Episode 108. Legally Blonde (3)
That evening.
The daycare children who had been running around excitedly during the day went to bed earlier than usual, perhaps because they were tired.
After all the children are asleep.
“Ugh… why, why did I… .”
The sound of sobbing coming from the daycare bathroom.
Click.
Soon the door opened and Juliet, fully dressed, walked out.
“wow.”
“Wow, that’s amazing.”
A soft exclamation escaped Iris and I as we watched Juliet come out.
I thought it suited her well when I saw it in the photo, but when I saw it in person, it looked so natural that I didn’t even think it was a man at first glance.
‘Because the original was pretty handsome.’
It wasn’t for nothing that the newly admitted female students followed Juliet around.
‘Well… if you look closely, you can tell he’s a man.’
Looking at the thick neckline, broad shoulders, and the line of the hips extending from the waist, you could definitely tell that it was a man.
but.
‘It wouldn’t be easy to tell the difference in these dark slum streets.’
No matter how much a hero’s body was superhuman compared to that of an ordinary person, he could not see in the dark as clearly as in daylight.
“I’m glad Camilla’s clothes fit.”
“Well, Camilla is pretty tall for a girl.”
The clothes Juliet is wearing now were ones that Father Antonio had bought a long time ago to give to Camilla.
Camilla refused, saying she couldn’t wear such a flowing skirt, so Juliet wore the one that had been left in the orphanage instead.
“Even if you’re tall, what are you going to do about your chest?”
Camilla looked at Juliet, who was wearing the clothes she had been given as a gift, with a complicated expression on her face.
She continued, taking out some leftover bread from her bag after the children had eaten it.
“If you could just put some bread in it….”
“Oh, no. The chest length is not much different from men’s clothes, so I don’t think that’s necessary.”
Juliet shook her head, caressing her chest, which was tightly pressed against her without any empty space.
“… Huh!”
Crunch.
The bread in Camilla’s hand was terribly crumpled.
“…Dale County.”
Father Antonio approached me with a worried look on his face.
“I really appreciate you taking the time to step up and help with this embarrassing situation. But….”
Father Antonio, whose speech is slurred.
“This case is too dangerous for a candidate to solve.”
Father Antonio shook his head as he said so.
“Of course, I know that Dale-kun has outstanding skills because I saw it at the last sealing ceremony… but the culprit of this incident is a powerful hero that even ‘Power Man’ couldn’t catch.”
It was natural that Father Antonio was so worried about me.
‘Power Man, Rascal Joe.’
He was a powerful hero from the Republic, and was ranked 86th in the Three Kingdoms Hero Rankings.
‘He is also a hero who is famous beyond his ranking.’
Although he may not be that famous now, the name ‘Power Man’ Rascal Joe will become so famous that there will be no one on the entire continent who doesn’t know him in a few years.
‘Because he is such a unique hero.’
Despite possessing ranker-level skills, he did not belong to any organization and instead traveled alone, chasing down and executing extremely vicious criminals.
‘You say you are not a hero, but a hero.’
Even though they both mean the same thing in the dictionary.
When you look at it in real life, it has a completely different meaning.
‘Rather, the word ‘hero’ is now being used in a way that is far removed from its original meaning.’
It is a tradition that has continued for 500 years that superhumans who have received the stigmata from the seven gods are called ‘heroes’.
In reality, not all of them were heroic beings who protected the weak and fought against evil.
Rather, most of them were just ordinary people who could be found anywhere in the world, busy satisfying their own selfish desires.
‘But Rascal is different.’
Rascal was a hero… no, a hero who roamed the streets at night, protecting the weak and fighting against evildoers without expecting anything in return.
‘There are rumors that he is a bit of a weird person.’
Needless to say, the cheesy nickname ‘Power Man’ wasn’t given to him by the rich.
Even if the naming sense of the rich people was not that great, it was not so miserable that they would put such an absurd title in front of someone’s name.
‘I think he said he walked around in a full body tights and called himself Power Man.’
To be honest, he was someone I didn’t want to meet in person.
anyway.
“You don’t have to worry too much about that.”
I said so and shrugged my shoulders.
“I’ve also grown a lot since I was a sealer.”
There was no reason to be afraid of a single lunatic sexual criminal when he could have an all-out war with the Archbishop right away.
“but….”
Even though he was told that it was okay, Father Antonio could not easily shake off his worried expression.
but.
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Even if you saw him slicing through dozens of demons in an instant right before your eyes, how could you possibly have guessed that a mere candidate without even a proper hero license would be a monster with the skills to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Archbishop?
“Mr. Dale will be fine.”
“…Saint?”
“Mr. Dale is much stronger than you think, priest.”
Iris’s eyes, as she spoke like that, were filled with deep trust in me.
“Hmm. If the Saintess says so… I understand.”
Only then did Father Antonio nod his head and step back.
“Okay, then shall we set off?”
I looked back at Juliet and nodded.
“I’ll follow you from behind, so if anything happens, send me a signal right away.”
“Ha… Okay.”
Juliet sighed and nodded.
He turned his head and asked as he was about to leave the orphanage.
“Dale, do you have any alcohol here?”
