Riyao Was Taken Hostage
"Actually, I'm quite easy to kidnap. Try a little harder?"
Riyao's tone was ambiguous, whether it was sarcastic or encouraging.
He even considerately moved his neck closer to the poisoned dagger, as if afraid the other party's arms were too short to reach it.
The villain's henchmen looked around and found themselves completely surrounded.
All escape routes are blocked; there's no way to escape.
The villainous leader, driven by wickedness, swiftly brought down his knife.
Since I'm going to die anyway, I might as well take someone down with me!
His eyes turned bloodshot, his arm muscles bulged, and he gripped the black short blade with all his might, viciously slashing horizontally at Riyao's neck!
A sharp, piercing clang!
There was no blood splattering as expected, nor any screams.
The dagger clattered out of his hand and fell to the ground, the blade unexpectedly chipping open with a large nick.
The villain leader didn't dare look at Riyao. He glanced around, trying to glean something from the faces of the others to comfort himself.
However, everyone watching looked at him like he was an idiot, and Lucy even clicked her tongue in sympathy.
"I'm dead~"
As Riyao's smug voice rang out, the villain's heart sank.
He rolled his eyes, stuck out his tongue, and slumped to the side, his performance utterly perfunctory.
Why don't you try magic?
Riyao straightened his head again and offered sincere advice with a smile.
"Stop playing around, Riyao."
Erza rubbed her throbbing temples, took two steps forward, and paused on the ground with her longsword.
Riyao pursed his lips, too lazy to keep pretending; there was no fun in continuing.
He dropped his playful grin, casually raised his hand, and with a slight flick of his wrist, delivered a precise chop to the back of the villain's neck.
After a dull thud, the villain's eyes rolled back, and before he could even utter a scream, he collapsed limply to the ground, unconscious.
The black-robed underlings were terrified and couldn't even muster the thought of resistance. They obediently squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, strung together in a long chain by the Magic Council's magical chains.
Riyao patted the dust off his cuffs, and was about to boast to his wife when he turned around and saw Mirajane walking over with light steps.
Mirajane leaned close to Riyao, her little face puffed up with anger. Sunrise reached out and cupped Mirajane's face, gently pinching it.
"Why are you so angry, like a pufferfish?"
"I'd also like to experience being kidnapped."
Mirajane's cheeks puffed out like a squirrel stuffed with nuts, her voice full of grievance at not being able to participate in the scene.
Riyao couldn't help but laugh and quickly went over to soothe him with kind words.
"How could I let these people touch my sweet Mira?"
Mirajane shook off Riyao's hand, wiped her face in disgust, and walked over to Lucy and the others.
She turned around, raised her fair chin, and gave a soft hum.
"You're right, they touched you. Don't touch me, hmph."
Riyao frozen in place, Lucy and the others suppressed their laughter and pulled Mirajane away from the spot.
Lisanna and Lucy each took one of Mirajane's arms, walking and turning back to make faces at Riyao, while Cana laughed so hard she slapped the wine jug.
Riyao stared blankly at his empty hands, his lips twitching. Had he really shot himself in the foot?
Sting leaned over and patted Riyao on the shoulder.
"Mr. Riyao, would you like to come and sit in our guild for a while?"
Riyao slapped Sting's hand away from his shoulder in an annoyed manner, then turned and walked away.
"No way! Get away from me, Mira!"
He's not stupid. If he really ran off with Sting, he'd definitely be sleeping on the hotel floor tonight, not even able to touch the edge of the bed!
Lucy and the others all had expressions of watching a show.
The girls at the front slowed down, laughing hysterically, their eyes full of schadenfreude.
You've finally met your match, haven't you?
He usually spends his days showing off his love and sabotaging his teammates in the guild; now we're finally seeing him suffer the consequences.
Riyao caught up with him in three quick steps.
He took Mirajane's hand from Lisanna, fawning like a golden retriever, pressing his body close to hers, his head practically rubbing against Mirajane's shoulder.
"Mira, I was wrong."
"Snort."
Mirajane turned her head away to look at the magical streetlights beside the street, avoiding Riyao's gaze, as if afraid that Riyao would see the corners of her mouth turned up.
Actually, the little bit of gloom she had been feeling had long since disappeared, but it was still quite fun to be coaxed like that by him sometimes.
Consider it compensation for not getting to play the hijacking game.
Seeing that Mirajane was still willing to hold his hand, Riyao knew that the problem wasn't serious, so he continued to coax his wife in a soft voice.
As he gently massaged her soft fingers, he softly promised to buy her all sorts of delicious desserts later, his fawning manner making the people behind him shake their heads.
Lucy and the others followed behind the two.
The chaos in the square had been cleared away by the Magic Council members, and as darkness fell completely, the warm yellow magic streetlights along the streets lit up one after another.
Levy Lucy's sleeve and peered into the eyes of the two people whose heads were glued together.
Is it really appropriate for us to just follow along like this?
Lucy shook the heavy shopping bag in her hand, her eyes narrowing into crescent moons.
"It's getting dark, it's time for us to have dinner. Wouldn't it be better to just go with them and have a nice meal?"
Cana smacked her lips and shook the wine jug, the wine inside making a hollow, rattling sound.
"Lucy is right, we have to treat the big spenders well, otherwise it's disrespectful to them."
Wendy and Carla nodded in agreement; their savings were almost gone, and they needed to cling to Riyao's coattails.
Little Wendy touched her flat little wallet, and Carla flicked her tail, indicating that eating the rich was a fine tradition of Fairy Tail.
Lisanna touched her chin.
"What should we eat later? We saw a few nice restaurants on the way, which one should we choose?"
The group fell into thought, recalling the restaurants they had visited while shopping that day.
Restaurants flashed through their minds: clean, crowded, expensive, and fragrant...
Should we go for the signature lava-grilled meats of Gazania, or that extremely luxurious upscale seafood restaurant?
Cana poured the last two drops of wine from the flask into her mouth, then waved her hand and made a bold, sweeping gesture.
"Who cares? We'll just go for the most expensive one. We'll only eat the expensive stuff, not necessarily the right stuff."
Lucy and the others' eyes lit up, as if they had been enlightened.
"That's absolutely right!"
The group clapped and cheered excitedly, as if they could already see a feast of delicacies.
Riyao, who was walking in front, had a throbbing vein on his forehead. Riyao turned around and glanced at the group of unlucky kids.
Could the crickets behind you please be a little quieter? Are you trying to make sure the person in question doesn't know?
Believe it or not, I'll pick up Mira and run! I'll make sure you all starve.
Mirajane couldn't help but laugh when he saw Riyao's expression.
Those deep blue eyes curved into crescent moons, and her silvery-white bangs swayed gently with her laughter. Her clear laughter echoed in the night like wind chimes.
Riyao instantly forgot about those unfortunate children and happily hugged Mirajane.
He reached out and wrapped his arm around Mirajane's slender waist, pulling her closer to him, his gloom vanishing instantly.
My Mira has such a beautiful smile.
Mirajane rolled her eyes at him and stopped teasing him, leaning closer to him.
She leaned most of her weight softly against Riyao, tilted her head to whisper in his ear, and spoke gently.
"We're going to eat; we just saw a really interesting restaurant on the way."
"Okay."