Chapter 310 – 310. The Demonic Nature of the Dreamer (1)
After the sun went down and it was evening time, Eunhyeon returned to her room and immediately set up a schedule with Erin and Lily.
“I’m leaving tomorrow morning and going to the Duchy of Saviros.”
“The Duchy of Saviros? Where is it?”
For Erin, who had only just begun to learn the names of places within her native kingdom of Pernias, the names of other countries were confusing.
Just because of the word ‘duchy’, I thought that it might be a place as vibrant as the capital, just like Armitas.
“In the kingdom of Rendir, next to the capital, no, it is as vibrant as the capital.”
“That… Is it similar to the Armitas spirit?”
“As for the vitality itself, the Saviros region is more prosperous, but if we compare it to the Armitas region… The Saviros territory is of worse quality than the Armitas territory.”
“Is the quality bad? Why?”
“The reason for revitalizing the economy of that territory is quite different from that of Armitas. In the case of the Armitas Territory, the main business is the farming of the villagers, starting with the large-scale farmland. It mass-produces a large amount of grain, so even the duke’s family collects taxes in grain instead of currency, and it’s a large-scale business to the extent that grain is exported to other territories or Pernins.”
“Huh. When I was just a new adventurer, I also saw it a few times as a request for security or dealing with monsters who sometimes ruined the fields. Hehe, the potatoes her auntie baked were delicious.”
During the contract period, when there was no sign of the Demonic Beast appearing while carrying out his request, Erin, who had surplus power, recalled the memories of helping farmers with farming.
The kindness of the farmers who baked potatoes or sweet potatoes for the newcomer while smiling broadly, saying that he was a girl of the same age as his son and daughter, was really warm.
She was even invited to quit being an adventurer and ask her son if she would like to marry her, and she refused, but there was also a difficult incident.
“That’s right. That’s why, in order not to ruin farming, which was the main source of income, regular adventurers regularly patrol the farm area to educate new adventurers.”
“But why are you talking about Armitas? Is there something different about the Saviros Spirit?”
“The Armitas Territory uses large-scale farmland to operate the territory, focusing on agriculture, but in the case of the Savyros Territory, the territory is managed not by agriculture, but by tourism and gambling.”
“Tourism and gambling… Ah…”
Erin listened to Eunhyun’s words and chewed them repeatedly, then looked at Lily with an expression that suddenly realized something.
Of course, Lily’s expression on her face was also not good.
“Master, maybe…”
“Lily is right.”
Lily’s guess, which she was trying to ask with one mind, was confirmed by Eun-hyeon’s nodding of her head.
“Five years ago, the gambling place where Lily’s father and many other adults of this territory were said to have been periodically picked up was Saviros territory.”
It’s not that far from this territory to the Saviros territory.
If you start early in the morning and run non-stop, you’ll reach the distance by evening.
It was not a business conducted only by the citizens of the same Lendir, but a high-ranking aristocrat with a lot of property in another country, or a super-wealthy man who ran a large-scale trading company.
The business policy of treating all people with enormous wealth as customers, whether they are citizens or foreigners, nobles or commoners, also took advantage of the geographical advantage of the kingdom’s borders.
“And even now, young people from this region continue to migrate to the Saviros Territory.”
An incident that happened five years ago in this estate and an incident that is currently happening.
The commonality of the two incidents was leading to one place.
“Lily.”
“… Yes.”
“I am telling you the information I read in the memories of the lord, the owner of this estate. The people who enslaved and dragged you and your mother five years ago are connected to what is happening now. Perhaps…”
If you go to the Duchy of Saviros, you may be able to find the whereabouts of Lily’s mother.
The meaning of what Eunhyeon wanted to say was this.
“The lord of this territory closed his eyes, ignoring the presence of those who had been harassing them. As a result, you and your mother were the beginning of that terrible experience. But I didn’t kill the lord and came back. Because I wanted to ask your doctor first. I want you… I’m thinking of doing what you want. Whatever it is.”
Eun-hyeon shrugged the woman lord’s shoulder and explained in detail why she didn’t break her neck and take her life right away.
The biggest reason is that she thought to make a decision after first checking Lily’s doctor.
“…”
Lily’s expression hardened after hearing Eunhyeon’s promise.
It was a cruel yet kind consideration, saying that he would kill her if he wanted to, but suddenly Lily became scared.
A request to take someone’s life.
Because she has not yet made up her mind about doing her cruel favor.
Lily closed her eyes and thought about what she wanted.
Who is the culprit who ruined her life and her own mother’s life?
That person is in the Duchy of Saviros.
“If I don’t ask… What do you think the lord of this place will do?”
“Even though I broke her shoulder as a way of venting my anger… I planted fear on the condition of keeping my mouth shut and controlling the outflow of these more immortals to the outside world. It’s a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of There are many people Lily knows in this estate, right? Just like we met at a restaurant.”
“… Thank you.”
