Chapter 277: You’re Not A Pervert Who Wants To Eat Me!?

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Tears started to build up in Calista's eyes as she thought of herself as already part of the deceased.

"There is no need to overreact, little girl," Azmond said with a fascinated look on his face.

His figure had already phased behind the terrified girl.

*Pat*

He put a hand behind the girl to stop her from crashing into the reinforced walls.

But the response he got in return for helping out the girl was...

"Get your hands off of me, you evil human!" Calista commanded with an adorable voice before she jumped back once again, heading straight for another wall of the room.

'Again? Seriously...?'

Azmond became a little exasperated over the trouble this girl was putting him through.

Nonetheless, his figure faded once more before he essentially teleported right behind the wall she was nearing.

Azmond interrupted her collision course before he grabbed her by the collar of her baggy and ripped shirt.

"!? Yo-You human pervert! Stop touching me!"

Calista's tiny frame attempted to escape as soon as she realized she was saved, but she realized that she couldn't escape the smell-good man's grasp!

So she did the only thing she could think of:.

"Sniffle Sniffle" She started to cry!

Her countenance became downcast as she put her small hands up to her watery eyes.

'Why is she making it seem like I'm the bad guy here?'

Azmond truly couldn't comprehend how such a young girl could misinterpret the situation so badly.

...

A few minutes passed by as he had let Calista go a few times; however, she would always try to run into walls, so he was eventually forced to tie her down with his Qi.

Azmond spent another few minutes after that explaining to her who he was and how she got to the unknown room she found herself in.

"Mother Big-Sis" She murmured, tears streaking down her face.

*Drip drip*

Such a simple gesture made by Azmond was all it took for the poor girl to start breaking down as the day suddenly became a whole lot wetter.

And then, as if something had been repressed and bottled up inside of her for months, those tears morphed into a full-out breakdown.

Calista's body collapsed into his embrace as she tightly gripped his kimono.

"M-Mother, I-I Waaaa!!"

Her inaudible sniffles turned into her bawling her eyes out.

Calista was just a girl who went through a lot all at once with nothing and no one to depend on.

She had been all alone for almost an entire yearall by herself in a world like the monster world.

'I wonder what sort of things this girl has been through to elicit such a pent-up explosion of emotions.'

Azmond pondered over the topic for a moment before lightly shaking his head.

'It's no matter. If this girl needs someone to vent to, then I will help her out. I'm doing this for the exp after all.'

He convinced himself that he was being so nice for the meager amount of experience points he would gain...

However, his brooding soon ended as he gazed kindly at Calista before tenderly putting a large hand around the back of her head.

*Pat Pat*

Azmond started to gently rub her head as he let the girl soak his robes all she wanted.

After a few minutes of her letting out her emotions into his once clean robes, Calista wiped her eyes before looking up at the compassionate gaze focused on her.

"... Sniffle."

That's when she realized what she had done to his lavish-looking robes.

Calista couldn't believe she had once again done something rude to the man who saved her, as her eyes started to bubble up again.

"Sniffle sniffle I'll pay you back for your clothes," she promised through sniffles.

Calista bit her pretty pink lips till blood drew, as she knew she couldn't make due on such a promise...