Chapter 719 – 719. The Land of Pleasure (7)
Returning to the dorm with Aira, Hanseong Cha headed to his room first to change into comfortable clothes.
“Huh!?”
When I opened the door without any warning and stepped inside, I stopped my steps at the frightened voice that came from the room.
“… ?”
Cha Hanseong looked at the man in his room with a dumbfounded expression.
He had a huge body with a rough appearance, and he was very wary of something and was afraid.
He never thought that there would be strangers in the single room he rented under his name, so the situation was just absurd.
So, in a bewildered voice, he asked the frightened man in his room.
“… Who are you?”
Cha Han-seong, who was polite but full of embarrassment, did not answer the question.
Instead of answering his question, she held on to Cha Han-seong’s trouser legs and pleaded with tears and runny nose.
“Help me! Help me… ! Please save me… !”
“Why, why are you doing this!?”
The sight of a man twice as tall as himself begging for his life further confuses Cha Han-sung’s bewildered mind.
“Hey, let go of this!”
Cha Hanseong forcibly removed the man who was soiling his pants with tears and mucus and ran out of the room.
“Please save me… ! Ah!”
The man who desperately held on to Cha Han-sung’s legs and tried not to fall came out of the room, but he couldn’t come out of the room with him and stopped.
Like an animal in a cage that never leaves the doorway, he was trembling with fear in his cabin.
“… ?”
Cha Han-seong, who wondered why he couldn’t come out of the room, sent his legs slightly into the room just in case.
“Please save me… !”
“Omg!”
Cha Han-seong hurriedly removed his leg again when the man grabbed his leg again with insane reaction speed and tried to hang on to it.
The reaction of the man who stopped and stood still after visiting the room again was very strange.
I looked around the room with my eyes, wondering if there was some kind of barrier or magic, but I didn’t see any traces of strange magic.
I wondered if there might be some device that could not be discerned with the naked eye.
However, no strange discomfort was found.
‘The strangest thing is this man. Come on?’
Why is the man unable to come out of the room?
“… Why are you unable to come out of your room?”
“I-don’t come out of this place until someone comes…”
“… Who?”
Cha Hanseong immediately thought of Erin and Lily.
Except for Eira, who had returned with them, only the two women knew the location of their room.
“Please, please save me. I’ll do anything, anything. Please…”
“…”
Cha Hanseong cleared his confused mind and fell into his thoughts.
For now, he just shuts the door, not wanting to listen to the pleas of a man who just keeps begging for his life and doesn’t help at all in answering his questions.
Then he headed towards the three-person cabin, where the three of them were supposed to be.
He knocked twice and announced his visit.
“This is Cha Han-seong. May I come in?”
“Uh… Come in. Han Sung-ah.”
Eira’s voice, which was very timid, also made me very concerned.
She cautiously opened the door and entered the room on the female side, but she couldn’t help but tilt her head as she couldn’t understand the situation on this side either.
“Erin. I’m really sorry. Won’t you let go of my anger?”
“Joy! I don’t know! I hate you!”
What was the problem, Eira watched with a troubled expression as she did not know what she was thinking, as Erin, who was very pouty, and Lily, who was trying to soothe Erin with a troubled expression.
Eventually, Eira asked Cha Han-seong.
“What’s the matter?”
“No. That is… There was a big man who looked like a wild boar in my room, but I couldn’t figure out why…”
“Wild boar?”
Like Eira Han, who tilted her head, Cha Hanseong, who was confused because he did not know the English language, moved his gaze back to Erin and Lily at the same time.
However, Erin was already upset, and Lily had no time to explain her situation to Eira and Cha Hanseong as she was trying to appease her Erin.
In the end, Eira, who was less frustrated, stepped in and mediated between the two.
“Two people. Calm down and explain the situation. What happened?”
“Ayra sister! Listen! I’m really sad!”
As if Erin had been waiting, she confided to Eira the part of her that she felt sorry for Lily with her rapid fire.
“Actually…”
Lily began to explain with a wry smile, and only then did the two of them hear the general circumstances.
After breaking up with Aira and Cha Han-seong, the two headed straight to the adventurer’s guild, and while trying to negotiate with the bartender there to purchase information about the ‘snake’, a group of adventurers got into a fight.
“… I knew it.”
Cha Hanseong murmured softly.
Eyra’s prediction that it would go smoothly without anything happening was exactly right.
So Erin was able to subdue the adventurers who rudely sexually harassed her with an overwhelming difference in skill and get the benefit of receiving information from her bartender for free, but her real problem started there.
“Lily single-handedly took her bait and took care of those guys!”
“… Huh?”
Cha Hanseong moved his gaze to Lily with a puzzled expression.
Not knowing what the problem was, I was surprised that Lily had used such drastic measures.
In his perception, a woman named Lily was just a maid who cared for her children and devoted herself to her husband, Eun-hyeon.
Even if her identity is ‘half-man, half-demon’ with demonic characteristics, it is a very unfamiliar figure to Cha Han-seong, who has never seen her directly harm someone.
“That is… What’s wrong?”
If the enemies were easily caught and dealt with, wouldn’t it be a very good result?
At Cha Han-sung’s question, who didn’t understand why Erin was upset, Erin put on a shocked expression as if she couldn’t believe her.
“Li, Lily sister could have gone wrong!”
With the worst imaginings that came to her mind of her own accord, Erin wept and poured out her regrets.
“If you ever think her sister is wrong… Hmm, that alone makes me cry like this…”
For Erin, Lily is her older sister and at the same time a precious family member within her own circle.
As she was unreasonably abused by her father since she was a child, the moment when her heart almost collapsed without receiving deep affection from her parents, she felt the warmth of her family for the first time.
