Chapter 130 – Gifts
Netoru felt only trouble when he was pickpocketed, but he wasn’t particularly upset about the boy who had run away.
It is a country that never knows when it will collapse. In a situation like this, it’s annoying to spend money and emotions one by one. It was something that might turn into a useless piece of paper tomorrow.
Besides, Netoru watched as the boy ran away. The boy’s shabby outfit and earnest eyes.
Whatever the reason, pickpocketing wasn’t the right thing to do, but it was so to blame. As the world is like this, there must be something going on.
The only problem was that the wallet the boy stole contained money Netoru needed right away. After all, I needed money to buy a present for Karen.
So Netoru belatedly followed after the boy.
But what is this? As soon as Netoru entered the building, he looked at the men surrounding him and tilted his head.
Some even had dangerous-looking weapons in their hands. Besides, the eyes are also dangerous.
“···Hmm.”
I don’t intend to judge people based on their outward appearance, but neither do they have a stern look, nor can ordinary citizens hold knives in their hands. Probably bums.
It is a city attacked by bugs once in an era where everyone is in need. So it’s no wonder that these vagrants are born in the midst of unstable security.
Netoru looked at the men slowly closing the distance, raising the tension that had loosened, while looking at Rin and the unknown boy behind them.
To be honest, at first she wondered why Rin was here. However, she was fortunate to see that she was still unscathed and unscathed. Even though he was relieved by that fact, Netoru couldn’t hide his smile for some reason.
It was brave and quite amusing to see a little girl hiding a little boy of her own size behind her back.
Well anyway…
I don’t know what’s causing this to happen, but right now, the priority is to solve the surrounding situation.
Netoru looked at the approaching men and twisted his body. And the next moment, something like an iron bar swung around and grazed Netoru’s shoulder.
“Her? Avoid this?”
While laughing, her man, whose name is unknown, bites his lips. It was a full swing that I couldn’t feel any hesitation.
An attack that wouldn’t be strange even if a normal person got hit and one side of the body was broken. Seeing that he did it casually, it was not something he had done once or twice.
But anyway, he was a normal person. Netoru stretched out his hand, afraid to avoid the attack. The distance is close. Netoru grabbed the man’s wrist as he laughed softly.
And soon her man’s face turned blue.
“What, what! What power…!”
The man strained her whole body to sever her gripped wrists, but she was meaningless. There was no way an ordinary person could do anything against a man with a magical nervous system.
Without hesitation, Netoru twisted the man’s wrist as if breaking a tree branch. It was not difficult for him to break the wrists of ordinary people.
“Kwaaaaagh?!”
Screams of pain. Netoru glared at the figure with cold eyes, then lightly tapped the man’s chin. Then his limpness and movement disappeared. He lost consciousness
Tziing- and the iron stick the man was holding rolls on the floor following the fallen owner. Netoru bent down and held it in his hand, then nodded as if he liked it.
Even so, it was dangerous to deal with people holding tools or knives with his bare body. Besides, it’s operation day soon. I had to avoid getting hurt in a clumsy fight.
Netoru looked around him, clutching his acquired weapon. The one who jumped in came first. So there is no need to hesitate here either. And it was foolish to be relaxed against an opponent holding a weapon in the first place.
He brandished his iron rod without warning any tramps nearby. The monotonous but sharp trajectory struck the human body mercilessly. One two···. Three. Just like that, the three men fell to the floor.
Then, the tramp who had been watching the scene in a daze around him hesitated and took a step back. You can’t know if you don’t notice. That it is an unusual opponent.
In the way he slowly checked his surroundings to see who his enemy was, he went from being relaxed to being insipid. Desolate eyes devoid of any excitement or fear.
Netoru is a foreign opponent to the vagrants who have only been aiming for easy-going ordinary people who have trembled just by holding a weapon.
“You fools! What are you stepping back on! I’m alone anyway!”
But then a man urged his men who hesitated around. Only then did they come to their senses, each grabbing a weapon and starting to charge one by one.
A reckless charge that only believes in numbers and attacks. But if you run from all sides, that’s a threat in its own way.
But it doesn’t matter.
It wasn’t really a big deal to him.
Netoru no longer rushed first. There was no need for that now. When tramps rushed at him screaming, he lightly dodged and only counterattacked.
The tramps who rushed at that alone rolled on the floor with their limbs broken by Netoru.
“What, what… What are you?!”
When about half of them fell like that, the remaining tramps shivered with their complexions turned blue.
Before long, starting with the leader who had just shouted that we would win if we fought, the bums were seen to pull their butts back.
But Netoru had no intention of letting them go.
If they were ordinary bullies, they would openly threaten people with weapons. If you just send those things away, it will only bother you later.
So that.
Turn it off.
He dragged an iron bar and blocked his entrance.
2.
Rin blinked her eyes. Even at this moment, her men were rolling on the floor with screams.
Even against the men grabbing weapons and attacking from all sides, Netoru was not in a hurry and kept his place, destroying them one by one, literally.
At this point, it was to the point where I wondered if they were even putting on a play where they were arguing with each other. Netoru just stayed still, but people weren’t able to hurt him.
Even the most hideous weapons were of no use in front of him. As if he wasn’t afraid of being hurt at all, Netoru’s face remained calm throughout.
