Chapter 171 – 171. Hounds (1)
“Excuse me.”
“Oh, those girls?”
A knight who recognizes Erin and Emilia raises an eyebrow and recognizes her when he comes to her lounge, and other knights start staring at the two as well.
“Oh, hello…”
Erin, who was a bit burdened by the gazes focused on her, said a small bow to her, shrinking her neck involuntarily.
“What’s up today? Did you come to see Eira today?”
It was a little strange to Erin that while she called Eira, who had a higher status than herself, by her first name, she used the title of her lady to herself and sent her favor.
Even though she is the daughter of Riod, the leader of Artia, she is the result of strict hierarchical order applied to Eira, who is an apprentice member who is below the ranks within the knights.
The members of Artia, which are composed of only knights who really respect Riod, have been petting her Eira in various ways, so if she asks if she is treating her as a member of her rank, it is also subtle.
“Ah yes. Well, actually, there is something I want to talk to Captain Artia about…”
“Consulting?”
The knight who spoke of her to Erin frowned slightly and put on a troubled expression.
“Um, since it’s a problem with the young lady, it must also be a problem related to the nobleman, so it won’t be an ordinary problem… Even so, she’s filthy busy right now…”
Since the Chimera Demon Beast subjugation incident, Artia members who have built up trust in Eun-hyeon have shown their own respect for Eun-hyeon’s unofficial disciple, Erin.
That’s why even if she came to see her boss, the leader of the knights, Riod, for a private matter, her knight was not indignant.
One thing that bothered me was what kind of business Erin had brought.
“May I ask what you came for?”
“… Could you lend me your ear for a moment?”
Erin, who had been looking around her and paying attention to the other members’ gazes, happily lowered her head and whispered to the knight who had lent her ear to convey her circumstances concisely.
“What!? Wet the pernin… Huh!?”
“Shhh!”
Erin hurriedly covered the knight’s mouth, who was about to ask back in surprise.
The knight, who had calmed down, gave her a small nod, and finally, Erinn’s hand that had been covering the knight’s mouth was released.
“Miss… Is this real?”
“… Yes.”
“Haa, damn, I’m going to be filthy busy with the nobles’ interrogation, but this time… No, is it because it is now?”
“Are you busy?”
Come to think of it, the resting room, which was always filled with knights taking a break, was quieter than I thought.
“Oh, a little? Still, the lady’s matter can be ignored. First of all, I’ll tell the captain. The commander-in-chief will decide for himself. Wait a minute.”
After she sat quietly in her lounge for a while, the knight who had delivered her business to Leo de, escorted Erin to her captain’s office.
After two knocks, after receiving her permission and entering her manager’s office, Erin began to get nervous at the words of Liod, who stared at her with fierce eyes.
In the midst of such a heavy atmosphere, she stared at Rio de, Cain, and Eira in the leader’s room as before, then tilted her head when she saw a face she hadn’t seen before.
“Huh?”
“Oh, oh oh…”
“Uh… ?”
Looking at her own face and seeing the reaction of the man making strange noises with her bewildered expression, Erin begins to panic a little.
Even so, she cautiously moved her gaze to examine the man’s whereabouts.
He was a middle-aged man in his 30s who looked a bit old, but his appearance, which combines tall stature with a clean look, reminds us of a very classy middle-aged man.
To briefly describe the impression Erin first had upon seeing Riod, it was a calm yet dignified lion-like figure.
On the other hand, the man in front of him, wearing a tight-fitting black striped suit, with his black hair neatly brushed up and his forehead exposed, had the appearance of a polite gentleman, as if he were looking at a businessman running a large-scale business.
‘Wow, he looks so cool…’
The middle-aged gentleman slowly approached Erin with a serious face.
“Why, why are you… ?”
“…”
The man did not answer Erin’s perplexed questions.
Then he grabs both of her hands and pulls them in front of her, bringing them together.
The man opened his mouth in a serious yet respectful voice.
“Will you marry me?”
“… Yes?”
“I have never seen a woman as beautiful as you. Alas, such beautiful hair, a bewitching creamy face, thin but healthy legs and waist, if you will marry me, I will give you all of my possessions, my mind and body.”
‘I was wrong! He’s not cool, he’s a strange person!’
Erin’s whole body gave goosebumps at the gentleman’s act of wooing her fiercely, exhaling hot breath in excitement and burning eyes of passion.
“Hey, let’s talk about this…”
“Ah, how can you have such beautiful hands? The traces of hard work that never let go of the sword make your body even more beautiful! My heart is falling for you even more!”
“Listen to people!”
Erin freaked out and tried to somehow shake off her hands that were being held by her gentleman, but the slender gentleman didn’t budge from Erin’s resistance.
‘What, what is it? This guy really… ?’
The more she tried to shake her off, the more the pervert gentleman, unwilling to let go of her own hand, continued to belch his hot breath, giving her Erin goosebumps.
“No, Captain… Isn’t that man supposed to stop that?”
“Father… Captain…”
Cain and Eyre, who were watching the scene, couldn’t bear to directly grab the gentleman’s body and stop him, so they sent their eyes to Riod, telling them to help.
Annoyed, Lyod frowned as if he couldn’t help it, and called out to him, saying the gentleman’s name.
“Gerard.”
“Ah, how can a crystal of such beauty and innocence exist…”
The gentleman called Gerard doesn’t seem to be able to hear Riod’s words at all.
“Hey, hey. Can you talk about this for a bit?”
“Miss. I have a question for you.”
“… Will you let go of my hand if I answer you?”
“Yes. Yes. Any lady…”
What question are you trying to ask?
