Chapter 45 – How to Become an Alchemist
After cleaning her mouth with her wet tissue, her seongil takes her in her arms and kisses her on the forehead before quietly attempting to put her mantle on her.
As Erisha slipped from the bosom of her holy day to put on her cloak, she began to stumble as her legs gave way from long pleasure.
Seong-il, who supports Erica and quietly puts on a cloak.
Feeling a strange feeling at Sungil’s attitude, Erisha naturally buries her face in his chest and hugs him.
“Today I will walk you to the front of the house.”
‘Huh? What is it?’
Erica was taken aback by the sudden offer of Seongil, but soon agreed with her head nodding.
‘What.. This guy took off his clothes at the studio. You can find it tomorrow..’
With her assent, her holy day held her close to her bosom, put her hand around her waist, and began walking down the street as if she were her intimate lover.
In order not to be misunderstood that she is selling her body in the red light district, Erisha buries her face in Seongil’s chest as if to hide it, so she looks even more like a lover.
The two of them walked down the street for a long time with that posture.
It was a late spring evening when summer had not arrived yet, so her naked body and cloak-only outfit made Erisha quite chilly, and because of that, she felt surprisingly comfortable in her warm embrace.
Thanks to that, even though they passed the red light district, she had no intention of leaving her holy days, and they started walking to Elisha’s workshop in the same posture.
Anyone can see that they look like lovers, but someone accidentally started looking at them.
“Uh…?”
Late at night near Elisha’s workshop, Erisha is walking down the street hugging her on her holy day.
A woman appeared who was surprised to see her like that.
‘What..? Aren’t those two from the east with Erica..?’
Vivian Olke finds the two of them while crossing the street by chance and glares at them. She calmed her startled mind and began to reason about their relationship.
‘What..? Why are you two hugging each other at night? Could it be that the two of you are dating?’
‘That bitch Erisha believes in her lineage even though she’s a beggar, and she pretends to be all lofty, but she’s only got eyes with an oriental guy?’
Surprised by Erica’s unexpected choice, Vivian began to think as she ran her hand through her shiny blonde hair.
‘No.. I heard that Eastern bastard made a back boat by sponsoring a large amount of money for the Temple of Light? I hear that you come from a fairly well-to-do merchant family…’
‘Ho… No way. Are you selling yourself to solve that year’s poverty? Under? After pretending to be all arrogant, in the end, I’m going to open my crotch to the east guy. Disgusting bitch.’
‘Hmm.. All there is is a bitch with a noble title that’s quite old…’
‘I didn’t want to look up at me, an upstart aristocrat who had the upper hand in every way. It looks good.’
Vivian desperately denigrates Erisha and swallows her complex about her status.
Hiding by her side of the road for a while, observing and cursing at the two of her, they disappeared before she knew it, but she felt that the fire of jealousy burning in her heart was not quenched, and began to turn her steps towards her dormitory. .
“See you tomorrow. And let’s have fun tomorrow too.”
“That… That’s right…”
Erisha felt a strange feeling at the content of her remarks, which contradicted her strangely kind attitude, and began to see him off.
“Then stop!”
Erica turns her back and leaves, leaving herself behind. She gazed blankly at her holy day, put on a pensive look on her face, and began to enter her own workshop.
“Gulp”
And she involuntarily said, ‘Let’s play.’ Erica swallowed as she thought of those words.
‘Hmm… Judging from today’s reaction, it seems that the psychological resistance is almost all broken. Shall we go hard now?’
With such an insidious imagination, the holy day ended.
Seong-il continued to have her Erisha take her naked walks with only her cloak on, and her frequent walks made her gradually get used to her exposure.
After her several exposure walks did not cause any emergencies, she also began to feel relieved about her walks, and her immoral sense of not knowing when her naked body might be found out by others made her stop her. Addicted to the pleasures of walking.
However, for Erisha, who is afraid that her true identity will be revealed due to her frequent walks, Seong-il puts on a masquerade mask he picked out of her random box and takes her walks around the red light district.
The unique mask not only completely covered her appearance, but also had the ability to alter her voice, completely hiding her identity.
Once she was convinced that she could completely conceal her identity, Erica began to truly enjoy her nudity walk.
There were even times when she walked around Seongil and the red light district wearing a mask in the red light district, spreading her cape to reveal her breasts and nipples.
After enjoying the gaze of others so much, when they were completely excited, they would find a quiet alley and mix their flesh.
After spending a good amount of time with Erisha, the next morning, Seong-il lightly washed her body, ate rice, and moved on to ‘Dancer of the Night’.
“Ah~ Young master is here?”
Pirina greets her holy day without hiding her happy expression.
Her Seong-il smiles broadly at her expression, and then she hugs her naturally.
At first, they were conscious of the gazes around them, but most of the employees inside the Changgwan now realized that Seongil was Pirina’s mistress, so they saw the two’s affectionate actions as if nothing had happened.
“Hmm? You don’t really refuse anymore?”
“Whoa.. Now everyone who should know knows what.”
“Is it?”
“I mean…? I don’t think it’s particularly strange.”
Seong-il, who had a slightly puzzled look at her words, asked her back.
“You think it’s not strange…?”
“Of course. Even though I’m a madam, I’m still in my early twenties. There’s nothing strange about having a girlfriend my age, right?”
“Right. Eh? But early twenties?!”
Pirina frowned at the question on such a holy day.
“That… What does that mean? Young master?”
‘Oh!’
