After the thug leader ordered his subordinates to investigate Emily’s whereabouts, they quickly found where she was staying.
After all, as the thug leader had said, Emily, the silver-haired human beauty, was far too conspicuous in this demon town.
“Are you serious? That human woman is living in the town chief’s house?”
“Yes! Many people saw her enter that residence yesterday with a red-haired girl and a foxkin child.”
“So that human is the town chief’s servant?”
“Probably. She was wearing a maid outfit. She might be a slave the town chief bought as a maid and mistress.”
“Heh, that old man sure knows how to have fun!”
The thug leader said this with a dangerous smile.
He felt no fear or difficulty at all that Emily might be the town chief’s person.
After all, he genuinely didn’t take that weak-willed town chief seriously.
Instead, he planned to use the fact that Emily had cut off his subordinate’s arm to force the town chief to hand over Emily, the slave, as compensation.
He knew well that no matter how much the town chief liked Emily as a maid, he wouldn’t risk opposing his organization in a full-scale war.
Even though the thugs had started the trouble, this leader didn’t care about that.
If someone touched his people, they had to pay the price—he didn’t care if it was self-defense.
“Gather your men immediately. Let’s go see that town chief!”
“Yes!”
With his order, dozens of men armed with knives, clubs, and sticks gathered before the thug leader.
This time, he wasn’t just going to get the beautiful slave Emily from the town chief—he was also going to make the town chief pay for his subordinate’s medical expenses.
The thought of getting a top-tier beauty and a lot of money made him laugh uncontrollably.
Opportunities to “legitimately” attack the town chief’s residence weren’t common.
Of course, the thug leader had no idea that the person living in the town chief’s house now wasn’t the town chief at all.
Nor did he know what enemy he would provoke and what fate awaited him.
After concluding they would give the town chief a “surprise,” the thugs completely surrounded the mansion, making it watertight.
“That’s strange. Where are the guards?”
The thug leader looked around the mansion.
There wasn’t a single guard in sight.
Even if it was just a small town, the town chief’s residence should normally have guards.
Of course, those guards had been kicked out by Natalie, along with the town chief, from “her and Emily’s love nest.”
“Boss, maybe they ran off after seeing our lineup.”
“Yeah, that makes sense. Those guards are a bunch of cowards anyway.”
He had come to cause trouble for the town chief before.
Every time, the guards would just brandish their weapons symbolically to threaten the thug leader.
Once things got serious, the guards were the first to run away, never daring to confront the numerically superior thug organization.
So it wasn’t impossible that the guards saw the thugs coming and got scared into fleeing.
“Boss, I’ll kick the door in!”
“Go ahead!”
One of the thugs, having received the order, rushed to the mansion’s front door and kicked it open with force.
Xilina, who was cleaning the living room, was startled by the sudden noise.
She quickly turned to look at the thugs outside.
The next moment, fear enveloped Xilina’s expression.
She recognized the man leading the thugs as the one who had attacked her and her parents before.
So Xilina was so scared she wanted to run, but the man noticed and shouted at her.
“Hey, you little brat! If you don’t want to die, stay right there!”
Faced with the man’s furious words, Xilina instinctively stopped in her tracks.
If these people chased her, she wouldn’t be able to escape.
So she could only turn around trembling and look at the men.
Of course, the man didn’t recognize who Xilina was.
The thug leader had attacked so many refugees that he couldn’t remember every one.
He just assumed Xilina was the town chief’s servant.
The reason he hadn’t attacked yet was that he had come with the intention of “negotiating” with the town chief.
If the town chief obediently handed over Emily and the money, they wouldn’t need to fight.
But if the town chief refused, then he wouldn’t be lenient.
So, since the town chief hadn’t refused yet, the thug leader had no plans to attack.
The main purpose of bringing so many underlings was to intimidate that cowardly town chief and increase the chance of him complying.
“Um…”
“Hurry up and call your master. I have something to discuss with him!”
“…Yes.”
Driven by fear, Xilina hurriedly went upstairs.
After Xilina went upstairs, the thug leader sat down on the sofa with a very arrogant posture, waiting for the town chief to come.
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Before the thug leader kicked in the door, Natalie and Emily were naturally still in their room.
Wearing a wedding dress and blushing, Emily was sitting weakly on the floor.
Natalie, who had been thoroughly enjoying herself, was still excited.
Of course, Natalie hadn’t crossed her own bottom line and pushed Emily down.
But she had done almost everything else besides pushing Emily down.
The urge inside Natalie to push Emily down was swelling little by little as she lived together with Emily.
Natalie was genuinely worried that one day she wouldn’t be able to hold back and would actually lay her hands on Emily.
Just as Natalie was thinking about how to restrain this impulse, the loud sound of the thugs kicking in the door reached both their ears.
“Tch…”
Annoyed that her thoughts were interrupted, Natalie immediately showed displeasure.
Kicking open her front door was, in Natalie’s view, a blatant provocation!
And the price for provoking her was the opponent’s life!
Natalie closed her eyes and used sensing magic to probe around the mansion.
She found dozens of people surrounding “her and Emily’s love nest.”
Were these reckless bastards Elodie’s people?
Elodie had just left not long ago, and now thugs were surrounding the mansion.
Natalie’s first suspect was naturally Elodie.
Because it might be Elodie’s people, Natalie held back her urge to rush down and kill them all.
If it turned out to be Elodie after all, Natalie would use these people’s lives to threaten Elodie.
After all, opportunities to openly threaten Elodie into obeying were rare.
Just as Natalie was pondering this, Xilina, who had been sent by the thug leader to call the master, knocked on the door.
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