Chapter 151 – 15. Reception (1)
Even in a barren wilderness like a desert, there is a coast. The jade-green beaches of the west are great vacation spots, except for the occasional salty breeze. As befits a port city where rough sailors stay, it not only prospered loudly, but also dark energy flourished night after night.
Dominique Ravel, Bishop of Grande Mande, was lying in an armchair, smoking a pipe. I glanced at the devoted dancer, sweetly licking the limp object between my legs, then spit out smoke. I died while being waited upon by the lithe in the opium den’s VIP room prepared just for me.
“Cough, Cough… !”
All of them were beautiful dancers with a thin mesh curtain around their mouths and clothes that were full of skin color like underwear. It is said that it started long ago when a woman from Beda in the Near East settled down and informed her culture of her.
“Your Excellency, Bishop, are you very uncomfortable?”
“I’ll load you up with more medicine. You will be able to forget the pain.”
Frail dancers served poisonous opium under the guise of help. It is as if there is virtually no way for a person who has touched drugs to get out of it. Dominic tried to reject their offer, her wrinkled hands shaking.
“Today, that’s over…”
His old and wretched body His was rapidly decaying after being poisoned by a scorpion. In order to forget the pain regardless of life or death, he needed an opium-like painkiller, and made a man who was a senile politician and right-hand man of Bishop Albert Monet into a disabled person.
“No, just that.”
“Because the captain will scold you for not taking good care of Your Excellency.”
Two dancers nearby spoke one after another. He patted Dominique on the back of her, who was coughing up blood and moaning like a consumptive patient, and brought a handkerchief to him. Outwardly, there was no corner to be faulted, and she was cared for with admirable sincerity.
“Ugh, kuhuhuh…”
It’s not that it’s not, they’re really generous. It was because Bishop Hu, whose airway was blocked while vomiting blood, was directly soaked in bitter expectorant powder, and then kissed him and fed him. Because, belatedly, I held the hand of the man who was struggling out of breath and comforted him by leading him to his heart.
“It’s okay, we’re with you.”
“Even if you’re upset, you’d better use more medicine.”
“I hope these girls will ease the pain.”
Dominique, barely breathing, dropped the pipe to the floor. Despite the joy whispered in her ears by the beautiful dancers, she resisted as if she had not yet let go of her will her to power. A mind intoxicated with opium cannot take care of government affairs.
“It’s done, don’t you say… !”
He staggered as he groaned on his armrest her. Blinking from dizziness, I roughly resisted the hands of the dancers who were leading me to euthanasia. I took off my clothes one by one on the stage along with a strange song, and I gave a fuss to the people who were cheering me up, and I walked to the window, sweating profusely.
“Cool, cool…”
With each step, my breath caught up again. As the saying goes, it was an unbearable pain if I didn’t use more opium. The twenty-something dancers tried to support him as if they were truly sorry, but were rejected every time.
“The Order of the Knights, where is my Order of the Knights…”
Dominic looked around and repeated. The West, where outlaws are lined up, is not very safe, even in the center of Grand Mande. In such a wilderness, the background that a priest who was originally only a dispatched position was able to rise to the position of bishop was thanks to the reliable paladins.
A Order of Knights who single-handedly upholds the tenets of the Holy Heavenly God.
As one of the Holy Knights founded by Albert Monet, they are truly invincible. It boasts a skill that is not like a rookie as it was formed by gathering people who use some strength from all over the continent. Paradoxically, it has the downside of being difficult to control like a fanatic, but at least he followed the bishops’ orders like ironclad stones.
“Fix it, Your Excellency Bishop.”
“They won’t come.”
“Even if it’s a cruel reality, it’s a law that you can only escape by acknowledging it.”
The dancers who approached, fluttering the mesh around their mouths, reached out their hands again. He gently caressed the old man, who no longer had the strength to reject it. He continued to seduce me, asking if I should be comfortable instead of struggling.
“We will serve you wholeheartedly.”
“I am sure you will enjoy it.”
