Chapter 86 – Day 12 – Unlucky Day
“To make a secret passageway in the bathroom to go down to the basement… What kind of mind is this guy…”
While grunting, the princess climbed her stairs and came down her, holding her dress her and holding it up on her.
It was a terrible situation with a combination of a toilet and a basement, but contrary to Venus’ worries, there was no stench.
In the first place, only the signboard said it was a toilet, but there was no actual toilet, so it was a place where you couldn’t use the toilet.
Still, having to go into the bathroom to go to a secret place… I couldn’t help but complain.
“It’s just that I made a bathroom to disguise a secret passage that existed a long time ago…”
“You made it.”
“Venus, what the hell do you think of me? Before I became Duke of Colonia, there were toilets.”
Diana sighed for no reason and held the hand of the princess as she stepped on the last step and came down.
The two of them looked like young ladies navigating a dungeon, but the difference was that there were lanterns in the basement, so it wasn’t dark, and Diana knew more about this place than anyone else.
Still, it was quite a strange experience for Diana to go ahead, not herself, so the princess did not express her dissatisfaction beyond this and quietly followed her.
“I hope Venus isn’t surprised…But he’ll probably be surprised. After becoming the Duke of Colonia, I was also very surprised.”
“I remember you being quite talkative when you became the Duke of Colonia.”
“Your Majesty knows the value of this cursed land and knows that I am the only one who can nurture it.”
Diana briefly lets out a grumpy laugh and turns her body to the left.
I saw a narrow passageway, at the end of which I saw a door made of stone. Diana walked there with the princess, and she held out her palm her accustomedly.
“One is a lie. Believe in many gods, not one.”
As she speaks her words as if casting a spell, the stone door swings open. Diana and Venus were able to go inside, and Venus had no choice but to cover her mouth at the sight of a huge space beyond imagination.
“What the hell is this space…”
The appearance of the underground space that reminds me of the pantheon I saw in Mediolanum is really amazing. Except for the fact that there was no statue of the goddess of the Order of Saints in the center, the statues made in the image of 12 gods were placed one by one in a clockwise direction.
Diana waved her hand her and went down under her, and the princess was finally able to learn the secret of this city.
“This is… My God…”
The princess saw people in her eyes her. I could see the children with dirty hair and faces dripping with stale water and porridge, slender arms and legs, and unpleasantly swollen stomachs.
I could see them lying helplessly under a tent made of unknown material, tied together with a few twigs. Clotheslines were tied to statues of sacred gods, and in some cases the statues themselves were used as tent supports.
“You know there are a lot of people coming to Colonia, right?”
“You know, isn’t Colonia the richest and most popular place among the lands ruled by the new nobles? But…”
What I saw before my eyes were the poor. They were not just poor people, but very tired people who seemed to have fled from somewhere.
A growling sound came to the princess’s ears her, and the people squatting or lying in her seat her showed no interest in the appearance of Diana and Venus.
“Venus, Colonia was already… Ruined a long time ago. Before I became a duke.”
“What the hell…”
“People came from many cities to say that Colonia was wealthy and that there were many jobs. At first, Colonia was really good too. But it wasn’t.”
Diana let out a big sigh and waved her hand as if to tell her to come this way. A total of 12 passages were visible in this underground space resembling a pantheon, excluding the ladders that could be descended from the top.
However, some of the aisles could not be used at all, so I could see people setting up tents and using them as rooms.
Diana began walking slowly towards the aisle to the right of the statue of the goddess of wisdom she had at 12 o’clock crushing a snake on her hip.
“Venus, how many clothes do you think you can make from the hair of one sheep?”
“Hmm… That’s a bit difficult.”
“Let’s take an example. Let’s say you can make over 100 sets of clothes from the hair of a healthy sheep.”
“100 sets.. That’s quite a lot.”
“Artisans of the old nobility can make about one suit a day. Making seven suits a week is actually difficult. You have to take a day off. But the factory in Colonia is different. .”
Diana reached the room at the end of the passage. The wooden door had a small peephole through which Diana looked in, and she opened the door and she went inside.
Inside, it looked like a normal chair and bed, but it was unexpectedly quite large.
“A single sheep, a field full of cotton… Everything is the same. The amount that can be harvested in a year is limited. Colonia’s factories turn it into a commodity in an instant. A task that took more than half a year for the artisans of the old nobility. In our colonia, in less than half a year.”
Diana smiles bitterly and sits down on a wooden chair.
“We need more land to run more factories. We need land to grow raw materials to run factories, not land where people can live.”
“But don’t you have an obligation to rule the Colonia territory?
“I tried my best too! Venus! Compared to 10 years ago, the size of Colonia has more than doubled!! “
Diana yells at her and pats her own breasts with her palms.
“Colonia can’t take in more people than it is right now. People from far away have no place to return, so that’s why so many people are spending their time in the basement.”
“But I guess you didn’t come to live underground like this? It’s amazing that there are no people who are making a fuss about going up to the ground.”
