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moon moon.
Pulling a cart like an ox, it advances through the silent night. I don’t know if Pearly didn’t have any intention of talking to me or if it wasn’t, she was immersed in the role of ‘beauty black trader’ she was currently set up for, but unlike usual, she was very quiet, so her appearance was a bit awkward.
After the silence, I was the one who spoke first.
I couldn’t just pull a cart like an ox without knowing how long or where it was going.
“Where are we going now?”
At my call, Pearly glanced at me with pale eyes and replied coldly.
“I remember that he gave me a lot of money to put in useless questions.”
I didn’t respond to the callous refusal, but after a while, Pearly opened her mouth.
“…You’re going to hand over things to the Liberatorio, right?”
“yes?”
To the libertio?
Pearly glanced at me and turned her head forward.
“why? Did you want to pay everything off knowing that you were going to the heinous Liberatorio?”
“no. Have you been giving things to the libertio all along?”
“As long as you hand over the goods on time, Liberationio pays better than you think. When it comes to trading, it’s a pretty good deal. If you do business with them and get caught by the state or other denominations, there is a high risk of something very wrong, so it can be said that the libertio treats merchants like me who are outspoken and always deliver goods on time with great respect.”
She turned her head to look at me and smiled faintly.
“On top of that, it’s better because they tend to buy it without saying anything even if it’s a bit overpriced.”
Pearly’s performance was outstanding. During this conversation, I really felt like I was talking to someone other than Pearly.
“…Is that Pearly?”
She narrowed her eyes and tilted her head.
“My name is Nito…?”
“That’s the setting. Then what is my name?”
“It’s Karita. But I don’t know why you ask me for your name.”
“No, if I had a pseudonym for my name, shouldn’t I have told you earlier?”
At my sharp blow, Nito or Perley, unlike before, smiled as usual and shrugged.
“The name is trivial.”
“I’m starting to get a little anxious for some reason.”
“They say a man is not attractive if he is obsessed with trivial things.”
Pearly tapped her temples with her fingers and scolded me in a stern voice.
“Since you’re almost there, focus on your role. I don’t want to return the money bag!”
“Hmmmm.”
I cleared my throat and quietly pulled the cart again.
***
It was bizarre. As if we had figured out all the movements of the guards roaming the patrol and mapped out their movements, Pearly and I pulled a fairly large cart along the road, but we didn’t run into a single person passing by.
Finally, after advancing through the dark streets, where the expression of silence rather than silence suits us, we arrived at our destination. Standing in front of a house that looked like an ordinary private house, Pearly alerted me with a wink that she had arrived at her destination, then knocked twice on the door in front of her eyes.
Then a low voice came out from within.
“who is this?”
“It is me. Nito.”
The door opened with Pearly’s answer. Appearing from behind the door were two men dressed in drab clothes. They checked Pearly’s face and nodded.
“Nito is right.”
Wasn’t this usually the exchange of a secret password or something? Just opening the door and checking each other with facial recognition?
I was expecting something secret and intimate, but steam leaked out.
The two men asked Pearly with questionable eyes whether they noticed my presence.
“Who is that man behind you who always pulls the cart by himself?”
“An escort.”
“escort? I haven’t heard anything about an escort coming with you today.”
Pearly replied calmly without being embarrassed.
“I hired him on purpose because Horlu told me to get ready to lose weight. I will vouch for that man’s identity, so please let him in.”
“Hmm.”
Of the two men, the one on the left frowned as if he was disapproving.
“No matter how much you say Nito, I haven’t heard anything from above. To put it bluntly, if that unknown guy gets into an accident, it’s all our responsibility, but our risk is too great to let him in with only your guarantee.”
Pearly let out a deep sigh as if he had been criticized like this more than once, then put his hand in his bosom and tried to pull out something. However, the man restrained Pearly’s actions.
“No, not even money today.”
“…what does that mean?”
The man on the left smirked, pointed at me, and shook his head.
“I mean, I can’t leave alive an outsider who finds out where this is.”
Pearly gritted her teeth and let out a low growl.
“You are having a lot of fun today. Gern.”
Is the guy on the left a gerr? I just stood still and watched the situation unfold, thinking that Pearly would be good at playing that role.
“joke? Does this look like a joke now?”
Pearly frowned as if she noticed something.
“Could it be that you are arguing with this nonsense because of my refusal of your invitation last time? I’ve said it several times, but men like you are not my taste.”
“what?!”
Whether Gern was flustered or not, Perley cut himself off very firmly.
“If you go beyond this, I will report it to Lord Horlu.”
“Let’s see, let’s see, this bitch is really!!!”
Gern, whose face flushed red from the sharp blow and was on the verge of bursting, could not hold back his anger.
“Kyaaak!”
Gern pushed Pearly over and drew his sword from his waist. he shouted wildly.
“Today, I must personally receive an apology from you for the rudeness I just felt!!”
While I was watching the scene from the audience’s position as if watching a play, I met Pearly’s eyes. As soon as she made eye contact with me, she looked puzzled at the sudden push, but as soon as she made eye contact with me, she glared at me very quickly, then returned to her puzzled expression.
Pearly, who had fallen, barely managed to raise her upper body before replying.
“Are you trying to do something you can’t handle right now? If Horlu-nim knows about this, you’re really dead! Gern!”
“The story of your years won’t ever come to Horlu-sama. After all, the deal with you originally ended with this one! If I take care of it well, it’s over!”
At the same time as he shouted, the shadows on the floor moved as if they were alive and grabbed Pearly’s limbs. It was an expression of authority.
“Leave this!”
Judging from how he handles shadows, does he worship the same god as Giselle?
“Let’s see if you can keep that nose up when you get naked in the street!”
Gern lowered the sword he had raised.
