Chapter 32 – Port City (8)
After having lunch at a shop near the beach, the four of them went back to their lodgings and took a nap. They decided to meet again after dark and divided into two teams.
And now, Roden and Roxia are looking around the merchant ships anchored in the port.
“Wow … This is a stomach. That big is floating on the sea …”
For the first time, the girl looking up at the merchant ship in her eyes couldn’t keep her mouth shut, so Roden, who was next to her, smiled happily.
As Roxia, who was draped over her railing, unconsciously tried to lean in front of her, Roden gently held out her hand to stop her from falling.
“It might be dangerous, so watch it from a distance.”
“Stop it without me knowing… I’ll be careful.”
He had lately become a great guardian who could pay attention to these details.
“Master, where does this ship come from?”
“Merchant ships departing from this city cross over to the southwestern continent across the sea and return here.”
“The Southwest Continent?”
“Yes, the nickname of the continent of the desert is more familiar.
Roxia nodded her head as she listened to Roden’s travel stories in the desert, and she had a small wish to someday go on such a journey with her master.
On the other hand, at the pier connected to the merchant ships, muscular men dressed like sailors were sweating profusely, carrying piles of rope, square wooden boxes, and oak barrels.
In the location where the sailors put their imported goods down, merchants who appeared to be senior executives in the nearby upper tier were already negotiating to purchase them at the best possible conditions.
“Oh… Master. The person over there…”
Loxia’s gaze, slightly pulling her master’s hand, was a man born as a demon, similar to hers but with different horns and ears. He naturally blended in and worked with the sailors.
The demons were carrying a lot of things, so the two of them looked closely, wondering if they were slave sailors, but the demons’ expressions were unique to those who were doing rewarding labor, and there was no dark shade at all.
She even showed her composure by waving her hand towards the cute girl, Roxia, as if she had noticed the gaze from this side.
Roxia opened her mouth, shaking her hand at her people.
“…That person, unlike me, succeeded in evacuating safely. He got a job like that.”
“Unlike the people of the Kingdom of Altma and the Principality of Krove, which had a direct war with the Nation of Darkness in the past, the people of the Principality of Haron, where we are located, tend to perceive the demons as a peculiar heterogeneous race, not as the help of hostile countries.”
It’s relatively better, discrimination and prejudice against demons exist here too… That man is lucky enough to get a decent job.
Roxia, who saw her kindred for the first time in a long time, lost her mind as she remembered her time in the Nation of Demons and what happened when she fled.
Roden, who was looking closely at her expression, asked a question, as if such a feeling was revealed on the outside.
“If only… Roxia, if you were able to safely evacuate to this country, what did you originally want to do?”
“To be honest, I didn’t have any specific plans. I ran away from my hometown because I was afraid to see innocent people being dragged to the battlefield against their will and dying brutally every day because of the civil war.”
At that time, I desperately wished that I could live without starving.
“When I was captured by slavers on the way to evacuation, when I was treated as an object rather than a person, when I was beaten and flogged every day, it hurt so much and I was so scared… But in the end, I’m just grateful that I can meet my master.”
“…Are you happy right now?”
After hearing Roden’s words, Roxia imagined various cases of what she should do to be happy after safely settling here with the friends from the slums she once believed were her family.
If I had succeeded in evacuating, what would my life have been like?
She shook her head immediately and hugged Roden, who was looking down at her. Exceptionally stronger than usual.
“If I succeed in evacuation, I can assure you that no matter what kind of life I will live, I will never be as happy as I am now, having served my master.”
As she said that, Roxia’s slender arms, which were hugging her master’s waist, tightened. As if she begged that she wanted to live with only this person forever.
No matter how much her girlishness had been conveyed, Roden decided to wait by stroking her back or patting her until she was satisfied and distanced herself herself.
“I’m so glad you said that. Should I say that my life has completely changed since I met Loxia… I have a specific reason to continue living here.”
Roden has memories of being betrayed and killed in the past by someone she never doubted loved each other. As she insisted on the solitude of traveling and living alone, her heart gradually dried up.
Until she meets Roxia at an auction house.
At first, I just bought her girl because of one feature of being a demon king… The more they spend together, the singularity that Loxia’s existence in Roden’s heart is the Demon King. She has now turned into something she doesn’t care about, something she needs to protect.
On the other hand, the girl who had been frantically hugging her master had come to her senses belatedly and blushed to distance herself from her master. Then she quickly looks around her.
I could feel that everyone was staring at Roden with great envy.
“Me too, I acted too foolishly in a place where there were other people. If my actions offended my master, I will not do this again.”
“There’s nothing to feel bad about… I’m fine. Let’s go for a walk. Now that we have three days left, we should keep our eyes on the scenery around here as much as possible.”
“Yes!”
The two men and women who were saved by each other continued dating until the day got dark.
* * *
As the day got dark, the four rejoined as promised and went to the market.
Who is not the mayor of the port city, this area was mainly displayed in various seafood.
“Hya~! I’m used to the fishy smell now. I ate a lot of different types of fish while I was here.”
“Yeah, yeah. It’s hard to eat normally. At times like this, you have to eat without any desire.”
