80 – Queen of the Backstreets – 6
After consuming the potion made from Tene’s leaves, the bottle was placed roughly on the desk in the room. This will have to go through another process later.
Since it is extremely poisonous only to humans, it can be washed with running water or burned to melt the bottle itself. Or you can go through magical treatment altogether.
Surely there is no human who has no choice but to take an empty bottle that is even covered with a cork, open the stopper, and check the contents.
As soon as I came down to the first floor, I ran out of the kitchen and shook off the owner who was cringing and left the inn.
As you can guess from the word dark or back alley, the true side of these streets can only be seen at night.
Of course, there are merchants and some special people who are active during the day, but there are very few of them compared to the night. Because it’s almost less than 10%.
At least it was like that in the places I’ve been to, and it didn’t look much different here either. There were even buildings that were closed.
That means that right now, during the day, there is nothing to do.
‘Actually, it’s not like I have something to do at night.’
What am I supposed to do after crawling into a place like this?
I didn’t even think about washing my identity like this in earnest, but the blonde man Eoyoung and Booyoung brought it. Of course, the schedule can be messed up.
And, it is very bad behavior to be left blank in the middle of the road like this. All sorts of mischievous people will sneak up on you.
“Oops!”
Look at it, damn it.
I was trying to move away from the humans who seemed to be approaching me, but someone bumped into me from behind. Then he fell over with a loud scream.
It was a deliberate act, no matter what. It was me who crashed into it, but rather, the human who crashed into it fell apart.
I turned around to see who the hell was arguing so openly.
A human lying on the floor exaggeratedly holding onto his shoulder. There are four people who are looking at me from behind.
Most were the same size or slightly bigger than me, but one was unusual. My forearms were the size of my thighs, and my thighs were the size of my torso.
It was very determined and seemed to have come to filter out the dispute.
I looked around. The screams of the guy lying on the floor were so loud that all eyes were focused on me and these bullies.
Aren’t they looking at this with exciting eyes, and they blew whistles and exclaimed as if they were going to watch the fight openly.
“Aigoo! My shoulder! My shoulder dear!”
While I was contemplating what to do with these humans, the one who fell on the floor was clutching his shoulder and making a loud noise.
It was seriously bad enough that anyone would notice that it was acting, but it didn’t really matter to the people around me.
It’s not the process of getting into a fight that’s clumsy, but the result itself that gets into a fight because of a fight is what’s important.
One of the guys who had been smirking at me from behind stepped forward. He was a man of enormous size.
“Hey, I think this bastard just broke my friend’s shoulder?”
“That’s right. I don’t know why he did such a thing because there was no place to break this fragile body.”
“Fragile body?”
I glanced at the guy rolling on the floor screaming loudly.
He’s not as big as the guy who just stepped forward, but he’s not the type to go around hearing that he’s absolutely weak. It just meant that he had to find fault with me somehow.
“If you’re here to pick a fight, tell me openly? Stop acting like this.”
“Hey, look at this guy. He’s so damn proud after smashing my friend’s shoulder? Where did you learn that habit?”
“Wherever I’ve learned from, I’ll be better than you guys. Who’s messing around with outdated ideas these days? Shall I teach you another way?”
I checked the waist of the four people. There were no weapons. It might be hiding a small weapon like a dagger, but it poses no threat to me.
Compared to that, this side had a long sword, so it wasn’t a particularly disadvantageous fight.
It would have been easier if we had fought in a narrow alley, but unfortunately, the place I am now is on a wide roadside.
Even if you deal with one guy by surprise and fight 4 to 1, you still can’t rule out the possibility of being surrounded.
I didn’t think I would lose, though. It doesn’t matter how many people fight, if you cut down the first one, the rest will be hesitant.
You won’t have the guts to attack right away even if you see your colleagues getting stabbed and falling out by these bullies. A human with such guts wouldn’t approach it this way in the first place.
The final variable is whether they can use mana.
Even after confirming that I was wearing a sword, he openly argued with me like this, so there was a high probability that at least one person knew how to put mana on his body.
