Resurrected Immortal 336

Chapter 336 – 336. Mother’s Keepsake (2)

As Erin and Emilia take the slaves they bought at the black market and head to Armitas territory through the gate.
Eunhyeon and Lily started their own journey.
Before leaving completely, the trip on the bike summoned from Emilia’s inventory was very fast.
There was a clear purpose for the bike trip, which was driven on bumpy and rough roads at high speed.
It is not a trip to see the scenery and enjoy leisurely, the purpose of sightseeing.
A journey to find the whereabouts of Lily’s mother.
After 5 hours of fast driving with breaks in between, the sun went down.

“Master… Did you find out the whereabouts of her mother?”

While preparing for camping and drinking soup cooked in front of a campfire, Lily asked Eun-hyeon a question she hadn’t asked for a long time.

“No. I don’t know yet. But I did find a clue. Because I looked into all her memories.”

Eun-hyeon analyzed the memories she had of her while making contact with Federica, who had passed out.

“But she says that neither she knows where her mother is…”

“There are too many slaves who were created with the same story as your mother, so you said you don’t remember them all. It wasn’t that I didn’t have clues at all.”

“…”

“First of all, your mother wasn’t handed over to the beasts of the Colosseum, a prison in the center of the underground black market.”

“I-really!?”

Lily was surprised by Eunhyun’s confident words and asked back.
Eun-hyeon calmly nodded her head, following her own guesses organized through her memories of Federica.

“Uh. It wasn’t until two years ago that Federica started breeding monsters in earnest and started an illegal gambling business with the Colosseum.”

With Lily five years ago, it does not mesh with the time when her mother was enslaved.

“Then you must have sold a number of slaves, including your mother, to the slave traders you were dealing with.”

“Then… Where we are going now…”

“It’s a place where the slave traders who traded often frequented, that is, where the slave market is located.”

“Yes… Ok…”

Lily let out a small breath, calming her startled chest.
It still didn’t feel like a good situation.
The fact that her mother hadn’t faced the worst ending of having her limbs ripped off by her demon beast and turned into her prey made her heavy heart a little lighter.
But that doesn’t mean that Lily’s expression is completely relaxed.
She only avoided the worst, but she didn’t think there was a ‘best’ between what her mother might have experienced.
She said that she had avoided the worst, so the only thing that awaited her was the lesser evil.
She couldn’t believe that the same salvation that had come to her had also come to her mother.
It was something she had been prepared for from the beginning, but Lily’s heart was not at ease that she had to think about it.
Trying to gloss over the fact, Lily turned her head to look in the direction of the Duchy of Saviros, from which they had been moving.

“The Duchy of Saviros… What will happen?”

“If you do something wrong, you will be ruined. If you’re lucky, you might be able to revive the knight again, but your decline is certain.”

She proudly demolished the casino hotel building and destroyed the mafia organization that led the business.
It is as if the main industry that was different from the money line of the manor collapsed.

“It’s not just the management of the territory, it’s also certain to receive reprimand from the Rendir royal family and other nobles.”

In the basement of the casino hotel, he tacitly accepted that he was operating an illegal black market, and it was even revealed that he was secretly breeding beasts that were a threat to the people.
The censure that comes to Saviros, who holds the position of ‘Duke’ with the highest rank within the kingdom, will never be light.
It is no exaggeration to say that he drove one territory to the point of being destroyed while paralyzing even the economic part.

“Will our identities ever be revealed… ?”

Lily’s worries were justified.
If it is revealed that they, including Eunhyeon, are from the kingdom of Pernias.
From then on, it developed into a diplomatic problem between the kingdoms of Pernias and Lendir, and there was a risk of even a war if things got tough.
The reason for worrying about such a risk is that Eun-hyeon’s position and influence within the kingdom are not so small.
Eunhyeon’s status was neither a commoner nor a commoner in the kingdom of Pernias, but as he became the son-in-law of the Duke of Armitas, he had a clear affiliation.
If it turns out that it was Eun-hyeon who caused trouble in the Duchy of Saviros, there was ample room for the Kingdom of Rendir to make this a problem and hang around.

“For that reason, I changed my name and moved while hiding my identity. And the kingdom of Pernias is not easily included in the line of dragons.”

“… Why?”

“Because the distance between the kingdom and the dukedom is very long. We have tools that can shorten a distance that would take months to weeks. According to common sense, it takes at least half a year to go back and forth between the Kingdom of Rendir and the Kingdom of Pernias, but we can return faster than that and just dismiss it as something we don’t know.”

The manipulation of the alibi is also very easy.

“Besides, perhaps the Rendir royal family doesn’t even have the time to pursue the culprit after making this a public issue.”

Realizing that he would no longer be able to collect the enormous taxes collected from the Duchy of Saviros, he would be struggling to come up with another alternative.
Besides, in a duchy run by a high-ranking aristocrat, nowhere else.
Even if the fact that he was breeding monsters was widely revealed around him, it was nothing short of a disgrace.
The royal family of Rendir cannot afford to investigate this fact by sending people to other countries to find the culprit.
Both economically and politically, the constraints are too great.

