tailing.
tailing.
After Resona woke up, all cleanup was carried out in an instant.
Before leaving, Pearly left a certain amount of Batis’ blood in the facility where it was found, and as a matter of course, Rusona found the blood that Pearly had left behind. She judged that the case had been settled neatly and ordered her men to conduct an additional search of the scene.
In fact, Pearly’s trick was so obvious, but there was only one reason why it worked well for Rusona.
It was because ‘I’ directly cut off the criminal’s throat.
“Thank you very much. At least, my brother and I almost suffered from being overpowered by that mysterious slime, but thanks to you, Marnak, we escaped a great disaster. I really don’t know how to express my gratitude.”
‘Say hat!’
In response to Rusona’s gratitude, her mother chuckled, saying that she was talking about something that was easy on the inside even after the blood was drawn. However, as a result, I was not at ease with the fact that I had deceived someone I knew.
“You don’t have to be so grateful.”
It was sincere.
Rusona shook her head with a serious expression.
“You seem to regard the current situation as nothing more than helping one person… I will tell you exactly. You are now indebted to the dragon. This debt is by no means light. Not just for you, but also for me. Do you know what I mean?”
“Actually, I don’t know.”
The dragon princess’ golden eyes gently curved. She rebuked me in a voice full of sympathy.
“Gwarye(過禮) is proportional(non-ritual). In other words, it could be rude for you to refuse my favor. So, if there is anything you want from me, feel free to tell me.”
What would happen if she paid her off here, and then things went wrong, and Pearly and I got caught?
no It’s never going to happen. cancer.
I quickly put away the imagination of an enraged dragon rampaging to punish me and opened my mouth.
“Would it be all right if I put off saying what I want for a little later?”
He wasn’t too keen on getting anything from her right away here either. My conscience was stabbed, but the biggest reason was that I didn’t really want anything from her.
Rusona scanned my face slowly and burst out laughing.
“If you want to do that, do it. I just hope you don’t keep me waiting too long.”
“I will keep that in mind.”
She patted me on the shoulder as if she was having a hard time.
“Me and my older brother will clean up the place, so you can go back and rest for now. In the near future, I will personally visit you and your companions and tell you the story behind this incident.”
“yes. You are welcome to visit us at your convenience.”
Once I got out of the situation and left, a man grabbed me.
“hey.”
“yes?”
Batis chose a horse several times, and then finally threw it away.
“thanks. for saving me.”
To think that the rambunctious Batis would thank me… This was the kind of event I never expected. I recalled that not long ago, I conspired with Pearly to draw the blood of two siblings, and a part of my heart felt heavier.
“You don’t have to be so grateful.”
I was grateful again that my body had been modified by drugs for the first time in a while. If it wasn’t for the modified body, my face would have been blushing with shame by now because I couldn’t manage my expression.
“But… no. it’s okay. bye. See you again.”
Batis scratched his head shyly and trudged away in the direction of Rusona. I left the mansion that Ferris or Perley had prepared for me with such a heavy feeling of shame.
“Mother, it seems that cheating on someone close to me is not in my constitution.”
‘killing!’
There is no one who is good at it from the beginning.
‘Kill kill!’
I listened to my mother’s whisper that if I fooled her one or two more times, everything would be fine.
“uh! there! there! A wonderful priest passing there! Stop for a second!”
A playful call. She came towards me with her bread hat pulled down tightly and her purple hair flowing.
“Purley. Did you transfer all the blood?”
“Yep! You delivered it very well! The libertio side received a generous amount of blood and paid them more generously than usual, saying that the completion of the ‘bowl’ would be dramatically accelerated! Hi-Hi!”
“Good job.”
She slightly lifted her bread hat and slightly raised the tip of her chin, then looked up at me and examined my expression.
“Why do you look a little unwell? Why do you feel guilty for cheating on someone you know?”
It was a very accurate point, as if he had read my mind.
“no. it’s okay.”
“okay? Is this okay?”
Pearly smirked, reached out without hesitation, grabbed my hand, and led me somewhere. I asked as I was drawn to her.
“Where are you going?”
“Where are you going! Thanks to you, I made some easy money, so I’m going to take a bite to thank you! huh! huh!”