Should I help? I thought so at first, but it took me a second to realize that I didn’t have to.
Rather than moving to help for no reason, staying still would help him. So Rin took the pickpocket boy and hid in her corner.
Then she felt the boy’s hand tremble in Rin’s hand. When she wanted something, the boy was looking at his Yellowy with a pale face.
I wondered why she was doing this, but she could easily understand why. And then, this guy, isn’t there something wrong with Yellowy?
Besides, the way he overpowered people with his cold face was quite scary even for Rin. To a boy who doesn’t know Yellowy, it must feel quite scary.
It’s a good thing. Still, she thought she would discipline the boy that pickpocketing was bad. Rin put a playful smile on her lips.
“···Kid. Will you be like that now?”
“What, what? My, what did I do wrong…”
“No way. Are you really doing it because you don’t know? Judging by the look on his face, he already knows what he’s doing wrong.”
“I-I’m just…”
But did I scare you too much? Suddenly the boy started crying. She didn’t mean to cry like this, so Rin felt sorry for some reason.
Once you know the circumstances, it won’t be too late to scold him.
“You. Why did you pickpocket?”
“Even, because I need money…”
“Why money? Are you hungry?”
Rin and Ran, who worked as pickpockets, have been starving since childhood. Maybe that’s why I’m smaller than others. Even now, as an adult, it was something I still regret.
“No···. If those guys bring money… He said he would return the items stolen from his mother…
Did something sad happen? Before long, droplets of chicken poop drip down the boy’s eyes. Even so, the boy began to bring out various stories.
Rin, who had intended to scold her lightly, couldn’t help but harden her expression when she heard the story.
I thought they were bad guys, but it was more than I imagined.
Listening to the boy’s story, it seemed that the vagabonds fighting Netoru were a group of people who took advantage of the chaos and stealing during the bugs’ attack.
Then, among the things they stole was the ring of his mother, who had died during the evacuation. In other words, they stole things from the dead body.
“My father? Does your father not know this?”
Dory dory. The boy shakes his head.
She doesn’t know – Rin couldn’t help but be stunned by the boy’s next words.
“…He died when he was young.”
“······Ah.”
Come to think of it, there was no reason for such a kid to be like this if his parents were fine. Thought was short.
Rin asked the boy in her trembling voice.
“…That, then. Are you alone?”
In her childhood, Rin had Ran.
Thanks to her, she was not lonely even though she was starving and struggling. But what about the boy in front of her eyes.
Lynn could never have imagined her loneliness. No, she hated imagining it. In the feeling that her eyes go dizzy just by thinking about her.
“…What are you doing here? You.”
“What? What, what! Get your hands off me!”
Suddenly, there was a hand pressing her head. She struggles to get her hand away, but to no avail. No matter how strong I pushed her, her hand wouldn’t budge.
Still, she somehow looked up and saw Netoru staring at Rin with a puzzled look.
“Why are you here?”
“·······”
Rin pursed her lips at Toru’s question. How can I explain this?
You didn’t even know you were pickpocketed, and you were just stupid, so it doesn’t look like something to say that you couldn’t stand it and chased it.
That’s when she wondered if there was any good excuse.
“···Done. Anyway, it’s good that you don’t seem to be hurt.”
Netoru said that and she moved her steps past Rin to the boy behind her.
Soon, Netoru’s shadow appeared on the boy’s face, and the boy who was looking up at him gulped down his saliva with a pale face.
Looking at it objectively, Netoru’s impression doesn’t look good at all. Rather scary. At least to the erring boy it would be as frightening as tramps.
That’s why Rin, who couldn’t see it, hurriedly intervened between the two of them, and she said as she held the boy in her arms.
“Whoa, Yellowy! Don’t scold this guy!”
“What?”
Netoru frowned.
Could it be that her emotions were transmitted from the boy she held in her arms? For some reason, Rin felt that his face was frightening even to herself.
It’s still inside a dark abandoned building. She looked up from there, and his face was shaded with dark shadows, so she couldn’t tell what he was thinking.
In the midst of the thick dust that has squeezed in from somewhere and roams around in the air, in the heavy silence.
Netoru, who was staring at Rin for something, sighed and said,
“···You. Do you know what he did?”
“Everyone, of course I know… Didn’t this kid pickpocket and steal your wallet…?”
“Okay. I was pickpocketing Are you still doing that?”
“Yeah, but…”
With that said, Rin has nothing more to say. In fact, she had no logic whatsoever, and only her emotions took precedence.
So she said it again, with Rin looking up at him with her longing desperate eyes.
“…I hope you don’t scold this kid. How not? Huh?”
Pickpocketing isn’t a good thing, but the situation is very pitiful. Isn’t it the child who lost her parents a few days ago. At least, she thought, she shouldn’t scold her blindly.
It was Rin’s honest thought that if he was an adult, it would be okay for him to ejaculate at least once.
How much did she look into Rin’s eyes like that.
Eventually, the four Tohru sighed and bent his knees.
Then he met his eyes at the same height as the pickpocket boy and asked while wiping the dust clumps off the boy’s face with the back of his hand.
“… Kid. Where are you hurt?”