Lily nodded her head slightly at Eunhyun’s consideration.
“If… If you must take revenge…”
She then clenched her fists and looked at Eun-hyeon with a determined expression on her face.
“I want to deal with the person who made me and my mother like that. That too…”
The hatred that began to burn in Lily’s heart was only one thing in mind.
“Please let me do it with my own hands.”
Asking Eun-hyeon for everything is a pity.
Even if she had to get help from her master, it was she who would get her hands dirty in the end, Lily was determined.
“Okay.”
Hearing the familiar’s determination, the master calmly nodded his head.
“Sister, I will help you too! Let’s punish all the bad guys who gave her sister a hard time!”
“… Huh. Thank you. Erin.”
Seeing Erin express her willingness to help with her bright face, her bloody yet strong determination overshadowed, Lily’s heavy heart eased little by little.
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“Ah… Shit…”
“Older brother. Why?”
“This time, it is only the males. I mean I want to She honestly thought there would be at least one girl, but these days the numbers aren’t what they used to be.”
Her chief gangster frowns and looks dissatisfied as she sighs and complains.
The head gangster, who drank water with sleeping pills and stared at the people who were all asleep in the carriage, was in a state of wanting because he was not having fun with the young woman again this time.
But for a subordinate, even such a complaint was a luxury.
“Aren’t you glad you met your quota? If I go back without filling it this time, I might really die.”
“Ah, fuck, really. Life is like X. Very.”
Hearing his subordinates point out, the head gangster’s expression frowned even more.
Just imagining it made me angry.
Still, I was able to fill the quota this time, so I was worried about the subordinate’s words.
“However… With so many people all the time, what the hell is the boss using?”
“I don’t know. Either way, they’ll get into debt in moderation, and squeeze money out of it by selling them as slaves. Or have you come up with another groundbreaking business method?”
Certainly, once every three months, it is strange for them to convince such a large group of people that they can make money with great success if they go to the Saviros territory, gather them together, and bring them to the boss, the head of their group. It wasn’t one or two.
The causes and processes of how to make profits were undisclosed information to them, who were at the bottom.
As long as the results were beneficial to them, that was enough.
“We just have to live on the bean curd thrown from above. Sometimes, if you find a nice girl, you just have to embrace it. Hehe.”
If you try to know too much, it hurts.
The head gangster knew his subject very well in that respect.
He has been working under the organization for over 5 years, and he has become a low-level middle manager who manages low-level thugs before he knows it.
“Ok… ? Older brother. What is in front of you?”
“What?”
A man sitting in the coachman’s seat driving a horse noticed someone standing on the wide open road, and the head gangster narrowed his eyes and looked ahead.
“… What. What is that? Child?”
Figure of a person wearing a gothic dress with black antique lace.
The closer the carriage got, the clearer the height and outward appearance of a child.
“Wait a minute.”
The head gangster ordered his men to stop the carriage and got off the carriage, which stopped in front of the little girl.
“Little boy. Are you alone?”
“…”
The girl didn’t answer.
The atmosphere that the girl is exuding is unusual, and the dress she is wearing for going out is also very classy.
“… Why is a child alone in a street like this?”
The current stop is in the middle of the road to the Duchy of Saviros, but it’s not too close for a young girl to come all the way here by herself.
Even the girl’s shoes and her dress were very clean, free from dust and dirt.
In a situation he didn’t understand, the subordinate frowned slightly and tilted his head.
“How is it? Hehe.”
Seeing the girl dressed like a rich man or the daughter of a high-ranking nobleman, the head gangster started to laugh at the thought that popped into her head.
When she imagines extorting large sums of money from her parents to ransom this child to her, she feels better.
“Little boy. In the wagon…”
“This voice…”
“Huh?”
At the sound of a woman’s voice breaking through the grass, the eyes of many of the thugs in the wagon turned towards the grass.
A total of three people showed up.
One male and two females, among the three members belonging to the younger side, the head gangster tilted his head at her receiving a hateful gaze from a woman wearing her maid’s uniform.
“Me… Don’t you remember?”
“What?”
“Five years ago… You enslaved me and her mother and took them.”
The maid’s voice trembled as she spoke as if she was holding it in tight.
Her tears running down her cheeks reminded her of a woman she had conceived in her memories of her head thug’s past.
“No way… Is that the kid then?”
“…”
Watching the expression on her face as she clenched her teeth and clenched her fists, her past reminded her of the mother of a child she and many men played with.
“Under… !”
The head of the gangsters, who felt a huge gap between the girl in his memory, who was gradually becoming clearer, and the woman now, laughed.
“That trash her husband’s daughter has grown up so wonderfully!”
“… There is?”
“What?”
The maid woman muttered a little, and when she saw the scoundrel she had taken her and her mother by force in the past, she widened her eyes with the intent to kill her at any moment.
Tears welled up in Lily’s eyes as her emotions escalated.
“Mother! Where are you!”