***
“How about this outfit!”
“matches well.”
“This?!”
“That goes well too.”
“Then again this!”
“huh. It suits you well too.”
“I want to try these on! Hi-Hi! Wait a minute!”
“Ugh.”
As Jamel picked up a new suit and went in to change, Giselle rested her chin on the table and let out a long yawn.
“Haaam. Princess… No. Can Dacia stop picking out more clothes?”
“are you okay.”
Unlike Jamel, who tried on whatever she could get her hands on, and Giselle, who had already picked out all the clothes, Dakia, who came out with her, hadn’t picked out a single new outfit.
Giselle sat still and half-looked at the tea served by the staff or what the sipping princess was thinking, but she didn’t bother to show it.
“why? I don’t think it would be a bad idea to buy one or two sets of Northern Empire-style clothes.”
Dacia glanced over at the clothes displayed here and there. Then, he turned his gaze back to the teacup.
“No matter how I look at it, the clothes here don’t seem suitable for a long trip. It also made it difficult to fight.”
A woman in her prime is not very interested in decorating. No, it wasn’t that I wasn’t interested in decorating.
‘Perhaps the clothes here are different from what she is aiming for.’
Perhaps Dacia is Marnac. It must be that he wants to be recognized for his competence by the priest who always wears a pure white priestly uniform.
Giselle snapped her fingers, lost in thought.
‘Even if he doesn’t have to struggle to prove himself, if it’s Marnak’s personality, he won’t leave you until you leave on your own.’
Giselle’s thoughts left Dacia and turned to Marnac.
Again, from her point of view, Marnak was a pretty decent employer. Wherever he goes, incidents never end, and he earns a lot better than he thought, and he didn’t regret sharing what he earned with those he went with.
No, to be honest, he never spent money on himself. When he was willing to spend money, it was usually when the dark green haired kid he claimed to be his ‘god’ asked him for something.
Unlike the others, Giselle was a little skeptical of the claim that the ‘Mother of Corruption’ was a real god.
Even in the Liberatio, an organization formed by the worshipers of evil gods, an enormous amount of time and resources have been poured and poured over and over again to call ‘God’ to this land, but one of the ‘evil gods’ has already descended on this land?
If the upper level of the libertio knew about this, they would probably jump out of the way.
Giselle is certain that the boy is not human, but he is not a god. I just thought it was a creature belonging to an unknown realm that hadn’t been solved yet.
“How about this!”
The hem of Haneul Haneul’s dress swayed and Jamel smiled broadly. Giselle, who was still lost in thought, looked at that figure and answered mechanically just like before.
“matches well.”
“Hi-Hi! okay? hey! Please wrap this dress with the one I wore earlier!”
“Wait a minute!”
Giselle’s brain finally came to its senses.
“You said you’d buy everything you’ve been wearing?”
“huh! He said you fit well! Hi-Hi!”
Jamel’s sense of money was devastating, perhaps because he had recently touched a large amount of money. Her friend who used to value every penny in the past has long since disappeared.
Fortunately, Giselle still had a secret word to convince her friend.
“If you buy all of them, who will carry them back? And how are you going to carry that much around all the time? You can’t lift it because it’s heavy, so are you going to ask ‘Marnac’ to lift it all?”
“oh?!”
Jamel’s eyes widened in surprise at Giselle’s reasonable point. Like I’ve never really thought about it. Jamel blinked a few times, then glanced at the clothes he had picked out and piled up like a mountain, then looked back at Giselle.
“Then what about all this?”
“What! I have to put everything back in place right now and choose one or two suits!!!”
“Ah Okay! I understand, so don’t scream!”
“No, people have thoughts…”
Before Giselle nags further, Jamel ran to the clerk, apologized over and over again, and started putting the clothes back in place one by one with the help of the clerk.
“Giselle.”
The call of Dakia, who had been quietly sipping tea. Giselle gave up acting to convince Jamel and answered Dacia.
“huh? why?”
Dacia looked at Giselle with golden eyes and opened her mouth slowly.
“I think it would be better to use honorific titles when referring to Priest Marnak.”
“ha.”
