Chapter 43 – Between Knee and Scales (1)
“Please… Kill me… Give me… “
Puffy. The hole presumed to be the mouth was moving. I needed to know if this friend understood me. A cuckoo that only asked to be killed had no value.
“Do you want to die? Nod your head if you want to die.”
“Demon bastard…”
I could hear Eve yelling from behind, but I ignored her words and focused on the weak criminal in front. The criminal nodded slowly. From the looks of it, his hearing and judgment seemed to be normal. It’s true that she only took off her skin while still alive, but was that bitch Karin a butcher in her previous life?
“Please… I want to… Die…”
“Where is the aphrodisiac seller? Where are you guys from?”
The original plan was to have a win-win situation with the moderately weak salesmen, but if all the kids died like this, there was no room for win-win. Unfortunately, it seemed that there was no way other than to enforce justice and set discipline right.
Eve rolled his body close to me, bound by his chains. As I glanced at her, her Eve spread her bound hands as if it were nothing to her, appealing that she was safe. The aphrodisiac sales criminal seemed to think for a moment, then slowly opened his mouth.
“Peta Mansion…Mansion…Back…Mountain…Cave…”
Does it mean that it is dark under the lamp? The aphrodisiac sellers had made a hiding place in the mountain behind the mansion. I asked about the organization chart and a few other miscellaneous things, and the aphrodisiac seller was easily drinking. Certainly, the torture experts from the kingdom were different no matter what. Even when he wasn’t there, the criminal confessed his guilt, trembling as if he were being tortured.
If I had done it, he would have died while torturing me. After the testimony was over, the criminal was repeating the sound of asking to be killed. With nothing more to find out, I thought I’d kill this criminal.
Because I’m different from a psychopath like Karin.
But I realized later that I hadn’t brought my mace. So I looked at Eve while I was stroking my waist. Eve was started when her eyes suddenly met, and slinked back.
“Do you have a gun?”
“A gun? Oh, uh. It’s on your waistband.”
Eve nodded her head and I went inside the cage where Eve was. When I touched my waist, I saw that a gun was stuck in it. Eve looked at me very displeased as I touched her own waist.
“Don’t fumble in the fucking weird, you crazy murderer religious bastard.”
“You seem to have a resistance to religion. You can’t do that.”
“What the fuck! It’s not religion, I hate you, you fucking bitch with a broken personality! And the other day, why are you so respectful and fucking ignorant after talking plainly!”
Why do you want me to be like you? I pulled the pistol from my waistband and looked around. It was just a pistol. It was a pistol that would appear in a pirate movie set in the Caribbean, but the trigger was filled with gunpowder so that it could go out at the time. Eve said.
“Because it’s loaded…”
Bang!
I immediately pointed the gun at the aphrodisiac’s head and pulled the trigger. With a small hole in his head, the weakly wriggling vendor stopped moving. I looked around and saw signs of torture. I wanted to make this dungeon a little more comfortable. It seemed like something was wrong.
I confiscated her gun from Eve and called Robin. Eve yelled at her to hand over her gun to her, but I ignored her cleanly.
“Robin.”
“Yes. Lord.”
“Leave Eve in the cellar and clean it all up. Blood stains and corpses and stuff like that.”
“All right.”
“And could you bring me a map? Please bring it to the bath.”
After Robin disappeared to carry out my instructions, I stepped into the bath. It was not to wash myself, but to meet Sellu. Selu was lying limp, splashing around in a bathtub installed separately from the bath. As she was cleaning the bathroom floor, she grinned at me. Sellu was very sociable for a killer mermaid who used to kill humans.
“Are you here? What are you curious about? Me? My body? My taste?”
“Tell me more about Evangeline.”
“Evangeline?”
“Yes. You said the other day. Evangeline offered you to wipe out the city. But you refused.”
“Yes. Yes. That’s right.”
“What does Evangeline look like?”
The name Evangeline has never appeared in a game. Because it was a game with an ending when the demon king was captured. Come to think of it, even the demon king in the game didn’t call out a name like Evangeline. He, too, just died while screaming, “I’m sorry.”
Something was definitely different. I saw that at the center of all these changes is this existence called Evangeline. Its identity is unknown, but in order to solve all the strange cases that happen in this world, this existence called Evangeline had to be eliminated.
“I don’t know.”
Selou shook her head and said she didn’t know. I knew I would find clues, but I couldn’t help but be annoyed.
“You don’t know?”
“Yes. She wore a mask. I only knew she was a woman. But I don’t know what kind of woman she was. She wore a mask and covered her whole body with cloth.”
“What is your body type?”
“It was just a normal human female body. It was about that size.”
“How was your voice her? If you knew it was a woman, you would n’t have heard it.”
