in annoyance.
"What are you doing to this young girl?" Kaine glared at them and asked with a freezing tone.
"We are helping her to find her way home.", replied a short and fat guy amongst them.
"Five grown-up guys surrounded an alone girl in the alley and you say you are helping her find her way home. Are you trying to mock us? or do you think we are brainless idiots whose brain is full of shit?" Kaine questioned them angrily.
"Cheeh...What do you want? you know you have beaten up men under boss Jim beb. Boss will take it out on you and your family. But if you listen to us obediently, then maybe we can still save you.", said one of the three. His face oozed with bad intentions.
Hearing that, Arthur snapped. He couldn't take their bullshit anymore.
Whaam!
Crra--ck!
Aaaagh...
Arthur knee-strike the one who spewed out those daring words first. His knee was like a spear thrust bending the man's torso into an 'A' shape.
That man coughing blood fell to the ground and didn't wake up.
Everyone looked like they have seen a ghost, with their eyes out of their sockets. It was hilarious, to say the least.
They were just in the middle of a verbal argument but this guy directly jumped into beating up people.
"He is totally insane!", said one of the guys who was still standing.
" Is he alive?" asked another one holding in his fright.
" yeah, alive but still don't know if he will be able to move or even feel his waist ever again.", sneered Arthur as he shot them a pathetic look.
"You are really lucky he didn't kill you straight away," Kaine said with a chuckle.
"What should we do now Arthur?" Kaine looked at Arthur and asked.
Arthur moved close to the last two standing and said, "Take away this trashes from here. If I see you harassing anyone like this ever again, I will kill you."
Arthur then patted their cheek and flashed a gentle smile that felt like a demon lord's slaughter declaration. They both got scared out of their mind.
Demon! Definitely demon!
that's what they thought of Arthur at that moment.
They didn't dare to stay for another second. They ran away while carrying the injured ones.
"Are you okay? They didn't do anything, did they?" Kaine asked the girl.
'Now that I see her, she is not a human girl but a beastmen. She had long black hair, a cute face, and adorable cat ears, and last but not least she had a long black tail that was rubbery yet soft looking. So it appears she is a cat person.' Kaine thought.
"Umm, I am OK. you guys came on time if not I don't know what I should have done." Said the cat-girl.
Arthur became startled because he recognized her. Never did he thought he will meet this person here under this circumstances.
"Hey, aren't you the receptionist of mage tower?" Arthur asked.
"Ah! yes, I work there." the girl replied.
"You know her?" Kaine asked curiously.
"ÿeah, She is Anya. She works as a receptionist in mage tower. I met her before there."
"Ohh, I see."
"So how did you ended up like that? I thought you are a mage. These goons should've posed no problem to you." Arthur asked in confusion.
" I am a mage but I don't attack normal people. My teacher forbids me to do that.", Anya replied.
"WHAT!!! that's totally wrong. Normal or not, you must use your power to protect yourself. Don't listen to that kind of bullshit." Kaine tried to educate her.
"But--"
"No but. What would've you done if nobody came to save you today? More importantly, what will you do if this kind of accident happens next time?" Arthur asked.
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