“If you must escape, to the swamp of pleasure…”
Dominic, who had fallen helplessly, was eventually embraced by the dancers. I returned to the armchair like a grave with my body lifted. Afterwards, I brushed off the dust and gave him a cigarette, supplemented with opium, and he couldn’t refuse.
“Ugh, ugh…”
After a while, the agonizing bishop suddenly groaned. A feeling of comfort and exhilaration enveloped his entire body. Like a lie, it improved his condition. Of course, considering the mechanism of action of opium, it is only a temporary stopgap measure. In this dark place where prostitution and gambling are commonplace, no one is unaware of the fact.
“Come on, we’ll send you to heaven.”
“What kind of dance would you like me to do?”
“Choose a girl to take refuge in you.”
Dominic bit his lip. It seemed that the craving for power was difficult to satisfy even with the pleasure of drugs. Even at this point, his will to dream of a lottery was truly pitiful.
“It won’t collapse like this…”
The old man, addicted to opium, struggled. A dancer who brought warm water and a handkerchief soothed the sweat by wiping it with it. Another dancer pretended to breastfeed as if she were a baby, and then sang a lullaby.
It was dizzy.
Bishop Dominique Ravel, who once commanded the West at least in an opium den that was no different from the abyss, died little by little like that. Even though he realized it to the point of being afraid, he couldn’t find a way to confront it, so he rushed to ruin.
“Why, why…”
It wasn’t until a while later that a person who could answer that cry appeared. The person who solved the turmoil hidden between the jingling and swaying accessories of the dancers and the song played by the musicians came out lightly.
Black and lush hair, bright green eyes, voluptuous bronze skin, and tattoos with shamanic meanings all over the body were decorated with splendor. On her slim and voluptuous body, she was wearing the traditional nomadic attire as if not to forget her identity.
The waiters stepped back and bowed. The dancers also stopped what they were doing and got down on one knee. They swore unchanging loyalty to the benefactor who had taken them from being no more than wanderers, prostitutes, and slaves.
“Why do you think that, Your Excellency Bishop?”
The rose, which boasted an unrivaled off-white color among women as bright as flowers, opened its mouth.
“Maybe death is too much for you. It may have been intentionally kept alive by someone who was trying to inherit the achievements he had accumulated throughout his life. It could be that it simply doesn’t feel right now. It doesn’t really matter.”
It was Esmeralda. It was Esmeralda Zafiro of Aquitaine.
“Damn year…”
Dominique opened her eyes and cursed. He looked at Je-jeong, who had a demonic nature so beautiful that it took his breath away, and expressed his resentment to her. She held out her bony hand her, as bony as a branch in winter, and was furious as if to grab her by the collar at any moment.
“Did the Order of the Knights want to stay still? If I really die like this, there will be no turning back. Do you think you can beat the best knights in the country? To that petrified altar that was like playing house?”
“It is difficult to agree. The best knights in Gaul.”
“They, Kolok, are the undefeated Order of the Holy Knights… !”
“Undefeated doesn’t mean invincible. Strictly speaking, that rare record has now been broken. And besides, the knights of the West have fought a proper war less than ten times, right? Do you think that persecuting outlaws and innocent people is also considered a major?”
Esmeralda lightly clicked her tongue. Soon after, he went to the window where Dominic had been trying to pull the curtain up and grabbed the edge of her curtain and yanked it.
Then, flutter.
Out of the dim lighting of the opium den, the dark blue western night sky emerged. I also noticed the situation where a woman carrying an ax that was as tall as me was tidying up the surroundings on a street not far from the building.
“Are you finished, Sansar?”
Around them, heavily armed men with armor engraved with the patterns of heavenly gods were strewn about. There were dozens of them, without exception, and even though the helmet or the armor where the vital points were located was broken and shattered, no screams could be heard.
“… Yeah.”
