episode_0074

LXX.

A space filled with irritating noise. This is a space where a sensitive person would not be able to endure and would start to vent their frustration.

This was probably natural since it was a cheap inn. Because it is a cheap bar, it is a place where all kinds of people gather, and it is also a place where people on the bottom end their day’s hardships.

The second floor of the inn.

There is already a woman staying long-term for more than 15 days. No, they say there is.

The reason I used the expression “there is” is because the woman never comes out the door.

According to the female waiter who visited her twice a day, in the morning and evening, to deliver soup and bread, she only saw her lying dead, but she would say that she was a woman that even I would fall in love with just because of her curvaceous body.

Many of the men who visited this old inn and tavern had hopes of seeing the woman of the rumor if she came out.

Despite this, the woman never went outside, and as she did so, the people who visited this old inn began to tell more and more imaginary stories.

And now most of the noise coming from the first floor of the inn was about ‘women’. Even men dressed in expensive clothes who wouldn’t normally visit an inn like this were talking about ‘women’.

The reason is because of the rumor that has been spreading since this morning. So, it is said that when the female waitress from the previous example came to deliver the meal to the room, it was the first time she saw her face.

I couldn’t be sure because the room was a bit dark, but the woman said she was very beautiful.

I don’t know if it was the barmaid’s words, or if rumors were exaggerated in the first place, but in any case, the rumor of ‘the first beautiful woman I’ve ever seen in my life’ spread here, in the Margrave County of Heian, adjacent to the Cocytus Mountains that separate the Alfonso Empire and the Kingdom of Nubernia, before a day had passed. spread to

The problem is that the rumor started at this cheap inn. It doesn’t matter whether the woman was actually beautiful or not.

As it was a cheap inn, the rumors spread quickly, and eventually a rumor spread that a woman even more beautiful than ‘Windflower’, who was the most beautiful of the candidates, was staying here.

So today, this shabby bar and inn is even more noisy and noisy, with some rather wealthy people flocking to it out of curiosity.

But the uproar did not last long.

bang-!

Those who opened the door roughly and came in were all wearing silver armor, so there was a ‘clunk, crack’ sound every time they moved.

A Minotaur was drawn on their chest, and the energy they gave off was filled with alcohol and expectations of women, freezing the first floor of the inn, which was filled with acrid and decadent heat.

Moreover, the mark engraved on their chests, the mark of a Minotaur holding an axe, was also the mark of the Heian Count family that ruled this place.

In other words, they were knights belonging to the Heian Count family.

Was that why?

A bomb of silence exploded on the first floor of the inn, which was bustling to the point of irritating, at a speed that would have been surprising to say in an instant.

“Who is the owner?”

Among the knights, the one who appears to be the most senior steps forward to find the owner. Then the innkeeper, an old man, walks over with his back bent, even though he is not crooked, and stands hesitantly in front of the knights.

“It’s me, me, me.”

“I want to see the end room on the second floor.”

The inn has already become very quiet. Among those gathered in silence on the first floor of the inn, there was no one who could not hear what the knight said.

Also, there was no one among those gathered on the first floor of the inn who did not know what the driver was talking about. Now everyone’s eyes are focused on the inn owner.

In fact, the inn owner, especially the owner of such a shabby inn, should have immediately responded ‘I understand’ to the current situation, which seemed like a request from the knight but was in fact no different from an order.

Perhaps, if the driver had come to visit him secretly, he would have taken him to his room without a second thought.

But isn’t this a place that many people are watching now? If you let in guests here, no matter how shabby the inn is, it will only fly away and go bankrupt.

Even if you accept the pocket the driver holds out.

“Sorry, but.”

“Don’t worry. It’s not something I personally want to see, it’s my lord’s order. Since you invited the nobleman who visited our territory to the mansion, all you have to do is show him around. It is our ability to take you with us.”

The article is not something I personally want to see. A flower blooms on the innkeeper’s face when he hears that this is what the lord, the owner of this land, wants.

Then, after receiving a bag full of money, he guides the drivers up the stairs to the second floor.

I carefully knock on the door in front of the room at the end of the second floor. I don’t know why. I just couldn’t treat this woman carelessly from the moment she first arrived at the inn.

Even now, with the knights standing behind them, they are so cautious that they cannot even urgently knock on the door.

“Yes.”

Fortunately, a voice comes from inside. Did you feel any elegance or energy in your voice? The innkeeper hears the knights gasping in shock.

The innkeeper, feeling somewhat flattered, opened the door, feeling a strain on his shoulders.

There sat a very beautiful woman with lovely red hair shining in the moonlight.

The woman’s figure, with the soft moonlight streaming through the window and surrounding her as if escorting her, seemed to be illuminated by a halo.

okay. It was a scene and a scene that could be described as a god.

