Love Fest!

Hiroto talked with Eriri for another half an hour discussing things about novel things. The increasing popularity of the novel was a great topic to discuss with and her enthused face shows that she was enjoying his speech which made him laugh and relax at the same time.

Ao listened to the side with great interest. He saw Eriri's expression when talking to Hiroto as it made him chuckle in his seat. It seems their relationship with each other before was strange and weird, he hadn't asked but their meetings were only accidentals and pure coincidences.

Hiroto got more comfortable talking to her since that was the case, he thought that he might as well show her the latest volumes of the novel and whispered to her ears which she got surprised and elated. She held her hands to his while saying thank you profusely

"Thank you thank you I really want it!" Eriri looked at him gratefully while Ao had a scrutinizing look, well he dismissed before he stood up. Eriri found her actions and realized that she was holding his hand and immediately backed off while her blushing face didn't leave her face.

"Ehem, since you knew each other talk here, talk to another place, I have work to do later.." Ao finalized their meeting, they knew each other already before but it seems that they didn't know what each other were their partner in the novel make. Ao had business later while he wants to entertain them any time they wanted, his work was prioritized first.

Hiroto stood up on his seat and shook hands with Ao. Getting back at him, Ao put his hand above his shoulder and congratulated him for the novel's success with a grateful smile. Eriri saw what he said before doing the same thing with some excited-ness and elation on her face.

Hiroto asked her if she wanted to join him going home. Since he thought her house was nearby the Otonokizaka's school area.

"That's unneeded, I live in the other direction of the school but still thank you." Eriri bowed, she remembered she had something extra to say to him

"Wait!" Eriri stood up and said with a loud voice.

"What is it?" Hiroto looked behind looking at Eriri who was rubbing his side tail of her hair

"Ca-can..." Eriri hesitated while she looked down.

"Can?" Hiroto got puzzled, why get embarrassed now, when you had a prideful personality before, he rolled his eyes thinking like that.

"Can I have your autograph?!" Eriri said hesitantly with a lower voice as she quickly took out the copy of his light novel and raised it slowly at him. Her cheeks blushed.l in the duration.

"Eh? So you're a fan of mine." Hiroto said in surprise and chuckled. Eriri looks to the side with embarrassment.

"I'm the ill.u.s.trator of the light novel and I need some reference from the book, being a fan of just the work thereby the author is a different manner." Eriri casually swiped her twin tails in the air.

"....so why do you want my autograph if you don't like me?" Hiroto rolled his eyes at the already red face Eriri.

"Th-that's!" Eriri stuttered but she puffed her cheeks with determination.

"Th-this is an opportunity so I can't let it slip! " Eriri announced with red cheeks.

Hiroto took the copy and signed it with his pen name. Eriri's eyes lit up since she knew that his works will get more popular in the future, having an autograph from him might be a profitable business.

"Why don't I ask for an autograph as well.," Ao chuckled as he joked.

"....."

"Is this good enough?" Hiroto asked while giving the volume back to her.

Eriri looked at it with sparkling eyes "Un. it's good enough.." Eriri chuckled as she showed a merchant's devious look.

"..."

"Your signature is plain. I suggested to you before that you changed it.." Ao looked at his signature with understatement. Hiroto's signature only consisted of his pen name, there wasn't any jumped and quirky lined just plain name in cursive writing. While his Writing (Skill) could effectively change the way of his writing, for example easily adapting to other fonts like Comic Sans with impeccable accuracy. He thought that changing his signature was something to bother.

"Is that bad?" Hiroto looked at Ao as he chuckled and rubbed his chin.

"Not bad at all but you should not make it plain, put some unique creativity when signing or else some people might imitate your signature and sell it." Ao chuckled.

"That makes sense, then I will think about it." Hiroto decided to improve it, he already had two skills that could affect it so he wasn't worried.

"I have something to do, I shall take my leave. Ao-san, Sawamura-san." Hiroto bowed again, the two followed suit to exchange courtesy.

"This is nothing, but I hope you acceded to your promise!" Eriri looked to the side while touching his long blonde hair. Hiroto nodded as approval.

- - - -

Hiroto was on the way home but he suddenly heard a beep from the system.

[DING]

[Quest: Special: In progress: Time limit: 10 minutes

Help the person in distress!:

Someone is being held by the delinquents, save the person by giving the self-proclaimed thugs a beating.

