Drawing a dagger and rushing confidently, Ryo tripped over Stella’s foot and fell loudly.

“Ack!”

Clang!

As he fell, the dropped dagger bounced once on the ground before sliding along the road. Ryo tried to get up to retrieve it, but Stella, who quickly approached, stepped firmly on the dagger with her foot.

Startled, Daerun turned his head quickly after handling the two guys who had just shouted.

“Y-Your Hig…”

“Shh!”

Before the word “Princess” could come out of Daerun’s surprised mouth, Stella quickly signaled to be quiet.

“You guys! I want you to stop doing business here!”

After lying down for a moment and suddenly getting up, Ryo shouted loudly enough to make the fruit street rumble.

If someone shouted like this, most merchants would shrug their shoulders and lower their heads to the ground. However, for some reason, the two still looked plump, even though it was just a gaze. Just looking at them made his blood boil in reverse.

Since childhood, he had been the owner of this street. His father ran the largest store on the fruit street, and Ryo was his illegitimate son.

Having lost his mother in an accident, Ryo was raised by his father with great care, becoming the problem child of this street.

“Can’t you hear me?”

The number of onlookers increased, and Ryo, who couldn’t afford to show a miserable figure in his main activity area, shouted loudly with a popping sound.
“Oh my, what’s this? Looks like those youngsters selling carrots have messed with that guy Ryo.”

“I saw earlier that Ryo was trying something with that girl and failed, so he seems upset now.”

“Anyway, he never gives up his bad habits.”

“Those young folks are unfortunate. They were working hard. But of all people, they had to mess with Ryo, a troublemaker.”

Ryo, who had been listening to the buzzing sounds around him, glared at the people as if he could kill them and shouted.

“Can’t you shut up!”

The people who were just now wagging their tongues and muttering became silent at once. Ryo, who has been learning upper management recently, unilaterally took away the stores that didn’t please him.

Even if the young ones were unpleasant, he couldn’t give up his livelihood for someone who had never shed a drop of blood.

“Yeah, I have to come out like this to be normal.”

Ryo, who liked their immediate reaction, shook off his dirty clothes, straightened his body, and stood up straight. His knees stung a bit from the fall, making him even more irritated.

With both hands on his hips and his chin arrogantly raised, Ryo stared at Stella and Daerun with an annoyed expression. The upturned corners of his eyes, which were already elevated, rose even higher.

“Quite sassy, huh? Well, with a face like that, I can tolerate it up to here. So stop whining and come over here.”

Ryo casually smiled and flicked his fingers toward Stella.

“This guy!”
It was when Daerun was about to step forward that Stella took the lead, and Daerun didn’t stop her.

“Yeah, that’s right. Beauty, stop hanging out with that ugly guy and hang out with me. I’ll buy you a fancy dress and necklace, not those shabby rags.”

Ryo, as if showing off his wealth, moved his hand to make his thick gold ring visible.

“I’ll give you this. How about it? Do you like it?”

Now, the distance between Stella and Ryo was not even a step. When Stella approached the guy who looked like a troublemaker, the faces of the people who were watching the commotion were filled with sympathy and, unsurprisingly, disapproval.

“Now?”

“What? You want it now? Okay. Shall we go together?”

Ryo approached suddenly and asked while looking at Stella. It was when he was about to put his arm around Stella’s shoulders with a satisfied expression.

“Oh! Itchy!”

Just before Ryo’s arm touched Stella’s shoulders, she suddenly jumped in her place, showing a painful expression.

“Oh! What’s this? What got in?!”

Ryo, jumping in his place, frantically searched inside his clothes for something that had gotten in.

Suddenly brushing his shoulders, then flipping his belly, and shaking his legs. At a glance, it looked like he was dancing a clumsy dance.

“What’s going on? Why is he like that?”

“Maybe a mouse or something got in?”

“Oh, how fortunate. It’s a complete failure.”
People looked at the chaotic Ryo not knowing what to do and chuckled. No one approached, and there was no one asking why he was acting like that.

Stella, watching Ryo suddenly shine like a crazy person, stared at him in surprise and pointed at him with her finger.

“Oh my! A mouse in your clothes!”

As Stella made a fuss, Ryo went even more crazy, laughing wildly, and shook himself out of his clothes. However, nothing came out.

“What? Where did it go? Where did the mouse go?”

The newly exposed white upper body from the clothes was smooth without a single muscle. Perhaps due to exceptionally white skin, a few strands of prominent chest hair were visible.

Even though people were staring, Ryo, without a hint of embarrassment, opened his eyes wide and searched for the mouse. He grumbled again.

“Oh my! A mouse in my pants!”