"Well then, I'm going in! You'll probably never be able to visit a brothel again, but that's fine, right?"
As I said that, I lunged into the leader's guard with a single leap and smashed the hilt of the Twin Star Sword into his crotch, bursting it apart.
Before the leader could roll his eyes back and crumple to the ground, I had already smashed the next member's crotch too.
I could practically hear something popping with a snap, and the male adventurers in the gallery unconsciously hunched forward, pressing their hands over their crotches to shield them.
The Golden Ball members had collapsed from the sheer agony, bleeding from their crotches — but one of them was still conscious, glaring at me.
"You... damn... little..."
This one was the team's healer. Despite his deathly pale face, he was trying to cast a healing spell on himself, but — as expected when you're in that much pain — he could barely get the incantation out.
Looking more closely, he had the skill [Pain Relief].
That was apparently how he'd managed to stay conscious.
Poor guy.
That's exactly why he's about to suffer even more.
I slowly approached him and said,
"Dark Magic — Pain Amplification!!"
"What the— guh, GUAAAAGH!!"
A black mist enveloped him, and an instant later he was screaming, foaming at the mouth, and passing out.
Pain Amplification was a spell that doubled whatever pain you'd just received and inflicted it on you a second time.
It would fizzle out if the target's magic resistance was high enough, but with my considerable mana pool, it worked on just about anyone.
And then, I used my Snatch skill to take [Pain Relief] from the unconscious healer.
Come to think of it, I don't have any resistance-type skills.
All right, let me [Reverse] my status ailment resistances.
And... acquired [Complete Status Ailment Immunity].
Now I don't have to worry about being poisoned to death.
"Lady Alisa... isn't this going too far...?"
Enrique asked with a pale face, even though he wasn't the one who'd been affected.
"I didn't kill anyone. He's dead as a man, though. Golden Ball is going to need a new name."
Something like No Ball, maybe.
Enrique's face twisted even further.
"Besides, they brought it on themselves. These guys look like repeat offenders when it comes to assaulting women. Make sure you look into it properly, okay?"
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The guild's healing team approached Golden Ball and began casting recovery magic.
"We can only treat the external wounds... There's no way to restore the shaft and the stones. The only option would be to have the church cast 'Regeneration Magic,' but..."
Ugh.
"...asking the church to do that would cost an absurd amount. This guy's permanently disabled."
The adventurers who had witnessed the scene were stunned as they watched the sub-master and the girl in white robes return to the guild.
"That girl didn't even draw her sword. I can't see the bottom of her strength at all."
"Leader, something's off about her. The skills from Appraisal don't match her actual power at all."
The ones saying this were from an all-female adventurer party called "Dance of the White Rose."
Every member held a high Mithril rank, and it was said it was only a matter of time before they reached Orichalcum.
When the member serving as scout used her [Appraisal] skill, Alisa was shown to have [Swordsman], [Thief], [Shielder], and [Healer].
Individually, the skills weren't bad, but she couldn't imagine someone with only these being able to single-handedly subjugate a Ruby Dragon.
Having both front-line and back-line skills on one person was inefficient.
She was nothing but a jack-of-all-trades.
Just to be sure, let me take another look — the instant she turned her gaze toward Alisa, she was struck by a murderous chill and dropped to her knees.
*'Don't appraise me without permission…'*
No words were spoken, but the moment their eyes met, she felt as though she'd been told exactly that.
She had even dealt with basilisks and medusas — creatures said to kill with their gaze — yet she couldn't stop trembling.
"Liza, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing, I just…"
Anything she said would be nothing more than an excuse to that monster called Alisa, and if she blurted out a poor one, she would undoubtedly be killed.
"It's nothing, it's nothing, I'm sorry…"
The scout Liza was unable to carry on for some time after that.
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Adding Episode 0.3 to the limited status notes.
It won't affect the main story.
Skills: [Reverse], [Divine Eye], [Sword God], [Gentleman Thief], [Dark Magic], [Rock-Iron Magic], [Holy Magic], [Space-Time Magic], [Blazing Magic], [Freezing Ice Magic], [Magic Hand], [Seduction], [Pain Relief], [Complete Status Ailment Resistance]
Rank: Silver (Alisa: Gold)
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