While she was able to block that kind of attack through crossing his arms in front of her face, she was still wrapped by the second-in-command of the enemy group's rope that made herself immobilise.
"Finally, I caught her!" the second-in-command happily exclaimed.
"Do you think you can trap me with this kind of rope?" Lucelle spoke out.
She only need a magic power to allow the rope to loosen a little bit. After removing the rope, she used it cleverly to tie me the second-in-command and his third brother together. Then, she was the one to advance to the boss of the group who was now decided to throw away the knife and instead, would use his own fists against her.
Lucelle's hands were infused with magic power, thus she wasn't afraid of facing him head-on. Whereas, the boss was also confident in his strength and so, he tried to launch a punch to Lucelle's head. But Lucelle, as soon as she read its trajectory, slightly move her head away enough to avoid the enemy's punch.
Then, she countered attack. But instead of a punch, she threw away a heavy slap successfully on the enemy's cheeks, right and left, again and again.
His cheeks became ruddy and had scratches due to Lucelle's successive slaps, making him fell on his knees unknowingly.
"P-please stooopppp...!" He begged.
Lucelle finally stopped slapping him and let out a relief sigh, "Done!"
"Y-you bitch...! What have you done to our boss?!
"Untie us or else..."
Then, Lucelle took a gaze to the two tied men, "Or else... what?"
The two tied men looked at each other and said, "...we will kill you?"
Lucelle, with a devil-like smile, spoke out, "Really?" then she gazed at her unscathed right hand, "You are worried to your boss, right? Then I shall let you taste what your boss had been tasting."
Just like their boss, she slapped them hardly and heavily, again and again to the point of their face being bloated that even their own mother couldn't recognize them anymore.
"It was miserable," one of the audiences whispered while watching few meter away.
"What a frightening woman they had fought with." the other one added.
"She's not a human anymore, but a monster." someone a mumbled.
"Close that damned mouth of your. If she will hear that, you will become like them." warned by another audience.
"Y-you're right, brother," that someone said as he covered his mouth with his two hands.
Lucelle, on the other hand, sat down on the empty chair, reflecting the things she had done.
"Why did I create such a ruckus? Damn! My emotions went blank after they provoked me about my parents. If words spread out, I'm completely doomed. The only thing I can guarantee is, no one saw my face aside from my fighting with them. Hmmm... what I need to do is to leave this vilage as soon as possible and after seeing village chief. But first and foremost, how should I deal with these bastards?" she muttered.
One was lying unconscious, another one was stucked with a leg bone into a wall, the other two were tied down while having a bloated face and the last, their boss was kneeling with a swollen face. These scenes was unexpected and unbelievable even for the one who did it to them, Lucelle.
Maybe she learnt not to be soft-hearted anymore due to the sudden change of events of her own life. She had the needs to be brutal for  disrespectfing her parents. She wanted to be strong, but these bastards were not even enough for some warm-ups.
"Y-yoww... Yowwwhh caaahhhn't khwillll ussssshhh ooowwwrrrr eellssse, youwwhh weeiiill reeehhhgreeeet iiihhtttt," the boss suddenly uttered.
"What did you say?" Lucelle asked when she didn't understand.
"C-cough! My boss said, 'You can't kill us or else you will regret it.'" the fourth brother spoke out as he was the only one who didn't get swollen aside the youngest.
Lucelle gazed at the fourth brother, "You are a good translator, huh?"  then looked again at the boss, "Do you still have the guts to threaten me with your current state," Lucelle spoke out, "Or don't tell me... you have someone that can avenge you?"
"Yeeeshhh. Hhweee ishhhh ouuuuurrr shuupperrioooorrrrr." the boss stated.
"'Yes. He is our superior.' That's what my boss meant to say." the fourth brother translated.
"Where is he?"
The boss shook his head.
"Oh? You didn't know? Then this is my chance to kill you right now." she threathened them.
"Dooowwnnn'tttt, wwhheeee wiiillll dooowwwhh anyyyyythinggggg youuuwwhh wahhhnntttt."
"He said, 'Don't, we will do anything you want."
Lucelle smiled under the hood, "You don't have to do anything. Just give me your money."
"Yeeee---" but the boss was interupted by his fourth brother.
"Shut up, boss. I will be done to speak with her," then he faced Lucelle, "We will give you all of our money, but let the youngest collect as we couldn't able to. And you must spare our lives."
"Alright."
Then she flicked off the youngest's forehead and out of nowhere, he woke up, "W-where am I? Am I already in hell, no, I mean, heaven?"
Lucelle glared at him, "Yeah. I will surely send you to hell if you won't give me your money and your brothers' too."
The youngest asked confusely, " Aren't you rich? Why do you need our money?"
"Why are you asking so many questions? Shall I whack you again?"
"Ah! Yes, yes. I will give you our money. But will you help me collect them?" the youngest innocently uttered.
"This bastard... really..." Lucelle tried to control herself, "Go now or else, I will whack you unconscious eternally."
"Don't. I will really collect the money now by myself." then quickly went to his brothers' pocket.
Lucelle sighed.
After collecting money, the youngest rushed toward her, "Miss, this is all the money I collected."
Lucelle counted the money, "1... 2... 3.. 4... 5... Only 5 silvers? Why are you so poor? Hmmm... Did you give everything or you are hiding some coins?"
The youngest nodded twice.
"Then what's with that two silvers in your ears? Is that a silver coin or not?"
The youngest shook his head, "T-this is just a coin I made, so it is fake."
"Then let's see whether your ears will bleed after cutting them with the knife you used on me earlier," Lucelle picked the knife on the floor and was about to walk toward him.
"No, no. It is silver coins, Miss. You got it right. But I got it wrong since I have blurry eyes," said by the youngest and quickly took the silver coins from his ears.
"Then that's good," Lucelle simply uttered.
"Then can we go now?" they begged.
"You can go, but promise me that you will never come back to this inn anymore."
All of the nodded and rushed out of the inn in a mere seconds.
Lucelle looked at the woman who was still hiding in the corner of the inn, "Owner?"
Then the owner came out from her hiding, "Y-yes, Miss?" she was still shocked and couldn't believe that the woman who had a nightmare earlier was this strong, enough to beat five men.
"This 7 silvers is yours, Owner," then she gave it to her.
But the owner refused, "I didn't do anything so I'm not worthy to receive them. Instead, I'm thankful that you defeated them as they are always causing trouble in my inn."
Lucelle shook her head, "Keep this silver coins as a compensation for the ruckus I made. Hmmm... I don't have any appetite to continue eating anymore, so... shall we go to the village chief?"
_TRAVANGEL_