Chapter 388 – Administrators. Baron Simir Jack
It was an afternoon not far from evening when they returned to the Westway after finishing the commotion in Ajio Village.
The entrance to the mansion caught my eye, and as soon as I reached the iron-barred gate, the carriage stopped with a familiar vibration.
After a short conversation between the gatekeeper and Phillips, the carriage moved again and arrived at the front door of the mansion, and the door opened.
“Im here.”
Perhaps noticing the commotion, Natalya, who had been dozing with her head on his shoulder, raised herself with a small moan.
“Um… Have you arrived?”
I woke up the old man who was lying comfortably on the chair opposite and drooling.
“Roin, Roin! Wake up!”
“Euh?!”
As her side was stabbed, Roin woke up with a shrill scream. After confirming that the two were up, I got out of the carriage first.
Perhaps it was because she had spent half a day in the carriage, her body was swollen, so she stretched out and looked at the mansion.
“Okay… !”
It took three days to go to Ajio Village, take care of everything, and come back.
It feels like it took a long time for something to be three days…
As I stood still feeling that sentiment, Phillips started talking to me.
“Thank you for your effort!”
“Hmm? Yes, you did a good job too. Phillips.”
“It’s overrated!”
“…”
I looked at Phillips, who was polite to me.
It reminded me of the slaves who thanked me in Agio Village.
It wasn’t something I did specifically to help them, but in the end, it was of great help to them.
Regardless of my dark intentions, they will consider me a benefactor.
Regardless of intention, is a good deed good even if it happened by chance? Did I deserve that kind of appreciation?
“Um, what’s on my face?”
“Hmm?”
Phillips’s troubled voice brought him back to his senses. Phillips seemed embarrassed because I was staring at him.
“No, nothing. By the way…”
“Master, you are here!!”
I turned my attention to the lively voice that cut me off.
I could see Vivien and Berry coming out of the mansion, as if the news of my arrival had been passed on.
“Berry, don’t shout effeminately. Many have said that your actions affect your master’s reputation. If you don’t behave yourself properly, you will make the same mistakes in important places.”
“Oops, sorry.”
Vivien scolded Berry, who was approaching with a lively shout.
Responding to Vivian’s reprimand, Berry stuck out her tongue and scratched the back of her head, then came closer to me and smiled strangely.
“… ?”
Did I see it wrong? Berry glanced into the carriage as if he had never done that.
“Do you have any luggage to move?”
“Oh, shouldn’t we move it to the luggage compartment?”
It was Roin who answered Berry’s question.
Before I knew it, the old man approached me and buried his arm in my chest. Oddly enough, the power to bite the chest is stronger than usual.
As I stood there dumbfounded by the gentle violence, I heard Natalia’s voice.
“I have some in the luggage compartment, but… Hanseong-nim, when are you going to hand it over to the lord?”
The corpse and amulet of the monster, which Ajio’s chieftain, called ‘God’s gift’, were all packed.
‘God’s gift’ seems to have stimulated Natalya’s intellectual curiosity quite a bit, so she was eager to investigate ‘God’s water’.
“Hmm… I need to talk to Trissian first. I think I should have it for two or three days.”
Natalya’s eyes looking at me are so hot that I’ve never seen them before.
“I wonder if it would be okay to take a look at her as long as she doesn’t damage the original condition…”
“Then I’ll take it to my room!”
Fearing that I might change my words, Natalya hurriedly summoned her mud golem and took the ‘God’s Gift’ and entered her mansion.
“Ugh, that’s disgusting.”
“…”
Berry backs away in amazement at the sight of the ‘God’s Gift’ coming down from the luggage compartment. Vivian stood still, perhaps quite surprised, but couldn’t hide her trembling eyes.
Well, I can’t help but be surprised to see something like a wrinkly, wrinkly mass of human skin suddenly coming out of the carriage bed.
Vivian, who was looking at ‘God’s Gift’, must have noticed my gaze, and soon our eyes met.
Standing with her hands folded neatly, she greeted her with a small bow as her eyes met.
