Chapter46

A ring of light appeared around his wrist right after, thin and bright, completely wrong for anyone in that room.
The guild hall went quiet, even the usual background noise near the front desk seemed to cut out for a second as every set of eyes in the room had locked onto that ring.
'What the hell?' one of the nearby adventurers thought, taking an involuntary step back' 'he has a ring, not a shard?'
The man clawed at Hajin's wrist with both hands, panic already breaking through his earlier smugness, but Hajin did not even blink.
"I warned you," he said, his voice low and flat while he looked straight into the man's bulging eyes. "So why are you acting surprised now?"
The guy tried to force mana through his body on instinct, two shards rising around his arm, but the moment they formed, Hajin slammed him sideways into the nearest pillar, making the wood crack and the Shards broke apart before any skill could come out.
"Ghk-" He coughed under Hajin's hand, body spasming once before going tense again.
Juna stared at the scene with her ears half raised, half flattened, and in that moment, her mind went completely blank because this did not fit the shape of what she expected from him at all.
'He actually did it,' she thought, pulse stumbling inside her chest, 'he stood up for me... a human actually stood up for me?' She was so shocked her mind kept replying that same thought over and over.
One of the man's friends took a step forward after finally shaking off the shock.
"Hey, let him go," he said, though the words came out less confident than he probably wanted. "You can't just-"
Hajin turned his head and looked at him, that was all it took for the man to stop what he wanted to say.
'Tch, those eyes,' the man thought, 'he is assuring me that if I get involved, I will be next. I can't be hasty too since he has an unknown power.' The looked at the ring and decided the risk was just not worth it. 
Hajin looked away from him and shifted his grip on the man he was holding, then started walking.