12 Caught

In a small tavern located in the town square, a man is enjoying a drink. This man wore a long black robe that covered his whole body, not a single area exposed his skin.

In front of him is an already warm jar of beer, it seemed like it had been sitting there, untouched. He was quite reserved in his actions, whatever he did, he made sure to not let anyone see how he looked like.

While he sat there, he was listening in on the conversation of two women sitting on the table beside him.

"Have you heard, there seems to be an ugly bad person going around stealing lollipops from kids all around the middle district." The woman's mocking tone sounded.

"Gosh, what a scumbag. Why haven't the security force issued an arrest warrant? He should be expelled from the middle district." The other woman's eyes were full of contempt.

In her view, no matter how terrible you are, you should not be stealing candy from kids.

"Apparently, he is an expert. You remember Andrew right? He said that that man was at least a Level 4 Martial Practitioner, Andrew couldn't even catch up to him even if he tried.

Well since he didn't actually do any serious crime, so the security force did not want to offend an expert by putting an arrest warrant for stealing a lollipops from children." The woman said as she took a sip of her drink.

"Well sure but, … it sure is pathetic isn't it? I mean... if you're an expert of that level, surely there has to be a better use for your abilities, right?" She did not understand the motive.

An expert of that level would typically have a high ranking job in the city. Is stealing lollipops from kids that fun?

"Beats me. He must be a weirdo I guess."

The man in the black robe listened to to two women's conversation and turned sour. That's right, this is the man those women were talking about, Zhang Wei.

[To think that I stooped to this level. Sigh.]

It wasn't his fault, it was the quest … is what he wanted to scream. However, he knew that he could not explain, what was he going to say?

The great heavens gave me quest to steal five lollipops from kids? He would get scorned at if he tried that.

Speaking of the quest, he had almost finished it. As of now, he had acquired a total of 4 lollipops.

The second and third lollipops he acquired from twins who were in a playground, meanwhile the fourth was acquired from a little girl who was waiting outside a store for her parents, in the market square.

All of them cried when he took their lollipops, and every scene had witnesses. This cause the rumors to spread even further.

He took a break since his mind was breaking down from the mental stress, which is when he saw this tavern. He sneakily stole a black robe from a nearby store and went inside.

He didn't even buy a drink, he merely used his speed to steal one and sneakily hid in a corner. Apparently his thieving tendencies are starting to develop.

After some time, he he saw that the sun was starting to go down. Since he thought that kids were harder to find at night, he had to finish the quest now.

He went out of the tavern and went back to the lane where he stole the first lollipop.

To his surprise, the street still had many people moving about. He was observing the crowd when he spotted a little boy, with a bright look on his face.

The boy held a lollipop and was sitting on a bench on the side of a street.

[Wait a minute! That's the same kid I stole the first lollipop from!

Well since you're here … Forgive me child, for I will sin.]

The quest detail didn't say that he needed to get 5 lollipops from 5 different kids. So it was technically alright to steal from the same child.

Doing as he did before, he went in front of the kid with a mean look.

The boy's innocent face suddenly turned sour, is this deja vu? His face seemingly knew what was going to happen.

He had just gotten another lollipop by begging his mother for a new one, now it was going to be taken again?

As soon as Zhang Wei snatched the lollipop, the boy cried immediately. Everyone around them turned their eyes towards the boy and noticed something familiar.

[Don't tell me it's happening again?]

[Mr expert, for someone of your level, why are you stealing lollipops from children? And why did you steal from the same child twice, do you have a grudge against that child?]

Zhang Wei felt like daggers were stabbing at him as he noticed their expressions. He tucked his head down and prepared to run away, before out of nowhere a person grabbed his robe.

That person shouted, "Filthy scum! how dare you bully a child."

He did not actually grab ahold of Zhang Wei, but he did manage to rip off Zhang Wei's robe.

When he looked up to see this scumbag's face, he was shocked,

"Sir Zhang?"

Turns out the person who tore off Zhang Wei's robe was the very person he saved earlier, Weakling 1.

[Fuck out of all the people who could have seen me, it's this (The real Author still could not give half a shit to name him) Weakling 1.]

Zhang Wei felt dizzy, his mind suddenly thought of a plan. He grabbed Weakling 1 by the collar and ran away from the scene. Everyone round them were befuddled, What just happened?

Zhang Wei took Weakling 1 to a back alley and thought about what to do with him.

[Since this idiot recognizes me, I have to make sure word doesn't get out.

Should I kill him? Nah, that would lead to an even bigger problem. Hmmm… Alright, let's do this then.] Zhang Wei thought as an evil smirked appeared.