Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 62: Aswad 9 of 15 “The sad ones from past” (Part 07)
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Even at midnight, the moon appeared among the star clusters in the night sky. The clouds that had previously covered the sky were out of the way, making the moonlight shine brightly and reach the surface without any thunder. Breezy cold winds down the prostitution complex near the port, still seen some customers coming back and forth even though a new day has come.
Unlike the first third of the night, the crowd in the prostitution complex began to unravel. The people in the existing brothels are seen mostly the striped count men who have been satisfied to give up desire and will just go home. Coming out of the brothel at the same time, Odo felt not far away from the people they were despite actually having a different purpose when it came.
Standing in front of Alms Lilac's brothel shop, Madam Theodora hugged Odo's right hand tightly and looked friendly as she made her way out of the prostitution. Some prostitutes stared and whispered, some were amazed at the madam and some were envious. Hearing their voices, Odo let out a small sigh with a slight fret.
“Not if there are rumors spread can be serious later?” said Odo while pulling his hand from the arms of the Madam.
The lady clad in a tight black dress put the tip of the right palm to the front of the mouth, then laughed lightly and said, “Just relax, such rumors will quickly disappear. None of us will divulge customer information.”
“If Brother is there?” Odo stared at the brothel across the street, a little astonished that there were still men coming in the early hours like this.
“Let's rest, the three brothels in this corner won't have anyone divulging customer information. But ...” Madam walked to the front of Odo and stood before him, then extended her hand to the left cheek of the young man and said, “If the front of this complex we do not guarantee it. Sir carefully return home, yes ...”
“Hmm, sure ...” With a short reply, Odo immediately turned and walked away from the front of the brothel. Turning his head and smiling faintly at Madam Theodora, the young man said, “I will try to solve the disease. For now Madam finish only what can be completed.”
“I understand, Mr.”
After exchanging those sentences, the young man immediately looked forward and immediately accelerated his footsteps. On his way home along the crowded compound, Odo occasionally sees immoral crimes on some rundown gangs.
Harassment, rape, being forced to serve many men at once and being treated harshly are not uncommon. For prostitutes who are too low to work in a brothel, this does not happen once or twice in their lives.
Men who are thirsty for women and have no money mostly do this, working with their colleagues and raping in turns. Shoveling, dragging an immoral woman into a dark alley and spaying her.
Odo who glimpsed that did not help, only gave a cold look and said nothing. Even as the woman lying on a wooden box and being spun around the men stared at her in the hope of being helped, she said, the young man in black hair did not stop his footsteps at all or just make a sound for the men to stop.
“What's the matter you didn't help her, Odo?” seliari's voice was buzzing inside her head. Stopping the black-haired young man's footsteps came to a halt and let out a light sigh, then immediately turned around and returned to the front of the alley where the rape occurred.
In the shadows of the buildings on both sides of the alley, the black-haired youth stared with the look of his eyes that turned red and seemed to light up in the dark. He used the Mana compaction technique with his right hand, creating a wand less than two meters long that dimly emitted a light blue light.
“Oi, everyone look! Who's coming!” said a man who first saw Odo. From his bare-chested appearance and wearing a black bandana, he looked like a laborer working for a large fishing boat.
Appearing not much different from the man, his four colleagues also look not far away. They were all poor fishermen who made the boat where they worked as a house, people without residency papers and were Dark Immigrants. The stocky body was covered in oil, the face of the rogue and the stern look. The five people who used to risk their lives in the sea looked like wild beasts.
“What is this? Why is there a boy like you in a place like this? If you're done having fun with the ladies, why don't you just go home, you fucking kid?”
A man who had just put his manhood into the female genitals of the prostitute stared in annoyance. He retracted it, put his pants up and walked toward Odo with his right hand clenched. In Odo's eyes, they all looked inferior to beasts and began to give extremely disgusted gazes.
“What's that look like? You think higher, huh! You rancid boy! Be aware of your place and do not need to be a hotshot—!!”
Tampa was able to land a punch on the young man's body, the man immediately fell to the ground and sprawled out facing the sky. He did not see what Odo had done to him. With disgust, he immediately woke up to beat up the young man with black hair.
