episode_0067

In my previous life, I had never traveled abroad.

In the first place, I had never traveled domestically before.

While everyone else was going to take O-Star photos or making memories with someone, my memories were in front of the cigarette counter at a convenience store, in front of a charcoal grill at a meat restaurant, or in front of countless delivery boxes.

‘It’s not like I didn’t go on a trip at all.’

Still, when you’re in a relationship, you’re bound to travel.

‘I also went on a 2-day, 1-night trip with my girlfriend. ‘I said so.’

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

‘I’ve been to all these places.’

It’s not that I’ve been there, but that it’s my girlfriend.

I’m not sure who went there, but the information I found while searching the Internet showed that the trail had already been traveled by pioneers.

‘Before he started dating me, he went on a lot of trips, and even after we started dating, he went on trips with his friends a lot.’

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

Even though I couldn’t contact him late at night, I thought he was sleeping, and even when he went to his accommodation early in Jeju Island and said he was sleeping, I thought he was moving around a lot.

‘I never imagined that I would have a pension orgy with my so-called friends.’

The truth was ugly.

Even if it was a lie, I thought I was just walking around laughing and eating with my female friends.

Maybe that’s what I wanted to believe at the time.

However, as the truth was revealed one by one, I ended up opening Pandora’s box.

A story that only appeared on the Internet turned into reality.

-No, but isn’t it possible to bury the past to that extent? If someone sees you, you will think you are cleanㅡㅡ

There were comments on the Internet, but the more I dug, the more dizzy I became from the foul smell coming from below.

The past was just glamorous.

She even secretly confessed that she – no, she often traveled overseas, and even went on a working holiday to Australia during college.

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

I found out later after we broke up that some of them were photos that could be found by searching on the Internet.

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

At that time, I had a vague idea of the truth, but I didn’t want to look at it.

We tried to avoid making each other blush by revealing the uncomfortable truth.

So I realized.

‘Sometimes the truth becomes easier when you close your eyes.’

The truth is always right.

However, although the truth is correct, the question of ‘is it comfortable for me’ is a slightly different story.

The last one managed to miraculously escape before being immersed in the mire, but in any case, I was able to learn a life lesson.

‘The truth is easier to ignore.’

If you bury the truth, there is a high possibility that it will lead to destruction in the end, but at least you will feel at ease for the moment.

Baron Gilberte is also like that.

It will happen.

‘I spent a lot of time preparing my repertoire wondering how I should answer if someone asked, but they didn’t even ask me that.’

Honestly, that’s what I was most worried about.

If you prepare a false product, but say you would like to see the real thing.

If you’re trying to sell something that doesn’t exist and want to check if it’s alive, how can you show it?

Even if he were to hand out the items he used as keepsakes, no one would know whether Jake Gilbert was alive or dead, or whether his limbs were cut off and turned into blood bags, until he saw them in person.

So I came up with all kinds of excuses.

If you threaten the Baron.

If you want to see it that way, they ask you to come into the dungeon yourself.

If you hand over loot (Jake’s keepsake) stored in the assistant teacher’s room storage, saying it is a keepsake.

I had thought about all these things, but Baron Gilberte just listened to everything I said and didn’t bother to check whether Jake was alive or dead.

So I had a hunch.

This bastard, after all, has no interest in the life or death of an illegitimate child.

As expected, you want your illegitimate child to die.

Still, I feel troubled by the dungeon itself.

So, I prepared a few things for image making for him –

“It worked.”

It worked.

“Secretary. The reason these prisoners are making fun of us is that they are getting hot after taking our medicine, right?”

“That’s correct, teacher assistant.”

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

Although the face was unknown to both of them, it looked slightly familiar, as if they had seen it a few times while wandering around the Barony of Gilberte somewhere.

‘I think I’ve seen you at a brothel a few times.’

You are not the prostitute who fucked me.

The man is also not the adventurer I was with.

However, I think I definitely know what kind of work a woman does.

Judging by the discoloration of her nipples and the behavior of her body, it was clear that she was a woman who sold her body at a brothel.

‘but. It’s not like I fucked dozens of prostitutes.’

Although I went to the brothel a few times, I stopped making choices after the fourth time.

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

“Hu.”

The tension is relieved to the point where I can think of other things for a moment.

I feel like the nerves that were tense like a bowstring are loosening up all at once.

Should I say that it feels like my erection is loosening?

“Negotiations were successful. The water has opened.”

“Congratulations. But…can we say that the negotiations were successful with this?”

“We are still wary of each other, but we are one step closer.”

I slowly brought my separated hands together in front of me.

“Jake Gilbert is no longer important. No matter what method we use, all we have to do is bring them some medicine and send it to them, and they just have to send someone to us somehow.”

“…….”

“Still, you have to comply with the transaction requirements, right?”

I pointed to the prisoner room and to the back of the bound man.

