77 – Queen of the Backstreets – 3
The building the blonde man brought me to was unusual from the entrance.
Even though I’m not short by any means, there were two rice cake sticks standing on either side of the door, a good three heads taller than me.
As soon as the rice cakes saw the blond man, they bowed politely and greeted him with a booming voice.
“Hello, brother!”
“Hey dude. Big brother. Then I’m like a bully in the back alley. Call me by a different title.”
“sorry!”
“Okay, be careful next time. You’re here, right?”
“Yes! Yes! We are waiting for you on the top floor!”
“Uh, what? You’re waiting? Didn’t I say a word about coming here?”
“Sister already knows why you came here!”
The blond man looked genuinely perplexed at the words of the rice cakes, but he knew at once that this was acting.
As a way of showing, it is an unspoken pressure to abandon the idea of telling a lame lie because we are so quick to acquire information.
If I was really upset, I wouldn’t have time to look at myself. The man opened his mouth wide, but glanced at me, observing my reaction.
When I didn’t show much reaction, the man quickly put on a puzzled expression.
“Hey, you looked like you couldn’t see this. Let’s go in first.”
At the blonde man’s words, the rice cakes politely opened the door. As soon as I opened the door, I was greeted by a gorgeously decorated lobby.
As if to claim that it is a space for only one person, even though the entire first floor was decorated, there was only one table and one chair.
An entire wall had become a closet for storing liquor. They ranged from expensive wines to luxurious distilled spirits.
The women, wearing clothes that were tight and revealing their bodies, saw the blond man and bowed deeply to greet him.
Her breasts sagged down in accordance with nature’s laws, and her already short skirt was pushed up and stopped at the last minute.
The man naturally drew a weapon from one of the women approaching him and placed it in his hand. and looked at me His eyes were as if he was asking why he was doing that.
“What are you doing without putting down your weapon, brother?”
“Should I?”
“Sorry. I’m not allowed to bring weapons. But I guarantee you that nothing special will happen.”
“What do I believe in?”
“If you don’t believe me, I won’t be able to meet your sister. Then, of course, you’ll lose your new identity as older brother. What do you want to do?”
Look at this.
At first glance, it seemed to give them a choice, but in reality it was the opposite. He was cleverly urging me to lay down my weapon.
It could be seen as a half threat. You’ve come this far, are you going to go back like this? doing.
Then, of course, you’ll have to catch up.
He pretended to be seriously concerned for a while, then reluctantly drew his weapon and placed it in his hand. The woman who received my weapon took it in her arms and fluttered away.
“Hey, that’s a good idea. We’ve come this far, but isn’t it like going back like this?”
“I guess so. Keep what you said.”
“That there won’t be anything special? Of course not. Hold on to your worries, hyung.”
The man was still talking a lot while climbing the stairs. Thanks to that, I had to hear a gurgling sound all the way up the stairs.
They said that it was enough for me to put down my weapon, and that there were people who took off all their clothes and crawled up the stairs naked to meet my sister.
I listened in one ear and let it out through the other. It was all for the purpose of making people think that putting down their weapons was no big deal.
“This is where my sister is.”
The man stopped at the door just before the stairs on the top floor. The doors at regular intervals in the hallway were of the exact same design.
“Your name… won’t you tell me, brother?”
“If you were going to teach me, you would know there was no reason for you to come here in the first place.”
“Yeah, okay. I asked something stupid. Then, instead, don’t ask our names either.”
The man grabbed the doorknob and pushed inside. A strong scent of perfume squeezed through the open cracks. It was a very strong perfume smell.
“You can go in like this.”
“That one?”
“I can’t go in. You didn’t invite me this time.”
The man shrugged.
Somehow, this is what the first-floor rice cake stands meant when they said that a human named sister was waiting for guests on the top floor.
When I entered the room, the door was closed. There was a click, and the sound of the door automatically being lowered and the door locked.
I slowly looked around the room. All I could see was a room painted black.
The carpet on the floor was black, the desk was black, the walls were black, the curtains on the windows were black, and even the coat on the hanger in the corner of the room was black.
And in the middle of this black, sat a dark-haired woman, also dressed in a black dress.
Her black hair was tied in a ponytail at the back of her neck and flowed over her right shoulder. It was quite long and reached near the thigh.
The dress she wore was cut deep in her chest, revealing the valley between the two hills, and the shoulder straps holding it up were so thin that even a fingernail would cut them.
The dress ended at the thigh. Her thighs were pressed against the chair under the fluttering hem of her dress.
Underneath, her slender thighs and calves, as well as the high heels worn at the tips of her toes, were exposed. Even the high heels were black.
