Taming the Female Empress 37

Chapter 37 – 36. Heilang Sets Out to Find Baekho, Who Is Absent From Work Without Notice.

36

“Twenty-two.”
“Confirm…”

“Wait. Again.”

Sniff sniff.

Four people hiding behind a bush with sparsely grown thistles.

Among them, a woman with black ears and a tail raised her pointed nose cautiously.

“Twenty three.”
“Has confirmed.”

“After…”

Yem disease.

Heilang, the leader of the search team, chewed and swallowed the curse words and slowly rose from his seat.

He wanted to take this time and he wanted to take charge of the preliminary search himself, but there were unavoidable circumstances.

Among the 5 members of the team, there are only 2 of them including herself.

But she had a bitch with a better nose than herself, and she couldn’t see a strand of hair for several days.

Aside from the idiot-like method of spreading mana to the monsters and checking the number of them one by one, he had no choice but to roll hard as he had a slightly better sense of smell than others.

‘Baekho, where is this bitch and what is she doing…’

It’s already been 5 days without news.

Because I didn’t use it, I didn’t go to rest after spending nearly a month of compensatory vacation, and one day it suddenly disappeared with a bang.

Does this make sense

I didn’t even hit the job
He didn’t run away like a child, he just disappeared without a word.

I was so dumbfounded that yesterday, after a long time, I even went to my parents’ house, which is three hours one way away by carriage.

The lofty White Family Mansion built across from the Black Family Mansion.

It was probably the mansion where the mad Baekho was rolling around and hiding,
Even in front of him, he couldn’t find a trace of the white tiger’s scent, so Heilang turned his steps without regret.

In other words, Baekho did not go down to his home and lock himself in his room.

Then, where did he go after leaving his teammates behind?

‘I didn’t expect him to be such an irresponsible kid.’

Baekho was a great team member, except for throwing out dirty stories whenever we met.

The sword skill that brutally slices through demons is impeccable,
When we have to do it, we carry out our duties with a serious attitude and without obstruction.
Unlike me, who has a limit on smell discrimination at best, even the ability to search using the sense of smell is excellent.

Besides, she was the daughter of the Baek family, close enough to be like her next door neighbor,
To her, her black family, she was a teammate like her white tiger, her well-bred, her next-door brother.

However, one flaw, the ‘perversion’, erodes the entire image.

A woman who is perfect as her colleague, but as her friend and sister the code must be right.

That’s why the evaluation of her well-bred next door sister is slightly devalued.

To the workaholic Heilang, Baekho is the prodigal younger brother next door. That feeling was everything.

She didn’t grow up well, but because of the “Younger sister next door” Who intervened in her
Although the team leader’s authority had turned a blind eye to the absenteeism that continued for several days…

It also looks breathtaking now.

“…Manager.”
“Uh.”

“…What happened to Baekho?”

One of the team members cautiously asked a question.

Being like her next-door brother is also true for Heilang.

There is nothing to say even if it seems like one-sided favoritism to the other team members, who are human, not beastmen.

The relationship between the white family and the black family is very famous,
The team member who is skipping right now is definitely Baekho.
Because, of course, the team leader was Heilang…

I would have done this even if any of you had been absent from work.

If I have to make excuses like that, it is obvious that the team members who have been irritated by the increased workload for several days will not be able to eat at all.

Eventually, Heilang lowered his posture again and opened his mouth while hiding behind the bushes.

“The last thing I saw was the carriage stop. And you said you have a habit of going to River Hill where your friends live, right?”
“That’s right.”

I didn’t even go to my hometown.
Don’t even go to work

Even if you go to a small mansion where Baekho lives alone with a minimum of maids,
“Baekho is staying out all night.” If it’s just a word…

There wasn’t much left.

The most likely thing right now is that, for some reason, I have been staying at a friend’s house for several days.

“I’ll get it.”
“…”

“Baekho bitch, I’ll catch you…”
“…”

“Let’s wait until today.”

The three team members looked at each other’s faces in turn and nodded their heads hesitantly.

Even if Heilang went to Riverhill today, there was no guarantee that he would be able to catch Baekho unconditionally.
No matter how exhausted the team members were, they didn’t have the guts to dare to argue with the team leader.

‘I think I should search the bushes on the way there, not River Hill…’
‘I’ll have to search the Riverhill Inn…’
‘I’ll have to look around the Spring River Inn again instead of the team leader…’

All of them reluctantly nodded, thinking the same thing.

I heard that he recently found a good coachman, but I wonder if he has been locked up somewhere and is eating until he dies, forgetting about the passage of time.

