## Chapter 388 – Unintentional Intent (8)
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“Where are they going?”
[I’m not sure either…]
“Wait. They’ve met someone…
A man? Hmm… I can only see his back, so it’s hard to tell…”
After barely shaking off the lingering pleasure with a quick wash.
Yui, having changed into Nemea’s clothes and bundled her original outfit into a package, awkwardly hid between alleys with a spider perched on her free hand.
After that clumsy stalking, what she and I finally discovered.
It was Laniere, meeting a man on the street, greeting him as if she had been eagerly waiting.
“Ah!! You were waiting!! You…?
Did you wait long? You…?”
“You can speak comfortably, Lady.”
“I… should I…?
Then where shall we go?
A meal? A bath? Or… me…?”
“I’m not sure what you mean, but since it’s getting late, perhaps we should start with a meal.”
There seemed to be a difference in energy, with Laniere wagging an invisible tail like a puppy.
The man also seemed to show some favor towards Laniere. Yui, half-hiding her face with the bundle of clothes, peeked out with only her eyes, then looked down at me with a pitiful expression.
“Um… I think you should pay more attention to her.
Even if you’ve caught her…
While it’s not good to be too restrictive, it’s also a problem to show too little interest.”
[Sorry… but I’m new to this too.]
Feeling the letters the spider wrote on her palm, Yui sighed softly and glared at the spider.
Thinking about it, I had been letting the women do as they pleased.
Recently, there were so many women to satisfy that it was hard to find time to enjoy and connect with Vivian or Laniere.
There was also Leia, who had returned to the dungeon and occasionally came back to the nest.
Or Pinara, who poured all her energy into teaching the children and ended up being carried back exhausted.
Sometimes, Verdi would come in holding hands with Serkov, and Laratina would run away from work, complaining that she couldn’t do it anymore, and come to the nest for a hug.
And like Yui, who had returned after a long time, I was so busy welcoming those I couldn’t see often that I didn’t have time to take care of those closest to me.
‘It’s good that the nest is growing…
But I always feel sorry for Vivian.
But I never expected Laniere to do this…’
The result was almost an affair(?), which left me feeling dazed rather than shocked.
After all, who was Laniere?
Her nickname for me was ‘Darling,’ and she was an extreme tentacle lover.
If you only counted the time we spent physically together, she was the human I had spent the most time with.
Of course, others satisfied my desires, but unlike Vivian, who relied on me emotionally, or Aurora, who felt happy when she obeyed, Laniere stayed by my side purely for personal pleasure and lust.
‘She’s the type to leave when she has nothing to lose…
That could be it…’
It would be a lie to say that there were no other reasons, such as loyalty to Vivian, who wanted to be by my side.
But at least the reality before my eyes was that she was smiling happily while making eye contact with some gigolo.
“I’ll follow them for now.”
[Be careful not to get caught.]
Yui followed the two men and women as they walked down the street. She watched them enter a restaurant, then slowly followed them inside after a while.
Just as she was about to enter the restaurant.
Someone wearing a cloak shoved Yui aside as if shoulder-checking her, causing her to stumble.
“Ah…!!”
“Ugh… Sorry… Kazunomiya?”
Hearing a familiar voice, Yui regained her balance and looked at the person in the cloak with surprise, about to call out her name.
“Hyeryeong? What are you doing here…!! Mmph!!”
“Tch… You’re going in too, right?
Then I’ll pay, so consider it a joint meal and follow me quietly.”
While Yui made muffled noises with her mouth covered, she was dragged into the restaurant by Hyeryeong, not knowing what was going on.
Yui was dragged to a table in the corner of the restaurant, where there were partitions for privacy.
Sitting across from Hyeryeong, the two women fell into silence as if they were waiting for their meal.
“Hyeryeong… I heard you’ve been staying inside lately…
Is something wrong?”
“Shh.”
Yui, feeling the pressure of the silence, spoke hesitantly, but Hyeryeong shushed her, forcing her to close her mouth.
However, Hyeryeong herself kept looking around, making Yui realize that she was too preoccupied to care about her.
‘She looks anxious…
Could it be, really…’
The reason Yui’s heart dropped when she first saw Hyeryeong was different.
She had been caught with Nemea’s mark, a tattoo, on her body.
Hyeryeong had found out that she was raising a monster, something of unknown origin, inside her body of her own will.
Thinking about what she had done in the workshop’s shower room, even Yui couldn’t help but feel fear.
The pouring cold water and the drowsiness.
The feeling of her hand gripping her neck as if she were ready to kill her was still vivid in her mind.
But the situation was different now.
For some reason, she seemed to be worried about something other than herself.
“Hyeryeong…”
“I told you to be quiet.
Just order what you want and leave quietly.”
“That time…”
“You mean it’s not dangerous, right?
If it were dangerous, you or someone else would have died already.
You’re still alive and well, so you know what I mean.
You know, so just shut up and…”
Hyeryeong interrupted Yui, giving a rough answer while looking elsewhere.
Her nervous eyes shook violently at a single question that slipped out.
“Is it the Tang Clan? This attack…”
“…… No.”
“But… the characteristics left at the scene…
Are different from the Kouga shinobi…
It’s an assassin from the Tang Clan, right? Could Hyeryeong be involved…”
“……”
Hyeryeong closed her mouth tightly as if refusing to answer, and Yui, unable to bear the frustration, was about to raise her voice when.
Yui finally noticed where Hyeryeong was looking, turned her head, and remembered why she was here in the first place.
‘Laniere… and that person next to her…
Carla’s brother? Antonio…?’
With a sense of the puzzle pieces fitting together in her mind, Yui stared at Hyeryeong with wide eyes, unable to close her mouth.
“Could it be, Hyeryeong…
Not just involved, but…”
The place that was attacked was Flora’s Brothel.
And the target of the attack was said to be an executive of the envoy, but the person who was actually attacked due to a mistaken room was the academy’s envoy assistant.
‘It is customary for the envoy from Chaoxing to be in charge of the medical department.
The same would be true for the engineering department…’
Those who were assigned to assist the envoys at the academy must have been selected from the engineering department, given the relationship between the envoys’ nationality and purpose of visit.
Even Yui, who didn’t know the details, could easily make the strong assumption that one of the candidates was Antonio.
Carla’s brother, Antonio, was one of the outstanding students in the engineering department and was currently working as an assistant.
The academy’s envoy assistant candidate and Flora’s madam, who seemed to have nothing to do with each other, were now having a friendly meal together.
And the daughter of the Tang Clan, a strong candidate for the attacker, was watching them with a heartbroken expression. Yui finally spoke the conclusion that had been pieced together in her mind to Hyeryeong.
“Hyeryeong, were you the assassin…?”
Looking into Hyeryeong’s eyes with trembling pupils, Hyeryeong slowly closed her eyelids and let out a quiet but deep sigh.
“Yes, so please be quiet?”
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