"Peaceful route?" Mrs Keller immediately asked me, seeing that I had a way out of this debacle. "Does that mean that you have a way of solving this whole mess without Nina going wild on them and building a bigger case for herself?"
"Of course I do...." I confidently said, which made Mrs Keller look at me with hopeful eyes, while Nina stopped moving around and looked at me with a doubtful gaze, like she was wondering what exactly I was going to do. "...But the thing is that it's quite a messy way of solving this, and I'm afraid that you ladies might not really like it."
"Who cares if it's messy or not?" Mrs Keller exclaimed and looked like she wouldn't even care if I committed murder if I could save Nina. "As long as you can prevent Nina from stepping foot in a police station, you can do anything you want."
"Isn't that right, ladies?"
Mrs Keller asked the crowd behind her, to which they all nodded their hands, as they didn't want to see Nina go away any time soon since they all loved her and treated her as their own daughter after so many years of having her as the little mistress of the local hot spring.
"Well then, since I've gotten your blessing, I guess I can go forth in making sure that these guys shut their mouths..." I said as I stared at the trio, who shivered when they saw me grinning and had a premonition that something bad was going to happen.
"Hey, wait a minute now! What about my opinion on this matter?!...Aren't I the main victim here?"
I could almost hear the wooden pole of the broom breaking with how tightly Nina was gripping it right now, and she only seemed to be holding back since she was curious about what this peaceful and non-violent way of solving this problem that I suggested was, wanting to know if I really was as capable as Mrs Keller told me to be.
"No, not really...I just thought that your face looks so much more handsome, with half of it looking like a hydrated raisin, and I was wondering if I could take a photo of you as you are right now."
I said as I took out my phone, which made the trio raise their eyebrows in unison, not knowing what I was trying to accomplish by taking a picture of their ugly mugs.
"What am I, your bitch or something?!...Why should I let you do what you want?!" The man rejected my request, furious, knowing that I was making fun of his messed-up face.
And fed up with how he had been in the losing position this whole while, he decided to fight back a little. To do that, he looked towards Nina and slowly said, with a mocking smile on his face, as he took her figure in whole,
"Although I'm not interested, why don't you take some pictures of that green hag over there?...I'm pretty sure those pictures of her would come out great, especially with that repulsive green skin of hers that resembles cow shit."
"Heck! Even manure would be less disgusting to look at than her, whose very presence revolts me and makes me want to puke what I ate for lunch." He jeered as he eyed Nina with contempt, and his friends also laughed along with his antics, as if they agreed with every word they said.
I let out a deep sigh of disappointment after witnessing the guy who had kissed my feet looking down on Nina simply because of her skin tone and concluded that the clowns before me were racists of this world, which I unfortunately just found out this week existed here as well.
I guess some things never change even if you travel to a entirely different world, do they?