Chapter 25 – 2. Street That Shouldn’t Be There (5)
After many twists and turns, we returned home.
When I entered the front door of the official residence, there was a moment of commotion. It was because I, whom I thought was sleeping in the room, showed up with Elizabeth. I was careful not to bump into anyone as much as possible, but considering the number of people residing here, it was impossible.
“Jeongwoo ball?”
Among the employees who were completely oblivious to my outings was the lovely Helga. After finding us on the central grand staircase, she came over from the kitchen and looked at me and Elizabeth. She asked and she asked.
“I guess you went out?”
“Yes.”
I subtly pushed Elizabeth’s butt. It meant leaving this place to me and going to rest. She did so, and soon only Helga and I were left in front of the grand staircase.
“I thought you were sleeping in your room…….”
“I had some business.”
“Are you dating Miss Mittemeyer by any chance?”
It was a straightforward question. I stared into Helga’s eyes without speaking. Her face was golden, and her hair, which fluttered together, made a beautiful figure.
“…… You know, Helga.”
The intuition of the chef at the official residence is very frightening. Helga’s question was very sharp. But, unfortunately, I have never loved anyone since that day at Partenope. It was also for this reason that he refused to give up her heart despite Elizabeth’s dramatic confession.
“I don’t love anyone anymore.”
My wife, Victoria, was a very good woman, and Cecilie was a truly precious daughter. I didn’t love anyone anymore, even in order to keep my incision for the two of them.
― Can I fill your void?
Even the moment when this lovely hire here confessed.
― I’m sorry, but I can’t.
Rejected for that reason.
“I did, just in case.”
Helga’s hair was drenched in sweat as she came out of the sweltering kitchen. Taking off her sanitary hair, she tucked her lush hair behind her ears and tied it back. Her hair, which shimmered like gold, was admirably beautiful, drawing all my attention.
“Maybe he said that because he didn’t like me.”
“Helga, I just…….”
“I know. How big is the wound you buried in your heart?”
“I want you to keep your outing a secret today.”
Helga approached me with her smile faded, and kissed her on the cheek.
“I can’t crack down on other people’s mouths, but I will.”
Embarrassed by the unexpected action, I stroked my cheek with a blank expression.
“I’m really sorry about what happened last night.”
Apparently, she had been thinking about what had happened last night.
“It’s okay. Because you didn’t mean it.”
The aperitif of the communion, the drugs in the grosse lager, were, of course, Helga’s work. However, despite the person’s apology, I knew that was not the true intention of the beautiful chef.
After all, a cook never plays with food.
Helga Schmidt was once known as Bernhardt’s best cook, although her skills were often underestimated because of her beauty. Even if I went to her room in the basement right away, there were dozens of medals in frames. Seriously, in the past, you must have received an offer to become a naturalized person even in the Atlantic United States.
“How?”
“I trust you.”
The adopted daughter who grew up between a dwarf and wear beast couple was a woman who grew up just as much as the affection I received. Concerned about her family imprisoned in the ghetto, she refused a bright future and free United States status and remained as a chef at the Führer’s residence, an honorary position.
Helga was a good woman. Before that she was a good person. So, even though I rejected her confession, she believed in what she was.
“So, you don’t have to feel sorry for me.”
The lovely chef smiled with tears and nodded her head. Her youthful yet never losing her maturity brought great comfort to her heart.
“By the way, I have one favor, would that be okay?”
“Yes, please.”
“Please tell everyone to stop working. I have someone to meet, but I don’t want to show my face. He’s quite a famous friend, so I don’t want the employees to talk about him recklessly.”
Most of the employees of the official residence commute from outside. The people who live in the rooms in the basement are limited to so-called people who have one seat at a time.
Adele Schneider, housekeeper and parlor maid.
Chef Helga Schmidt.
Like the bodyguard Elisabeth Mittemeyer.
Beatrix hand-picked the girls, who were de facto concubine candidates. So it would be difficult to avoid getting into their ears, and I didn’t expect much either. However, Feininger said that there is a person in the official residence who is in liaison with a disquieting organization.
If so, even if someone steals the words, the fewer the ears, the better.
“I see what you mean. I will tell you that.”
“Thanks.”
“Ah, if you have a guest to treat, shall we cook a simple dish before leaving?”
“You can’t cause trouble every time like this. I will only accept your heart.”
“…… As I said before, the ball is a very kind person.”
It is true that the relationship between employer and employee must be strictly separated. But that doesn’t mean you can treat them carelessly like the official residence here. I didn’t like the atmosphere in this place that Beatrix had fostered. They were treated as if they were slaves in a class society, and at times it even made me sick.
But as of today, I can’t help it.
