Chapter 67

Chapter 67

I Became a Prisoner Trainer in the Dungeon.

Episode 67: Asking For The Truth And Taking Profit (2)

In my previous life, I had never traveled abroad.

In the first place, I rarely traveled domestically.

While others were taking pictures for O-star or making memories with someone, my memories were in front of the convenience store cigarette display, in front of the charcoal fire at the barbecue restaurant, or in front of countless delivery boxes.

‘It’s not that I didn’t travel at all.’

Still, when you were dating, you tended to travel.

‘I used to travel with my girlfriend for a night and two days. I did.’

But after traveling a few times, I gradually became reluctant to travel.

‘They were all places I’d been to.’

Not that I had been there, but that my girlfriend had.

I didn’t know who she had been with, but the information I found after searching the internet was already a path that a pioneer had taken.

‘She traveled a lot before dating me, and even after dating me, she often went on trips with her friends.’

At that time, I just thought what she said was true.

Even if I couldn’t contact her late at night, I thought she was sleeping, and when she said she went to bed early at her accommodation in Jeju Island, I thought she had traveled a lot.

‘I never imagined that she would be having an orgy with her so-called friends at a pension.’

The truth was ugly.

I thought she was just going around eating with her female friends, laughing and joking, even if it was a lie.

Maybe I wanted to believe that at that time.

But as the truths were revealed one by one, I ended up opening Pandora’s box.

The story that only came out on the internet was unfolding in reality.

-No, but can’t you just bury that kind of past? Anyone would think you’re cleanㅡㅡ

Comments were posted on the internet, but the more I dug, the more the stench flowing from below made me dizzy.

The past was just glamorous.

Even she—no, she often traveled abroad, and even revealed that she had gone on a working holiday in Australia during college.

When I asked to see some photos from that time, most of them were landscape photos.

I found out later, after breaking up, that some of them were photos that could be found by searching the internet.

‘I ignored the truth. The price was terrible.’

At that time, I vaguely guessed the truth, but I didn’t want to see it.

I tried to avoid blushing each other by revealing the uncomfortable truth.

So I realized.

‘Sometimes, it’s easier to close your eyes to the truth.’

The truth was always right.

But even if the truth was right, whether it’s ‘easy for me’ is a bit of a different story.

I barely managed to escape from the swamp at the end, but I was able to gain a lesson in life.

‘It’s easier to ignore the truth.’

If you buried the truth, it was likely to lead to ruin in the end, but at least it would be easier at that moment.

Baron Gilberte was also like that.

It would be.

‘I wondered how to answer if he asked me, and I prepared a repertoire while racking my brains, but he didn’t ask me that.’

To be honest, that was what I was most worried about.

I prepared a false item, but in case he said he wanted to see the real thing.

If you were trying to sell something that didn’t exist, how could you show it if they wanted to check if it was alive?

Even if I presented the items he used as relics, no one would know whether Jake Gilberte was alive or dead, or whether he had been dismembered and turned into a blood bag until they saw it in person.

So I came up with all sorts of excuses.

I could have threatened the baron.

If he wanted to see it that much, make him come into the dungeon himself.

I could present the spoils (Jake’s relics) stored in the training room warehouse as relics.

I had thought of all those things, but Baron Gilberte just listened to everything I said and didn’t try to check Jake’s life or death separately.

So I felt it intuitively.

This bastard, he was not interested in the life or death of a bastard after all.

He wanted the bastard to die after all.

But he was having trouble with the dungeon itself.

So I had prepared some image-making for him—

“It worked.”

It worked properly.

“Secretary. These prisoners are dazed, is it because they ate our aphrodisiac and their bodies are hot right now?”

“That’s right, trainer.”

I looked at the naked men and women sent from the dungeon over there.

I didn’t know either of them, but they were a little familiar, as if I had seen them a few times while wandering around Baron Gilberte’s territory.

‘I think I’ve seen them a few times in the red-light district.’

She was not a prostitute I had slept with.

The man was also not an adventurer I had a party with.

But I think I knew for sure what kind of person the woman was.

Judging from the pigmentation of her nipples and the shape of her body, she was definitely a woman who sold her body in the red-light district.

‘Well, it’s not like I’ve slept with dozens of prostitutes.’

I went to the red-light district a few times, but after the fourth time, I didn’t make the choice.

Rather, I was chosen by the prostitutes, and they took turns receiving me as a guest.

“Phew.”

The tension was relieved to the point where I had other thoughts for a while.

The nerves that had been stretched like a bowstring were loosened at once.

It was like the feeling of an erection being relieved.

“Negotiations, successful. The water has been turned on.”

“Congratulations. But… can we consider this a successful negotiation?”

“It’s still a step closer while being wary of each other.”

I slowly brought the hands that were separated together.

“Now Jake Gilberte is not important. Whatever method we use, we just have to give them the aphrodisiac, and they just have to send us people somehow.”

“…….”

“But we have to fulfill the requirements of the deal, right?”

I pointed to the prisoner’s room, the bound man’s back.

“As written, let’s fight each other as ‘enemies’ until we meet again in a week.”

