Chapter 607 – 607. The Saint and the Villainess (2)
Among Eun-hyeon’s wives, Eleanor and Lily are actually the most benevolent and gentle.
Unlike Illyana, who is completely indifferent and bystander if it is not her own person, and Erin, who still has a strong tendency to depend on Eun-hyun’s thoughts and decisions, Eleanor and Lily spend their time and time to help and save many socially weak people. There was a very strong tendency to invest effort unsparingly.
However, on the other hand, it was the two of them who showed a merciless attitude towards the wicked or those who wielded unreasonable power.
It was because both Eleanor and Lilina were tired of experiencing the ugly side of people at the end of their lives.
Eleanor had seen people exploiting and taking their lives casually inside the kingdom of Pernias, which was full of corrupt nobles.
As Lily was sold into slavery due to her father’s gambling addiction, she was separated from her mother, who was her only support. In the end, she was turned into a warlock’s experimental slave, and she experienced the downfall of life as a demon. .
Leaving aside which one was more pitiful and which one had a more serious experience, the two people who had experienced it were well aware of how many evil people there were in the world.
That’s why Eleanor and Lily had no intention of leaving the people of Alteria Firm who were secretly doing tricks in the Duchy of Armitas alone.
When Lily revealed what she saw as a succubus and activated her abilities, all three of the people who were designated as targets looked dazed and dazed.
“Here… ?”
“Suddenly what…”
“We were at the mansion… ?”
While enjoying a high-class dinner at Eleanor’s invitation, Born and the two employees have yet to grasp the proper situation in the background that has changed with Eleanor’s sudden declaration of war.
Born couldn’t hide his embarrassment and looked around him.
The room with the table where they enjoyed dinner disappeared, and it was a solitary room full of pitch-black darkness without a single light coming in.
The only thing that illuminates the dark atmosphere inside the solitary room is the lights of the torches installed in the middle.
The dining table where they enjoyed the dinner disappeared before they knew it, and the eyes of Eleanor, Born, and the two employees of Alteria Corporation met each other.
As the eerie cold air filled their surroundings, Born and the two naturally had no choice but to shrink.
“How did this happen… !”
Just as he was about to question Eleanor why the surroundings had suddenly changed, Lily cut off Born.
“I don’t think that matters.”
Hearing Lily’s cold voice as she slowly walked forward, Born couldn’t follow her words and flinched at her.
The figure of Lily slowly walking forward while letting go of the clattering heels was not the beautiful maid she had seen before.
A pair of black wings spread around the waist.
She only covers important parts of the woman, so it’s a sensational outfit that makes you wonder if she’s wearing only underwear.
A pair of goat horns on either side of the head.
Eventually, Born guessed the true identity of Lily, who revealed her true self.
“New year… Mind… Devil… ?”
“…”
Lily was neither affirming nor denying her guess that her born had put into her mouth.
She was only staring at the three of them with an emotionless gaze.
Born didn’t even deny it, but she twisted her face as she looked at Eleanor and Lily, who didn’t even bother to hide their identities.
“The priest of the Temple of Vesta… ! I thought you were colluding with the devil… !”
For the believers in the Temple of Vesta and others, it was truly shocking.
In addition, Eleanor was appointed as the next saint and was the most important person in the Temple of Vesta next to the current pope and other archbishops.
But behind her, she was actually holding hands with her demon.
Just because this fact was known to the public, the family of Duke Armitas was already being buried not only in the kingdom of Pernias, but also in the entire continent, and even the temple of Vesta was like a bomb that could not be easily passed over.
However, Eleanor, who had revealed this fact proudly, showed no signs of being shaken at all.
Even in this spooky atmosphere, she, showing her graceful and noble demeanor, rather laughed at her born.
“I don’t want to hear from you guys who have been doing things even worse than humans.”
“Cheeky… !”
The face of Born, who was suddenly insulted, was severely crumpled.
“How can a priest who serves a goddess collude with the devil!”
Despite Eleanor’s cynical reply, the continued questioning of an employee of an Alteria Company was certainly justified.
However, it is laughable that the people who make that question are the people who persecuted the refugees who fled to their territory and unfairly exploited the money of their people.
