Chapter 98 – [Hero] Last Week
She is not Arin, but someone who looks very much like Arin.
So there’s no reason to be surprised to see me.
“Haha! I think I’m surprised by your reaction! Let’s say hello again to our sweet queen!”
“Wow!”
“Eri! Eri!”
She was looking at me
This is an undeniable fact.
Eri looked at me with a puzzled face, and she immediately turned her head away.
As if nothing had happened.
She was no longer looking at me, but I could see the side of her face.
Scale.
Anyone could see that it was Arin’s face.
Soon the music starts flowing.
The sound of music that sweetly stretches as if honey has been applied to the tone.
Her arms slowly rise to the music.
Jingle jingle.
The trinkets scream in sync with her movements.
That finger, that arm, it’s all familiar.
The small breastbone of her bent back and her slightly spread thighs are somehow familiar.
Eri was dancing in front of men she didn’t know.
With her own hand she stroked her breasts,
The gap between the legs is barely visible,
She exposes every part of her body to dirty men.
I captured her performance without missing a single one in my eyes.
And I thought.
She’s not arin
Because Arin is not so shallow.
There was no way that such a shallow woman could be a priest.
To equate the two was an insult to Arin and an insult to all priests in the world.
Thinking that way made me feel at ease.
No, I hoped so, but my heart did not feel at ease.
No matter how much she denied it, there was a bit of familiarity mingled with her vulgar strangeness.
I think I’ve seen those eyes a few times.
I think I’ve seen that hand gesture somewhere.
Is that why?
I got an erection.
It was unknown whether he was attracted to the seductive seduction of a strange woman or was responding to the familiarity of her being seen among her.
But I was definitely excited.
A distance you can reach with just an outstretched hand.
I want to jump right now.
And I want to let everyone know.
This girl is my girl
Please don’t touch me carelessly.
… Ugly
What kind of greed is this?
Regardless of whether she was Arin or not, to think of her violently treating women was not like me.
But I couldn’t bear to think that those men were looking at my precious comrade with such filthy eyes.
No
She’s not an arin
Let’s not get confused again.
I had to bite my lip hard enough to bleed to come to my senses.
Eri’s performance was short-lived, but she left a strong impression on everyone in the audience.
“Don’t go! Don’t go!”
“I’ll pay any amount, so please don’t go!”
At the end of the performance, they shouted her name in near-shouting screams.
“Now, now, calm down! I’m so sad that I’m in tears too! How could the world have to let go of such a talented woman! I really want to kidnap you!”
I kept clasping my hands to cool off the boiling heat.
She’s not Arin, so it’s okay for her to be excited about her.
I had a bad imagination, but I’ll be fine.
Seeing her face hot, she probably flushed red.
If I go out and get some fresh air at night, it will be a little better.
At least by the time you return to your accommodation, it will be back to normal.
… Should I go back
In fact, I wanted to grab her and ask her identity, but I had to endure it because it was a nuisance to everyone here.
Jump!
Then someone stood up behind me and shouted.
“For a moment! Still, there will still be a seat behind her! I will buy it! How much is it?”
Was a lord
He shuddered and shouted at the host.
… Back seat? What is it?
“… What! Well, I guess… !”
The audience groaned.
What? What is it?
“Ahhh… That’s the back seat… Hemm, I’m very sorry, but Eri’s back seat is already reserved.”
“What! Who the hell beat me like that… !”
It seems that Young-ju almost lost his temper for a moment, but when the women nearby stopped him, he soon sat down grumbling.
My heart pounded at the uneasy feeling I felt from the name of the back seat.
“Yes, it seems that you are also curious. In fact, this time a customer used our ‘Golden Ticket’ to make a priority reservation for her! Gee, are you all surprised? Still, she’s worth it! Yes, it is!”
Golden ticket? What else is this
Someone, someone please explain to me… !
“Damn it, no matter how much money I give, it’s useless.”
“But. Can I be alone with that bitch? Is that worth the money? If that happened, all the rich people in the city would rush at once.”
I could hear the voices of two people whispering and talking behind me.
… Only two
Their words were very meaningful.
“More than that, it was really something with a golden ticket. I just thought they were lying again.”
“This is the first time I’ve heard that I wrote it too. Who the hell has such a precious thing?”
Golden ticket. Come to think of it, wasn’t my ticket also golden?
… No way, Sera to me?
I checked the ticket without anyone noticing.
The ticket was flashing golden.
“… Then, thank you to all of you who came to find a thousand faces today!”
The moderator was throwing a closing remark.
Does the show end here?
Let’s talk about this ticket.
Isn’t it really that the seat might be a seat prepared for me.
In the confusion of everyone leaving, I grabbed one of the staff members and showed them the ticket.
“Oh, I’m sorry, but it’s a regular ticket.”
“… Is that so?”
Is it golden?
According to the clerk, the golden ticket was not made of gold-colored paper, but a ticket made of real gold.
What kind of madman spends his gold on tickets?
It was an absurd sound, but I can’t get angry at him because I’m not a clerk.
“Then she…”
“You must have already entered the room, right?”
“Ugh…”
Fast.
I broke my teeth.
Doesn’t that mean she’s in a room alone with a man she doesn’t know who she is?
“Shall I call the remaining dancers?”
“… All right.”
I thought I would go crazy if I stayed here any longer, so I just left.
After coming out and getting some fresh air, I felt like I was coming back to my senses.
Okay.
Since she is a different person anyway, Arin will be at her hostel by now.
