[???]: "Uhm... Do I know you, sir?"
He seem confused.
[Orange]: "What?"
Orange noticed the different color irises and the lack of star-shaped pupils in the boy's eyes. Orange curses at himself in his mind for making a simple mistake. He messed up. That boy wasn't same boy with the air of elegance and discipline around him. Not the boy with the light magic. It was just an ordinary boy with a blue hair. Just an plain old NPC.
It was embarrassing. Orange had caused fuss to make people stop by and watch what was happening before them.
[Orange]: "S-sorry... I think I got the wrong person..."
Orange lowered his head a bit.
[???]: "It's fine! You don't need to apologize. Uhm.. have a good day, I guess."
It was awkward. The boy waved his hand a bit, telling Orange he doesn't need to do any of this! Soon after that the boy left.
Orange was sitting down. Leaning on to a nearby wall. Arms on top of his knee. He watch as the boy vanished into the crowd. He thought he should just go back to Alice then he heard a commotion in a nearby alley.
It sounds like cries from a girl. It was coming from an alleyway just beside him. It wasn't as dark as the previous alleyway but the shadows of the buildings made it a bit hard to see.
Orange squinted his eyes. He could see silhouettes moving. Five to be exact. One seem like a girl while others seem like they were assaulting her? Wait, that isn't right.
A girl was getting assaulted by thugs in broad daylight! Orange checked. People that walked pass this alleyway seems to noticed what was happening. They know that the weaks getting oppressed was wrong but nobody's bothering to help! Grrr...
It is natural for people to avoid getting involved with thugs or anything related to that. Everybody has some sense of justice but not anybody would like the idea of dealing with extra trouble.
But. Orange was the type who can't get themselves to overlook these type of situations. He wanted to help her. He didn't want to see anybody getting oppressed.
Then, his body moved on his own. Rushing to the scene before anybody did. Like a hero. He knows his chances of winning a four against one is thin but his body wouldn't stop.
Orange curses at himself. But this was the right thing to do.
2 It was afternoon. I walked into an alleyway for shortcut to the main street. I thought today was just a normal day. Then, out of nowhere four men that seems like thugs appeared.
All of them were wearing tattered clothes. They all towered me in size. One of them with a mohawk, one with spikey red hair, one who was bald and one with short ponytails. I thought his choice of hairstyle was weird. I shifted my gaze away from them trying not to attract any attention.
They started talking to me. At first I was just ignoring them. But at one point I had enough. One of them grabbed my hand, forcing me to come with them. So I slapped that one guy.
He got mad and hit me. I fell on to the ground. I can feel the pain stinging from my cheek. It hurt.
Then, I was assaulted and harrased.
I cried out for help many time. Nobody answered. It was futile. Nobody would mess with four people head on. Unless they were extremely good at fighting or some kind of heroes in fairytales or children books.
Oh... A hero...
[Girl]: "P-Please stop"
Getting saved by a hero sounds nice...
"Pfft- what are you saying?" Another one replied with "You know? If you had decided to obey things like a good girl it wouldn't turn out this way " the one with the mohawk added "It was your choice you were resisting so don't expect things would go easy on you!"
One of them stepped forward, attempting to continue the assault.
It doesn't specifically needs to be a hero... Just... Please... Somebody-
[?Orange?]: "You guys! Stop!"
A voice. Loud and determined yet nervous. Despite being nervous it doesn't hesitate to help a person in need. I turned toward where it came come. It was a boy, someone around my age. He has amethyst color eyes, jet-black hair and clothes that seems to be from a village.
He's cool... Just like from the fairytales.
I was relieved. I'm saved. I can finally be free from this torment. And so-
[Girl]: "Please, save me!"
-I screamed. My voice was hoarse from crying for help. I don't want to be hurt anymore. It hurts. I was scared.
3 Orange arrived at the scene. His body was moving on its own.
"You guys! Stop!"
The thugs turned to look at Orange. With irritation clearly showing on their faces. The one who was about to hit the girl again stopped at look over his shoulder. A boy with purple eye was standing there. (Orange)
The bald guy, stepped up, his voice loud and rough."Who are you, brat?" The mohawk followed up with "Who do you think you are? A hero? A knight? Pfft-" Ponytails cracked his knuckles along with his neck, then said "Let's teach him a lesson for disrupting us!"
Orange raised his fist up. Orange has some experience at fighting but he wasn't sure if he can take four people on at the same time. He gulped.
[Girl]: "Please, save me!"
The girl cried out for help. She seems scared. And in pain from enduring something nobody should go through.
Orange, hearing the cries, knows he can't back off anymore. It's now or never! Orange seems determined and if not focused.
"Raahh!" The bald guy rushed forward. Throwing his fist at Orange as he yell loudly.
Orange sidestepped. It was light and quick, if not almost smooth.
The punch missed Orange. The bald staggered, almost falling from his unbalanced footing. He was wide open, full of holes! Orange could've followed up with a hook and knock him out with a hook but an idea popped up. It's something he's been wanted to try. Orange realized this was the perfect opportunity.
Any sane person would thought of knocking the enemy out as quickly as they can in these type of situations but for our protagonist... You could that he has thought of something else. Something unnecessary.
