"You…You…You...You-"
Tess kept pointing at him repeating one word over and over like a broken record.
Her cute, angelic face turned red hearing what he called her, As her whole body trembled.
'Aren't the heroines supposed to be calm-minded?'
Max, looking at her such an appearance, couldn't help but think about it.
Yeah, he already guessed what's wrong with her. It's nothing but a broken mentality.
In her mind, Rick is equal to her in strength, which was hard for her to accept at first, but given Rick trained all his life for it, She can bear it.
However, now that Max has beaten Rick, making him better than him and by proxy better than her.
How can someone like her who takes pride in her strength, who trained from a waking moment to before sleeping all her life since she was a mere 4 years old, who made gaining power her whole identity, can cope with the fact that a man who is just running after a woman all his life is stronger than her?
So her mentality has collapsed.
As for why she so blindly believes the fact he beat Rick? Simple, It's a heroine's intuition or something, Don't think too much about it.
"Tess, forget about it. Let me make something clear, It was he who attacked me, I was just acting in self defense."
Max slowly backs away from this excited woman before he opens his mouth certifying his stand.
If he can, He really does not want to offend her or her family as anyone with a working brain can tell the family having the surname Lionheart is not normal.
Though they act like they are just a 2nd-rate warrior family just below top 4 in this city, their actual power long since surpassed the currently top Winchester and Frost family in the city.
As for why do they keep pretending? Who knows? There is no mention of it in the plot he received, and given this is Xiao Bai, only lunatics would try to find logic and reason in it.
".....Beat me."
Tess slowly composed herself before just repeating one thing, She really doesn't care who started it or why they did it.
All she knows is that there is a winner, the winner she does not accept.
"Are you crazy? Go take your brother to hospital first or he will bleed to death."
Max did not follow her lead; rather he once again put the focus back onto Rick, the protagonist of the story.
He knew Rick was not gonna bleed to death as how can the protagonist just die like that? Rather he wants to avoid having direct conflict with her.
Not because he is afraid of her but because this woman is sick.
"Don't care, Beat me."
Tess outright ignored the pleaful eyes of Rick and once again asked for beating, giving him once again critical damage.
He looked dejected, still kneeling on the ground holding onto his crotch while his black leather shoe was still in his mouth.
But she was not in the mood to care. Her breathing became heavy as a crazed ear to ear smile appeared on her face.
[Ding! World choice is detected….
Please choose the following options….
• [1] A beautiful woman asked to get beaten up. Show her your hands are rated E for everyone.
Task : Beat her
Reward : Ecstasy hands
• [2] A beautiful woman wants the taste of getting beaten up. How can you as a man not fulfil her wishes?
Task : Beat her with affection.
Reward : LV 69 (Immortal- Level) Combat skill
(Note : Given the situation rewards would be distributed early once the option is chosen.)
• [3] Are you crazy? Don't you see that maniacal smile plastered on her face? Run for your life.
Task : Escape as fast as possible
Reward : -50 favorability of Tess (Current: 31 Acquaintance), Immortal-level Eunuch cultivation technique.]
Max was trying to figure out what to do with her when a system voice rang in his mind as options pop-up front of him.
'1st and 2nd both are good but what's wrong with the 3rd option?'
Max read through the task he couldn't help but yell out to the system.
1st and 2nd task and rewards are understable and propositional to the risk of it but what's about the 3rd?
Not to mention Tess would hate him just for running away but what about other rewards? Wasn't that just cursing him?
'Forget it, I want to choose 1st and 2nd, Can I?'
Max calmed himself down and quickly asked the system.
Both 1st and 2nd task do not conflict with each other and so he thinks he can choose both.
[Ding! Host choose the 1st and 2nd option, please complete the task to receive rewards…]
[Ding! Due to the special condition 2nd task reward LV 69 (Immortal-level) combat skill being distributed….]
As Max's voice fell, the system answered him with the barrage of notification ringing his mind.
Then there was a very comfortable warm current spread from his chest through his whole body, his limbs to his fingertips, his head to his hairs.
Sadly this comfortable feeling did not last even a half a moment before it vanished but now there were lots of different kinds of fighting skills and knowledge were present in his mind while his body has all the muscle memory as if he practiced for centuries mastering each individual skills to their perfection.
'This feeling is great.'
Max learning LV 69 fighting skill said to himself as it gave him strange kinda self-confidence.
"Okay, I would beat you but what would I get in return?"
Max now with confidence asked Tess, pulling the few pages out of the protagonist's handbook.
As this is their routine to get new beauties for themselves with low effect and without appearing as they are greedly for their bodies, while faceslapping the villain as bonus.
Though he hate it but these women love to eat this routine and it was also easy so he gave it a try.
"....Isn't the honor of fighting with me enough reward?"
However Tess just looked him dead in the eyes before coldy dropping these words.
(A/N : Don't worry there is going to be a Lemon soon.
Like always thank you for reading and have a good day 😁.)