Chapter 424 – On the Scar.
“No, it’s not like what knights think! I’m trying to work with a prostitute!”
The man waved his hand as if embarrassed by the knight’s questioning.
“Right!”
Still, to keep her from speaking, her remaining hand cupped her mouth and held her head down. She wants to ask for help and she wants to look at the article, but with the man’s hand crushing her, she can only roll her eyes.
She tried to get out of the man’s bottom, but she couldn’t get out of being crushed under him. There was no way her man, who had crushed her, could not have known about it, although somehow her legs were the only way to let her know her urgency by struggling.
“This is the end!”
The moment he closed his eyes, realizing that he would hit himself at the sight of him raising his hand.
“What.”
What returned was not the pain of a slap in the face, but the man’s embarrassed voice. When he opened his eyes, he saw a man with his hand still raised. But it never came down on her.
“There are no prostitutes operating in this inn.”
It was because the knight, none other than him, was holding his hand and stopping him.
“But this bitch was walking around dressed like this! It’s like asking for a fuck, but what!”
It wasn’t her intention, but she was still wearing a manly outfit. She wondered how to explain it, even though her mouth was still shut.
“She’s the woman I rescued. She doesn’t know what that means, right?”
“Ugh! Oh, no. I didn’t mean to.”
The man stuttered her words even more embarrassed, then removed his hand from covering her mouth.
“Mo, I didn’t know! I didn’t mean to insult the knight, he was just walking around!”
“That’s no excuse. As long as it doesn’t go off…”
“Okay! Got it!”
As he saw the knight putting his remaining hand to the sword at his waist, he hurriedly stood up on top of her and rolled down the stairs of the inn before disappearing. After a while, the sound of the door closing was heard, and while I was absent-mindedly, a knight approached and held out his hand.
“Get up.”
“Wow! I can wake up alone!”
She tried to hold her hand, but realizing that now she was showing the wrong side of herself, she hurriedly got her body up, pulled down her skirt that had been pushed up, and tightened her shoulder straps that were slipping down. Said
“Did you bring me here?”
Soon after, he followed the knight back to the room where he first woke up, so he thought he might have brought him here.
“Yes.”
Despite her wary voice, he responds calmly and pours water into a cup.
“You’re thirsty, so eat.”
“I believe in you…”
“If I was going to do something, I would have tied him to the bed or locked the door.”
The woman shut her mouth at the knight’s words. Certainly, if he had a dark mind, whatever had happened while he was unconscious would have happened. Eventually, she took a glass of water from him, drank it, and sighed.
“Thank you for saving me… But I want to ask you something.”
“What is?”
“How did you know I was there and came to rescue you?”
“I heard that people from Paciphenia came some time ago.”
I could understand that much. It was quite rare for people from other countries to come. Even if the number of people was small, it was not strange that rumors spread.
“Then it was lost after entering the nearby Cloud Zone.”
“Is that why you came to save me?”
At her question, the knight shook his head.
“It’s true that something personal happened, but I didn’t think it would be such a situation. How did it happen?”
“Ugh.”
The woman bit her lip at the feeling of her cramping in her throat again. When she couldn’t bear to open her mouth, her knight, who had been watching from behind her helmet, changed her question.
“What’s your business, why did you step into such a dangerous place?”
I wondered if it was okay to talk about her situation, but she was already alone without the knights who were protecting her. Whether she answered or not, her treatment depended on his decision, so she was able to talk comfortably.
“I’m an apprentice alchemist at the Faust Society.”
She explains why she came from Pasifania to Parz and why she went under the newly formed cloud zone. Even why she was left alone.
“So you’re thinking of going back to Paciphenia after all?”
“I should do that, but…”
It was no longer a situation where he could continue his research, so even if he was humiliated, he had to return to Pacifenia anyway, but even that was impossible at the moment.
To get out of the place where the lightning strikes, I ran away from there alone with my carriage and things. While thinking about what to do next, what caught my eye was his appearance.
He could have simply been an adventurer in armor, but at least considering his attitude so far, he was closer to a knight. And most of all, things like the cloth and decorations on the armor couldn’t be explained unless it was a knight.
