Chapter 167 – Rouge
Before sunset, the streets of River Mill Square were quite crowded.
The rich people raised their voices at the top of their voices and spread the news about the North, the East, and the South.
An old beggar with nothing to rely on in the world would beg for mercy, carrying a bowl with a broken bottom.
Rich farmers and merchants who came to open their pockets after a long time, and even orphans wandering around trying to rob those pockets-.
It was around evening when a very diverse group of people were mixed.
“Now let’s throw the knife and get the knife! Hell’s fire flame show show show-! The magic of one coin becoming two and two becoming four! All the mysterious things you want are here!”
On one side of the plaza, a stage was spread out on a wooden board of appropriate height, and there were acrobats who threw knives and received knives – drinking wine and blowing fire – on it.
Ian, Lily, and Monica, who stood there watching the acrobats for a while, were startled by the sudden approach of an unknown girl and inadvertently put their hands on the weapon handles.
“Hey…! I’m sorry-!”
It was a pretty girl on crutches.
The girl pulled up her short skirt, which barely covered her thighs, and she was the collection book of the acrobatics troupe that went around collecting money for her admission, exposing thin limbs with bruises everywhere.
Ian said no, we were sorry—he took three fairy tales from his coin pocket and put them in the width of her skirt. The sound of coins clanking was pleasant.
The girl bowed her head in gratitude—her nod—and moved around the circle of spectators watching her acrobatics.
For some reason she was missing one of her ankles, but she walked just fine with her crutches.
As if it was natural for a girl, sexual harassment poured out on her.
Rubbing her ass and groping her white legs was common, pulling her into her bosom and fiddling with her tits—or thrusting her knees into her crotch and rubbing and sucking on the scruff of her neck. There were also clans.
The girl cried and repeated her words that she shouldn’t be doing this—and the acrobats performing on her stage didn’t pay much attention.
The only time they left was to touch the coins in the width of her skirt.
“That kid-. I’m really sorry…”
“Yeah, that’s-“
I don’t know what happened to the girl.
I don’t know what kind of life the girl has lived or how one of her ankles went numb. She had nothing to do with them, and she never will.
Nevertheless, Ian and Lily sympathized with the girl.
Monica looked at the two as if they were looking at each other, but she didn’t say anything hoarse.
In the end, a drunkard groped for her breasts and tore her girl’s front with one hand on his bum as if he was excited to strip her clothes off. Her small breasts protruded.
Then one of the acrobats stepped out.
“Hey, if you want to touch her, pay for it.”
She was a skinny acrobat with her beard greased and pointed.
He is a man who has shown the magic of beating poisonous snakes by blowing a flute, and when he goes on stage, people pimp-! Pimp-! And cheered.
At the words of an acrobat whose eyes were ripped apart like a poisonous snake, the drunkard fumbled in his pocket, pulled out a fairy tale, threw it, and giggled.
“Can this be enough? If it’s a flawed year like this, the price will be that much cheaper, right?”
At the drunkard’s words, the acrobat clicked her tongue and shook her head.
Then, when she made a snap-sound with her fingers, the hulking men who were watching from behind her invaded.
As the hulking approached, casting shadows, the drunkard defied her, whacking at her. These bastards- they said they were attacking people in broad daylight- called all the police officers in this neighborhood- they made a big fuss.
Then, after being hit by several blows, he rolled on the floor with a whooping sound.
The acrobat snapped her fingers and called out her girl.
Her girl limped on her crutches and approached the acrobat, who mercilessly swung her palm and slapped her girl on the cheek. With a slap, the girl fell to the floor.
“Hey bitch. Behave yourself well Don’t go near these bastards. Huh? Understand?”
There were a few who clicked their tongues, but the majority clapped and cheered at how good it was.
“Ian.”
“Whoa-.”
Ian’s forearm was filled with strength, but Lily managed to stop it.
Had she not stopped her, she probably would have gone out of her way. Wasn’t there Seo-jun’s recommendation that she don’t get involved with messy guys-, and play quietly as much as possible-.
The acrobat pushed her girl back into the tent behind her.
A middle-aged man with her red face looked at the girl’s tent with glowing eyes, then she went over to the acrobat and held out some of her coins.