It was death and annihilation. A female warrior called Sansar looked at the head of a man who had fallen in front of her, smashed it with her ax, and looked up at her Esmeralda. Perhaps she was the owner of a blunt personality, and she left calmly even after receiving glances at her asking if she could come back.
“Death was just right for them.”
The rose of the wasteland was brainwashed. Dominic’s eyes widened, and he exclaimed like he couldn’t believe it was sweet. It was because of the female warrior who wiped out all the best members of the Order of Knights who came to save me without showing any signs of hard work.
“Nonsense…”
“Your Excellency, who used to be complacent in the position of a member of the ruling family of a country, might not know that. In the wide world, that’s why there are so many strong people. Moreover, the unfortunate fact is that the Star Sea Sansar was a product of the slave trade you were involved in.”
It wasn’t just Sansar. Most of the women in the opium den were former slaves and were sold here after wandering around. As such, most of them were immigrants or wanderers of the continent who could not guarantee a proper status.
“How can you be so cruel? She wouldn’t have had to kill them all… !”
Esmeralda Zafiro was originally a slave. Even her name her right now, she refers to chrysanthemum and sapphire in Aragon, so the girl who was kidnapped because of her excessively dazzling beauty her really had to go through many trials.
“If I had been really cruel, I would have tortured Your Excellency to death.”
“What did I do so wrong… !”
She, who had shot her fallen old man as sharp as her prickly rose her, came closer. She stretched out her slender hand and caressed Dominique’s cheek before asking in a lonely voice.
“Do you remember Carmen Zapiro?”
Bishop Hu was started. Esmeralda said yes and added her chuimsae, and she added.
“It’s been decades already. After driving an innocent maiden from Manusi as her wicked sorcerer, he imprisoned her and raped her for eight days. Her mother her died and her daughter survived her, but you abandoned her her in her faraway workshop her.”
“That’s a lie…!”
“Well, thanks to that, Gaul’s first wanderer-turned-royal troupe actress was able to be born. In a country other than Aragon, the surname Zafiro would not be common, but did you not think that I am the heir to Carmen’s stage name?”
He finally realized Gae-Seok’s grudge and despaired.
“I could have given you my virgin if it hadn’t been for blood. With that graceful euthanasia in the abyss, this Esmeralda Japiro could have proved that she would finally shed her skin and soar. It’s pretty cool that the first murder her in her life was a fortune teller.”
“Ooh, ooh, ooh… !”
“But my mother, Carmen, was able to charm even the previous king with her one-of-a-kind charm her, so the nameless Aquitaine was finally born here. She is very disturbed by that fact, but she is also delighted.”
Just like that, the rose that snapped her fingers called back the dancers who had stepped aside.
“The life I was born with, I want to aim for the highest possible place. So, so to speak, this will be my last greeting to you. Thank you again for allowing this sinful bitch to be born.”
As it is, he took a step back, requesting that he serve to the utmost until the end of the bishop, who had become old and degraded.
“Diagnostically, they said that half a year would keep them alive. In the meantime, the children under me will take care of it without worry. Because you allowed me to graduate from the Seokhwadan and become independent after your death.”
“Esmeralda, Esmeralda…”
“Take it easy. Before I close my eyes, I’ll put the eastern or northern parts in this hand and show it to you. Perhaps tomorrow, when the sun rises, the children I sent will transmit light to the crystal ball to signify that the assassination was successful.”
“No, no…”
Dominic struggled with his arms raised. She took a deep breath as if she had something she wanted to leave to her granddaughter her, who she didn’t even know existed because of her belated guilt her.
“There are people you shouldn’t touch… !”
“It doesn’t matter if I fail. Because I have Sansar and the Petrified Temple.”
“The North… !”
“I will never see you again. So have a good time.”
It was a word that did not reach the ears of Gae-Seok, who was united with ambition. Her current chaos was an opportunity for her her, who was determined to betray even her princess her and devour her her country her, so Rose bowed down on her waist to take revenge on her world her by bringing her venerable assassins and enslaved female warriors. She said hello
“Goodbye, my dear grandfather.”
