Chapter 82 – [Hero] Night City
Aseila, the city of night.
It was indeed a city worthy of its nickname.
After a long journey, we arrived at Aseila.
I thought it was no different from any other city until I saw the gate in the distance, but as soon as I stepped into the gate, I felt as if I had come to another world.
First of all, the smell.
The strong smell of perfume wafted from all directions.
It was so poisonous that it was incomparable to the incense Seria used before, and it seemed that her nose would go numb any moment.
“Eww… Hero, let’s go in quickly.”
Arin covered her nose and frowned as if she was particularly weak to the smell.
Everyone had the same facial expressions.
Only Mr. Jeren, who had been there a few times, was fine.
“I will guide you to the accommodation. There are very few places here that only provide lodging.”
“Does the inn do anything other than that? What is it?”
Yuni asked with an expression that she really didn’t know.
I don’t think I should listen to this…
“Of course the window…”
“Daddy, let’s go quickly!”
Fortunately, before he could say anything more, Arin hurriedly cut him off.
“Window?”
“It’s nothing, Yuni. Please guide me quickly.”
Pushing the back of Uni, who tilted her head, Arin glared at him.
Jeren stopped talking and stood there for a while, then he took the lead and guided us.
“Certainly, I feel a little bad. Right?”
She looked back at Seria and said that, but Seria was already far ahead.
Embarrassed, I scratched my head and followed them.
The street itself was nothing special.
As in any city, dusty roads and yellow buildings.
Only people were strange.
People of all ages, men and women, walk around almost naked.
It’s frustrating because there’s not enough room for your eyes.
“Eww…”
What the hell is this like?
Why can’t I see through the inside even though I’m wearing that clothes?
Is it okay to wear clothes that reveal my belly button and legs like that in the middle of the street?
“Oh my, what a cute group. Wanna go play?”
“Girls! Don’t you need a man with good skills?”
All sorts of touts were rampant on both sides of us walking down the middle of the main street.
To them, we seemed to be just cute toys as we walked around looking at the floor with blushing faces.
“Are you wielding a knife with such a womanly hand?”
A woman suddenly came up to me and out of the blue she touched my hand.
“Wow! Oh no!”
What is not
Embarrassed, the words came out without my knowledge.
“Ahaha! What is not? Funny. Are you the one who uses this rather than a sword?”
Swoop.
Her hand slides into my pants very naturally.
“Uh, ah!”
I screamed at her and ran away from her.
Behind me I could hear women giggling.
I was so ashamed and resentful.
What the hell is this crazy city?
“Eh, Eric! Come quickly.”
Yuni took hold of my arm as she had gone through a rough run and pulled her toward her.
“It seems a bit strange here…”
“I think so too.”
It seems that we are the only normal people in this city.
“Wow, oppa, you must be using quite a bit of strength, right? I’m not very expensive, how about it?”
A woman with heavy make-up and large breasts approached him, as if Jeren was experiencing similar difficulties.
Even though there was quite a distance between her and me, the smell was still vibrating here.
Widely!
However, the woman’s outstretched hand did not reach Mr. Jeren’s chest.
It was because Seria frowned and removed her hand.
“Go away.”
“Huh, do you have an owner? I don’t really care.”
Seria threatened her staff by sticking out at her constant slurping.
“Would you like to burn here?”
“Hey, jealous girls aren’t popular! It’s okay!”
No matter how crazy she was, she didn’t want to fight a wizard, so she grumbled a word and hid herself among the people.
As if Seria’s threat had worked, people openly looked at us with sinister eyes, but no one approached us and said strange things.
“Excuse me… Do you still have accommodation?”
Arin, who was restless among us, cautiously spoke to Mr. Jeren.
She was terrified like a child walking through a graveyard in the middle of the night.
After all, it was a place that was too stimulating for her.
No matter how suspicious it was, wasn’t it a futile choice to come to a place like this?
I started to have belated regrets.
“Im here.”
The accommodation was not too far away.
Although it was a little shabby, it was a fairly large building.
“Because I know the owner here. If you ask me, I will make some accommodations for you.”
“Oh oh!”
Uni liked her eyes shining.
This person has a wider network than I thought.
I was amazed all over again.
“Come on, let’s go in.”
He guided us with familiar gestures.
Took 2 rooms.
The men’s room that Jeren and I use. And the women’s room.
Thanks to the royal family certificate, I was less worried about accommodation costs, but I was a little reluctant to use a room for one person for free, so I compromised in an appropriate way.
