After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 164

Aberdeen City, a year ago

Ansel looked at the beautiful ebony-haired woman in front of him with his charming peach blossom eyes.

He lifted the hand entangled with his own and placed it against his mouth, making the woman blush.

Hana, however, tried to push down her smile. After all, she was currently in the midst of questioning him.

She couldn’t help but remember the beautiful curvaceous blonde and her mood dipped again. "Who was that?"

Seeing that she couldn’t get distracted, Ansel sighed, tightening his hold of her hand as he guided her towards a bench.

Ansel was having a great date with this girlfriend of his when annoyingly encountered Winona, Althea’s BFF, being harassed by someone in the same park.

It was one of her rich suitors—the type that couldn’t take no for an answer—and he was pretty much dragging her to go on a date with him.

Although the two of them didn’t get along well—bordering on hostility, actually—he couldn’t let her be, right?

So, he swooped in and dealt with the guy (no blood, just a couple of faux-passes that made him lose balance and humiliate himself).

However, it made his current girlfriend, a pretty exchange student from Yuta country, to look at him questioningly.

"She’s my sister’s best friend." He said, explaining patiently. "We’re not close."

"Not close?" Hana asked, narrowing her eyes as if she could see if he was lying if he did so.

He nodded very decisively. "Not close."

Hana didn’t say anything for a while and just looked at him deeply, trying to determine if he wasn’t just making excuses.

Ansel leaned down and gave her a peck on the lips, "I wouldn’t lie to anyone about this."

He already had a reputation at this point, and the women knew what they were getting into.

Hana pursed her lips and sighed, succumbing, and they went on with their date.

The couple continued their walk along the park, buying ice cream as they leisurely chatted, and it was really nice for a while.

They stopped when they heard a cacophony of female screams nearby. "What’s that?" Ansel asked, and they went closer to see what the commotion was about.

Who knew, maybe it was a singer they liked. Like, Fable perhaps.

Soon flyers and banners were seen on the ground and on banners, and they found out that it was actually a political campaign of a small politician.

"Why does it seem like an idol is here?" Ansel asked, eyebrows furrowed. He turned to see his girlfriend staring at the life-size Sintra board model of the man.

"That man is quite handsome." She said and Ansel looked at Hana in interest.

"More handsome than your boyfriend?"

Hana chuckled and tiptoed to kiss him on the cheek. "Of course not~"

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Vismont Village, Present

The gangsters leered at them in a way that their stomach tumbled in disgust.

"You’re new here aren’t ya?" One said, extending his hand. "Just right. Let me tell you, to remain here you have to pay some cash!"

It was unsurprisingly, Luke who stepped forward, between his brother and greeted the man.

"You haven’t protected us yet, why should we pay you?" Luke immediately answered, with a deep frown on his face.

One of the man’s cohorts sneered and clenched his fist threateningly. "Pay or not?"

Luke, their own goon, sneered back. "You? Are you worth it?"

Without warning, the man threw a punch, with Luke preparing to fight back. Ansel had gestured to stop them, not wanting Luke to get kicked out.

But the punch actually connected and Luke immediately countered back, pushing the other back a few steps.

Ansel’s eyebrows raised.

’Fighting here isn’t prohibited?’ He thought. Ansel knew very well the lord had the power to impose this.

In Bright, there were once two people who exchanged hits and they were automatically teleported out of the territory.