"Are you people from the Praise Society?"
Hoshimi Aya stood behind the two men in black and questioned them.
Ahead was a dead end, the only way out.
If she let these two guys escape, she might as well find a building to jump off of.
The two men in black didn't answer. They glanced at each other as if they had decided something and simultaneously pulled out folding knives from their pockets.
Hoshimi Aya:???
"You don't actually think you can take me down, do you?!"
"To deal with you, I don't even need a blade!"
After saying that, Hoshimi Aya directly put her blade away.
The two men in black charged straight at her.
Two or three minutes later.
The two men in black lay unconscious on the ground.
"Hello, is this the Public Security Officer?"
"I encountered two perverts. Yes, that's right, I've already taken them down."
"The location is... Can you come and take them away now?"
Hoshimi Aya said over the phone.
Since she couldn't interrogate any useful information out of them, she could only find a way to send them to the station.
Besides, this was in the city, so killing people would have a bad influence. She also hadn't brought her Demonic Blade, so she had no way to dispose of the bodies.
...
About ten minutes later.
Three Public Security Officers—one woman and two men—arrived at the scene.
"Hello, are you the lady who called for help just now?"
The leading female Public Security Officer asked.
"That's right, it's me."
"These two are the criminals."
As she spoke, Hoshimi Aya pointed to the two men in black lying unconscious on the ground behind her.
Hearing this, the two male Public Security Officers went over to the men and handcuffed their hands.
But the men in black didn't react at all.
"Well, it was self-defense."
"They saw how pretty I am and wanted to harass me."
"In my haste, I just swung blindly a few times."
Hoshimi Aya replied, her eyes darting away.
She had indeed been a bit heavy-handed, but judging by their decisive reaction in pulling out knives, they probably deserved the beating.
"Uh..."
"You call this'swinging blindly a few times'?!"
One of the male Public Security Officers lifted a man's arm; it was bent at an unnatural angle.
The other male Public Security Officer lifted the other man's leg, which was also unnaturally bent. He looked at Hoshimi Aya with a rather strange expression.
Wait, what?!
You call this swinging blindly a few times?!!
"It... it really was just a few blind swings."
"And everything I said is true."
"They followed me, all the way here."
"If you don't believe me, you can check the surveillance footage to find out."
Hoshimi Aya said somewhat awkwardly.
"Uh... sorry, miss, you'll have to come back to the station with us."
The female Public Security Officer said after a moment of silence.
Hoshimi Aya nodded.
...
Inside the Public Security Bureau.
"Miss Hoshimi Aya, although these two gentlemen harassed and followed you, you shouldn't have been so heavy-handed."
"At the very least, you should have controlled your strength."
The higher-ups have defined this incident as Miss Hoshimi Aya committing accidental injury."
The female Public Security Officer said while looking at Hoshimi Aya.
Hoshimi Aya lowered her head and didn't speak, just fiddling with her fingers.
If she had known, she wouldn't have reported it to the authorities.
It would have been better to just leave.
Now look at this, accidental injury... how long would she be locked up for?!
She also didn't know if the Hoshimi Family could bail her out.
While Hoshimi Aya was still feeling upset, the female Public Security Officer's words made her freeze.
"Miss Hoshimi Aya, you may leave."
"We will handle the rest of the matter."
The female Public Security Officer said to Hoshimi Aya and prepared to leave.
But just as she was about to leave, Hoshimi Aya called out to her.
"Miss Public Security Officer, didn't you say I committed accidental injury?"
"Why are you saying I can leave directly now?"
Hoshimi Aya said in disbelief.
She knew a little bit about the law; accidental injury definitely required jail time.
But how come she was being released just like that?
"Hmm?"
"The identities of those two men in black are not clean. We're planning to follow up with an investigation."
"Miss Hoshimi Aya, didn't you choose to report to the Public Security Officer because you discovered their identities weren't clean?"
The female Public Security Officer was a bit confused but still chose to answer Hoshimi Aya.
"Ah?!"
"I see."
"In other words, because their identities are dirty, I'm being released without charges?"
Hoshimi Aya nodded as she listened to the female Public Security Officer.
"What do you mean 'released without charges'?"
"Miss Hoshimi Aya, although you did indeed commit accidental injury..."
...they were the ones who followed and harassed you first. After discussion, the higher-ups unanimously decided that the charge of accidental injury does not stand."
"So, Miss Hoshimi Aya, you can leave with peace of mind. You don't need to worry about anything else."
The female Public Security Officer said with a smile.
Hoshimi Aya nodded and left the Public Security Bureau.
"I almost forgot."
"This place is different from my past life."
"It scared me to death."
Hoshimi Aya said, patting her chest.
Then, Hoshimi Aya headed toward the Milk Tea Shop again, planning to have some milk tea to calm her nerves.
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