*Hold on, who did you say?!*
The sudden, piercing alarm in his mind caused Minoru’s steps to come to a sudden halt.
*Eriri Spencer Sawamura?*
*Isn’t that the iconic losing heroine?
There’s even “How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend” in this world?*
Minoru knitted his brows, turning his head to look at Yui Yuigahama beside him and spoke.
“Yuigahama-san, my stomach hurts a bit.
Why don’t you head over first, and I’ll find a place to use the bathroom.”
“Eh?
Ah, okay!”
Yui Yuigahama was only puzzled for a moment before nodding immediately.
“Then I’ll head over first!
Kuroe-kun, you must come over later, okay!”
“Mm, don’t worry.”
…
At this moment, fifty meters away, deep inside a dark alleyway, was where Eriri was located.
At this moment, Eriri was backed into a corner by a slightly chubby otaku wearing thick-bottomed glasses.
The girl’s delicate face was currently pale as paper, her eyes filled with terror and humiliation.
“What…
what do you actually want?
Give me back the flash drive!”
Eriri bit her lower lip tightly, shouting with a trembling voice.
“Hehehe…
Sawamura-san, or should I call you, the famous doujin artist—Eri Kashiwagi-sensei?”
The greasy guy waved the black USB flash drive in his hand, the smile at the corner of his mouth growing increasingly vulgar.
“Who would’ve thought that the dream girl of all the boys in school is secretly drawing such shameless 18+ doujinshi in private…”
“If I release the original drafts in this flash drive that you dropped outside the Comiket venue just now…
guess how everyone will view you?”
“No!
Don’t!”
It was as if Eriri’s core secret had been touched; she desperately tried to reach out and snatch it, only to be shoved away by the guy.
“Don’t get so excited, Kashiwagi-sensei.”
The otaku stared up and down at Eriri’s slender, attractive figure with a face full of lust, swallowing his saliva.
“Actually, I’m a loyal fan of yours.
As long as you obediently listen to me and satisfy a few of my ‘minor requests,’ then put on those outfits you drew in your doujinshi and let me take a few photos as ‘creative reference’…”
“I’ll return this flash drive to you and keep your secret, how about it?”
This extremely classic adult doujin coercion plot was occurring so suddenly to Eriri.
Despite being a master at drawing this kind of stuff, she had now ended up as the female lead experiencing this exact plot.
Could this be considered some form of dream fulfillment?
Under the terror of having her greatest secret held hostage, Eriri at this moment could not summon a single thought of resistance beyond despair and trembling.
“You demon…”
Eriri closed her eyes in humiliation.
“Hehe, then I’ll take it as you agreed…”
The guy rubbed his hands in excitement, just getting ready to reach out and pull Eriri’s arm.
*SLAP!*
A slender yet powerful palm, like an iron vise, suddenly extended from behind, firmly clamping down on the guy’s shoulder.
“What a coincidence, I also know a bit about photography techniques.
How about including me?”
The greasy guy froze all over, subconsciously wanting to turn around and curse, but the severe pain from his shoulder instantly caused him to let out a miserable shriek.
“AAAAAH!
Painful, painful, painful!
Let go!
Let go!
The bone is going to break!”
Minoru stood behind the guy expressionlessly.
Without even using full strength, just a gentle squeeze made the diehard otaku kneel on the ground in pain.
Hearing the commotion, Eriri violently opened her eyes.
What met her eyes was a youth wearing a Sobu High uniform.
“W-Who are you?!” The greasy guy wailed, kneeling on the ground drenched in sweat.
“Mind your own business!
I have…”
“Have what?”
Minoru was too lazy to listen to his nonsense.
His left hand shot out like lightning, snatching the flash drive from the guy’s hand in one swoop.
Under the shocked gazes of the guy and Eriri, Minoru pinched the hard metal flash drive between two fingers and applied a tiny bit of force.
*Snap!*
Accompanied by a crisp sound of shattering, the metal-cased flash drive was actually snapped in two by his sheer physical force!
The chip inside also shattered into a pile of powder.
*Clatter.*
The wreckage fell to the ground.
Eriri’s hard work of a month was flushed down the drain along with it.
“You said just now, what were you going to release?”
The guy looked at the flash drive pinched into powder on the ground, then looked at Minoru’s terrifyingly calm face.
