Chapter 55 – How to Become an Alchemist
When Seong-il arrives as ‘Dancer of the Night’, Pirina welcomes her.
Refusing to greet her, her seongil urgently spoke to her.
“Oh, you came early today..”
“Hi Pirina. But I don’t think today is the time to say that.”
“…?”
Pirina looks puzzled at Seongil’s unusual reaction. Her holy day to ask her for a conversation in secret.
Sensing her unusual mood, Pirina nodded her head and led him to the secret room.
“Hmm.. What’s the matter, why are you talking so urgently differently than usual..?”
“An assassin came to my workshop last night.”
“I beg your pardon?!”
“Well… I don’t know if he was an armed robber or an assassin… I think he was definitely an assassin.”
“Um…? Has there ever been an enemy where the master was threatened with assassination? By any chance… The family?”
“No. I have nothing to do with my family.
Pirina is troubled as she touches her head at her resolute words. Then she asked her Seong-il.
“Then, it could be a simple robbery. How can you be so determined to be an assassin?”
“I felt alive.”
“Yes..?”
Pirina puts a puzzled expression on Seongil’s somewhat absurd answer. She asked him with a slightly puzzled expression.
“That… Well… In the case of high-level drones, they say they can sense the enemy’s threat from a distance…”
“Master, you’re not that type of warrior, are you? Just by looking at his well-developed muscles, he doesn’t look like a warrior.”
“You’re just afraid of intruders… No, aren’t you feeling threatened and making assumptions like that?”
Seong-il shook her head at Pirina who said that and explained the rationale.
“Well… I know how to feel the lethality of an enemy. If it were a mere armed robber, there’s no way he’d be spitting it out before the landlord discovered him.”
“They’ll try to kill the aggression, nervous, careful not to find out about the intrusion.”
Pirina asked a question, frowning at Sungil’s words.
“Well… I don’t have anything to say about thinking that way. But I’m still suspicious.”
“According to what you said, you are saying that before the intruder broke in, you not only figured out how close the intruder was, but also whether or not he had aggression, right? But does that make sense…?”
Seong-il spits out a silent voice in response to her question.
‘Um… Should I reveal that I’m a psychic..? Or should I say that I learned martial arts?’
‘No.. If I had to say such a thing out of the blue, she would think me strange or doubt me because of her prudent personality. In that case, it would be better to just wrap it plausibly.’
When her thoughts of her holy day, which she had been thinking hard about for a long time, were organized, she began to answer her with a moderate amount of lies.
“Um… I can’t reveal it because it’s a kind of family vision. It’s an environment where people in my family are inevitably exposed to frequent assassinations…”
“I have an arcane skill that can distinguish an assassin type person, so I educate my successors from an early age on how to prepare.”
“Because I can react sensitively to death… I could really tell that the intruder was an assassin.”
At Seongil’s words, Pirina put on a suspicious expression, but she soon relaxed her expression and began expressing an affirmative answer.
“Hmm… It sounds absurd at first glance, but well… It’s true that people in power are trained in preparation for assassination. It’s hard to dismiss it as nonsense.”
“But… Based on the above grounds, no one seems to have a grudge against the master. Who do you think sent the assassin?”
“Unless the suspicion is cleared, it is difficult to determine whether the intruder is an assassin or not.
For Piri Na to submit her reasonable opinion, her seongil told her what he was thinking.
“Do you remember Lady Erica Fortis, who held my hand this time?”
“Whoa.. Can you not remember? You’re the most popular dancer in our store, aren’t you?”
Seong-il smiled wryly at her Pirina’s expression, then corrected her expression and began to explain her to her.
“Didn’t I explain to you the other day that Erica is in huge debt?”
“Yeah… Didn’t she try to get her to pay off the debt slowly?”
“Well… It used to be like that, but the conditions have changed a bit.”
Pirina puts a puzzled expression on Seongil’s words. Seeing her expression like that, her Seong-il replied.
“Um… I paid off that debt all at once.”
“!?”
Pirina looked really puzzled. It was the first time she had ever seen her make such a face, so she hurriedly started adding her excuses.
“That… I thought it would be difficult to get him accepted if it wasn’t that way. Instead, I also put a lot of conditions…”
“Are you crazy?”
“Huh?”
“Didn’t I say 10,000 gold? That debt?”
“Huh.”
“My God. Are you insane? What if she shuts her mouth and betrays her?”
“Ah.. It’s okay because I have a lot of safety devices…”
“It doesn’t mean that!!”
Pirina denounces him with sincere anger in her voice. She smiled bitterly at her and excused herself for her last name.
“Well… What can I do? I desperately wanted that young lady.”
“…”
“Ah.. That.. You too. Maybe if you had held on too hard, I would have vomited that much on you?”
“Hmm…”
Pirina glares at her holy day with strange eyes. After looking for a while, she put her hand on her forehead, let out a deep sigh, and began to speak.
“Okay. Well… Your charm is that you don’t have a normal way of thinking. I’ll try.”
“What are you trying to do?”
“Understanding! It’s annoying, so let’s stop talking about that topic.”
Seongil gulped and closed her mouth at her expression with thorns in her voice.
“Anyway… It was about the young lady, right? Let’s continue. I’ll listen.”
“Ah.. Yes.. The reason why I paid off all the debts. The creditor is a guy named Edward…”
“Ah~ Are you referring to Edward, the aristocratic hunter?”
“Huh? Do you know?”
“Of course. He’s one of the henchmen of the first prince who is likely to be the next crown prince.”
Seong-il asked her, embarrassed by what she had heard for the first time in her life.
