episode_0039

“You crazy bitch! Can’t you see it’s bleeding?!! What will you do if you get a bad face──!!!”

Julia showed off her scratched scales and cried, but Jules didn’t even pretend to listen.

“You crazy bitch, what are you going to do with the scar on my palm?”

In return, he shows his palm and laughs heartily.

Why are you like that? That might mean they were close to each other, but I never thought they would pin a person to the stone floor for pushing him near the water.

If you throw someone on a stone floor, isn’t that an attempted murder?

“It’s been over a hundred years since you were a Dragonia, what did you do without learning recovery magic?”

The ruthless man who pinned a person to the stone floor goes one step further and makes a sarcastic comment.

“To learn, you have to belong to the Magic Tower of Horus! The Magic Tower is a place where wizards are oppressed using learning as bait. If you don’t know, can you please stop pretending you know?”

Julia glares at Jules with a sallow face.

It’s ironic. A place where the most powerful people in the world are gathered is a place where people are oppressed? I’m not sure what you mean by oppression. Does this mean that, as is commonly said, slaves like graduate students gathered together?

“Let’s go.”

“Wait a minute. I haven’t received the confession yet.”

Jules tilted his head.

When faced with a strange situation, we reflexively tilt our heads. Just like a dog. That just feels cute.

“What did you do without giving him something?”

“I was just organizing something. Just wait a moment.”

Everyone knows that wounds are disinfected with alcohol.

It often appears in movies, and distillation methods appear in middle school textbooks. If you know how to make it, the proportions aren’t that important. It’s not metallurgy; all you have to do is mix it with water.

······Is this such a big deal for someone who doesn’t know?

Julias quickly got up and headed to the lab.

Perhaps because the lower body is a snake, the movements are unnaturally smooth and make no sound. Like a cat.

When I entered the lab, I saw Julia taking out several vials from a wooden box. Why do you take so much?

“How should I use confession poison?”

“The effect will take effect in about 20 minutes after feeding. To get the best effect, it is best to take it on an empty stomach.”

“Is it okay to just drink the whole bottle?”

“Only half a bottle. When a person drinks an entire bottle, he or she feels happy and then his heart stops and he dies. Do you need anything too?”

My heart stops?

You might want to know what’s out there and get what you need, but I don’t think there’s anything normal.

“No.”

“Really?”

“Instead, there is one thing I would like to ask.”

“What is it?”

“I wonder what the lamp’s wick material is.”

“What? Lamp wick?”

Julia lets out an obscene moan.

Soon she snorted as if she was dumbfounded.

“······Just do it as comfortably as if you were talking to Juyul. I don’t know much about anything other than poison, so I don’t know much about it, but I think you can buy Simji in Root Village. As for Ramrat── Ugh. It’s here!”

It seems that he doesn’t like the fact that a child who is not even an adult is treated with contempt. Julia put five or six glass bottles from the box into a small wooden box and handed the wooden box to me.

What about the two bottles of confession poison that Jules asked for?

Well, these are probably things that are necessary. An antidote or something.

“Lamrat is very knowledgeable about paper and thread. It’s best to make the fabric and lamp wick there.”

Come to think of it, Zul also said that Ramrat and the elves were excellent craftsmen.

“How much antidote is administered?”

“Isn’t that an antidote?”

“Yes?”

Julias smiled.

“Oh, you can’t read Elvish?”

“Yes. I’m still learning.”

“It’s a tonic. It’s easy to lose weight in the south, so if you’re tired, share it with Juyul.”

“Thank you for your concern.”

Why a sudden tonic?

It was Julias who left the laboratory first. I was worried that I might step on the tail again, so I waited until Julia’s tail went all the way out.

For a long time.

long.

It’s really long.

When on earth does it end?!

······I think we should measure our weight in tons. Probably around 0.5 tons?

Julia is just like Julia, but Jules also made no sense. Even though he has the appearance of a snake, how can he throw a half-ton person?

Isn’t it physically impossible?

“Won’t you sell your slave to me?”

“I don’t like it.”

“Can I borrow it for at least a month?”

“I don’t like it.”

“I’m sorry for joking around. Still, sometimes───.”

“I don’t like it.”

Julia pouted her lips and turned her head away. That’s all I know, so I’m thankful for Jules’ rejection. But Jules must have thought it was too harsh, so he laughed and clouded the mood.

“You say you’re a useless slave, why are you suddenly showing interest?”

“Not really. I don’t know how long it’s been since I met someone I can communicate with.”

“You can communicate? How?”

ah.

If you think about it, education in this world is extremely poor.

“Unless you’re a dragonia or an alchemist researching the same thing─── Wait, isn’t that a dragonia in a social experiment?!”

“If that were the case, you would have remained my slave.”

“You never know. Your constitution is so unique─.”

“No.”

Yulias remained silent in response to Jules’ denial.

Aside from that, the look in Julia’s eyes looking at me was unusual. I feel reluctant because the look in Heilang’s eyes is similar to that with which he looked at me.

Still, I have to ask for something.

“There is something I would like to ask you.”

Jules gaze turns towards me.

“Please? What request?”