The arrogant momentum from earlier vanished without a trace in an instant, replaced instead by deep terror.
His final reliance was gone now.
Originally, he had wanted to rely on this flash drive to force Eriri to admit she was his girlfriend, thereby driving this guy away.
Who could have expected that this person didn’t play by conventional rules at all!
“N-Nothing…
I didn’t say anything…”
“Get lost.”
“Yes!
Yes!”
“Wait, come back!”
Minoru thought about it, feeling that letting this guy off like this was too easy on him.
Even though he hadn’t had time to do anything yet, didn’t the law still have attempted sexual assault?
This guy attempting to threaten Eriri definitely counted as attempted sexual assault no matter what.
Beating him to death wasn’t necessary, but teaching him a lesson was certainly appropriate.
Hearing Minoru’s words, the fat guy instantly froze in place, not daring to budge.
He turned back timidly, “Um, big brother, is there anything else?”
Minoru’s eyes turned cold.
With a backhand strike, a crisp slap landed heavily on the guy’s fat face.
*SLAP!*
Even though Minoru held back ninety-nine percent of his strength for this slap, it still sent the guy spinning twice on the spot.
Half of his face instantly swelled up high, and two bloody teeth flew straight out.
Before he could scream in pain, Minoru grabbed his collar, slamming him heavily against the alley wall like a sandbag, followed by a heavy knee strike right into his stomach.
The guy’s eyeballs almost popped out; clutching his stomach, he collapsed onto the ground like a cooked shrimp, dry-heaving in agony, even throwing up bitter stomach bile.
“Just giving you something to remember it by.
Alright, now get lost.”
“Yes…
yes!
I’ll get lost!
I’ll get lost right now!”
Disregarding the intense pain in his stomach and face, he scrambled up from the ground on all fours, clutching his stomach as he stumbled frantically out of the alleyway at an astonishing speed.
Looking at his fleeing back, Eriri’s body instantly went soft, leaning limply against the wall.
Finally sliding down along the wall onto the ground, she covered her face and began to sob quietly.
If the youth before her hadn’t appeared just now, she might have really fallen into that miserable fate of being toyed with like in those doujinshi.
Therefore, compared to several months of hard work being crushed into dust, what she felt in her heart was far more relief and gratitude.
“Are you okay?”
Minoru pulled a pack of tissues from his pocket, handing it to Eriri.
“Th-Thank you…”
Eriri’s eyes were red as her trembling hand took the tissue.
[Ding!
Congratulations to the Host for successfully stopping a malicious event!]
[Successfully saved innocent girl: Eriri Spencer Sawamura!]
[Event Rating: Grade A.]
[Reward settlement in progress…]
[Obtained Justice Points: 500 points.]
[Current Total Justice Points: 2,300 points.]
[Obtained Random Item: [Trace-Free Cleaning Spray] x1 (After spraying, can specifiedly delete data on electronic devices or the network).]
“Um…”
Eriri wiped away her tears, supporting herself against the wall as she stood up.
She looked at the flash drive wreckage on the ground, then looked at Minoru, a trace of complex emotion flashing through her sapphire-blue eyes.
There was gratitude, but also a hint of worry.
“Um, did you hear what he said just now?”
Hearing Eriri’s anxious inquiry, a clueless look surfaced on Minoru’s face.
“Hear what?”
“Ah, hahaha…
nothing…”
“Good if you didn’t hear it.”
The latter half of the sentence was spoken in a low voice as Eriri turned her back.
“I was just passing by the mouth of the alleyway to go to the bathroom.
As for what he was muttering…
I didn’t hear it clearly.”
“I just felt like he didn’t look like a good person.”
Hearing this, Eriri’s heart finally settled down completely, letting out a long sigh of relief.
“Thank you so much!
If it weren’t for you, I might have been robbed of one million yen!” Eriri made up a reason so foolish that even an idiot wouldn’t believe it to trick Minoru.
“Mm mm, yeah, that’s truly terrifying!
That guy actually tried to rob one million yen!”
Minoru pretended to believe her foolish lie, laughing awkwardly.
“Yeah, hahaha…”
Then the two laughed awkwardly together.
Just like that, after laughing at each other for half a day, Eriri’s face was almost frozen from smiling!