Chapter 540 – Words of Good Will.
“Uuuh, sniffle.”
The book was thick enough to fit one of her fists, so Pirika, who was hit by it, sobbed away the pain.
“Does it hurt a lot?”
“Joe, a little.”
Pirica nodded his head in response to Usher’s question, but the red, swollen top of his foot looked quite painful even to him.
“Sit down.”
“…? Huh.”
Usher, who saw that Pirika sat down on her chair calmly even as she tilted her head, sat down on the chair next to her and held her foot.
“Hey?! Usher?”
“Wait a minute.”
Because of this, she called out to him as if she was surprised, but Usher put her foot on his lap, took her swollen foot with his hand, and gently rubbed it.
“How are you?”
“Huh! Huh!? Ugh, it’s okay, but…!”
Pirika was trembling at the touch that was soothing her pain as if tickling her feet, and was puzzled by her actions as she glanced around with unfocused eyes, as if observing someone’s notice.
“Hmm, it looks like you guys were closer than I thought.”
At the sound of an interjecting voice, Usher realized that they were not the only ones here, and when he raised his head, he saw Elain leisurely watching them with his chin resting.
“I won’t deny it, but why does the story turn out that way?”
Usher just rubbed Pirika’s feet to relieve her pain.
“You don’t know, do you? What it means for a grown-up girl in Pasiphenia to show her bare feet to a man outside her.”
“What does it mean?”
Erain even emphasized that even though she knew he didn’t know, she found it amusing. If Usher couldn’t figure it out and asked back.
“It’s a bit of an old story, but it’s called ‘I offer up my pure heart to you.'”
“Huh.”
She followed the leering glance with her sinister smile and saw Pirika there, suffering, with her face buried in her hands. Usher wondered if it was because rubbing hurt more, but he soon realized that wasn’t the problem.
“Looking at it, our new baby is a more innocent girl than I thought.”
“…!”
As Erain smiled her sinister smile, did he notice that she was looking at him even though he was invisible? The sight of Pirika, whose ears were so bright red that it was meaningless to cover her face, reminded Usher of Lidika. She says sisters are sisters.
“Does it mean that you just show your feet?”
But Usher still wasn’t convinced. The first woman she met, Sulcienne, from Pasifenia, was shy about showing her bare skin during their first relationship, but after that, she had a steady relationship with him. 〉
She compared Lidika, Pirika, and Rivika, whom she had recently met, one by one, and something came to mind.
‘Now that I think about it, Li Dika and Pirika were particularly shy when she took off her pantyhose, right?’
Rivika’s case was a bit of an exception. Because she never took off her stockings even during her relationship with him. Although she didn’t think much of it at the time,
“If it were a normal foot, there would be times when you would see a mistake.”
“Heeeee…!”
As Usher muttered and unconsciously touched Pirika’s feet, her sharp nasal voice seemed to deny his words.
Hehe, I think it’s probably because of our traditional clothes.”
“Traditional clothes… Really?”
Suddenly, she realized what the women except Seolsien had in common, and when she suddenly raised her head, Erein took off her shoes and hugged her knees on her chair, as if teasing Usher.
As if to emphasize the white stockings that tightly cover her thighs and even her feet below her knees, showing through the skin and showing through.
“As you can see, we never show our bare feet to others.”
“Hi!”
After hearing her story, when she looked at Pirika again, she looked at him through the gaps in her fingers, as if examining Usher’s appearance, and at the same time made eye contact and hiccuped, putting her fingers together and hiding.
Usher finally understood why Ridica and Pirika were so embarrassed and embarrassed, but there were still some things he didn’t understand.
“But it seems like there were more women outside who weren’t wearing pantyhose or stockings.”
In fact, there were more women in Parsiphenia who wore shoes that showed off their bare feet. In the first place, in the case of Sulcien, there was no reaction to showing bare feet.
“It’s because of Minos and his party. They hate old-fashioned traditions more than anyone else.”
Therefore, she argued that women should not be ashamed to show their bare feet, saying that it was oppression of women in traditional society.
“Then is there a reason why Mother and Pirika stick to tradition?”
It is said that, perhaps because of this, people who criticize women when they walk around with bare feet or legs have disappeared. How do they, including Lidika, keep the tradition?
“… I guess it’s because of Mainades.”
Then Elain laughed bitterly. This time too, she seemed to be lamenting, as if she was blaming others and resenting herself. As her Usher watched her without saying a word, Erain shook her head and continued her speech.
