“Wh-what?”
“What happened?”
“A private brawl?”
“Quickly inform the Knight Order or the adventurers on night patrol!”
The surrounding pedestrians finally noticed the commotion, startled at first, then buzzing with excitement.
Shien, however, ignored them, not even glancing at Edel and his group. He turned to Melika and Lumia, looked them over, and then subtly breathed a sigh of relief.
“Are you alright?”
Shien asked, stepping forward.
That familiar voice finally made Melika and Lumia realize they had been saved.
“Mr. Shien!”
“Mr. Shien!”
The next moment, both girls threw themselves into Shien’s arms.
“Uh…”
Shien hadn’t expected these usually nervous and timid girls to be so agitated as to jump into his arms, and he was startled.
But soon, his heart was filled with tenderness.
The two girls in his arms were trembling.
It was easy to imagine how scared they had been.
Especially Melika, who looked relieved and on the verge of tears.
“Mr. Shien… Mr. Shien…”
Melika clung tightly to Shien as if holding onto something precious she had almost lost, muttering his name, letting Shien imagine what she had just gone through.
As an elf who valued purity, and having been offended by someone like Magray before, Melika’s reaction to this kind of situation was completely understandable.
Therefore, Shien also softened his expression, patting Melika’s back and Lumia’s shoulder, comforting them.
“Alright, it’s okay now. Don’t be afraid.”
Shien was unusually gentle.
At this moment, Eichi and Reid, who had shakily gotten up from the ground, finally saw their attacker clearly, their expressions changing drastically.
“Shien Buztout…!?”
“They… they actually know Shien Buztout…?”
Eichi and Reid instantly broke out in a cold sweat.
Clearly, they were terrified.
“Cough…!”
Edel kept coughing up blood, ignoring the pain in his chest, and tried to crawl away.
He might be incompetent and a wastrel, but he wasn’t a fool.
Since Melika and Lumia knew Shien, if he didn’t run now, he would be done for.
Unfortunately…
“[Bestow: Bind].”
The air around Edel suddenly solidified, like an invisible crane, pressing down on him heavily.
“Gah…! Ah…!?”
Edel froze, unable to move, as if he couldn’t breathe, letting out strange cries as blood trickled from his mouth.
Shien, holding Melika and Lumia’s shoulders, turned to look at Edel.
“Did I say you could leave?”
Shien had a smile on his face, but for some reason, it sent chills down people’s spines.
“Wait!”
“Stop!”
Eichi and Reid, seeing this, subconsciously exclaimed.
“This has nothing to do with you. Step aside.”
Shien didn’t even look at the two knights, saying this indifferently.
But that was all it took for the two knights to freeze.
Shien had used the [Pressure] skill, enveloping the two knights with a terrifying aura, making their faces pale with fear, their bodies trembling, unable to move. ṛ₳NȎBЕS̈
Shien suppressed two high-level knights above level seventy with just his aura.
This scene was witnessed by the surrounding pedestrians.