[WDIDWAMGB] Chapter 130: Encounter

Night falls.

Unlike Osaka, the streets of Nagaba were unusually quiet after dark, especially in the far north of the city center. There were few pedestrians on the narrow streets, and the elderly had already gone home, while most young people were still working in their offices, striving for overtime pay.

The deserted streets, flickering streetlights, and the eerie feeling derived from Japanese urban legends create a unique sense of strangeness in this peaceful environment.

Between the dim and crowded Japanese houses, hurried footsteps could be heard. The footsteps were made by several masked people dressed in strange and colorful outfits, bizarre hair colors, and masks that covered their faces. They carried machetes and clubs; emitting muffled and strange laughter through the black cloth of their masks, darting quickly through the narrow gaps between the houses.

It was only when they had run far away that a young girl hiding in an alleyway dared to peek out.

She was a very beautiful girl with long, lustrous black hair, fair skin, and a slim figure. She wore a blood-stained high school girl's uniform and black knee-high socks. Her delicate and beautiful features were rare, but at the moment, her gentle temperament had been destroyed, not only because of the blood on her face but also because of her eyes.

Her black eyes seemed to be filled with sword aura like in Xianxia novels, extremely sharp. Even just making eye contact with her made one feel as though they were being pierced.

At this moment, the girl was holding a blood-stained fruit knife, her defensive weapon found in a moment of desperation.

After making sure that those guys had run away, the girl dared to leave the alley and run in the opposite direction. While running, she reached into her pocket but found it empty.

"Darn it, did I lose my phone somewhere?" The girl frowned and whispered to herself, "If I can't contact my father, I can only leave by taxi."

Although she spoke these words, the girl was still worried because of the pursuit. Running frantically and off-course, she had already deviated from the route she normally took home from school. Moreover, it was unlikely that she would be able to hail a taxi because there were few people around.

As the girl walked and thought with a furrowed brow, suddenly, there was a loud shout behind her, "There she is!"

The girl was startled and quickly turned around, only to see that the people who were chasing her had become doubled in number.

The leader of the masked men wore a biker gang-style outfit and had green hair; he had several blood-stained wounds on his body, seemingly injured, but he seemed completely indifferent.

He pointed at the girl and shouted, "Catch her!"

Immediately, a large group of masked men rushed towards the girl, carrying all kinds of weapons and roaring.

Why can these guys still run so fast after being stabbed by me so many times?

The thought flashed through her mind, but the girl had no time to think. Without looking back, she ran as fast as she could.

As she heard the sound of pursuit behind her, the girl couldn't help but mutter to herself, gritting her teeth in frustration, "Darn it, if only I had a real sword..."

In reality, this was just self-consolation.

The girl knew very well that even if she had a real sword, she wouldn't be able to fend off so many pursuers at once. But she felt that instead of being chased and ultimately caught and killed due to exhaustion, it would be better to fight a good fight from the very beginning and die like a warrior.

With a sense of humiliation, the girl rushed out of the narrow residential area and ran wildly on the street. The pursuers behind her were relentless, chasing after her. Under the flickering streetlights, the girl ran desperately.

As she saw the distance between her and the pursuers gradually closing in, to the point where the pursuer carrying the machete could easily strike her, the girl considered whether or not to fight to the death with her fruit knife. Suddenly, someone appeared from the corner of the crossroads ahead of her, and the girl collided with the person, losing her balance and falling to the ground.

Not good! Innocent bystanders are going to be involved!

The pursuers had caught up from behind, and the leader of the gang laughed wildly as he raised his machete and swung it down towards the girl and the bystander she collided with.

"Die!"

"Be careful!" In desperation, the girl shouted desperately at the bystander who seemed completely unaware of the situation.

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At this moment, Li Yexing was a little confused.

Taking advantage of the night, he planned to go out alone and experience the peaceful night of a small Japanese town. But just as he was about to cross the intersection, a girl suddenly rushed out and collided heavily with him.

He didn't mind, but the girl fell to the ground.

If it were Roples, he would slap her in the face, then grab her collar and curse her out. But this wasn't Roples, it was Japan, a civilized country with proper laws and orders. As he thought about whether he should say "I'm sorry" in Japanese like a civilized person and help the girl up, she suddenly shouted something in Japanese.

Li Yexing understood what she said, "Be careful..."

Immediately, a cold flash passed over his head.

Almost reflexively, before he could even see who it was, he took a step forward and quickly reached out to block the person's arm holding the machete. At the same time, he kneed the person's arm that he was holding, hard, onto his own knee.

With a painful scream and the sound of bones breaking, the person's machete fell to the ground. The joint of his arm bent in a strange direction. Without hesitation, he immediately kicked the person in the stomach, sending him flying out and crashing into the others behind him like bowling pins.

The girl sitting on the ground was stunned.

At this moment, relying on his instinctive body movements, he realized what he had just encountered.

Looking up at the group of masked people struggling to get up from the ground, he suddenly remembered what Rita had said. Recently, the local gangs seemed to be causing a lot of trouble.

As the masked people climbed up one after another, they looked at him with suspicion and spoke Japanese that he couldn't understand. It seemed like they were ready to charge at any moment.

Looking at the machetes and clubs in their hands, and comparing them to the Italian's heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, and grenade launchers in Roples, he smiled and sighed.

Li Yexing then took a stance and said with a smile, "You guys seem a bit slow, but it doesn't matter. Let's just consider it as experiencing the local gang culture."

Seeing him take a stance with a confident smile on his face, the girl sitting on the ground was a little surprised. On the other side, the enraged gang members seemed unable to accept his provocation. They roared angrily with a Kansai accent, and just as they were about to charge forward, the leader of the gang suddenly screamed in agony, clutching his broken arm, and his body could not help but stagger.

As the leader suddenly had an unexpected change, the henchmen around him instantly panicked. They were speaking words that he couldn't understand, scrambling to help the man with the broken arm and then hurriedly darted into a nearby alleyway. The person at the back even turned around and shouted at him, possibly trying to sound tough.

In no time, the street fell silent.

Li Yexing was stunned.

Was that it? All bark and no bite? Is that all the Japanese gangs were capable of? He had thought they were sheep in a pen, but they looked more like hamsters in a cage.

Feeling a bit disappointed that he couldn't have an exciting cultural exchange with the local gangs, he was about to leave.

Just then, the girl who had been sitting on the ground suddenly stood up and shouted at him, "Wait!"

He understood what she said, so he turned around and looked at the girl.

She was a beautiful girl, with a slender figure that looked nothing like those small radish legs. However, she seemed to have some sort of prejudice against him, and her gaze was piercing.

When he didn't say anything, the girl hesitated for a moment, then bowed deeply and said "Arigatou" in Japanese. Immediately after that, she stood up and spoke a long string of Japanese, but he didn't understand any of it.

After a while, the girl finished speaking and looked quietly at him, as if waiting for something.

Li Yexing thought for a moment and asked in English, "Do you speak English?"

The girl was taken aback.