Chapter 42 – Evendo (8)
It seemed like it had only been a few days, but the air of Yeongji, which had returned after a long time, was refreshing. As soon as I passed the boundary, I took a deep breath and was enjoying the freedom. Behind me was Eve, imprisoned in a large cage, and a humming mermaid in a water tank.
Until I dragged her to the head of the union, she kept her mouth shut and said only what was needed. It turned out that she was a mermaid with a chatty and pleasant personality.
“Mom, what are you so excited about?”
“Hehe, it looks like they’re going on an outing.”
“Fuck, Mom. Are you saying that crazy bastard is having fun when he doesn’t know what to do with us?”
“It’s okay, it’s okay. We did a lot of crazy things too. I don’t care if I die.”
There were blue bruises on Eve’s face. It was because I had tried to break the cart and escape as soon as I left the trading city. Eve may be a woman in the sea, but on land I was the king. I threw one of her fists in the face of the rebellious Eve and put it back into her cart.
Eve was moving so well that it’s hard to imagine that her stomach was pierced and her head cracked just a few days ago, as her body is so strong, reflecting the fact that she’s an event boss in the game. Seeing him periodically touching his stomach her or grumbling about having a throbbing head, it seemed like he had aftereffects.
Eve was still rubbing her face and swearing at me. I didn’t even bother responding to that insult. Beside her, a mermaid was humming her song and looking around. For a mermaid who lives in the sea all her life, the mountain road seemed to be a very interesting spectacle.
“You, but what are you thinking of taking us?”
Eve asked me after rubbing her face as well. I, who was riding at the forefront, said with a grin.
“It’s for edification.”
“It’s fucking. Who accepts me when I’m reformed, but when my mother is reformed, people don’t catch me? This is why religious bastards can’t do it.”
“And there are many things I want to know personally.”
What I was curious about was the story about Evangeline. However, Eve looked at me and the mermaid alternately and shook her head.
“Fuck, pervert. How could a clergyman think about fucking a mermaid?”
“I think I’m good… Hehe.”
“Mom, please be quiet?”
From the moment I entered the village, people’s eyes gathered on me. The people who ran out to see me with a cry that the lord had returned looked puzzled when they saw the two women being dragged behind me. One was a beauty with blue bruises on her face, and the other was a mermaid in a tank.
The mermaid was smirking as she waved her hand. People were afraid of the mermaid and averted their eyes.
“By the way, what’s your name?”
I knew the name. However, in order to avoid the cumbersome explanation of the status window, I had to go through this simple procedure. The mermaid gave her own name without hesitation.
“Sellu.”
“Okay. Selu. For now, I’ll make that tank your home temporarily. Our estate is inland, and there’s no lake nearby. There’s a water source in the next estate, but I can’t let you go there.”
“Hehe, it’s nice. Eve said that somewhere else they don’t give mermaids a sip of water, so they’re all exhausted.”
“Daecheonsingyo does not abandon the followers who have come for edification.”
“It sucks, really.”
Eve laid her ground once again. It was clear that he wanted to be beaten by me, seeing as he provoked me to that extent, but I decided to put up with it for now. I had too many things to do today to devote time to Eve.
I entered the manor house and got off my horse. Felix Karin was walking slowly from the front door of the mansion. She looked over at me and the party with an expression of great concern for the safety of the hero and myself. Since she is a ‘Lord’s agent’, she doesn’t have to wear armor, but the way she always wears armor is a model of a princess knight. Not a princess
“Have you been okay?”
“Felix Karin. Did you really have a good time? Wasn’t there too much work, I’m sorry for nothing. Even though the lord shouldn’t be away in a chaotic situation like these days.”
“No. The lord arranged it so well that I had nothing to touch.”
“Do you have anything else to report?”
“No. There is no such serious report, and that…”
Felix Karin slurred her words her. I wondered if something had happened, so she frowned at Karin before she could finish her words her.
“Among the documents handed over during the takeover, we confirmed that criminals dealing with aphrodisiacs are hiding.”
“Yes. That’s right. It’s not that urgent…”
“So they were quickly arrested and are now being held in custody. Unfortunately, two died during interrogation, and the other is currently not regaining consciousness.”
Fuck. I barely resisted swearing. Since this year’s royal palace is about beating criminals, he must have been excited to catch it as soon as he saw the documents. Respect for the human rights of criminals is a place where dogs are given.