Requirements :

Knockdown all of the delinquents: 0/10

Failure Conditions :

10 minutes had passed.

Reward: Courageous Aura.]

"Limited event quest!" Hiroto got surprised and elated. The rewards from a hidden limited he knows from games were plentiful but in his system, it should be something that will greatly increase his versatility. He just didn't know what the skills are supposed to do.

'Courageous Skill..'

"Beat the delinquents? Where am I supposed to find some?" Hiroto mumbled while he looks at the stem window

'There must be few people nearby' Hiroto stopped walking and looked around. He wasn't near his neighborhood and was at the edge of Akiba. There weren't many people walking around besides the penalty of committing crimes on this day is supposedly cruel. He hasn't had an accident when he transmigrated except the near accident with a drunk driver. So this event was something that he wasn't unwilling to do, someone needs to be helped and his conscience doesn't want him to leave the place. He saw two buildings connected, there was an alley near the center of the two.

'That's right an alley!' Hiroto walked through the alleyway. He heard someone with a gruff male voice and he instantly took cover in the wall of the alley.

"What d'ya say to me b*tch?!" A male voice sounded in a spacious area. His stuffy and deep voice was irritating to him. It felt that this voice was scratching his ear.

"Only thugs will try to bully a female, you picked the wrong female fool!." A female voice sounded while the girl made a fighting posture. (AN: I hear big smoke ugh..)

'A fight, they are ganging a female. They have some intentions with the cute girl.' Hiroto furrowed his brows as he hid to observe the situation.

There were 10 delinquents in total and a female with really long brown hair. She was wearing a black long coat and a small shirt exposing her belly button, she had a mini short.

'I supposed wearing a getup like that will make you a target to be…' Hiroto stopped his words.

Hiroto sneaked a little closer and prepared to help if the situation got worse besides the girl seemed to have some fighting ability based on reading her posture.

"Do you think you can win against us? Hehe, you have some guts lady, I want to taste her!" Looks like a leader delinquent smirked while he licked his lips.

"Can we taste her afterward boss?" The henchmen's eyes lit up.

"Get her!" The boss nodded hurriedly while he commanded the others with his scruffy voice.

"Owaahh!" the delinquents shouted while they ran to her. The girl readied as she raised herself from the wave of rugged people, she calmed herself down before looking with a fighting spirit.

'Ganging up on a girl like that? are they cowards.." He felt disgusted.

"Hup!" The female blocked the incoming punch ahead of her and counter attacked it with a kick on mob 1's stomach. He felt surprised seeing her aggressiveness as a faint red aura were coming from her eyes.

The mob stomach caves in as he held his stomach before kneeling, she had already taken out one mob in just a moment of seconds.

Another mob jumped to her wanting to grip her with his hands but unfortunately, the female already knew what he was going to do as she sidesteps before doing a roundhouse kick on his face. That affected the others while the boss was looking at her gnashing his teeth.

"Quick, incapacitate her!!"

The mob spins and tumbled to the floor, he felt an unusual pain in his back as he shrieked out.

'She's good but she's surrounded.' Hiroto saw that behind her was the unhurt mobs.

The girl heard movements from behind as they locked her shoulders from behind.

"You can't escape from this b*tch." The mob said with a smirk.

One mob that she had downed stood up and looked at her with a sinister smile.

"Let me go bastard!!" The girl gnashed her teeth while trying her best to remove the grip but it was futile, the grip was from behind if it was from the front then she might have removed it while doing a back-arc. The mobs also had more weight than her even if she practiced and workout.

The 6 others surrounded her excluding the leader who was enjoying the show.

'1, 2, 3…. So I only have to incapacitate them and the requirements will reach the quota naturally.' Hiroto nodded before calming himself down. The boss was going to make his speech to the held girl and was going to touch her but suddenly intrude on his victory actions and got wide-eyed.

Hiroto jumped behind the back of these mobs and put them to sleep easily with a hand sword. With his Aerona Skill, he can easily see the nerve points of a person. The cl.u.s.ter of the nerve at the back of the neck was something that could easily incapacitate a person moreover his strength can deal with enough damage just below the point where they will be brain dead and without bursting the nerves itself.

