bribe.
bribe.
bowl of god?
Pearly handed over a bombshell offer with a smirking smile. An offer that would be tempting enough on my part.
On my side, no matter what time it was, I had to rob the sacred objects I had in the Liberatorio. In that respect, one of the obvious advantages was that the job would be easier with the help of an insider named Perley.
The real question was whether this slightly insane Pearly could be trusted.
To be honest, it was the reality that I was worried that I would get hit in the back of the head a little to accept her offer. For now, it was necessary to scrape out as much information as possible.
“What exactly is that vessel of God?”
“that! me too! me too! I don’t know exactly!”
“You don’t know? Are you trying to steal it now without knowing what it is?”
Pearly tapped her lips and added an explanation.
“God’s vessel! Even inside Versiopa, it’s a very classified matter! One thing is certain: God’s vessel takes the form of one of the intelligent beings living on this earth! In other words, the kind of thing I can make into a doll!”
“Then do you know where it is?”
“huh! huh!”
“How are you? that is?”
Pearly, who was walking away with short steps, stopped with a grin and waved her finger from side to side.
“no! no! can’t tell me! I think he was just trying to get the location from me subtly! I’m not going to hand over any specifics about the God Vessel until you say you’ll help me! Hi-Hi!”
I tried to sneak it up, but isn’t it clumsy enough to fall for this trick?
“What do I gain by helping you?”
“all! It’s okay to have everything except the god’s vessel! good! In the first place, I have nothing but that! at all! I’m not interested!”
“I don’t know what I might get, but I’m not particularly interested in giving it all…”
She quickly cut off my words and threw her own.
“Holy relics! You need a ‘special’ relic! I don’t know where the hell you’re using it! One thing is for sure, where there is a vessel of a god, there must be at least one ‘holy relic’! must! must! how is it? Are you interested now?”
strange anxiety. I had just realized the uneasiness I felt whenever I spoke to this woman named Pearly.
This is because of information asymmetry.
This woman knows me all too well, but I didn’t know anything about this woman named Pearly.
She smiled as if she knew what you were thinking.
“I am so intrigued that I don’t know what to do. right? right?”
“I won’t say no…”
I looked her straight in the eyes. The purple eyes that contained me shone even more.
“huh! huh! what’s wrong! is it a problem I’ll do my best to match most things!”
“I don’t like procrastination either, so I’ll be honest.”
“okay! okay!”
“Tell me about yourself. All I can tell you.”
Her smile widened even more, and a playfulness filled her lips. Pearly covered her lips and giggled.
“what! what! That’s putting me to work…”
She was about to brag, but stopped talking when she saw her mother again touching the slayer. But that must have been just an empty gun after I fired all six shots that Dakia loaded.
Of course, there was no way Pearly knew the situation properly. As if the rumor that there were no extra dolls was true, she quickly waved her hand at her mother.
“Don’t shoot! don’t shoot! In the first place, the one here wasn’t made for combat, so it’s very soft! okay! If you don’t shoot that, I’ll give you something good!”
Pearly put her hands in her arms and rummaged.
“Wait a minute… I was going to serve it with tea, but I’ll just give it to you in advance! I’ll give!”
Whilst her mother’s eyes narrowed, Pearly walked over to her mother, placed a small pouch on top of her hand, and whispered in her ear.
“This… it’s a high-end snack delivered to the imperial family of the Northern Empire…? It’s called ‘Macaron’! Because it’s really really sweet and delicious! Take this and become friends with me too!”
‘killing…?’
Hearing that it was a high-end snack, my mother almost snatched it out of her pocket, opened the pouch, and took out a macaron from inside. My mother glanced at me and chewed on the macaron with very small bites.
‘Hat killed?!’
Mother’s green eyes widened. Mother tossed the leftover macaron into her mouth and savored it more passionately than ever before. Pearly smiled sinisterly and whispered in her mother’s ear in a small voice. like the devil
“If you bear with me for a moment… I’ll give you another bag in a little while. I’ll give. how is it? how is it?”
The mother, who was struggling hard, stood tall. Mother glanced into Pearly’s eyes and spoke to me in an apologetic way.
‘Kill and kill.’
A word that it won’t be too late even if you take all the benefits you can get and kill them. Pearly, who captured Jamel and her mother at once, approached me leaving behind her mother who was obsessed with macarons.
“we! we! How long have you been talking?”
“How far did you know and prepare?”
“I really, really didn’t know you guys would come here! money! I carry it with me every day! I liked sweets too, so I kept them! Then let’s finish the story we’ve been talking about! You said you were curious about me? huh? huh?”
She came closer to me than necessary. Putting her shoulder on my shoulder, Pearly looked up at me with sparkling eyes.
“Where can I tell you? What are you curious about? Oh, are you wondering if I have any experience? don’t worry! I’m…”
“I’m not curious at all.”
I quickly cut her off before the conversation drifted off to a pointless topic. Pearly tilted her head and stared me in the eye.
“Then what are you curious about?”
“Isn’t there such a thing? Whether it’s a simple past or what you’re going to do after you get the god’s vessel. More information about who you are.”
Hearing my question, Pearly smiled as if it was very funny. She answered me with a slightly subdued voice.
“Are you asking that yourself? I can lie to you as much as I want to tell you.”
“Let’s just talk.”
“Um… well, that’s good. Instead, after listening, you will work with me unconditionally?”
