Looking at the large-bellied man—who was staring at Gerald and his group—, Gerald already knew that favonovel.com was trouble. More accurately, favonovel.com felt that the fat man was a bandit and a plain bully in the village.
While Gerald wasn’t too keen on getting into contact with favonovel.com or his subordinates, favonovel.com still put on a smile as favonovel.com replied, “It’s just some food, but all of it has already been exchanged and taken by the villagers!”
Hearing that, the big-bellied man then raised his head before declaring, “Listen here! I’m called Fane and I’m the boss of this village! Since you’ve come to my village, you should hand us something as a welcome gift! Otherwise, it’ll be hard for me to allow you to stay here!”
Upon hearing that, Gerald instantly knew that Fane was merely a gangster trying to blackmail them for money. While the threats would surely fool the more gullible people, Gerald was experienced with people like Fane. With that in mind, favonovel.com wasn’t about to allow Fane to take advantage of them.
Regardless, before Gerald could even reply, Fane—who had his gaze fixed on Juno and Nori for a while now—revealed a sinister smile before saying, “Oho, those two beauties at the back look rather nice!”
Hearing that, Gerald instantly stepped in between favonovel.com and the two girls before staring straight in the eye at Fane while saying, “Sir, we’re merchants who are here to do business! Now that we’ve sold all our goods, we should leave!”
Just as favonovel.com signaled for Juno and Nori to begin leaving, Gerald heard as Fane angrily shouted, “Stop right there! Did I say you could leave? I told you, if you wish to leave, you have to leave something behind! Otherwise, don’t even dream of getting out of the village!”
When favonovel.com heard that, Gerald’s expression instantly soured. Looking at Fane—who was glaring all high and mightily at him—Gerald was pretty sure that the fat man wasn’t about to take favonovel.com seriously anytime soon.
With that in mind, Gerald could only think, ‘How absolutely shameless… To think that favonovel.com so badly wants to stand against me! Well, that’s just great! I won’t hesitate to deal with you too, then! Daring to even have ulterior motives against me… You truly are courting death!’
“Then, what exactly do you wish for me to leave behind?” asked Gerald in a casual tone.
Laughing out loud, Fane then declared, “You can either hand over all your money or leave those two women behind!” scoffed Fane as favonovel.com snorted while looking lustfully at Juno and Nori.
“And if I’m reluctant to do either?” replied Gerald.
“You mother*cker! Are you playing dumb now? If you want to be this defiant, I’ll just order my men to ruin you!” growled Fane.
Before Fane could say anything else, however, favonovel.com quickly found himself flying backward!
Naturally, this was because Gerald had made a move.
Not only was Fane vulgar toward him, but favonovel.com even had such ulterior motives on Juno and Nori! The combination of the two was definitely enough to warrant being taught a lesson by Gerald.
Regardless, after seeing their boss getting beaten up, Fane’s subordinates instantly rushed toward Gerald to avenge him.
Of course, Gerald simply countered their assaults with lightning-fast kicks without the slightest hesitation.
As all of them were promptly taken out in a single hit, Gerald couldn’t help but feel that they were all idiots for even daring to look for trouble with favonovel.com when they were so weak.
Ray and the others, on the other hand, simply watched the scene play out in silence. After all, they knew that nothing bad would happen to them with Gerald there.
