Chapter 324 – 324. Brodia Mafia (2)
“Hmm… You mean that?”
After hearing the clerk’s report, Federica put on an interesting expression.
“Yes. Compared to the skills and finances they have, their personality and intelligence seem lousy.”
The clerk, who accepted Eun-hyeon’s request and left the black market to reserve a room for the slaves to stay, immediately came to his boss and reported his impression of Eun-hyeon.
“You bought all the cheap imitations from our side? Under.”
That too, at an amount that is two or three times the expected price.
He doesn’t have a good eye for things, and there’s no way he could have accumulated such wealth just by gambling.
It means that the wealth he has in his family is enormous.
The story of a son from a high-ranking aristocratic family who believes in his family’s history and wealth and is ignorant of the world is a common story that exists everywhere.
He even has the skill of stealing all of the other person’s money with poker at a casino, so what’s there to be afraid of?
“That’s cheeky.”
Federica snorted as she heard the story of a man unaware of the fear of the world and like a mad dog in heat in her own territory.
“What would you like to do?”
“I think it would be okay to kidnap them, lock them up, and have them work after some training… What kind of person he is, I want to see his face.”
“You mean it yourself?”
Federica rarely shows interest in anyone.
“The impression you hear is that you’re a complete two-headed bastard, but something’s going on. What the hell is it?”
The reason Federica, who took over her father’s organization and became the boss of the mafia as a woman, has been able to run her business so far is because of her unique sense of humor that only she has.
While carrying out the vicious business of extracting the lives of others by converting them into money and extracting profits, what Federica valued the most was her ‘eye for people’.
Because of her nature, she did not stick a knife in her own back head, but she created her subordinates who could follow her own orders unconditionally, embraced them, and raised her own organization to this day.
At this point, Federica’s ‘Brodia Mafia’ is a huge power itself that even the Duke of Saviros cannot easily touch.
Federica’s feeling was that she was vague about the silver-white-haired man named ‘Albert’.
“So, I’d like to see your face and talk to you.”
Whether it is a talent that can help her develop her own power by subduing her and putting her under her.
Or is it just horny scum that only reveals women without thinking.
She wanted to see it with her own eyes.
“Don’t you have an escort?”
“They said there were three people in her company, and of her sister and two wives, only one seemed capable of combat.”
Only one person had a weapon with a rapier worn on his waist.
“Hmm…”
“Are you getting something?”
“I sent two invitations, but why did the man go around the black market with the wife of the other side, and not as a combat escort? I thought.”
“Isn’t it just because of the difference in disposition and thoughts? The couple… I was proudly enjoying that kind of play in front of me.”
“Are they really perverts who enjoy the attention of others out of a desire to show off… ?”
“In my eyes, it just seemed that way.”
Perhaps because the action he showed was so unconventional, the clerk who saw and heard the play up close frowned.
“What do you not like?”
Federica made a puzzled expression as she looked at the face of her subordinate who was wearing her frown.
“… I asked for that, but he didn’t do it until the end.”
“What?”
“…”
The clerk did not answer the boss’s question.
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Oooooh!
Thud!
“Kuaaa!”
The feet of the giant Minotaur mercilessly trampled the legs of the desperately fleeing slave.
Haha! Kill! Kill me!”
“X feet! Hold on! They walked in two minutes!”
“You can’t stand that! You asshole!”
In a prison where even escape was not allowed due to the iron bars, not a single person was worried about the slave being chased by the beast.
The death of a slave was not a big concern to them.
Only the bets on whether he will be able to win the battle with the beast, how many minutes he will endure and die, are the only interests of the spectators who participated in this black market auction.
“… It’s crazy.”
Lily looked at the scene of madness and turned her head away, frowning.
Just the smell, the sounds, the sights of this place made her feel sick in her chest, rising up her throat and making her vomit.
It’s not because the slave being chased by the witch is pitiful and cruel.
It was so disgusting to see so many spectators cheering and mocking the slave, and treating his life casually as a fellow human being.
“… Right.”
“Master?”
I asked while looking up at Eunhyun, who seemed to understand with a hard expression on her own.
“Lily. Before coming to the dukedom, the story I heard in the territory that was your hometown. Remember?”
“That… Are you saying that young people are migrating to the dukedom en masse?”
“Uh.”
Eunhyun, who couldn’t take her eyes off the prison coliseum with a serious expression, affirmed.
Realizing the meaning of what he meant, Lily also opened her eyes wide and put on a look of astonishment.
“No way… That person… ?”
“That possibility… It looks high.”
Like Eunhyeon, Lily stared at the prison Coliseum and reacted in disbelief.
“Even if he’s not from that territory, he’s probably one of those who fell for a similar temptation and was tricked into it.”
Eun-hyeon understood the entirety of the situation.
What kind of profit are they trying to get by inciting young people from small estates and villages located around them to seduce them into the dukedom and tricking them?
“I can’t believe that they are breeding demon beasts in this basement…”
“Beast Breeding…”
The Witchbeast maintains its own bodily functions, and there is only one way to preserve it.
The process of consuming the mana in life and contaminating it by making it your own.
Through it, it causes an increase in overall ability at the same time as maintaining one’s bodily functions.
It is for this reason that even among the species of monsters belonging to the lower class, a particularly strong individual is born from time to time.
