The SSS-rank Guide Doesn't Need Saving novel Chapter 116

Chapter 116: Vesper’s Strong Sense of Smell

"Really?" The young woman exclaimed.

Aisha’s gaze fell on her.

"Ah... I didn’t mean anything." The young woman cleared her throat before thrusting a hand out to her. "I’m Cece. What’s your name?"

Inwardly, Cece couldn’t help but feel a bit shocked. After all, she had been given five hundred to just tour her around Sector Nine and bring her to Sweet Bliss. Yet this young lady still has more money?

She looked Aisha up and down carefully. Cece soon heard the young lady’s reply.

"Aisha."

Cece nodded and smiled. "Beautiful name. Though... why does it sound familiar?"

Aisha didn’t respond.

Her name wasn’t even that rare. But after the annulment ceremony was broadcast throughout the empire, it would be hard for anybody not to hear it. Finding her name familiar was only natural.

Fortunately, Aisha’s face was covered right now. Otherwise, Cece would have recognized her already.

"Let’s go."

"Ah?" Cece belatedly followed behind her. "Wait!"

***

"What is this place?"

Standing at the front of the bustling street, Aisha’s three classmates were stunned by the sight before them.

They had convinced themselves to follow Aisha to uncover what kept her distracted, and had somehow ended up in this place.

But this... wasn’t this an adult’s playground?

"Why would she come here?" Vesper asked, eyes widening at the wide expanse of skin that the ladies on the balconies were showing.

Kane shook his head. "I don’t know. Isn’t this why we came here to find?"

"Vesper, can you follow her scent?" Sabel asked.

"You can’t?" Vesper turned to her.

Sabel replied, "I can only smell several meters away from where I am. You’re an A-rank, so you should be able to do it better than me."

Vesper nodded and closed his eyes to concentrate his sense of smell. Sentinels have unusually heightened senses. Some ended up having more advantage in their sense of sight or hearing. Vesper was more adept at his sense of smell. And it was the thing he was most proud of, being an A-rank who couldn’t perform his ability as a sentinel.

There were hundreds of scents around the street. He had to narrow it down and only focus on what he thought belonged to Aisha. This may have sounded easy, but Vesper’s head was throbbing in pain already. There were too many to sift through, and sometimes, he’d end up getting distracted.

"Damn it... they have something tasty over there."

"Focus, idiot!" Sabel almost smacked his head out of pure muscle memory. Thankfully, she held back before it could land.

Trying to locate a single person’s scent was not only difficult, but also extremely dangerous. If Vesper wasn’t careful, he could end up with a sensory overload.

Fortunately, Kane could sense when he would have a hard time and had already placed a hand on his back. A soothing sensation went past his hand onto Vesper’s back, easing up on the overload that he was feeling.

"Found her!" Vesper announced.

"Where is she?"

"She’s over a hundred steps away from us."

Kane patted his back and said, "That’s enough. You can stop using your senses to locate her."

Vesper opened his eyes and exhaled through his mouth. After taking a few seconds to calm himself down, he said, "It was a good thing I smelled the same meat we ate earlier from her. I would’ve been confused and not located her if not for that!"

Sabel rolled her eyes at him. "You almost got misled by the food here."

They started to walk amongst the crowd.

But not even ten steps into the street, they were already noticed by the ladies on the balcony.

"Oh? There are more youngsters tonight."

"Girls, look at those two handsome young men."

Vesper and Kane froze, glancing up at the woman who had just winked at them. Upon seeing the two of them looking over, the other women sent them air kisses and curled their fingers to call them over. Some even boldly squeezed their breasts to show their ample cleavage.

Sabel was frustrated by this and smacked them. "Don’t get distracted!"

But then... 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

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