Chapter 20: A hero saves a damsel in distress?

“Looks like we hit the jackpot this time.”

“Running into a rich little idiot walking alone in the night alley—our luck is really too good. Hurry up and find the boss to check out her background.”

Chloe couldn’t clearly see the face of the person firmly covering her mouth with their hand. She felt a wave of annoyance in her heart.

She had clearly experienced the darkness of Tirikast City before. Yet upon returning to this city again, she had forgotten to stay vigilant and guard against these human traffickers.

She was still too young and not cautious enough.

“After finishing this job, we should lie low for a while. There are always lunatics in this world with nothing better to do. We can’t risk our lives over it.”

“Well said.”

People who run this kind of business but still talk so much definitely aren’t smart.

Chloe couldn’t help feeling speechless. It was bad enough to run into kidnappers, but these kidnappers were small-time trash completely mismatched with her status. Her luck was truly terrible.

Consider it compensation.

The packed late-night snack had already fallen to the ground. She didn’t know how much of it was still edible.

Although she had some psychological resistance toward drinking blood, she felt little pressure when it came to dealing with these scumbags.

“Speaking of which, isn’t this little girl being a bit too quiet?”

“Otherwise why would we call her a little idiot? A smart one wouldn’t come out alone in the middle of the night without any guards.”

“That’s true. Even a lecher like you saw her like this and didn’t have any evil thoughts. You probably think it’s bad luck to mess with an idiot. I think so too.”

Chloe suddenly felt that killing these two might actually be a good idea.

Who were they calling an idiot?

They got arrogant the moment she behaved obediently.

“Both of you, stop right there.”

Like a hero rescuing a damsel in distress straight out of a novel, a cold voice came from behind. Chloe immediately gave up any thought of resisting and prepared to see which kind-hearted person was planning to save her, this harmless little cutie.

Could it be the Hero she had been thinking about day and night~

If it was the cute, gentle, and considerate Miss Limla, she wouldn’t mind becoming her slave and giving birth to her babies.

“Blegh——”

Chloe couldn’t hold it in and dry-heaved.

The two kidnappers who were about to question who had come were stunned by the strange noise from the little girl they had abducted. The cold voice quickly turned sharp with anger.

“You actually dared to hit her? Are you provoking me?”

“Wait, she dry-heaved on her own!”

Before the kidnapper could explain, the voice opposite them became even sharper.

“Morning sickness? You actually kidnapped a pregnant woman?”

“Huh?”

A pregnant woman who was less than 1.4 meters tall?

That was even more terrifying than them as kidnappers.

The other kidnapper who wasn’t holding Chloe didn’t hesitate. He drew his knife and confronted the person who clearly had something wrong with their brain.

“Young man, let me give you a piece of advice. In Tirikast, every profession has its own rules. Whether it’s kidnapping, child trafficking, or even cannibalism, there’s no explicit law against it here.”

The arrogant man performed the classic move of licking the blade with his tongue. Chloe couldn’t help feeling curious.

Could it be that the ones who kidnapped her weren’t small fry, but actually famous ruthless characters in this city?

Her vanity really needed an affirmative answer to satisfy it. Then she heard the man continue:

“My master needs her for a little snack, understand? I see you’re also from the Adventurers’ Association. If you don’t want to lose your adventurer job and continue moving freely in this place, you’d better be smart and forget what happened tonight. This bit of money is your hush money.”

As he spoke, he took out a cloth bag from his waist and threw it at the person’s feet.

The heavy clinking of metal could be heard even without opening the bag. Chloe could tell it was filled with high-purity silver coins.

It seemed these people hadn’t kidnapped her for ransom. There really was a pervert who wanted to use a young girl as a drinking snack.

Even though she was already a member of the demon race, Chloe’s little face still turned pale.

Even her old Feng wasn’t into this kind of thing…

“Heh.”

Another sound of metal clashing rang out. The person who had made that disdainful sound kicked away the so-called hush money with one foot.

“If the Adventurers’ Association is such a filthy place, then I don’t need to stay there. Using people as snacks? Even demons might not do something like this. I’d like to meet your so-called master and ask for an explanation.”

Oh ho?

A heroic woman who doesn’t fear power and has an overflowing sense of justice. Such a person still exists in this day and age—it’s quite rare.

All three people, including Chloe, had the same thought at the same time.

“She doesn’t look easy to deal with.”

“Better to avoid trouble. How about…”

The two kidnappers’ muttering was very clear. Chloe was speechless at their habit of loudly plotting at every moment. She dismissed the guess that these two and the woman who came to save her were accomplices. She struggled hard once and shouted:

“Big sister, save me! They are all perverted adults! They said they’re going to take me to give birth to children, then kill and eat me after! And right now they’re still molesting me, waaah…”

After shouting, Chloe directly bit down hard on the tiger’s mouth of the person holding her, remembering the taste of this person’s blood.

In the five years she had spent with Yalith, Chloe’s greatest gain had never been mother-daughter affection or demon race magic.

What she had gained was powerful acting skills that allowed her to cry within three seconds, along with the experience of using it to outwit others.

Every time she put on an act, as long as she looked at Elda with teary, pleading eyes, the maid would gently comfort her with extreme tenderness. Even her mother, who harbored bad intentions, would be briefly invaded by maternal glow when she saw her pitiful appearance and show her a little mercy.

It had proven effective every time.

Therefore, her genuine crying successfully made the two kidnappers’ hesitation disappear and also wiped away the calmness of the person confronting them.

“You bastard?!”

The man who had been bitten by Chloe was just about to teach this randomly shouting little girl a lesson when his companion shouted again:

“No, this guy is a Hero! Let’s go!”

A Hero…

Could it be?

The person she had been thinking about day and night had really appeared. Wait, that’s not right…

Chloe was a little dazed. The voice of Limla in her memory was definitely not like this.

At the very least, that flat-chested blonde girl who was less than 1.6 meters tall could not possibly produce such a mature voice that only a big sister would have—one that sounded like she had a very voluptuous figure just from hearing it.

But even though she knew there were many Heroes in this world, her intuition told her that the person who had come was indeed Limla.

Lost in confusion, Chloe naturally couldn’t react in time when the kidnapper released her. Just as she was about to fall to the ground, a strong hand steadily caught her and then held her in their arms. As for the two not-so-smart kidnappers, they only took a couple of steps before softly collapsing to the ground.

“Are you okay? Little sister, I am Limla Kutria. I don’t know if you’ve heard my name. If you can trust the title of Hero, then come with me.”

Accompanying this noticeably gentler voice was Limla’s face—familiar, yet more mature than in her memories and even more detestable.

Damn it. Wasn’t this woman already eighteen when she got kicked out of the party? How could she still have such obvious changes in height and appearance? Not only had she grown taller, but she had also become so good-looking.

Moreover…

Was the Hero’s charm capable of automatically weakening the hostility of hostile units?

Why did she feel her heart racing like a deer in panic!

It couldn’t be simply because Limla’s breasts had gotten bigger and matched her XP, right?

The grief and indignation in Chloe’s heart grew even stronger.

From a species perspective, she was clearly closer to a succubus. So why was she the one showing signs of being charmed first?

Why was this world so unfair?