Seong-il, realizing that she had unknowingly asked a question she shouldn’t have asked out of her curiosity, began to desperately explain her to her.
“That… It’s not something you misunderstand!”
“Huh..?”
Pirina glared at him with her hatchet eyes, slightly hardening the smile on her lips.”
Seongil felt cold sweat running down her back, and she began to explain.
“That.. Normal, this.. To run a shop of this level, no matter how resourceful you are, I think it would be impossible if you don’t work for quite a while..”
“That.. So I.. My age.. A little more.. I wondered if there would be more haha..”
Even though she still didn’t like the answer, she still began to explain with a bloody expression on her face at Seong-il’s attitude of desperately making excuses.
“Hmm.. You can certainly think so. Although I started working early, at the age of 14…”
“To build a business like this in eight years is pretty amazing.”
As she explained her business with her rather proud face, Seong-il was startled and asked her a question.
“Go… You’ve grown this business in just 8 years? Where the hell did you get the money from?”
In response to Seongil’s question, Pirina naturally led her Seongil into her room and began to tell her about her own past.
“Well… I did this and that, and that’s how it turned out. At first, I was abused in an orphanage, then I was driven to the streets because I ran away, and I lived day by day selling my body out of hunger.”
“Then, fortunately, I was noticed by a kind bar owner and got a job as a waitress.
“It was quite a fun place. City officials, sailors, manual laborers, keuts, prostitutes…”
She looked up at her ceiling, closed her eyes slightly, and recalled.
“It was a difficult and harsh environment, but it was unexpectedly warm. Helping and comforting each other among those who are struggling.”
“And Mistress…”
“She was the first person that made me feel what her family was like.”
“Adults are people you can rely on. Maybe they aren’t people who abuse me or take out their anger on me.”
Then, turning her head toward her holy day, Pirina hardened her expression.
“After living happily for about three years that way, an accident occurred.”
“What?”
Pirina replied, putting on an emotionless expression she had never seen before.
“Guild Wars.”
“Guild war…?”
She nodded her head and continued her words.
“It was a war that occurred when new nobles who bought titles from fallen nobles with money, commonly called ‘capital nobles’, sponsored a new thief guild to take over the world behind Adenheim.”
“As it was a back alley fight, a bloody war broke out every day in ports, bars, red light districts, slums, etc.”
“Of course, thanks to that, the powerless and poor lower classes like us died in droves. And then…”
Pirina, who was speechless, quietly touched the pendant hanging around her neck and continued her words.
“The upstart thugs started rumbling against the bars and prostitutes. They offered her body and her bounty money to be their pillar west.”
“Naturally, the powerless women asked for help from the guild, which had paid the existing bounty, and in fact they came to help, but the situation did not improve. It was the opposite.”
“They often raped or killed helpless women in the middle of the night to ‘set an example’.”
“The public authorities ignored the poor and helpless and did not care about their deaths. While the frightened prostitutes were sobbing, a woman reached out to them.”
Seong-il listened to her story with interest and asked her.
“No way..?”
Then Pirina smiled and answered her Seongil’s words.
“That’s right. She was the bar hostess. Her personality is outspoken and open-minded.”
“She began accepting frightened prostitutes into empty bars and gathering her connections to protect them.”
“And whores, creditors, and unaffiliated thugs who heard the rumors gathered around her.”
“When the third pivot was created, both the new and old thieves guilds started to panic.”
“Because a variable appeared that might break the balance of power. The two guilds were nervous about the appearance of the variable, but they reacted differently.”
“The current guild leader of our guild, ‘Black Eyes’ Hendrick, who has been rolling on this floor for a long time, has approached the maid amicably.”
“He, the old magistrate of Adenheim, knew her quite well, and knew that her mistress did not rise up to threaten her own authority, but to help her poor. “
“But he wasn’t the head of a young rookie thieves’ guild. He called his mistress’s attitude a brazen defiance of the powerless, and started raiding with thugs.”
“And… Well… As you know. We, a group of outnumbered and powerless people, were slaughtered one-sidedly.”
“From late at night, until dawn came, so many people died. And the landlady who threw herself to stop them… Well…”
She took one breath, managed her emotions, and began to connect her words.
“Um… I’ll just say he died brutally on a level I don’t want to explain.”
“On the evening of the incident, she secretly hid me in an underground secret room, gave me a pendant, said, ‘See you tomorrow,’ and then died a miserable death.”
“And… The next day… A lot has changed.”
Then Seong-il, immersed in the story, looked into her eyes and asked.
“What happened?”
“From that day on, the balance of power was broken.”
“…Why?”
To the question of her holy day, Pirina shrugged her shoulders and began to answer.
“How to say … A martyr? A helpless middle-aged woman threw her whole body to her death to protect her poor selves. What will happen to people then? Usually they are divided into two parts.”
“Run away. Or get angry.”
“They really had only their lives to lose. But when she heard of her mistress’ miserable end, her sanity began to fly.”
“Anyway, ‘It’s a one-day life where you don’t know when you’ll die. It’s already happened like this. Let’s avenge the mistress and die’.”
“By the way, that was me too. I think she buried her face in her body and cried like crazy. And she screamed. She said she’d kill all those bastards.”
Having said that, Pirina’s face even felt a bit mad, but at the moment, she felt overwhelmed by her momentum without realizing it.
“Then, prostitutes and their associated thugs, janitors, and poor people who lost their families began to gather around me.”
“We were so pissed off that we started to retaliate in a way that only we could.”
