Chapter 534 – Words of Good Will.
Usher left her inn and walked down her street, calling out to the girl who was following him under his cloak.
“Pirika.”
“Yes.”
A friendly voice that returns without change.
“How did this country become like this?”
Usher had no choice but to ask such a girl such a question. She had a vague feeling that maybe she was the one who knew the most about this country.
“Even Usher knows that the feeling of love does not necessarily bring good results.”
Usher quietly closed his eyes after hearing Pirika’s answer. Yes, she knew very well.
“Maybe the people here loved too much. This world, this country, the people, peace.”
“But why…”
So why are there so many people living in hell? As if to answer that question, the girl continued.
“But Usher, she said that loving something means neglecting something else.”
If you love your country, you can do anything for it. If it is beneficial for the people to shed their blood for him, then so be it.
If you love people, you will turn away from something else, even if it doesn’t bring any benefit or help to them, because it can make them happy.
If there is anyone who loves peace, he will gladly kill if the innocent must die for him. Even if it means your own life.
“Verdi and Scol both did that.”
“…”
Usher stopped her from continuing to ask her questions. She could already guess her correct answer from the way Pirika looked up at him and smiled.
“But Usher, can a person really be purely altruistic?”
“No.”
Usher flatly denied her question. Because he has already seen countless people and how they behave. Above all, he knows that he is selfish.
“Nevertheless, people who believe in utopia deny that fact and try to ignore it.”
“That doesn’t change reality.”
Turning away does not change the fact that people are selfish.
“Yes, but the people here believed it was possible. They believed the people who said it was possible.”
The culprit that forced his father and mother to choose sacrifice. The knights revolted and forced Donar to leave his homeland. It is no exaggeration to say that he created Pasiphenia as it is today.
“Minos.”
At Usher’s words, the girl nodded and pulled on the hem of his cloak to hasten her steps.
“People believed that he was a man with noble ideals and that he was a more perfect human being than anyone else.”
“You believed that?”
Isn’t it a simple idea, if you think about it even a little, that there can be no human being without flaws? Still, it was hard to believe that so many people believed in him so much that his parents were persecuted, but the results did not lie.
“Because he himself loved his ideals.”
Even though I ignored all my own selfishness, desires, and contradictions. Because his faith was true.
“So he got rid of anything that got in the way of his ideals.”
All inconvenient truths are ignored and swept away from our eyes. Objects were destroyed and any dirty work, as long as it was useful, was rationalized with an excuse.
“Because he had no doubt that his actions were absolute justice and good deeds.”
“Those ridiculous laws and rules?”
A law that is strict on others but lenient only on its own party. Freedom that does not allow even the slightest objection while calling itself the representative of the people. Responsibility passed on to men in the name of giving preference to women.
“Yes, because it’s all for your own ideal.”
Absolutely, Usher watched her back as her Pirika went ahead of her and then picked her up.
“What?! Now, wait a minute. Usher. There’s a place we have to go now…”
“Are you going to find Elkanah?”
“… I remembered it.”
The fact was that she remembered seeing the girl hiding under her own cloak. The girl I first saved when I came to Parsiphenia. She left it to Pirika, but considering what she did to Paris, it seemed unlikely that she would take Elkanah along as well.
“I’m sorry, Usher. I asked for that child at best.”
“That wasn’t the situation.”
In the end, Pirika was in a situation where she had to urgently protect her own safety, so she had no choice.
“Do you know where it is?”
“There is an area where witches live.”
“Only witches?”
“Yes. If my prediction is correct, it will be there.”
They only gather witches separately. No matter how much she thought about it, she didn’t feel very good. When she looked down at her, the white light of her pirika was dark and depressed.
As she walked along the direction the girl pointed to, she felt herself getting closer and closer to a corner alley. Even though the sun in the sky is now heading toward midheaven, the alley is dark as if evening is approaching.
“Pirika, this place can’t be…”
Then she met at the end of the alley. The sky is now completely covered, and no sunlight is visible. She embroiders her alley on his behalf, and what illuminates it is a scarlet magic stone lantern
The street, which had a musty smell as if it was not well ventilated, was decorated extravagantly on the outside, reflecting the shadows of people passing by.