“Can you take me to Pacifenia?”
The knights she knew seldom ignored her lady’s requests. She told them that it was an honorable thing to serve a lady, or that she was because of such stories, she remembered at a glance, so she asked with a bit of anticipation.
“Then what can you give me in return?”
“Oops, that’s it.”
When you think about it, it was a natural story. He wasn’t even a knight from the same country, and it was only a coincidence that he saved her. But now she is penniless.
“…I can’t give you anything right now.”
“Then there is nothing I can do for you. This room will be available until tomorrow.”
In the end, the woman became more urgent when he saw his back when he got up from her seat and turned around. It would be his consideration that she could use the room until tomorrow, but after that time, she would be sitting on the street, so she hurriedly grabbed the hem of his clothes.
“Wait a minute! I can give you any amount of money when I get back to Paciphenia!”
Although she is an apprentice, she was an alchemist affiliated with the Society. It took her a lot of effort and money just to join the society, but she also got her scholarship thanks to her excellent grades.
“Who guarantees you won’t change your horse when you get to Paciphenia?”
Thanks to her, she had the money saved up, and she should be able to pay for it, but she couldn’t stop him.
“Such a push!”
“If you think it’s forcible, find someone else.”
She knew it wasn’t forced, but she couldn’t see how she could go to Parsiphenia if she didn’t. She wondered what the hell she should do to get hold of him right away. In the end, she could only think of one way, and with tears in her eyes, she said.
“Well, then, if I sacrifice my body, will that be the price?”
“Do you know what you’re talking about?”
Her knight looked at her in a puzzled way, but as her lady, he couldn’t think of a better way.
“Sniff, I know. I know.”
Only then did she feel the fact that she was no different from a prostitute, like the man who tried to rape her earlier, pierced her bones.
“Yeah, but if you don’t do this, there’s no way to go back.”
But this was the only way she could think of. If this was not done, she would not even be able to return to her homeland.
“Whoa.”
Gathering her remaining strength, she held on to the hem of his clothes with difficulty and sniffed, when she heard a sigh. She tried to read the expression of her knight somehow in her vision distorted by her tears, but she couldn’t read his expression through the helm, which only peeped out in the dark shadows.
“If there’s no other way, let’s do this.”
His words returned as her anxious heart only grew. She still thinks that she hasn’t turned it down, but she is depressed that she will eventually have to have a relationship with a strange man.
“If you said you came for an investigation, I think you brought a lot of money, but is that correct?”
“It is, but it is.”
Originally, considering the manpower and cost for a large-scale investigation, it was true that a small amount of money was supported, but it was still objectively a lot of money. Besides, I brought some personal money with me. I wondered why he was talking about meaningless things now, but his words continued.
“Do you know where your wagon broke down?”
“Because I was memorizing the road.”
She didn’t know where she came out, but she knew the way in.
“I’ll take you to Pacifenia if you give me half of the money left there.”
“Yes? But I’m alone…”
It was fortunate that she did not have to sell herself, but there was no way she could have gone there alone. Because it was all she did by hiding in her wagon and barely sustaining her life. Even her knights who escorted her died in vain.
“I don’t think you can do that alone.”
As she trembles as she holds the hem of his robe, her knight continues to speak to her.
“I will go with you.”
“Ah.”
Stunned by his grave voice, the woman looked up at him.
“I’ll go back now, so let’s talk more tomorrow.”
She wanted to catch him as he left the door open, but it was nighttime. As she locked her door, she suddenly saw her reflection in the window.
She was proud of her gray hair that fell down her shoulders, her amber eyes that reflected the faint moonlight, and her flawless skin, though not white, that glanced through her thin dress.
She had often been told that she was beautiful in her own way, but now what was the use of all this? She let out a sigh and threw herself on her bed. Although her comfort enveloped her snugly as she wrapped herself in her soft blanket.
“…No. Even that person can betray you.”
She curled up on her body and asked for her sleep, but fell asleep for a long time under the moonlit window.
