Chapter 233 – Clean Up
#233.
After a while, Gaon, who had finished everything at super speed, glanced at Ruggiena, who was still smoking a cigarette, as if asking when she was in heat, and opened the door.
Then I saw Chorin and Hayeon with their arms crossed. Cold eyes chill the heart.
Their eyes met from the front, but Gaon stepped aside with a rigid robot-like movement.
“… Come on in.”
“Hmm… Did you have a lot to talk about? It seems like it took too long.”
“Iknow, right. Isn’t Master, by any chance, hanging below the mouth? It smells like something.”
Chorin squinted her eyes and pressed him as if he was subtly opening her eyes, while Hayeon openly sniffed her nose, looking for signs of an affair.
Looking back at him, Gaon, who was asking for help from Lujiena, calmed them down, promising to punish her one more time next time for her ignorance.
“Sorry. Somehow it happened like this. Forgive me. Yes?”
“I don’t have any intention of stopping the two, but isn’t it too much? Leave us out and do something like that. You know everything just by pretending, right? What should I do? Hayeon how are you? Will you forgive me?”
It’s ambiguous to keep getting angry, but I don’t want to just let it go. While Cho-rin thought about it, she passed her baton to Ha-yeon.
Then she raised her fingers and shouted.
“Not for free!”
“Free? Then what do you want?”
“Yes! I want to do a choking fellatio like Louisena-sama!”
For an instant, silence settled in the office.
I don’t know how they figured it out, but I didn’t know that Gaondo, Chorindo, and Rouge, who were quietly smoking on the sofa as if it wasn’t their job, were listening to her so bluntly.
The cigarette slipped from her hand and rolled on the floor.
“… Once I got it Let’s do that next time. Is this okay?”
“Yes! Then I will forgive you unconditionally! I love you!”
Ha-yeon smiled broadly, doubting whether she was really angry, and whispered her love to her, and fell into Ga-on’s arms.
Raising her head, Gaon made eye contact with Chorin, who had a bewildered expression, and smiled.
“Chorin, please tell me your wish later.”
“All right. Talk to you next time. After, I can’t dry it anyway.”
As she sat down on the sofa, Rougeena, who was extinguishing her cigarette in the ashtray, quietly opened her mouth.
“Excuse me for both of you. I honestly didn’t expect that either. I just wanted to talk about the real thing…”
“That’s Okay. Mr. Gaon went out of control. What.”
“That’s right. Thanks to you, I can do it next time too, so it’s okay!”
I don’t know if I should consider this fortunate. No, thinking about it again, it was good that I passed it once. This time, Gaon brought out the business he had come to.
“Greatness! Louisiana. She is told that this is where she is imprisoning Isabella. How are you?”
“… At first he was angry, but now he has calmed down. She understood her situation. Because she can’t even use mana anyway, so there’s no point in resisting.”
“Looks like you are ready to talk. Then how about the other side? She should have retrieved the dragon’s heart, but was there any movement from the imperial family?”
This is the first time that the dragon’s heart has been safely in the hands of the imperial family.
In the first playthrough, it was probably absorbed and disappeared in the process of encroaching on the leader of the Knights of Light, Accur Linesis, and in the second playthrough, he had it on the contrary, and its existence was not known.
I couldn’t use it, but it was a waste of time to just destroy it, so I wondered what kind of decision they would make.
Ruggiena said as she pulled out a new cigarette.
“The weight is on the side of annihilation, but they say they’re asking Drakania for their opinion. That’s because they’re also showing great interest in the dragon’s heart. Just in case, they want to confirm that the demonic dragon is their fallen ancestor.”
“Is it so? It’s Dracania…”
As it is an important issue, there is a high possibility that the royal family will be dispatched there as well. Rivera’s face flashed briefly in her mind, but she shook her head.
If it comes, there is no problem.
If you break the contract prematurely, you will never be able to use mana again.
Gaon, who was considering this and that variable, nodded his head, deciding to pass it on as there was nothing decided right now anyway.
“Right now, it’s hard to judge. Please let me know if there is anything else going on.”
“Okay. Maybe the news will come in a few days. So, are you thinking of going to see Isabella now?”
“Yes. I’m thinking of persuading you. It’s a waste of talent to just kill like this.”
“If you are, I have nothing to say. Follow me. I will guide you.”
