"Hey, hey, Mo Bai. Snap out of it! A girl is staring at you." Xiao Bai, who was engrossed in scanning the entire book, was the first to notice the situation.
"Huh? Are you kidding me?" Mo Bai's vacant gaze focused, and he saw the sparkling azure eyes of the girl across from him, hidden behind her long bangs.
Although the girl, who was hiding half her face with a book, didn't show much expression, the mere meeting of their gazes made it clear that she was currently pouting.
This was a girl with a very strong emotional presence.
"Meow meow meow? What's happening?" In this staring contest, Mo Bai actually blushed and was the first to back down. As he averted his gaze, he couldn't quite figure out the girl's attitude towards him.
"Did I accidentally make physical contact with her while I was zoning out?"
"Hey! Xiao Bai! Answer me." The girl withdrew her gaze after Mo Bai retreated, but he could still feel her eyes on him from time to time, making the hairs on his skin stand up.
Mo Bai groaned inwardly.
Having never been the subject of a girl's intense stare before, he felt completely awkward.
"You, a grown man, getting scared like this by the stare of a bookish girl who can't even truss a chicken?" Xiao Bai, who had expected Mo Bai to be a king and was looking forward to a good show, was instantly disappointed. "Weakling!"
"Weakling my ass! This is called having basic respect for women, okay?!"
"Besides, can't even truss a chicken? Do you have any idea how terrifying a creature that bleeds every month without dying can be when it erupts?"
"Do you?" Xiao Bai's retort successfully choked Mo Bai.
"..."
On the other side, the girl, who hadn't expected him to be the first to back down from their staring contest, felt her face, hidden behind the book, grow slightly hot.
"I... I won?"
"But what should I do next?"
"Should I just tell him directly to take care of the book?"
"But is it really okay to talk to a stranger? And a boy, at that."
"What if he tries to start something?"
As she thought, spinning spirals, representing her chaotic thoughts, appeared in her bright azure pupils.
"What should I do?" The chibi version of herself inside her mind held her head, slumping over in the 'orz' pose.
The girl in the shawl was named Sagisawa Fumika, 19 years old. She was an idol singer under the 346 PRODUCTION talent agency. Because the agency's superstar, Takagaki Kaede, had an event in Akihabara, a group of her friends had fabulously snuck out under the pretext of admiring their senior's glory, treating it as a holiday trip.
"I never should have come out with Minami, Alice, and Anya," Sagisawa Fumika practically buried her face in her book.
The outcome was obvious. Sagisawa Fumika, being naturally frail and clumsy at sports, was quickly exhausted by the cheerful loli and the Russian girl. She had no choice but to rest at a nearby shopping arcade and wait for them to call her when they were done playing.
While Sagisawa Fumika was in turmoil, Mo Bai was also being provoked by Xiao Bai to the point where he just wanted to throw the damn system sprite away.
The general process was: Xiao Bai nagging quietly, Xiao Bai nagging loudly, Xiao Bai nagging in all sorts of creative ways...
Taunted, tic marks of anger popped up on Mo Bai's head. His hand gripping the book tightened involuntarily, and with a rip...
The sound of tearing paper was exceptionally loud in the room where you could hear a pin drop.
"That's enough!" Mo Bai roared in his mind.
"Smack!" Mo Bai was furious, but someone else was even more furious than him.
After seeing the torn page in Mo Bai's hand, Sagisawa Fumika's expression gradually darkened. A powerful force then surged through the girl, compelling her to slam the table and stand up.
"Please!"
"Take care of your books!!!"
The sonic wave of sound erupting from the girl's delicate body made both Mo Bai's and Xiao Bai's minds go blank. At the counter, just as the cashier girl noticed the dispute and was about to intervene, a man in a trench coat, mask, and sunglasses entered the bookstore.
Mo Bai was stunned. Xiao Bai was stunned. Both of them were trembling under the force of her dark aura.
"S-sorry, this book... I'll buy it." Facing the girl's oppressive, condescending stare, Mo Bai inadvertently revealed his cowardly nature.