“Alcohol? Why alcohol all of a sudden?”
I tilted my head at Juliet’s sudden suggestion.
“If you want alcohol, there is a bottle of wine in my room.”
“Then can you give it to me?”
Juliet accepted a bottle of wine from Priest Antonio.
“Garrrrr… Thud!”
Juliet gargled with wine and spat it out on the floor.
As if that wasn’t enough, he spread wine around his neck and wrists.
A strong alcohol smell that spreads in an instant.
“Phew.”
Juliet took a deep breath, ruffled her hair, and unbuttoned a few of the buttons on her dress.
In that state, I went out of the orphanage and walked along the slum streets where darkness had fallen.
“Huh…!”
I don’t know if it’s a mistake or intention, but he sometimes stumbles and lets out a nasal groan in the middle of his walk.
“Haa, haa.”
Heavy breathing.
Messy clothes and hair.
Even the strong scent of alcohol seeping from the body.
On the outside, she looked like a woman who was clearly drunk and out of her mind.
And, in these lawless streets, a drunken beauty is an easier target for crime than anyone else.
‘No, what is this kid?’
I followed Juliet from a distance and let out a sigh.
‘Why are you so good at acting like a woman?’
I felt a deep inner strength in the acting, and for a moment I even doubted that Juliet was a man.
Ta-da-da-dak!
Did such a passionate performance shine through?
After walking through the slum streets for about 30 minutes, the sound of footsteps echoed through the dark alley.
“Heh, heh heh heh!”
A voice filled with sticky desire.
A black-robed monster ran out of the alley and looked at Juliet with bloodshot eyes.
“Ugh, hehehe! Blonde… blonde girl… .”
A monster who laughs madly and drools profusely from his mouth.
“Huh…? Gyaaah, gyaaahhh!”
Juliet, who discovered the monster, ran towards the direction where I was hiding.
“Hey, save me! Someone save me!”
Despite not using any voice-changing magic, Juliet was able to imitate a woman’s scream with near-perfect accuracy.
“There, stand… pretty, you… hehehe!”
The black-robed monster shouted in a slurred voice and followed Juliet, kicking his feet.
“More, more, more… desperately, run away!”
A monster that chases Juliet like a predator hunting for prey.
As expected of a hero with quite strong skills, his footsteps were as fast as those of a beast.
“Gotcha, you little shit.”
I was hiding in an alleyway, so I ran out at the right time and attacked the monster.
‘Barrel Martial Arts.’
Breaking a mountain.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The fist filled with ash aimed at the monster.
“Cough?!”
Kuung!
The monster was hit by a fist coming from a square and was roughly bounced off and slammed into the wall.
“You… who… are you…?”
“Who are you, you little shit?”
I walked towards the monster with the corners of my lips raised.
“I’m the one who came to catch perverts.”
“… … .”
The corners of the monster’s mouth were distorted beneath the deeply pressed robe hood.
“Where, if you can catch it… try to catch it!”
The monster kicked my foot and threw a punch at me.
Woohoo!
A storm of magical power swirling around.
The blue aura on his fist burned violently.
‘He’s definitely a guy with some skills.’
The power contained in the fiercely swung fist was so strong that it sent a chill down my spine.
‘but.’
Even if we say that,
Right now, there wasn’t anyone strong enough for me to deal with.
“Tch.”
I lightly dodged the punch, grabbed the monster’s wrist, pulled it back, and hit his chin with my knee.
“Cough!”
A monster that lets out a shattered scream from the shock that shakes its insides.
“Let me see what kind of kid you are.”
When I tried to reach out towards the hood of the monster who was bent over while holding my wrist tightly.
“Heh, heh heh… Hehehehehe!”
The monster let out a mad laugh and roughly twisted his wrist.
Wood crunch!
The wrist twisted in a bizarre way and escaped my grasp.
The monster, who had been running away, kicked his foot towards Juliet.
“Gyaaaah!”
“Don’t move!”
The monster who grabbed Juliet by the nape of her neck glared at me and raised the corners of his mouth.
“Ugh, hehehe! Try to move even one step… I’ll just twist your neck like that.”
The monster said that and buried his nose in Juliet’s hair, taking a deep breath.
“Ugh. Haa! That’s right, that’s the smell…!”
The monster shivered as he smelled Juliet’s hair.
“After all, blondes are the best… Hehehehe!”
“Do you like blonde hair that much?”
“That’s a given! There shouldn’t be any hair other than blonde!”
“okay?”
I nodded, swallowing a snicker.
“Do you like it even if it’s a guy’s?”
“…what?”
“No, I just thought it would be okay for a guy to be blonde.”
“Nonsense! Of course it should be a woman! I don’t care about a man’s hair!”
A monster shouting in a firm voice.
“Oh, really? That’s strange. I think even a man would be fine.”
“What are you talking about…?”
moment.
The monster turns to Juliet, interrupting her words.
The monster tilted his head, hesitating as he held the hand that was holding Juliet’s nape, then slowly lowered his gaze.
“uh?”
A questioning voice leaking out between the lips.
“Why… is it there?”
The eyes of the monster who saw something that should not exist began to tremble.
