“Hey, little girl, are you sure you’re selling medicine and not selling yourself?” A teasing voice with a hint of provocation rang out.
Jasmine frowned slightly and turned her gaze towards the laughing figure in the crowd.
“Sir, if you’re not buying, please don’t slander others.
What you just said counts as harassment.”
“Oh, then why don’t you go report me to the civil officer? I’ll be right here, not going anywhere.” The scruffy man dressed like a thug seemed to have latched onto Jasmine, teasing her with a smirk and refusing to leave.
“Yeah, go report us to the civil officer.
Let’s see if they deal with us or with a little girl selling illegal medicine.” Another man in the crowd, dressed similarly, seemed to be in cahoots with the thug.
Jasmine realized she had been targeted by these street thugs.
“Sir, you can raise your doubts, but isn’t it a bit excessive to resort to personal attacks?” Despite having no fondness for these punks obstructing her business, Jasmine tried to soften her tone.
“Excessive? We’re excessive, but you’re not excessive for being a little fraud selling fake medicine?” Another thug chimed in, and their voices began to stir doubt among the crowd.
“You claim your medicine is miraculous, so why haven’t we heard of it? If it’s so great, why are you selling it on the street instead of supplying it to wealthy nobles for more profit?”
“Yeah, I think you’re just here to scam money.
Tsk tsk, even squeezing money from ordinary folks.
Do you have any conscience selling black market medicine?”
“Exactly, you don’t even dare to show your face.
You’re probably planning to run off after selling the medicine, right? Hit and run, you’re really slick.”
The thugs’ words completely disrupted the scene.
This is how the rhythm is set, exploiting the crowd’s blind following, especially in a place like Fran City where even having enough to eat is a challenge.
Soon, the passersby who were interested in Jasmine’s medicine or Jasmine herself left dejectedly due to the thugs’ words.
Seeing her business slipping away, Jasmine grew anxious, and these thugs even called her heartless?? When had she ever been heartless? Her medicine was genuine dragon saliva! The effects were real and effective.
Moreover, she had already lowered the price as much as possible.
Any lower, and she wouldn’t even break even.
Despite all this, she was still being harassed.
Honestly, Jasmine was a bit angry.
“Ugh ugh!…” She puffed her cheeks, her fair face turning red with anger.
Ah, so frustrating, so frustrating, she wanted to bite someone! If it weren’t for the wrong setting, Jasmine would have pounced on these thugs and bitten them all over.
After shouting all day, how many calories and saliva had she wasted?? In the end, her stomach was growling with hunger, and she hadn’t earned a single penny.
Jasmine felt a bit wronged, sniffed, and glared fiercely at the three thugs.
Just as she was about to leave, one of the thugs grabbed her wrist.
“What are you doing? Take your filthy hand off me.” With her business ruined by them, Jasmine naturally had no kind words for these punks.
“Hey, don’t be so fierce… Oh, such delicate skin, why bother selling medicine? With your looks, making money should be easy, right?” The thug wouldn’t let go, and not only that, he started teasing Jasmine, while the other two thugs laughed lewdly.
“Get lost, did you hear me?” Jasmine said coldly.
If it weren’t for being in the city, she would have transformed back and shown these lust-crazed guys her true form, and given them a good beating.
“Oh, oh, the little lady is quite fierce, haha, I like your feisty attitude.
Are you shy? Or are you concerned about your modesty?”
“No worries, little sister, let’s find a secluded place where you can freely express yourself.”
The other two thugs also closed in, blocking Jasmine’s escape route.
“Wrapped up so tightly, are you afraid of people seeing what you look like? Come on, don’t be shy, show yourself to your big brothers!”
“You guys…”
Ah, she couldn’t hold back anymore.
If her dragon form wasn’t so weak, she would have knocked these good-for-nothing thugs down.
So far, the only thing she could use in her dragon form was her dragon teeth.
Jasmine planned to give this unruly hand a good bite and then quickly leave the scene.
“Hmph, filthy scoundrels, let her go.” Just then, a voice cut into the conversation, like a clichéd hero saving the damsel in distress, except this time, Jasmine was the damsel being saved.
“So many strong men bullying a little girl selling medicine to make a living, aren’t you ashamed? Truly shameless.” The cloaked figure wasn’t tall, her hood obscuring her face, and her voice sounded like a young girl, seemingly around Jasmine’s age.
At this moment, she gently caressed her cheek with one hand and pointed at the thugs with the other, deliberately raising her voice as if she were a righteous messenger delivering a final ultimatum to evil.
What was with this pose?…
Jasmine felt an urge to retort.
This cloaked girl, she reminded Jasmine so much of her own past self when she was in her chuunibyou phase.
“What, a do-gooder stepping in?” Seeing the newcomer, the thug leader started with a sarcastic tone.
“Little girl, playing hero, do you have what it takes? Or do you want to be favored by me too?” The thug walked up to the girl, who was two heads shorter than him, disdainfully poking her forehead, seemingly mocking her height.
Before he could say another word, he was hit with a flying kick to the face.
“Gah!…” Before he could scream, the thug leader crashed into a wall and passed out.
“Vile scum… Sorry, I dislike people touching my body, have some self-respect.” The cloaked figure adjusted her collar.
This skill… she wasn’t an ordinary person.
The remaining two thugs were no match for Jasmine’s expectations, predictably easy to deal with.
Honestly, Jasmine didn’t feel particularly happy about this.
The clichéd hero saving the damsel story, sung to death by bards, actually happened to her one day, and she ended up being the one saved, which she hadn’t expected.
“Stop, hold on, little sister, I know you’re grateful, but it’s not necessary.
This is what a righteous person like me should do, no need to thank me.”
“…” Just as Jasmine was about to say something, the girl’s words interrupted her.
Not only that, she struck a chuunibyou pose so embarrassing that Jasmine felt secondhand embarrassment.