There was writing on the man’s back with a knife.

The crooked writing, which seemed to have been made similar to that of the demons, contained content focused on words.

To put it simply, it was about maintaining the confrontation.

And during that confrontation, to have a very short moment of peaceful time with each other.

What went back and forth during that time of peace was only known to those who talked at that time.

“He’s meticulous. Is the baron more familiar with this kind of trickery than I thought?”

“Yes?”

“They experimented with the aphrodisiac themselves, but sent the experimented men and women back to us. Naked.”

I pointed to the dimension door leading to the baby dungeon in the image still floating next to me.

“In front of this, there is the baron.”

“…….”

Beyond the dimension door where the gray mist fluttered, the baron would surely be there.

“Naked men and women come in soaked in aphrodisiac? Of course, other people are watching behind them, or they brought them here and sent them. The baron and soldiers will be in the place where I negotiated by now, right? Rather than a subjugation party… they are closer to the baron’s private soldiers.”

“…….”

“This is my guess, but it seems that they put them in here right after testing the aphrodisiac.”

“That’s….”

“They’re probably watching the reaction from behind now, right? How we react.”

“Shall we send a scout?”

“No. There’s no need for that. There’s no need to go out from this side either. Because what they want is not an immediate renegotiation.”

The baron wanted to meet again in a week.

There was no need to rush out and meet the baron right now.

“It’s interesting. I don’t want to play hard to get with a guy, but I welcome playing hard to get thinking of him as a business partner.”

“…….”

“Are you trying not to miss either? You’re too greedy. Well, he must be occupying and holding on to the baron’s seat because he’s greedy.”

I put myself in his shoes.

“As a lord, he has no choice but to care about the reputation of the territory’s officials, residents, and adventurers. If so, why does the baron want this direction…?”

I inferred his choice from the position of Baron Gilberte, not the Demon Azazel Dantalion.

“As a lord, he has no choice but to care about the reputation of the territory’s officials, residents, and adventurers. But he can’t make a negotiation that pays a million gold. So let’s keep trying to subjugate the dungeon.”

“That means we’re going to be at odds with you…?”

“No. It’s the opposite.”

Two tracks.

Double-sided warfare.

“The real intention is to be a good trading partner, but he can’t ignore the eyes of the world.”

Originally, it meant talking about peace in the front and preparing for war in the back, but the current situation was the opposite.

“In the future, we’ll pretend to fight each other with swords drawn. To others, we’ll be growling at each other with blood flowing from our bodies. But under our feet, we’ll be trading by kicking aphrodisiac and people at each other.”

“…People will only see the upper body. No one will easily predict it. Even in the situation of killing and being killed like what has happened so far, the aphrodisiac trade will continue under it.”

“That’s right.”

I didn’t know if the analogy was right, but it was similar to modern international relations.

Just like how the US and China checked each other but had an economic partnership.

‘Considering the historical background, it’s more like the relationship between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War than the US and China.’

Demons and humans.

If you got caught, you were screwed, but if you didn’t get caught, that was it.

“…Am I going too far ahead?”

If it was the baron, wouldn’t he try to do this?

That was my thought, not what the baron thought.

‘Come to think of it, didn’t he have any thoughts?’

I thought about that, but in reality, the baron might just end up sending someone to check something.

“……If that’s the case, I have no choice but to make it that way.”

Just as the baron tried to set up a board that was advantageous to him, I would also lead it to a board that was advantageous to me.

‘We can make us the US and the Gilberte barony the Soviet Union.’

After the Cold War.

Who won was…

And one more thing.

Why didn’t Baron Gilberte ask about ‘her’ at all?

Eris Alvatea.

Why didn’t he ask even though he knew that the young lady of the Alvatea count’s family was captured as a prisoner?

WWas it because he was worried that the Alvatea count’s family would be harmed if he talked about it unnecessarily?

Or was it because it is advantageous for him that Eris, like Jake, is ‘dead’?

…….

“Secretary.”

“Yes, trainer.”

“We maintain the status quo. Suggest that we treat those who enter the dungeon as before, but make it a top priority to neutralize and capture them as prisoners.”

Capturing those who entered the dungeon was not the role of the training corps, but if we talked well, we could adjust it according to our—my policy.

“Let’s catch them first and then distinguish between those who will be killed and those who will not be killed. Since we have a history of sending some people alive…”

I gestured as if to lightly cut my abdomen with my hand.

“We can send them with aphrodisiac in their bodies.”

When I watched the news, I often saw cases where people hid aphrodisiac in their bodies and sent them.

We could send them like that.

“……Yes?”

Lilith opened her mouth with a blank face.

“There, where…?”

“If you cut open their stomach and send the aphrodisiac inside, they’ll take it out themselves.”

“…Trainer?”

“Why?”

“That, excuse me.”

I wondered what she was asking even though she knew it was rude.

“You’re human, right?”

“That’s rude.”

I couldn’t help but laugh at Lilith’s nonsense.

“If I’m not human, who is?”

Just a little, an ordinary human with modern knowledge.