“…”

Lily put on a dumbfounded look at Eunhyun’s face as she talked so easily.

“… I think the owner is really great when I see him like this.”

“Awesome?”

“That… Should I say be careful…”

“Something that doesn’t sound like a compliment.”

It was an expression of admiration for the meticulousness of committing crimes, skilfully escaping, and planning to never get caught.
Eunhyun did not accept it with a very happy expression.

“How are you? The child’s personality is inherently sinister.”

“…”

While materializing at some point, Eun-hyeon was speechless at Belldandy’s behavior of stealing Eun-hyeon’s bowl and spoon of soup.

“Mm, that’s delicious. Would you like another bowl?”

After tasting the soup, Belldandy held out the soup bowl to Lily with a pleasant smile.

“Yes. Wait a minute.”

Lily smiled and scooped up the hot soup boiling over the bonfire with a ladle and put it in a bowl that Belldandi held out.

“Berdandi-nim, you say I’m sneaky. It’s unfair.”

“To feel unfair about the truth, even a child has no conscience.”

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“Lord! Are there guests?”

“What? Customer?”

Under the scorching sun, So Young-joo, who was checking the condition of the farm while watching the peasants plowing the fields, looked at the woman who had called him.

“Yes.”

The young serf nodded in her affirmation and pointed her finger behind herself.
Following her gaze, So Yeong-joo moved her gaze and confirmed the appearance of the two men and women.

“Guests in broad daylight like this?”

So Young-ju tilted her head, wondering why she had come to So-Young-Ji in such a remote area, and observed the two men and women who came here.
A young handsome man and a maid standing next to him.
I couldn’t see his face in detail because of the distance, but the man’s hair color was very unique.
The silvery white hair shining bright in the sunlight was not a common hair color that could be easily seen.
Moreover, the fact that he is a young man accompanied by a maid as an attendant makes one wonder if he is the son of an aristocratic family somewhere.
At first glance, it seemed certain that he had been looking for her, so Young-joo moved her steps and approached the man with white silver hair.

“Hello. My name is Eunhyun. And this…”

“My name is Lily.”

“Tee, Baron Teese Bellas.”

The two men and women suddenly lowered their heads and greeted each other in a formal and respectful way.
The reason he was flustered was nothing else, but the fact that she dared to introduce his maid to her.
When an aristocrat introduces himself, he does not bother to introduce himself to those who attend on him.

“Why did you come to this remote village of Soyoungji?”

At Tease’s words, which went straight to the point, Eun-hyeon smiled and opened her mouth.

“Have you ever purchased a slave, about five years ago?”

“Is that so? Ah…”

Eventually, realizing what the two men and women were looking for, Tease gave a small sigh.

‘No way… ?’

He shifted his gaze away from Eun-hyeon and looked at the expression of his maid, Lily.
Confirming Lily’s attitude as she clenched her fists as if slightly trembling and tried to hide her tension, Tease gently closed her eyes.

‘… They look alike.’

With her appearance reminiscent of a woman from the past, Tease was immersed in the thought that something had come.
He realized what business the two men and women had been looking for.

“… Follow me.”

With those words of hers, Tease led her Eunhyeon and Lily to her own mansion.
Lily looked around the inside of the mansion, which was small for an aristocrat.

“Even though I am a noble, I am ashamed to welcome guests to a shabby place.”

“Oh, no… That thought…”

Seeing that it was her own behavior that seemed to be her misunderstanding, Lily panicked.

“I thought she was living a frugal life.”

Most of Lily’s aristocratic appearance was those who showed off her worth with her beautiful and luxurious clothes and luxurious appearance decorated with jewels.
With the exception of Eleanor, who creates an aristocratic atmosphere even when she is still, she recalled her vanity-filled outfits from the casino hotel.

“Hehe, thank you very much for wrapping it up like that. But most of the territories owned by baron nobles in the outskirts are like this.”

There was no distinctiveness, and most of them really lived day by day with the villagers.

“Do you usually work outside like this with the peasants?”

“Exactly. Speaking of the management of the estate, in this non-characteristic small estate on the outskirts, there is nothing but running a farm and repairing the homes of the people.”

Even so, a lord who directly helps with farming and plows the fields.
He was a very rare lord.

“Did you say Lily?”

“Ah yes.”

“Your mother was a truly wonderful woman.”

“… What!?”

Lily swallowed her breath at Tease’s out of the blue.
In his expression as he quietly reflects on the past, it reminds him of a respectable person rather than a slave.

“Uh… How… ?”

How could Tease know Lily’s identity?
Lily couldn’t hide her embarrassment.
So Yeong-joo calmly started talking.

“It was about four years ago that I bought your mother.”