Chapter 170 - Escalation [ Part 2 ]
The father being stopped so abruptly, didn't like it one bit. He scowled towards Henry and was about to shout, "Which imbecilic dares to stop… me?" But mid-sentence his words came out as a question as he finally saw him.
To the father, the man who grabbed his hands was towering before him and just from his large hands he could feel the intensity of my height. So when he finally saw the man, the father felt he was facing a demon.
Arthur who saw that it was me, had a difficult expression on him. Because of the last meeting ended between us, he didn't know if he could still call me a friend or an enemy.
The father's expression darkened quickly as he wanted to apologize immediately to Henry. But in the next moment he stopped when he saw that all the people were looking forward to his next action.
'If I stop now, then they might turn this against me. Besides, why should I be afraid of this guy… it's not like he's gonna hurt me.'
The guy yanked his hands away from me and said, "Why did you stop me?"
I almost smiled at the bad gambler, 'Man, he really is acting like he's the big deal. Did he forget what his fate was just a few moments ago?'
"Why? Because I saw you were trying to hurt an innocent man."
"Innocent!"
"Well… innocent may not be the right word but he definitely didn't do much for you to treat him like this."
"Of course he did! He tried to rape my daughter!" The guy said with a loud tone as if it was the truth.
"Is that so?" I say while tapping my chin then look behind Arthur, "Miss… mind showing me a place where he might have left a print."
"Wha- What?"
The girl being called out like this flustered and didn't know what to say. Her father had exaggerated his point. The owner of the gambler house was indeed bad, but not to the point that he was going to rape her.
Even the father didn't know what to say in accordance to my words.
"Oh! Okay, I suppose you're shy to show, huh." I seemed as if I was deliberating something important, "Alright then, can you show me any part of your clothes that's been torn by him?"
Again the girl didn't know what to say as she stayed quiet.
Arthur knowing where I was going with this, stepped in front of her, "Don't call her out like this, Henry."
The father gathered his courage, "Who are you to dare sully my daughter's honor, huh! Do you know that I'm a noble? You're asking a noble's daughter to show her secret visage to you."
I took a deep look at both people before starting with Arthur, "First of all Arthur, Fuck off this matter or don't get too close to it. We both are unknown particles to this subject and therefore have the same amount of attachment to it."
Then I turn towards the father, "And you!" My finger glares towards him as the man gulped subconsciously.
"Didn't you say that he tried to rape your daughter? Because that's not what I heard from the crowd."
"The crowd's words don't matter."
"Exactly, my thought." I nod, "That's why I wanted to know directly through real evidence. But here you are, talking about me tarnishing your daughter's honor and whatnot?"
"Tell me people," I turn around, asking everyone, "If he's daughter already been defiled in that sense, then does she even have any reputation to protect?"
"Why doesn't she show to us already? Is she afraid that we will be ogle at her already used body?"
"Hahaha!"
"Hahaha!"
The people gathered around the spectacle, laughed at my words. The thought about protecting an already withered flower was quite amusing to them.
The girl who was being laughed at, looked down towards the ground in embarrassment as she started sniffling.
Arthur quickly came before her and tried to stop my mocking words, but the father beat him to it, "You! Do you even know who I am? I am a Viscount! A Goddamn noble with the respected rank of Viscount! How the fuck, do you dare to talk about defiling my daughter and laugh at it, you rascal!"
"Stop, don't take this too far." Arthur tried to stop the guy but couldn't as he made his quick walk towards me.
Then just as I had thought, a noble's arrogant nature took the best of him as he clutched on to my collars and started shouting, "I will murder you! I will have all of your family and its fucking children working at the mines. I will make sure that the wives of your house are sold as slaves that would be nothing but reduced to mating materia-"
Arthur saw the dangerous glint coming to Henry's eyes.
"Don't agitate him anymor-"
But he was too late for what was about to happen.
"Bang!"
"Boom!"
My fist struck the man's face and he flew through the hall and went inside the office, destroying the wooden columns in its way before finally being stopped by the sturdy wall at the end.
The father struck the wall before he got stuck in a strange fashion. His head and legs were leaning towards the ground, while his butt had gone through the wall and was out in the wild.
It was a funny scene.
Still, that didn't diminish the fact that Henry had just one shot him at the house with immense power.
Everyone at the house who was lucky enough to truly saw the spectacle gulped at him before subconsciously taking a step back. They didn't know if this large guy would go berserk again and punch another one to kingdom come.
"Mister!"
"Father!"
Arthur and the man's daughter was the first to move from their place. Both of them went towards the man and checked him out. Arthur looked at his pulse while the girl freaked out nonstop.
She finally stopped when he said, "He's alive… just unconscious."
"Fuck… should have used more force than."
My words struck them like a thin needle with deep poison.
While the girl in fear whimpered while looking at her almost dead father, Arthur took out his sword and went right for me. His sword was right at my neck as he said, "You could have killed him!"
Raven was about to move in, but I signal him not to. So he stayed out of this matter but remained close to me.
"And I was unfortunate not to." I said and before his shocked state could say anything I went first, "This is the second time."
"Hmm?"
"This is the second time you have risen in violence against me. Before you only used your hands but this time you took out your sword." Staring deep at him, I said, "You do understand that if I respond in kind then the morality rate might just go up from 0 to… how many stupid people is there in this place?" I said while looking at all the others.
Understanding the subtle threat that spread with my words, the people froze in place.
Arthur knew how serious Henry's words were. He understood that if Henry truly were to strike then there would definitely be a catastrophe.
Especially now, when Arthur saw his huge sword covered by a cloth behind him.
Arthur looked back at the girl who looked at him like she wanted justice for her father and then at me, who was ready to rumble whenever Arthur went for it.
Finally, after a deep dilemma, Arthur brought his sword down, "I'm sorry… I shouldn't have sprung out like that."