Lily’s existence has already been recognized in the divine world through the mediation of Belldandi and Eunhyeon, the only demon in the world.
There was absolutely no reason to be interrogated by those who knew nothing.
“Lily.”
“Yes. Little madam.”
At Eleanor’s brief call, Lily nodded her head.
She knows what she’s talking about without even asking.
Because I was saying with my expression that I didn’t want to hear their voices raised any more.
Lily immediately cast a spell on their eyes.
“Ah!”
“Live, live… !”
“Quaaah!”
Born and the two staff, who had been so vainly seduced by magic, screamed.
What the three of them are going through right now is the experience of being burned at the stake.
A series of indescribable pain at the high temperature that cooks the skin and the flesh completely dominates their minds.
But even so, their bodies cannot writhe in pain as if they were bound to a chair.
The pain of not being able to scream for help or run away was forcibly injected into the mind by the power of the devil.
The sensitivity of the pain, where neither resistance nor escape was possible, was even manipulated to be several times stronger.
Finally, the three of them passed out, exposing the whites of their eyes as if they had lost consciousness from the pain injected into their minds.
“Heh, heh… !”
Born, who was the first to come to his senses, was out of breath and broke into a cold sweat.
My whole body, unable to move, trembled at the lingering lingering pain of intense pain that had felt like my whole body was being burned just before.
“Keugh…”
Born couldn’t understand what it was, but he was certain that the cause of the pain he felt earlier was the demon who was now looking down at him with a cold gaze.
‘Why is my body…’
He couldn’t lift one of his fingers, as if his body had turned to stone.
When you try to move your body, something pulls on your body strongly, preventing you from trying to exert yourself.
It wasn’t that her movement was forcibly blocked by external factors, but the power itself was not being loaded inside her body.
Born, who couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on, had to feel frustrated as time passed as this situation continued.
In addition, I am reluctant because I strongly believe that Eleanor and Lily were involved in creating this situation.
“From now on, I will ask you questions.”
Born met Lily’s red eyes staring at him.
With a dazed expression, he met her eyes that were pulsating with red aura and didn’t notice that something from her entered his head.
A bizarre sense of incongruity, as if a certain emotion had been forcibly planted in her own heart.
It is the ‘dream demon’s eye’ that Lily has.
“If you don’t answer my question…”
It was obvious that I didn’t even have to hear what was going to happen.
Convinced that once again she would feel the burning pain of her whole body, Born hurriedly opened her mouth.
“Stop… ! I knew! Got it!”
Born’s submission was more obedient and quicker than she thought.
Her body is unable to move, and even resisting the pain is impossible.
What on earth can he do against a demon with unknown powers who turns the inside of a nobleman’s mansion into a spooky prison and inflicts pain?
If you are a human, you can deal with it as much as you want through the money and power you have and the power of the forces behind it.
But now, Born couldn’t helplessly resist, he didn’t want to feel the pain of being burned all over again.
The two employees of Alteria Co., Who passed out from the pain, have not yet woken up.
Lily asked as she looked at Born who had succumbed like that.
“Name.”
“… Born Alteria.”
“Why did you come to the Duchy of Armitas?”
“To make a lot of money…”
I was answering Lily’s questions obediently, but the answers were very fragmentary and it was a bit difficult to get information.
Lily elaborated on the content of her question.
“Tell me all the illegal things you have done in the duchy.”
Born came to the Duchy of Armitas and explained in detail how he was able to become the capital of the Chamber of Commerce.
In addition to tricking refugees into the dukedom into slavery and selling them, luring the territories into lending business and exploiting them at unreasonable interest rates that they couldn’t afford, they also broke down and excluded other merchants and merchants to monopolize goods and set prices at the supplier’s expense. Kneading at will, etc.
All of them were vicious methods.
“Behind you, who is it?”
Eventually, Eleanor asked Born.
No matter how much money he has, Born is just a foreigner and commoner who has a large-scale business.
Even if he had his eyes set on the Duchy of Armitas, it was never easy to make that greed a reality.
