Chapter 138: Swept Away and Twisted Off to the Police Station

Participants only need to consider performing their talents and displaying their beauty, but as judges, they have many more things to consider.

Apart from Dust, who is loyal to male desire, the other two judges — whether Prosecutor Sena or the Adventurer's Guild receptionist Miss Luna — both gave Aqua a perfect score of ten.

There was no helping it; whether it was this event's tax revenue or future Adventurer quest performance, all of it relied on Aqua, so neither of these two people could possibly give Aqua a low score.

Thus, the sole remaining Dust became the last conscience of the swimsuit beauty pageant, yet this person raised a seven-point sign and gave a reason for only seven points.

"Aqua's performance was undoubtedly splendid, but this is a beauty pageant, not an acrobatics competition; your acrobatic flourishes are too many, causing me now when I recall it, what comes to mind is not your beauty, but that scene of you like an otter jumping through a hoop……"

To summarize Dust's words: Aqua's performance went somewhat off-track, turning entirely into an acrobatics show, failing to display the aspect of beauty, so in his view she only merits a seven-point evaluation.

"What's your problem, my performance was this splendid, yet it becomes the issue instead, give me a perfect score, you bastard Dust!"

Dust: "……"

That hit the mark; no wonder his beauty radar doesn't react — this is Aqua's true posture; compared to a woman's identity, she's more like a drinking buddy; anyone who has interacted with and understood this person knows she's a guy with not a shred of feminine charm.

【Damn, 7 points is already me rating high, should've only given this guy 5 points.】

"Contestant Aqua, calm down……"

The event's gold master threatening a judge to change the score to full marks was just a minor interlude; ultimately Aqua still won the championship of Axel's First Swimsuit Beauty Pageant with a high score of 37, but no one remembers her beauty — everyone will always use impressions like 【Oh, that otter champion who jumped hoops like an otter】 to evaluate her.

Worth mentioning: Darkness, with 31 points, only got 4th place, while the Protein Queen with 24 points entered the top thirty.

"Miss Wiz, if you could also participate in the beauty pageant, you would definitely get a high score; maybe even Miss Aqua's otter championship would be yours."

The swimsuit pageant officially ended, Axel returned to calm, and on this day a certain magic tool shop beauty shopkeeper who came to deliver recovery potions was teased by some adventurers about this matter.

"Eh, what's an otter champion?"

Wiz wasn't too clear on this matter; during the construction of the event's main venue, she had wanted to contribute some effort and sponsor some magic power recovery potions for the Adventurer's Guild's collective action.

As a result, while transporting the magic power recovery potions, before she even reached the event venue, she was inexplicably swept away by a large flood carrying purification ability, and as a Lich she directly fell into a weakened state, spending these days recuperating in the shop.

After her body recovered and she came out, she felt like she had missed a lot of things, but after someone introduced her to it, she learned the beauty pageant was actually an acrobatics show.

After all, there was even chest-breaking-boulders; after the swimsuit beauty pageant ended, for some people who didn't know the inside story, hearing about the bizarre behaviors of some deeply impressive contestants displaying beauty, they couldn't help but form some strange impressions of this beauty pageant.

And regarding Miss Aqua the otter lady winning the beauty pageant championship, there were actually people shouting there was a shady deal behind it.

Of course, those were only a minority of voices, because the prize money gap between 1st place and the top thirty wasn't too large.

And participants ranked 31st to 200th-plus also all received a sum that wasn't too much but was passable.

One could say, any woman with a bit of a fancy performance, or whose looks were passable, all obtained this prize money.

And quite a few who took the money naturally sang high praises of this kind of activity where you could get money so easily, and looked forward to the next swimsuit beauty pageant's arrival.

Not long after Lich shopkeeper Wiz left the Guild, Aqua brought Broly to the Guild; this Goddess was still somewhat dissatisfied that she hadn't gotten a grand slam in the swimsuit beauty pageant she herself organized.

"Honestly, that black-hearted judge Dust, if next time he asks me to help add a Blessing, I'll definitely charge him through the nose."

Aqua's Blessing Spell as High Priest is badass; many adventurers going on quests come to her to cast a Blessing Spell.

Before, as long as someone came to request her, Aqua would never refuse others' requests, but this time she clearly has a grudge against a certain guy who didn't give her a perfect score.

【So damn petty!】

Surrounding adventurers really wanted to roast Aqua, but thinking of Aqua's powerful Blessing ability, the words at their lips turned into: "That's Dust not understanding Miss Aqua's charm!" "So what if it's acrobatics, does acrobatics not count as a talent, does it not count as highlighting personal beauty?"

Dust counts as temporarily placed on Aqua's blacklist.

"What about Darkness, hasn't she come to the Guild yet?"

Aqua asked; Darkness had formally joined her and Broly's Adventurer Party after the swimsuit pageant ended, and as a Crusader — an Advanced Class — Darkness was more than qualified.

"She hasn't come yet, but she should be coming soon."

Luna said; during the days of hosting the swimsuit pageant, the Adventurer's Guild had accumulated quite a few quest commissions, and now urgently needed people who could grind quests to help clear these commissions; she was already looking forward to Aqua and her disciple's activity.

"Honestly, people's hearts aren't what they used to be; in broad daylight, there are actually Thief Class professionals directly committing theft!"

Sure enough, not long after, Darkness arrived; the Crusader girl entering the Guild was complaining about something.

"What's wrong, Darkness?"

Aqua asked her.

"Woman, tell me what happened!"

Broly also spoke in a tough tone, voicing the line that surfaced in his mind.

"Mmm~"

Darkness's Happiness Value rose again; truly an easy wife to please.

"The situation is like this……"

Darkness didn't conceal it, happily recounting a bizarre incident she encountered on the road coming to the Guild.

"You don't know how arrogant that Thief was; she stole my wallet and then blocked my face, preparing to bet with me using my own wallet.

Honestly, if she had sneakily taken my wallet and left me in the predicament of treating everyone to a meal with no money to pay, I might not have been that angry.

But this kind of thing — right in front of the owner, using my stuff to try to bet with me — is truly unbearable."

"So, did you beat up that Thief who stole your wallet?"

"No, I didn't; that Thief who stole my wallet is a girl who looks younger than me; I just twisted her arms and sent her to the Police Station, to let her receive the Security Officers' discipline there."

"Miss Chris, right? Stealing is wrong; although your profession is Thief, that's still not a reason for you to commit theft of others' property in the City."

In the Police Station, the female Security Officer looked at the girl sitting obediently on the stool before her and admonished her.

"That's not it; I just wanted to make friends with that person."

Eris attempted to explain.

*Slap~*

The Security Officer slapped the table and retorted: "You make friends with people by stealing?"

Eris: "……"

(Chapter End)