“Stat! You rancid— boy! UGhK!”
Odo swung his wand and smacked the man's dirty mouth until some of his front teeth fell out. Not giving mercy, the second swing hit the man's throat until it blinded him could not make a sound and shortness of breath.
The other four men immediately panicked, they immediately raised their pants and ran to help. But ended sooner than the first man, Odo made the men battered with just a stick. They were all lying down, curling up in pain on the ground. At first glance Odo felt like he wanted to finish them off at once. But wanting to avoid the strange news that could interfere with his plans, he chose to let them live.
Without taking out a single word, the black-haired youth stared towards the prostitute who was the victim of rape. Tattered clothes, his body covered in abject liquid and there were some bruises. In Odo's eyes, the position of the victim and the perpetrator himself can be reversed depending on the way the situation is viewed. It could be that the slum woman who was sitting limp in front of him was the perpetrator, who initially lured the men because he wanted money to eat.
Returning to observe the prostitute's body, he realized that he was a Demi-human type koala. Wide hairy ears and unique round eyes, the feature tells Odo his race.
“Te-Thank you,” said the prostitute in a stuttering voice. His body trembled full of pain, pain and coldness.
Without saying anything, the young man in black hair took out a Potion from the storage dimension on his glove. Proposing it to him, he coldly said, “Drink this ...”
The brown-haired woman looked confused, staring in disbelief at what the young man was proposing. Shaking, he accepted it and did not immediately drink the potion.
“Minum,” says Odo for the first time.
The woman gasped, quickly drinking the potion until it ran out because of fear. The gaze and aura of the young man was very different from most people, more terrifying than the men who raped him. It was as if the young man was a giant monster but had a human form.
After finishing the potion, all the wounds all over his body healed quickly like he had obtained a miracle. The prostitute was flabbergasted, staring at the young man and was about to thank him. However —
Odo immediately took the empty bottle from him, put it into the storage dimension and immediately turned away from the place. While walking away, the young man again swung his cane and made the five men of rape who were cowering on the ground lose their consciousness. So that the woman can get out of the alley safely.
That was the last favor he gave, nothing more and Odo soon left the alley. When he saw her leave, the koala-type Demi-human woman immediately woke up and bowed in gratitude.
“Thank you ... Thank you, Mr .... Thank you,” said the woman continuously. The young man glimpsed her bowing and heard what she said limply, yet gave no response at all.
Odo simply removed the Mana compaction stick and left before anyone else saw what he had done. Without finding out why the woman was raped, without finding out more information about the perpetrators of the rapist or other reasons behind the incident.
Up to the fork in the road leading to the town hall, the harbor, and the brothel, the young man stood under the light of a crystal lamp by the roadside. He lowered his face grimly, feeling contemptuous from within and annoyed at himself. Opening both of his own palms and staring, the young man gritted his teeth in disgust.
“When talking about idealism without changing anything, what comes out of mouth is nothing but nonsense ...”
That word he directs to himself. Lowering his hands and stepping back, the young man's eyes quickly turned flat and in his mind immediately understood that it was like that from a place full of depravity.
His footsteps felt heavy after he understood this, all the images he had of Perception Speculation made him want to vomit. The disgusting sight of a person falling to the point of being inferior to animals, the miserable fate of the women who hooked up to life by selling their honor, the, and the upper classes who come only to get satisfaction from the place full of devotion.
For Odo himself, he had been like visiting the place more than fifteen times using Perception Speculation. Although it only happened inside the head in the form of probability calculations, it really made the young man feel sick of seeing such disgusting images so many times in such a short period of time.
When stepping pensively, he did not feel himself reaching the city hall. The place had completely turned quiet, there were only two guards who were overtime and patrolling around the place. Feeling the calm, Odo breathed fresh air in the early hours of the morning and decided to take a break on a bench near the city fountain.
But just as he was about to sit down, a rowdy voice sounded. He immediately turned his head and looked tiredly at the source of the voice, then again saw the rotten sight of the coastal city he wanted to advance. It was not because of the changes brought after the trade route reopened, but since the beginning it had existed and grew in line with the development of the city.