“This is where me and Lydica were born.”
“But here.”
Usher knew this sight. A place where deep perfumes and countless desires are entangled, colored with colorful lights to make it seem as if they are trying to somehow hide the dirt.
“They’re all Changgwan.”
Perhaps it was Changgwan’s strategy to cover the ceiling so that day and night could not be distinguished.
“But this is the only place in Parsiphenia for witches.”
When Usher checked his surroundings, he realized that most of the people walking on the streets were workers with dark skin who did not even try to hide the grease stains on their clothes.
“Oh my! Cool guys! How is our store today?”
“Oh, that’s good? Should we stop here today?”
Occasionally, women who were checking outside the store would come out and solicit customers. As she jumps lightly, her men follow her as if they are fascinated by her shaking breasts.
“Why a place like this?”
“Because the President made prostitution illegal. He said women should not be persecuted.”
But this place was blatantly a brothel. That means.
“Has it been disguised externally as something else?”
“In Parsiphenia, this place is called a rented room.”
“It’s a rented room… It’s a pretext for renting someone else’s house.”
“Yes, this is the witches’ ‘home’.”
After hearing Pirika’s words, Usher went out onto the street and checked out the women soliciting customers.
“Those women must be ‘administrators,’ right?”
“We call them ‘landlords.'”
No matter how hard I searched, there was no one among them who looked like a witch. Maybe it’s because this is only a part of this road.
“So there is Elkanah here?”
“I can’t see it nearby, but it must be there.”
“It was said that it was an eye that could see the past.”
“That’s right.”
He was finally able to understand why Pirika had taken the trouble to follow him. In any case, she would have to check with her own eyes to find where Elkanah is.
“I don’t see any witches on the street.”
“Because no ‘landlord’ wants a witch to leave their lodgings.”
“… Selling a witch’s body is not illegal.”
“Witches are not treated as women here.”
As the saying goes, not only is it illegal and prevalent, but it also means that witches are not treated as fellow human beings. Usher could barely stop his teeth from grinding. Because he didn’t want to worry Pirika here.
“But this is why I’m taking you with me.”
Just for Usher to walk down this street with a girl now is a notable act. As I looked at her with concern in her eyes, I saw her blush and her hesitation.
“Well, so… This.”
“Is this the one you bought earlier?”
Soon, what she took out from my arms was her leash. I bought it because I needed it on my way here.
“Yes, Usher fills in.”
Pirika handed her leash and handle into his hands, showing off her own slender neck. She never thought she would be used for this purpose.
“Yes, yes.”
Usher swallowed without realizing it, picked up the leash he had been given, and carefully put it around the girl’s neck.
“Oh, look at that.”
“What is it… AC? Someone already has it.”
“But it’s gorgeous. Where did you get it from?”
Usher felt uncomfortable when the eyes of men he met on the street were focused on the girl, but he couldn’t help it.
-Click-clack-clack-clack
“”…””
Usher was now putting Pirika on a leash and leading her forward. Although it was inevitable in order to naturally permeate this street, the strange sense of immorality felt by this act was something that could not be helped.
“Sigh, should I hang out with a guy who looks similar to her today?”
“I think I saw a similar-looking kid over there.”
Apart from that, the unpleasant thing was unpleasant.
‘Elkanah, where are you?’
Pirika wanted to get out of this street as quickly as possible, so while Pirika was checking each store, Usher was also checking to see if there were any traces of Elkana.
“Hi?!”
Suddenly, Pirika let out a suppressed scream.
“Oh! Knight! Where did you get this witch?”
The reason was that a man who was trudging past them with bleary eyes spotted Pirika and suddenly turned around and grabbed her by the shoulders.
“Let go of that hand.”
Usher gave a brief warning.
“Hehe, what do you think? It’s not like I’m going to wear it out just by looking at it. Don’t act like a petty driver, think of it as donating to the poor. Huh?”
“Ugh…!”
Usher placed her hand on her sword as he played with Pirika’s buttocks without even pretending to hear her.
