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Chapter 270: I Believe I Can Fly
Chapter 270: I Believe I Can Fly
"Why did I come here?" I asked with a peculiar look on my face. "Of course it's to soak in the hot springs here...Why else would I come to a place that's known for its rejuvenating effects when you dip your body into its steaming hot water?"
I thought that was the obvious answer to her question, but somehow it only seemed to have provoked her more, as if I were telling her a blatant lie.
"Bullshit!" Nina exclaimed and looked at me like she had caught me lying in court. "There's no way a young man like you would willingly use your time to come to this hot spring that's mostly occupied by women and older men and is considered a boring place among you youngins!"
"And even if you do come here, you kids always cause some kind of problem that I have to deal with, like the one I'm cleaning up right now!" Nina looked at me like she was certain that I was lying and looked to be wondering where she should start swinging at me first.
"I don't know about the rest of the guys my age who come here, but I definitely came here just to take a bath...You can even check my pouch and see all the bathing goods I have inside." I said as I tossed the pouch I had in to Nina, which she caught and checked to find that there were really a bunch of different soaps and shampoos that my mother gave to me when she heard I was going to a hot spring.
"And I also know that you're still suspicious and want to ask me some more questions...But instead of doing that and wasting your time, I'll simply prove to you myself that I have nothing to do with them and wouldn't even be bothered if they rot in hell." I said while loosening up my leg and walking a step forward towards the guy in front of me who was trying to get up again.
"Oh...How are you going to prove that?" Nina said with a small frown on her face, ready to smack me in the face the moment I try to grab the guy I was walking towards and escape with him in hand.
"Like this..."
SMACK!~
Before Nina could even finish hearing what I said, she heard the sound of something hard slamming against something even harder that resembled a bag of meat. And when she blinked and opened her eyes, she saw the guy who was trying to get up sent flying all the way to the sofa she had had on the side.
Crash!~
The dude's body spiralled around the air, which made it look like he was dancing in the air, and he smashed into the sofa, where he lied down without making any movements. But he was definitely not dead since he was groaning louder than before after being kicked right in the face by me and sounded like he just got hit by a freight train and was on his last dying breath.
The crowd surrounding me was also in utter shock that I acted so violently and kicked a man like he was a football when I behaved so decently towards them before and was an ideal gentleman in their eyes.
Nina herself also looked puzzled as to what happened and couldn't believe that a single kick from me sent a man flying a couple of feet into the air. She even looked at my legs with an absurd look on her face, like she was wondering if they were made of steel or some other indestructible metal.
"How is that? Is that enough to say that I really don't know them and despise them as much as you do?" I asked Nina with a straight look on my face as I brought my foot back down.
"...Or is it that I have to smash another one in the face to prove my innocence?" I said while eyeing another guy on the ground who was in a daze after watching his friend fly away.
When he felt my gaze and saw me walking towards him, his face paled and his legs trembled. Not wanting to be used to prove my innocence, just like what I did to his friend, he immediately turned to look at Nina, who was still confused as to what was going on, and exclaimed in a frantic manner,
"We don't know him! We don't know this guy at all! He just appeared out of nowhere when all of this was happening and has nothing to do with us! I can swear this on my mother's life!"
The third dude in the ground also frantically nodded his head to his friend's words, not wanting his face to be smashed in like a watermelon.
"Actually, Nina, what Kafka is saying is true. He really has nothing to do with this..."
Mrs Keller who had been silent this whole time, stepped in to support me with a guilty look on her face, seeing that she couldn't keep mum any longer unless she wanted to see another brutality occur tonight.
"To be honest, I already knew Kafka didn't know these lechers since he had just come here a few minutes ago, and also because I know that he isn't the type of person to do such a thing since we're already acquainted with one another...But I decided to stay silent about the matter and let things unfold since it was rather interesting to see you fighting with a high school boy and I wanted to see how you would handle the bizarre situation."
Nina was surprised when she heard Mrs Keller prove my innocence and was even more shocked when she heard that I was only studying in school when she thought for sure that I was already in college.
"...But who would've thought things would turn out this way and Kafka would send a man flying across the room, like he was made out of cotton and feathers.
I'm afraid that if I hadn't stepped in now, I would've seen another man flying across the lobby and smashing into your expensive furniture." Mrs Keller looked at me with an apologetic gaze for keeping silent this whole while, to which I simply smiled and shook my head, since I knew that Mrs Keller was quite mischievous for her age and loved anything that involved drama and gossip.
"Auntie, is what you're saying true? Did you watch me berate and accuse a high school boy just for the fun of it?" Nina asked in an exasperated manner and looked like she didn't know what face to show me after accusing me so blatantly and making me out to be a pervert.
"I know that you have loved to play pranks on me ever since I was a child, but isn't this a little too much even for you...I mean, I almost went to beat up the poor kid who had nothing to do with these bastards."
"Oh come on~...You know that I never would've let it go to that extent." Mrs Keller said while shaking her head and tried to act like it wasn't a big deal at all. She then looked at the crowd behind her, who all also looked guilty like they had committed a crime, and said, "...And if you're going to scold me for this, then scold them as well since all of them knew Kafka was innocent.
But none of them spoke a word of it since they were just as invested as me in this misunderstanding after getting bored of watching the same old cliche dramas on TV and got a little excited when they saw something so exciting right in front of them."
None of the ladies refuted her, as they knew that she was telling the truth and ducked their heads down in embarrassment.