Sitting in the room with her right leg crossed, the eyes of a woman scanned me up and down.
In this all-black room, only the woman’s eyes were golden.
Should I say decadent? Overall, she was a woman with a strong feeling of a mature married woman.
It’s a very dirty expression, but other than this, there were no words to describe the atmosphere I felt from the woman in front of me.
A strange silence continued for a while as I observed the woman named Lee, and the woman in front of me also observed me.
“I like it.”
The woman in front of me spoke first.
“what?”
“Black eyes, black hair. That’s enough to score me points.”
I think this person is a bit out of the ordinary.
I wondered if the woman who said that she got points because she had black hair and black eyes was really the person who ruled this place, the older sister.
“Did you say you need a new adventurer’s certificate and plate?”
“right.”
“Leave the name and personal information fields blank.”
“right.”
“What grade should I go for? D? C? If you want something higher than B, you’ll have to be prepared. Because the unit price is very high.”
The papers in his hands were turned over and over again. It was a document with some letters written on it. The text was so small that it was difficult to see what it was about.
“It’s fine if it’s E-class.”
“……E?”
The hand that was handing over the paperwork stiffened. The eyes that looked at me were irritated.
The atmosphere changed drastically. If he had been really dealing with customers until just now, now he seemed to be dealing with some kind of beggar.
It was the exact opposite of how he made a warm expression saying that he liked his dark hair and black eyes.
“Is this the sound that came to me with just that?”
“It will be.”
Wow, the woman crumpled the paper in her hand. Rather than doing it on purpose, it seemed that it was closer to being irritated momentarily and not being able to control its strength.
“Ha, your younger brother’s eyes are all twisted too. Such an asshole is a guest—”
“for a moment.”
“What?”
growled the woman. If I let go of it, it was going to kill me right away.
“What does that have to do with asking for an adventurer grade of E?”
“Why do I have to tell you that?”
Instead of responding, he took a pouch of gold coins from his bag and threw it at the woman’s feet.
With the sound of gold coins clashing, the mouth of the pocket opened slightly, and golden light poured out. The woman’s eyes, which were golden like gold coins, widened slightly.
“Isn’t this enough reason for you to answer?”
“… 100 pieces. It’s definitely not counterfeit money.”
As the woman illuminated the magic circle engraved on her palm, the bag of gold coins floated into the air. Judging by the magic circle engraved on his palm, he seemed to be a fairly high-level wizard.
Or bought a wizard to draw something like that.
The woman who had been observing a gold coin floating in the air, apparently using telekinesis, put it back in her pocket.
“Let me apologize for the behavior I just showed you. Among the guys who want us to launder their identities, most of the guys who want E-ranks are idiots who want to pay for it with a few silver coins. So I got a little excited.”
Placing the bag of gold coins on the desk, the woman straightened out the papers she had just crumpled.
The magic circle in the palm of my hand shone once more, and the crumpled paper became like new. Black eyes scanned the letters on the paper again.
“Since he committed a crime so big that he had to keep his name and personal information a secret, he ran away, so we couldn’t rule out the possibility that he was a poor man who barely escaped.”
“It’s empty…”
I opened my bag and took out another bag of gold coins.
As the bags of the same size and shape as the bag of gold coins you just threw came out one after another, her golden eyes shook slightly.
“If there was such a misunderstanding, you should have said it sooner.”
I untied the straps on the pocket and turned it upside down. Gold coins rained down on the carpet near my feet. I picked up another pouch and turned it over again. Gold coins fell on top of gold coins.
No matter how many times I repeated it, a small hill of gold coins was created near my feet. There were more than twenty pockets scattered all around, no matter how few times I caught them.
Looking at the woman who opened her mouth small and couldn’t hide her surprised expression, she pulled her foot out of the pile of gold coins.
‘I didn’t originally intend to do it this far.’
I let out a deep sigh as I reflected on the absurd performance I had just shown. Why would I do such a needlessly crazy thing?
They were trying to overcome the baseline first, so there was a purpose to try to counter it, but the biggest reason was because of Charlotte.
After breaking up with Christine and returning to the palace, Charlotte asked why she hadn’t spent all the gold coins she had given her, and if there was another woman who could pay for it.
The result of that questioning was this. Use all the money he gave you to prove that there is no other woman by your side.
‘Where to spend thousands of gold coins.’
He made eye contact with the woman with a forced smile while contemplating where to use the gold coin pockets that still had at least 30 left after pouring money.
It was a dumbfounded expression.
“In that case, I would have paid you in advance.”
