******It was only after Red heard the gang leader’s shameless declaration that she finally reacted.In the following second, her brows narrowed slightly, and the faintest hint of disbelief passed over her face.When she looked at him again, it was as though she were staring at the dumbest creature in the universe… one so pitiful that it didn’t even know it was pathetic.“Yeah,” she responded dryly, her tone laced with sarcasm sharp enough to cut steel, “I would also like to offer you a goodwill gesture by cutting off your fingers so I can keep them safe for you.”The moment these words sounded, the room froze, and the gangsters blinked.As for the gang’s leader, he didn’t react for a second, but then his lips twitched, his entire face flushing crimson.“You…” he sputtered, raising a trembling finger toward Red.For a moment, he looked ready to explode.His expression shifted through shades of crimson red, purple, and pale fury before he somehow managed to drag in a deep, shu

******For a moment after Red’s words echoed, pin-drop silence couldn’t help but choke the air… everyone staring at her in a stupor.But then, suddenly, a voice exploded from the crowd of thugs.“Fuck it! Boss, let’s stop entertaining this psychopath bitch already!” snarled one of them. “Let’s show her she’s not in a position to talk nonsense with us!”It was the same guy Red had earlier called a mutt… his pride still raw and his ego bleeding.The humiliation from before had festered in him, and now, it spilled over like boiling oil, looking for every opportunity to get back at Red.But the gang leader didn’t even respond.Instead, a mere flicker of indifference from him was enough to silence the man, making the mutt stiffen before grinding his teeth against each other. But he raised his voice no more.“You see…” The leader finally spoke again, spitting his words with restrained venom. “I really don’t want to make things ugly here.”He took a slow step forward, his boots thud

******At this moment, the thugs’ voices continued overlapping in a vile chorus… each insult sharper and uglier than the last.Even the whole restaurant seemed to tremble with their mockery, their laughter rumbling the air like a storm filled with venom.They had already forgotten their boss’s restraint, lost in their own bloodlust.They couldn’t wait to see Red broken... to see her humiliated and torn down from the defiant woman who had dared to insult them and their leader to a trembling wreck.Honestly, the rest of the thugs could barely contain their envy for the two lucky ones.Every single one of them had secretly wished they would be the ones chosen to put Red in her place… to wipe that arrogance and defiance off her and make her understand what happens when someone crosses their crew.So, watching two of their brothers get the privilege instead only made their blood boil with jealousy, but still, all was well.As long as they got to en

******At this very moment, the entire restaurant seemed to have stopped breathing; the air dense and heavily thick with disbelief.Every single person right now… customers, workers, thugs, and even the ever-unruffled Glenn stood frozen, their eyes wide and their jaws slack, as if the world itself had glitched.None of them moved or blinked. Instead, they all gawked in an utter daze, unable to believe what they had just witnessed.Before now… apart from Glenn, every other soul in the restaurant had expected the same outcome: Red being sent flying by the punch, her body crashing into a wall, her blood splattering all over the place, and her bones shattering like fragile glass.The mutt’s punch had looked unstoppable, after all… pure brute force made muscles.But on the very contrary, what they got instead… had defied every logic.Red hadn’t flown back as they had anticipated… she hadn’t staggered and she hadn’t even taken a step back.Instead, the moment the Mutt’s fist connect

******The gang leader’s words carried no praise… only cold irritation, showing that he greatly hated the fact that Red had made him acknowledge her strength at all.Then his head turned toward the Mutt, and… in the very next moment, the temperature in the room seemed to drop by several degrees.That icy stare of his hardened significantly, cutting into the thug like blades.The aura that poured off him was so suffocating… silent, yet roaring with anger. Even the nearby thugs couldn’t help but take a half-step back.“Don’t tell me…” he began slowly, each word drawn out like a threat.His fists clenched so tightly that the veins on his forearms began to bulge. “That with all those muscles, all that training, and all that goddamn talk… you actually can’t handle a single woman?”The silence that followed was heavy enough to crush.And hearing him, the Mutt’s throat instantly bobbed as he swallowed hard.In the next instant, a heavy bead of cold sweat slid down the side of his fa