Unsavory Ties — Being Protected Part 2

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Translator: SFBaka

Editor: Thor’s Stone


「Puhaha! This damned kid! She’s completely bald! A damn bald egg! Oops. I still have this in my hand!」

Yoshikawa held Aimer’s wig with his left hand and the broken cup in his right. He once again moved to hurl the cup at Aimer.

He hadn’t forgotten his intention to ruin Aimer’s face. In his mind, what he’ll do wouldn’t kill the kid. And even if she did die, he’d get to make Kou suffer. He just needed to chalk it up as an accident and walk away scot-free.

That’s because Kou was the useless kouhai, and he was the great senpai. They would be the ones at fault for provoking him.

「If you have a grudge against Kou, then don’t involve others. Gyaa!」

Nyanta yelled flashily and rolled on the floor. She jumped onto the table, hugged Aimer, narrowly avoided the blow, then rolled away.

Blue ran forward and received Aimer from Nyanta’s arms.

The glass cup Yoshikawa threw hit nothing but air. It harmlessly hit the floor.

The swallow-type Familiar, who moved faster than the sparrow-type Familiar who tried to protect Aimer, rammed Yoshikawa’s right hand and sent the glass cup flying earlier.

The sparrow-type Familiar hit Yoshikawa’s left hand and took Aimer’s wig from him.

「You damn birds! Guh.」

Kou’s fist dug into Yoshikawa’s abdomen. He then followed up with a hook that landed powerfully on Yoshikawa’s right cheek.

Yoshikawa was blown away and collapsed on the floor. He ended up spitting out some of the alcohol he had drunk. The sparrow-type Familiar assisted Kou and hit Yoshikawa as well.

Kou didn’t hesitate to follow up with a kick. He wanted a katana. Even a knife would do. He really wanted one right now.

「You bastard! How dare you!」

「I’m going to kill you!」

Kou couldn’t help but unleash murderous intent. He just couldn’t hold himself back anymore.

Kou looked down on the fallen Yoshikawa with a dreadful gaze. Even someone like Yoshikawa had noticed Kou’s unbridled killing intent and became afraid.

Blue gently picked up the wig and placed it back on Aimer’s head.

A dog Familiar who rushed in to respond to the commotion earlier led Aimer to the back of the shop. The Familiars and Therianthropes wouldn’t make fun of a person’s physical defects. Feelings of anger erupted from the gathered crowd.

Just how painful was it for the young girl to have such a secret exposed in public? Moreover, she was also almost hit in the face.

Aimer was close to tears the entire time, but she didn’t cry. She was still anxiously glancing back at Kou while she was being brought away.

That sight was even more painful to Kou, and his urge to kill Yoshikawa welled up once more.

「What the heck do you think you’re doing to Yoshikawa-san!?」

「You’re the one who’s gonna die! You’re the one who attacked first!」

Yamaoka and Niijima tried to gang up on Kou.

Nyanta struck Yamaoka with a shoulder charge, and Aki punched Niijima with all her might. Niijima’s front teeth shattered from Aki’s punch.

The three all miserably fell with their backs to the floor.

Yoshikawa was frightened by the murderous-looking Kou.

「Wasn’t it enough to just try and kill me, you bastard?」

「Hey! Did you all hear that!? You Familiars! This guy tried to accuse me of murder without any evidence! You guys are my witnesses! I’m the victim here!」

「What are you saying?」

「I’m the victim, dammit! He went and attacked me! I already said I wanted to get along with him! He’s even saying he wants to kill me! He’s crazy! Just look, everyone! Familiar-san! Are you aware that falsely accusing an innocent person is considered a serious felony by the Mercenary Association, Kou? You ain’t gonna be able to continue being a mercenary anymore. You’re gonna get expelled!」

Yoshikawa realized that he had no chance to win against Kou in a physical fight, so he decided to rely on the law instead.

