"I'll make It simple for you foreigner, leave the woman to us to play with and walk away"
The thug leader said as his henchmen surrounded us In a circle.
"And what If I don't?"
I asked In my usual emotionless voice tinged with a murderous tone while cracking my knuckles like a certain half-ghoul from anime while I mentally ordered my AI to put the CCTVs surrounding us on a loop.
"I'm gonna f*cking kill you"
The man spat, as he did I grinned sadistically ready to pulverize his head.
Only for barely sober Hope to do that first, I saw the 185 centimeters tall woman because of the added height of her high-heeled paramilitary boots perform a spin and deliver a heel kick straight at the thug's scarred face.
In my slowed-down view because of my brain's augmented processing speed, I could see the thug's face wriggle as he spat out blood with intact teeth with pieces of other shattered teeth.
The punch carrying 3314 kilograms of strength connected with his jaw, dislocating and cracking It in the process.
What was the concept of 3314? It was 2068 kilograms more than any hardest kick performed by an augmented baseline male, as for the reason It was so strong.
Women had on average 33 percent larger strength on their lower bodies compared to men.
"What was that you f*ck?! You want to play with me you c*nt?! I'm not you're f*cking plaything you son of a b*tch! Trash like you should have been a*orted!"
Hope roared as she continued to kick the man's ribs who was out cold after her single punch.
I could hear the ribs crack with each hit In my ears as the thug's henchmen not quite being able to process the events unfolding In front of them looked In disbelief.
As their fearce leader who was the local tyrant was being beaten mercilessly to a pulp by a woman.
Who In their minds was nothing but a pretty thing to went their lust, and If ever showed signs of disobedience.
Should be beaten like that, yet their boss was currently on the receiving end, the more I looked the wider my grin became.
"I think I'm starting to like this devil of a woman"
I couldn't help but murmur as I did the henchmen finally snapped out of their daze, as they did they pulled out their hidden cold weapons and charged In.
"Kill the f*cking b*tch!"
"F*cking foreigners w*ore!"
The above-average height and build men roared as they swung their knives, machetes, and short swords.
Only to mercilessly get taken down by Hope.
Teeth flew, blood splattered and bones broke.
As I looked at Hope wiping the floor with the thugs with ruthless efficiency I couldn't help but feel electricity run through my body.
"Huh? What's this, why do I feel so weird?"
I couldn't help but murmur to myself because this was the first time In my life I felt like this about a woman.
Only for the thugs leader to shakily stand up as he pulled out his masterfully crafted knife with a golden dragon handle and lunge at Hope's unprotected back.
"Die b*tch!"
The man who somehow could still make a sound with that jaw of his and his mouth full of blood roared only to feel my steel-like grip around his neck.
"Shut It you c*nt youre too f*cking loud"
I barked as I squeezed the man's neck so hard that his body detached Itself from his head with a loud pop and fell to the ground with a heavy thud.
The still conscious wriggling In pain thugs looked with horror In their eyes as they saw they're leader being killed before their eyes.
Only to see their comrade's heads get crushed Into meat paste by my combat boots.
"Wait Drac no!"
Hope who after seeing me murder the thugs In cold blood snapped out from her drunken frenzy shouted.
Because although she was a loose canon she had never killed anyone before, sure she beat a shit out of a ton of people In her younger days.
But that was It, she never took someone's life before.
"Hope what do you think would happen after we let them go?"
I asked after squashing the last p*rasite's head, that's right In my eyes c*iminals like them were nothing more than p*rasites.
"I..."
Hope started saying only to fall silent as her rapidly sobering up mind depicted the most likely to occur scenarios and they weren't pretty.
After all, this was real life, not some novel, manga, or anime where the main character would beat the bad guys.
And the next episode all of them suddenly become best friends and live long and ever happily after.
"If you can't do It yourself I'll do It for you, just like I said I'll be your muscle, I'll kill whoever I need for you"
I said as I started looting the corpses while my AI created fabricated footage of us just passing each other and going our separate ways and uploaded It to the CCTVs.
"F*CK!"
Hope cursed as she squatted down and buried her head between her legs, seeing this I couldn't help but sigh.
Not everyone was a natural-born killer like me, who didn't bat an eye while taking a life only to see Hope vomit out her stomachs contents.
"Let It out"
I said as I picked up Hope and embraced her with my arms not the least bit disturbed off the nauseating stench coming off her.
It didn't take long before Hope broke down.
She wordlessly shed tears with her face buried in my chest.
"Feeling better?"
I asked as I noticed that she stopped crying.
"Sniff...yeah...sniff"
Hope replied with a slight trembling, after all, she just witnessed me kill human beings and not zombies or undead monstrosities, and that had traumatized her.
I couldn't blame her she was just a civilian who by the look of it was a delinquent in her teenage years.
The most she ever experienced was a few fistfights.
With the prior post-apocalypse experience she finally broke down.
"Quick question, you can store corpses right?"
I asked as I did Hope knowing my Intention extended her hand and activated her system.
As she did the corpses seemed to get sucked inside her palm.
The bits of blood, bone, and brain matter were still left but by the looks of the weather, It wasn't going to be a problem.
I thought as I looked at the darkening clouds and felt the changes In the weather, It seemed like fate Itself was favoring us, by extending a helping hand In our time of need.
"You know you can get off me now"
I said as I started walking back to Hope's apartment with Hope's legs and arms locked around me.
While we entered the lively streets the onlookers gasped at our blatant show of Intemicy.
"No..."
Hope answered barely In a whisper as she did I signed.
"You know If you act like that you're making It really hard for me to control myself"
I said as I felt a raging fire build up Inside my lower body.
As I said this Hope with her ruined gothic makeup which for some reason made her look even s*xier finally looked up at me.
She tightened her grip causing her breasts to press against my chest even harder while she pulled herself higher.
Then before I could react she Invaded my mouth with her pierced tongue.
At first, I had the thought of pulling away but It didn't take long before I returned the gesture.