“The first prince’s servant?”
“Yeah… Didn’t you know?”
“It’s the first time I’ve heard of that…”
At his words, Pirina shrugged her shoulders and began to explain.
“You know that the Nerke Kingdom is a political system that is centered on aristocracy, right?”
“Huh? About.. Roughly?”
‘I don’t know. How do I know that.’
Seong-il evades while hiding her inner thoughts. Seeing such a holy day, Pirina nodded her head once and continued her explanation.
“Due to the circumstances of the Nerke Kingdom, which is a traditional feudal form of aristocracy, the king’s power has always been weak compared to the centralized empire.”
“So, every time a new king ascended, like an empire, he tried to reorganize the kingdom’s political landscape in the form of a bureaucracy by reducing the power of the nobles, increasing the number of direct jurisdictions, and hiring a large number of commoners.”
“The problem was that the nobles were not fools. Of course, they resisted the king’s reforms fiercely, and there was even a civil war because of it.”
Seong-il listens to her story in a daze at an unexpected story. Pirina she continued to explain to him like her teacher.
“Well… I didn’t formally learn history, so I don’t know the exact details, but it’s roughly the same. And this time, there’s a prince who kills the nobles with his extraordinary brain using a trick.”
“Ah… That’s… That?”
“Yes. Prince 1. Before ascending the throne, in order to reduce the power of the nobles, he really enjoys eating the powerless nobles little by little using his subordinates during cancer.”
“Ah… So Edward…”
Pirina nodded at the words of such a holy day.
“Yes. That’s why I didn’t die at the hands of nobles even if I did something so arrogant.”
“Aha..”
“Edward the noble hunter or Edward the hound. That’s the word to describe him. But that young lady owed Edward.. It’s obvious without looking at it.”
Seong-il nodded and agreed with her expression.
“That’s right. That’s why I paid off her debt all at once. She looked after that bastard and found that there were more than one or two bad things.”
“Because…If I told her that I would help her clumsily and help her pay off her debts in her amortization form, she might hurt her big nose later…”
“Instead of having tougher contract terms, I paid it back at once.”
At the words of such a holy day, Pirina nodded her head and replied.
“Certainly… You can do that. No. You did a good job. Surely, if you messed around with it, he and his boat would have troubled the master.”
“I think you’ve already eaten one?”
“Yes?”
Seong-il shrugs her shoulders and explains to Pirina, who is puzzled.
“Less than two weeks after I paid off her debt, an assassin came to visit me. Do you have any clues?”
“No way…?”
Seong-il nodded at her reaction and continued the explanation.
“Right. I wonder if he sent an assassin.”
“…”
At Sungil’s words, Pirina leaned her back against the wall, fixed her eyes on her for a while, and was lost in her thoughts.
“Hmm…”
“How’s my reasoning?”
“Wait a minute.”
After saying that, Pirina thought about it for a while.
After thinking about her for a long time, she raised her head and looked at her holy day and said.
“Actually.”
“…?”
“If there’s an assassin in this city, I don’t have to know?”
“?!”
“Why? You thought I was an innocent thief girl who only manages the Changgwan?”
“…”
“You can see that there is no case in which the dirty things that happen in this city do not reach the ears of me, the guild leader, and three or four key officers in advance. No. It shouldn’t be. If there are guys who install it, you have to kill them as an example.”
“…”
“That’s why I didn’t believe in the word assassin. But…”
“However..?”
“I think I’ll get a sense of something. In that sense…”
“…?”
“Do you want to talk about this again tomorrow? I think I need to find out something now. And.”
“And..?”
“I’ll attach some of my friends. About four. One will stay at the master’s house until this week. The other three will hang around the area.”
“Ah…”
“So don’t worry about safety and live your life. However, if you can, don’t wander out of the city, okay?”
“Okay.”
At her words, Sungil nodded her head and left her room. And the troubled Seong-il.
‘Could it be.. Is this… The civil war hidden event..?’
‘No.. I’m not sure yet, so let’s talk to Pirina again tomorrow and think about it.’
Seong-il returned to the studio with a meaningful thought.
Seong-il, who hurriedly returned to her workshop, met her Erisha and talked to her.
“Erisha.”
“Wait a minute! I need to concentrate now.”
Erica is working on her alchemy while focusing on her experiments. In front of her eyes, various test instruments, liquids, and unknown materials were stretched out.
After working with them for a while, she looked at some of her books on the edge of the lab table and muttered.
“Hmm… I think this is right, but… For efficiency…”
After muttering a few words like that, Erica focused on alchemy again.
‘Okay.. Should I just grab it and talk to it?’
‘No.
Since it was a very important story, Seong-il was forced to say it, but she shook her head and sat down in her chair, waiting for her experiment to finish.
“It’s over?”
When she saw her sigh and stretched, she asked her what was her name.
“Huh? Uh…”
After saying that, Erisha washed her hands and approached Seongil. Maybe she misunderstood that her purpose in singing Seongil was that she wanted to mix flesh, she reached out her hand and gently touched her Seongil’s alter ego and replied.
Seong-il replied to her as she unbuttoned her top with one hand and held Erica’s wrist caressing her own alter ego.
“Wait a minute. Not because of that, but because of something important.”
“Huh? You have something more important than this?”
‘Fuck.. Anyway, the assassin came at dawn, but to say that… Aren’t you treating me like a sex-crazed dog in horns…’
‘No.. Is that right..?’
Seong-il begins to look back and reflect on oneself. He began to talk to her, chewing on her bitter heart.
“You remember the assassin came at dawn, right?”
