When Yuki kicked Kanesuke, guards from Kanesuke side immediately came to protect him. Town lord looked at his guards to use the opportunity to lick Kanesuke boots more, they all understood his orders and rushed to capture Yuki.
Yuki's disgust seemed to hit the sky, "old pervert, I thought you are just implicated by people when they call you master but now I know even your character is a shame for all men in this world," instead of her the people around felt scared just by thinking on how worst Yuki's life would become.
"Shameless old pervert," Yuki challenged, "if you are a real man, then have an alchemy contest with me."
Everyone's top got blown away with shock by her boldness. There was no hint of fear in her eyes, either it must be ignorance or her master was that powerful.
Kanesuke burst with anger and while getting up, he shouted, "how dare you little brat kick me in the face, I want her to die, kill her. No capture her, I want to torture her."
He even forgot that he was a cultivator and stronger than her due to all the comforts he got as alchemist. So he didn't go to attack her.
Town lord acted that he was raged and shouted, "Girl, how dare you do that? Capture her for me."
While the guards going to capture Yuki, her supporters came to guard her by saying, "you need to pass us to touch our young miss." People didn't understand why they were guarding her as they thought they would hand over Yuki. The town guards stopped because of the block.
Town lord looked at Akihiko and condescendingly asked, "Hoshi, Kanakuba families, are you openly supporting this devilish girl?"
No one knew whether he was aware of how disgusting he was.
Akihiko with disgust said, "Openly? When did we even hide it in the first place?"
Gakuto was angry, "a shameless man like you who sell his own daughter shouldn't be in the position of a town lord."
Some people supported Yuki's side and some people who were scared of Kanesuke supported the town lord.
Kanesuke got irritated of all this bullshit and commanded, "What are you waiting for, kill them all, I don't want to see even one of them alive by tomorrow."
Yuki still couldn't get used to the shamelessness of this world's people and their unreasonable thinking. "Shut up. Everyone shut up," she shouted loudly by leaning forward.
Everyone stopped due to her sudden shout and it became silent, "I became a trainee level alchemist. Kanesuke old pervert, I challenge you to an alchemy competition, do you dare to accept it?" she challenged him in front of the town.
That was unexpected but Nakamura and Murata families knew Yuki was practicing alchemy, they already took the worst case scenario that she already made pills, so they choose to remain silent.
People couldn't believe the words from a little girl and talked, "did I hear that correct? She wants to challenge master Kanesuke?"
"She said it before but I thought she is being impulsive but she is full of confidence, I don't think she is lying."
"How can such a young girl become an alchemist? She must be buying time for something."
The sheer impudence of Yuki gave Kanesuke so much frustration, "What did you say? How dare you? Want to challenge me?" He was one of the people who thought he deserve more in this world.
Yuki with a provocative smile provoked, "what? Are you scared?"
"Scared? I just don't want to waste time competing in the contest that I will win."
"How do you know you will win until your try?" Yuki asked, "I thought you have an alchemist's heart but only now do I understand that you are nothing but an imposter who does alchemy to scam people with money and fame."
People's opinion slowly changed towards Yuki with the facts in front of their eyes but they couldn't openly support her, as the power on her side was low.
The shop manager of the fragrance pill association shop in iron wall town was a preservative person, there were many branches spread in major towns all over the kingdom and the shop managers were people who were brought from a different place to settle in their designated towns.
They had to use their own money to build a shop but that was within that association's rules and everyone could only get a shop manager position after long service in the association. At first, they might struggle to put up a shop but once the customers started to come in, as long as they meet association taxes, they could extract as much money as they could.
His name was Hisamoto, he hypocritically proclaimed, "Everyone, today our fragrance pill association is challenged by a little girl, if we won't show what we have, then people will think that we are afraid of them but we aren't easy to provoke either. Do you dare to have an alchemy contest with your family assets at stake?"
He thought Yuki was just trying to change people's opinions with words and escape the problem. People talked, "what are they going to do? They can't put the family assets at stake for a little girl right?"
"Yes, no matter how much they care about her, they will look for family benefits."
"With this, her bluffs all will be taken out."
As a person from the modern world Yuki understood Hisamoto's schemes to grab all the 2 families' wealth as when they get destroyed someone would eventually take them, so why not him. Everyone strongly believed that Yuki would lose.
Akihiko was first to volunteer with confidence, without hesitation he declared, "I will put all my family assets at stake."
Everyone at once turned their heads to Akihiko with open mouths, all the family members of Hoshi shouted, "We will protect our people even at the cost of our lives."
Gakuto continued with him, "I will also put all my family assets on the line." He meant the library and his ancestors' treasures.
Kanakuba family members supported, "we will support our young miss." People got shocked by their determination as they didn't know about Yuki's accomplishment.
People got to hope and talked, "they are so confident, it seems she can really make pills."
"If she can make pills, then our town will have the first alchemist, our town will become famous." People were supporting Yuki inside but outside they couldn't, as the power was great on the fragrance pill association side.
Yuki with a proud smile for her people said, "Did you hear that, they are willing, so what will your association put on the line."
The people got shocked; Hisamoto was getting irritated inside but acted calm and said, "What did you say? How dare you covert our assets?"
Yuki genuinely got confused and asked, "Did you hit your head? If we are going to make a bet, then you must also put something as valuable on the line, do you think people are idiots to look away from such an obvious thing?"
"Little girl, you don't know the magnitude of our association, you should feel honored to get a chance to have a competition with our alchemist."
"Bull shit, if you are so scared then don't act all high and mighty."
Hisamoto got angrier for such little girl to talk as equal to him, "Girl, you didn't see the world enough, don't provoke the wrong people."
Yuki was enjoying it inside but she had to show angry outside and shouted, "You are the one who didn't see the world enough, do you even know how big the world is? Do you know about atoms, neutrons, protons, elements, periodic table, hydrogen...?" She started to ramble all nonsense she could remember from the earth.
People got a headache trying to comprehend those words. Hisamoto felt little in front of her but didn't show it on his face and asked, "Why are you just rambling nonsense? I never heard of those words before."
Yuki smirked and said, "Hump! Then don't act as if you know everything, the world is too big for you to understand, if your association is really that great as you said, then there won't be a problem in betting with me right? Is that association got scared of a little girl?"
People's opinions went toward Yuki's support. Panic started to appear in Hisamoto, 'not good, I thought people will support me out of fear but this girl changed it, if I don't put something on the line the association will get a bad name and the higher-ups will punish me,' he thought and said, "fine, the alchemy pill shop belongs to me, if you win, that will be yours."
Yuki said, "We have dozens of such shops, the stakes are not equal."
Hisamoto thought, 'Damn it! I don't have much here,' he saw town lord and asked, "town lord, you believe in master Kanesuke right? Put your assets at stake." Fragrance pill association value every copper. Precisely, not valued but they were that greedy.
Town lord felt troubled and said, "But manager."
"Do you doubt my skills?" Kanesuke questioned, "How can I lose to a little girl, accept it immediately."
Town lord didn't have a choice, so he accepted, "fine, I will put my assets on the line, I will get my part of the share."
"That covers Hoshi family assets," Yuki arrogantly asked, "what about Kanakuba family assets? We still have many ancestral treasures."
Hisamoto got angry and said, "What?" then he looked at the Murata family and the Nakamura family.
They turned their heads away and thought, 'We only want to watch the fun.'
Hisamoto thought, 'You will pay for this,' and said, "Master Kanesuke, you have a space ring right? It must be worth 100 gold coins, why don't you put it in the bet. You will get it back anyway."