The female got surprised as the grip on her upper arm loosen before she looked behind. She saw a handsome male smiling at her, his smile felt like there were flowers around and covered with a pink aura.

'I come to save you my princess..' the female vision when Hiroto saved him.

"..."

But it didn't happen. It was just her imagination, after getting daze for a moment of thinking that a white knight would come to rescue her she shook her head removing the image.

"You okay lady?" Hiroto said concernedly.

The female with brown hair nods shyly. "U-Un.."

"Who are you?!" The boss angrily said.

"Why do you need to ask? Everyone that has a sane mind will help in this situation so I don't need to say my name." Hiroto rebuked while spitting to the floor, his manly gestures were seen by the girl hiding behind him. Her heart raced to feel his security.

"Y-you, laughable showing a strong personality when you are only one person and is outnumbered.…" The boss faltered for a moment before he got back to his prideful position before he laughed.

"Since you're going to be crippled here, mark the name of those who will cripple you for an eternity, in a hospital that is, hahaha..!" The boss looked at Hiroto as if he already won the battle, he laughed maniacally.

"I am Reikoku Hebi, don't ever forget that name hahaha!" Hebi continued to laugh using his funny-sounding evil laugh that sounded like a certain clown was. Hiroto felt putting a rock in this guy's mouth.

"Go! Cripple that bastard as for the woman you can go and have fun with her after me." Hebi pointed at him, the evil glint in his eyes was shown to them. The henchmen felt motivated as they thought of what to do with the girl.

"OOOOO!" the recovered mobs charge forward, others brought some weapons like rock or a pipe out of nowhere.

"What a pain… He just does whatever he wants... Meaning this idiotic bastard is no longer fit to live to this land. Well even though it is, I don't really like violence, I'll see if I can do something about this guy." Hiroto shook his head while the girl felt escaping from this situation as she was going to escape with him but it seems Hiroto was determined to deal with the delinquents.

"Is he…?" But she suddenly saw him move so fast that only silhouettes of his afterimage were left, the wind blowing around the mobs before feeling some aching pains on different sides of their body.

He stopped in front of Hebi as the mobs fell with their eyes rolled back while they scrunched their body awkwardly.

"I-impossible! " Hebi showed a pathetic expression while he got flabbergasted 'Is this guy a superhuman!'

"Hm? How can it be impossible? I just merely pass them and put them to sleep, maybe your eyesight is really bad." Hiroto made ignorant gestures while he rubbed his chin while pretending to be oblivious to what happened. Besides, they were armed already, Hebi felt dumbfounded over the situation, is this guy some kind of a martial arts or so what they call?

"What are you? and who are you? This is none of your business! Stop meddling in other people's business!" the leader thug said lightly scared over him but still pretended to be in the upper hand while his henchmen were on the group spasming with some saliva on their faces.

"It's indeed none of my business, But ganging up a girl is worse than meddling someone's business." Hiroto looked at Hebi with a menacing aura

"Hi!" Hebi fell on the ground because of the pressure as he got scared shitless. Hiroto smelled a musky and stinky smell puddled to the ground on some person who was spasming on their nearly comatose body.

"...." 'Am I that scary? I didn't know...well this is better.' Hiroto approached him with a plain expression.

'It might be something to do with my past.' Hiroto hasn't angered in his past and just accepted what he was given, while he thought about it and this situation must have made it similar to his past. Oppression is something he had experienced in his last life and has given the cold chill in his eyes when he thought of those moments.

"D-d-don't approach! S-somebody help! there's a devil here!" The guy was scared sh*tless. He was frightened like a demon with red fiery eyes when approaching him to take his soul.

"It's you who's the devil, I'm not going to do something bad to you, just take this lesson so that you could change for the better." Hiroto rolled his eyes.

"I said d-d-don't a-approach!!" Hebi felt more scared as tears fell on his face.

"Hmph!" Hiroto felt bad seeing this guy but he still approached. Hebi panicked, while he still felt asking his name so that he could have his revenge in the future. He knew he'll get beaten in just a moment, enduring this hurdle will make him stronger, he thought.

"B-bastard! I told you my name!" Hebi said while he gritted his teeth as he crawled while looking up to him with fear over his face.

"Fine, Don't forget this, my name is Kazuma!" Hiroto said straightly while thinking in his head. He chopped at the back of this idiot's head, and the guy blacked out.