Hero? Are You Worthy?
Chapter 71 - 61: Is There Any Justice or Law Left? (3rd update, 5000 words delivered)

Chapter 71: Chapter 61: Is There Any Justice or Law Left? (3rd update, 5000 words delivered)

"Catherine, you really forced me!"

As soon as he said this, everyone in the room was shocked.

Momentarily, the surrounding area fell dead silent.

Apart from Nicholas and his guards and Angelica, everyone else wore a weird look on their faces, even doubting if they had heard wrong.

What did the Hero just say?

Was he implying that the Crimson Valkyrie, Catherine, had forced him?

Hehe, how could that be? Absolutely impossible. After all, the Crimson Valkyrie is a woman; she couldn’t possibly do such a thing... Er, maybe it’s not entirely impossible.

After all, that’s the Crimson Valkyrie, that’s Catherine, and she was drunk. It wouldn’t be strange if anything happened.

Augustus looked inexplicably weird. These two, their statements are completely contradictory. Who was the one forcing whom?

Rose Vesper was also astonished. Today’s events took so many unexpected turns. Just when it seemed everything was clear, another twist appeared?

As for Catherine, she was completely stunned, then her body began to tremble violently. Overwhelmed with rage, Catherine was almost driven mad:

"You... what nonsense are you spouting?"

She thought he was just an unscrupulous rogue taking advantage of someone’s drunkenness, who would have thought he was someone too cowardly to even admit his actions.

What made Catherine even angrier was that this scoundrel even tried to turn the tables, pushing all the blame onto her, accusing her of forcing him?

How could that be possible? Even she, Catherine, couldn’t do such a thing.

In Catherine’s eyes, Qin Chu was less worthy than the maggots on a rotting rat in the sewer...

Qin Chu was unconcerned: "Am I spouting nonsense?"

He didn’t care about losing face, just as long as he wasn’t blamed. Moreover, about last night, Nicholas and his men were all witnesses, and with their big mouths, the story would spread all over the city sooner or later.

"You said you were guiding my training, only to claim after a short while that you had urgent business to attend to."

"But your so-called urgent business was going to a bar to drink, and it was I who had to carry you back from there. I intended to put you in your own bedroom, but you ended up taking over mine..."

Er...

All eyes were on Catherine, looking somewhat bemused.

Catherine’s face, filled with anger and hatred, was replaced by a hint of embarrassment... It was rather hard to justify sneaking out for drinks while she was supposed to be teaching the Hero.

She sensed that the atmosphere was turning against her, but couldn’t help saying, "Yes, I did go out for drinks, but that’s no excuse for you to take advantage of someone..."

"I took advantage?" Qin Chu sneered. "Why don’t you say it was your drunken frenzy?"

"Nicholas and the others are all here; ask them what really happened last night?"

All eyes then turned to the guards behind Qin Chu.

Under the scrutiny of so many significant figures, Nicholas felt somewhat embarrassed, the roughness on his face even turning red. He cleared his throat, looked at Catherine and said, "Valkyrie, madam..."

"Have you truly forgotten? Maybe you should think back a little..."

"Mr. Brave personally carried you back from the bar..." Though Nicholas hadn’t witnessed this himself, since Mr. Brave had said so, it must be true.

"You then took over Mr. Brave’s bedroom. He was about to leave for another room to rest, but suddenly you rushed out from behind and dragged him back in. You wouldn’t have forgotten that scene, right?"

"At that time, all of us brothers saw it with our own eyes."

"That’s right, that’s right, the captain is correct, we all saw it with our own eyes."

"It was you who grabbed Mr. Brave and pulled him in; he struggled hard, but you were..."

"Too violent, we could hear Mr. Brave’s cries of pain from outside..."

"It’s pitiful that Mr. Brave was subjected to such brutal treatment. I think he might even be traumatized."

"God, I can hardly bear to remember..."

Behind Qin Chu, hundreds of guards were chattering noisily, each describing what they had "seen."

In fact, only Nicolas and five of his brothers, a total of six people, had actually seen anything, but as the story was passed from one to ten, ten to a hundred... And during the telling, everyone exaggerated the details more vividly and dramatically, each claiming while boasting to others: "Really, I saw it with my own eyes."

Before anyone knew it, the narrative had shifted.

"I even heard Mr. Brave shouting for help..."

"You tortured him in there for a full seven hours..."

"When Mr. Brave escaped from the room, he was covered in blood, his back was all marked; it looked like someone had tortured him terribly..."

"It was too cruel..."

Huh?

Qin Chu was somewhat baffled; was it really like that? Stop saying it, I’m embarrassed.

Apart from these guards’ voices, there was no other sound around. The nuns, priests, and Holy Knights of the God Sect, including Augustus and Rose Vesper, were looking back and forth between Qin Chu and Catherine with skeptical eyes, wondering whose story was actually true.