"Are you meeting someone, Claude?" She asked as she gently placed her hands on his. 

"Not anymore, I guess." Claude replied, and Margaret had a s.e.xy smile in response. They chatted for a few more minutes before Claude said, "You want to get out of this place?"

Margaret smiled at him. "I would love to, but my ex-boyfriends have been stalking me all day, and I'm afraid I'll get stopped by them if I try to leave with a guy. They both are really obsessive."

Claude asked, "I can deal with them if you want. Where are they?"

Margaret licked her lips as she turned her head and pointed at Jonas and Killian, who immediately turned away, afraid that Margaret would notice them ogling at her. "It's those two."

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'Damn it! I only came to this public house because I've heard that there was a beautiful vixen who goes around sleeping with strong and fierce men…' 

Killian Grant watched the gorgeous woman in the beautiful red dress speaking in a seductive manner with a young man on one corner of the room and gripped that cup of alcohol that he was holding in his hand tightly.

He felt desperate. He was extremely conscious about his appearance and built, confident that he could pick up any girl if he wanted to. Although he was known as the 'Monster Slayer' by many, those who knew him personally would tell you how much of a playboy he was. After he became famous among the people, Killian found it to be much easier to sleep with women, and he went around having i.n.t.e.r.c.o.u.r.s.e with any beautiful woman whom he deemed to be worthy as he wandered across various places. When he arrived in Soderberg city, he heard about the beautiful woman who sleeps with strong men, and was immediately fascinated by the rumours. Although he wasn't particularly fond of having s.e.x with women who was 'experienced', the lengths these people went to describe the beauty of this mysterious woman fascinated him to no end.

Hoping to the beautiful lady's pick of the day, he charged into the city's main public house in order to find this goddess of a woman. But, to his surprise, this goddess of a woman wasn't interested in him at all, and instead ignored him completely in order to flirt with a much younger man than him, which caused a massive dent on his ego.

'Hu… If I knew she was interested in younger men, then I wouldn't have spend hours waiting inside this pathetic excuse of a pub…' Killian Grant sighed in regret as he emptied the entire glass, and wiped his mouth.

Watching the beautiful woman and the youth flirting with each other from the side, Killian gritted his teeth and muttered,

"Idiot. You got lucky that she's into kids, you little b*tch. But you're nothing in front of me..." 

Killian was infuriated, and his grip on the glass increased so much that it actually broke into small pieces.

However, the young man and the beautiful woman, who were the targets of his intense anger, didn't seem to notice him at all, and was instead spending their time talking with each other, laughing and touching each other's hands every now and then.

"This b*tch.. Just because she's beautiful, she thinks she can do anything..." Killian was staring at the beautiful woman, who was looking at the young man with a s.e.xy smile on her face. Her expression was clearly seductive. Killian knew what those eyes meant. He had seem the same eyes before, just on him most of the time. Having come to the realization that he wouldn't possibly be able to have s.e.x with the woman, Killian turned around and asked for another glass of drinks, hoping to drown out his sorrow with alcohol.

He, who was always confident about being able to get with any woman, was suddenly unsure of his looks and skills.

'Bitch… You don't realise this yet, but you just missed the chance to have the best night of your life.'

He thought that he was simply too good looking to be passed on, but now, his confidence was shaking.

He felt humiliated, and it was filling up his insides slowly. To hide the embarassment that he was feeling, he began taking his anger out on the bartender. "Hey idiot! What the hell did you bring me? This tastes like sh*t!" He raised the glass high up in the air and yelled out.

"Oh? I apologise, customer, but it's the same drink that you were having before." The bartender smiled at Killian, and said. "But perhaps you would like to try another drink?"

"What? Are you telling me that I'm wrong? I'm the customer here, and I'm telling you that you messed up! And you're here, trying to find fault in my statement?" Killian, enraged by the bartender's words, slammed his fist on the table, grabbing the attention of the people around him.

"N-no, of course not customer… I was simply stating the facts, and was recommending you another drink if you weren't placed with the one you were having right now!" The bartender waved his hands, trying to defuse the situation. 

BAM!

Killian, now enraged, leaned over in an instant and grabbed the collar of the bartender, pulling him close to his face and yelled out, "You little sh-"

"Excuse me!"

Before Killian could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by a calm voice and a hand placed on his shoulders, which forced him to turn around in annoyance and say, "What the hell do you want?"

"I apologize for interrupting your little fiasco over here," Claude, who had walked over from his table and grabbed Killian's shoulders, spoke with a bright smile on his face. "But I felt like I had an obligation to warn you that this is going to hurt… a lot!"

Killian stared at Claude with a confused look on his face and said, "What the hell are you talking about, little man?"

WHAM!

Claude stepped forward and shoved his fist hard, which was reinforced by his body strengthening technique and slammed it right into his c.h.e.s.t, and the surprised Killian was flung backwards and crashed onto the ground with a loud 'thud'.

With this, the crowd's attention was focused completely on him.

'Oh? I thought I'd have to make someone else drum up trouble, but I guess this works as well...' Jonas, who was watching the incident occur in real time had a smirk on his face, as he stepped forward.

He pointed his hand at Claude, who shifted his gaze towards him, and said,"Hey! What the hell are you doing? I haven't seen you around here. You think you can just come into this place and do whatever you wa-"

Whoosh!

Claude rushed forward as he was talking, appearing before him in an instant, drifting towards Jonas, leapt up and then spun around savagely and slammed his right knee to his face.

"Wha- Wait! Are you seriously going to attack me without a talk?" Jonas, who was caught off guard by the sudden attack, cursed out loud as he raised his arms up to defend himself from Claude.

As his knee struck the raised arms of Jonas, a loud noise was heard, following which the both of them were pushed back a few steps due to the impact of the strike.

WHAM!

Claude, who was able to recover immediately from the fallback, immediately went for another strike, and Jonas who hadn't recovered yet swung his right hand in a panic, aiming Claude's face.

Escaping this was just a matter of quick thinking, and Claude was pretty good at that. 

Swoosh!

Claude twisted his body to the left, narrowly avoiding the palm strike of Jonas, and lunged forward with his own palm strike!

BAM!

By the time Jonas saw the attack, his face had already been struck by Claude's palm strike and was sent flying back, crashing down on one of the corners of the room, unconscious.

"YOU LITTLE SH*T!"

"You're going to die today!" Killian Grant, who was infuriated by Claude, who had struck him while he was distracted, leapt up and extended his hands, and a giant lotus made up of spiritual energy appeared in his palms!

Killian's technique was exquisite, and his cultivation base had already reached the sky realm.

Whoosh!

Claude utilised the floating footsteps technique and immediately skipped backwards, narrowly evading the palm strike. He then stomped his foot down on the floor, forcing him to stop moving, and instantly charged forward at Killian, who was still in the middle of pulling back his palms.

Although Killian's speed was really quick, he was unfortunately facing Claude, who was not just faster than him, but also a quick thinker and decision maker. 

Bang!

Claude exploded at the guy and right before Killian could recover from his previous attack, he had already swung his palm sideways, aiming for Killian's head.

The body strengthening technique of Killian was pretty strong, but he was unable to guard himself against Claude's palm strike, and the impact smashed his lower jaw, and Killian rocked sideways a bit before crashing down onto the floor, face first.

Ignoring the crowd of murmuring people, Claude walked towards his table, grabbed Margaret's hand, and said. "Where do you want to go?"