"M-Mama mia, are all bookish girls this terrifying?" That brainwashing sonic wave left even Xiao Bai with lingering fear, so naturally, it didn't dare to keep nagging.
Mo Bai and Xiao Bai tacitly pretended not to have seen each other's cowardice.
Sagisawa Fumika, her anger meter off the charts, opened her mouth, a hysterical scream about to erupt.
"Ahhhhhh!!!!!"
"???" Sagisawa Fumika blinked in confusion. She wasn't the one who screamed.
She quickly turned around. At the entrance, the suspicious man had opened his trench coat, facing the young female cashier.
"A flasher?!" Recalling her producer's warning to be careful of bad people when outside, Sagisawa Fumika's face turned pale.
In the corner of her eye, she caught the figure of someone advancing by stepping on the tables, the rushing wind messing up her hair.
It was the boy from across the table!
"Partner!"
"I get it!"
"Only sissies go after physically weak women. Real men fight men!" The two cowards instantly reached a consensus.
Leaping over the reading area by stepping on tables and chairs, Mo Bai descended like a divine soldier, grabbing the man's shoulders and forcibly turning his eye-searing naked body to face him.
This wasn't for appreciation, nor was it some strange fetish.
Because Mo Bai knew a certain truth: Lust leads to disaster, and castration is the permanent cure.
Today! He—the envoy of justice, Mo Bai—was going to confiscate this flasher's criminal tool!
Muay Thai is a martial art of immense destructive power, primarily using the body's fists, legs, elbows, and knees—the eight limbs—as eight types of weapons for attack. The delivery of punches, kicks, knees, and elbows is fluid and smooth, displaying extremely abundant power. Its offensive force is fierce, earning it the reputation as the strongest striking martial art.
The clinch and knee strike is one of its most terrifying hidden techniques.
You can imagine the power of a hard knee striking the most fragile, soft abdomen of a mammal.
Clinch, and strike!
It was nearly impossible to dodge!
In an instant, the flasher who had been so arrogant and defiant towards the girl a moment ago was bent over like a large shrimp.
A strange cracking sound echoed through the room.
But Mo Bai didn't stop. Having been tempered by wrestling with fierce spirits, his body almost instinctively used a grab-and-throw move from a video game to toss him out.
After a loud crash, the bookstore's main door died of old age.
The two girls wore expressions even more horrified than when they saw the flasher.
==Wee-woo, wee-woo==
"Chief, Officer Noma asks for you to come over."
"Says he can't handle it."
In the office, an elegant bald man stood up with a helpless look on his face and had the reporting officer lead the way.
Upon hearing the report, he knew another troublesome incident had occurred.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
"Apparently, a flasher was brutally attacked by a teenager and thrown several meters. The doctor said the flasher's pelvis is shattered."
"Hiss..." The elegant middle-aged bald man shuddered.
A phantom ache, a profound sense of sorrow for one's own.
"Chief, what should we do?" Officer Noma stood outside the interrogation room.
The guy was just too brutal. After receiving the report from the hospital, he didn't even dare to be in the same room as Mo Bai.
"What else can we do? With these martial artists who haven't technically broken the law, aside from giving them a talking-to and then sending them off with a good meal, what else can we do?" The elegant middle-aged bald man entered the interrogation room with a rather tough attitude.
"Same as usual. You play bad cop, I'll play good cop."
"..." Officer Noma really wanted to curse. He still had his prime years ahead of him to find a girlfriend!
But he was outranked, so he had no choice but to accept it.
Upon entering the interrogation room, the elegant bald man's knees went weak, and the word "Dad" almost escaped his lips.
He had seen the conspicuous Snowy Mountain Cherry Blossom badge on Mo Bai's clothes.
"Excellent! Society needs comrades like you to bravely say no to the forces of evil!"
Officer Noma, who was supposed to be the bad cop: ???
Is that how you play good cop? I haven't even said anything yet!
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