episode_0257

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“Ha… ha… Not dead…

who… Dying… ”

Vivian was already out of breath from excitement and surprise, but she was calmly responding to Parlocino’s questions.

Parlocino, who came down as if jumping from the pole in response to Deborah’s onslaught of attacks, this time cut Deborah cleanly and gently kicked the pole floating in the air with his toe, sending the short, cut fragments thinly into her thigh like a javelin. It looked like it was being put in.

“Wow…!!”

It was a blow that revealed the fact that even the reason the spear had not broken until now was based on his spear skills in catching the sword.

In an unexpected surprise attack, Parlocino suddenly turned around in his seat, giving an aristocratic greeting, leaving Deborah on one knee holding her thigh.

“I feel like I have to go today.

We will talk about the rest later, gradually.”

“Keuuu… Where… !!”

Deborah, who had lost her mobility after being stabbed in the thigh with a cut spear, was furious and was throwing knives, stones, and everything she could get her hands on at him as he turned around.

However, Parlocino tilted his head to avoid even a small piece of gravel, and disappeared with his men at a leisurely pace, trudging down the alley.

In the end, the only people left were Vivian and Deborah.

One was stabbed in the thigh and tried to stumble and run after Parloccino, but ended up falling down because he couldn’t walk properly.

One was looking up at the sky, breathing heavily, with the spear stuck deep into the ground along with the hair next to his ear.

But in the end, Vivian, who pulled out the spear first and stood up, lightly cut off the hair that was crushed as it hit the ground and let out a soft sigh.

‘I didn’t say it would be easy… okay…

I didn’t even think about it… … ‘

I felt as if my sparring with Anne had become a catalyst for misfortune.

When I first tested Nemea, I thought there wouldn’t be many people who could surpass me, who was semi-invincible.

Since I once felt the wall from Anne, I have continued to feel that there is another sky above the sky.

‘like this… Will I be able to reach Lalatina…? … ?’

He was dealt a cruel blow by Parlocino, a mid-sized cartel.

But what about the Lalatina Cartel, a large cartel that is considered higher than that?

My own strength continues to show its limits…

Will he be able to fulfill his role until the end?

“Gulp… gulp… ha… … then… … ”

As her thoughts grew, Vivian staggered to her feet, opened the canteen at her side, and took a small sip of the sweet liquid inside.

My body felt much refreshed as the sweetness and refreshing taste that eased my fatigue lingered in my mouth, but my mind felt as if there was a dark cloud.

In the meantime, perhaps Deborah was filled with resentment towards Parloccino, one of the few ‘criminals’ whom she had missed ‘again’.

She was looking towards the alley where he disappeared, pulling out the spear stuck in her thigh.

Looking at the blood flowing from the wound from the moment the spear was pulled out, her condition did not seem to be normal, as she kept trying to get up while holding the sword like a cane.

“There is no need for both of us to be tired.”

“Wait!! Where are you going… ?”

However, as soon as Vivian showed signs of moving, Deborah immediately turned around and was shouting at Vivian.

“I don’t know either. Come on, drink.

Still, we were one team for a while.”

However, Vivian suddenly threw a canteen with half of the nutrient solution in it so Deborah could catch it, and Deborah took it and looked at the canteen and Vivian alternately.

However, when Vivian wiped the sap from the corner of her mouth with her wrist, Deborah opened the canteen with a scared expression and began to sip the contents.

But perhaps he hadn’t even thought it would be this sweet, as his eyes widened and his face even frowned.

Vivian, who was laughing at the sight, turned around and started walking forward slowly.

“Wait… wait… … ”

“What is it? Why?”

“Your… your name…

I said Vivian… ”

A question posed to Vivian, who had enough time to pause and laugh.

However, Vivian felt that the question might not be a very good question, so she trailed off.

“So… … ?”

“Now I remembered…

Vivian… Vivian de Grenot… …

Marquis Grenot’s… Missing eldest daughter…

The disappearance is shrouded in secret… … ”

Finally, a person who is close to the truth has appeared.

Vivian’s eyes were starting to harden as she faced such a person.

Of course, she could deny it, but Deborah’s eyes were too full of confidence for that to happen.

The thought that if I left it like this, it would seem that they would follow in my footsteps further in some way, was filling my mind.

“The blonde hair from earlier was… It must be Ranier de Bertrand, who also went missing…

okay… After disappearing from the Academy, even when he appeared at the Froden Mansion.

And this time, when we met in the back alley… …

okay… Both of their faces are slightly different from their portraits… I couldn’t remember it.

but… It’s definitely you guys… Now I know… …

Compared to what remains on record… It was different in many ways.”

It was true to some extent that their appearance had changed from their previous portraits.