Unlike modern times, frozen storage technology has not been developed here, so fresh fish cannot be purchased at markets in cities far from the sea and rivers.
What… , There are cases where frozen fish are transported to the city with the help of a magician who can handle ice-type mana like Merim.
It is a problem that the price soars so much that it is difficult for the common people to dare to surpass it thanks to labor and transportation costs.
The scenery of the seafood market, where sea creatures classified as high-end ingredients, which are usually hard to find, are displayed in abundance can be described as spectacular.
Flutter!
“Kyaaa?!”
Roxia, who was holding Roden’s hand tightly to keep from missing him in the crowded market, saw the large fish he was watching absentmindedly flutter without warning, and his body jumped on its own. Cute.
It was cute to see Loxia calming her beating heart by holding her master’s hand tightly. She was important, so I emphasized it once more.
“Oh, that way feels good? Let’s eat over there for dinner tonight!”
The party went into the restaurant pointed by Merim, who was looking around from the front, and took a seat at a table with a perforated fire plate, and, of course, ordered a lot of seafood.
Soon after, the clerk brought fresh seafood piled up on a plate and started grilling one after another.
Sizzle…
Watching Roden holding her tongs and stirring the seafood on the grill, Roxia made a crackling merriment as she clashed her tongs in her hand.
It looks pretty fun anyway. She would be wagging her side to side if she had her tail on it.
“Uncle, can you eat something like this? It looks hard.”
Roxia, who opened her eyes wide, pointed with her tongs at a grayish-brown mass that was reminiscent of a hard stone. Roden, grinning at her innocent girlish question, asked to wait a bit.
Soon after, the gray-brown lumps opened their mouths on their own, revealing the chewy clam meat thanks to the well-cooked taste.
“Wow!”
Applause pours from Roxia’s mouth, who was watching the scene. Not only was Roden in the seat next to her, but her twin sister across from her also looked at her girl and smiled quietly.
“It’s all cooked now. Let’s eat it soon.”
“Yes~!”
When Roden spoke quietly, the three women answered side by side, and for a while, the four of them enjoyed not only clams, but also grilled fish and shrimp.
After wrapping their stomachs and leaving the store, Roden and his party started walking around the market again to pick up ingredients for a late-night snack.
“…Whoa… Whoa…”
Meanwhile, seeing them from afar… To be precise, there was a man with an ugly face who was drooling at the sight of his twin sisters and Loxia.
* * *
“Fuck.”
Petrog, who was enjoying his sadistic pastime in his own paradise as usual, stopped his abrupt behavior.
“…”
Because sadism no longer has any meaning.
“Hey shit… You can’t move anymore.”
Was the medicine too strong? I should have made some adjustments…
Petrog looked down at her as a woman lying limp on the bed and felt genuinely sorry that her partner had died.
We mourn the death of man… Not for the same normal reasons. A normal person wouldn’t have done such a thing in the first place.
I’m just sorry because I thought it was a waste of money. For him, after the pleasures of her sadism, she prioritizes money and jewels.
The pig got out of the room wearing only minimal clothing. There were gang members waiting at the door.
Some of the gang members who had worked under him for a long time could guess what had become of the woman in the room as soon as they saw his face.
“Thank you for your effort.”
While listening to the members’ greetings, Petrog pointed to the woman’s corpse, sipping a special cigar from the desert continent.
“That, treat it as usual and sprinkle it moderately in the sea. If it’s piled up, before you work, you guys should eat it together deliciously. Cuckoo…”
The members of the organization who nodded their heads politely did not forget to shout ‘disgusting pigs’ in their hearts.
After getting ready to go out, Petrog, whose excitement was completely broken, left Changgwan and the red light district with an escort.
A little while ago, the pig heard the news that a merchant ship that had left for the desert continent had returned to the port of this city.
In other words, it also means that today you can pick out Petrog’s favorite desert jewel.
This mass of flesh is very annoying to move its body on a daily basis, but when it comes to choosing an expensive jewel, you have to see and touch it to get angry.
“?!!!”
Moments later, Petrog, who was walking past a crowded market to minimize his pace, came into his sights: three women who looked more beautiful than deadly jewels.
-Uncle Uncle! Let’s go over there this time! Quickly, quickly, quickly~!!
– Merim! Don’t run around again! Mr. Roden and Roxia are in trouble!
– Sister Merim! Let’s go too!
“…Whoa… Whoa…”
It seems that there is also a large man mixed in among the three women, but he is not even visible.
The appearance of the prostitutes he owns, tamed with drugs, and carefully selected in his own way, the appearance of the twin sisters with beautiful looks that make them look cheap, and the appearance of a beautiful girl innocent like a flower that has just bloomed, made desire bloom in a heart as ugly as Petrog’s face. .
I want to have, I want to have, I want to have, I want to have
I want to have, I want to have, I want to have, I want to have
I want to have, I want to have, I want to have, I want to have
I want to have.
Want to hit
I want to see those bitches’ bodies covered with bruises from my fists.
I want to hug you.
I want to crush it.
… I will have that now.
