While Elodie was preparing to ambush Emily and Natalie at night, a group of people gathered in a certain house in the town, by the bedside of the thug with the severed hand.
That thug with the severed hand was, of course, the one who had tried to capture Emily the day before and had his arm cut off by Natalie.
After Emily escaped, the thugs who could still move took their wounded comrade for treatment.
They spent a lot of effort to save his life.
But there was no way to reattach the severed arm.
Moreover, due to excessive blood loss, his body was extremely weak, and now he was practically in a vegetative state.
“Who the hell did this! How dare they lay a hand on one of my men!”
One of the big men standing by the bed roared with murderous intent.
The thugs who had been with him trembled in fear.
After all, this severely injured thug was the second-in-command of their organization.
Seeing his own second-in-command beaten to such a state, how could the boss of the organization keep his cool!
If he didn’t take revenge, their organization would lose all face in this town!
Even if they were the town’s largest criminal organization, they would surely be looked down upon by other groups.
Faced with their boss’s roar, the thugs who had barely escaped told him everything that had happened yesterday.
“What? A human woman?”
Upon learning that his second-in-command had been reduced to this state by a human woman, the boss’s face was full of shock.
He had originally thought that his second-in-command had been injured in a gang fight with another organization.
“Yes! She was a very beautiful human woman! I’ve never seen a woman that gorgeous in my life! We were originally planning to capture her and offer her to you, boss! But we don’t know what that woman did—the big brother’s hand was suddenly cut off! Then she fled into an alley and disappeared.”
Of course, the claim that they planned to capture Emily and offer her to the boss was a lie.
When those thugs had tried to capture Emily, their minds were entirely filled with the idea of enjoying her themselves.
They had no intention of giving her to their boss.
But now, to increase the chances that the boss would avenge their big brother, the thugs naturally began to embellish the story.
“Oh? Beautiful to that extent?”
Hearing his underlings’ description, the thug leader couldn’t help but imagine Emily’s beauty.
After all, they had described it to such a degree.
As people with high status in the organization, they had already enjoyed countless beautiful women.
So the thug leader knew well that an ordinary beauty wouldn’t earn such praise from these men.
And avenging his second-in-command was already a done deal.
If he could capture such a beautiful woman while taking revenge, the thug leader saw no reason to let Emily go.
However, the only thing that worried the thug leader now was the method Emily had used to cut off his second-in-command’s arm.
His second-in-command was not weak, yet he had been beaten like this.
The thug leader had no intention of making the same mistake due to carelessness.
“Are you sure there was only one person?”
“We heard there was a red-haired demon girl with her? But she seemed to have split off from that girl… Cutting off the big brother’s arm was probably some kind of magic. But judging from the fact that the arm was cut only when the big brother got close, that magic might have a range limit? Otherwise, there’d be no reason to wait until he was that close to use it.”
Recalling yesterday’s events, the thug spoke his guess.
Of course, since Natalie was using Invisibility Magic to stay by Emily’s side, the thugs couldn’t have known that.
From their perspective, their big brother tried to capture Emily and his arm was severed.
Emily wasn’t carrying any weapons at the time.
And even if she had a sword or something, a weakling like Emily couldn’t have the strength to cut off an adult demon’s arm in one blow.
So it could only be some unknown magic.
“In other words, as long as we don’t get too close to that woman, the magic is useless?”
“That should be…”
“Then there’s no risk!”
“Um… boss, if you really catch that woman, after you’re tired of her, could you let us have a turn?”
Although the thugs had some mental hang-ups about taking women who had already been used by others, given Emily’s beauty, they wouldn’t mind even if she were played with until broken.
If they missed this chance, who knew when they’d ever get to enjoy a woman of Emily’s caliber again!
In the thugs’ view, this might be the only opportunity in their lives to taste a top-tier beauty like Emily.
“Don’t worry. Once I’m bored, I’ll naturally let the brothers have a good time! For now, the top priority is to quickly find out where that woman is hiding! If she’s really that beautiful, she must be very conspicuous. There’s bound to be plenty of witnesses! Go investigate immediately!”
“Yes!”
Hearing their boss’s order, all the thugs present left the small house to search for Emily.
Of course, because Emily was truly too eye-catching.
And since this thug organization was truly the town’s local bully, even the town chief, whose mansion had been robbed by Natalie, didn’t dare confront them directly.
So as the town’s largest thug organization, they were lawless here.
And because the town chief couldn’t defeat this thug organization, even if he asked for reinforcements, the Demon King’s Army wouldn’t send anyone.
After all, it was a critical moment when humans might attack the Demon World at any time.
The Demon King’s Army simply didn’t have spare troops to come and deal with this thug organization.
Therefore, to keep the thugs from getting too out of hand, the town chief had no choice but to reach an agreement with the thug leader.
As long as the thugs didn’t flaunt their power by committing random robberies and murders, the town chief would turn a blind eye to their minor crimes.
And the thug leader didn’t want to draw too much attention before his organization was fully established.
So he agreed to the agreement with the town chief and wouldn’t persecute the townspeople too much.
Since they couldn’t target the residents, the thugs could only set their sights on the refugees who had fled from the human world.
Although selling out those refugees to the thugs made the town chief’s conscience uneasy, it was the only way to protect the ordinary townspeople.
Compared to them, the refugees who had just arrived in the Demon World were not originally residents of the Demon World.
The town chief believed he had no reason to put ordinary residents in danger just to protect them.
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