Orange spat on his palm.
[Orange]: "Take this!"
Orange slapped the back of the poor guy's bald head with all of his might. The bald fell and land on a brick with the side of his jaw. With the increased speed of the fall because of the slap it knocked him out temporarily.
The bald started to bleed. There was a cut on his chin. It was a mess.
Orange paused and stared, he was surprised. He didn't expected his. He muttered one word that would describe what has unfolded before him. "Misfortune..."
Orange raised his fists back up. He turned back to the other. Now the only the only ones that were left were mohawk, pigtails and spikey.
[Orange]: "As you can see, I'm strong. I don't it to turn into a one-sided bullying so leave that girl alone"
It was a lie.
Three of them that witnessed what happened to the bald were quite shooked.
The one with the mohawk clicked his tongue and yelled. "Don't underestimate us, you little shit!" He rushed toward Orange and Pigtails followed. "You can't beat us if we gang up!"
One of them ducked down and hold on to Orange. locking him in place. "Our teamwork is unstoppable! Rahahaha!" The other one jumped up. "Thanks, bro! Cool-Spin-Spin-Amazing-Dangerous-Kick!" He rotate his body then uses the momentum to launch his uhm... Cool-Spin-Spin-Amazing-Dangerous-Kick... "Hiyaah!"
Lame... Orange leaned back avoiding the kick in time. He watch as mohawk flies pass him just a few inches away from his nose.
[Orange]: "Now, you!"
Orange elbowed Pigtails that was holding him in the back. The sound of impact was loud and clear. Pigtails groaned, he let go of Orange and fell down. I feel bad, because of his hold I could lean back easily... Too bad we weren't on the same side...
"Tch! Tch! Tch! How could this be?! Die!!!" Spikey yelled.
Orange turned around. Spikey has a knife in his hand. it seems sharp. He was fast.
Orange eyes widened. He totally forgot about the fourth guy! He was quiet and laying low this whole time so Orange thought he had fled already!
It was fast! Orange can't dodge it in time, it was too late for that. He needs to at least do something. But, how? No way, is he going to die? Orange curses.
Then, there it goes. Time has slowed down. It was generic and cliché at this point. Everything has gone black and white. It was quiet, too quiet. It's eerie...
There was something... No, someone... A woman with long hair? It was white. Her irises were purple like amethysts, which looks similar to Orange's. She was wearing a white robe. Orange noticed that she has great assets. She has white and perfect arms, smooth armpits and alluring breasts that anybody would stare at. The skin of her legs peeked out from her robe. She has great body and a figure perfect to support her plump top. She's gorgeous... No, describing her with words is an understatement. She has the air of elegance, much more than anyone Orange has met before. Even more than that blue hair boy. She has a soft and gentle smile on her. It seems almost like she has descended from the higher realms.
Orange thought of one thing. A goddess...
The goddess in front of him spoke. Her voice low-pitched she speaks in a rather sultry voice. Her voice could charm anybody deities and gods, maybe even concepts! Who knows? She was speaking, it wasn't clear, it was quite distorted? The only thing he could make up was: Good luck. Or something like that
Wait. "Good luck"? What does she mean-
Time has resumed. The colors has came back along with the sound. The goddess was gone. Could he been seeing things? No, this must've been related to that vision.
Orange's hands moved on its own. It reached outward. It started to glow from his palms, it was bright, brighter than normal light. It shines through the alley then then a magic circle started to form. It was written in strange letters Orange can't recognize.
Orange know a few things about magic, words and incantation from Alice but the things he was seeing was different. Could it be the anything associated ancient spells?
A wave of strings came out of the circle. Flying toward spikey and other thugs. It was fast. The strings merged with each other, it begun to rotate like a huge drill. A powerful one in fact. It send them flying. It created a huge hole in the wall they went through.
As dust started to clear. everything has became visible. The thugs were totally defeated. Their body were lifeless on the ground. Orange hoped he didn't killed them or anything.
[Orange]: "Wh- What was that?!"
Orange stared at his palm. The magic circle was gone. He was confused. Was that magic? Orange couldn't use magic since birth. He didn't have a single ounce of mana in him so why? Was it because of that string? He placed his hand on his left eye, thinking for possibilities.
Orange shook his head and put his questions aside. Right now he need check on the girl. Orange turned to the girl.
[Orange]: " Hey, are you okay? Don't move, I'll go get a healing potion for you. So, please wait."
Orange get up. He was about to go but the girl grabbed his clothes. Orange turned around. The girl was shaking, she was scared. She seems like she was about to cry at any moment. It was understandable that she'd be feeling scared after all that happened to her.
[Girl]: "ank... Thank you for saving me."
She couldn't hold it in anymore. Tears start stream down from her face. Her nose is red. Her voice was quite clear it first. Now, it was inaudible.
[Girl]: "I wa.. scared. Hngh..."
Orange was panicking, he didn't know what to do! He was patting and stroking her back. He was trying his best calm this weeping girl down.
[Orange]: "Hey, it's fine now... Uhm.. don't worry! Uhm.. eh.. yeah, I'm here for you!"
The girl started to cry even louder.
[Orange]: "..."