There were fifteen of them, and surprisingly all of them were high-grade.
"You think you can just beat my buddy up and-"
Time slowed down as Rui activated his Martial Heart for just a millisecond. He activated a breathing technique while carrying the girl, ensuring she wouldn't get hurt. It would have been impossible to fight in such circumstances, but that was only when he was fighting an equal.
POW POW POW POW...!
Martial Squires were so weak that even such a handicap was not much of a handicap at all. He swiftly knocked all of them out within a millisecond, before leaping away to a distant isolated part of the bazaar.
The girl fiddled with her bracelet in shock. "Y-You're so strong...!"
Rui narrowed his eyes as he stared into her eyes with a piercing stare.
Three words escaped his mouth.
"Drop the act."
"E-Eh?" She tilted her head in confusion. "W-What do you mean sir?"
The air chilled by a few degrees.
"Did you think I wouldn't notice?" Rui asked her with a calm, yet steely voice. "I only began being targeted by Martial Artists after you began leading me around. No matter how cleanly I knocked them out, making sure to do so at a moment when no one was watching us, they always found me and always knew what had happened despite the fact that I ensured that there were no eyewitnesses."
He paused for a moment, considering her. "It couldn't have been esoteric surveillance measures, because not only was I specifically wary of exactly that, but the entirety of the Derimont Bazaar is an anti-sensory zone. It couldn't have been a Martial Artist tracking me for the same reasons. And yet they found me despite no surveillance, no tracking, and no eyewitnesses.
a moment. "...No eye-witnesses except
if that were the case, they would have told him to leave her while he had the chance. There was no
its shortcoming was detail and depth. It required active mental
an interesting bracelet there," Rui
my mother left me
despite the pressure
is a micro-transmitting device at the center of the beads hidden
She didn't respond.
silence for
is not a thing that people do here." Rui continued. "I highly doubt that it is something you do either. It was an excuse to approach me. You specifically wanted to
these Martial Artists. I gave you a handful of the few gold coins freely in the
Several more seconds passed.
was marginally stronger than the previous one. Step by step. That is quite
respond to
Several seconds passed.
you? What do you want? Why did you do all
passed before she
to have seen
narrowed his eyes at
alias, yet she addressed him by that name. The last time he had used that alias was many days ago when he resided in an inn where
of
apologize for these transgressions," She bowed her head slightly. "We did not expect you to learn of them in the
"...'We'...?" Rui asked.
answer
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