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Hearing the prostitute at his side speak up, Takumi coldly shook his head.
"Don't touch me. I don't want any dealings with you lot."
Leaving that behind, he ignored the woman and headed out of the Night District.
Watching him go, Aisha Belka was left a little embarrassed. It was the first time she'd met a man who refused that cleanly.
"What a pity… with looks that gorgeous…" Just as Aisha was sighing, a coarse voice rose behind her.
"I smell a young man~ kukukuku!!!"
Thud, thud, thud!!
With the voice came a tremor that rippled through the ground. People along the Night District street couldn't help turning their heads.
A two-meter-tall, broad, massively fat woman waddled forward—flat-faced with a huge mouth, at least eight hundred jin, the spitting image of a giant toad.
The newcomer was Phryne Jamil, captain of the Ishtar Familia, a Lv.5 battle courtesan.
Making a rare appearance in public, Phryne stunned every man present on the spot. They were so frightened by her ugliness that their legs went weak; for a moment, they couldn't even move.
Seeing men freeze wherever they looked at her, Phryne struck a coy, affected smile.
"Gagagaga! I knew my beauty surpasses a goddess a hundredfold—no man can resist me. But I'm picky. None of you are worthy. Don't even think about catching my eye."
Her gaze skimmed the crowd and locked at once onto Takumi, who had glanced back curiously.
"It's you. You caught my attention from afar. I'll grant you the chance to mate with me—come with me!!!"
She stared straight at him, motives naked as day. She kept a secret chamber here in the Night District and often dragged favored men there. And Takumi was the most perfect man Phryne had seen in years. She decided to keep him caged in that chamber and taste him well.
Hearing that from Phryne—who looked like some crossbreed of hog and toad—Takumi almost retched on the spot.
For the first time he was speechless at his own attracts women Traits—this kind of thing also counted as a woman?
Good thing the [Love Curse] hadn't triggered; if it had, he'd have gouged his own eyes out.
After a beat of mute disbelief, murderous intent surged through Takumi's chest.
Seeing him silent, Phryne naturally took it as consent. In Phryne's eyes, she was more beautiful than a goddess; no man would refuse her invitation.
Just imagining possessing this gorgeous man made her drool nonstop.
Watching Phryne in her grotesquerie, Aisha moved to block her.
"Phryne, don't run wild. In broad daylight—don't disgrace our Familia!"
"Hmph! I'm the captain. Get out of my way!"
With a single slap, Phryne swatted Aisha aside.
Aisha flew a full ten meters before she managed to arrest her momentum.
She grunted, a thread of blood at the corner of her lips. Even though she far outstripped other Lv.3s, the gap to Lv.5 was still a chasm.
Staring at Takumi standing there, Aisha could only sigh inwardly.
When Phryne thundered up to within three meters of Takumi, the very air of the Night District seemed to congeal.
Vmmmmm!!!
An incomparable weight, like a towering mountain, slammed down on every head.
Bang! Bang! Bang!!!
People crumpled one after another. Nearest of all, Phryne was smashed straight into the paving by the pressure.
"Puh—w-what… is this!?"
Like a toad, Phryne thrashed her limbs, trying to claw herself free. Her obscene flailing made Takumi's stomach turn.
Boiling mana flared off Takumi and began to spread outward. In an instant, every god in Orario felt that terrifying surge.
Face dark, feet still unmoved, Takumi spoke. "You know, I don't anger easily. But you make me sick—so sick I want to tear you to pieces!!!"
He pointed across the air. Infernal Flame erupted from nothing and engulfed Phryne's bloated mass.
Szzzzzzz!!!
Under Takumi's precise control, the fire roasted flesh and skin, but didn't take her life. The sizzling, oil-popping meat turned into an ocean of agony that swept through Phryne's nerves.
"AAAHHHHH!!!"
Her shriek keened for kilometers.
Still not satisfied, Takumi flicked a few Healing Magic bursts over her, then poured all the stacked pain into her mind.
Crack, crack, crack!
One by one, Phryne's neural strands snapped under the overload of pain—only for Healing to restore her again so she could endure it anew.
In not even half a minute, Phryne died and revived at least dozens of times!
As he did so, Takumi vented the last of the anger in his chest. Sensing figures converging from all directions, he exhaled, turned, and left.
Phryne remained where she lay, still shrouded and seared by the ultimate blaze. But this time, without Takumi's healing, her body was consumed and erased by the flames.
"AH!!!"
With one last ragged howl, only a heap of gray-black ash remained.
Gulp.
Everyone present swallowed hard, too terrified to move. Only when a ring of gods gathered did the crowd begin to react.
"What happened here?"
Faced with the deities' questions, Aisha finally looked to her own goddess, Ishtar.
"M-My Lady… that pile of ash is Phryne."
"Eh???" Ishtar was stunned. How had spectating turned into a tragedy at her own doorstep? Ash… as Phryne?
Phryne was their only Lv.5, a critical piece of strength!
"Aisha—speak. What exactly happened!?"
"My Lady, it went like this…"
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While Aisha calmly recounted the incident, Takumi arrived at the gates of Freya Familia's compound. Seeing the shut doors, he had no thought of forcing entry.
"That toad cost me time—it's already late. Forget it. I'll just come back tomorrow."
He wasn't in a rush for this one thing; he turned away to find a place to rest.
"Since I'm in Orario, I have to stop by the Hostess of Fertility."
The Hostess of Fertility was famous in Orario. Eina's map had it marked. He located the tavern easily and stepped inside.
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