Chapter 315 – 315. Casino Sabiya (1)
“Here… The Saviros Spirit?”
As soon as she passed through the gate and entered the interior, Erin looked around the inside of the estate with a dazed expression.
Even though it is the same duchy, the atmosphere is very different.
Unlike the Armitas Territory, which was frugal and well-organized, creating an atmosphere of ‘steadyness’, the Saviros Territory was very splendid.
Even the buildings at a glance are adorned with fancy jewels and gold, boasting a luxurious and expensive appearance.
Erin’s impression of the dukedom of a foreign country she had visited for the first time was very brief.
“Awesome…”
Erin, who was walking down a colorful street lined with various stalls, frowned at the prices of food sold at the stalls.
“… Expensive.”
Even if the food was cooked with similar ingredients, there was a difference of almost two to three times compared to the street food sold in the Duchy or Pernin.
“Hyunah, why is it so expensive?”
“Because there are people who will buy it even if it is sold at this price.”
Most of the main customers of the Sabiros Territory, whose main business is tourism and gambling, are high-ranking nobles and wealthy merchants from their own country and other countries.
The price of food at these stalls is not a burden to them, so they do not hesitate to pay for food at this price.
“Well, it’s not often that upper-class people with picky appetites buy food from stalls like this.”
However, these expensive stalls are also thriving on a large scale, as there are upper-class customers who sometimes visit these stalls for the taste of the common people.
“In the Kingdom of Fernias, there were prices that were less than half of this…”
“Of course. This is because the customer base itself is different. I want to eat?”
“Oh, no… Not necessarily…”
The reason Erin frowned at the stalls lined up on the street was because she was hungry, but the food she tried to buy from the stalls was too expensive.
It arouses curiosity to try it, but she didn’t even think of paying a high price to eat it.
“Let’s be patient for a bit. Since I want to eat, I have to eat proper rice rather than snacks from street vendors.”
“Huh.”
Erin nodded her head obediently.
“First of all, let’s get a lodging. Whatever it is, you have to unpack and move.”
As she moved her steps, Erin felt a gaze staring at them from the corner of her dark alley and turned her head in the direction of her gaze.
“Eww…”
Helpless gazes looking at themselves with drooping, bent backs.
She hadn’t had a proper meal for days. Her thin face and lanky body reminded her of Lily’s father, who had been begging like a beggar before.
Even that number is not insignificant.
“Most of them are people who have been disgraced because they are addicted to gambling.”
“…”
Those were Eunhyeon’s words after seeing Erin’s expression as she looked at the beggars begging with her pitiful eyes.
“Because of gambling… Can you get to that point?”
It is a world that Erin cannot understand.
Erin wasn’t the only one who thought so.
“Yes… How did you end up like that…”
There is also a sad light in Lily’s self-helping eyes.
Looking at the beggars in her alley, she remembered her own father.
She lived poorly, but Lily’s family collapsed in less than a year due to her father’s change.
“Sister…”
Erin squeezed her hand as she stared at Lily with her pitiful eyes, as she sighed whenever she thought of her father.
“I have something to tell you about it. For now, I’ll grab a room and talk to you inside.”
“Yes.”
“Okay.”
Eventually, Erin and Lily arrived at the entrance of the huge building and couldn’t keep their mouths shut when they saw the shiny golden statue displayed in the center.
“Wow…”
“It’s so big…”
A cold sweat broke out on Erin’s forehead as she guessed the amount of gold that had gone into making the statue, which glowed golden even at night thanks to the magic lights around it.
“It’s such a luxury…”
A statue of a lump of gold, whose usefulness is unclear, further accentuated the grandeur of the building, which flaunts its gigantic size while existing in the back.
“Is this an inn?”
“It’s called a hotel.”
“Ooh, we sleep here… ?”
How much does a luxurious place like this cost?
I couldn’t even guess.
While working as an adventurer, she had used an inn in a nearby village, but the common sense in Erin’s head was collapsing at the appearance of an accommodation facility that was incomparable to the inn in the village.
“Are you planning on doing that?”
“Oh my god…”
The appearances of Erin and Lily, stunned and staring at each other, are like country girls who have never seen a city before.
Even though they themselves had memories of living in Pernin, the capital and center of the kingdom, seeing them running through the end of luxury was a shock itself.
“Ah, Erin. Don’t lose your mind, let’s quickly chase after the master.”
“Ah, yes. Yes.”
Lily, who suddenly came to her senses, shook Erin’s shoulder to wake her up.
When I pointed at Eunhyun and Emilia, who hurriedly and confidently walked ahead of her, Erin belatedly nodded her head and moved on.
“Welcome. Customer. How can I help you?”
“One room. To the best place.”
“The special room costs 20 gold coins. A regular room is 6 coins, but do you really want a special room?”
Although he was quite a noble man, his accessories and clothes did not make him look like a high-ranking aristocrat or a wealthy man, so the staff asked again.
“I’ll go there.”
Eunhyun accepted the employee’s gaze and smiled.
When I proudly took out 20 gold coins from my pocket and presented it, the employee nodded in agreement and handed me the key to the room.
“I apologize for the rudeness.”
“It’s okay.”
