Episode 433 The Made Saint (2)
Mian showed sincerity and took off her mask and clothes with surprising speed.
Her sudden action made Ray wonder if it was him who was abnormal.
“Okay, so please bear with me taking off any more.”
“If you show up, I will.”
He sighed at the exposure man who threatened to take off his clothes if he didn’t show up.
However, I was hoping that it could be resolved by talking about what happened anyway.
The woman he had seen so far had a strong sense of responsibility and an upright personality.
Even though it was all she had seen for a few days, she was not the kind of woman who would turn around and lie about something like this.
‘Because I wanted to ask about the divine power I saw yesterday.’
Having made up her mind, Ray pretended to be familiar.
When he released the immersion technique, his figure, which had melted into the darkness, appeared from behind a tree.
At that, Mien also sighed for some reason.
“I think we can finally have a conversation with this.”
It seems that he wasn’t the only one thinking about the conversation.
Mien pointed to a fallen log lying next to her.
“Let’s sit down for a while.”
At her words, Ray came quickly and sat down on the log.
Mien looked at Ray for a while and said.
“Before we talk… don’t you think that’s a bit unfair?”
She pointed to Ray’s robe.
His hooded face was hidden by the robe above his chin.
“This is due to unavoidable circumstances…”
“Where is the person without mercy? It’s okay, so take it off.”
It’s not enough to take off your clothes yourself, so you’re a taciturn exposure maniac who tries to take off the other person himself.
In response, Ray slowly took off his robe.
His normally hidden face was revealed.
Her white hair and blue eyes, which are rare on the continent, gave her a sense of mystery.
I didn’t know it when I was wearing the robe, but when the leather clothes made of leather were exposed, the solid body line stood out.
Even Mien, who was not expecting much, had her eyes widened.
“Half-elves?”
“I’m just human.”
“But the appearance… uhm… this is what you were talking about. That must have been pretty tough.”
Instead of glancing sideways, I looked at the other person face to face, but it felt different for some reason.
Besides, this is the first time I’ve received comfort that wasn’t consolation, saying that it must have been quite difficult.
“I should have been suspicious, but why did you accept my request?”
At her words, ‘I secretly watched closely for several days and watched every move’ almost jumped out of my throat.
If I had said that, I would have been mistaken for a sex horse again.
Ray quickly turned around.
“I tend to have a bit of an eye for people. You seemed like someone who kept your words.”
Clearly, he had a bit of an eye for people, so he, who played a harp like a slave, discussed his own eyes with confidence.
“Huh. You have a better feel than you look?”
“okay. You…”
Ray, who was looking at her up and down, said a little cautiously.
“Originally, he must have been a nobleman.”
At that word, Mien’s expression quickly hardened.
“Yes, but… how did you know that?”
He also stalked me for a few days….
I quickly fixed what I was trying to answer without knowing.
“The manners of the nobility are ingrained in the body. There’s no way that a normal wild plant would do that. Even if it’s a fugitive noble or a fallen noble.”
“…I got it right. I had some work in the estate, but to sum it up, I am a fallen nobleman.”
It was like that.
Fallen nobles refer to nobles whose families have collapsed or whose titles have been abolished.
They were usually exiled from the kingdom.
Occasionally, they fall due to crimes, but usually they are targeted for food by nobles of other factions, and it is not uncommon for them to fall.
It’s probably because it’s clean and there’s no back and forth.
Ray asked again.
“Even a fallen aristocrat, a noble is a noble. Besides, judging from his actions, he seems to have been a nobleman of high prestige, so why are you doing a side job in a mountain like this?”
Mian’s expression darkened.
She hesitated for a moment, then opened her mouth with difficulty.
“I… No, my father was leading a family of marquis. It was a family that boasted a history of over five hundred years, but it took less than three years to fall.”
Aristocrats have quite strong pride and self-esteem.
Even if they fall, they will never engage in menial things like bandits.
Especially if it was a marquis with a long history, as in her case.
Mian’s words continued.
“In the palace where there would have been no problems normally, our family started to be ostracized little by little. Without knowing why, when the family fortune was on the decline, my father personally had an audience with the king. By the way… I don’t know what happened, but after the audience, my family, which was rumored to have encouraged treason, came to be monitored by the royal palace, and finally, its position gradually decreased, and the baron who followed my father received the estate.”
The Marquis receiving the land transfer from the Baron.
It was the first time in my life I had heard it.
It was not difficult to infer that the state of the country had gone back to a fairly shitty mess.