Suddenly, it seemed that there was a smell of blood somewhere. And it didn’t seem like my mistake. It was because Eve, who was held behind, said this while looking at the mansion.
“I smell blood.”
“Oh, there are cases where prisoners try to escape torture by pretending to faint, so even if they faint, the torture continues.”
I seemed to belong to the good axis even after coming into this world. Karin was interested in the mermaid and Eve behind me. Eve whistled and grinned as Karin’s eyes met hers.
“What are they? Did you buy mermaid slaves? Or did they commit some crime by tying them together? Maybe they’re notorious…”
“Yes. They are. I brought them here because I have something to personally investigate.”
“I see. Then could you ask me to interrogate you? I can make you tell the truth about anything until tomorrow.”
I shook my head. I couldn’t hand over my ona hole to a tortured mad bitch. Karin openly showed her regret and smacked her lips. Even in the original work, Karin was a character with this kind of feeling. She had no forgiveness for criminals and she hated it when the main character did something bad. But she didn’t know that she would enjoy torturing criminals.
“By the way, where is the warrior?”
“The hero went on a journey to return the victims of this incident to their hometowns.”
“Also…”
After all, he praised him for being a noble person, so I listened with one ear and let it out with the other. Certainly, it was an act that a person like me would never have imagined, but it was not something I would do with a wife waiting in a foreign country.
I ordered the guards to separate Eve and Sellu, and put Eve in the dungeon and Sellu in the bath for now. And since Eve wouldn’t run away leaving Sellu, he had the minimum security device set up.
“Fuck you, if you do nonsense to my mother, you will die! Okay?”
Even as Eve was dragged away, only her mouth was alive and chattering. Karin put on a puzzled expression when she saw that she was a mermaid and her mother, but I was vague. It was too much trouble to explain all this. I wanted to have sex with Karin someday, but it was because I didn’t think I’d get a good impression just because she told me about a mermaid and a human mating.
Karin and I went up to the office and rearranged the paperwork. Felix Karin was a very capable knight who did all the field work even in the palace, so he was good at handling these kinds of tasks. Seeing the complaints handled neatly, I nodded my head in satisfaction.
“This is a work that I have collected separately because it seems that I cannot do it under my authority.”
And on one side, there was a collection of things that the priest of the Daecheonsingyo had to do. My head ached again at the thought of having to deal with the backlog. Most of them were personnel transfers or simple petitions, but it was annoying for me to read each and every one of them.
“I see. Then you worked hard. As expected, Felix Karin, the best knight in the capital. It was very helpful.”
“That’s too much praise. Then it’s okay if I go back…”
It was only then that I remembered Erina’s words. Did she tell the kingdom to talk about Evangeline? That was definitely the story. So I called Karin, who was about to go back, and said.
“I had something to report about the Demon King.”
“Are you talking about the Demon King?”
“Before the demon king died, he said, ‘I made a promise to Evangeline.’”
“Evangeline?”
Karin frowned at him. Karin didn’t seem to know much about Evangeline. She muttered Evangeline a few times, then nodded her head and said.
“Okay. By the way, is that Evangeline an important person?”
“Yes. According to Princess Erina, she is a very important and dangerous person. Given that such a person is involved, I think the kingdom should be vigilant.”
“Okay. Then, I’ll post a report like that, including the hero case.”
I sent Karin along with a small report on the way. Anyway, since the part that the mermaid mentioned about Evangeline was written down in the report anyway, I decided not to explain it further. However, the report also omitted the part about me capturing Eve and the mermaid.
It was because it seemed that if I wrote useless words, useless tackles would come in.
I came down to the dungeon again. It was to meet Eve. And I knew where Karin was interrogating her. The dungeon was a sea of blood itself. The walls were all stained with blood, and the floor was strewn with unknown pieces of metal or wood. The smell of blood left by the intense torture was intensely tormenting my sense of smell. I shook my head and looked inside the dungeon.
In the middle of the room, a bright red mass that looked like a human was hanging from a hook.
“What the fuck.”
When I cursed in shock, Eve, who was tied to the other side of the piece of meat, was screaming.
“Fuck! This psycho is a psycho! What is your hobbies to put people on the leather? !”
The chunk of meat squirmed and opened its mouth.
“Lord, kill… Ye… Give me…”
Could this bastard be the bastard who sold that aphrodisiac? How the hell did you do this shit without killing me?
