Hellbents
Chapter 34: Roomate

"How dare a lowly creature like you!"

Busy flirting with River with her carelessness, Ava was suddenly startled with loud howls in the ship's passageway.

The two of them immediately stood up, slowly approaching the closed door that separated them from anything that made such a fuss. But Ava immediately pulled River's hand, telling the man to stay on his bed, because it was still not long before he was clearly humbled when he had just boarded the ship.

But River shook his head, as a more mature man, he abstained from letting Ava face alone what was behind the door. He was used to being scorned, humiliated, and humiliated. In fact, his house is sometimes pelted with rotten eggs or animal carcasses. So he thought, the chaos that took place was one of the other vile deeds that someone did because he was uncomfortable with his presence.

River missed though. This time, he had nothing to do.

"Your eyes are being kept?!" A large man with a tattoo that almost covered his entire arm retorted loudly. Pretty bold considering his opponent was an old man in shiny clothes who was as if a blind man who had just first seen the color, striking. The new rich.

But Ava focused on something else, the little girl who hid behind the man, precisely the ears and yellow tail with black bottles on the little girl.

The beastman?

It was only the first time that he saw directly the species mentioned repeatedly in the books he read.

It seemed like not only him, the people who slowly filled the corridor in front of his room were also secretly glancing at the half-cheetah daughter.

"Are you who I am, huh?!"

"I don't need to know your status to conclude that you're an asshole!"

Seeing the heated argument, Ava had no intention of interrupting. But to find out the cause of this incident, he quietly shifted, whispering with a stranger who was closest to him.

"What's this?" whispered Ava slowly.

The woman who was suddenly invited to speak fortunately just revealed without pause, "Because of the busy schedule, this hallway is also crowded with passengers. Then I heard that the grandfather who looked like he was making money accidentally hit the cheetah girl, his burly brother did not accept it and crashed. The grandfather didn't want to admit wrong, who ended up directing them with a fight like this."

"They should just be quiet, or in the cage, why hold back in the middle of the road like this, anyway?!" another stranger chimed in cynically. Ava does not welcome such malicious comments.

He had not been able to find out more information, knowing River was already between the two men who argued it. "We better discuss this matter carefully, so you two better calm down first."

"Quiet down?! Judging from anywhere is also a mixture of animals and humans like those who should apologize!"

"It's parents like you whose job is just to make trouble!"

The two of them do not seem to want to give up on each other.

Ava better act before this matter gets bigger. He infiltrated into the back of River's large body, removing a ball from his inventory, including a small amount of anesthetic powder inside.

"really. You better calm down first," Ava bediri sprightly, her hands silently scattering the fine powder on the people around her. A small dose is expected to make them calm, at best sleepy. When a person is on a black-and-white ride, their logic gets clouded, resulting in a judgment with negative bias, selective attention, and a black-and-white perspective. So hot emotions will only exacerbate this problem.

Ava herself had enough experience with it.

Not waiting for long, the tattooed man was no longer busy snapping, the peacock-clothed old grandfather was also stumbling, fully leaning on the bird-headed shiny stick. Is that real gold? If there's a chance, Ava will steal it.

A little narcissistic, ha.

In just an instant, the captain and his entourage had already split apart the horde of people, stopping right in front of them.

"What is this storm?" The baritone voice of the captain instantly made all pairs of eyes fixed on the man, Ava was able to catch a glimpse of the tip of her raised lips, enjoying the attention the crowd gave. But his eyebrows swooped when he met the view with the form of the peacock grandfather.

Rule number one when dealing with narcissistic people, do not strive to stand out from them more.

So Ava took a step to stand next to the tattooed man, trying to hide the little girl whose cheetah characteristics were striking. "They collided. Maybe because of this hot and crowded weather, I think everyone is being sensitive," Ava as a third party who actually does not know anything to say. But in an event like this, delivering neutral testimonials must be prioritized so that the problem is quickly resolved.

"He hit my sister and didn't want to apologize" the man beside Ava growled, fortunately no longer yelling.

Perhaps because of the dope Ava had spread, the old man had even desperately tried to stand up straight. It seems that age also affects its effects. "I'm sorry? Huh, do you know who I am?" Again and again, he wanted to boast.

Snippy. "Then, isn't your room upstairs? This floor is only for economy class," Ava put on her business smile. Seeing the peacock's grandfather who was immediately conscious and panicked, Ava also took advantage of the opportunity to bite. "Lord with high status is unlikely to get a room on this floor, right?"

"Of course not."

"Then why do you have an economy class floor?"

"I'm-I'm ter-"

"When the wooden board with directions is very clear in the front."

Ava already knew that the top floor could not be rented for money, considering the spacious rooms compared to the size of this passenger ship, the existing slots were limited. To book such luxurious rooms, in addition to a lot of capital, one must have a high status equivalent to nobility.

That is, the grandfather before him is included in the ranks of low-status money people or poor nobles.

Whatever of the two, of course, the old man will not reveal in public when he continues to humiliate others with pride.

Well, of course this is just a hypothesis.

So Ava will test her theory. "Captain, looking at Mr. who seems to have misplaced this floor, there should be a staff escorting him."

"Ah, Miss, what a concern," the captain replied in excitement. Half the reason could be because he was satisfied with the glittering old man being humiliated, the clothes or accessories he was wearing bothered him.

"No! I already know the way," Grandpa peacock cleaves the way, for the size of an old man, he's nimble as well.

The crowd didn't disperse for long either. The captain and his entourage went nowhere. All that was left behind was the tattooed man and his cheetah sister.

"What's your room number?" River asked kindly from behind Ava's back.

The little girl awkwardly held out two keys numbered 34. Room with Ava and River.