This guy and that guy. Giselle let out a deep sigh and gave a small answer.
“I will take care of it.”
***
It was some time after the small commotion that Jamel had chosen and bought the two sets of clothes he had chosen. After barely escaping from the hellish clothing store, Giselle led the group to a nearby teahouse to take a breather.
“So what happened then…”
As the teas he ordered came out, Jamel chattered and chatted to himself as if he wasn’t tired. Dakia moderately agreed with Jamel’s words, but at some point, she spoke as much as Jamel.
“So then, Priest Marnak…”
It was the word ‘Marnak’ that Jamel brought out that made Dakia’s mouth open. Giselle forgot to drink tea before she knew it, and lost herself in her thoughts again as she watched the two enthusiastically praising Marnac and recounting his anecdotes.
‘Even if it’s obvious, it’s too obvious.’
The fact that Dakia had a rational crush on Marnak was a fact that could be known even after spending just a few days with this group. Jamel seemed like he hadn’t noticed yet.
‘I don’t understand.’
Is it possible for a grown-up man in his prime not to touch such a beauty that he says he likes? No, in the first place, Marnak’s party had a very deformed ratio of members.
A group full of women in their prime. It didn’t seem to be the result he intended, but that didn’t change the fact that most of the current group were women.
Even this party was full of women he could touch as long as he stretched out his hand right away.
That silver-haired princess over there was showing signs that she would jump right in if Marnak called her into her bedroom. His teacher, the blue-haired beauty, was ready to embrace him at any time, and Jamel… was following him with the zeal to say yes to whatever Marnac asked him to do.
‘I…’
Giselle recalled for a moment the idea of Marnac inviting her to a romantic relationship for one night. Soon, a bitter smile crept across her lips.
‘I betrayed Liberatio, and given my position attached to him, even if he were to come into my bed right away tonight, I would never refuse. It probably won’t happen.’
Miscellaneous thoughts spread like a spider’s web from ‘What will the priest who has surpassed the criminal’s physical ability do at night?’ ‘ as she moved on to guessing, a voice broke her thoughts.
“oh?! It’s Priest Marnak! huh? By the way, didn’t Priest Marnak go to work separately with the Princess of the Dragon Kingdom today? But why are you with Pearly…?”
In the distance where Jamel pointed his finger, there was Marnak walking hand in hand with Pearly.
Giselle said that she had found Marnak far away, and wondered if Jamel had a new power to find Marnak.
“I guess we met at work.”
“no! It’s definitely suspicious! It smells very fishy!”
Jamel squinted his eyes and shouted, staring at Marnak, who was almost to the point.
“The famous detective Jamel in me is shouting that now is the time to go after them!!!”
Just as Giselle was about to refute that it was dog shit, Dacia slipped on her words.
“I think so. Jamel.”
Dacia, the most vocal of the three, agreed. That meant that he had to pursue Marnak with the two of them.
Another big sigh escaped Giselle’s mouth.
“ha.”
A sigh that this is completely over.
***
“You didn’t get caught, did you?”
“I don’t think I was caught.”
The place Marnac and Pearly headed to was a crowded bar. Dacia and the others took a seat a little further away from Marnak’s table. That distance, which was neither too far nor too close, was enough for Dacia, who had more than a criminal’s hearing, to eavesdrop on the conversation between Perley and Marnak.
However, if there was one unexpected problem, it was that the restaurant was so noisy that you could hear Marnak’s conversation cut off.
Dakia focused most of the day to listen to the conversation between the two.
“So, I have something to say seriously… what… say?”
Marnak tried to answer Pearly’s question, but Pearly, as usual, added his own words.
“Ah, when you got on top of my belly, you groped my chest while groping your waist…”
“Cool.”
The unexpected sentence that Pearly uttered caused Dacia to choke on the water she was drinking.
Priest Marnak on top of Pearly’s boat? groping your back? And that he did something with Pearly’s chest…? And why doesn’t Priest Marnak deny that?
Dakia’s pupils narrowed, and her golden eyes, which were shining brilliantly, sank heavily.
Jamel’s body reacted unconsciously when he saw Dakia, who had suddenly become stunned.
“Hiccup!”
