"Damn it!"
The short man in formalwear twisted his face and cursed when he saw that the little brat not only ignored his charge, but leisurely stepped forward, blocked his path, and snatched the boy's luggage away.
The short man immediately pulled a small dagger from his clothes, its blade flashing brightly.
"Watch out! It's dangerous!"
The boy chasing the short man cried out in alarm.
The tourists who witnessed the scene inside the airport also screamed one after another, triggering widespread panic.
The pickpocket charged straight at Luo Zhen, swinging the dagger down without hesitation.
"Whoosh!"
The sharp blade cutting through the air rang out clearly.
However...
"You're awfully slow."
Luo Zhen, who had been facing the pickpocket, had somehow turned sideways and leisurely dodged the slash coming straight at him.
Although he was a perfectly standard Magus whose physical skills were hardly any different from an ordinary person's without magical or curse-based enhancement, Luo Zhen possessed the power of Mind's Eye. An ordinary person's casual attack like this was no different from a child's game to him.
Even without the cheating ability known as Mind's Eye, Luo Zhen's reflexes, willpower, and awareness were all capable of keeping up with battles between Servants. He had once relied on those abilities to dominate a corner of a game world like SAO. Seeing through and dodging an ordinary person's attack was no difficult feat at all; it only looked somewhat hurried because his body could not keep up.
Now that he possessed Mind's Eye, allowing him to see through the trajectory of attacks, could an ordinary pickpocket's strike possibly catch his eye?
As Luo Zhen sidestepped the dagger slashing down at his head, he inconspicuously stuck out one foot.
Before the pickpocket could even react, he tripped over Luo Zhen's foot