“They say any woman can wear her clothes as she likes, but she won’t let another woman do the same.”
Pirika and Lydica wear pantyhose that cover their entire bodies as if they are reluctant to expose their bare skin, and the witches do not take off their stockings even when they are in the ‘dorm’.
“They viciously attack and disparage employees or women who show even the slightest bit of skin.”
In fact, they themselves adhere to a truly free-spirited style of clothing. They adorn their ugly appearance with the words of their natural beauty.
“You’re jealous.”
“I recognized it right away.”
Except for Pirika, those called Mainades were women who were obviously ugly or had defects. Although these women maintain their stance of breaking with tradition, they again criticize tradition to other women.
I could tell right away because he was so ambivalent and emotional, like a child throwing a tantrum. They hate decorating themselves, but they also hate it when others highlight their charms.
“And the main targets were witches.”
Witches generally have a beautiful appearance. For Mainades, there was no one more unreasonable than them.
“Is that why you drove the witches into ‘Changguan’?”
“”…””
“Stop.” The corners of Erein’s mouth lowered, and at the same time, her fingertips stopped. Pirika, who placed her feet in his hands, also bowed her head.
“… To be precise, the problem arose when Maenades complained to Minos about how unhappy the prostitutes’ lives were.”
Erein raised her head and gazed into space with a distant gaze.
“They said that prostitutes sell their bodies when they are young without receiving proper wages, but when they get older, they are abandoned and live unhappy lives.”
It was a pretty likely story. Being sold to a pimp and selling one’s body in debt because of one’s youth or beauty was quite common in Changgwan.
“Did you really think that all prostitutes live that kind of life?”
The reality was that there were many women who became prostitutes themselves. In their case, the story is different. In their case, they don’t talk about it openly, but they only pay a small fee to the pimp and enjoy luxuries that they don’t deserve.
“Puh-huh, so they became prostitutes and even protested to Minos, asking them not to make it illegal.”
Even though the fact that a woman sells her body for money must have been viewed with disapproval. From their perspective, they were earning well and living well, but their food supply was cut off.
“But Minos was strong.”
Even though they asked for it, Minos enforced the illegality and closure of Changgwan on the grounds that it was necessary to reduce even one victim, and in fact, Changgwan disappeared. Looking at the results alone, it would have looked good.
“It was a natural process for problems to arise. Because human desires would not disappear just because they were controlled.”
Men who could not find a place to satisfy their desires complained, and prostitutes who had nowhere to go arranged meetings in more secret places.
“Minos certainly had good intentions to eliminate unfortunate victims, but overall, more people became unhappy.”
Rather, as more problems surfaced than before the removal of Changgwan, Minos came up with a new policy rather hastily.
“That’s why the witches were herded into Changgwan, where only the name was changed.”
From Minos’ point of view, he would have been the perfect sacrifice. She is not treated as a woman and is an object of contempt and disgust among all citizens.
These women are all pushed into one place, and those who originally made a living out of being prostitutes become their managers. It was said that it was possible to quell the complaints of those who used Changgwan as well as calm people’s complaints.
“Now, this is the world that Minos wanted. A perfect utopia ruled by his party, with no unhappy prostitutes, no corrupt knights or men.”
“You passed all the problems on to the witches.”
Just like it was with the knights. It was as if they had handed over a visible problem to someone else just because they didn’t want to see it, and then forced it into a warehouse where it was rarely found.
A utopia where everyone seems happy, at least on the outside. Usher realized the identity of the sense of discomfort he had been feeling earlier.
“Do you mean to say that Minos really believed all of this was justice and goodness?”
Even though Erain hated and hated Minos so much, she never once said that he did this with malicious intent.
“… I didn’t want to, but after spending time with him, I got to know very well what kind of person he was.”
Minos wanted a revival of Pasiphenia anyway. He wanted people to be happy. Even if he passed all his misfortune on to the knight and the witch.
“A person who did not know humans dreamed of a vision.”
“Hehe, no. I know it very well. But I just ignored the desires of those who opposed my ideals.”
Do you know what’s even funnier? Elain’s lips are chewed. Even though Pirika couldn’t see in front of her, she turned her head and closed her eyes as if she was ignoring the figure.
“Mainades says that there are still many unfortunate prostitutes and is sponsoring them. In fact, he puts off all the misfortunes to the witches. He talks about the things that happen to the witches as if they are the same.”
Even though today’s prostitutes are enjoying favor as managers of witches.
These were truly well-intentioned words.