“As written, we will fight as ‘enemies’ until we meet again in a week.”

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

The content was written mainly in words, in a crooked handwriting that seemed somewhat similar to that of a demon.

To put it simply, the idea is to maintain confrontation.

And during that confrontation, let’s have a very brief moment of peace with each other.

What will come and go during that time of peace is something that only those who are talking about at that time will know.

“You’re leading the way. Baron, are you more familiar with trickery like this than you think?”

“Yes?”

“They tested the poison themselves, and then sent the men and women who had tested it back to us. And while naked.”

I pointed to the portal to the Cub Dungeon in the image still floating next to me.

“In front of this is the Baron.”

“…….”

Beyond the portal where the gray fog flutters, there must be a Baron.

“A naked man and woman come in with pickled abalone? Of course, other people protected him from behind, or dragged him here and sent him there. There should be a baron and soldiers by now where I negotiated. Rather than a punitive force… they might be closer to the Baron’s personal army.”

“…….”

“This is my opinion, but I think it was probably put in here shortly after testing the weak medicine.”

“That’s….”

“You’re probably watching the reaction behind me right now, right? How do we get out?”

“Shall we send a scout?”

“No. There’s no need for that. There is no need to leave here either. Because what they want is not immediate renegotiation.”

The Baron wished to meet again in a week.

There is no need to run out and encounter the Baron right away.

“It’s fun. I don’t want you to be pushed around by a guy, but I also don’t want you to be pushed around thinking you’re a business partner.”

“…….”

“Are you saying you won’t miss either of them? I’m too greedy. but. I guess he is holding on to the baron position because he is greedy.”

Stand in the position of Yeokjisaji.

“I made this choice because I thought it was best for the Baron. If so, why does the Baron want this direction…?”

Mine Azazel’s choice is inferred from the perspective of Baron Gilberte, not Dandelion.

“As a lord, you have no choice but to care about the reputation of the territory’s officials, residents, and adventurers. However, you cannot negotiate for a million gold. So let’s just keep trying to conquer the dungeon.”

“You mean to pretend to be with us…?”

“No. It’s the opposite.”

Two track.

Hwajeon two-sided.

“My true intention is to be a good business partner, but I cannot ignore the eyes of the world.”

Originally, it meant talking about peace in the future and preparing for war later, but the current situation is the opposite.

“From now on, we will point our swords at each other and pretend to fight. To others, they are roaring with blood flowing all over their bodies. But underneath each other’s feet, they make deals by kicking each other’s drugs and people.”

“…People will only see the upper body. No one would easily guess this. Even in a situation where death and death continue as has occurred so far, it is unlikely that weak transactions will continue to take place underneath.”

“Yes.”

I don’t know if the analogy is correct, but it is similar to the modern international situation.

Just as the United States and China are keeping each other in check while forming economic partnerships.

‘If you think about the historical background, it is more like the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War rather than the United States and China.’

Demons and humanity.

If you get caught, you’re screwed, but if you don’t get caught, that’s it.

“…I’m not getting ahead of myself, am I?”

Wouldn’t a Baron do something like this?

That’s my opinion, not the Baron’s.

‘It turns out I didn’t have any thoughts, did I?’

That’s what I thought, but it might end up being like the Baron just sent someone to check something.

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

Just as the baron tries to create a game that is advantageous to him, I also try to lead the game to my advantage.

‘We can make the United States, and Baron Gilberte the Soviet Union.’

After the Cold War.

What about who won?

And one more thing.

Why didn’t Baron Gilberte ask anything about ‘her’?

Eris Albatea.

Why didn’t they ask even though they knew that the daughter of the Count of Albatea was taken prisoner?

Are you afraid that if you talk about it for no reason, the Count of Albatea will be harmed?

Or is it because, like Jake, Eris’ death benefits herself?

…….

“Secretary.”

“Yes, assistant teacher.”

“We maintain the status quo. I suggest that we treat those who enter the dungeon as before, but prioritize neutralizing them and taking them prisoner.”

It is not the role of the training corps to capture those who enter the dungeon, but if we do it well, we can adjust it according to our policy.

“Once you catch them, you have to distinguish between those you will kill and those you will not kill. I already have a record of saving several people…”

I pretended to gently scratch my abdomen with my hand.

“You can send it by putting a medicine inside your body.”

While watching the news, I often saw cases of drugs being sent hidden inside people’s bodies.

Wouldn’t it be okay to send it like that?

“……Yes?”

Lilith opens her mouth with a confused look on her face.

“Hey, where…?”

“If you cut open the stomach and send the medicine into the stomach, it won’t come out on its own.”

“…Teacher assistant?”

“Why?”

“Excuse me.”

Even though I knew it was rude, I wondered why I bothered to ask.

“Human, right?”

“Excuse me.”

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

“If I am not human, then who is human.”

He is just an ordinary human being with a little bit of modern knowledge.