BXBX NOVEL Chapter 279: Hunting Down The Tigress
"Okay, now, ladies. I know that all of you want to know what happened inside, and to be honest, so do I...But let\'s not let that get to us and bother Kafka here for an answer, since he\'s the one that helped us solve this mess, and it won\'t be nice if we continue to pester him about something he doesn\'t want to talk about."
Nina\'s words and the look of resolve she had on her face as she stood before me made the crowd realise their miscomings and made them shake their heads at how they were about to do something that even the girl they had brought up ever since she was a kid knew was wrong.
"You\'re right, Nina...To be honest, I was also going to pull Kakfa to the side and ask him about what happened. But seeing as to how even a young girl like you has more clarity, I promise I won\'t do such a thing so that I don\'t lose my dignity as your elder." Mrs Keller apologised, and so did everyone else in the crowd with the same thoughts.
"It\'s fine, it\'s fine...You don\'t have to worry about it, since it\'s normal to be curious about something you don\'t witness every day, like a schoolboy effortlessly dealing with three grown men." Nina casually brushed everything aside while waving her hand, which lightened up the mood.
She then continued saying as she looked towards the entrance of the bath area, "...And now that the problem is over and we won\'t be having to worry about those perverts any time soon because of what Kakfa had done for us, you can now go and relax in the hot spring just like you came for."
"You guys have already changed your clothes and are probably tired from standing so long, so quickly go in and enjoy your time with the rest of the ladies inside." Nina said as she nudged them to go have a relaxing time after a stressful moment. "I\'m pretty sure the girls inside will also want to hear about what happened, so I suggest you go in quickly and tell them about what happened here."
The ladies were all hesitant at first since they didn\'t really feel like going in after such an incident. But the moment they heard that they had a chance to gossip, they rushed into the bathing area without hesitation so that they could be the first to tell the others inside of the spectacle that occurred and probably exaggerate the story to make it more entertaining.
I was also about to follow and enjoy my time in the steaming hot water that smelled like rotten eggs, but was suddenly interrupted and held back by Nina.
"Well then...Now that they\'re not here anymore, I\'m free to ask you what I want to know, aren\'t I?"
Nina\'s husky but tempting voice came from the side and made me freeze in my tracks, and stopped me from entering the hot spring.
I started sweating, thinking that she was going to ask me what happened inside the room in private, and I was thinking about what to say to her since I couldn\'t really say that I forced them to suck each other off.
But, luckily for me, Nina didn\'t seem to have that intention in mind.
"Don\'t be scared, Kafka...I\'m not going to ask you about what you did to those three, since I\'m not a woman who says one thing and does another."
Nina reassured me when she saw how I was panicking when she called me out and chuckled like she found the sight cute.
"I\'m someone who\'s true to their word just like you, which I\'ve come to find out after seeing how you refused to open your mouth for the sake of your promise, and I won\'t ask about such matters even though I am curious as to what you did that made them look like they wet their pants."
"...But I do have a question in mind, which I hope you don\'t mind answering."
Nina said as she got closer to me while staring at me with her sharp green eyes and having a small smile on her pink lips.
"Of course you can deny if you don\'t feel comfortable with answering...But do know that I might throw in a discount price for you whenever you come here if you answer honestly."
"Can I ask what that question of yours is before deciding whether to answer or not?" I asked, finding it funny how she was tempting me in such a bizarre way.
"Of course...I simply want to know if you had properly punished them for their actions or if you just let them go after striking some kind of deal with them?" Nina asked her question with a pensive look on her face.
"The reason why I\'m asking this is because I really find it hard to accept that those guys got off scot free, as scum like them deserve to be behind bars and not be roaming around free after what they\'ve done."
It seems like she really couldn\'t accept the fact that they weren\'t handed to the police after committing a crime that could\'ve ruined the lives of the group of women inside.
"Oh, well, you don\'t have to worry about that, Nina..."
I said as my lips curled up and gave her a reassuring look.
"I promise you that what I did to them is much more worse than some time in prison...It\'s something that will haunt them for the rest of their lives to the extent that they\'ll always think twice before they try something like that ever again, and they wouldn\'t dare look at another woman in such a crude way again without remembering what happened today."