Heilang, who secretly left his seat whenever Baekho was talking about something dirty, didn’t know about it, but
In the minds of everyone on the team, it was already an established fact that Baekho was eating a man.

***

Inside Room 303, where a cool breeze lingers.

Knock. Knock. After a dry sound, Shiro greeted the last patient assigned to him.

“My ankle…”

The last patient had his right ankle twisted in an odd way.

According to the patient, the cause was a fall while working.

How painful would it be to be bent like that?

After imagining the pain she had never experienced, Shiro carefully caressed the ankle of the approaching man with her crutches.

“Kuh…”
“It will be easier if you hold it in for a while. Take a deep breath and be still…”

After the patient’s pain, he adds a mechanical sentence that stuck to his mouth while working.

But we both know that it’s not a lie.

The patient shuddered and nodded his head, and Shiro cautiously began to chant.

“Cur.”

Muscle relaxation function, hemorrhage inhibition function, regenerative function.

Shiro used “Cure”, Which is a finely connected 20 or more small functions around 3 large functions, on the patient’s ankle.

Fast and accurate calculations like a second-class healer.

Shiro’s mana began to flow along the rapidly interlocking function.

“You’ll be fine soon…”

The mana that escaped from his fingertips assembled here and there and dug into the swollen ankles smoothly.

Whenever Mana finds a small peculiarity while wandering around the patient’s ankle, he improvises the function little by little to suit it. And proceed.

The twisted foot slowly returned to its original state, and the patient let out a sigh of relief.

“Thank you, Healer.”
“What? Haha…”

Shiro’s face tilted slightly forward with a small smile on her face.

I know it’s just a light thank you message that doesn’t mean much, but I was a bit embarrassed because it seemed like volunteer work even though it was all paid for.

And today, I actually did something “Embarrassing” Here.

Because of that, it seems to be twice as embarrassing.

Either that or not, the man who didn’t know Shiro’s intentions tapped his right foot on the floor, bowed at his waist, bowed once more, and left the room.

“Phew…”

There seemed to be nothing wrong with that light step.

There was no visible part of the body that was treated incorrectly,

He smelled something strange and didn’t even hesitate.

“…Thank god.”

I didn’t hear it until the end.

In the room where I was left alone. Where the sigh of relief had escaped, Shiro filled in fresh air.

Colorless and odorless. It was the air that made you feel nothing.

But maybe I’m missing something because I’ve gotten so used to the smell.

Besides, if Baekho suddenly came to visit…

‘In case you don’t know, let’s ventilate until we get off work and then go back.’

The wind blowing through the window felt increasingly chilly, but Shiro didn’t care and turned his stack of medical records aside one page at a time.

It was then.

Beep-
A connector in the corner of the desk made a short sound.

Connectors usually ring for two reasons.

The first is when Shiro is assigned a patient.

The second time was when Baekho picked up Shiro and announced that he would come find him.

Since it was right before work, it was clear that the patient just assigned was the last patient, so this signal…

“…”

Smart smart

“Hick!”

After the connector rang, Shiro ran around the room and moved as if pumping air out of the window.

She looked behind her, frightened by the soft knock.

Shiro’s sense of smell can’t really pick up any smells anymore…

I’m so anxious because I couldn’t even wash my body to remove a layer of smell by cleaning properly.

“Whoa… Whoa…!”

Moment of tension.

It’s coming… Baekho, it’s coming…

Please, don’t get caught…

…

I hope not…?

“Yes…?”

Smart smart

A tidy knock is heard from outside the door once again.

Seeing that, it’s strange. If it was Baekho, she would have opened the door and entered without permission.

Shiro tried to think of a reason why Baekho would knock on her door.

Baekho, who noticed everything, wouldn’t deliberately knock on the door to make her feel anxious…

Umm…

‘…I don’t have one…?’

It is possible to speculate that he knocked on the door without thinking because he was a white tiger who did not know where to go, but it is meaningless to do so.

In the end, if you exclude such trivial things, there is only one thing left.

Apparently, another healer was assigned the wrong patient.

“Ha…”

A spoonful of depression during delayed work hours.

A spoonful of relief in the hope that you won’t be caught.

A spoonful of melancholy at the loss of time with Veles.

Shiro, who was a little depressed at the two-to-one ratio, sat down on a chair and said clearly to the door.

“Come on in.”

—Kik.

When Shiro’s voice ended, the door opened at the same time.

After all, the person in front of the door was not Baekho.

