Rising of the Running God

And Then, Seven

"They… target first-timers?"

"Yeah, fucking pricks. You'd think being the children of a wealthy merchant, they would— Unh! Be… be gentle!"

"...How do you know so much about them?"

"Pff. They targeted me 5 years ago. But I quickly noticed something was wrong with that Mattheus kid. I mean, how did you not? His smile was as creepy as a Gobbin."

"I… haven't had the pleasure of meeting that many people."

"...You some sort of loonie– Hnn! I… I told you to be gentle!"

"I–I apologize, this… this is my first time doing it with another person, lady Nisha."

"...Huh? Then you should have said something!"

"..."

Vayne could really only remove his hands from the thief's leg as she carefully pulled it away. The two weren't doing… something obscene as someone hearing them from the outside might have expected, no.

Vayne was trying to wrap the thief's ankle; he sat on the floor while the thief was on the bed; he had always done it to himself when