It wasn't like back on Earth, where racism was based on nationality, cultural difference, skin colour, social hierarchy, or caste. It was much simpler, where a certain group of normal humans thought that they were superior to variant humans, which stemmed back from the Ancient Ages and is prevalent even today.
I wouldn't say that most people in this world were against variant humans since it was mostly only men who had such a mindset, and you'd very rarely see a girl who had the same thoughts. But if you were to ask a normal human guy if he would prefer a variant human girl to a normal girl, then I'll just say that there's a higher chance that he would say no.
I thought Nina would say something in return when she heard the racial remark about her since she seemed like someone who was proud about the heritage she was born into and seemed like a strong woman who would never let another's comments get to her.
But to my surprise, Nina only frowned when she heard his words and looked away without saying anything back to him in return, like she was actually affected by his rude sentence.
She didn't even look angry that someone was saying such derogatory things about her, and she simply chose to ignore it, like she herself believed what he said and had already accepted it a long time ago.
It was almost as if she wanted to say something back since she wasn't the biggest fan of someone making fun of her, but she didn't have the courage to do so since she wasn't confident about her looks and let it slide since it was a topic that she didn't really want to dwell on.
My observation was further proven when I saw how all the ladies were telling her not to listen to his words and repeatedly saying to her that she was actually very beautiful; that was very much the actual truth of the matter and not some words of consolation.
But Nina herself didn't seem to be believing their words, thinking that they were saying so out of goodwill, and half-heartedly nodded her head with a wry smile on her face so that they didn't feel too bad.
This also made me wonder if this was the reason she didn't accept my compliment earlier and thought I was simply saying it for the sake of it.
But before I could confirm anything, I first had to deal with these racist maggots who were currently smiling, seeing as to how their comment had an affect on her, so I simply said to them while having a very wide and friendly smile on my face,
"No...I think I would prefer to use the three of you as my models today...A lady as pretty as Nina over there needs an entire set and dedicated crew just to be able to catch her sublime beauty, so I think I'll settle for you guys today since my phone's camera could never do her gorgeous looks justice."
Nina was feeling a little down in the dumps after hearing what that guy said about her and felt like going for a long walk so that she could clear her head, since she didn't really like to overthink about stuff like she was doing now.
But the moment she heard my comment about her, she was caught off guard by it and almost dropped the broom she had in her hands out of shock and disbelief at what I just said.
After quickly catching the broom she had let go she glanced at me with a stern look on her face, like she was asking me why I was saying such useless things about her at the moment and not dealing with them.
But what made her even more frustrated was that she actually felt a little embarrassed when she heard my words since she didn't have any time to prepare for it and felt ashamed that she let the words of a schoolboy get to her, thinking that I was simply joking around when I said so to irritate the three guys.
Nina thought that she could hide the fact that her heart skipped a beat after getting praised so suddenly. But it clearly wasn't working out since Mrs Keller and the others saw the light blush that had crept up on her cheeks, which made them immediately start to whisper among one another while staring at Nina in intrigue.
This only made her even more embarrassed and made her glare at me for creating such a misunderstanding, which would surely stick and spread around since she knew just how gossipy these ladies were.
Kachunk~
And with that, I quickly closed the door so that the crowd outside, who were all confused about what I was doing, didn't see the ugly scene that was going to happen inside.
"Hey, what are you doing, asshole?! Why did you bring us to this place?!...I can barely breathe because of how hot it is in here!"
"Ah! W-What are you doing?!...Why are you stuffing his mouth?! I asked, why you're stuffing his mouth?!"
"Bastard! Don't bring his face closer to that place! He'll die!"
"I-I'm not joking, he'll actually die!!"
"Ahhh! W-Wait! Not me as well! Don't your dare stuff my mouth as well!...Help! Help! He's trying to kill us!
Someone stop him before he-...Mmmm! Mmm!"
The cries of the man with the swollen cheeks were silenced as well, just like what happened to his friends one by one, and after that one last desperate cry for help like he was witnessing depths of hell inside, the room went silent.
"Nina...Kafka did say that his way of silencing them was peaceful and quite simple, right?...Then why were they just screaming louder than a bunch of pigs that were going to get butchered a second ago?"
Mrs Keller asked in dismay and wondered if it was really the right move to let Kafka handle the situation, which was what all the ladies in the room were thinking as well, since none of them wanted to see him getting into trouble while trying to help them out.
"I don't know..." Nina said as a smile creeped up on her ravishing face, not because she was a sadist who got off to the screams of horror. But because she knew just how traumatising it would've been for the ladies in the changing room if she wasn't there to stop those lechers from going in just in time, she was rejoicing in her heart when she heard their miserable shouts.
She then continued saying, as she looked at the door Kakfa had entered with a look of genuine appreciation in her eyes, "...But what I do know is that I'm starting to like this boy, Kafka even more by the very second."
"...If he keeps this up, I might just as well take him in as my little brother in name and coddle him as much as he wants as his older sister."
Nina said a joke that wasn't a joke either since she was really interested in this city boy who had entered town recently and wanted to keep him by her side like a little puppy she could play with whenever she got bored, since every move of his was rather entertaining to watch and fit her brash taste very well.
"What do you think, Nina?...Will everything be alright?" Mrs Keller asked Nina, hoping nothing went wrong inside.
"Who knows?...We'll simply have to wait and find out."
Nina said with an expectant look in her light green eyes that dazzled like emaralds as she looked forward to seeing just how her little brother candidate was going to silence those fools, whose biggest mistake they'd done in their lives was entering this hot spring while Kafka was around, since they were about to leave it with a traumatic experience that they would carry for the rest of their lives and scar them till the very moment they take a step into their grave...