34. Struggle.

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How much time had passed?

Agnes appeared where Kaku and the others were imprisoned.

 

 

Her slightly wavy bob and one side of her hair neatly tucked behind her ear exuded an elegance befitting a noblewoman.

Coupled with her fair, taut skin and breathtaking beauty that made it impossible to believe she was a married woman in her fifties who had given birth to a full-grown twenty-something daughter, her aristocratic aura captivated both men and women alike.

 

 

Who in the world could look at her and say she was a woman in her fifties?

At the very least, they would see her as a beautiful woman in her thirties.

 

 

As a side note, when she first took office as the president of D10, her beauty became widely known, and a major article was even written about her and Lim Seo-hyun of Harem Palace, calling them the two beauties leading the world.

 

 

 

Therefore, the Kaku party members couldn’t help but stare blankly as she walked towards them, heel to toe.

Although she was the woman who had imprisoned them like this, and they didn’t know what she would do in the future, they simply admired her beauty for this moment.

 

 

 

“Are these them?”

“Yes.”

 

They finally snapped out of it when she opened her mouth.

Although she was a European woman, there was no problem understanding her words thanks to the translation item, as befitting a high-ranking official.

 

 

“Hmm. They don’t seem to have any power. What confidence did they have to pick a fight with the Palace?”

 

Her conclusion after briefly examining Kaku and the others was that they were truly unremarkable adventurers.

Perhaps the only thing worth noting was that two of the four women had considerably decent looks.

 

 

 

“Um… excuse me….”

 

 

As Agnes looked down at her with indifferent eyes, Haruna nervously rolled her eyes and opened her mouth.

 

 

“What… what are you going to do to us?”

 

Haruna’s question was a question that all the team members had.

And it was also a problem that Agnes was pondering over.

 

She had committed the act, but she hadn’t properly planned what to do next.

 

 

 

If she hadn’t called Lim Seo-hyun and provoked her so much, she could have just contacted the secretary’s office and had them taken away. There would be no need to worry, and she would just have to follow her originally scheduled schedule.

 

 

But she had called Lim Seo-hyun to mess with her and spewed all sorts of provocative words, making her furious to the point of losing her mind.

She had even blocked her now.

 

 

But if she were to contact her again now or contact the secretary’s office and tell them to take Haruna and the others, only Agnes would become a laughingstock.

 

 

‘I’ll have to argue with that bitch in the future, too.’

 

 

There’s another situation.

 

 

Because of the phone call earlier, Agnes and Lim Seo-hyun had become mutual enemies.

Agnes had always disliked Lim Seo-hyun and thought of her as an irreconcilable enemy, but Lim Seo-hyun probably hadn’t thought much of it.

 

 

But now they were almost enemies, and it wouldn’t be easy to reverse this.

 

 

Although they were both 『Minister』-level officials, no matter what, she couldn’t have as much power as Lim Seo-hyun, who was always attached to Yoo-eun as the 『Chief of Staff』.

Since she had started a war, she also had to gain power to fight against the wicked Lim Seo-hyun, and in Harem Palace, that power came from Yoo-eun.

 

 

In the end, it was a funny situation where she had to look good to her enemy (Yoo-eun) in order to fight against her enemy (Lim Seo-hyun).

But strangely, she didn’t feel any particular emotional aversion.

Even when she thought about getting closer to Yoo-eun and looking good to her, she only felt a sense of ‘I see,’ and she didn’t dislike or feel reluctant about it.

 

 

Could this also be the power of the system?

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Are you… trying to protect us as we requested?”

 

 

As Agnes was lost in thought, Haruna asked cautiously.

Well, if it wasn’t for the purpose of ‘protection,’ there would be no reason to force them all into one place like this.

 

But unfortunately, Agnes had no intention of doing so.

And of course, she had no intention of just letting them go.

 

 

Since she had told Lim Seo-hyun that she would take care of it, and since she had come to the conclusion that she needed to get closer to Yoo-eun, protecting them or just letting them go were not even options in the first place.

 

 

 

Agnes didn’t answer the question and walked towards Haruna.

Then, she grabbed her hair as she was sitting down and forcibly tilted her face back.

 

“Kyaa!”

“Haruna!!”

 

 

The team members were surprised by this, and Aoki tried to stop Agnes, but he was suppressed by the maid who had come in with them. Agnes tore Haruna’s top without anyone’s interference.

It was an expensive piece of equipment that could even be used as everyday wear, but it was just the equipment of an adventurer with a measly combat power stat. It couldn’t stand up to Agnes.

 

 

It tore with a *buuuk* sound, revealing the bra that covered her ample breasts, and Agnes tore that off as well.