After leaving Helga, I climbed the stairs. I went into my room, took off my clothes, and headed to the bathroom. It was to wash my body, which had become uncomfortable because I had been out all day.
By the time I got out of the shower and my skin was pretty smooth, it was time to call it evening. I changed into comfortable clothes and went out into the hallway to organize my thoughts. Silence had already subsided in the official residence, perhaps thanks to Helga’s ability to convey her words.
“The scenery is nice…… !”
How beautiful was the view through the large windows. The sun had already set, and the reddish light of the evening sun that hid me was emitting over the horizon. To greet a certain gray-white man who proudly crossed the garden through the heavy guard.
* * *
The moon was a beautiful time.
“Did you get shot in the head?”
I was blown away by the bottle with Otto under the soft moonlight, and I was shocked to receive an unexpected curse. That was understandable, because Beatrix had been swearing at her despite serving several bottles of her favorite Grosse lager in her official residence.
“Hey, what are you saying…….”
“Don’t you like living? Or did Beatrix go crazy because she suffered too much?”
I gave Grosse Lage a disapproving look. We were having an open-minded time on the terrace on the first floor of the official residence, and we were discussing what had happened today. Otto, upon hearing the conclusion drawn from the previous experience, scolded me with a startle.
“What’s the bodyguard’s name?”
“Elizabeth Mittemeyer.”
“Miss Mittemeyer is absolutely right! Where are you going to go without fear?”
We leaned against the railing and drank in the moonlight. It’s been a long time since I drank alcohol not to forget the pain, but to share the joy, but it was fun, but after hearing nagging that wasn’t there, the taste of alcohol disappeared.
“Ah, the atmosphere was nice, but why are you like this?”
“It’s because you talk recklessly when you don’t even know what Saxony is like.”
“It shouldn’t be there. I know that much.”
“Jungwoo, if you go to the warning, you will die.”
Usually, the majority of people who use the expression “Die” At this time are obsessive from a worried mind. However, Otto gave a warning that he would lose his life if he went to Saxony with a very serious expression, and I couldn’t help but feel conflicted at the fact that even the man who had gone through countless battlefields said so.
If a friend who rarely talks nonsense suddenly tries to dissuade her from acting by saying harsh words, it was definitely worth reconsidering it.
“Yeah, I wouldn’t say that it’s not a place where people live, no matter what.”
“Good idea. I might have beaten you to death if I said that.”
“What kind of town is Saxony, so the reaction is like that?”
“It is a place where even I cannot guarantee that I will return safely. It’s not called a street that shouldn’t be there for nothing.”
I looked at his shabby body and sneered at him.
“Executive…….”
Otto, who visited the official residence through the operation of the intelligence department, was wearing light casual clothes. Isn’t it the one whose muscles stand out not only in the military uniform that is the right size, but also in the current clothes that are easy to move. It was even more strange if there were people who believed that even after seeing that strong body.
“Jeong Woo.”
“Why?”
“No kidding.”
I felt like I was sober. I couldn’t help but put on a surprised expression. Beatrix’s dance was so excellent, but Otto’s inaction was not so easy. Where should I not be? He is a war hero Ilshin’s power also chewed up quite a strong man.
You can tell just by looking at the struggle at the National Theater of Korea last time.
“It doesn’t matter if you count or sleep. If that’s the case, you won’t be able to worry about it either.”
“That’s about it.”
“Anyway, it’s not that the strong survive, it’s that the survivors are strong.” Because Saxony is the perfect match. Even a good warrior can’t survive there if he doesn’t have any skills.”
Otto described how the inhabitants of Saxony were a tenacious race. All of his stories were detailed and vivid, and the more I listened to them, the more I realized the physiology and terrifying nature of the place.
“You’ve heard about it, don’t you know? Saxony has the largest red light district in Brullin.”
“I know, 0th Street. You mean the quarantine area.”
“The organization of the underworld of Saxony is the only place where peace and security are maintained. If you go, you’ll be fine there. At most, you’ll only be pickpocketed or solicited, and you won’t lose your life.”
“Okay?”
“Anyway, please attach a clue about Iran.”
“Hey, but where is it?”
“In addition to that, if you knew the items traded there, you, an innocent person, would immediately frown.”
He was right Eventually, the items he described were enough to raise my eyebrows.
“In Saxony and 0th Avenue there, business that has betrayed humanity is booming.”
A shop that kidnaps people and tames them according to orders after receiving an advance payment. A shop that specializes in treating and selling the body of a specific race like medicine. A shop that enjoys gambling by risking people’s lives instead of stakes.
There were all sorts of disgusting places. As I listened to Otto’s story, I waved my hand as if the alcohol I had just a moment ago would rise.
“All human desires grow without restraint.”
“How do you not know that well?”