A typical example is that an ordinary goblin eats many wild animals and humans and grows into a higher-level entity such as a Goblin Warrior or Goblin Champion.
The act of preying on life and mana in the process is because of the instinct engraved in the head of the beast.
“Then why did you trick young men and women from various places and bring them here…”
“It’s food for breeding monsters.”
It’s not just food either.
In the case of men, they are confined in the Colosseum and made fun of, degraded to the amusement of the audience, and end up being eaten by the beast.
In the case of women, they are degraded to playthings for wealthy high-ranking aristocrats and wealthy people, and are tossed around to their heart’s content. The moment they lose their usefulness, they are thrown as food by demon beasts.
Realizing the ugly reality of the mafia called ‘Bro Dia’ who runs this casino and black market, Lily clenched her fists at a loss for words.
If only she could imagine that her mother might have fallen to the beasts’ prey like that.
It seemed as if her reason would be cut off any moment.
“Lily.”
Grabbing one of her hands that clenched her fist, Eunhyeon calmed Lily down.
“Master…”
“It’s not that I don’t know your heart. But now is not the time to fully express that feeling.”
When everything became clear, including her mother’s whereabouts.
That’s when you need to move.
“… Sorry.”
Lily let out a sigh of relief, apologizing for harboring passionate feelings.
“Her heart is hot, her head is cold.”
“… Yes?”
“It’s a phrase that comes to mind from time to time. It’s amazing that it’s a real-life term used in everything.”
“Whoa…”
Lily felt Eun-hyeon’s hand sweeping her hair and tidying it up while she joked about her useless jokes.
She calmed her pounding chest and exhaled, clearing her ragged breath.
It was just a joke, but it was the word that resonated the most with Lily now.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes?”
“I got all the information I could get here. Even the idea of what to do by gathering that many people into the dukedom. Besides, I achieved my goal by giving the mafia group a rough impression of who I am.”
“… Yes.”
Eun-hyeon got up from her seat and summoned the maid outfit Lily usually wore.
“Put it on.”
“… Yes.”
Lily accepted the maid outfit given to her by Eun-hyeon while putting on a look of regret.
Even though she is covering her whole body with a blanket, her outfit is still a sensational attire close to nudity.
Her inserted vibe had already been pulled out, but Lily’s attitude as she rubbed her legs, feeling somehow empty, was obviously strange.
“Master…”
“Huh?”
“The one before us… It would be absolutely impossible in the dukedom, right?”
“Of course.”
Although she honestly coveted and gratified her desires, drawn by herself, Lily, and circumstances and each other, she could not show this to others.
“Then…”
Lily felt very sad about it.
“I’d rather go back… Could you please torment me one more time?”
“…”
Eun-hyeon pondered for a moment what to do with her request.
Seeing Lily’s sorrowful eyes filled with her regret, Eunhyeon finally nodded her head.
“Okay.”
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“Lily, you take care of all the slaves you purchase.”
After finishing her exposure and play full of assistants, she returned to the hotel and Eun-hyeon immediately entrusted the management of the slaves to Lily.
“Yes.”
Lily nodded as if it were natural and accepted Eunhyun’s order.
These are the slaves that he purchased with a large amount of money in the first place as a request close to his own childishness.
She was right that she was in charge and taking care of herself.
“But Hyun is also amazing…”
Erin swallowed her saliva at the nerves of Eunhyun, who didn’t budge even after spending a huge amount in a few hours.
She felt that she was amazing when she saw that she was spending an amount she had never collected in her entire life at once.
“Now then, movement will come from the other side. Now, let’s start working on feeding the taffy in earnest.”
With a shy smile, Eunhyun explained her future plans to Erin, Emilia, and Lily.
Erin frowned as she heard about the slave auctions and breeding of the demons that took place inside the Black Market.
“… They are really bad people. Are you scolding all the people who run that black market?”
“That’s right. Among them, the one to be most wary of is a woman named Federica Brodia, the boss of the Black Market and the Brodia Mafia, the owner of this casino hotel.”
Furthermore, it is the mafia organization itself under his command.
The culprit who lured many people, including Lily’s father, into a casino, lured them into gambling, and eventually collapsed the family and turned them into slaves.
Lily is a woman who is the final target of revenge, in order to make a complete settlement with the past.
“For now, I want her to be left to me.”
“Yes.”
“All right.”
The two women followed Eunhyeon’s words without saying anything.
“Okay, then everyone put this on your left ear.”
“This…”
“What’s this?”
Erin made a curious expression and observed the earring that Eunhyeon held out with the diamond in it.
“It’s an artifact imprinted with transmission magic. I’ll use this to communicate while we’re apart. I am wearing it.”
“Oh, I see.”
“Yes.”
“Then let’s all move.”
“I accept your order.”
After explaining their role, course of action, and order once again, Eun-hyeon and his party began to act.
For individual actions, Eunhyun leaves the hotel room, leaving only the three of them, Erin and Lily, in the room.
“Sister.”
“Huh?”
“Did you eat something delicious? My skin has become very white and plump.”
Nothing much has changed from usual, but after touching Lily’s lively and much smoother face, she asked with a curious expression.
Lily smiled and nodded her head.
“Huh. It was very delicious, because the owner gave it to me.”