That is why, just imagining that you might lose it stirs up an intense feeling of sadness in your heart.
“Erin… Sorry. I’m really sorry. I will definitely consult with Erin from now on. So drop it.”
“Huh…”
Erin, who had been sobbing, began to accept Lily’s touch, which she had been rejecting until now, as if Lily’s efforts to soothe her had worked quite well.
Lily, who wiped the tears from her eyes and down her cheeks, felt grateful and sorry for Erin’s heart that thought of her this way.
‘Is the master’s heart like this?’
She did not want to force Erin to do too much, so she acted alone, but in the end, the reckless behavior made her feel sorry for Erin.
Either way, she thought that Lily and herself resembled Eun-hyeon in a strange place.
“Well, I’m really glad you seem to have reconciled, but… So, does the strange man in my guest room have anything to do with this story?”
“Hanseong, you…”
Cha Han-sung broke the warm atmosphere at once.
Eira narrowed her eyes and glanced at her coldness.
Even if she doesn’t notice, how can she be so ignorant?
However, Cha Han-seong continued his story even as his body trembled at Eira’s gaze.
“The man… He must have been strangely frightened.”
“I brought you because I thought you might need an interrogation.”
“… Hearing?”
“The man. No, the adventurer party the man belonged to was doing drugs in this estate. I think the target audience is mainly prostitutes in Changgwan.”
“…”
Eira and Cha Hanseong looked at each other with their eyes shining.
Apparently, it was clear that Lily had asked for information close to a big deal unintentionally.
“Well, that was a really big deal! Sister!”
Unlike Eira and her Cha Han-seong, Erin was horrified at the idea that Lily might have been drugged and roughed up by her adventurers.
“Erin. We’ll talk about that later. I’m sorry, but this side of the story comes first.”
However, as a result, even Erin could not strongly refute the current situation in which Lily was safe, and Eira’s words.
“Ugh… I’m just watching you this time Next time, if you do it too hard, I will really reach out to Hyuni! Understand!?”
“Huh. I’ll be careful next time.”
Lily smiled bitterly and nodded her head.
When the story was roughly finished, the three of them unraveled the details of the case from Lily with her adventurers and were able to hear the information she obtained.
Literally, the party of adventurers who sexually harassed Erin and Lily were the ones who were committing an evil act of poisoning the prostitutes working in the brothel of this estate.
“And the person who provided the adventurers with drugs and was manipulating them behind the scenes must be…”
“Earl of Ephrate, the lord of this territory… I guess.”
“That’s right.”
Ayra’s guess was immediately confirmed by Lily.
This is probably what the adventurer who succumbed to Lily’s ability confessed himself, so it’s probably certain.
“… I do not understand.”
When she heard the story, Erin made a puzzled expression.
“That… Women called courtesans are also members of this territory anyway. What on earth can you gain by ruining the lives of people in your domain?”
“I’ll have to interrogate the details from now on. Han Sung-ah.”
Ara stood up from her seat and winked at Cha Han-seong.
“Yes. Senior.”
The interrogation was quickly decided as Cha Han-seong volunteered to lead the case.
Cha Han-seong, the same man, was the only person to interrogate the adventurer who was caught in an inexplicable restriction that prevented him from leaving his cabin.
Above all else, since he knew that he was a lowly person who tried to rape Erin and Lily, his inner feelings as a man that he did not want to put him and Eira in the same space also played a role.
Erin huffed and said that she would beat up the odious man who dared to rape her Lily, but she desperately calmed her down as her Lily stopped her again.
About two hours later, Cha Han-seong knocked on the door of the room where the three female Jin were staying.
“That’s me.”
“Come in.”
Cha Han-seong, who entered immediately after Eira’s permission, showed a tired expression on his face.
I wonder if the interrogation was that difficult, Eira put on a puzzled expression.
“Wasn’t the interrogation properly resolved?”
“No. The interrogation itself went well. I think I got all the information I could get. However…”
Cha Hanseong glanced at Lily without letting go of his confused expression.
Lily asked him as she put on her puzzled expression.
“Why are you like that?”
“That… What have you done to that man?”
Cha Han-sung’s expression naturally frowned as he recalled the adventurer’s face pouring out tears and runny nose to the extent that it would be correct to say that his mental collapse and melted down were correct.
What on earth did Lily do to make the adventurer so frightened?
“I was just brainwashed.”
“Brainwashing… Is it?”
Mental manipulation abilities cannot be realized even with human magic.
An area that even Illyana, who has reached the highest level among wizards, cannot use.
Even among demons, the ‘Power of Dreams’, which can only be used by a succubus, is an ability that can be used because Lily has half inherited the characteristics of a succubus.
Cha Han-seong wasn’t too surprised because she knew who she was.
What I’m concerned about is ‘what kind of brainwashing did you do?’
“It is brainwashing that makes you feel like insects are crawling all over your body when you recognize the existence of a member of the opposite sex within a distance of 2m.”
“… Yes?”
“And it causes hives and itches and makes me keep scratching it so I can never rape women again…”
A kind of terrible brainwashing in which anguish greater than pain dominates the entire body, which cannot be stopped no matter how much one scratches or blood seeps from one’s fingernails just by recognizing the presence of a woman at close range.
“Stop it! That’s it! Understand! Say no more!”
Cha Han-seong, who had goosebumps all over her body just by replaying Lily’s explanation in her head and imagining it, hurriedly stopped Lily from speaking.
“…”
Cha Han-seong still couldn’t understand why Erin was worried about Lily, who had subdued male adventurers to her terrible brainwashing.
Erin, on the other hand, gave her thumbs up in a satisfied response, as if she had ever felt sorry for her Lily.
“Sister! Very well done! Those guys are cheap even if they suffer like that!”
