I slowly walk inside the room as the people and guests that were still alive and conscious looked at me with various emotions. They were giving me this stares as if I had the answer to their worry.
I don't know what question they specifically had in mind but I answered the most effective one.
"The leader of the thugs is dead!"
It took a moment before the realization set in and everyone inside the room screamed out in joy. Everyone, even the waiters and other workers jumped up in joy and some even cried.
For those that cried, they weren't only crying out in joy but in pain too. Because today not only have they encountered a life ending event that they painfully survived, but there were some that died.
Some were friends that they had, some that they had known for years, now suddenly are no longer in this world. Even though surviving made them pray in grace towards their gods, it brought in much more fear of reality.
But that was only the boring part.
"Sir, can I know your name?" A random guy came and asked me.
"It's Henry, Henry Van Tax."
The random guy smiled and turned back towards others and screamed, "This is the man that has saved us all today. This is the man that has defeated the endless hordes of thugs."
He turned to look at me with devotion, "This is the man that defeated the thug leader and defeated him all by himself."
Wellll… that wasn't the complete truth, but the guy looked at me with such respect that I really couldn't tell him the awful truth. Not like it's gonna matter anyway, the only help I got from Arthur was a sword attack which I could've toppled if I wanted to.
"Hail, Henry Van Tax, the guy that saved us all." The guy rounded up everyone, "Come on, say it with me."
A few rounds of that large applause went on for a while as I went a bit dizzy. I didn't think that their words would actually make me feel but it was quite great.
I understand why some heroes choose fame over money. It was better to have blind devotion than one that is bought. One has an expiry date and one doesn't.
I put up a hand and the roaring quits down slowly as I prepare my speech.
"I know that today has been a very hard day for everyone in the party. I am talking about both the guests and the workers," I said pointing to the bystanders in corners, "All of us has went through the same hardship, regardless of our blood and rank."
Some nobles scorned in anger and I pointed out, "I know that some of you think of my words as idiotic or even ridiculous but remember, if it weren't for some of these people, many of you wouldn't have been able to survive tonight."
"Some of you might have been in a situation where a help from a waiter stopped you from getting harmed and some of you were in a situation where said workers saved your lives."
"So I want you to look at them in a new light, one that is bright and approaching. I hope that you could help them out as most of them may not have the money to get cured."
The workers who listened to my bullshit, felt touched by it and some even cried. I sweat I had to try very hard to not just burst out in loud laughter. ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ NoveI[F]ire.net
"Unfortunately, not all of them had survived this mess and for those that didn't, those that had a family that they reluctantly left behind, I will be giving each of them 100 pounds."
Murmurs of shock rang out among both the nobles and the workers.
"And for those that had serious injury, I will pay them full for those injuries."
What I was doing was kinda ridiculous, not because of the huge amounts of money that I was literally giving away, but because I was giving money away to commoners that dealt with such injury in their daily lives.
You might be wondering why I am doing such a thing. Well, there are two reason.
First, I was someone who was previously born in a normal middle class family and knew how hard it was to get paid for insurance because your company had a fucking robbery gone wrong. So with that in mind I decided to help them a bit.
Secondly… it was obvious, right. I was making a good impression. I had to do something about my reputation that had been smeared in the dirt by the previous user.
A thought went through me a few days ago. A palace filled with people that was suddenly attacked by thugs… what better way to make my reputation sky high than saving this fools and having them sing my tale… not to that extent but you get it.
So when I finally see the end results of them cheering me, I went a bit further and used the humanitarian route to get better points. As a result…
"To think that Henry was such a man… I was soo mistaken from the start." A person my age said.
"He has always been like that, it's just us that didn't see the man that he is."
"Yes… I can see how beautiful, sexy and ravenous he is."
"Yea-" The male round stopped talking as they glanced at the group of women that was looking at me with terrifying eyes. Terrifying to me because this was the same group of women that tried to shoo me out when I went to get Arthur.
I felt disturbed at their sudden change but inside, I was quite giddy.
After a few more rounds of hooray for me, I left seeing that all the important characters were busy doing something.
I whistled while walking through the hallway in the hotel. I kept whistling until I came upon my door and opened it.
The words didn't leave from my mouth fully as I felt two huge and squishy things rub me.