"Sigh...Well, that\'s reassuring to hear...I was worried for a second that they got off too easily." Nina let out a sigh of relief, hearing they had gotten what they deserved.
She then looked at me with a playful smirk on her face and said, "...But that also does make me even more curious about what you did inside...If I knew about it, I could also do it myself and keep any troublemakers that come to my place in check."
"Trust me when I say that you want nothing to do with what just happened inside..." I said while shaking my head, like I too wanted to forget what had happened inside that room.
Nina also understood my intentions and didn\'t ask further, completely letting the matter go under the bridge.
"Well, now that this issue is over, I\'ll be entering the hot spring as well, since that\'s the very reason I came here tonight...So if you\'ll excuse me." I picked up my pouch from the table nearby and went towards the door that said men\'s changing room, seeing as my work here was done.
I also knew that Nina wasn\'t the type of woman that I could relentlessly pursue, or else she\'d put up her guard against me and make it even harder for me to make her mine, so I went the passive route and decided to leave her to her own for now.
But even though I wanted to give Nina a chance to breathe after this whole incident, Nina herself didn\'t seem to think the same and looked like she wanted to talk to the new city boy that she was interested in after seeing his novel antics that intrigued her greatly.
"Hold up now...Where do you think you\'re going, my dear Kafka?" Nina caught me by the shoulders from behind with a rather domineering smile on her face, like she was looking at a poor little mouse that was caught in her trap. "The current time slot for the men\'s hotspring is currently ongoing, so you\'ll have to wait until the next slot opens up."
"I see, that\'s unfortunate...I guess I\'ll wait in the corner over there until the current slot ends." I tried to escape Nina and make my way to the sofa in the corner that had a pretty fish tank near it.
"Now, why are you suddenly treating me like a stranger after helping me out so much?..."
Nina said as she held my shoulder and pulled me back towards her, which made my body circle around against my will due to her abnormal strength, even though she looked quite thin, and made me stand right in front of her and look into her preying eyes.
"...Come sit down next to me on the sofa over here instead of sitting all the way over there in that lonely and dark corner...It would break my heart to see my guest, to whom I owe a debt, sitting all alone and with nothing to do, so come sit with me and we\'ll have a little chat with one another to pass the time."
Nina pulled on my hand and dragged me to the sofa, not even caring if I wanted to go there or not, like my opinion didn\'t even matter in this situation.
"B-But don\'t you probably have some work to do right now?" I weakly said as I tried to pull my hand back. "I surely wouldn\'t want to disturb you just for the sake of entertaining me, so you really don\'t have to keep me company and can go on with the rest of your day."
"No, no...My work for the day is already done, and I\'m only relaxing like everyone else in the hot spring is doing now, so it would be no problem for me to have a little talk with you, Kafka."
Nina said in a nonchalant manner and then looked back at me, who had a rather reluctant look on my face, as if I were scared to spend some time with an adult who I had just met today.
"...This is also my hotspring, and any guest who doesn\'t follow what the proprietress of Paradise Hot Springs says will be kicked out like those three, so think about it a bit before you reject this older sister\'s friendly request for a chat."
Nina casually threatened me while having a friendly smile on her face, which made her look rather evil at the moment. I also had no choice but to obey her words since I didn\'t want to leave without taking a bath, so I reluctantly decided to follow what she said.
A proud look appeared on Nina\'s face when she saw me obediently walking along with her while holding her hand. And even worse, Nina actually found the look of defeat I had on my face to be quite adorable to look at, like she was bullying her little brother and wanted to pull me along and take advantage of me even more, using her powers as a senior to provoke more reactions out of me.
But little did she know that I was simply acting like I was intimidated by her so that I could make her let her guard down, as a Tigress like Nina couldn\'t be attacked directly unless you wanted to be mauled to death. And you needed to have a lot of patience and act like the mare that was being hunted, before transforming into the sly wolf and pounce on her when she least expects it.
Only then can you take down a proud tigress like Nina, who once ruled the jungle, and turn her into a cute little kitten that cries out if you don\'t give it some attention every once in a while.