The worst case would be if all five of them were human beings who knew how to use mana. Then there was no choice but to beat them until they were exhausted.
I was just about to pull out my sword, wondering if I should start by killing people rolling on the floor.
“Wait!”
A person suddenly intervened between me and those bullies.
Her light brown hair, which was braided back, swayed back and forth. I could see the crown of my head, so I was quite short.
The clothes were plain fabric, and the shoes were plain leather boots. It’s the kind of clothes you usually see on the street.
The girl gasped for breath as if she had run so fast. The big man who stepped forward distorted his face.
“What is it? Is it you again, Latina? Won’t you go away?”
“Then are you guys again! How many times has this been already!”
“Be moderate, bitch! There’s a limit to what we can see!”
“What if there is a limit! Do you want me to kill you?”
Even against a muscular man three or four heads taller than herself, this little girl was fighting her nerves without being pushed back at all.
Also, judging by the words, it seemed that this Latina girl had done this not once or twice. And it seemed like it wasn’t the first time or two that they did this.
“What do you mean this person did something wrong?
“Hey, is it because you really don’t know what that bastard did wrong? Can’t you see my brother’s shoulder is smashed? Huh?”
“I’m dying! My shoulder!”
“Don’t talk nonsense! Anyone can see that I’m fine!”
The situation was a real mess.
The voices between the Latina girl and the man grew louder and louder, and little by little, more and more onlookers gathered around us to watch this exciting fight.
Selling my face like this was not a good thing.
“Your Latina hasn’t been beaten up until now, so it looks like you’re being nasty like this, but today I’ll beat you up without a hitch! Then you won’t be able to do it anymore!”
The muscular man strode towards the girl. The girl sneaked back and turned her back to me.
Then he turned his head and gave me a wink.
“…!”
As soon as I realized the meaning of that wink, the girl took my hand and put the other hand in her pocket.
When the hand came out of the pocket again, it was holding a handful of strange powder.
“Run away!”
The girl sprinkled the powder in her hand at the approaching bullies. Seeing that it is close to gray, it must be ash.
Gray particles blew in the wind and hit the men. All five screamed.
“My eyes! My eyes! You damn bitch!”
A defenseless man covered in powder rubbed his face and struggled with his arms. Coughs erupted from all sides.
The girl who grabbed my hand started running.
We broke through the crowd of people who had gathered to the size of what could be called a crowd before we knew it, and we left the place and ran randomly through the nearby alleys.
It was a twisted alleyway that made me wonder if it needed to be this complicated.
After rounding dozens of corners and squeezing through the gaps between the walls, the girl slowed down her pace a little.
“This way!”
The girl pointed to a building that looked like a bar. Before I even had time to ask where it was, my body was dragged first.
The girl who led me into the building drew all the curtains on the windows and locked all the door locks before sitting down in a nearby chair panting.
I let it catch my breath for a bit, and after a few minutes, I asked a question.
“Where are you?”
“Hehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, you have really good stamina. How can you not break your breath?”
“I asked you first.”
“Huh… Huh. I’m your lifesaver. Shouldn’t you say thank you first?”
be a life saver I don’t have anything more awkward than this.
Wouldn’t it be said that it was saved only when there was a life that would disappear? If it had stayed that way, it probably wouldn’t have been a problem. After beating me for about a week, that side must have been exhausted first.
I hate getting involved in troublesome things, so I just wanted to kill him first.
But that’s just my background. First of all, it was true that this girl saved me, so I nodded my head obediently.
“Yes, yes. Thank you for saving me. Are you done?”
“……You say something like that, so you do it, it feels the same, but it’s done.
“Didn’t you just say thank you first?”
“You treated it bluntly first.
The girl got up from her chair, went to a cupboard a short distance away, and took out two glasses. I poured water into a cup from a water bottle placed right next to me, and held one out to me.
As soon as I took the cup, the girl quickly emptied the remaining water from the cup. Whoa, a refreshing exclamation followed.
“My name is Latina. What about you?”
