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Hope you'll enjoy this chapter and don't hesitate to let a comment, I read every one of them even if I don't certainly answer!

Well, we are at a 8000 word long chapter right now... I'll probably make a last part before starting the chapter 3.

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The remaining man suddenly turned back with a shocked expression as he looked at Shina, unable to understand how such a tiny little girl could send his friend flying away with a single kick.

A man weighing at least 200 pounds was sent flying like a soccer ball, despite not being severely injured the impact had almost cost him a few ribs.

Most of the people in the street hadn’t seen the scene and just glanced at the throwing up man wondering what was happening, but those who had clearly witnessed this incident looked at Shina with interest.

The lying man hostilely glared at Shina as he coughed a few times after displaying what he had eaten for breakfast on the street.

After the shock passed, the two man hurriedly looked around the street, unable to track down the fleeing thief. The girl had already run away.

Both of the men gave up on chasing after her, as long as she was in their sight there would be no problem in tracking her down. But a thief who makes his living by stealing others has to know every corners and hiding spot of the city if he wants to live long.

The thief was already gone and even if they looked for her the whole day they wouldn’t be able to find her.

One man’s face was dyed red as he remembered the amount of money inside the bag, it was the taxes he had collected as protection fees from many shops. No need to say how large the amount was.

If he went back to his boss, he could easily imagine what would happen to him.

The man glared at the little girl who prevented him from catching the thief, surprised she hadn’t run away.

Despite how luxurious Shina’s clothes were, the dirt they accumulated from playing in the forest completely masked their beauty. Adding the fact that she wasn’t wearing any shoes, Shina looked somewhat similar to one of the city’s child.

It wasn’t weird for the men to think of her as the thief’s helper.

One of the roughly clothed thugs stomped the ground as he walked toward Shina with a murderous face. Everyone knew what was going to happen, but no one acted.

Despite being young, a thief remained a thief. Even for a child, the punishment for stealing some bread would be having their hand cut.

The bald skewer seller who saw the scene glared at the two men, he previously had a good impression of Shina and noticed on their reactions that Arsal seemed to cherish her.

“Lad, maybe you should hurry, your daughter is in danger…”

At first, he thought that Arsal hadn’t noticed the commotion, but the small sarcastic grin on Arsal’s face made his heart skip a beat.

“Don’t call me 'lad', I am actually older than your grandfather.”

“Olde-... That’s not the issue right now, those men are going to hurt her!”

Arsal humphed with disdain. Despite being engrossed in the man’s exquisite roasting technique he had never stopped paying attention to Shina. If she was truly in danger, he would, of course, be the first to rush in.

Compared to fighting some guards which would become annoying later on, beating up a few thugs probably wouldn’t make a commotion. In the worst case, he would just make them ‘permanently’ disappear from the city.

“She’s just playing around, let her be and give me another one.”

The bald man looked at Arsal with astonishment, he remembered the man saying he was older than his grandfather. His natural demeanor indeed looked unworldly and supreme, making him unable to doubt his words.

One of the thugs held the collar of Shina’s dress and lifted her in the air while throwing a threatening glare at her.

“You must be that damn thief’s friend aren’t you?!”

“Nope, I don’t know her at all…”

Shina simply laughed it off while shrugging her shoulders.

“You don’t want to talk huh? Think I don’t dare hit brat like ya?”

The man made a fist and tried to threaten her.

“Hurry and bring me to her… Or else…”

“You aren’t just dumb, but your ears are also so dirty that you can’t even hear me? Or perhaps you are so stupid that you can’t understand human’s speech? Either way get lost you trashs…”

The onlookers were filled with shock, without a doubt, the girl was going to get beaten up, but even so, they didn’t expect her to be unafraid and have such a poisonous tongue.

Arsal on the side chuckled as he recalled a certain person’s talent.

‘Should I be worried? That girl indeed inherited a few of Mystel’s talents…’

The lying man who with difficulty managed to stand up glared at Shina with ill intent.

“You brat! Don’t you think you will be spared just because you know a few tricks!”

“Taste my fist you damn bit-”

As the man’s fist was rapidly approaching the smiling Shina; unnoticedly, within an instant a small marble rushed into the man’s face. The impact completely shattered the man’s jaw and made him spit out almost half of his teeth.

Suddenly losing all his strength, the man failed to maintain his grip on Shina’s collar.

“Nice one!”

