Chapter 6: I’m Going to Hit You!

The one with bangs clearly had a short temper and seemed to be harboring some anger. After deliberately provoking Miss Vilyric, he immediately exploded with rage, violently pushing aside the Priest Uncle who was trying to intervene, and lunged at the White Robed Girl, whose mocking smile only fueled his fury!

It looked like he still had some sense, at least he didn’t pull out a great sword against a girl who appeared to be only fifteen or sixteen; he probably just wanted to teach this loudmouth a lesson with his fists.

“Miss Vilyric!”

Tilysha instinctively cried out, not because she was afraid the noble girl would be harmed, but because she was just worried that the Priestess wouldn’t control her strength and might accidentally kill the guy.

After all, the little girl had witnessed Miss Vilyric team up with the seemingly all-powerful Life Goddess to create the magnificent Divine Tree and even defeat that terrifying entity that attacked Sky City—it seemed to be her too.

Even though Tilysha hadn’t seen much of the world, she knew that this was not a power an ordinary adventurer could contend with.

However, the anticipated scene where that guy gets slapped away by Miss Vilyric didn’t happen. The Black-haired Girl stood her ground, allowing the furious man to get closer and closer, even the usually short-tempered Xiao Guang merely furrowed her brows without taking action.

Just as Tilysha hesitated over whether to rush in recklessly to help, a loud shout suddenly came from the distance.

“Stop!”

Hearing this voice, Bangs, who had been ignoring even his teammates’ persuading words, was startled and instinctively stopped right before he nearly reached the Black-haired Girl.

Well, that was a lucky break.

Having tried hard to maintain a mocking expression to provoke him the whole time, Vilyric nodded to herself, rubbing her face and returning to her usual expressionless demeanor.

Keeping enough contempt for this mindless, angry fool was quite challenging. Normally, the Priestess would have just skipped over such characters without a second thought.

The one who called for Bangs to stop was not some high-level adventurer from Demon Town’s guild; this little altercation wasn’t serious enough to draw in those big shots. Based on their attire, they were likely just guards of the guild, or security at most.

But unlike the teammates’ persuasion, publicly brawling in front of the guards just wouldn’t do, as it wouldn’t end with a simple reprimand.

Vilyric was already familiar with these rules of the adventurer guild; her usual reading had not been in vain.

The leading guard surveyed the scene, his gaze shifting from the innocent-looking Vilyric to the fuming Bangs.

“What do you think you’re doing? Publicly hitting a woman in the adventurer guild hall? You must want to lose your job, huh? Look, I don’t care what grievances you have or who’s right or wrong. If there’s an issue, handle it privately or through mediation. Consider this a warning—only once. You both better remember this.”

The kind-hearted Priest quickly stepped forward, forcefully pulling Bangs back while nodding repeatedly.

“It’s a misunderstanding, really! Just a trivial matter, let’s both back off a bit…”

“No way!”

Bangs angrily shook off the Priest Uncle’s hand, pointing furiously at the deliberately whistling Vilyric.

“I, Cyril, won’t swallow this! Even if it costs me my job and the gossip of bullying a little girl, I will definitely take these arrogant bullies down a peg! Do you dare to duel with me?!”

Ah, this development is just as I envisioned, heh, didn’t expect I had this kind of talent~

The Black-haired Girl grinned slyly.

“Of course, but I don’t need to deal with someone like you personally.”

She stretched her hand back, pulling in the bewildered Blue-haired Girl who had just come closer and unceremoniously hiding behind her.

“If you want to tussle with me, first, you have to defeat our bodyguard… um… one, two, three… Bodyguard Number 5, then we’ll talk!”

“Eh? Ehhhhh????!!!”

…

In the back of Demon Town’s Adventurer Guild, there was a training ground.

This place is for testing the strength of adventurers, assessing qualifications for employment or advancement, and other similar purposes. Every adventurer guild generally has a venue like this. Just like when Vilyric and Little Dragon Daughter registered as adventurers, they had a spar with the examiner in Flame Dragon City and received high praise.

Of course, this place also serves another purpose: to resolve conflicts between adventurers before matters escalate to the point where someone ends up really hurt in secret.

Now, Vilyric and her companions were preparing to do just that.

As she previously indicated outside, neither the Priestess nor Little Dragon Daughter would take action in this fight; that would be too unfair, and the outcome would be a foregone conclusion. Vilyric planned to use this opportunity to train Tilysha’s practical combat skills.

Moreover, it started because this little girl made a fuss due to her inexperience, bringing things to this point, so it was only fair to let her take responsibility.

Yes, that’s it.

This whatever West… whatever, never mind, let’s just call him Bangs. Vilyric had already made a judgment about Bangs’ strength based on his behaviors: he was at the fine gold level, not top-tier in the adventurer community, but definitely not a complete newbie.

To reach this level in his twenties was actually quite impressive, and being proud was only natural. Not overwhelmingly strong or weak, he was just right to match against Tilysha, who had just become a [Blessed] and hadn’t truly experienced combat before.

“Miss Vilyric! Are you really going to let me fight that adventurer?! But I’m just a…”

“Uh-huh, just what? Didn’t I already say? You’re no longer that ordinary little village girl! Don’t forget, standing behind you is a true God; you are a [Blessed], and he’s merely a lowly human adventurer—he should be the one afraid of you!”

“B-but I…”

The Priestess impatiently smacked Tilysha’s resilient little bottom, causing the girl to exclaim, “Eek!” and directly pulling Little Dragon Daughter to the side of the duel arena, not forgetting to give the [Blessed] a thumbs up for encouragement.

“Go on! Tilysha, beat him up! Xi Fu Lin has already taught you how to fight, right?!”

“Wahhh!”

The little girl stood dumbfounded on one side of the arena while on the other, Bangs, holding a somewhat battered great sword, slowly approached, looking disdainfully at the flustered and anxious Blue-haired Girl.

“Hmph… Getting into trouble and making your friends take the blame. This woman is quite cute but her thoughts are really malicious… Hey, you think so too, right?”

Bangs intended to stir up some trouble between the girls to get back at the earlier mockery, but unexpectedly, after these words came out, the originally terrified girl suddenly froze and then shot him a furious glare, like an angry little deer.

“Don’t say bad things about Miss Vilyric! You meanie, I’m going to hit you!”

“???”

   

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