-Vol 5: A New Life-

-Seduction?-

After leaving Ellie in school, Kenshin walked briskly, enjoying the crowd of people who were going on their way. He derived a profound sense of happiness from being surrounded by so many people after being constantly on guard against all kind of monsters back in the north. In there he couldn’t even enjoy a simple human interaction as everyone was everyone’s enemy, then the appearance of his compulsory quest and that 5th servant was like icing the solitary cake.

For an instant, his mind drifted towards Vera, the woman who was ready to sacrifice her life so that he could escape. She was one of the few people to whom he respected very much.

“I wonder what was she doing now?” Kenshin looked at the sky while muttering. Since his head was upwards, he couldn’t see where he was going and unintentionally crashed into someone.

“Ah! Sorry!” coming to his senses, he instantly apologized to whomever he crashed with. It was a young man, with average height but a good build. He had a head full of shaggy hair, like that of an afro. He wore a simple yellow t-shirt and blue colored pants. Seeing that the young man was looking disgruntled, he offered his hands to lift him up.

“Nah! It's okay. I was also not looking at where I was going.” The young man spoke politely and accepted Kenshin’s hands to lift himself up. Shaking his head once more, he showed him a sunny smile before apologizing once more and going his own way. Standing there, Kenshin looked at him until the man was out of his sight, mixed into the crowd walking around.

Narrowing his eyes, he lifted his hand and looked at the small middle lodged into his palm. With his left hand, he pulled it out and inspected it thoroughly. It’s a tiny black needle that couldn’t be any longer than a cm or half. But it wasn’t made out of steel like usual. To Kenshin, who had slain many monsters, he could instantly recognize any part. And this small needle was most likely the fur of one, a poison one at that. Although the thing failed to enter his body, the toxicity of the needle was still enough to shave a good 100 of his HP. Though that amount was only a pocket change in his pool of HP, the point of note was that the opponent only used a small needle.

It was his first time coming across a poison attack after getting his system. Even before that, he rarely ever dealt with poison, the only ones he saw were those zombies whose whole body was a toxic substance.

“That man…what’s his problem? And this needle! It's either an Item or a hidden weapon…” shaking his head at this, he continued with his pre-intended business. He still didn’t leave that man scotfree, he had already marked him in his map as a hostile target. After finishing his business here, he would go to that man’s place and give him a thorough beating.

No one targets him and goes scotfree.

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After walking through a coiling path, he finally arrived on his destination.

[Quality Sweets and Cocolates]

A large bakery stood inconspicuously to the side of the road with very few customers coming and going into it. Although the shop was big and many advertisements and offers hung on the wall, the customer count was scarce. Even if he squinted his eyes, he could see at most five to six people sitting inside.

“God really punishes the wicked!” Kenshin muttered, and his will almost wavered on what he was about to do, but when he remembered the helpless face of that woman, his anger renewed. With large strides, he marched inside the shop.

“Welcome to our Quality Bakeries!” a pretty lady wearing a red vest atop a white shirt and red mini skirt with a red high-heels came forth and greeted him with a pretty smile. Although she was wearing such provocative clothing, there was not a shred of uncomfortableness on her face.

‘She is a real pro!’ Kenshin was impressed at her professionalism. That didn’t mean she was shameless, there was a fine line between shamelessness and professionalism, and our MC clearly understood where the line is drawn. Showing her a smile, he asked her to book a table for him in a private suite.

“Please come this way!” the lady smiled and guided him to a table on the second floor.

Pulling a chair for him, she handed him the menu of the shop. Looking at it closely, Kenshin ordered one of the expensive ones on the list. It was around 99$. The lady flashed him a smile and went down to place the order. With each guest she guides, the amount of purchase they made, her commission would be 5% of that. If Kenshin were ordering such an expensive item, how couldn’t, she would be happy? So what's the problem in flashing a little smile?

After she left, a sigh escaped his lips. He could now understand why the rich kids were so addicted to spending money and the life of a playboy. If with just a little buy over 90$ could earn him a smile form a such a beauty, then what would happen if he spends a few hundreds? To the rich, that amount of money was nothing. It wouldn’t even be a drop at their proverbial ocean of money.

A few minutes later, she returned holding a covered plate, probably containing his order. She flashed another smile and placed the plate on his table before slowly serving him his order. It’s a strawberry flavored cupcake that looked like the inner contents would spill out at any moment. It was his favorite flavored cake, he liked strawberry flavored desserts. He even like that flavored shakes.

There were two on the plate.

Looking at the woman standing to the side with a smile, he also smiled and beckoned her to come closer.

“Sit!” after she came closer, he pointed her the seat on his front.

Surprise flashed across her face, blushing a little, she denied instantly, “I can’t, sir. I am on duty right now. It will reflect badly on my record of I sit with a customer. I am extremely sorry.”

“Meh! Don’t worry about that. Think of it as customer’s request, just sit.” Kenshin forced from his side.

“Well…if you say so…sory for the trouble.” She sat down on the chair while combing her hair nervously. She even flattened her red coat and the short skirt to make herself comfortable while sitting.

Thanks to his triple-digit WIL, Kenshin didn’t affect by that enticing scene. Or else, if it was anyone else or even him a few months prior, he couldn’t have stopped himself from showing some reaction to this.

While doing this, the lady discreetly looked at Kenshin’s face and felt a little disappointed at his lack of reaction. She deliberately did all that to entice him, but it seems this was not enough. A look of challenge flashed on her brown eyes, he took his indifference as a form fo challenge.

‘Let’s see how he wouldn’t give me some reaction when I use all the tricks on the book!!’ the sudden look of the determination made Kenshin feel a sense of foreboding. Thinking little of it, he continued with his plan.