Not only the inn owner but also the knights in the hallway lost their minds.

“What’s going on?”

If the woman hadn’t opened her mouth first, the men in the hallway would have been mesmerized all night long.

“… ah. Excuse me.”

“No. are you okay. But what is happening?”

Marco, vice-captain of the Minotaur Knights of the Count Heian family, heard a voice that was clean yet decadent, pure yet somehow overflowing with lust, and he felt something hot rise up in his chest and his vision become distant.

If it weren’t for the strong body and Force that he had trained for over 40 years, he would have looked shaky and ugly at that moment.

“Count Makarov Heian, the owner of the Heian County, invited you to a meal.”

“Ah… .”

A short sigh.

However, upon hearing this, the innkeeper, the three senior knights, and Marco, the vice-captain of the knights, have sad feelings on their faces without realizing it.

“Why… , Why are you doing that?”

Marco asked that without realizing it.

“I feel unwell… … .”

“Uh, where are you going… … !!”

The woman said she was recuperating and that it must be difficult.

Then Marco asked what she needed, and the woman was very embarrassed and did not open her mouth. But the expressions on the faces of the men still standing outside the door are strange.

His face turns red, his body shakes, and his lips tremble, like a person who feels like he’s dying of frustration and can’t breathe.

“If there is anything I can help you with, I will help you.”

“No. Because I’m not feeling well. Could you please go back?”

The knights all let out a pitiful exclamation at the sound of rejection that lingers in their ears, as if they were tickling their ears with delicate fingers.

And then they said to each other, ‘Ah!’ I was surprised to hear that he let out a pitiful exclamation.

“ will also help you. If I can’t do it, I can even tell the Count!”

As if to prove that he was not the deputy commander for nothing, Marco spoke actively, unlike the others. And the woman who heard Marco’s words laughed.

“Ahh!”

Once again, the men gathered there burst out in admiration, and the woman stood up from her seat with a sigh.

“I can’t help it. Since the driver asks this, I have no choice but to endure the inconvenience.”

Now she didn’t even wear a robe, and with her face exposed, she passed through the inn and headed to the inner palace where the count was staying.

When she appeared at the inn, the people gathered at the inn did not even take a breath, and the driver of the carriage drove the carriage with even more care than when he had driven the count.

Facing her, Makarov Heian, the head of the Count Heian family, was also lost for a while, but finally came to his senses when he heard Marco calling him.

And the Count personally guided her to the restaurant, paying no attention to the food being served and focusing entirely on her.

Then, upon hearing that she was not feeling well, the Count was anxious to prepare a potion, but when the woman said that the potion could not cure her, the Count looked depressed.

This is in a situation where the count’s wife is sitting next to the count.

“There is a way… … .”

“What, what! That’s it!”

As soon as the woman started crying, the count got up and seemed as if he would do anything.

“Because that is impossible.”

“Impossible? What is it!!”

The Countess, surprised by the Count’s angry reaction, tries to tell him to calm down, but he approaches the woman, holding her arm in a way that cannot be considered the behavior of a nobleman.

“What! That is the way!!”

“I need vitality… … .”

“Vitality? How can I get it?”

“Heart… And blood.”

“Huh?”

“I need heart and blood. And that was just taken from a living person. Can you do it?”

It had already been a while since the Count, who was across the table, approached the woman. When the woman, who is still sitting, looks up and asks, the Count cannot resist and roughly kisses her lips.

“Honey!”

She is a countess who has already been pushed aside and humiliated by the count once.

But my husband is kissing another woman right in front of me. And at a table where nobles hold all kinds of formalities!

“I will do it for you. I must!”

“Honey! What is that… … !!”

“I don’t think the Countess wants it.”

The countess’s scream-like cry and the woman’s small voice come out simultaneously with the count’s answer.

But strangely enough, the woman’s small voice was heard better in the earl’s ears than the scream-like yells his wife was making.

“Noisy!”

No, the Countess’s voice sounded like an annoying noise. A noise that prevented the Count from hearing the voice of a vulnerable, lovely, and therefore more precious woman.

“Honey!!”

“Marco!”

Count Geary could not bear it anymore and called in the vice-captain of the knights who was still waiting outside the door.

And as if he had been waiting for the call, the vice-captain opened the door and came in. He looked not at the count who had called him, but at the woman sitting in the chair.

“Get that woman out! And tell the soldiers to collect the hearts and blood of the sinners in the territory! hurry! If you don’t have enough, buy a slave!”

“Yes!”

The vice-captain is a top-level expert knight.

Since he had already heard the whole story between the woman and the count outside the door, he answered right away without asking why. He even shows no hesitation in pulling the countess away.

“I… ! I will do it for you. Definitely!”

