The Man Picked up by the Gods Volume 1 Chapter 23

Volume 1 Chapter 23

“Eh? Ah, yes, is something the matter?”

Although Ryouma felt the men come close to him, he didn’t expect them to actually talk to him, so his response ended up being late.

“You’re wearing a pretty nice armor, huh?”

“Wow, bastards with money really have it nice.”

“You said you wanted money right? I won’t give you any, you know? Please work honestly and make money for yourselves.”

Ryouma has always been entangled with people like this during his school days. But amongst those countless times he was being harassed, not once did he give money to them.

There were many who would give their money and live peacefully, but Ryouma didn’t give in to extortion. He could have beaten them up, but because he was forbidden by his father to fight, he lived his days irritating the bullies and being hit.

Because of his bad habit from those days, Ryouma also acted rude in response to the six people. And as one would expect, they were enraged and started trying to threaten Ryouma. The voices of the six people reached even the ears of the surrounding adventurers, catching their attention.

“You have some guts, don’t ya…? Don’t fuck with me you shitty brat!! You think I don’t know? The only job you’ve taken till now is a measly cleaning job! A fucker like you who doesn’t know how to fight only needs to do what he’s told!”

“I’m telling you to just hand over the fucking cash! You want to make this difficult?”

“It’s better than getting hurt ya know?”

“I am able to hear you just fine even without you shouting. Or are you perhaps unable to hear? In any case, I will not be handing any money to you people. Nor will I hand my weapons and armor.”

As he said that, he went back to eating his meal. Seeing that, the six people took out their swords. As expected, Ryouma was alarmed and he steeled himself for battle.

Ryouma generally didn’t fight back in his previous life, but there were exceptions. That exception being when his life was in danger. In cases like that, Ryouma fought back. As for why he would only fight when his life was in danger, that’s because he was bad at holding back.

Even if he was forbidden by his father to fight, he was still given permission to defend himself. Only, the difference between his strength and his opponents were too much. So if Ryouma were to try to fight back, it would only end up as excessive self-defense. The techniques Ryouma had learned from his father were meant to efficiently destroy one’s opponents. And those techniques were ingrained into him by his father’s strict training.

When he fought back during his school days, even the person who suffered light injuries had the hand he was holding a weapon with broken. That was the best Ryouma could do to hold back in his student days.

This also means that in situations where Ryouma’s life isn’t in danger, he won’t fight back.

But this time, his opponents tried to take out their swords. If he were to be hit by those swords, his life would be in danger. Ryouma is the kind of man who wouldn’t hesitate in a situation where his life was in danger.

While Ryouma had his guard up, and as the men tried to take out their swords, someone called out to them.

“What are you guys doing!!?”

That voice came from the man standing in the middle of the onlookers surrounding them from a distance.

The guild master of the Adventurer’s Guild, Wogan.

Wogan glared at the six guys as he walked over to Ryouma.

“You guys, I can still let you off if you’re only arguing, but I won’t approve of you taking your swords out.”

“Withdraw!”

“Fight? There’s nothin’ like that. We’re just teachin’ this brat a lesson.”

“Hey, hey. It’d be problematic if you misunderstood us… what we were trying to do was for you…”

“You fucker! Stop trying to slander us!!”

“I said to duel me you brat!”

“Because you fucking falsely accused us is why!!”

“Consider it payment for the class, brat. Because we’ll be teachin you exactly how cruel adventurers are.”

Ryouma opened his eyes, shocked. And then after his shocked had lessened, he said what he thought,

“This is the first time I’ve seen someone ask for a duel.”

Those words that didn’t carry a hint of tension caused the six to become irritated.

“Who cares about something like that!?”

“There’s no way I would accept something like that, right? Trying to justify your crimes is meaningless, you know?”

“This fucking coward!”

“Don’t run, and accept it!”

“Yeah, it’s no use even if I kept doing this.”

Like this, Ryouma accepted the duel of the six members of the adventurer group, The Fang of Orbtem.

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