He devoted himself to acting like the victim and painted Kou as the aggressor. He kept emphasizing that he said he wanted to get along with Kou.

His plan was to turn Kou into a criminal with the Familiars present serving as his witnesses.

「Who are you calling a murderer? You can’t even bring out a single goddamn witness! Hah!」

His last words were simply threats. Yoshikawa planned to keep his act up until the end. There couldn’t have been any witnesses during that day when they were first transferred over to Asia.

He desperately appealed to his status as a victim while lying miserably on the floor.

Yoshikawa was sure Kou was the one going to be taken away by the police. He claimed to be the victim because he was the first to be hit. All the while claiming his hand merely slipped by coincidence when he spilled liquor onto Aimer and even tried to hit her with a broken glass cup.

『I saw everything! I can serve as a witness!』

An angry voice echoed within the shop.

The bodies of the Familiars, Therianthropes, and Nereids trembled for a brief moment. The owner of that voice was the existence who created them. Even those who had only heard her voice for the first time were completely sure of her identity.

Blue’s hostile expression turned into one of revulsion, and she looked down on the three offenders with a gaze of pure disgust.

Nyanta’s pupils narrowed into thin cat-like slits. Her cat ears pointed backward and her tail stood up. She had thoroughly recognized the three as her prey. She was acting just like a cat intending to play with mice before killing them.

Aki quickly grabbed Kou’s head and pressed it against her chest. She then glared furiously at the three on the floor.

The gaze of this normally gentle beauty distorted into something so murderously cold that it could seemingly freeze the blood. She was acting like a dog mother who was protecting her pup.

The other Therianthropes inside the shop also angrily glared at the three.

However, their clear hostility and murderous intent were still comparably tamer. As for what would be worse than them–

The Familiars inside the shop turned to the three on the floor all at once.

Their eyes were devoid of pupils and turned ghostly. They were all uniformly of the color of cold steel.

This happened to all Familiars inside the shop. The dogs, cats, rabbits, foxes, and various kinds of birds. Their expressive pupils disappeared all at once and turned into emotionless gray eyes.

It was a horrifying scene akin to all the mannequins within a department store late at night suddenly turning toward an unfortunate soul. You could even say that they were now closer to Murders than Familiars.

Yoshikawa couldn’t help but wet himself in terror. His bladder couldn’t take the horrific scene before his eyes.

「H-Hiii!」

The three frantically ran away to escape.

「Don’t ever come here again!」

One of the Therianthropes yelled, followed by more voices of admonishment.

When the three completely disappeared from sight, the Familiars returned to their usual places like nothing happened.

The Therianthropes hatefully glared at the direction the three had escaped toward.

「Aki? Aki-san?」

Kou, whose face was still buried within Aki’s ample chest, called out.

Kou didn’t witness the transformation of the Familiars.

「Let’s just stay like this for a little longer, alright?」

Aki gently stroked Kou’s hair.

「Sorry. This is a little embarrassing for me.」

Actually, Kou was super embarrassed.

「It can’t be helped.」

Aki released Kou from her hug. Yoshikawa and the other two were no longer present. Kou’s anger subsided.

「Where did those three go?」

「They ran away. Fairy Blue’s glare was really intense.」

「Hey!?」

Blue turned to Aki in protest and was at a loss for words. Of the three of them, Aki was the one who displayed the most frightening and murderous glare after all.

That’s why Aki suddenly hugged Kou and held him to her chest. That’s because she didn’t want to show Kou the emotionless state of the Familiars and her own murderous intentions. Her chilly gaze would probably frighten most people silly after all.

「Thank you, Blue, Aki, Nyanta. Thank you, everyone!」

Kou had already guessed the gist of what had happened. All the Familiars supported him.

The Familiars and Therianthropes in the shop all raised their glasses and responded to Kou. Kou thought they were all a nice bunch.

「Thank you as well, Asia.」

He muttered the words under his breath and was sure that they would reach that girl.


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