Chapter 157 – #34_Redcliffe
#155
One.
It was good until I came out with curiosity.
But just a few hours ago, Siu and I ended the search.
Sharon wouldn’t have suffered as much as she does now if things went smoothly with the mindset of ‘I have to work hard to earn money!’.
“Ha…..”
The rooftop of a university hospital where the downtown area of Sinchon turns into a far-flung bird’s-eye view.
Sat down on top of her water tank, Sharon looked at her compass with a grim expression.
“It’s not always when it’s really like this. Annoying.”
The cool morning air meets the sun and feels hot.
On the other hand, Sharon’s aspirations, which had been burning hot, shrank like a punctured balloon.
She has searched for two hours and nothing comes up.
The time to teach Siwoo her magic was approaching, but the needle of the compass, which Sharon didn’t even know, was spinning wildly.
“What can I do…”
Was it because I was so comfortable with it?
The pressure she hadn’t faced in a long time weighed more heavily on Sharon’s chest than usual.
What if she doesn’t come up with the money to pay back after two months?
The Jemani family is a well-known rich family, and they do not come to visit them directly because their repayment is overdue for a day or two.
But that doesn’t mean there’s no pressure.
“I’d rather have a chance to explain the situation if you come to me in person…”
According to experience, if the payment date or amount is not accurately met, an additional payment for the quarter is added under the name of a late fee.
This means that next quarter you will need to set aside almost three times the original amount.
It was a condition she wanted too much, but Sharon, who was practically broke, had no choice but to sign a debt document with all kinds of toxic clauses in order to borrow that much money.
“That will never happen.”
Sharon ended her brief respite and she set out again to find the homunculus, treading lightly up the tree.
“Uh!”
And.
Did the earnest prayer reach the sky?
The needle, which had been spinning aimlessly, began to point to a certain place.
Sharon frantically followed the needle and started bouncing around.
Homunculus after a long time!
At least 1 million won!
A walking 3rd place lottery!
Sharon soon infiltrated the inner side of the barrier naturally created by the homunculus.
“These cute bastards, be polite and fertilize my repayment.”
A dark tunnel with a railroad track above it.
However, it is very old and a new underground tunnel has been opened to the east, so it is a dark place with no cars and no people.
Sharon greeted the homunculus with a wide smile.
After confirming the identity of the homunculus, Sharon tilted her head to the side.
– Kreung… Kreung…
“Hey again?”
I faced the homunculus in the form of a black dog that I met last time.
There are also five of them this time.
She’s seen a few of them already, so she thought she might face them in the future, but…
At this level, it is easy to understand that someone is copying the homunculus.
“Nice to meet you, guys.”
How about these and how about those?
I don’t know the specific reason, but when life is hard right now, things on the edge don’t come easily to the eye.
He was confident enough to take care of everything even if dozens of them attacked him, so to Sharon, the five homunculi looked like walking bundles of money.
“Balance!”
Sharon swung the wand offering the water from the plastic bottle she had been keeping as a sacrifice.
2.
The long-awaited hunt ended without difficulty.
In the first place, the most dangerous aspect of hunting homunculus lies in hunting them without knowing what kind of magic they will use.
This is because every homunculus uses its own magic depending on the heritage it possesses.
Well, even if it’s rarely one-eyed.
In any case, in that sense, the pack of black dogs was not a threat to Sharon.
It was confirmed that it was a mediocre physical attack, and the unique agile movements were also familiar.
Killing a monster bouncing around like a rubber ball under a bridge is as simple as hitting the head of a fish on a chopping board for Sharon.
“Uhuhu, how much is this?”
Sharon is squatting under a tunnel that has collapsed in half in the aftermath of the hunt.
She diligently rummaged through the remains of the homunculus to dig out her crystal.
As expected, there was no such thing as a miscarriage.
Still, if this is a decision, it is a harvest worth 6 million won.
I smirked as I felt that my breath, which had been cramped, was freed.
But her Sharon smile didn’t last long.
– Again and again
It was because the sharp sound of heels ringing inside the guldari stuck in my ears.
Subsequently, an arrogant and high-handed, extremely witch-like tone goes to Sharon with a displeased nasal tone.
“Hmm~ What are you doing here?”
“Don’t you see? You are hunting.”
Before Sharon could begin her full conversation, she pulled herself up, feeling the onset of a migraine.
There stood Della Redcliffe, not a bitch in her red dress.
It was only natural that the sound of her heels, her voice, and Sharon’s facial expression as she saw Della with her own eyes twisted like a child who saw her plate full of bell peppers.
“So why are you asking why are you hunting here?”
“Of course…!”
Oh
Sharon, who was trying to shake off the source of all diseases, Della, looked around her.
This tunnel is not on Sharon’s patrol route.
Earlier, she was so desperate that she had found her prey that she had fixed her gaze only on the compass and hadn’t noticed it, but in the meantime, she had crossed her realm.
And seeing how Della came to be territorial like that, maybe…
“No, wait, I didn’t do that on purpose!”
