Crack

Rentaro's mind went hazy, and the space around him began to rapidly rewind, returning to before any of it had happened.

At that moment, he saw the girl the store clerks had been chasing.

The girl stood outside a convenience store. Through the glass doors and windows, her dirty little face gazed hungrily at the rows of goods inside.

But she merely watched from outside the glass; she had not gone in to steal anything, as the clerk had claimed.

Instead, a lecherous, obese man approached her and flashed her a smile.

"Little girl, are you hungry?"

The little girl instinctively took a step back. When the man saw her reaction, a flash of gloom passed over his face.

Then, as though he had thought of something, he took several containers of food resembling eight-treasure porridge from the store and handed them to her.

"Here, take these and eat." Without caring about the girl's refusal, he pushed them toward her chest.

The girl had not yet understood what the man was trying to do, but she truly was hungry, so she instinctively accepted them into her arms.

Yet the instant she took them, the man's eyes changed.

"Since you accepted my food, you have to be my pet!"

With that, the fat man spread his arms and lunged to embrace the girl, his face twisted with perversion.

How could the little girl have ever faced something like this? She reacted on instinct, kicking him squarely between the legs.

The man's face turned deathly pale. Clutching his crotch, he howled in pain as everyone in the store turned confused looks toward them.

Enduring the pain, the man glared resentfully at the little girl and shouted at everyone.

"This little monster is stealing! Don't let her get away!"

The store clerks did