"So what did I say, Priest?"
"Ah..."
"Not all the poor are good."
As I approached her, I could see just how badly she had been roughed up.
Of course, I knew what had happened. After all, I had been watching this young woman's adventure from start to finish.
She currently wore an expression filled with tears and a runny nose. Her entire demeanor screamed out that she felt an immense type of fear. I made sure to keep my expression sympathetic, though, of course, I did not feel much sympathy for her. At this point, I probably looked like help sent from heaven.
What had been the most interesting thing to me was how she had turned a complete 180 from the Sun Hee-young that I had just seen this morning. One side of my lip curled up.
'As expected, humans are funny.'
Everything had turned out to be the opposite. The poor people she had so readily defended ended up being the perpetrators in this scheme, and the man she despised the most ended up being her savior.
Because of this, I found it hard trying to reel in my laughter.
In contrast to the neat and haughty Sun Hee-young that I had just seen this morning, the girl in front of me sported a bruised, swollen face and torn-up rags for clothes. I knew that if I hadn't shown up any sooner, she would have been in big trouble.
"Alas..."
The tears that I had intentionally accumulated in my eyes fell at that moment.
I could feel the man who was pulling Sun Hee-young's hair and the bums who seemed to be waiting for their turn looking at me.
"Who are you?"
"That you don't need to know, scum."
"Don't try to play cocky with me, bastard. I'm asking who you are."
"Don't move."
Of course, I didn't have the confidence to go ahead and kill everyone here. I was still admittedly a weak wizard, and there were a lot of them surrounding me.
I didn't believe that Jung Hayan would currently handle the lot of them at this moment, even though she was already preparing spells behind me. I had to stall for time.
However, the fact that we were against these types of people made me feel confident about myself. These were the types who acted weak against the strong and strong in front of the weak.
Sure enough, I could see cautious expressions spreading from the entire crowd. My and Jung Hayan's anonymity was enough of a reason to make them anxious.
"W-Where are you from...?"
"You don't need to know."
"That..."
Jung Hayan began to utter the spell she had memorized the moment I looked behind me. Even before her voice burst, the new magical power that encroached everywhere began to trap them.
Screams popped up from place to place in an impossible situation.
Sun Hee-young, who was trembling with her round eyes open, started to run towards us. She had realized that I was the only one who could save her from her current predicament. Meanwhile, screams erupted from the hordes of people who did not know what was happening.
Everyone here was aware that we were the ones responsible for the explosion, and she knew going towards us was where she would be protected.
"I told you it was going to be dangerous, didn't I?"