“After that…”
Mien, who was trying to speak naturally, hurriedly shut her mouth.
It’s like trying to say something without knowing what you shouldn’t say.
Minen changed his words.
“It’s like this after that.”
“You must have had a hard time too.”
“It’s okay now. I just felt skeptical about the family that had been loyal to the royal family for over 500 years. Now it’s just a sidekick for bandits, not nobles or anything.”
There was no flicker in his eyes at all.
She is a very strong-willed woman.
After the whole family was shaken and betrayed by the royal family that they had been loyal to for a long time, they suffered the humiliation of being destroyed by the baron family.
Mien, who was staring at his side face, said.
“Now it’s my turn to ask a question. Why are you following me and secretly keeping an eye on me? No, not me, but the living?”
Should I tell the truth?
I thought about it for a while, but my worries quickly disappeared.
“At first, it’s the wild vegetables. They frequently plundered people living quietly in the village, so I went looking for them because I wanted to know what kind of people they were. I didn’t know they were imprisoning people in goblin cages.”
“That… I’m sorry.”
Suddenly, I received an apology from the assistant manager.
To be called the leader of the bandits, he has some upright points, but he has already done too many things to be proud.
It was clear that there were things she didn’t know about, seeing her showing signs of insecurity for some reason.
Ray decided to scratch her a bit.
“Bandits are comfortable. Kill innocent villagers, catch them, and lock them up. When bored, he plundered and openly harassed a wife with a husband. It’s because if you repeat things that you don’t know how to fear the sky and get questioned there, you just have to apologize. A person called the assistant manager of wild vegetables is also trying to cut it off with an apology, but how would his subordinates react?”
As he spoke sarcastically, Mian’s head dropped even more.
“…I have nothing to say.”
“Some people even kill themselves after their wives are taken by bandits, but some people just have to keep their mouths shut and say nothing. After all, it’s good to live comfortably in the world. Bandits are comfortable in that respect.”
As he continued to smirk, Mien, who had been silent, reacted.
“Among the bandits, there are people who do it because they like it, but most of them do it for a living. I am also doing this because I like it…”
Ray cut her off halfway through. They are like wild beasts.”
“…”
Was the word stronger than I thought?
Mian couldn’t even lift her head.
From now on, he needed to elicit the answers he needed from her.
“Actually, you didn’t want to be a bandit, did you?”
That word was an indulgence for her.
Who would want to become a bandit?
Everyone wants to live a wonderful life and live a life where they can get what they want.
Even though they became bandits in the past, aren’t there a lot of people who had dreams in the past?
Well, it wouldn’t be an excuse for banditry anyway, but at least it worked for her now.
“I… have people I want to protect.”
“Just as there are things you want to protect, for the villagers, their wives, friends, and neighbors were treasures. However, it was not enough that the treasure was taken away, so I couldn’t even resist, so of course I had to make an extreme choice.”
Of course, she had no part in the looting of the village.
On the contrary, Mien even threatened to punish his bandits for looting.
Everything about the plunder so far was just an act committed by the living boss and the previous sub-boss.
If the leader were alive and questioned to dig into the other person’s guilt, like now, the seeds would not have been eaten.
This was an interrogation method that was possible because Mien always had a guilty conscience and had an upright mind.
Ray decided to dramatize a little bit about the act of monitoring her while he was alive.
“I intend to take care of the bandits in my own way. To that end, I was investigating the bandits one by one. Maybe there are people who have become bandits unwillingly. So tell me why you had to become a bandit so I wouldn’t have to keep an eye on you.”
The reason I had no choice but to become a bandit.
Mian shook her head as she repeated her last words.
“can not.”
With that, she slipped off the top of her leather coat.
Along with the neckline, a pattern of something could be seen below the collarbone.
Ray narrowed his eyes.
‘A magic circle?’
When I concentrated mana there, I could faintly feel the remnants of mana.
No, looking closely, it wasn’t remnants.
It was wriggling as if it were alive and spewing thick mana.
“Show me a little more detail.”
As Ray approached with a serious face, Mien gave a small nod and showed more of her collarbone.
Seeing it up close, I can definitely see it.
This is a ‘slave crest’.
The slave crest engraved with a magic circle is engraved with an oath of obedience to the person who will become the owner.
In addition, if the mana was spilled incorrectly, the magic circle’s mana ran out of control and caused a backflow to the target’s body.
It was clear that skilled mages had made it over several months.
When Ray looked at him seriously, Mien let out a sigh.
“As you can see, I am a body that cannot speak carelessly. There is nothing more I can tell you.”
