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Thomas cuts the snake with the knife. Sadly, the snake has already bitten the girl’s left leg, right on the inner thigh, about 15 cm above her knee.

The girl looks so in pain while holding her left thigh. Thomas rushes to her by crawling, intending to check on her condition. However, he accidentally sees the cute, white panties under the girl’s skirt.

The blush is slowly surfacing in his face. His glance moves to the girl’s beautiful face, and they both turn silent as their gazes are locked on each other.

But then…

Plak!

The girl slaps him hard. “What are you doing, you pervert?”

Thomas looks stupid, holding his red cheek.

“No! I…”

He shakes his head, trying to erase all the dirty thoughts in his mind. He goes back to his honest intention to help the girl, to check on her inner thigh.

“I need to see your…”

But the girl doesn’t even give him any chance.

“Noo!”

She retaliates, kicking Thomas’s nuts with her right foot.

Dsh!

“Urgh! Fuuuck!

Thomas squirms. He keeps hitting the ground while enduring the excruciating pain.

“Why?” he cries.

The girl gets back by pushing her hips on the ground. “Don’t even think about it! I’m not a weak girl as you might think of!”

“What do you think I’m going to…”

“I know you are trying to rape me!”

“Rape? No, I…”

“Shut up! You pervert! Just by looking at your face, I know how horny you are!”

“Please, listen to me,” Thomas croaks, looking so pitiful with voice stifled deep inside. “I’m not horny! I thought you might be a ghost. I just wasn’t prepared to find such a, freshly, rosy face like yours! It surprised me, that’s all.”

Somehow, it’s the girl’s face turning red now. Her cheeks are slowly blushing because of Thomas’ blunt confession which sounds like an indirect acknowledgment of her beauty.

“But daamn!” Thomas is still squirming on the ground while holding his crotch. “You are much worse than a demon.”

The girl’s brows are slightly twitching. She looks offended, but she tries to hide it by giving a cold response.

“You better stay away from me!”

She drags her hips on the ground, getting away from Thomas while covering her skirt.

“You stupid! You’ve been bitten by a snake. Don’t you realize that?”

The girl’s face turns pale, and then her eyes are glancing a bit at the dead snake. She does feel the pain, and now she is growing awry with her safety.

“Uh, what kind of snake is it?” she asks.

“It’s…” Thomas takes a look at the dead snake for a moment.

There his face turns so serious that he no longer shows any pain in him anymore. But it is this odd change that now makes the girl so scared.

“What’s with that reaction?” she cries.

“Oh, God! It’s Torciepelo,” Thomas mumbles.

“Torci what? Is it deadly?” asks the girl with a pale face, before she begins to be hectic. “No, please! I don’t want to die! I haven’t married yet! I’m still too young!”

“Hey, hey! You better calm down! If possible, don’t move your leg even a bit!”

Thomas turns his attention back to the girl’s left thigh, intending to make sure of her condition.

“Nooo, you pervert!” The girl shyly covers her skirt, and squints. “You?! I know you just want to see my underwear, don’t you?”

Thomas grimaces, finding it hard to understand the girl. At a time, she looks so naïve and pitiful, like a hopeless countryside girl that would be so easy to fool. And then, she suddenly turns so judgmental with her blatant prejudices, just like most city girls.

“I don’t know if you are really smart or stupid,” he whines.

The girl snaps. “What was that?”

“Look! I just want to make sure if the snake really bit you or not. If you are not going to let me check it, why don’t you do it yourselves?” Thomas suggests.

The girl then touches the wound on her inner thigh on the left leg, and feels the bite wound. She pulls her hand back quickly, and sees a little blood on the tips of her finger.

“Um, should I…” She looks unsure, but realizes she really has no option. “Should I let you… Hey, look! I appreciate your kindness if you want to suck the venom out of the bite wound. But you have to close your eyes.”

Thomas looks baffled, and then chuckles with a silly face. “Stupid! Sucking the blood from that bite wound won’t help you.”

“What?”

“I bet the poison has already been mixed in your bloodstream.”

The girl is petrified. Soon, she begins to feel the chill and sweating, also a tingling sensation and numbness on the bite wound.

The sensation is only getting worse, making her even more convinced that Thomas wasn’t joking around with his words.

“Then, what should I do now?” she asks.

Thomas gets away from her, still crawling. “Just don’t move! The poison will spread faster in your blood if you move that leg.”

“And then what?” she inquires.

She believes just being idle won’t be enough to save her from the poison. But Thomas ignores her.

“What am I supposed to do now? Answer me!”

Now looking so pathetic and helpless, she starts regretting her bad treatment on Thomas, thinking that she must have hurt his feelings.

“Hey! Sorry if I offended you. But please, don’t leave me alone here!”

Thomas is not actually abandoning her. He moves to behind the gravestone only trying to hide something from the girl, and then mutters one command.

“Inventory! Box No. 5!”

[!]

[Would you like to take out the ‘Ether’ liquid from the Box No. 5?]

“Yes!”

A blue light appears, drawing the girl’s curiosity. She likes to see what’s going on, but she is too scared to move.

“Excuse me! Are you still there?”

On the other hand, Thomas is currently holding a small vial containing some clear yellow liquid. Apparently, he doesn’t look too happy.

“There it goes another 55 Gold Coins. I hope she is not some rich city girl who is going to humiliate me after this one.”

Not long ago he had a bitter experience after sacrificing himself to save a girl from the Gregory family. Now his humanity is being tested again by a girl he doesn’t even know.

He doesn’t expect the girl to return the favor after this. He just can’t ignore his conscience for leaving her.

Soon, the girl is aghast to find Thomas coming out from behind the gravestone. Thomas crawls back to the girl and gives her the vial.

“What’s this?”

“Don’t ask! Just drink that liquid, and you will be fine!”

But the girl squints suspiciously at him, and…

Crassh!

For whatever stupid thought crosses her mind, she throws the vial to the gravestone.