“There are only a few dozen subordinates who went to Saxony every year to fulfill their wrong desires and were discharged in dishonour. I don’t really want to hear it, but since it’s almost an annual event, I hear it even if I don’t want to know.”
“It’s worth knowing.”
Talking about red-light and vulgar red-light districts in a bluish and elegant moonlit night. Feeling strangely offended, I poured the remaining alcohol from the bottle into my mouth and stood up.
“Could you bring me some more alcohol?”
“Okay, if you drink more here, you’ll be tired when you get home.”
The orc, who knows sobriety, said it would be enough even if the bottle in his hand was the last.
“Take some snacks. Something to fill your stomach.”
It was cumbersome, but I got it. It was a snack that I had been trying to eat when I was bored. The guy who had skipped dinner with Frida due to a sudden call must have been thinking about resentment, so he focused on the sweets I cherished and completely threw them away.
“It’s delicious.”
“Pig…….”
“Are you sure you are cracking down on employees?”
“The SS will be fine. Still, we can’t stop it from getting into Beatrix’s ear, given our circumstances.”
“I’m glad it’s over like that.”
No worries. At first glance, we seemed like blasphemous conspirators, but we were simply drinking buddies. Externally, that is. Hey Beatrix, she couldn’t do anything about it right away, but she didn’t have a problem because she wouldn’t talk about this exchange unless it happened that she would out of her eyes too.
The same is true if this tangent goes outward. In that case, I’d rather admit it coolly, and rather find out who the informer is. Even if you can’t do it, you can narrow down the person of interest, so there’s nothing to lose.
It would be nice to see it set a trap of some sort.
“It was clear that Feininger and his intelligence department had lost control to some disquieting organization, right?”
“Okay, if I save my family, I won’t have to pay.”
“But it was difficult to identify the organization, so you didn’t say you were trying to search Saxony.”
“Is there anything special? There’s no other way than selling it like that.”
As it was the last time, he gulped down the alcohol he was holding in his hand and stole his lips.
“Kuh!”
“I’ll take it. Drink slowly.”
“You’ve already finished drinking.”
Like an ignorant bastard.
“Jungwoo, let’s put off going to Saxony for a while.”
“Why?”
“There are a few places I can guess, so I’ll look into them separately. If what you’re saying is true, there must have been several movements of the organization making contact with the infiltrator here on our side.”
The us Otto was talking about here was not the black orchestra, but the Bernhardt Defense Forces.
“Feininger must have come to the conclusion that he was a snitch based on that clue. Even though he was bound by an oath and unable to speak, he would not have discarded the traces of his investigation. So, with the authority of the lieutenant general, he will investigate the intelligence department to find out the clues about the rebellious organization and the infiltrator.”
“If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be better to divide the roles and do them at the same time? You look inside the intelligence department and I inspect the site.”
“No matter how much you gain the divine status of being revived even if you die, it is not good to act recklessly.”
Don’t you know that it’s me, I can’t just leave my hands like this, so I’m doing it.
“There is no law that you will come back to life again just because you were like that last time, and there are so many more pains to fear than death. Please keep in mind that there are plenty of wicked people among the inhabitants who would easily perpetrate such torture with the help of simple tools.”
“…… OK got it.”
“Going to Saxony is a last resort. It’s better to have nothing to do, and even if you do, be sure to have a reliable bodyguard with you.”
I nodded meekly. Otto’s advice had really come out of concern for me, so I didn’t want to be fooled, even in the hopes of reassuring him.
“I will be honest. I was in a hurry too. The day Beatrix will come back is approaching day by day, but I’m worried that he’ll sit around drinking like this.”
“I understand your feelings. But it’s not for nothing that the more impatient you are, the more you say to go back.”
Certainly, that’s what it says.
“I will contact you as soon as I find clues.”
“It’s still difficult over the wire.”
“I will convey it through the method of the orchestra.”
“Yes, if that is the case.”
Otto rose from his seat.
“It’s late, so I’ll have to go back now.”
“Do it.”
I found the coat he had hung on the chair. I followed slowly, looking around for a moment to see if another employee was watching us.
“Do not come out.”
“Don’t go far. How are you going when you go?”
“An agent from the intelligence department parked a car nearby. He’s probably still waiting.”
It was a brief moment. It had been less than an hour since Otto and I met and talked like this. Still, considering how cumbersome it was during the day without even meeting face to face, this time obtained with the help of the intelligence department was invaluable.
“Be nice to Miss Mittemeyer.”
“Give my regards to your wife.”
“Okay, then I’ll be on my way.”
“Go carefully.”
We moved to the front door and briefly shook hands and said our goodbyes. Otto carefully closed the door to make no noise and went outside, and I went up to the second floor and watched my friend’s back through the window.
Maybe it’s because I’m sorry, it’s very bitter.