“I hate that.”
“What are you, a very bad man? Are you saying you’re just going to listen to the inside story of a woman who’s just gone through the years?”
I slightly frowned.
“You don’t have to do it if you don’t want to.”
“Whatever, I will do it! Let’s see… Where to start! okay! decided Open your ears and listen!”
Pearly hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmed, cleared her throat, and spat out the words.
“My name is Pearly! Age secret! One older sister on top! The place where he was born is the Dragon Kingdom! My hobbies are cooking and knitting! No parents! I like people who keep their promises! People who don’t like people don’t keep their promises! What I want now is God’s vessel! And what you’re trying to do with that god vessel…”
She winked lightly, then let out another bombshell declaration.
“Kill the demon dragon king! I’m just going to cut that flying lizard upside down and trample it down to death!”
You’re going to kill the Demon Dragon King who has ruled the Dragon Kingdom for hundreds of years…?
Pushing my shoulders with her purple hair, Pearly smiled briskly.
“Will this be enough? I really didn’t lie at all!”
“Wait a minute.”
“why? Do you have any more questions?”
The fact that she was born in the Dragon Kingdom meant that there was a high probability that she was a beastman.
“Were you a member of the beast tribe?”
“that’s right! I am a very, very scary spider beast! yes!”
Pearly opened her small mouth as much as she could and spread her palms wide to show a playful threat.
“There is Dokdo!”
“Can you do hand prints?”
“can not! can not! This doll doesn’t have that handprint function!”
Are there dolls that can do that?
“But why are you trying to kill the Demon Dragon King? I heard that the Dragon Kingdom is a very nice country to live in, but…”
The mischievous smile disappeared. Unlike before, she looked at me with very heavy sunken eyes.
“The lizard has a debt that must be paid back.”
Soon, Pearly spoke again in a bright voice as if asking when she had picked up the weight.
“Have you been to the Dragon Kingdom?”
“I haven’t been.”
“also! also! I see! Go see it later when you get a chance! Hi-Hi! It’s just not a good place to live! as soon as! you’ll find out! no! If you are a foreigner, you may never know! Because there are things you need to know!”
She patted me on the back and tilted her head.
“So will you help me with my work? will you speak?”
“Can I ask you one last question before I answer?”
“What? What?”
“Why are you folding?”
Pearly pointed to my face and replied with a broad smile.
“Because people like you are good at keeping promises! As I said before, I like people who keep their promises!”
***
“Good choice! never! never! You won’t regret it!”
After some minor tweaking, I accepted Perley’s suggestion. When she finally received my confirmation, as if she had waited, she handed Jamel another pouch containing ten gold coins and a pouch full of macaroons to her mother.
It was obvious that they were bribes, but neither Jamel nor her mother bothered to reject them.
Glancing at her mother diligently messing around with macarons, she asked Pearly with a bit of a prank.
“Do you have anything to give me?”
“doesn’t exist! doesn’t exist! Not right now! As I said before, I had no idea I would be meeting you here today! instead!”
“instead?”
Pearly twitched her fingers and gave a strange smile.
“The next time we meet, I’ll give you something made from the thread I spewed! For sure! For sure! It will come in handy!”
“Once I get it.”
As we walked while talking, we arrived at a huge facility that appeared to be Arter’s research. To be precise, it was closer to bringing various devices to the space of the ruins.
“Did you sponsor all of that equipment?”
“huh! huh! Technology is all about making up your own mind, voila! Because it doesn’t come out! That’s why I’m looking for people with talent and helping them with money! And get research results in return!”
It seemed that her support was not just here, but scattered all over the place like a spider’s web.
Ather, who was doing something in the lab, noticed me and shrugged.
“Is the conversation over between the two of you now? If you choke me again, I won’t stand still anymore!”
Seeing his face reminded me of the cardi show I had forgotten for a while.
“By the way, how did the cardi show go?”
“A cardi show? You mean that crazy woman?”
“yes.”
“He must have escaped to the inside of the ruins to recover his body. He’ll probably heal all his wounds in an hour or so.”
Oddly enough, Arter had an accurate understanding of Cardisho’s condition.
Come to think of it, her abnormal body and the corpses of the monsters scattered all over the ruins were oddly similar.
“Could it be you who made her like that?”
Arter looked at me with wide eyes and nodded.
“That’s right, I saved that woman who was dying. without consent.”
“I! I! Let me explain in more detail!”
Perhaps worried that I might misunderstand something, Pearly barged in.
“I don’t know what kind of rumors that Gwanghuigyo priest heard! I found this place and killed everyone in sight of the patients Ather was taking care of! So Arter urgently found me! But right now, this doll isn’t for combat! I asked my sister, who happened to be nearby, to help Ater.”
“And did Pearly’s sister half-kill Cardisho?”
“that’s right! I warned him several times to just go back, but priests aren’t listening right away, perhaps because they’re so clogged up people! at last! My sister and that woman had a fight! That red-haired woman got a mule!”
Pearly seemed to want to tell me that he hadn’t attacked on purpose, but only in self-defence.
But there was still something I didn’t understand. I asked Ather a question.
“The woman who killed all of your patients, why did you spare them?”
Arter replied in a slightly melancholy voice.
“Even though she killed some of my dearest friends, I certainly heard. The woman muttering that she didn’t want to die before she passed out. so i saved I… I’m researching to save people who want to live…”