Erin tensed, swallowing her saliva for nothing.
“Are you a virgin?”
“Yes?”
Erin tilted her head at Gerard’s incomprehensible question.
‘Virgin? A virgin means an adult unmarried woman, right?’
Anyone could see that she was still just a young girl, so she couldn’t understand why she bothered to ask such a question.
Erin, who is still young, has no friends even in her child Terre because of her girlish special position, and neither Elvin nor Eunhyeon care so much about her, instilling her knowledge of her relationships with the opposite sex. Failure to give was the cause.
“Gerard!”
“Older brother. Please don’t interrupt. I am now passionately courting the person of my destiny…”
“The child is a minor. And Eun-hyeon is raising him.”
“…”
Gerard’s words were cut off.
He then turned his head toward Leo de, with a look of disbelief on his face.
Even so, Gerard did not loosen his grip on Erin’s hands.
“Really… Is Hyun-hyung resurrected? ?”
“Okay.”
“Ah, ah…”
“Huh… ?”
Gerard’s hands, pale in her complexion, suddenly trembled violently, and the vibration was felt in Erin’s hand, which was tightly gripped by Gerard’s.
Erin was taken aback by Gerard’s reaction as he looked up at her head, her teeth clenching, and her expression of fear all over her face.
“Why, why…”
“Aaaaa! I’m sorry!”
Gerard hastily removes her hand from her Erin, apologizes and distances her from her.
She soon got down on her knees and politely put her hands together and slammed her forehead into the ground, casting a plaster mortal sin.
Thud!
It was so loud that the sound of banging his forehead on the floor spread throughout the headroom.
“No, what the hell…”
“Sorry! Please! Please, please, please do not tell Hyun-hyung about this!”
“… ?”
Seeing Erin’s reaction, who was at a loss for words, with an expression of incomprehension, Liod, who sighed, forcibly ended the story and changed the subject.
“… Erin Ignore that, and tell me your business. What on earth is that information?”
“Ah yes…”
Erin nodded her head, putting on her shy expression, and she resumed her story.
A secret letter was delivered to Illyana’s house through a shabby-dressed man in the slum.
And following the contents of the letter and Emilia’s guidance, he went to the Information Guild, Black Wand, and listened to what he had to say, and another being behind the succubus that attacked Fernine, and the black magician who turned Elvin into a black magician. Even the fact that it is presumed to have been provided and that there is a possibility that it is a warlock.
“Whoa… One after another, only tiring facts are woven together…”
“The time was 8:00 p.M., And it said it was the Gleor Abandoned Warehouse.”
“Tsk…”
Erin asked, unable to hide her uneasiness at the face of Leode, who was blatantly frowning.
“Can’t you come forward?”
“…”
After thinking about it for a long time, Leo had no choice but to open his mouth.
“It is true that it is a bit difficult. Of course, this timing is too blatant. I have no choice but to see that he artificially induced this situation.”
Her face darkens as she recognizes that Erin is in a situation where she cannot ask for her help even more at the muttering she cannot understand.
“But it’s also great timing on our part. Gerard.”
At Riod’s command, Gerard opened his mouth with a confused expression.
“I see. To be honest, I didn’t expect the road to open like this here. I think you are really an angel sent from heaven.”
“Ah yes…”
Erin replied with a sullen look on her face that she didn’t want to associate with her anymore, thinking that she was so good at uttering such gruff lines.
But she also wondered why the information she brought had such a positive reaction.
“Erin. Show this man the place.”
When Riod pointed at Gerard, Erin jumped up and started a match.
“With this person!?”
Crying, saying I never hate it.
Soon, Erin’s unfair feelings sparked Emilia in her strange direction.
“Emilia! I was in a very dangerous situation just now, so why didn’t you stop it!”
“… ? This object did not take any action as it was judged that there was no hostility towards the man’s actions.”
“Ah, if that person tries to touch my body in the future, stop it unconditionally!”
“… I accept your order.”
“Captain. I will go with you.”
“… Ayra. This is very dangerous. As an apprentice, you don’t want to wear it…”
“I am the one who has come to terms with Erin while spending a lot of time with her. Also, there is a reliable escort called Emilia, and there is also a great hero like the leader, right?”
“Yes?”
Erin, who heard Ayra’s words, was startled, and Ayra looked at Gerard, who was at the same place as her eyes.
“I… Boon is a great hero… ?”
In disbelief, Erin glanced up at Gerard’s profile with her astonished expression.
‘That pervert?’
“… Never get hurt.”
“Yes. I’ll be careful.”
While Erin was making a puzzled expression, the story was coming to an end at some point.
Erin, who was very uncomfortable with Gerard’s company, eventually gave up.
“Whoops. Erin, please take care of me.”
“Yes… Ayra’s sister. By the way.”
“Huh?”
During a question Gerard had asked her earlier, Erin came up with a word she couldn’t understand.
She didn’t want to ask Gerard, and the only thing she could ask was Eira, her close sister on whom she could rely, her limited options.
A 17-year-old girl put the question to her mouth.
“What is a virgin?”
At the innocent girl’s question, the footsteps of the two and the doll stopped.
“Eh, Erin… That…”
“Unbelievable…”
Both of them looked very embarrassed, but the reason for their embarrassment was different.
Eira is worried about how to explain to a child like her younger sister who is a minor of hers.
On the other hand, Gerard.
“You don’t know what a virgin means… What a pure crystal of soul this is…”
“… Found an unknown creature that is not registered in this object’s database.”
Gerard, who was thrilled for some reason, was specified by Emilia as a creature other than a human being.
