It's early in the morning, after some light training with the girls in a vacant lot near the inn, I decided I would be walking the streets alone today.
Dhammi-chan said that she and Blacksmith-san would go shopping for clothes. I managed to get the three Lords, Fire Lord-kun and Illusion Lord-kun, to do the porter work for today. Since Wind Lord-chan is also a woman, she should enjoy shopping with the other girls today.
Given that they have become my scapegoats for today, I pulled them aside and quickly gave them my thanks before heading out myself.
As I would be wandering alone, my hood and cloak alone cannot cover my Ogre body. I used [Metamorphosis] and [Makeover Shape Shifting] to change my body into my previous human form.
I need to be careful, it's better not to become suspicious here and create a scene.
I continued with my information gathering in the city as I wandered around; rumors spread very quickly here, you know.
Basically, Ogres are known as Monsters that often go out of their way to harm other species. The same may not be said about a rare Ogre Mage, who rarely attack humans; but given their recognition as a very dangerous race, humans will probably be even more cautious around them. My troubles at the gate can also be attributed to it.
The situation at the gate happened because they had no ability to recognize that I was different than most other Ogres.
Just baseless prejudice. Typical of human nature.
I walked along the city's main street for about three hours or so. I stopped for lunch at a restaurant and spent some time gathering information. After a while, I left to continue exploring the city.
Since I wore some pretty good equipment, some thugs must have thought I would be a good target.
As a result, they started to trail me. There seems to be six thugs in total, armed with things such as knives and hatchets. The most amusing aspect about these idiots was their "Gwehehe" squeaking laughter. I found the similarity to the stereotypical villain to be quite amusing.
I walked down an alleyway to coax the idiots into attacking me. When there was no one around, the thugs began their attack without even bothering to threaten me. Since I had actually forgotten that I'm in my human form, and my body is far smaller than I'm used to, my sense of distance was distorted and the first knife managed to pierce right through my heart.
Unfortunately for my opponents, I'm still an Ogre, just in human form. This wound was nothing to me what so ever. Seeing that I hadn't died, nor was I even in pain, the thug who stabbed me pulled back in surprise. I played with them for awhile, making them suffer greatly until they wished I would kill them, to which I would oblige the second they asked. I'm not cruel after all. I would end it quickly by snapping their necks. I decided to eat their corpses in the back alley. Even though no one appeared on my [Presence Sensor], I still ate them as quickly as I could.
Ability unlocked [Job-Thief]
Ability unlocked [Silent Stab]
Ability unlocked [Smoke Bomb]