The acrobat shook her head, saying it was not enough, and it was only after he pulled out a sum that he was satisfied with that the middle-aged man was able to enter the tent.
After a while, a grunting sound started to come from inside. It was a sound that made it impossible to know what was going on inside.
“Should we go somewhere else?”
“Huh-.”
The group eventually left the place in a bad mood.
To those who have nothing, to those without ability-, this world was too cruel.
Not to mention, Ian thought that if he had had just a little more ability–if he had at least the strength of the constable who keeps the streets stable, he wouldn’t have left that girl alone in a wolf’s den like that.
While walking around the city like that, they bought one or two street foods in moderation.
It was grilled frog hind legs and corn pie.
The hind legs of the frogs smelled like they were a little old, so I ate half of them and threw them away, but the corn pie tasted pretty good. At Ian’s words to come and eat again tomorrow, Lily smiled brightly.
However, it wasn’t long before she walked, and Ian’s face turned yellow, and she left, saying that she would urinate on her for a while. Could it be that the grilled frog I just ate was the problem?
Ian runs to the toilet, leaving only two women, Lily and Monica, in the plaza.
Lily began to look at her, and her Monica slowly approached her.
“Hey.”
She pouts the corners of her mouth and laughs.
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Lily, her face hardened, shuddered at the sight of her sweeping her up and down.
Her blue eyes seemed to peer into her whole being.
There was something stabbed, so I felt intimidated. She couldn’t even raise her head to look at her.
“Hmm… Did you dress up today?”
It was Lily who covered her face with a hood, but her lips and lower lip were visible underneath.
When I told her to touch her clothes for a long time today, her lips turned noticeably red. It looked like it had been applied to the lips, even if it was a pale rouge. The color goes very well with her white skin.
Monica asked, pointing her chin to her lips.
“Who gave you that?”
“…Seojun oppa.”
It was something Seo-jun gave me when I went on a date with Ian. Yesterday was really good…
It was a face that seemed like it would open the moon in the night sky just by talking.
At Seo-jun’s words, Lily was ashamed, but the words of thanks leaked out without her knowledge. I thought that if I put this on, she would look prettier to Ian…
So she put on and came out.
Although she covered her face with her hood because she didn’t want to cause trouble, when Ian looked at her lips now and then, he felt his gaze on her lips, which made her feel very good.
But she was talking about getting on her nerves to Monica.
“Oh yeah-? Seo-joon oppa…?”
Monica hid her hands behind her back and stood her clenched-her fists. Her fingernails dug into her palms.
She had never received anything properly from Seo-joon.
Far from her presents, she was happy if even the slightest attention was given to her.
After leaving the village, did she ever mix her body with Seo-joon? Just once on the way to Seoul, that was the end.
Still, she made up her mind not to be dissatisfied. She just thought, as long as she could stay by Seo-joon’s side, she’d be fine with that.
But to see Lily right beside him monopolize his attention – it felt rotten inside. She didn’t seem to like the attention, which made her even more angry.
Who would beg for that narrow-minded attention – who doesn’t seduce a man he doesn’t even like every night and mix their bodies with?
The only thing he can comfort himself is that the child in his stomach is with Seo-jun.
If she had been someone else’s child, she might have cursed every day, looking at her growing belly.
Monica glanced at Lily as she groped her belly.
Seeing her flustered made the smile on her lips grow thicker.
Come closer and look-, as she snapped her finger, Lily came hesitantly.
Monica opened her eyes and glared at her lips, then stretched out her thumb and rubbed Lily’s rouge-covered lips against hers.
Feeling the bright red rouge spreading to the side-, Lily unknowingly slashed the back of her hand in surprise.
“…Ah, that’s-. Me, me, sorry…”
“…”
Even though it was Monica who did her wrong first, it was Lily who apologized.
It was a very different look from the way she had told her not long ago that she would get her Ian back—with her eyes open and her baring.
Monica, who was rubbing the back of her hand with her hand, pouted and opened her mouth.
“You say… Do you have a conscience?”
At her question – the eyes that had been looking down at the poor shoe nose hardened. I ask in a trembling voice.
“That, what, what do you mean…?”
“You···. You screwed up.”
At Monica’s words that pouted out, Lily took her breath in.
She says her last words with a stamped bang.
“With Seo-joon oppa-. You did sex.”
