Volume 3, Chapter 17 – Still Big, Still Fucking Big

The front door was pushed open, and the night wind suddenly poured in, blowing straight onto Little Gold Tooth’s somewhat feverish face.

The heat that had just risen was instantly doused by the cold wind.

Little Gold Tooth shuddered. He stole a glance at his right hand, which had been resting on a certain bulging part of himself, and hurriedly pulled it back.

After that little sequence of actions, he instantly sobered up quite a bit.

His gaze fell on the two people who had suddenly entered through the door.

A woman and a man.

The woman was in front, the man slightly behind her to the side.

“Boss, wh-who is this?” the lackey beside him said groggily, still not understanding what was going on.

He had not noticed at all that the atmosphere around them had changed.

He was still wondering why the boss had suddenly stood up.

“Shut up.” Little Gold Tooth smacked the lackey on the head.

He rose to his feet and looked warily at the two people at the door.

The one who had spoken just now was that woman.

She was dressed very plainly, but just standing there in the doorway, simply and casually, made Little Gold Tooth feel an overwhelming pressure. His chest felt so tight he could barely speak. He had never experienced anything like this before.

“Y…”

The moment Little Gold Tooth opened his mouth, the woman cut him off.

“You just said that two people from Morningstar died for no apparent reason. What exactly happened?” the woman asked again in a very calm tone.

Little Gold Tooth clenched his teeth, but still asked first, “Who are you?”

The woman paused, then parted her red lips slightly. “You can call me Heloise.”

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And that was it.

“…” Little Gold Tooth felt helpless.

I don’t fucking want to know your name. I want to know your identity!

But he did not dare say that outright. He had a strong feeling that if he angered this woman, he would be the one getting abused.

Little Gold Tooth liked abusing other people. He did not like being abused himself.

“You just need to answer my question honestly,” Heloise said, not showing the slightest impatience.

Little Gold Tooth had no choice but to pour out everything that had happened over the past few days like beans spilling from a jar.

He did not hide the general course of events, but he avoided mentioning his own nasty attitude at the time.

This woman was either with Morningstar, or she was Morningstar’s sworn enemy.

Saying a little less was also, in a roundabout way, protecting himself.

Little Gold Tooth knew these ropes very well.

“Poisoned to death?” Heloise lowered her head and pondered for a moment. They had gone there to take revenge, then accidentally eaten the pastries on the table, and before they had even begun, two of them had been poisoned to death?

It sounded more like something out of a storyteller’s tale.

When she thought of the impulsive guard captain Wilson, Heloise’s expression did not change, but she believed it a few degrees more.

Some people’s heads really did have problems.

Not that Wilson was stupid, but that he often failed to use his brain.

“Where are the bodies?” Heloise asked.

“Bu-buried,” Little Gold Tooth answered quickly.

They really had been buried, and buried stark naked at that.

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Wilson and Kane had had a few valuable things on them here and there, and all of it had been stripped off by Little Gold Tooth’s men.

If they had not been men, Little Gold Tooth’s underlings might even have tried something while the bodies were still warm.

“Where were they buried? Take me to see,” Heloise said.

“O-okay…”

Before Little Gold Tooth could finish, one of the lackeys at his side staggered drunkenly to his feet. His features were twisted together, and he shouted in displeasure, “Y-you, who the hell are you? Running your mouth in front of us. Don’t think we wouldn’t dare hit you just because you’re a woman. H-hit…”

“Pu…”

The lackey never got the word out. The man standing beside Heloise, who had not spoken the whole time, suddenly drove a punch into his stomach.

It felt as if he had been hit by a car. His whole body flew backward and only stopped when it slammed into the wall. Snot and tears streamed down his face, and he no longer looked human.

Little Gold Tooth swallowed. Just as he was about to stop his men, several more of them sprang to their feet. Some grabbed bottles, and one even pulled a gun.

“This is not good.”

“Crack…”

In that lightning-fast instant, Little Gold Tooth saw that the arm of the lackey who had drawn the gun had been snapped.

That guy deftly caught the falling pistol with his left hand and dismantled it in a few swift moves.

“Gulp…”

Little Gold Tooth and his lackeys were all scared half to death.

They were just one step away from dropping to their knees and crying, “Daddy, forgive me, please love me again.”

“Forget it. There’s nothing much to see in a corpse anyway,” Heloise murmured. “How much do you know about that girl?”

“That girl?”

Little Gold Tooth immediately realized who Heloise was talking about. He had no idea what exactly that girl had done, but all sorts of people kept chasing after her without end.

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He did not dare hold anything back and told her everything he knew.

In truth, there was not much to tell. Other than her name, where she lived, and where she worked, Little Gold Tooth knew nothing about the rest of it, no matter what she asked.

And all of that was outdated information anyway.

Heloise gave a soft acknowledgment.

Little Gold Tooth did not dare make any rash moves either. The whole group stood there neatly in place, like students being punished by a teacher. And the teacher handing out the punishment was a woman whose figure was enough to stir dirty thoughts even in ordinary clothes.

Heloise recalled what had happened in the detention center.

That girl who had suddenly appeared in the next cell.

First she had chatted with her about all sorts of random nonsense. Then, just so she could read The History of Mechanical Development on 1886, she told her a story called Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

Right, and she was one of those damn cliffhanger fiends!

She had only told the very beginning before refusing to continue, insisting on dragging it out until the next morning. Then the next morning, she killed Jian in the chaos and ran away.

Thinking about it carefully, that girl named Anran had behaved far too strangely in the detention center.

She had actually still had the leisure to go looking for books to read.

Could an ordinary girl from an ordinary family really do that?

Probably not.

Was it because she had been in detention so many times that it felt like home to her?

That did not seem right either. Heloise remembered that Anran had even asked her about the food in the detention center.

If that was not the case, then could she have been sent by the Empire?

“Let’s go. We’ll check that girl’s home first,” Heloise called to that guy.

That guy swept his gaze over Little Gold Tooth and his lackeys.

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Little Gold Tooth’s body trembled at once.

He was about to piss himself.

They were not thinking of killing them all to silence them, were they?

Heloise shook her head.

That guy nodded.

Then the two of them left again, one in front and one behind.

“Hoo…”

Little Gold Tooth let out a long breath and collapsed limply into his seat. One hand clutched at his chest, and more than half his back was soaked through, almost enough to turn him into some kind of drenched “temptation.”

“Scared me to death.”

“Old He isn’t hurt too badly, right?”

“Good thing all I grabbed was a bottle.”

The lackeys were even more exaggerated.

“B-boss,” said the lackey Little Gold Tooth had just “shown some love” to, speaking unclearly. “Th-that, b-big, b-big, b-big…”

“Big what?” Little Gold Tooth frowned.

“Where did that b-b-big-boobed woman go?” The lackey’s knees bent.

Little Gold Tooth was so startled by those words that he jumped up and slapped the lackey across the head. “Big my ass. Are you trying to get yourself killed, damn it?”

“Boss…” The lackey covered his head, looking aggrieved.

“Still big?” Little Gold Tooth slapped him again in fury. “Still big? You’re still fucking saying big?!”