Seeing the employee’s willingness to apologize for unknowingly evaluating a customer on her own, Eun-hyeon accepted the apology with a smile.
Erin and Lily’s expressions were complicated even as they accepted the key given by the staff and were escorted to the room by another staff member.
“Twenty gold coins…”
“Oh my god…”
Considering that the average price for reserving a decent room in a village or a manor is ’20 silver coins’, I could feel how extravagant Eun-hyeon was now.
“This room. Then I’m just…”
“Thank you.”
Upon arriving at the room following the staff’s guidance, Eun-hyun opened the door and entered the room without hesitation.
While Emilia was unpacking the backpack she was carrying under Eunhyeon’s instructions, Erin and Lily followed them in and put on complicated expressions.
“Hyunah. Are we really sleeping in this room? I heard earlier that there was also a room with 6 gold coins, but I didn’t have to…”
Erin, who felt burdened because she thought it was too extravagant, talked to Eunhyeon, but Eunhyeon shook her head.
“This is part of the plan. We have to show our face externally.”
“Show me? To whom?”
“… Are you planning?”
“I’ll unpack everything and tell you about my plans for the future.”
The two nodded their heads obediently at Eunhyun’s words.
“I’ll get you coffee.”
“Huh.”
After all the packing was done, Lily made coffee for Eunhyeon and Erin, who were sitting on the sofa.
“Do you know what the purpose of our trip is?”
“Huh. That is… You’re looking for the whereabouts of Lily’s mother.”
Erin, taking a sip of the hot liquid, answered Eunhyun’s question while glancing at Lily.
“That’s right. That’s why I came to this Saviros territory, where Lily’s father is supposed to have been involved.”
For a moment she smelled the coffee, put the cup on the table, and continued her words.
“The leader of the thugs I met on the road, the result of reading the memory of that guy was the correct answer.”
“… !”
Lily’s breath stopped at Eunhyun’s calm words.
“Lily, there is someone here who knows where your mother is. It now sits deep in the darkness of this city.”
The reason she didn’t talk about it right away was to give Lily time to make up her mind.
After mixing her body, Eun-hyeon couldn’t tell this story right away to her, who was regaining her peace of mind to some extent.
Lily realized her master’s intentions from Eun-hyeon’s words and actions, which reveal that now.
“… The object that Master was trying to show us externally is to show it to ‘that person’.”
“That’s right. Precisely because I need to be noticed by ‘that woman’.”
The reason why Eunhyeon was able to refer to her as ‘that woman’ as if she knew her identity was because she was a woman who existed in the memory of the gangster whom Lily had turned into a disabled person.
“He’s the one who got your father into gambling, got into debt, and sold you and your mother into slavery. We have to meet her girl. And at the end… Lily.”
“Yes.”
“You can do whatever you want.”
“… Thank you.”
Lily bowed her head again and thanked her.
Her answer was fixed and unchanging from beginning to end.
As long as it doesn’t cause harm to many innocent and unrelated people, he supports his revenge.
“Um… So Hyun, you mean that Lily spent her money on the best room in the hotel because she needed to stand out as the culprit who broke her sister’s family?”
“Yes.”
“I see…”
To be honest, she didn’t understand any part of Eun-hyeon’s plan, but she nodded her head, realizing that she didn’t spend 20 gold coins out of ignorance, without thinking about it.
“Then, what can I do next?”
Because she was involved with none other than Lily, Erin was very motivated.
Erin, who suffered a lot from her family problems, deeply sympathized with the sad story of Lily, who had become like her new family.
“To catch a tiger, you have to enter the tiger’s den.”
“Huh?”
Eunhyun carefully looked at Erin, who tilted her head.
Stares ran all over her body, from her legs to her head, but Erin didn’t look too bad.
She rather wanted to see more, but his eyes were not lust-tinged lustful gazes, but analytical ones.
“… Why are you looking at me?”
“Let’s go get our clothes tailored.”
“… Huh?”
“Lily, get ready right away. Leah has a chance that someone here is spying on her or sending someone to investigate. Watch while waiting in the room. If she comes into the room and tries to rummage through her luggage, stun her and tie her up.”
“I accept your order.”
Leaving behind Emilia who silently nodded, Eunhyeon took Erin and Lily out of the room.
“Where are we going?”
“To gamble.”
“… Okay.”
Lily nodded as if she understood Eunhyun’s thoughts.
A very complicated feeling about entering on her own feet the place of madness that had driven her own father mad.
Her own master, who gave her body and soul, is moving like this for her own sake.
He is different from his father, who was blinded by greed and madness and destroyed the family.
The purpose he is acting now is for himself.
“Lily? What’s the matter?”
Eunhyeon felt Lily’s gaze staring blankly at her and asked.
“No… Nothing. Just… I like the owner very much.”
Lily, conscious of how stupid she was thinking, chuckled.
The reason I was attracted to this man was because of his desperate efforts to take responsibility for his people, unlike his father who saved himself and gave up his family.
Comparing it, he himself is so stupid.
“How long… I want to be with you.”
“Okay. Thank you.”
Eunhyun smiled and nodded in response.
“I will be with you too!”
Erin intervened in their conversation, holding both of their arms between them.