“Not Seolrang.”

“Huh?”

A smile appeared on Julias’ lips as he looked this way.

“Ugh~ Yes~! What are you curious about?”

“It’s about pepper.”

Is it because it’s an unfamiliar story?

Julia let out an ambiguous groan.

“Huh? That weed?”

The number of people who died because of pepper could easily be in the thousands, but it’s a weed. Those who died during the Age of Exploration will shed tears of blood.

“Oh, I’m sure you’re good at it.”

Jules also nodded and looked at Julias.

What should I say to get Julia’s interest?

······All you have to do is add poison to the end.

“Pepper contains a preservative poison that kills microorganisms and helps prevent meat from rotting. We need to find out how strong the poison is.”

“It’s poisonous? That?”

An excited expression came to mind.

I knew for sure. Julia shows interest in anything poisonous. I never thought the day would come when I would call pepper poison.

“Have you already experimented with that?”

“Sprinkling red pepper or white pepper on fish is not effective.”

Julias looked quite surprised.

It seems that pepper does not grow in wetlands, and the only ones distributed are red pepper and white pepper, so it would have been rare to encounter it.

“I am trying to find out how strong the preservative poison is with freshly picked green pepper.”

Julia nodded.

“I’ll do that.”

“There is fresh pepper and dried pepper in my backpack. Since pepper doesn’t seem to grow in wetlands, I’ll give it to you.”

“Okay, what exactly should I do?”

The method of storing meat is the same everywhere.

“Crush the raw pepper, down to the seeds, put it on a cloth until it gets wet, wrap the meat and store it in a cool place. For other meats, sprinkle dried pepper on top and cover with a cloth soaked in water.”

“With what water?”

Type of water? Ask questions you haven’t even thought about.

“Rainwater. Please store in a cool place away from sunlight.”

” Boiled?”

···Do you usually boil water?

Even if it is first-class water, it is still right to boil it before eating. But do people actually use boiled water?

Most people, including me, drink water without hesitation when they come across a stream of water. There is almost no limestone water here like in other countries. In other words, like in old Korea, most of the water flowing through the valley is so clear that it is safe to drink.

“No. Without boiling it.”

“Okay.”

“What are these two talking about together?”

Jules frowns and glances at me and Julias.

“Stupid like you── Ah! ah-! Ah! Apod─?!”

Just go a little further.

If you go further, you will reach the prison of Sorshei Dag.

I don’t know if this is nonsense, but it’s something that needs to be pointed out.

“Is this a prison?”

“That’s right. All prisoners on death row in the South come here unless they are executed by the village itself.”

How should I ask?

“Then there are people who are in prison right now?”

“Usually the village executes itself. No demi-humans have been transported here recently.”

“That’s right. These days, I only fly away. When the Cold War and war were at their peak, human experiments could be done with peace of mind.”

Julia lets out a loud voice.

······I don’t think it’s something to say out loud. Jules glanced at my face.

“Most of the demi-humans sentenced to death are killed by the villagers, and the rest are killed by Julias.”

It’s not that they captured people and experimented on them, but that their job is to be an executioner. It would be like conducting human experiments on death row inmates. Ultimately, Julia’s behavior is similar to that of Unit 731 or the Nazis.

Since the relationship between morality and practicality is inversely proportional, it was the behavior of morality crawling on the floor. From a practical standpoint, it’s excellent. Didn’t organ transplantation also start with the crazy act of cutting off a puppy’s head and grafting it to the mother dog?

Instead, the doctor was accused of being a devil for half his life.

Julia is probably like that too.

“There must be a big failure to have a big success, and only with success there can be progress. Do you know that the confession you are taking now will come out in a flash? You guys are the ones who asked me to kill him so cruelly in the first place───.”

“This bitch? I don’t know that?”

Wow!

The resounding sound of flesh exploding became a loud echo that reverberated throughout the cave. If someone mishears, they will think you are torturing someone.

“Ah! ah!! It hurts!!! Why don’t you know moderation?!”

After being hit, Julias collapsed and screamed.

“Anyway, there is no body odor from Ain.”

Jules confirmed and ended his luck.

···Is it because of that? no. I don’t think this artificial cave would be well ventilated. Moreover, there is no outlet at the end, but it is blocked, so air circulation is not smooth.

In addition, Hosott’s sense of smell is so sensitive that it cannot be explained in words. You can distinguish diseases by smell, and you can even distinguish smells from a few days ago… or even from a month ago.

But Jules can’t know that?

This is a person who reacts to the smell of poison and even smells bruises from afar. Odor is a suffocating smell that cannot be described in words.

It was my first time smelling it, but I thought, ‘This is the smell of a rotting corpse that I’ve only heard about.’ It was a stench that I felt instinctively. As strong as it is, you can’t hide it no matter what you do.

“Do you really not smell anything?”

“Not me.”

Jules shook his head.

It’s right in front of you now. I walked out first and opened the prison door.

“Look! There!!”

An ugly-looking elf shouts at me.

“Look at this! There is someone here!”

“······Why are you doing this again?”

Jules shook his head and sighed.