 

“What the hell are you doing!!!”

 

 

At the sight of this, Aoki struggled, his face flushed.

Although he was being treated coldly, he still loved Haruna, so he couldn’t stand to see her being humiliated.

 

 

But the opponent was Agnes.

She was a woman who had been called the strongest adventurer in the world even before becoming a member of Harem Palace. And that included unofficial adventurers!

 

 

How much more so now that she had become a Minister, let alone a maid? There were maids around her, too.

 

 

In the end, Haruna was half-naked, revealing the exact lines of her figure and her nipples that had been hidden under her clothes.

Indeed, she had once been called the queen of her university, and she had a figure as outstanding as her beauty, having accumulated stats through her life as an adventurer.

 

 

 

 

Agnes examined Haruna’s naked body as if she were inspecting merchandise and nodded in satisfaction.

 

 

“Take a bunch of nude photos of this one and those ones by body part, categorize them, and register them in HaremPle.”

“Yes, Minister-nim.”

 

She ordered the maids to take away the four women, starting with Haruna, and ordered the remaining three men to have their stats processed through an intelligence agent in Gangnam.

 

 

Stat processing was one of the methods of disposing of people who were deemed unnecessary by the Palace. If a person had stats, they would be taken directly to the casino, all their stats would be withdrawn and made into chips, and if a person didn’t have stats, stats would be given separately and then withdrawn.

 

 

A human with all stats reduced to 0 became almost a vegetable, unable to do anything. They were conscious, so they could barely move their face or eyes, but they couldn’t move their limbs.

They could only lie down.

 

 

And the Palace (usually Lim Seo-hyun) didn’t give these people proper treatment or aftercare at all, but just left them to rot or gave them a terrible end, such as burying them alive.

 

 

 

 

 

Kaku and the others had no way of knowing these detailed circumstances, but after seeing what Agnes did to Haruna, they could roughly guess what kind of treatment they would receive. Naturally, there was strong resistance, and Haruna, who had been directly affected, screamed and was dragged away.

 

 

“Why… why are you doing this!! Why are you doing this!!! Were you that upset!!!!”

 

 

Kaku, who still hadn’t properly grasped the situation, shouted with bloodshot eyes.

Agnes looked down at him with an indifferent face and quietly declared.

 

 

 

 

 

“No. I’m just doing what I have to do as a member of Harem Palace.”

 

 

“…!!”

 

 

 

 

Having heard Agnes’s words, Kaku was dragged away by the maid with his eyes wide open as if he couldn’t believe it.

 

“Uwaaaaa!! Haruna! Harunaaa!!!”

 

 

Meanwhile, Aoki resisted the maid with all sorts of desperate struggles, and he cried out her name as he watched Haruna being dragged away, wailing.

 

“What, are they lovers? Set that one aside for now. Attach a tag when you register that Haruna thing.”

“Yes.”

 

 

 

 

 

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A storm raged in the 『Imperial Palace Secretary’s Office』 in Gangnam last night.

It was late at night, and Yoo-eun, the master, was busy raping a woman, so they couldn’t openly make a fuss, but at least all the secretaries under Lim Seo-hyun gathered in one place.

And Lim Seo-hyun, the head, told them what she had heard from Agnes and gave them a group pep talk.

 

 

After about an hour of physical punishment, they found the person involved in the incident. It was a maid named Lim Ha-yan, who had been stationed in Japan until two months ago, when she caught Yoo-eun’s eye when he returned from the other world and even participated in a drinking game. After that, she was assigned to Gangnam, the center of Harem Palace.

 

 

She was subjected to another round of intense physical punishment and then immediately dispatched to Germany, where Agnes was.

Agnes said she would take care of this matter, but Lim Seo-hyun, who was furious, had no intention of tolerating it.

 

 

First, she would go to Germany, bring that ‘Kaku’ guy and his party members back to Korea, and give them hell.

And she would gradually take steps to destroy that Agnes bitch.

 

 

No matter how much she was the 『Chief of Staff』 in charge of all the maids, she couldn’t rashly touch a 『Minister』-level official. It was a position that Yoo-eun had directly appointed.

But if there was a justification, she could destroy her.

 

 

 

“Which department does Henrietta belong to?”

“She’s assigned to the stat casino under the Business Department. She doesn’t have any particular rank, but it’s a bit difficult to touch her because she’s a 『Viennese』.”

“She’s just nominally Viennese anyway. That’s what the master-nim said, too.”

“That’s true.”

“Contact the 『Head of the Business Department』-nim. Tell them that Henrietta will be undergoing an educational review. I’ll talk to the master-nim directly.”

“Understood.”