It’s strange that riots don’t happen or turn into bandits. At the words of her princess, Diana let out a sigh and shook her head from side to side.
“The people who bring their entire families to Colonia… They are all from cities in bad circumstances, like demons who suddenly appeared and burned down the village. Attacks by different tribes destroyed the castle… “
“Still, isn’t there a way to get into trouble when you’re hungry? There’s that…”
Gulp, Venus was a bit vague about saying this, but his mouth her was already open and the words were coming out.
“There must be some who are hungry for sex, no matter what crime happens…”
“It’s not strange. But no human beings lay their hands on women down here.”
Diana glanced at her aisle her, then she rose from her seat and headed back to the tents full of the poor. Surprisingly, when the two women arrived, there were several well-dressed women with food in their hands.
They walked quickly to their respective families, followed by a group of relatively healthy-looking men with black and white dust on their faces walking in from another aisle.
“This can’t be…”
“Women sell their bodies, and men who are even slightly fit work to build the numerous factories and walls that are still being built in Colonia.”
“…Diana. This… This is never. Never… Isn’t that the rule of the territory? For those here, it’s not strange that it explodes at any time, isn’t it..!”
As Venus shouts in a low voice, Diana, proud and reluctant to lose, closes her eyes and exhales very deeply.
In fact, she couldn’t even know herself.
“So, can Venus be solved?”
“Shouldn’t the citizens of the empire live underground like this! Let’s go up to the surface…”
“What do we do after we make it go up! This basement has underground water, at least if you pass through the passage guarded by the god of war, it is the inside of a huge cave where you can sleep regardless of the weather, and you can even pitch a tent. .”
“What if the woman who went to sell her body her dies? What if the drunkard who used the woman goes mad and smacks her over the head with her beer?”
“I will die.”
“Wouldn’t the family wait for the woman die of starvation here?”
“There are ways.”
“What if there’s a way! What if a man who went up to build a new wall died in an accident? If he couldn’t buy food for the day, wouldn’t the whole family die!”
“There is a way!”
The moment Diana screamed loudly, her footsteps were heard in the distance.
In line with the sound, the people lying helplessly under the tent naturally get up. They are statues modeled after the naturally beautiful Goddess of Love. I started walking towards it.
It was a woman who walked out of the strangely bright aisle. Behind her stood people who looked like women or men wearing black robes.
The woman who walked out the front was tall, similar to Venus, and had fairly, gigantic breasts. Everyone could tell that she had big breasts, even though she wasn’t showing off her figure of her, rather she was wearing a black robe that covered the lines of her body of her.
“Diana, I’m sure that’s not the way you say it, is it?”
As her princess points with her finger her, Diana nods her head wordlessly. The princess said that Diana was crazy, but she seemed so powerless that she would die any moment. All the poor people approached the woman in a robe with big breasts, waiting for something.
“Those who are hungry, those who have lost their loved ones, those who have lost their families. Come separately from us. We will solve your hunger and sorrow in our church.”
– With my daughter, with my daughter.
The woman in the robe waved her hand as she spoke, and there was a strange sound, and the woman turned away without saying more.
– With my daughter, with my daughter.
In time with the sound, the hungry-looking poor followed her, and the few humans standing behind the woman in the robe quite naturally spread out on the ground, threw the more motionless people into the cart, and dragged them away.
“Do you know where you’re going?”
“I don’t know the details. But I do know that tomorrow they will be rioting cultists in Colonia.”
“Then shouldn’t we stop it! What if you think it’s a good way to deal with the poor underground!”
“Then, Venus, is there a better way than this? Colonia has no walls to protect it, so it can’t stop the refugees from coming in. There are jobs, but the refugees don’t have money, so they can’ t buy a decent house except to pitch a tent. On the ground, There is no land to pitch a tent on! These people have to live underground! All they can do is dirty and hard work, or even if they are lucky enough to become workers in a factory, they are all busy people.”
“Diana!! Aren’t you a duke! Responsibility-“
“My duty is to make Colonia prosperous and pay the due taxes and tribute to His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire, not to make everyone who lives underground happy!”
At Diana’s words her, the princess shut her mouth. Because that wasn’t wrong.
“If you want to get rid of all the heretics in Colonia, you have to make all the poor people in this basement live on the surface… We need to make the surface happy enough that no poor people can ever enter this underground again . People won’t fall for the whispers of the cultists.”
She said her words and pressed her own face.
The secrets of the city that the princess, Venus, would never want to show. It showed all problems that could never be solved. But on the contrary, since he showed this, wouldn’t Venus understand him? With a little hope, we met each other’s eyes.
“Venus, I did my best. Before I became a duke, the poor lived underground, and there were always pagans.”
Hearing that voice say it was n’t her fault her, Venus closed her eyes tightly and exhaled.
“First… Let’s go back to her surface and tell Lucia her words her. As for the heretics, she knows the best in this empire, does n’t she?”
