The Ultimate Fire Master of Avatar

Chapter 199 Encounter with Cora

For Kora, who had grown up practicing with the Waterfolk in Antarctica, the development and prosperity of Republic City was undoubtedly a shocking experience. However, she also quickly discovered some hidden aspects beneath the surface of this prosperity.

Upon arriving in Republic City, she planned to first go to Qihe Island to meet up with her future Qi master, Tenzin, but because Naga was hungry, she had to change her plans and go find something to eat first.

However, it was only then that she suddenly realized that she seemed to have no money.

When she was with the Antarctic Waterfowl, everything was prepared for her, and she never worried about money. It wasn't until she ran away from home this time that she finally understood what it meant to be unable to move an inch without money.

Fortunately, she found a park and had a self-service grilled fish meal by the lake, where she met a homeless man.

She learned from him that Republic City was not as glamorous as it seemed, and not everyone could integrate into the city.

She also passed by a site promoting the so-called Equal Party, and found it hard to understand their claim that they wanted to overthrow the rule of the Archmage. She got into an argument with them, and in the end, neither of them convinced the other.

Now, she faces a new problem, which is—

She got lost.

"This place is too big, and all these tall buildings block the view."

Cora couldn't help but complain and was about to ask someone for directions when a group of thugs suddenly appeared behind her and began extorting money from a shop owner.

Just as she was about to step in to help, a man and a woman suddenly walked out of the shop across the street.

The man, carrying an expensive-looking gramophone, followed the woman. They acted as if they hadn't even seen the thugs, and proceeded to the shopkeeper as if no one else was there, asking:

"Boss, how much is this phonograph?"

"this"

The shop owner glanced awkwardly at the three thugs in front of him, unsure how to answer.

"Hey, isn't this how money comes in?"

The three thugs looked at the expensive gramophone in the man's hand and immediately revealed a malicious smile.

"Old man, I'm asking you the price, tell me now!"

One of them immediately shoved the boss roughly, almost knocking him to the ground, but the boss didn't dare to resist and could only say tremblingly:

"Twelve thousand seven hundred."

"So many!"

Upon hearing this number, the three thugs' eyes lit up, and another of them gave the man a threatening smile, saying:

"Ignore this old man, just give me the money, you hear me?"

Kahn frowned as he looked at the three thugs in front of him, but before he could make a move, Azura kicked one of the thugs in front of him away.

"Bang!"

The thug who was kicked away crashed straight through the door of the store across the street, causing screams to erupt inside.

The sudden turn of events left everyone present momentarily stunned.

"Where did these flies come from?"

Azura casually withdrew her leg, seemingly unconcerned. Seeing this, Kahn relaxed his brow and smiled at her:

"I'm going to get the money for the boss and put my things in the car. I'll leave this to you."

"Don't go too far."

"Okay, okay."

Azura waved his hand impatiently, telling him to leave quickly, but Kahn smiled, shook his head, and actually turned and walked away.

The remaining two thugs, who had finally come to their senses, were enraged by the way the other party looked down on them and charged at Azura.

"Go to hell!"

"All you do is bully the weak with numbers, you little punks?"

Seeing this, Cora, who had been watching from the sidelines, couldn't hold back any longer and rushed forward to join the fray.

"Bang!" "Bang!"

However, just as Cora arrived, Azura cleanly and decisively knocked both of them to the ground with a punch and a kick. She looked at Cora, who was rushing towards her, and raised an eyebrow, asking:

"Who are you?"

"Um, me."

Cora froze on the spot, the atmosphere becoming somewhat awkward. Finally, she could only awkwardly say:

"Well played!"

The man who was initially kicked away by Azura finally crawled out of the shop across the street.

Seeing his two companions easily dealt with, he lost all will to fight and, disregarding their lives, rushed to his car to escape.

"Don't even think about running away!"

But Cora keenly spotted the guy trying to escape, and at the same time, she was relieved to finally have a chance to shine.

She immediately stomped her right foot on the ground, and a mound of earth rose up from her feet and quickly spread to the bottom of the car. Then a stone pillar suddenly rose up, lifting the other car into the air, spinning it as it fell to the ground, and finally crashed into another shop.

"call."

Seeing this, Cora finally breathed a sigh of relief and turned around, only to see Azura scrutinizing her with a critical gaze. She asked, somewhat puzzled:

"What's wrong?"

Azura asked:

"Are you Avatar?"

"How did you know? Well, it seems pretty obvious."

Kora was startled, but looking at his brown skin, the Water People's clothing, and the traces of earth magic on the ground, he scratched his head and chuckled.

"Hello, my name is Cora, and as you can see, I am Avatar. It's nice to meet you."

"My name is Azura, nice to meet you."

Azura smiled with amusement.

Just then, Kahn returned with the money. He looked at the street destroyed by the earth magic and the two ruined shops, one of which had a damaged car parked inside.

He paused for a moment and said:

"How did things get like this? Are the enemies really that difficult to deal with?"

"To be clear, this is all the damage I caused."

Upon hearing this, Azura immediately distanced herself from the matter, pointing to the shop with less damage.

Kahn then looked at Cora beside him, who was still somewhat confused and said:

"What's wrong?"

"Waaah—! Waaah—!"

Suddenly, a sharp siren blared overhead. The three looked up and saw an airship appear above them, with the word "Police" printed on its large airbag.

The hatch below opened, and a group of armored people jumped off the airship, shooting out two grappling hooks from their hands in mid-air that embedded themselves into the houses on either side before finally landing slowly.

"Awesome! Master Metalworker!"

Upon seeing this, Cora exclaimed in surprise, then looked at the police officers walking towards them, spread her hands, and smiled:

"We've caught the bad guys for you, officers."

"Arrest them."

At the command of the officer in charge, grappling hooks on the wrists of several policemen flew out and tightly bound the three thugs, then put them onto the airship.

Kahn and Azura watched with curiosity. In their world, the art of metal manipulation was just beginning to be promoted, but here it was already widely used.

It looks really good.

However, after arresting the three thugs, the police did not leave. The lead officer approached them and said:

"You have also been arrested."

"Um?"

Azura raised an eyebrow slightly upon hearing this, while Korra looked even more astonished and said in disbelief:

"Huh? We've been arrested too? What do you mean? We arrested criminals!"

The police officer said expressionlessly:

"But you caused more destruction."

Cora was speechless. Now she finally understood why Kahn had said those things earlier.

"I think I can explain."

But Cora was unwilling to accept her arrest and was still trying to struggle. At this moment, Kahn, who was standing nearby, spoke up:

"I'll do it."

As he spoke, Kahn walked up to the officer, took out the documents that old Zuko had prepared for them, and handed them to him, saying:

"Before deciding what to do with us, let me meet with your superior."

Upon seeing the insignia representing the royal family of the Fire Nation on the document before him, the police officer's expression immediately turned serious, and he nodded respectfully, saying:

"Yes, please follow me."

(End of this chapter)