>>5504090They're terrified of angering them, even though one's bare ass is exposed for all to see and red like a baby's and the other is crying in the ground under your foot, holding his cracked eggs.
And they're more terrified of offending you, realizing, as anyone with any common sense would, that you are no ordinary girl if you beat them so handily. The ten or so armed men speak in hushed whispers, trying to decide if they're allowed to take cultivators into custody, if they should punish any party out of fear of reprisal, or if they should just keep their hands clean of the matter. You know this, cause you can hear their discussion as clearly as the cheers and humble gratitudes and awed exclamations uttered by the crowd that has filled the street.
Eventually, the most veteran amongst them, a man with a grey flecked beard, shuffles toward you, head bowed and eyes locked on the ground.
"We...thank you for intervening on Suiqi's behalf" He says meekly, wringing his hands "We trust you have scolded your juniors, and there will be no more trouble from them after this scolding they've received"
They don't realize all three of you belong to different sects, they just see Cultivators and violent sages.
"if it would not be troublesome, could you escort these young men back to the mountain grotos they came down from?" He asks pitifully, shivering as you smile sweetly, grinding your heel into the back of one of the "Wise sages" as he whimpers and pleads to you for forgiveness
What do you decide to do, Huanliuxue?
>Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior>Laugh, and tell them their masters can pick them up after they've been properly punished, and then browbeat the local law to put them in stocks and have them pelted with rotten fruit and other filth. Maybe then they'll learn to be humble>Wait for the two to wake up, and tell them to tell you who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to, so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame.>Enjoy the adoration of those you've saved, then leave Suiqi and go back home to Fu's village before the two cultivators can wake up>Act like you are their elder martial sister, then take them to the countryside and decide what to do with them there>write in 