“… Greetings delayed. She did a good job. Shall we prepare a meal?”
“Uh, um… Germi and the other women haven’t come yet, have they?”
Had she been at the mansion, she would have been the first to come out to meet him. If she’s not here, it must mean she hasn’t gotten off work yet.
As I expected, Vivian nodded her head.
“Yes. If it’s the hostess and the other mistresses, then.”
“Meals are to be shared with other women when they come. I need to wash it first.”
I brushed it off roughly, but the blood and dirt from the cave in Agio Village were still on my body.
“I will prepare a change of clothes and put them in the bathroom.”
“Okay.”
While having such a conversation with Vivian, I glanced at the familiarity felt next to me. I saw Phillips, twitching like a pooped puppy.
“Philips.”
“Ah, yes!”
“Good job. Let’s leave the wagon back to its original seat and go home.”
“Ah, yes. All right.”
I unloaded all the luggage that had to be unloaded from the wagon. Now, just bring the wagon back to its original place and everything is over.
However, Phillips listened to my instructions and still stood there, not thinking of moving the wagon.
What is the problem? Do you have anything to say? I wondered, but memories of the past flashed through my mind in an instant.
It is none other than the conversation during the time when he was recuperating from his injured arms after a fierce battle with Drake and the Dragons.
Did Phillips say he liked Vivian? Barry clearly said that.
Didn’t Phillips, who has a heart for Vivien, say that Vivian is so blunt, that she just hangs around her without being able to do this or that?
I remember hiding between Berry and the bush and overhearing their conversation, only to be caught by Vivian.
“Hansong?”
“Uh?”
Roin’s action of pulling his arm brought him back to his senses.
“Let’s hurry. I’m tired.”
“Huh. Okay.”
*****
It seems that Germi and the other women returned to the mansion much sooner than I expected, as if they had heard the news of my return.
As soon as the three of them finished taking a bath together with Roin, taking Natalia, who said she would investigate the ‘God’s gift’, they ran into Germi and other women.
Germi, Thermia, Elena and even Trisian.
Looking at the sight of my women gathering, I can see that I have been living my life to the fullest. I feel proud to do it.
“Is Trisian here too?”
“I told the crew to let me know when you came in. Miss Germi and the other two met in front of the mansion.”
“How did you know Germi and came right away?”
“It’s the members of the organization that are scattered in the city, but that’s the basics.”
Germi is answering my question with her arms crossed as if asking an obvious question, but you can guess her mood just by looking at the movement of her tail and ears.
If I hadn’t had other eyes to see, I’m sure he would have come straight to me and rubbed my cheek. Otherwise, she might have tried to undress me right away.
“Aren’t you hurt anywhere?”
“Sure.”
Elena is looking at me up and down to see if I’m all right. Thermia is looking over Roin and Natalia. Truly the eldest sister.
“By the way, you returned earlier than expected. Did you complete the lord’s mission without any problems?”
“Ah, that…”
I was momentarily speechless at Trisian’s question. There were so many things to explain, it was hard to know where to begin.
Trissian tilted her head as I was contemplating what to say.
“Why?”
“Well, since the story is going to be long, let’s go to the drawing room.”
Arriving at the drawing room, he told everything about what had happened in Ajio Village.
The guards and the village chief’s internal communication. Enslavement of some villagers, strange altars and monsters hidden underground, pseudo-religions, and even human sacrifice. After hearing the whole story, Trisian fell silent with deep wrinkles between his brows.
After thinking for a while, she struggled to open her mouth.
“… So, are the unjustly enslaved residents now in the half-ruined village of Ajio?”
“Huh. Were you originally from that village?”
“That’s right. Hmm… The matter is serious. It’s a pseudo-religion…”
“I don’t know, but is that common?”
“A pseudo-religion?”
“Huh.”
The religion of this world is different from the religion I used to know.
Numerous gods bestow protection on their devout followers, allowing them to use their power. Is that all? Borrowing the body of a believer, he descends directly into this world as an incarnation.
It is a world where the breath of God is working and proving its existence.
Could there be such a thing as a pseudo-religion in such a world?