She just needs to run as fast as she can and make sure she’s there.
Having lost my mind to that point, I ran to the inn in a single step.
“Huh… Heo-eok… What about Yu, Uni, and Arin?”
“Uh? Are you okay Eric?”
When I ran into the dorm and asked the first woman I saw, she looked at me with a puzzled expression.
“Okay, it’s okay… Rather, Arin, what about Arin?”
“Are you looking for Arin as soon as you arrive?”
Yuni’s slightly sulky look.
I thought Yuni’s prank was over again, so I roughly brushed it off.
“Ah… Hey, I have something to see… Don’t mind.”
“Is Arin more precious?”
She grunted disgruntledly.
“… Heh, Eric is like that. Arin hasn’t come back yet.”
Uni pretends to be exaggerated and turns around.
I’m sorry to say that, but I can’t afford to pay attention to her right now.
… For a moment. What?
“Yet… Didn’t you come?”
“Huh. I don’t know if you had dinner.”
As if slightly worried, Uni looked at the door to see if Arin would return soon.
“Do you know where he went?”
“Um… I don’t know. If there is even a spirit, I would look for it…”
Yuni said as if she was sorry.
Hearing her words made her even more anxious.
Why haven’t you been in yet?
Where the hell have you been?
“… I’ll be out for a while.”
“This time? Eric, wait!”
I left the dorm again with Uni’s cry behind.
It must be here somewhere.
Church? Shall we go to church first?
… I had a feeling that somehow it wouldn’t be.
I ran around without a destination.
I wandered around without thinking, but without realizing it, I was running in the direction where the thousand faces were.
I wonder if I chose it again because I had just passed through it.
However, as I passed by earlier, Arin was not there.
Let’s find another way.
It was the moment I thought so.
“Uh…”
I saw two men and women entering an alleyway.
This is a man slightly taller than me, Mr. Jeren.
Next to it?
Long hair down to the waist, Arin!
“Scale!”
Why two?
I shouted and ran into the alley they entered.
They didn’t look back at me, as if they didn’t hear my cry.
“Scale! Mr. Jeren!”
Damn, why are you two together?
I entered the alleyway where they disappeared.
“Uh… ?”
For sure… I went in here
There was no one in the alley.
Did you see it wrong?
It was too clear for that.
I walked inside for a while, but there was really no one in the alley.
All that is there is garbage and a musty smell.
There was not even a trace of human beings to be seen.
Weird.
I saw you going in.
I took a closer look, just in case, but couldn’t see anything more.
Damn!
The moment I thought about giving up and going back, a strange sound came from deeper.
Is it the sound of something hitting?
It was a sound that seemed both familiar and unfamiliar.
I ran in the direction of the sound.
There was another alley in the back.
Jumping straight into it, I jumped out again, embarrassed by the scenery unfolding before my eyes.
What are these people doing… ?
The scene before my eyes was very disconcerting.
Deep in the alley were two men and a woman.
Perhaps what I saw earlier was an illusion, but the man was not Jeren and the woman was not Arin.
It did look similar.
But he was definitely a different person.
“Hey hey… Oh, it hurts!”
Damn!
“It hurts, but of course it hurts! Five more!”
“Hahm… Haang…”
The man was beating the woman.
He was brandishing something like a whip at the woman who put his hand on the wall and stuck out his butt.
It’s like a man punishing a woman.
Why… Why are you doing this outside, at a time like this?
It was an act that did not make sense to me.
What are you doing if someone sees it?
No, both seem like adults in the first place, but why is the woman being beaten by the man?
It is common for children to be beaten, but it is rare for adults to be beaten.
To be a slave, her appearance was neat.
“Huh? Brother, what is it?”
The man looked at me as if he had noticed my gaze.
“Hee!”
The woman, embarrassed that someone had seen her, crouched down and covered her face.
Damn!
“Wake up! Who told you to stop!”
He brandished his whip menacingly into the air.
“That, but…”
“Hehe, I shouldn’t have done that wrong in the first place.”
It seemed that the woman had done something wrong.
“No, there… I don’t know what’s going on, but solving it with words…”
“Do you know us?”
The man immediately asked me.
“Oh, no…”
“Then stop interfering. Or, will you hit me instead?”
He smiled and came towards me.
He’s a crazy man
I felt something mad about him and backed away.
A hero is afraid of mere ordinary people?
It looks like someone could laugh at it, but the scenery in front of me was beyond my understanding.
“If you can’t do it, get out. Don’t meddle in other people’s affairs.”
Then he turned around and went back to her.
“Wake up. The punishment is not over yet.”
“Eww… That, but…”
“Sweeup, do you want to come all the way here and ruin it?”
The woman looked at me with her head stuck out.
Somehow embarrassed, I turned my head.
“You don’t even know anyone. Right?”
“…”
To the man’s question, she hesitated, neither affirming nor denying.
“Hey! Did you see Why don’t you turn it off soon?”
“Ugh…”
I ran away in a hurry.
It’s not because he’s scared.
Just because I didn’t understand this scenery.
It was terrifying to see that crazy figure outside the scope of my understanding.
Damn! Damn!
“Hey! … I’m sorry!”
Behind me as I ran, the sound of a whip and the screams of a woman continued to linger.
Perhaps it was an illusion, her voice sounded rather sweet.
***
And both Jeren and Arin came in late at night.
When asked where she had been, she said nothing.
She just gently stroked her hips with her hand.
