Chapter 146 – #32_The Debtor’s Witch
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One.
“Hey! I don’t know where the bitch used to eat it, but that’s mine!”
She didn’t even touch her, but a sharp and nervous voice came from behind Siu, who was puzzled by the sight of the dying homunculus.
Siu hurriedly looked behind her.
This place is still surrounded by a barrier on the other side.
Of course, the woman’s voice that will be heard inside is that of a witch.
When she turned her head, there was a woman standing there, dressed in a way that didn’t betray her expectations.
It also hangs on top of a fence set up to prevent suicide against the backdrop of a splendid night view, like a stunt.
Raindrops bounced on the pointy conical hat, which was like a conquest for a European witch.
At the end of the long wand adorned with fresh flowers, a green sapphire glows with magical energy.
Besides that, a robe draped over her shoulders and a black underskirt that hid the exposed inner thighs.
Up to this point, it was the traditional witch’s attire that can be seen a lot in Gehenna, but the shoes were a little different.
I don’t know if it’s for the sake of being active or for adding my own fashion sense, but I’m wearing riding boots that come up to my calves.
Even though it feels a bit out of place, it seems to fit well, so it seems like I’m doing well.
By the way, the witch on the roof of Sinchon Station.
I didn’t think much of it in Gehenna, but now it feels like I’m at a cosplay photo session.
Well, Siu, who is wrapped up in plate armor, has nothing to say…
“Laugh!”
Jumping off her fence, the witch stepped on her puddle and slightly frowned at her.
It looks like water got into her boots.
“See there? Wound on the side. Did I make it? You decide whether to fight with me here or go on your way.”
The witch pointed at the chuck wand in a voice full of hostility and chined her chin.
Siu was startled when the witch’s face, which had been difficult to see before because of her backlight and the shadow of her hat, was revealed.
Somehow, I thought the silhouette was familiar.
Dark green and turquoise are mixed in two colors of hair.
Just by looking at it, I could guess the identity.
A pretty mixed-race part-timer who paid bills without sincerity at a residential-commercial officetel and a convenience store on the first floor.
The real world is so dirty and narrow that it is unnecessary.
She shuddered for nothing when she recalled the image of herself that she had been defenselessly calculating in front of her witch.
No, but how do you expect this?
What witch would do a part-time job at a convenience store.
If it had been the store manager, it would have been more understandable.
“What? Don’t you get out of the way?”
The witch swung the wand as if driving away annoying bugs to Siwoo, who was hardened from shock.
Siu quickly stepped back.
Even so, he did not put down his longsword and shield.
This is the first time I have encountered a witch in this world.
Although she talked about it to the point of exhausting her mouth, the fact that Siwoo is a ‘male’ who can use magic draws the attention of other witches more than necessary.
She doesn’t know when she will suddenly attack in the name of securing a precious specimen.
“Please… Come out with something good, something good…”
However, the witch who passed by Siu squatted down like a bully in her neighborhood, not matching her well-dressed witch costume, and then she hit the homunculus with the last blow and rummaged through her corpse.
Uh?
Come to think of it, the reaction is a bit normal, isn’t it?
The twins and Sofia, who saw Siu using magic for the first time, were quite surprised.
However, a witch she has never met is calm, as if she doesn’t care about such things.
No way…
Siu unconsciously fumbled for the helmet that covered his face up to his nose.
Well, there was no way his body would be exposed above the plate armor, and he had never uttered a voice.
Her face is also half covered.
In other words, that witch now mistook Siu for another witch who hunted the homunculus.
In fact, if you think about it in terms of common sense, it was a very reasonable conclusion.
The odds of being a taller fellow witch would be much higher than the odds of a man building a hierarchy high enough to fight in front of a homunculus.
“Haa~ Again, this is nonsense. What do we do…”
I think of the witch as she sighs like the man at the racetrack who ate the last betting ticket.
Then, if she kept wearing this helmet and slipped away quietly, wouldn’t she be able to hide her body without any trouble?
I didn’t want any unnecessary disputes.
“Hey.”
“…….”
The witch’s voice called and stopped Siwoo, who was quietly going out to the rooftop with crab steps.
To be honest, she pondered for a long time whether or not to jump like this.
Unlike her days as a slave, which was nothing more than a playful party, Siu-da has reached a high level that cannot be reached by the first generation through her metamorphosis.
If she were a character from a boy’s manga, she might think, ‘Let’s see how much stronger she has become!’, But not Siwoo.
Her relationship with the witch, who came much earlier than expected, was not pleasant at all.
I sighed quietly inside her and, unable to answer, lowered her head and turned to her witch.
Then, from the witch’s side, she stepped on her puddle and approached Siu.
“What are you so afraid of? Who eats it? I am not that kind of witch.”
Seeing her sorceress pat her on the shoulder indiscriminately, Siu felt an unknown complex emotion.
She knows through Ye-bin that not all outcasts are bad witches, but she is not naive enough to trust people with just that one word.
Right now, I think of Siu as a witch, so I’m maintaining this kind of friendly attitude, but in fact, if you know that he’s a rare species, you never know when it will change.
“……..”