In front of one of the offices in the office complex in the city hall, a girl was kicked by a fat man with a violent face. The man was wearing the same seedy clothes as the kicked child. The fat man is a thug who used to roam in the early hours to scavenge food scraps from garbage cans, and, then when the day comes usually he pickpocketed in the crowd using disguise as rough transport labor.
While the girl who curled up on the road surface was a Demi-human type of snow leopard, had a large tail with dense fur and a pair of ears similar to the cat type. His hair was entirely gray, and his ears and tail were as black as a Leopard. From the dull tattered dress worn by the girl who was about 7 years old, Odo quickly understood that he was also a vagabond without residency papers.
“Let go of this sack, damn it! Goddammit! Fucking cat! Leave that to me!” said the fat man of the Demi-human race monkey type brown fur.
The fat man repeatedly kicked the girl who curled up and tried to protect her sack. Without compassion, keep swinging his legs and kicking. Forcing the girl to give up her things.
“Please forgive me .... This is all I have left alive, please forgive me. I'm sorry, please .... I'm sorry uncle, please let me go. Forgiveness .... Forgiveness .... Pain, don't hurt me anymore ...”
“If! You are! Nah! Want to! Me! Kick it! Surrender it! It! On me! You son of a bitch!” said the fat man while continuing to kick the girl.
Although there were two guards who saw the incident, they did not help and instead stood at a crossroads while chatting about unimportant things. No matter what they see. For the two guards, the Demi-humans and thugs were not their responsibility because they came from a slum that did not even pay taxes.
“Whoever ...! Please .... I'm scared .... Pain .... Please stop, forgive me.”
“Be quiet you useless brat!”
The fat man kicked very hard, the place hit the girl's left hip and threw her body onto the hard surface of the road. The girl was instantly breathless, having trouble making a sound and curling up to vomit blood.
The little girl's face paled, extended her hand to the sack the fat man had taken and limply pleaded, “Please .... That's all I got from my late mother. Please return ...”
“Be quiet!” The man kicked the girl in the face until her nose bled, then continued by stepping on her head and yelling, “What are you talking about, huh?! You're just a whore's son! Disgusting boy! Just shut up and die, you piece of trash ..”
Odo's patience was completely exhausted when he heard and saw what the fat man was doing. With quick footsteps he immediately approached her, held the man's shoulder from behind and said, “You are trash ..”
“Huh? Who are you bastards—! Ugh!”
Odo instantly struck his face as the thug turned around, until the fat man's huge body slammed onto the ground and instantly lost consciousness. Unsatisfied with that, the young man's black hair kicked him in the face until some of the man's front teeth fell out.
Seeing this, the two guards who before did not care about what happened immediately came to the scene. They could not ignore the fight, then one of them asked, “Hey! You are! What are you doing?!”
“You're blind?” Odo stared intently at the two guards, making them shiver with the radiant dragon aura from the black-haired young man's body .
Both city guards with layers of leather armour immediately knew the face of the young man from the Luke family, they had seen him in the barracks during a duel with Arca last time. But following the procedures that the city government emphasized, one of the guards kept saying, “Force us. Even though you are the son of a God, you can't just beat up such a person. Can come with us for a while to the office, we want to ask you for information. That's the rule given to us, Mr.”
Odo fell silent at the nonsense, fed up with the flawed procedures and sickening rules they spoke of. Taking a deep breath and putting on a cold expression, the young man in black hair asked, “Your name and platoon?”
“Heh?”
“Note your name and platoon!!”
They immediately snapped trembling, stepped back without answering and began to fear what the young man would do after learning the information. Staring at each other, the two guards felt they did not want to get bothered because of such a problem.
“To-Please don't be angry, we just want to ask for information ...”
The son of Luke's family did not listen to the guard. He walked towards the little girl who was cowering in pain in the street, then immediately held her up and again sighed in agitation. Glancing at the two guards, Odo firmly ruled, “Bring the man there and imprisoning him, you guys who are not good at protecting the population can definitely do things that easily, ‘kan?”
““Si-Ready!””
Submissively, the two guards immediately carried out the order. They clearly knew why the son of the Luke family looked so angry, understood the reason for the reason that from now on they were both just ignoring what was going on because of the rules applied by the government.