“Thank you.”
After talking, they follow Lougiena’s guidance to the dungeon. Among them, I headed for the deepest and most heavily guarded solitary cell.
Rujie turned her body to face Gaon in front of an iron gate that looked incredibly thick.
“To tell you in advance, I retrieved all the artifacts myself. It’s in a state where you can’t even use magic with the magic restraint, so there shouldn’t be much danger.”
“It must have been annoying, but you worked hard. Thank you.’
“It was nothing. Go inside than that I’ll be waiting here.”
Louisena steps aside. Seeing her like that, Gaon tilted her head.
“Why? You can just go with me.”
“Because that woman will hate me very much. It would be nice to convince her not to be there. Honestly, I don’t even want to see her face for very long.”
“… If so, there’s nothing you can do about it. I’ll be back.”
Leaving Lujiena behind, Gaon opened the iron door with her group and went inside.
The inside was more comfortable than expected. The living area and the bathroom were separated, although not spacious, as if the interior had been modified for Isabella.
Then, on a bed in the corner, Isabella was leaning against the wall, staring in this direction.
“…”
“There is no need to be so vigilant. I have no intention of doing any harm.”
She was trying to reassure her, but she didn’t seem to accept Isabella. She twisted her mouth and sneered.
“Under! Does she mean no harm? What, are you trying to ask us to cooperate to prevent destruction? Or are you going to lock it up like this and use it as a sex slave?”
Isabella was wearing something like a sky-white nightgown. Apparently, she took her full body suit and changed it instead.
It was another matter to mistake Gaon for doing it himself.
He opened her mouth to deny it, but Chorin, who was looking at Isabella from a distance behind her, stepped forward first.
Her brow was furrowed in displeasure.
“Can you stop making ridiculous misunderstandings?”
“What?”
“Why is Gaon violating you? It seems like you’ve only been thinking about it because you’ve been around a lot of men throughout your life, but there’s no way you’re touching such a dirty body, right? Misunderstanding is also oil-based resin.”
Isabella’s face contorted at her remarks that were raw and touched her pride as a woman. She glared at her fiercely, but Chorin didn’t budge.
Rather, it was one more drink.
“Or were you thinking of buying favor with Mr. Gaon by chance? Since she was captured anyway, is it that she is planning a future by piling up a cake? In a way, it’s great.”
“You… It’s good to do that.”
Unable to control her emotions at her insults, Isabella looked at her bloodshot eyes and trembled at her body.
Chorin also thought that if she tried further, she would only get persuasion and there was nothing more to be gained. She said nothing more and withdrew.
And her Ha-yeon clenched her fists behind her to cheer her up, then she hurriedly hid her body. Isabella’s eyes seemed to be quite scary.
Gaon opened his mouth, assuming that things would not be solved easily.
“I think we can work together. You have no reason to be hostile to me, do you?”
“No reason? Are you kidding me? You’re going to stop my revenge. It’s already over with that. I have nothing more to say.”
For Isabella, her revenge is the driving force and goal that allows her to move on with her life. Giving it up wasn’t even worth considering.
Gaon continued to explain slowly in a speech method that did not even give room for a word.
“I have investigated and found that the reason your grandfather died was psychic shock. Austin Chevrons didn’t do it himself. Do you know that?”
“So what? In the end, death doesn’t change. According to that logic, I just need to create a reflux and let it go. Then there will be no problem. Is not it?”
Inducing the regurgitation of the aura of Austin Chevrons, who has reached the level of 11 stars, is more difficult than defeating him.
Above all, from the moment she reveals her murderous intent to Hirencia, her logic has lost its luster.
“Isn’t that what it is? What you’re doing is just venting your anger. They’re swarming like little children. That doesn’t make things better.”
“Shut up! Don’t let outsiders tell you this and that. You don’t know what you mean by mentioning your grandfather. Do it again and I will kill you by any means.”
I made a mistake. I brought up a sensitive subject too hastily. Thinking that the words she had spoken to convince her were only fueling her anger, Gaon thoughtfully rolled her head and opened her mouth at an idea that came to her mind.
“Let me ask you this one thing. Then what are you going to do after taking revenge?”
“… What are you talking about.”
“It is literally. Let’s say you’ve finished your revenge. Anything to do next?”