Caang!
A clear sound resounded as the sword he had received from Pearl collided with his sword. Gern’s eyes widened when the sword suddenly bounced back as if he had completely forgotten my existence.
Gern’s sword, unable to withstand my strength, flew through the air.
“This nothing…”
Whether he was surprised or not, I lowered my sword without delay. A well-honed blade cut off both of his wrists. I swung my sword once more before my hands, which had lost their owners, even fell to the floor.
The body, which was cut in an instant and lost both legs, lost its balance and fell in the air.
When Gern’s mouth opened in confusion, I reached out my sword, pierced his open mouth, and slammed it into the wall like a skewer.
The man with his limbs cut off was hanging on the wall like that.
Gern died instantly without even uttering a scream of death.
Looking at the man standing next to Gern, I opened my mouth.
“Are you going to jump too?”
The man who had been watching quietly until now shrugged his shoulders and yawned slightly.
“Haam. I didn’t intend to intervene in the first place. It’s what Gern did on his own. You watched everything too.”
At that languid attitude, I turned my back and approached Pearly, who had still collapsed and hadn’t risen.
“Are you okay?”
Pearly held out her hand without saying a word. I took her hand and lifted her up. Perley got up, brushed off the dust from his coat, and gestured to me.
“Give me an ear.”
As I put my ear closer, Pearly whispered very softly.
“Kill the other guy too. Because he is the same bastard.”
She took a step back and frowned at me.
“I should have stopped that rogue boat before it pushed me. Have you already forgotten how much I hired you for?”
Get attention with your words. Pearly pointed at the man with a quick glance as she spoke. I took a step back and answered.
“sorry. It happened in the blink of an eye…”
“Don’t even think about going over to those excuses that don’t work. If you get paid, work…”
The distance was narrowed enough. I pulled out the sword I had driven into the wall and cut it in a straight line. The man who was watching the argument between me and Pearly with interest flew off his head.
Took.
His head fell to the floor and rolled and landed on the wall. I brushed off the blood on my sword and sighed.
“ha. Did you bring me here for this?”
Pearly glanced at the head rolling on the floor and answered briefly.
“As you can see, it was me who was harassed.”
“By the way, I killed all the guards at the entrance, is this okay?”
“It has already been approved by the superiors in the past. It’s been a long time since Horlu allowed me to kill them if they crossed the line. You just carry the load on the cart and follow me.”
As I lifted the two sacks from the cart, one on each shoulder, I don’t know what it was, but a fairly heavy weight pressed down on my shoulders.
“By the way, can I go without cleaning up the body?”
“Even though this house looks like an ordinary house, it is a place protected by many powers. Even if you leave it as it is, no one will find out until the sun rises. And…”
said Pearly, who was leading with her back showing, in a very small voice. In a really small voice that is hard to hear.
“Thank you for saving me.”
“yes?”
When I asked back, Pearly’s white ears turned red. I was rather embarrassed by Pearly’s shyness.
Is that really Pearly?
“What did you just say?”
“What did you say! I said thank you for saving me! how is it? A look that stimulates the desire for protection! have you ever fallen in love Hehehe!”
As if she had never felt ashamed, she threw off her calm, beautiful female dealer.
“Why did you suddenly quit acting?”
She rubbed her red-hot ears and spoke quickly.
“Now, before we go in, I’m going to give you a rough idea of what we’re going to do!”
She looked at the two fallen dead outside the door and giggled.
“Every time he comes, he annoys me, and he looks good! Save a beauty who is in a crisis of despair! how is it? Were you proud? Were you happy that you became the main character yourself?”
“It’s embarrassing to think that I followed you and killed someone.”
“They’re good enough to die! The two of them are a very bad pair!”
It didn’t seem like a very good type.
“I had a lot of fun! There was no one to match me like this! The role of a beauty in crisis was also quite fun! I thought you were just burning up and trying to rape me with your eyes? Hee hee! That’s why I love well-crafted plays! They’re usually full of hope!”
After laughing for a long time, Pearly smiled bitterly and continued,
“In reality, everyone is alone at a desperate moment.”
“What does it mean?”
“Nothing! No!”
She shrugged her shoulders and came over to me with her eyes twinkling,
“Listen up! I’m only going to say it once!”
“yes.”
“We’ll go in, hand over what we brought, pretend to leave, and then sneak in here again! because! This is one of many places set up to resonate with the ‘God Vessel’ when it’s at full power!”
She pretended to walk stealthily with two fingers.
“We’re going to sneak in and play a little prank on this resonance point!”
“What are you kidding?”
“Did you forget our promise? you are a saint! I am a bowl!”
Pearly smiled broadly, pressing her breast with her thumb.
“If my prank works successfully, the moment Liberatorio activates the God Vessel, all resonance points will start crying for me, not God’s Vessel!”
She opened her mouth and bit into the air with an ‘ang’.
“In that state, if I occupy the vessel of the god, I will finally be reborn with a perfect ‘body’!”
In that explanation, I realized that now is the time to bring up the question I had been hearing since I heard the story of Desperacio.
“Everything is fine, but is it okay if I ask you just one question?”
“huh! ask! ask!”
“You know what that resonance is?”
“huh! huh!”
I quietly asked my question.
“I heard that Resonance is going to happen as it devours the innocent people of this city, but is the ‘time’ when Pearly keeps talking about taking the vessel before the innocent people are sacrificed? If not…”
I reflected in the dark purple eyes that had returned to their original color before I knew it. I finally asked her one last question.
“…Are you talking about after everyone is sacrificed?”
At my question, Pearly laughed quietly for a while. Her purple eyes curved in a soft curve. Then she slowly opened her mouth.
“You intend to kill me right here and now based on my answer?”