“Tsk tsk, I thought you were stupid and mean, but I have no shame.”
Della must have guessed the whole situation by looking at Sharon’s bewildered look.
No matter how Sharon was, if she knew this was Della’s domain, she wouldn’t have even come close.
But her truth didn’t matter too much to Della, who was full of the idea that she had a good shot.
“Before that, you must have promised in a duel that you would never play in my hunting grounds again.”
“……..”
Sharon involuntarily backed away when she saw Della walking away with a bad face as if she was going to die for the pleasure of catching her weakness.
It was because her ruby-like eyes felt very uneasy.
How should I say… Like a snake with its prey in front of it?
“I didn’t mean to break my promise. You take this.”
Sharon bit her lip and threw the crystal at Della.
It’s better to just step on shit and move on than to get into a fight with her.
But she develops intolerable tantrums apart from him.
All in all, she didn’t like the fact that she had to bow down to Della and no one else.
Della gracefully held her glittering crystal in her hand.
She rolls it in the palm of her hand for a moment and then tosses it on her floor.
The crystals rolled across the asphalt and scattered randomly.
-Charleuk!
“What do I need of this? You don’t even do much.”
Sharon’s eyes, enslaved by capitalism, were sadly looking at the dispersing crystals.
She belatedly recalled Della’s presence and corrected her gaze, but she chuckled and taunted Sharon.
“Like you, a lowly, poor witch or someone who picks up things. Isn’t it?”
“…You just have to make a decision. If I had known it was your hunting ground, I wouldn’t have come.”
“A thief caught stealing something returns the item to the original owner… Is that enough?”
Sharon gritted her teeth.
Della is one of the rich enough witches.
She had never heard of hunting a low-level homunculus.
Then she would just let them hunt a few, and then they would interrupt and talk about stealing.
Her nasty twisted nature of Della was the kind that Sharon couldn’t understand, and that she didn’t want to understand.
“So what are you going to do? Like you said, I’m poor and broke, so I don’t have any money to give you. I’m going to get out of the way.”
I just got in the mood.
As Sharon whimpered past Della, her sneer undoubtedly stuck in the back of her head.
“Sure~ I have a lot of debt, and I am kicked out of my house… I am not a cruel person to extort money from such a poor person~”
As if she was singing an ominous song, Sharon’s steps halted as she tried to get her way, ignoring the killing Della.
Getting kicked out of the house?
I could hear the crunching sound of the puzzles in my head being put together.
Sharon’s eyes narrowed.
“…How do you know that?”
“What does it mean?”
“How do you know I was kicked out of the house?”
“There is a way to know everything. After all, he’s been keeping an eye on Miss Sharon very closely. She might do something bad against the law… Do you know how frightened she is?”
Sharon’s suspicion turned to certainty at Della’s heinousness as she shrugged her shoulders and wore a fishy smile.
What got her kicked out of her house was that Della was obviously involved in some way.
“Shall I show you the proof?”
Despite Sharon’s glaring glances at her while gnashing her teeth, Della remains calm.
That’s because the duel between the two has already ended with Della’s overwhelming victory.
And at this point, no matter how hard Sharon struggles, the reality is that she can’t even brush Della’s collar.
“Go away.”
“No, I want to show her proof of how much I care and care about her.”
Della deftly kicked her crystal with the tip of her pointed shoe.
The rolling crystals stopped at Sharon’s feet.
“I’ll let you pick up that penny. It’s the price of a drink for me, but not for Sharon, right?”
Her clenched jaw quivered at her contempt.
What kind of resentment could there be to harass her so thoroughly and viciously… Sharon couldn’t understand.
Mental bitch, crazy bitch.
No matter how much I curse inside, I can’t get rid of my anger.
“Aren’t you picking it up? That should be enough, but still. They say you can get the money you need to put up tens of thousands of flyers just by bending down and picking them up?”
“……”
Sharon closed her mouth and turned her around behind her.
She doesn’t even want to deal with it anymore.
She is an opponent not worth dealing with in the first place.
As if trying to grab Sharon’s ankle, Della continues provoking her from behind.
“Whoops, because I’m trying to take care of my pride, I can’t even pay back and I’m struggling.”
“……..”
“For such a subject, you throw away the job I am giving you, and you live a miserable life as a debtor because you do not know the subject and do not know the fraction.”
“……..”
Even if I repeat that I don’t have to worry about it, even if I dismiss it as a mad dog barking.
Words that fly like sharp daggers and stick.
“The predecessor of Evergreen must be really sad. The long-awaited successor is an immature child who has not properly inherited the stigma and is unable to properly handle my debts…”
Sharon’s steps stop abruptly.
Endured a lot
Endured so much
“I get it. What you want.”
A ghastly voice echoes the guldari.
The low, cold tone radiated with unbearable anger and passion.
“Five? What is it? I had no particular intentions.”
Seeing that, Della grinned.
“Bitch, let’s play again.”
Sharon pulled the long smoking pipe from her cloak into her mouth.
