"Special wish…" Rania muttered after she saw Arthur jumping past the wall.
"Hey," Sophia called out from the side, approaching her with a haughty expression. "At first, I just wanted to beat you, but… After hearing Sir Arthur's reward, my desire to win has increased."
"What a coincidence." Rania grinned as she turned to look at the redhead, "I also want to win. This time, I want him to treat me harsher and whip me, which he never did before. So don't think that this will be easy."
"Oh, I never thought it was easy. I respect you and your strength. That's why I want to beat you. But… whip, huh? I was always given a rough treatment, but not that rough. If your wish is to get whipped, then I shall also ask him that."
No one questioned what they were talking about. It was common knowledge that the Paladin liked them both, and they had a sexual relationship with him.
So, the female knights only whispered to each other about the reward of winning instead of caring that both competitors wanted to be whipped as a reward.
The Masochist Group looked interested, but they knew that they couldn't ask that to the Paladin. It was also too much for them. Getting groped and spanked was enough to satisfy their innocent selves.
Ten seconds quickly passed, and both Rania and Sophia returned to their group.
"Let's win this and get the reward! Don't worry. I can request Arthur to increase the reward to both touching and spanking if we win!"
"Vice-Captain Rania, you're the best!"
"We will win!"
A motivated shout came one after another from the Masochist Group. They began to move, following Rania, taking the side entrance. They strategized while moving, listening quietly as Rania explained their plan in this small competition.
Meanwhile, Sophia didn't move and stood still in front of her group.
"Listen. Sir Arthur is fast and strong. He will probably play around with us, but we will use that as an advantage! We won't do anything dirty because we are knights, but there is nothing dirty about ambushing our prey. Follow my lead, and let's trap Sir Arthur and get him!"
"Yes!"
"Let's win and get blessed by His Holiness!"
"Ahh! I want to smell that liquid again! I want to touch it!"
Unknown to Arthur, this Cleaner Group had developed a strange fetish called smell fetish. Sophia nodded, satisfied with the female knights' enthusiasm.
"Let's move! I will allow you to watch me getting whipped if we win!"
"Long live Dame Sophia!"
"We will follow you!"
***
"They are really energetic," I muttered as I looked in the direction of the church. "Now, I shouldn't heighten my senses, or that would be unfair to them. I don't think they can catch me, but maybe they can surprise me? Who knows?"
For now, I moved in the direction of the Castitas Academy. My plan was actually simple: to leave as much commotion as possible and act similarly to a foolish, wanted criminal.
If I acted normally, I was confident that they wouldn't be able to find me, less capturing me. I also deactivated my <Presence Detection> since I jumped over the wall earlier.
As I said earlier, I limited myself to the max. If my enemy, whoever it was, wanted to kill me. Then, it was their best chance to try. Not that I would ever die in one attack, thanks to my VIT and a ridiculous amount of HP.
Anyway, as I got closer to Castitas Academy, which looked like a church school back on Earth, I was surprised that I saw someone walking along with some students wearing Castitas Academy's uniform that looked similar to the Castitas Church's nun uniform covered skin and long skirt.
It was Tris.
"Yo, Tris!"
I landed on the roof and called out to her. She looked surprised as she turned at me, and the girls beside her looked hysterical.
"So you began attending the Academy, too? Why didn't you tell me?" I asked curiously.
"Hah?!" She raised her voice, her expression turned into a rather scary one. "You asked that? Didn't you see what happened just because you are here?" She glanced at the yard.
Many students, dressed like priests and nuns, ran toward my location with a big smile. They were like a horde of fans seeing their favorite idol.
"Ah… right." I laughed dryly as I turned back to Tris. "Well, I can see what happened. I won't bother you anymore … enjoy your school life!"
I jumped to another roof, quickly left the area, and hid between the buildings. Tris was shouting at me, trying to scold me because I just made a big commotion before leaving.
My bad. But I was chased after by Rania, so I couldn't stop. In fact, I could see my masochistic sister's figure running at full speed in the distance toward the Castitas Academy.
'Hahaha, just as planned.'
The game would be for an hour. I took out a pocket watch and set an alarm in 59 minutes. Once this watch rang, the game would end.
But… I only saw Rania and the Masochist Group earlier.
'Where is Sophia?'
I looked around as I stopped at a roof near the market. At that moment, a voice rang from below.
"Now!"
Bam!
The roof got destroyed, and five female knights jumped. They surrounded me as I fell toward Sophia, who was on the top floor of the building I was on.
'They set a trap?' I evaluated calmly as I thought about how to escape.
"Surrender, Sir Arthur. We have already surrounded this building." Sophia warned as I landed on the top floor.
The previous five female knights stood on the roof, surrounding the hole that Sophia had made.
Inside the room, the remaining knights, around 25 people, enclosed me in the middle, with Sophia standing right before me.
"I said catch me with everything you can, but… I never thought you would destroy a building for that." I said, smiling calmly as if I wasn't in a bad position.
"Don't worry, Sir Arthur. We will pile up money to fix the building. Our priority now is to catch you." The lioness answered with a feral smile, "So before any building and our savings get depleted, please surrender yourself."
"That's what I want to…" I shrugged my shoulders, much to her confusion. Then I pointed upward, "But I don't think she will let you take me calmly."
Bam!
At that moment, a shadow of a person landed on the building. With a swift movement, the five female knights on the roof were quickly defeated.
"Arthur, surrender yourself!" Rania's voice echoed in the room as she peered from the hole in the roof. Her subordinates soon appeared, surrounding her, and began to drop down the cramped room one by one.
I was totally surrounded this time.
"What are you doing?! I have already surrounded him, and you beat my subordinates!" Sophia shouted loudly, gritting her teeth in anger.
"Oh? But there is no rule that we can't stop each other." Rania narrowed her eyes. She was expressionless, like an experienced veteran. "The winner is the group who managed to catch Arthur. But how we catch it is up to us."
"If that's how you want to play." The lioness brandished her greatsword, activating its flaming effect by injecting her MP. "I will play with your rule!"
"Fine by me." Rania also unsheathed her sword, it was humming as she activated the effect of status strengthening. "Let's see who can catch Arthur first."
Both of them looked ready to clash. They had forgotten about me.
'Well…'
That was their biggest mistake. If they, the highest-leveled people, left their gazes on me, it became so easy to escape.
In fact, I was already outside, watching them from the edge of the roof.
"You can do it, Rania!"
I even cheered at her while snacking on a grilled squid.
At that moment, the tense atmosphere suddenly dissipated. Rania's sword stopped humming, and she slowly looked in my direction.
"Hi." I waved my hand at her stupefied gaze. "You want a grilled squid? It's delicious."
No answer came from her. Instead, she immediately activated various buff skills and rushed toward me.
Swosh!
A sword passed by in front of me. That was close. If I were late for a second, it would definitely hit me.
"Hahaha, you should look at your surroundings." I laughed as I kept dodging her attacks. We moved around the roof, becoming the focus of the confused crowd formed from earlier noise.
Sophia joined in the pursuit just a second later, joining with Rania to attack me. Their fury of attacks somehow was combined nicely, leaving close to no gap to escape.
'They have good cooperation.' I thought as my lips curled upward.
"Sorry, but… I can't let you catch me right now."
After dodging a few times, I thought it was enough and twisted my body and pushed Rania down.
"Ah!"
"Wah!" A surprised voice escaped their lips as their balance broke. Both of them fell to the street, creating a loud thud, as I began to run away again.
"Goodbye! Try your best to catch me!"
And once again, I left them screaming in frustration.
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