“It was just a human voice. Shall I imitate it?”
“You’re pretending?”
“Hehe…I’m a mermaid. It’s easy to mimic a voice.”
Selou grinned, cleared her throat, and closed her eyes. And just as she opened her mouth to imitate her voice her, Selu closed her mouth again, crumpling her expression her. As she tilted her head, she opened her mouth to mimic her voice her once again, but she didn’t change.
“What’s wrong?”
“I can’t.”
“What?”
“What?”
Sellu suddenly imitated. Doing exactly what I just said, without a single mistake, she tilted her head again.
“It’s strange. You can.”
“You mean you can’t just imitate Evangeline’s voice?”
“Yeah. What should I say? I feel like I can’t explain anything more concretely than this.”
“Can’t explain in detail? Did Evangeline have any unusual habits or way of speaking?”
“Um… Can’t you tell?”
“Yes?”
Sellu was also touching her own mouth with her embarrassed expression. She opened her mouth again and tried to explain something to her. The shape of Selu’s mouth puckered as she spoke in her water. Sellu made an effort to speak as she pursed her lips to the point of being somewhat obscene.
“So, Evangeline… Can’t talk. She can’t talk about Evangeline? She can’t talk. What? Evangeline is a woman, she’s normal and she can’t talk?”
Sellu was repeating ‘I can’t talk’ as if she had become a parrot. She didn’t seem to be making fun of me. In front of me, Selou tried to explain Evangeline’s other characteristics for a while. However, the attempts were often unsuccessful. She tried to write pictures or words in the air, and she tried to explain it in other words.
But on every count that Sellu and I tried, we failed. When the hand that was trying to draw was trembling and randomly turned in a different direction or tried to approach Evangeline somehow, the word “I can’t talk” Came out. Selu scratched her head and frowned at her.
“It’s strange. I tried to cooperate in my own way. Why can’t I talk?”
“Does Eve know Evangeline too?”
Come to think of it, the reason she tried to meet Eve earlier was to ask about this Evangeline. For a moment, she was embarrassed to see the prisoner in the meat, and she didn’t think of it, but that was her original purpose. Sellu nodded her head.
“Yes. Yes. Eve was there when I and Evangeline were talking. But Eve hated Evangeline.”
That’s enough. I left Selu in her bathroom again and went outside. Just in time, Robin was waiting in the hallway holding a map. He asked me
“Hey, are you done taking a bath?”
Since she asked to bring it to the bath, she seemed to have assumed that she meant to wait until she finished bathing. Somehow it didn’t come. I nodded and accepted the map. The map showed details of the mountain behind the manor house. After estimating the location of the hideout the prisoner had explained, I pointed out the range with his finger.
“I’ll lead the guards and knights around here and ask you to investigate.”
“All right.”
Robin nodded and went out again. Now I had to move back to the dungeon where I had finished cleaning. Even if Karin didn’t do shit, she would have finished it in one go, but thanks to that, she was going back and forth twice.
Eve was lying in the dungeon with a slightly more pleasant expression than before. The prison, which had been vibrating with a bloody smell, had changed into a prison that was cleaner than expected and smelled slightly of blood. Eve was rolling on the bed in the middle of the dungeon, chained to an iron cage.
“Why are you here again?”
“I have a question for you.”
“Are you going to ask?”
“Do you know about Evangeline?”
“Evangeline? Ah…”
Eve frowned at her words as Evangeline, then nodded her head as if remembering something. I asked Eve.
“Who is Evangeline?”
“I don’t know. She showed up on the island out of nowhere, and she said she was Evangeline. I had a long talk with my mom, but it seemed like it didn’t go well.”
“What does Evangeline look like?”
She said, “Uh… I put on her mask of her, and I covered her whole body with her cloth, but I took off the hat for a second because she was hot. I saw it then … Can’t you tell?”
Eve frowned at her. Only then could I be sure. Unless Celulang Eve conspired to tell her about Evangeline, this was to conceal her own existence her through her magic her or some kind of restraint.
Eve opened her mouth and tried several times to say something, but the shape of her mouth her didn’t come out as her words her.
“You mean you saw the color of her hair?”
“I don’t know?”
“Just give her a nod.”
“Keep…Kkeep…!”
At that moment, Eve’s head flashed her head and she slammed her head against the wall in the dungeon.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Surprised by her repeated head-butts of her, I pulled Eve away from the wall, and she was staring at the wall with a puzzled look on her face. Her Eve’s forehead her cracked and her blood her gushed out.
“What the fuck…”
Eve muted with her face that it was absurd. I scratched her head. In this way, there was no way to find out about Evangeline from Sellu and Eve.