At the count’s shout, the woman ‘smiled’ for the first time since meeting the count. A bright smile filled with sincerity.

Seeing that smile, the Count’s face became hazy and happy, as if he had taken drugs.

“Oh, and it turns out I didn’t ask for your name. What is your name?”

“ni… Tas. It’s called Nitas.”

This is what happened on the first day that the woman who would later be rumored to be the ‘Wicked Woman of Heian’ entered the Heian Count family.

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Among the sayings people say, proverbs, or just passed down by word of mouth, there are words like this.

-It’s scarier when a calm person gets angry.

I strongly and strongly agree with this phrase. When I saw the fighting horn, which had been shedding tears in front of me until now, get angry, I naturally understood the saying among dragons, ‘When angry, it’s red’.

“Tiger.”

I called to the fighting horn in a very friendly and quiet voice. I called carefully because I felt like I would lose if I fought… No, I didn’t sing quietly.

never. Is it real?!

“Oh? Ah, my lord, my lord. Sorry, sorry.”

Stuttering his speech is the norm, and he bows his head several times and shrugs his shoulders. Like a puppy getting wet in the rain and shaking, or like a child who is afraid of being scolded by his parents.

“It’s okay. I said it was okay.”

“Yes, yes, yes. Thank you. Master.”

If I didn’t stop him, he would keep his head down and up all day, so I put my hand on his head again and patted him, and I was finally able to calm him down.

“More than that, why did you suddenly get so angry?”

“Ah, that’s right! Big, big deal!”

“What? Oh, that one? Where did demons appear again?”

I asked, pointing in the direction where I felt this unpleasant feeling. However, the emotions revealed on Tukhung’s face did not show any concern about demons or anything like that.

“Ah, the kids… … !”

“Children? Are you married? Did you have a child?”

“Oh, no. Young dragons who are not yet 5,000 years old… … .”

“Young dragon?”

“Corruption, corruption! I defected willingly!”

It was definitely something that surprised the tiger.

No, wouldn’t this have been surprising to anyone?

I heard that the coordinator, or rather the dragon that was the coordinator, has become corrupted?

“… I think I understood it well, but I’ll still ask just in case. The meaning of ‘defection’ or ‘corruption’ you are talking about was before that dragon… , what was your name?”

“It was Nitas. Baby.”

“Okay. Are you saying it happened like that Nitas?”

“Yes… … .”

“The young dragon has become corrupted… . huh? ‘Dragons’?”

“Yes… … .”

“How many people?!”

“Seven… … are you. Master.”

This is definitely a big deal. It was just a little while ago that I felt fortunate that I would not have to contact the divine world after finding out that Tugungi would not betray me.

But I can’t believe I suddenly had to contact you like this.

“Wait a minute. You didn’t know about it before with Nitas, right? But how did you know now? Oh, I don’t mean to say anything. I’m asking because I’m curious. I’m curious.”

“Well, that… See, originally dragons don’t interfere with each other. That’s why the dragons said they were amazed to see Nitas’ father, Witree, taking such good care of Nitas.”

“But?”

“So, after Witree passed away, I never dreamed that Nitas would become like that. There were so many things I was indebted to Witree, and I feel so sorry that I didn’t know until Nithas defected, so I used the magic that bound Nithas at that time… … .”

Was it like that?

I can understand his feelings to a certain extent, but honestly, when I think about what happened back then, I still get angry.

Even now, we don’t know where Nitas will be holed up and plotting.

“Okay, okay. But?”

“This time, the God of Magic ordered our dragons to be ‘white servants’ and stripped them of their positions as coordinators, so I thought that if a demon lord or demon appeared, our dragons should respond immediately. It is also for the sake of the master… … . So, I used the Lord’s power to secretly ‘connect’ them without the dragons noticing. Well, there was no other meaning. For a quick response… … !”

“Okay. okay. okay. It’s like a 5-minute standby. Well done. So you found out? The dragon has become corrupted?”

“Yes. To be precise, I felt the power of the Lord. It’s the same feeling as when I was at Nitas. I felt that way and soon after, the connection was lost.”

“It’s ruined. Seven?”

“Yes.”

“Let’s go to the room quickly. Neptis Sicut Angelus.”

I quickly grabbed the doorknob of the training center, recited a magic spell, and opened the door to the dormitory.

After confirming that everyone had entered the dormitory and my room, the moment I was about to click on the application to contact God, I felt some kind of déjà vu. It felt like a sense of discomfort.

No, I was so distracted that I thought I had forgotten something. And before long, I realized what I had forgotten.

“What about other dragons?”

“Yes? Oh, they are not corrupted. Master.”

“No, no. If I were a fallen dragon, a young but numerous dragon. Firstly… … .”

“Ah… … !”