In the first place, they had the Parastars disguise their faces to some extent and go outside.

And more than anything, I felt like my growth was strangely accelerated by being exposed to Enic’s mucus and nutrient solution.

Although I thought to myself, I had done something wrong, I originally thought my body was pretty good, but now my body was even more bloated than before.

Now, the place to go in is too tight, and the place to come out feels like it’s going to explode.

Anyone who knew Vivienne and Ranie from the past would probably have to see them again at least once to recognize them.

I can’t believe I found these women who went through such changes.

‘Should I kill him…? … ?

If it’s like that right now… … ‘

It was too risky to keep alive a person whose true identity was discovered.

As she was thinking about that, she picked up the sword that had fallen on the floor and was about to grip the handle tightly.

“…… Why… ? For what reason is the noble daughter of a marquis… ?

A strong family… Throw away all guaranteed futures…

Why in Changgwan? Even fighting with other cartels… ?”

On the contrary, Vivian’s expression became a little dazed at the unexpected question that came back.

Although it seemed confusing in many ways, Deborah’s question seemed pure even in Vivian’s own eyes.

Because she, too, had thought of the look in her eyes that only a person who had faced an unsolvable mystery over and over again, and had thought about it until the end, had finally gotten stuck.

At a time when I thought I had lost everything, I once thought that too.

Because he thought that what he lost was everything in the world.

Thinking that there would be no more opportunities or anything for himself.

There were moments when she struggled in pain and wished the world would end, not knowing that what she had lost was only things that were not worth it.

“For you… Even if I tell you, I don’t know… …

okay… You probably never know… … ”

But it’s different now.

If you stop here, you will have to let go of everything.

Now there is something I don’t want to put down, and a seat next to me that I don’t want to leave.

‘okay… I will…

you can do it… …

If it’s for him… … ‘

“The important thing is… I’m not Grenot anymore…

just… Now it’s just… It’s just Vivian… ”

Vivian, feeling uncomfortable, sheathed her sword and turned back.

Although it was eventful in many ways, her goal of taking down the three surrounding cartels had already been achieved.

“Someday… … ”

A low, excited voice came from behind her.

“I’ll catch it someday…

And with that mouth… …

I’ll make everything blow up myself… … ”

Vivian glanced back at the sound of that voice and saw that one corner of her mouth was being pushed up and she was showing a mocking smile.

“Catch it if you can.

Because they won’t catch you easily anyway.”

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“Are you going back?”

“Correct. I’m going back.”

“Can you judge a person based on that alone?”

“It may be so, or it may not be so.

but… We also showed it to each other, right?

In the form of ‘just one moment’…

This time, I’ll try to think of it like that.

In that sense… Would you like to go back first?

I’ll take a walk for a bit and then go back at my leisure.”

“If you say so… I will follow your orders.

Because your choice is never wrong.”

The colleagues who received his orders leave, and Parlocino remains alone and walks leisurely.

As he was walking for a while, enjoying the surrounding scenery, he suddenly felt the presence of someone walking beside him and let out a small laugh.

“People with heavy hips have been around for a long time.”

“……”

Unlike Parloccino, who wears a truly gentlemanly uniform.

Someone wearing heavy-looking dark leather clothes, including a shirt, coat, cape, and gloves, and wearing a wide-brimmed fedora on their head.

His attire, reminiscent of a hunter doing rough work rather than a merchant, and his silent atmosphere spread a considerable sense of intimidation to those around him.

Parloccino seemed to be talking to him as if nothing was wrong.

“I think I know roughly how it goes.

yes… I liked it when we bickered among ourselves…

It felt pretty good to play hide and seek for a few months… ”

Seeing the other person’s silence, Parlocino just smiled and continued talking.

The man who was still walking next to him paused for a while before finally opening his mouth to say a word.

“I wasn’t that good.”

“It depends on what you think, Deckard.

Depending on what you are thinking right now.

So many things can change or stay the same.”

“So you must have destroyed my slave market…

I think we went too far at that time…”

“But weren’t you relieved too?

And still… I’m still sitting in the best seat.

and… It must be boring now.

As for your peaceful appearance now… …

Isn’t that why you came to see it like this?”

Seeing the other person’s lack of response, Parloccino glances sideways, wondering if he may have said something difficult for no reason.

He was resolute, looking at the other person with kind eyes, and adding just one word, nothing more or less.

“What are you looking at?”

The person who heard his question, which contained many things, just looked up at the sky without saying a word.

“I see… You have changed too…

Then I guess I should change too…

Heh heh heh…!! Heh heh!! Hehehehe!!”

Putting aside the rumor that they were enemies, the two men walking down the alley with Parlocino’s happy laughter disappeared together toward the other end of the alley.