After finding a room, we unpacked and gathered in the women’s room, which was a little bigger.
Originally, we would have gathered in the lobby on the first floor and talked, but honestly, I didn’t want to stay in such a place longer.
Even if the accommodation was fine, the people staying there were no different from the people on the street.
No, it was more exposed.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s inside the dorm, but there were men with their tops off, and there were even women who were wearing clothes that showed through but no underwear underneath.
I saw something red in the middle of her bouncing chest and quickly turned her head.
“Ugh… It’s so strange here.”
Everyone nodded their heads at Yuni’s words.
Exactly, except for Mr. Jeren.
“I heard the report, but this place is really… It is beyond imagination.”
Arin seemed weak as if her energy had already run out.
When I see that her cheeks are slightly red, I am worried because she does not look good.
“What… Then, let’s just go and see what we need to do.”
Seria said calmly.
It seemed that he was a little displeased, or displeased, perhaps because the anger he had earlier remained.
“I see. For now, there are two things we need to do here.”
Arin looked around at all of us and reorganized our goals.
“One is to find Luella’s whereabouts. She may or may not be here. Even if there is, it won’t be openly revealed, so to be honest, finding it won’t be that easy.”
Is Luella really in this city?
It’s a place that doesn’t quite fit her image, but rather that’s why she might have chosen this place.
If she were hiding here she would at least change her face.
It is unlikely that even her body can be regenerated, but her face cannot be changed.
“Another one is to investigate the anomaly of this city. As you can see, this city is not normal right now. Obviously, there must be a reason for this change. I need to find it.”
The same goes for this one as well.
It’s definitely a city that feels a little strange, but how do you find out what’s causing it?
I don’t even know how to investigate.
“So how are you going to investigate? Wouldn’t you like to split it into two this time?”
Yuni expressed her opinion first before other opinions came out, as if she had been dissatisfied with the way we divided the number of people into the investigation.
I also agree with her opinion.
It’s the same with other cities, but in this city in particular, we didn’t want to send our party members out on those dangerous streets.
“Will it take a long time if we go around together?”
“Still…”
Seria’s words were persuasive, but it’s the opposite of sending them alone.
It’s too risky. Isn’t it a dangerous place where you don’t know what will happen?
“I want to go out with Arin and Seria!”
The two of them were surprised for a moment at Uni’s grunting words, then smiled.
“So are we.”
“Huh. Of course.”
I am happy to see the three of them in a friendly manner.
As I nodded my head in satisfaction, Mr. Jeren added a word as if he had a good idea.
“Then the three of us can go together.”
I thought for a moment about the three of them going together.
If three pretty women go out in different clothes… ?
After examining the possibilities one by one, I shouted.
“No!”
Absolutely not.
It’s obvious that strange men will be twisted.
“If that’s the case, I’ll go with you… !”
“Isn’t that the same as going out together?”
… That’s what it says.
This is no different from just going out together.
Wait, but there’s no reason you can’t go together, right?
“That wouldn’t be bad either.”
Arin, who was quietly listening to our conversation, said the same thing I thought.
“Arin, that’s why the speed of the investigation…”
“It’s not like you can find it right away just because you go separately, right? I also regretted being split into two whenever I stopped by the city.”
Uni also clung to Arin and vigorously expressed her intention to agree.
“Well, that’s me too…”
Then, for a moment, she looked away from her.
“… Okay. Then let’s do it.”
Even Seria, the de facto decision maker, agreed, and no one objected to this opinion anymore.
***
It’s been three days since I started researching like that.
We were slowly getting tired.
“Hee hee, I’ll tell you if you let me touch you.”
Seria quietly picked up her staff at the vulgar tone of the naked man.
“Uh… Was it that wizard? Mi-sorry!”
Then the man’s face turned pale in real time, and he hurriedly ran away.
How many times is this?
Everyone here was, one might say, overly candid about their sexuality.
It’s already a daily routine to go naked like that man, and it’s not difficult to hear the moaning of men and women just walking down an alleyway.
Even most of the stores here are adult goods stores.
“Ha…”
Seria let out a sigh as she hung her staff back around her waist.
She and all of us were tired of repeating the same questions over and over for days.
When they try to ask something, they keep making strange demands, and Seria kicks them out again.
We repeated this so many times that rumors about us had already spread throughout the city.
Even if it wasn’t for that reason, we were the only ones wearing decent clothes in this city.
“… Where should I go now to ask?”