“Uh, there, uh…”

However, a spoonful of relief was taken out of my heart, and tension poured over it.

It even made me think that it would have been better if it was Baekho.

“…Ugh…?”
“Uh, uh, where, where are you going, it hurts, you came from,”

She was the first woman I had ever seen.

And she was the first prisoner he had ever seen.

The opposite of a white tiger: long hair like the night sky, triangular ears, and a voluminous tail.

Vicious chest fat protruding above the black jacket that was neatly fastened all the way.

Bright yellow eyes moving around as if looking for something.

A scabbard long enough to make one wonder if it would drag on the ground.

Just by looking at the color of his hair, it was clear that he belonged to a black family.

“Sniff, sniff, sniff…”

Such a person is now frowning and sniffing.

An unknown beastman with no face!
The smell that Veles and I gasped for breath without the others knowing!

She doesn’t have the confidence to manage her expression at all.

Healer must have eaten a man instead of lunch here. If words like this pop up, he might throw himself through the now open window…

Shiro bowed her head, and for the first time she knew what it was like to see sweat seep out of her palms.

“Hey, the smell, it shouldn’t, no, the smell, it doesn’t smell…”
“Oh, no. The smell of sweat and… A fishy…? It smells a bit… But…”

Uh.

No way…

Have sex… No, you don’t know the smell of semen…?

‘I’m so glad…’

“It must have been difficult today. I came because I wanted to ask the healer more than that.”
“I want to ask…”

“Yes.”

Secretly letting out a sigh of relief, Shiro was taken aback by her polite tone, contrary to her sharp-looking expression.

Because of that, I missed the timing to speak out.

She was going to say that in the morning she did a sweaty job…

No, would it be better not to say it? Is it right to be suspicious?

I do not know. My head didn’t turn well in an unexpected situation.

“When did Baekho last visit?”
“Baekho… Huh? Baekho?”

Due to her overloaded head, Shiro has become a doll that only closes and opens her eyes.

The word Baekho grabbed her droopy mental head and raised it up.

“Come to think of it, the 3rd…? The 4th…? I haven’t been here recently…”
“The smell of the white tiger remains a little… Well…”

The woman who came to visit her shiro was lost in thought, stroking her lips with her arms crossed under her breasts.

Either that or not, only one thought lingered in his head.

If you’re here to talk about this, why don’t we just talk about it outside…

Seeing her ferociously touch her lips and carefully cover her nose with her finger, her tears welled up in shame, apart from knowing the smell of her semen.

“If you ever meet a white tiger… No, no, I think you’ll find it soon.”
“Yeah? Whatever happened to Baekho…”

“…It’s true that something happened, but it’s nothing serious. There’s no need to worry.”

She didn’t care about that one word and turned her steps.

Seeing the way she covered her nose with her finger until the end and turned around, Shiro fell on her desk and shed tears.

***

I’m sure it’s around here, but I thought it wasn’t here.

Inside the Riverhill Health Center, the scent of the white tiger, which remained very vague, was carefully piled up on the way to room 303.

“It’s not even my house…”

It seems to have come in and out like my own home.

In fact, the smell of sweat in room 303 and the thick, fishy, ​​and sweet scent that I smelled for the first time gave me a headache.

After walking out of the health center, Heilang looked at the year passing by and pondered where to go.

It was my first time in Riverhill, so I wasn’t familiar with geography.

I should have asked the healer where Baekho could go before and came out.

Heilang thought that since he had plenty of time, let’s walk without a destination.

Less than 5 seconds after her foot gets out of the health center, a new destination emerges.

“Uh…?”

Sniff. Sniff.

The smell of white tigers, which I thought was coming from inside the health center, was also coming out from the side of the health center.

It seems like he sees a white road made of smells in front of his eyes.

Heilang carefully moved her steps along the path.

The place where the smell comes out is next to the health center. Several carriages were visible through the transparent glass windows.

“Why does it smell over there…?”

White tiger? In the parking lot of the health center?

So, where are those wagons?

“It can’t be…? Why?”

She keeps walking towards it, keeping her gaze fixed.

As she arrived at the entrance to the parking lot, she felt the smell split into two.

One inside the parking lot.

One is to ride the road all the way, far, far away. A place where buildings and trees are gathered.

Then it is. There is no reason for Baekho to be in a parking lot like this.

It seems that the carriage carrying the white tiger stopped by here for a while and then left.

A familiar smell carefully passed my nostrils, but I couldn’t afford to pay attention to each one of them.

After Heilang wiped the bottom of his nose, he continued walking through the parking lot and into the city.