As she praised Kiel with a little smirk, Shina kicked the ground and raised her knee who lodged itself in the man’s most precious and sensible place while holding the man’s legs, making most of the male onlookers face become pale. One of them almost fainted.

The impact made the man faint on the spot as his eyes became pure white, a large *THUMP* resonated due to the strength on the collision. A few person even sworn having heard the sound of something breaking, since Shina was holding the man to preventing him from being sent flying, the impact was even stronger than when she kicked the second thug.

Arsal laughed to himself for a moment.

‘Humu, that’s right, always go for your enemy's weak point… I taught her well.’

Shina glanced at the second thug with an innocent yet sarcastic smile making the man become pale. The first time he was hit he thought she had used some trick to send him flying, but this time, everything happened before his own eyes. He hadn’t even managed to see how she broke his friend’s jaw, but the speed at which she reacted was inhuman.

Yet the man didn’t even dare think of running away. Not only had he lost the merchants' protection fees, but if he fled now then everyone would say that he was beaten up by a little brat. Which would then even dare to let such a man work for them?

“You little…”

Having more or less regained some strength, the man charged toward Shina with all his strength.

Shina only sneered as she calmly looked at the man angered face. He looked like a bull whose complexion had turned crimson from fury, the man’s fist rushed toward Shina's head but with a little sidestep to the left it hit nothing but empty air.

“Whoops~, you missed. Try again~”

The man threw series of punch and kick, yet none managed to hit their target but instead made the man more and more annoyed at the playful little girl who wasn’t taking him seriously, it looked like she was playing a simple tag game.

“Come on~ Try harder, I am starting to get bored.”

The man fury almost exploded as he made a circular kick which surprised Shina as she dodged it by a hair’s breadth as she crouched at the very last moment.

“Wow, you almost got me there! See, you can do it if you try harder.”

“You shitty brat, I don’t care anymore!”

Another punch flew toward Shina as the man angrily yelled, like every other one she tried to dodge it by a hair breadth, but this as she tried to dodge she felt a slight pain on her shoulder as a little metallic sound could be heard.

Looking at her shoulder where the cloth had been torn, Shina felt surprised as she looked at the man’s terrified expression.

“M-m-monster…”

A little metallic fragment fell on the ground, it belonged to the small knife held by the thug. Shina quickly realized what had happened, she hadn’t even noticed the man taking out the small knife hidden in his sleeve.

While being angry at the thug, she was more surprised by the fact that she wasn’t even wounded by the knife; rather it was the knife who broke.

A purple skin could be seen from where the cloth had been torn, after a few seconds, it returned back to being her pristine white skin. This purple color looked very similar to the scales which grew and then disappeared on her body.

Shina made an innocent-like smile toward the thug which made his legs start shaking.

“L-Let’s stop here, it was our fault right?”

A strong sense of danger filled his mind as he looked with terror at the young girl in front of him. At this point he had thrown away his shame, he refused to believe that this child was human; he was now certain of her being a few hundred years old monster who enjoyed tormenting others.

“Nope~”

Shina’s leg flew rushed toward the man’s knee. Like a metal bat swung at a window, her leg utterly crushed his knee, making his limb form a beautiful right angle.

At the same time, a little marble rushed toward his stomach with an even greater impact than when Shina had previously kicked him, mercilessly crushing several of his ribs to dust. Remembering how he tried to use a knife on her, Shina wasn’t willing to let the man off so easily. Her hand grasped the falling man’s hair and violently smashed his head against the ground.

As she was finished, Kiel made the finishing move by smashing against the man’s back, greatly injuring his spine.

“Phew… Nice teamwork~”

Shina complimented Kiel who happily circled around her.

Surprisingly the man was still alive, Shina had somewhat held back trying not to kill him but she didn’t know if Kiel hadn’t finished him with that finisher move.

It was a total annihilation. The onlookers were staring at Shina like she was a monster, never had they imagined that such a little girl could be so violent and powerful. Despite not being close enough like the thug to see her color changing skin, they still felt like him that she wasn’t human.

“Hm, maybe we went too far?”

Perhaps it was because she never thought about it, but she didn’t notice that her mind had started to change ever since she lived with her parents. Beating up someone like this hadn’t made her feel guilty from injuring someone this much, just regretful as she looked at the bystander's reaction.

A few scream echoed as she heard the sound of people stomping toward her in the distance.

“Ups, the guards are coming…”

Looking at her father, he smiled at her and made her sign to run away while remaining standing beside the bald man’s stall.

‘I’ll let her play around for now. Who know, she might make some friends...’