Uni hesitated for a moment and asked, but no one answered.
There was no place to go, and even if there was, I don’t know if it would be meaningful.
“It can’t go on like this.”
Seria leaned against the wall and crossed her arms as she affirmed.
“Yes, but is there another way?”
Arin still couldn’t adjust to the atmosphere of this city. She was looking down at her floor with her bright red face.
Thanks to that, I or Seria were mostly in charge of talking to passers-by.
Because Yuni is in charge of the search.
“Hmm…”
Seria also seemed to have no alternative, so she turned her gaze to the outside and thought for a while.
I thought about it too, but I couldn’t come up with a good idea.
“Whoa… Why in a place like this…”
Arin sighed and inadvertently picked up the paper that had fallen on the floor. When she confirmed the contents, she was startled and put her paper back down.
“What was it?”
“… This is a strange ad.”
It seemed to be those kinds of advertisements that were sometimes pasted in front of the store.
The names of the shops were all different, but the contents were all the same. It was a job posting saying they were looking for new workers.
Of course, they weren’t all that good.
“Hey, are you interested?”
“Hee!”
When someone spoke right next to her, Arin was startled and ran towards me.
Seria and I reacted belatedly.
“Hey, I’m not that kind of person! So put down your weapons.”
“… Who is this?”
Seria asked in a cold voice.
Having already suffered several times, she no longer cared about the people here.
“That is the owner of the store the lady was reading about just now. Whoa… As expected, it is a great beauty.”
As her short, chubby uncle scanned Arin up and down her, she hid behind me.
Seria’s expression naturally became more stern.
“If you don’t want to be roast pork, why don’t you just go the way you came?”
“Oops… It’s really just like the rumors.”
He shrank slightly under the pressure of Seria’s momentum, but did not back down.
Rather, he actively talked to Arin.
“My lady, how are you? Would you like to work with us? If you’re a girl, you’re sure to be the best in the business! I can’t even say it with my own mouth, but our store is the largest in Aseila and the best treatment… “
“Go away.”
Seria really recited her spell and glared at him with sincerity.
“Huh… Oh, I think you misunderstood, but that’s not the kind of store!”
“No, that’s right… !”
As he desperately made an excuse, Arin, who had been hiding behind me, poked her head out and shouted.
“Uh, how are you thinking of making money with that!”
“Ah, no, that’s healthy enough…”
At that moment, I saw Yuni picking up the paper out of curiosity.
Yuni’s eyes, which slowly descended from top to bottom, stopped in the middle and immediately looked in my direction.
What is it about?
I gave her her signal without her words.
It’s been several years since I’ve been with Uni, and this level of communication is possible without words.
Upon receiving my glance at her, Yuni nodded her head, then she looked around for a moment and then pointed at her darling and her clothes.
Clothes? What are the clothes?
When I didn’t understand Yuni, she pondered for a moment, then without hesitation, she quickly lifted her clothes.
Thanks to that, her belly button was exposed to the outside as it was.
Going without a single flab… No, let’s not think strangely.
Yuni was again pointing at her clothes.
What the hell are you thinking in the streets where people walk?
I panicked and tried to stop her, but soon realized that it was her signal that she was sending her.
Take off your clothes? Is that what was written there?
Undress. Let’s work together.
… It’s a strip show!
No, are you suggesting something like that to Arin right now?
I hid Arin behind me and said firmly.
“I’m sorry, but I will decline.”
“No, don’t do that, just once…”
Perong!
Seria exerted as much patience as possible and burst the part right next to the man’s foot with a slight intensity.
Dust flew everywhere.
“Ugh… Bird, if you change your mind, come back anytime! It is the reddest building on this street!”
Even while he was running away, he put his business card in Arin’s hand.
“Then stop!”
The man disappeared just as quickly as he approached.
“Phew, throw that away quickly.”
Seria held her head and beckoned as if her bones were hurting.
“Hey, you can’t just throw it on the side of the road.”
Even in the midst of her embarrassment, Arin stood firm in her convictions.
Well, that’s probably why I picked up the paper that fell on the floor earlier.
I understand, but I still couldn’t stand the fact that her filthy paper was on her.
“Then give it to me. I will burn it.”
As Seria held out her hand, Arin looked at her and the business card in her own hand with her puzzled face.
“That…”
“What are you thinking about?”
“… Tae, because even if you burn it, ashes remain…”
Stubborn in strange places.
“I’ll go back and throw it away!”
Saying that, Arin carefully put her business card into her bosom.