There is no way. To her, who came running after seeing her revenge, what happened after her is not important.
But life doesn’t end when revenge is over. She will eventually suffer from an unquenchable thirst and become impoverished.
Isabella was silent and answered with difficulty.
“… You can find it then.”
“No. Perhaps you will take your own life in solitude. Lonely in a place where no one knows Do you really want that ending?”
Her gaze turned to the floor.
Raising her knees and embracing her own shoulders, she shuddered as if suppressing her emotions, then lifted her head and shouted.
“Then what are you going to say to me! They ruined my life. It took away all her happiness! Then you have to pay it back. Make me as unhappy as you! So that… So that… !”
Her words were in vain. It’s because he knows that the only outcome he can get from avenging her is destruction.
Gaon brutally branded the horse.
“The dead don’t come back. All you do is make everyone unhappy together.”
“…”
Lee Da-ji becomes helpless when she realizes that the road she has been running on is a precipice. Isabella’s hand slipped and she fell helplessly onto the bed.
However, people’s emotions do not value logic. Gaon, who knew that she could not completely give up her revenge no matter what, leaked a story that might be tempting to her.
“You can get something else instead.”
“Other… ?”
“Yes. If we defeat Austin Chevrons head-on, we will be able to restore the Martinez family’s shattered reputation.”
“Honor…”
“That would make your grandfather happy too. It is a meaningful result that can never be obtained from simple revenge.”
Her grandfather, Dominic Martinez, is both her villain and her only breakthrough.
Gaon, who carefully looked sideways so as not to repeat her previous mistake, looked at Isabella’s reaction and was somewhat relieved.
‘This way was right.’
To be honest, Gaon only needed Hirencia to be safe. No matter what threat Austin Chevrons was exposed to, he didn’t care much.
To begin with, he is a 11-star strongman. Isabella, who has just reached 9 stars, can’t even get a scratch, let alone win.
In the end, she has to reach at least the same level, but I don’t know when that will be. It may not be achieved in 10 years, 100 years, or even beyond 1000 years until death.
At least they can put off their vengeance until they save Union from the threat of the Dimension Eaters.
Gaon spurred on persuasion.
“If you promise to end your murderous intent against Hirencia, I will help you become stronger.”
“… How can I believe that How are you helping in the first place? You’re going to teach a subject whose achievement is slower than me? Even a spearman? That is nonsense.”
It was a firm tone, as if there was no hint, but Gaon, feeling that he was ready to talk there, smiled and whispered.
“You don’t know, but I had already reached the level of 11 stars before returning.”
“… Do not lie. Do you think you would believe me like an idiot if I said anything?”
“It’s true. Didn’t you notice something strange? At first, I was weak enough to be beaten by you. But do you think it’s possible to suddenly become that strong? Even if he had attained enlightenment, it would have been the same 9 star?”
Isabella is also the one who established the possibility of transcendence, although there is a difference between Aura and magical power. Of course, she could feel it, albeit vaguely.
She pondered and bit her lip as if she realized it.
“You really jumped over the second stage in one go?”
“If you think about it, yes. The overall specs are still at a level that is lower than that of the same class, but the experience is excellent. The moment I reached 9 stars, I was able to use my will.”
“Under… , Nonsense.”
Isabella’s expression was devastated. Her expression that she didn’t know why a person like this might have regressed like her was widespread.
“It makes sense. Will you believe me now?”
“… Okay. I believe you are strong However, that and this are different. I’m a mage, and you’re a spearman. Can you really make me stronger?”
Apart from Gaon’s strong personal opinion, trust in her proposal was still low.
Seeing her doubtful eyes, Gaon replied with a grin.
“Of course I cannot teach you. But there are very good things in the world. It’s about connections.”
If you ask Reinkel Heinrich through Jaehee, wouldn’t it be possible to find a flame wizard to teach Isabella somehow?
Isabella, who saw Gaon’s face full of unfounded confidence, hardened her face seriously and met her eyes after repeating her worries.
“I can’t decide right now. I’ll think about it for a few more days and then answer.”
“Then it is. I’m sorry, but I’d like you to stay here until then.”
“I don’t particularly want lavish treatment either. Then go away.”
“I will wait for a good answer.”
Gaon was convinced that Isabella would accept her offer. Because the fact that you are worried is proof that you are greatly shaken.