"But instead of being grateful and thanking me, you're here to take revenge? Grandpa Nuo was right after all. The world only fears the powerful and doesn't care about morals. I should have let Grandpa Nuo just kill all of you earlier!” The young lady was really furious and her cheeks were both puffed up in anger.
She had been walking along the road earlier when some drunken men tried to tease her and touch her.
She immediately got the old man to bash all of them up.
He wanted to kill them so that they wouldn't cause any trouble in the future, but the young lady was kindhearted and didn't want to kill them, so after they were badly beaten, she got the old man to let them go.
The old man had reminded the young lady that these people wouldn't be grateful. Instead, they would bear a grudge against her and return to take revenge eventually.
She didn't believe him and thought that after she let them off, these men would know how to behave themselves and be grateful to her.
But she had been terribly mistaken.
She had viewed human nature too simply.
"Young lady, you're pretty sharp tongued for your age. But even if my brothers weren't in the right, they are martial artists from India after all, so they should have been disciplined by us, and not you. And you even thrashed them up so badly. If I don't avenge them and word gets out, then the Indian martial arts circle will become a laughingstock!" said the leader of the men frostily as he looked maliciously at the young lady.
"But of course, since you're so young, I won't make things too difficult for you. Tell you what. Both of you, kneel down and apologize to my brothers. Then get the old man to break both his arms himself. If you do this, I will let both of you leave in one piece. Otherwise, don't blame me, Reilo, for being someone who bullies those who are weaker than myself," his threatening words echoed in the restaurant.
Most of the other customers in the restaurant just kept quiet and didn't want to be involved.
But there was still at least one person who was willing to stand up for justice. A backpacker in the restaurant found this situation unacceptable, so he tried to defend the young lady, "Aren't you ashamed of yourselves for being a bunch of grown men bullying an old man and a young girl? Besides, your friends were the ones at fault first. If they didn't have ill intentions towards this young lady and tried to make advances on her, they wouldn't have been beaten up in the first place. You guys are in the wrong but you...”
But before he could finish his sentence, a loud blast resonated in the restaurant.
Reilo gave the man a hard kick and the man's ribs immediately broke on impact. He then flew up into the air, smashed through the window and landed on the street outside. After convulsing a few times, he stopped breathing.
"Oh my god..."
"He's...he's killed that man!"
Everyone was horrified by this.
A lot of the restaurant patrons started shrieking in terror and ran out.
An ordinary person wouldn't be able to stand such a bloody and terrifying sight.
A large majority of the customers ran out in a matter of seconds.
"What an idiot! You're not even a martial artist and you dare to poke your nose into our affairs? You asked for it," scoffed Reilo coldly before looking back at the two at the table in front of him.
"So?"
The young lady didn't respond to Reilo's threat. She turned to the elderly man and bowed her head guiltily like she had done something wrong. "Grandpa Nuo, I'm sorry. I was too naive. I should have listened to you and shouldn't have let them off."
The old man smiled genially. "Young Mistress, it's your first time away from home and you've not seen a lot of the world yet. It's only normal to be a little naive at times. Growing up is a process after all, isn't it?"
The young lady nodded.
"Alright now, Young Mistress. Stand to one side and leave these men to me," said the old man gently with a smile on his aged face.
That smile was so warm, friendly and refreshing. But of course, that kindly smile was reserved only for the young lady.
Once he turned to face Reilo and his men, an aggressive expression that looked like it could kill replaced that smile.
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