There must be a force behind the scenes that cannot be solved with capital alone, and perhaps even provides that capital to move the Alteria Corporation in full swing and try to wreak havoc in the Duchy of Armitas.
“That…”
For the first time, Born, who had been responding to Lily’s questions, hesitated at Eleanor’s question.
It is only natural that he hesitated, since telling the truth would undoubtedly cost him his life.
But Eleanor had no intention of looking at it like that.
“Lily.”
“Yes. Little madam.”
Responding to Eleanor’s call, Lily activated the ‘Dream Demon’s Eye’ again, inflicting extreme pain on Born.
“Aagh!”
However, the pain Lily set up this time was not the burning pain of the whole body that was first introduced.
Lily hadn’t forgotten the way Born looked at Eleanor with his sullen gaze, tinged with lust.
So, the pain set this time is that the space between Born’s crotch is mercilessly eaten by a ferocious beast.
Although no threat was being posed to his real body, the hallucinations born through the power of the succubus were no different from the pain he felt in real life.
“Nice… Ugh… !”
“Don’t say it twice. Tell me who is behind you.”
“You are doing this… It’s no use!”
In the end, Born, who could not stand it and exploded, raised his voice and poured Eleanor and Lily as if to kill.
“Me… Do you think you guys will be all right after doing this!?”
Born, who lost his reason at the pain of having his entire body burned and his lower body being bitten mercilessly between his crotches, ceased to exist with Eleanor and Lily.
“No way, did you think I would have come here unprepared!?”
“… What are you talking about?”
Eleanor frowned and asked at the words of Born, who had let go of reason and became nervous.
“Before I came here, I hired adventurers and ordered them to set fire to the large-scale farmland owned by the dukedom.”
“…”
Originally, Born’s plan was to take advantage of the food crisis that could not take care of both the residents and the refugees as the crops that were due to be harvested sooner or later in the farmland were burned by fire.
The original plan was to make the dukedom’s finances falter while providing large amounts of food, and then propose a loan business there to pay off the duke’s family debt at an interest rate.
Although it went wrong as planned, Born had no choice but to use this in order to live now.
“If you release me, I will cancel the plan to those adventurers right now…”
“I know. That too.”
“What… Called?”
However, when he saw Eleanor’s calm reaction, Born’s expression was tinged with astonishment.
Eleanor, who had been informed of Born’s every move with the Alteria Company through Black Wand, also knew that Born had recently hired a guild made up of adventurers.
“I heard you hired adventurers from a guild called Cheolhodan?”
The Cheolhodan guild was a group of vicious adventurers who used cheaters in the former dukedom to approach beginner adventurers and sell cheap weapons at high prices.
However, the Cheolhodan Guild was expelled from the Duchy of Armitas after its fraudulent activities were revealed in a conflict with two people, Erin and Elvin.
The Alteria Firm had brought the guild that had a grudge against the Duchy of Armitas into their plan this time.
“Yeah, that negotiation doesn’t work. Your business with that guild has already ended.”
“That… What is…”
Born couldn’t understand Eleanor’s words.
“I still don’t seem to know why I wrote down the date of the invitation and sent it tonight.”
In a way, it was also the same intention as Born.
While she was here with Eleanor and attracted attention, behind the scenes, Cheol Ho-dan was planning a plot to burn down all the farmland.
Eleanor also needed to keep Born, the owner of her company, here in order to attack the Alteria company.
And externally, there were still not enough justifications to hit the Alteria store, which was packaged and operated as a sound business.
The evil deeds presented in the documents are all circumstantial.
In this situation where clear charges and evidence are lacking, it is not easy to send the knights of Armitas to arrest them.
So Eleanor decided to give up political complexity and just do it.
Externally, it is a simple but futile story in which Alteria Firm and Cheolho Corps are ruined by an unknown person who has no connection with the dukedom.
“It should all be over by now.”
The person that Eleanor specifically asked for this time was the best prosecutor that her own husband, Eun-hyeon, also recognized.
About an hour after Born and the two staff were invited to the ducal residence.
It must have been enough time for ‘her’ to destroy her iron sword guild and the Alteria Firm, Eleanor was certain.
