"Shut up!"
Hearing the words of the ronin samurai around him, especially their increasingly excessive tone, the Kairagi directly ordered them to be quiet.
Indeed, the two young women before him looked like daughters of noble families—aristocratic ladies, without a doubt. Their beautiful faces stirred desires he could barely restrain.
But precisely because he understood that these girls were noble ladies, he did not act rashly at once. Commoner women were one thing, but nobles...
Having once been a renowned figure himself, he knew all too well that nobles were not to be trifled with.
Rita beside Kamisato Ayaka, however, was clearly a foreigner. There was no need to care about a foreign noblewoman. Given Inazuma's official hostility toward foreigners, it would not matter what they did to her.
The only one worth worrying about was Kamisato Ayaka!
But after carefully observing the area, he found no guards nearby. What kind of noble lady traveled alone? If that was the case... then this could work.
Rather than attack directly, he rose to his feet and looked at them with a smile.
"We are more than happy to let the two ladies shelter from the rain, but as you can see, we found this house first. And it is so small, while there are so many of us..."
"If you want to shelter here, you can! But you must first hand over all the money on you as payment for staying out of the rain. Of course, if you did not bring any money, that is fine too. You only need to... keep us company for a while..."
As a Kairagi, ever since he had abandoned the righteous path and turned to wickedness, he no longer cared about morality. This was the middle of nowhere. Even if they were noble ladies...