“From the looks of her, it doesn’t seem like a witch who used to be around here… She just got exiled to the present world, hasn’t it?”
“……..”
It’s a big deal.
Prolonged conversations are a bad omen.
When I saw him at the convenience store, he was very tired and gave off the feeling of ‘I have no interest in you guys’.
Even though she expressed her intent with silence, ‘I don’t want to talk to you!’, The witch’s affinity was unstoppable.
No, is it okay to call her approaching defenselessly like this her affinity?
Seeing that she does this in her mundane world, which is not even Gehenna, it seems that she is fairly confident in her skills.
“You’re trying to catch the homunculus and hand it over to get a bounty at the witch point. No?”
“…….”
Location point? Prize? It’s the first time I’ve heard of it.
She is a witch who chats in front of him and tells stories.
Even through this strong rain, the fragrant smell comes through.
When she checked out at the convenience store, the scent she smelled matched exactly, so she thought again that she was that part-time job girl…
“I’m sorry, but this area of Shinchon Hongdae is my hunting ground. It’s hard to get over it carelessly. You don’t seem to know anything this time, so I’ll let you go, but if you try to steal my prey next time, I’ll respond with a show of skill.”
“……”
At first, he nodded.
Decisions were slow, but regrets were quick.
I should have just run away without looking back.
“Know. I was also at a loss when I first came out. No identity, no money, no information. It is a very poor place compared to Gehenna.”
“……..”
“So, do you want me to tell you about making good money? I need money anyway to settle down here.”
Also, talk about money in the first meeting.
I realized that it is a race that shouldn’t be in the middle of the day.
“Have you ever heard of blockchain technology… Huh?”
At that time, the tail of the witch who had been talking about her words strangely rises.
In front of Siwoo’s eyes, which were half covered by her helmet, I see trembling mint-colored eyes.
Even though it was a tense moment, it was a little strange because it was the first time I had seen eyes of that color.
“Aren’t you the man who comes to buy cigarettes every day? But this is magic… Isn’t it? No, what is it? Are you a man?”
Confused, the witch stepped back and stepped behind her, and Siu did the same.
The order of priority is securing safety through dialogue, fleeing, and fighting.
Siu released the shadowed gauntlet and immediately held up the Gemonai family ring.
It was a ring that Albireo had given him, guaranteeing that he was a guest of Count Zemanai.
“You see this? I am of House Gemanai…”
“Now, hold on!”
And the effect was obvious.
The witch’s face turned blue as soon as she saw the ring on Siu’s index finger.
“Soon, soon you will have the money. I didn’t mean to take it off… This quarter, if you postpone it for a week… No, two weeks…”
I immediately start to feel intimidated and embarrassed, wondering where the confident look from earlier has gone.
What else is this?
Siwoo looked at the witch he had just met with a bewildered expression.
For some reason, her rain-soaked witch’s appearance, which had looked quite tasteful until now, looked quite bleak.
2.
“I didn’t come here to get money. I also thought he was a servant whom Count Gemanai sent to collect money.”
“Not like that.”
“Phew… My real life…”
The witch she met by chance introduced herself as Sharon Evergreen.
She is talking about Doran Doran at the bus stop where her last train stopped.
In conclusion, she was not a ‘dangerous kind of outcast’.
She is also a witch, whom Siu had heard of earlier.
The great event ‘Sprout Rebellion’ turned Border Town’s Cloud Mushroom Village into an oak forest.
A witch went berserk during an experiment and caused acorns that had been scattered in the ground to grow by storm, and as a result, all nearby workshops and houses were blown away.
When she first heard that, she thought that there are such stupid witches…
She never dreamed that she would be alone with the person who caused the accident in her world.
“So you’re paying off your debt to get your citizenship back?”
This is the final reason why Siwoo identified Sharon as a relatively safe witch.
To compare the meaning of citizenship to the witch of Gehenna, it is no different from the nationality of her hometown.
Those curious witches are closely guarding her lines and studying her magic to avoid being deported. Lira judged.
Besides, if Siu’s status was guaranteed, it would be the Countess Jemanai, who has a strong influence even in the Tree of Sephirot.
“It’s like that…”
It also contributed to the fact that the reason for the expulsion was not reckless magic research or killing civilians.
“How much do you owe?”
“…About 58 billion 88.42 million won in Korean currency?”
It was a really bad debt.
“No, at most the residential area was destroyed, but that much is coming out?”
I thought it would be like that even if it was Taro Town, but Border Town is not expensive.
No matter how much I destroyed a block of the village, would I have an astronomical amount of debt like that?
You didn’t write a dump, did you?
“Because the witches who blew up the workshop and the research materials were blown up filed a class action suit… Let’s stop talking about debt now, it seems like my stomach is twisted.”
Sharon’s shoulders sunk like her snow stepped on.
The shower that covered the night like a curtain passes by.
Before I knew it, the night sky was shining brightly.
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I’m finally uploading fan art that I couldn’t check because I was distracted.
This is Ea Sadalmelik drawn by the mentally shattered nerd!
The full body shot is too large, so I will upload it to the fan art gallery!!!
This is Amelia knocking on the door drawn by Rabbit Meet!
I think it came out so cutehaha
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