He soon came next to me and glanced around the prison. I couldn’t tell Julia, but if it was Juul…

“Ha.”

···Juul sighs and looks down at me with narrowed eyes.

“There is no one.”

No one? Can’t you see that person?

“Aren’t you really in pain?”

The entire body was rotten, and the fingernails and genitals were all rotted away.

All of his body hair had fallen out, he was pale and yellow like a corpse, and his mummy-like body was filled with revenge.

You mean you can’t see that person?

A person who is literally naked and crying tears of blood? Jules’ expression didn’t even change. In an instant, hatred boiled over.

“Me, save me…! please! Just don’t go!”

“What is there? It’s already been a month since the prison was empty.”

Jules looked around the inside of the prison and placed his hand on my shoulder.

“Sihyeon, you’re not really in pain, are you?”

“Well, let me see too.”

Julia put her hand on Jules shoulder and pushed herself into it. Come to think of it, Sorshay said to Lamia───.

“Julias─────!!!”

“What the fuck?!!!”

Sorshei’s eyes begin to turn pitch black!

“Wow!”

thud!

“────?!”

Julia, startled by my screams, hit her head on the ceiling and grabbed the top of her head.

“Ah-pa──! Are you really crazy?! Should I give you physical therapy to bring you back to your senses?!”

“···Sihyeon? What’s wrong?”

Julia glares at me with tearful eyes and naturally frowns. ···How can you be so calm in front of someone like that?

“I will curse you for the rest of your life!! I will never forget the four bitches who killed my daughter!!! One day, when your child is born, I will cut your stomach open in front of your eyes and hang you with the intestines! Cut out the heart of yours───.”

bang!

I closed the door.

This is because I felt that I should not be allowed to face Julias like this.

“······You’re not kidding, right?”

“What?”

“There was someone there. Just now.”

When Jules opens the door again, Sorshei screams.

“Hey! There!!”

Like a programmed machine.

“There is no one. Since Julias always moves up, didn’t I see the shadow wrong?”

“Me, save me…! please! Just don’t go!”

At this point, I began to wonder whether Sorshei existed. I came to my senses. ···What should I do if I don’t believe what is happening before my eyes? Sorshei is real.

but······.

Jules is definitely not the type of person to pull pranks like this. I am not the kind of person who can play such unpleasant pranks on a person who is locked in a cage, stripped like an animal, with his fingers rotting away and all his body hair falling out.

“···I see. I think I saw something wrong.”

“Don’t leave me!!!”

The prison door was closed, leaving the screaming Sorshei behind.

···Is it a ghost? No, no. There can’t be ghosts. I know what awaits after death.

Why is it only visible to me in the first place?

I am not a shaman.

Psychic powers? A soul wandering the nine heavens? The devil has already explained everything about what happens when you die. That’s how I was reincarnated. I also know that there is no structural way for something like a ghost to exist.

Then what’s the problem with that?!

······I need to find out.

Am I mentally ill?

Or are you possessed by something? I calmed my distracted mind. If I am possessed by a ghost and die, after I die, I will rip up all the long corn.

···There are no ghosts.

There are definitely no ghosts. Even if you give in and call it a ghost, do you lose your memory every time you close and open the door like that?

“···Sihyun. I smell blood on your hands.”

ah.

“It’s because I fell earlier.”

Then I realized.

Because I applied too much force to my hand, the wound burst open.

“Is Jule okay?”

I must have just washed, but my knees are red. My palm was also injured.

“Now, let’s apply some medicine and let’s go.”

I spread the ointment on my hands.

Then, he took Jules’ hand, rubbed his palm, and applied the ointment.

“Am I okay?”

“I said put it on and let’s go. Didn’t you ask me to apply it?”

Jules hesitated and looked down at me.

······Why is it like that? My mind is racing now and I can’t calm down. I can’t make normal decisions.

“Where are you going to sleep?”

“Your house.”

“There’s no room for three people?”

“Then you sleep outside.”

Even if we’re just friends, isn’t that going too far?

“Aren’t you really doing too much?”

Julias is dumbfounded and doesn’t seem to be even angry.

If it were me, I would have kicked him out.

“I’ll sleep outside.”

“You asked me to sleep with Juyul?! Are you crazy?”

Julia shook her head in disgust.

Jules looked at me with a smile as if it was a joke.

“You sleep with Julia.”

“Me?”

“It’s better that way.”

“No. Because I’m a slave──.”

“I told you this morning, but Lexia might eat you.”

“Hey! Could you please stop selling Lexia like that?! It’s hard to read facial expressions, but I’m not stupid!”

What Julia said is correct.

Most accidents can be avoided if people just communicate with each other. As long as you speak at the right time, there won’t be any problems.

“There is a case.”

···Is there a case?

“It was Ramrat’s fault in the first place. If he had spoken, he would have understood, but he was an idiot and a one-year-old who couldn’t even walk. Parents who abandon their children in wetlands are bad!”

Just listening to it made me want to see what my parents were doing. But Jules shook his head.

“It was an unfair trial. Because I never heard what the victim said.”

“Ugh. I’m so frustrated when I see things like this!”

Julias went ahead with a frown on his face.