Taming The Villainesses novel Chapter 7

(EP-7.1) Flower Aira #7

007 – Evil ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ Flower Aira #7

It was a common occurrence when you thought about it.

People I didn't know, or the bottom dwellers that I was only seeing for the first time, threw around my name to increase their own prestige.

These guys would then go on and commit evil deeds under my name.

Hence, no matter how hard I tried, my reputation never went up.

"Come! Let's eat some food and drink some tea. We will live happily together!"

“Keu, please stop! My arm hurts!”

“I'm Wright Hand, Gardener Tae-oh's right hand man! Do you know what will happen to your family if you disobey my orders!?”

“... Geueueu-”

Oh, so, what would happen? I'm curious too.

"Come here!"

“I don't want to...! You, you are ugly! Kkyaak!”

The commotion gradually grew bigger and louder.

━Anyone, someone please stop him! Who knows what will happen if she gets dragged into that guy's house!

━Last time, he was also like this at the inn next door!

━How would we deal with that bastard, Tae-oh's lackey? If even a spark of flame gets on us...

As expected, the public's arrows were still aimed at me even though I did nothing.

Someone impersonating one of my men was forcefully assaulting a woman.

It was these types of people that were hammering the lid of the coffin and pushing me into waving a death flag.

I took a leave of absence from work today and specifically didn't want to do as much work as possible.

But if I left this alone, the people's anger might be directed at me.

I thought it was better to solve the problem quickly, so I got up and slowly cut through the crowd, approaching the scene.

"Alright, I'm going to stop you there."

“Who are you?”

The man frowned.

"Who dares tell me what to do? Didn't you hear who I am?

The collector, who identified himself as Wright Hand, never thought he would be stopped in such a messy and disorderly back street tavern.

“You say that you're my right hand man, but you couldn’t even recognize your Master’s voice?”

"What—?"

I removed the hood that was covering my face.

Sheuk-

Now that I had revealed my identity, from now on, it was the end of me being able to sneak into the tavern. I could no longer gather information this way. But, it couldn't be helped.

━What? Who is that guy?

━I don't know. What is going on?

I felt a great stir around me. It seemed that not everyone understood the situation. Maybe it was because many people didn't know that I was Tae-oh?

Most of the people here were ordinary citizens who had never seen the face of a high-ranking official in their lives.

Unfortunately, it seemed that the collection officer in front of me was the same.

"What the hell are you doing, you bastard? I have never seen you before. Do you know who I am? Huh? Look, you got a scar on your face, want me to make another one?"

Swish-

The collection officer pulled out a knife he had hanging around his waist.

It was like a letter knife that was used to rip the seal off of an envelope, but it was still quite sharp, so it was more than enough for a weapon.

Seureureu-

I suddenly got chills.

I wasn’t going to die here, right?

“If you don’t want to get hurt, go away!”

“.......”

I distanced myself from the man and thought about a way to handle this. Maybe using the bodyguards on standby?

No, then that man would literally be slaughtered.

「Tae-oh slaughtered a man in a tavern.」

I was certain that what happened here would be chopped up. That kind of rumors and articles would be served and spread everywhere...

Let's ask a question first.

“If you are the right hand man of the Court Gardener Tae-oh. Do you know what he looks like?”

"Of course. Tae-oh eats dinner with me. We are like brothers! Even though I'm only a Rank 9 Collector, sooner or later, I'm going to the Royal Palace!"

The man then said with a dark expression.

"So, if you don't want to see me get angry, scram, you little punk!"

No, what?

I even started to feel like I was the one lying because of how confident the man was.

Was he completely befuddled by this character that he created? Did this man have Ripley Syndrome?