Re: Player

Leena stood there at the door for a few seconds. Her expression turning slowly serious, the more she looked at me.

"Excuse me," a voice behind Leena, outside the door, called out. Turning, she saw a fat lady standing there, wearing all sorts of jewelleries, looking for a way into the shop.

Leena walked a few steps in, letting the lady enter the shop. Moving towards the reception, her smile widened as she observed me.

She was around 5ft, with her weight around 250 pounds around that. Because of all that makeup, it was difficult to make out her age, but she should be around late 40s or something.

Wearing a giant purple coat and a purple hat, it seemed pretty clear that she was either coming from a party or going to one.

"Mrs. Thompson, you look lovely as always," I complimented her, making her chuckle as she responded,"you and your flattering lines."

"I am in a bit of an urgent situation, so can you pack some of the usual arrays?" she asked as she checked her purple purse for money. While I took out a bundle of Arrays from the reception desk, she took out a single gold coin.

"Here," she passed the coin before hurriedly taking the arrays. Though before she moved out, her eyes turned to Anna.

Her movements stopped for a moment, before she began moving towards Anna. With her eyes glistening, she removed her violet gloves as she tried to touch Anna's cheeks but…

"Mrs. Thompson. This one is under my protection," I spoke, making her pause in her movements as I concentrated the mana on a bunch of safety arrays placed around the shop.

I didn't immediately activate those though as I waited for her to make any moves. Though thankfully, she didn't cause any commotion as she traced her hands back before she looked at me with those lust filled gaze of hers.

"Is that so? You should have told me earlier. I almost lost control," she smiled as she hid her hideous nature behind that 'kind' expression of hers once again.

"But don't worry, I won't break the bond we have. No matter how inciting the situation is," she gave a peek at Anna once again before she walked away from there.

"Thank you for coming here," and just like usual, I politely greeted her without giving much thought about it.

The door closed as Leena stood there drenched in sweat, before I stopped pouring mana into the safety array, making her fall on the ground.

"You… you knew?" Leena spoke as she looked at me with a rather freaked out look. Her eyes seemed to have seen everything that had happened in the brief moment here.

While Mrs. Thompson was about to touch Anna, Leena, as usual, understood there was something wrong with the situation. But because of her emotions, she failed to see the 4 hidden guards that Mrs. Thompson had with her.

If I hadn't bound Leena using arrays, there was a high chance Leena would have been killed by those 4 guards of Mrs. Thompson.

While a fight isn't really a big problem for me, I thought of trying to persuade her with words. Which kind of worked fine for me.

Anna was frozen stiff in her place, her eyes still seemingly confused as she dazed in the space in front of her.

Taking out another array for mind calming, I then used it on Anna.

"Will she be fine?" Leena spoke with a worried expression as she looked at me. She seemed to be still anxious about what had happened a few moments ago.

'I guess I can understand her situation in a way. Just a moment ago, she almost lost her life and her sister was about to become a plaything for another human. If it were any other place than this, then…' I gave it a quick thought before focusing on the issue at hand.

"It's just mind magic. Nothing I can't handle," I smiled as I cleared the magic.. Anna immediately lost consciousness, before I helped her lay on the ground.

"Don't worry. She will wake up in a minute or two," I assured Leena as she nodded before she asked with a deeply concerned voice,

"May I ask who that lady was?"

I turned to her for a moment before speaking," don't tell me you have never seen the Duke's Wife before? I thought she was pretty well known in this town and around."

Leena lowered her head as she spoke," we are not from here."

Understanding her fear, I patted her head slightly before speaking," let's wait for Anna to wake up. I guess I will lend an ear to your situation for now."

In a way, they were both lucky and unlucky. It's not like they wouldn't have run into another situation or something given how the town is, but running into Mrs. Thompson was kind of an overkill.

But since it happened in my shop, where she is fond of coming on an everyday basis, I guess, the witch sister's luck wasn't all bad.

However, my reasons weren't as noble as to save a girl or to prevent something bad from happening. To be honest, I was going to hear them because it seemed a bit interesting and not just a child's stubbornness.

And since I was getting a bit bored in the past few weeks, seeing this opportunity, I wondered if I could find something fun in it too.

And also, from the way Anna conducted herself, I wondered if I could somehow make her my receptionist without teaching the Arrays. Another reason I saved her.

'All that comes after Anna wakes up, I guess.' I looked at Anna sleeping peacefully on the floor in front of us.

"Thank you," Leena murmured as she looked at me with a gratifying expression. She seemed to have genuinely understood the gravity of the situation.

"Thank you for saving us," she said again. This time louder than before.

"It's all right," I nodded at her before looking at Anna, finally waking up.