Chapter 628 – Laurent
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I returned home with an empty heart.
The house was quiet.
Nehru must have gone to the magic stone mine.
I flopped down on the sofa in the living room.
“…”
I felt empty.
I went to school to go on a much-anticipated field trip, but the bus had already left, and I felt like I was left alone.
That’s right.
I felt a deep sense of betrayal from Nora, who left on the escort mission with Evat without me.
〈Is this at the level of betrayal? 〉
Nora must have known that I was looking forward to the next magic stone convoy request!
“I wrote it… Even though I knew that…”
My appetite was bitter.
“Huh…”
〈How about looking at yourself? Could it be that she didn’t take him because she knew his dark intentions? 〉
“… This is all their fault.”
〈Those guys?〉
“Cloud guy and Laurent!”
They probably balked and objected to me accompanying the Maseok convoy.
It seems like Nora was thinking about potentially forming a partnership with them, so she couldn’t just ignore their opinions…
Even so…
‘Nora… I’m disappointed that you chose them while abandoning Park Un-ho, the man of wisdom.’
I, Park Un-ho.
A woman who leaves is not caught.
〈Overhagi.〉
If Nora came back, she would be harshly criticized for choosing them over me.
“Huh…?!”
As I was swallowing the bitter feeling of betrayal, I suddenly noticed a horrifying fact. I felt a chill running down my spine.
“Gasp! Wait a minute…!”
Laurent, that guy, would definitely have participated in the Maseok convoy this time as well.
“Doesn’t that mean… This guy is messing with my women again?!”
When I thought about that, my heart sank.
I couldn’t bear it.
There is no time.
This guy will definitely take action as soon as he gets to Pantheran!
〈 Perhaps because you are from the same group, you are also good at understanding behavioral patterns. 〉
In an emergency situation, Cosmos’ sarcasm did not enter my mind.
I urgently called Sunni, who was hiding in the Pantherans and collecting information, with a raid message.
「Woonho: Suni! Mr. Imogen! It’s an emergency!」
「Suni: Yes? Rain, emergency? Could it be that the owner’s identity has been discovered?”
「Woonho: That’s not true. A rapist targeting innocent women in the city will arrive soon.”
「Suni: Okay, don’t rape me?」
「Woonho: That’s right. “You know this guy too.”
「Suni: Someone I know? “Is there a rapist I know of?”
「Woonho: Yes. “It’s a vicious guy named Laurent.”
「Suni: Oh, that guy? Did he become a rapist? Then he can’t be left alone. How should we handle it?”
“…”
I thought for a moment.
I think I want to bury it in a quiet place, but things get bigger.
It may be harsher than death, but…
I decided to strike this weak bastard with the mighty iron fist of justice.
「Woonho: Suni… Explode. Don’t ever touch innocent women again. There is nothing we can do to protect them.”
「Suni: Yes! Master. “I’ll crush you to pieces!”
Sunni did not complain and responded faithfully to my cruel orders.
「Woonho: Oh, and.」
「Suni: Yes, please tell me.」
「Woonho: It is quite likely that he will become active starting tonight.」
〈Did you even get into that person’s head? How do you know so well?〉
“…”
「Sunni: Don’t worry. Master. I will crush XX and cut off the stem so that she will never think of women again.”
Sunni’s creepy answer put my mind at ease a little.
I sank deep into the sofa, quietly closed my eyes and muttered.
“Laurent… You need to think carefully. Contrary to my expectations, if you remain calm, nothing bad will happen. But you won’t… I didn’t want to do this either…”
I sipped the grape juice from the wine glass, meditating on the cruel things that would happen tonight.
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Laurent Lemanien.
He is an entrepreneur who has run a large company called Lemanien for a long time.
I never dreamed that I, who lived a life without envy, would lose everything and fall into Karaz.
It was a mistake to become associated with an organization called the Helena Liberation Front. It was absurd to think that I was dragged into Karaz just because of that one small mistake.
Appeals that it was unfair had no effect.
The military could not communicate.
It was absurdity itself.
Laurent, who fell to Karaz, cried and decided to eat mustard, and together with other entrepreneurs, they formed an organization called Company and started living there.
For Laurent, who ran a large company and enjoyed all kinds of luxury, life in Karaz was extremely frustrating.
The feeling of disparity was significant for a person who led a large company to work as a worker at a Maseok mine.
Basically, because my magic attribute rank supported me, I was able to live a high-class life among the inmates.
Karazda lives a primitive life.
The life of the upper-class inmates there is, at best, a miserable life, worse than that of a citizen of the quiet rural city of Zephiria.
He wondered if this was how a person who had lived his whole life without worrying about money had to worry about even buying a piece of bread.
What gives Laurent the most trouble is…
There is no guarantee when this imprisonment will end.
Of course, Laurent had no intention of living in this underdeveloped place until his death.
But Karaz is not an ordinary prison.
Aside from being far away from the city of Zephyria, it is a facility managed by the military.
It is a place where neither his fancy lawyers nor his wealth can work.
It was overwhelming.
As time passed inexorably, a request for a magic stone escort came in from Karaz Market.
Requests aside, being able to obtain information from outside Karaz was quite important.
That’s how Laurent participated in her magic stone escort request.
The city of Panteran was a completely different place than Laurent expected.
It was a city that developed incomparably with Karaz.
The warmly approaching beauties exploded Laurent’s accumulated stress and frustration with her desires.
It’s not that I didn’t feel a sense of discomfort.
However, Laurent’s stress had built up to the point that she rationalized that her military was not trying to do something using the woman here.
For Laurent, Panteran was full of natural beauties that were not often seen even in Zephiria… It was like an oasis in the dreary life of Karaz.
Laurent, who was in a good mood after a long time, received an invitation from a woman named Claire, who leads a group called Rebellion, to exchange information and build friendships.
Laurent, who thought it wasn’t a bad offer, discussed it with O’Donnel and accepted her offer.
She then saw her familiar man in the social gathering place.
Bark.
He may not know himself, but he knew Laurent well.
All the starting points that led to me falling here.
If only he hadn’t brought a pretty girl with him, which didn’t fit the theme.
He would have never been associated with the Helena Liberation Front, and he would not have been imprisoned in Karaz like this.
Before coming to Karaz, I also saw Gregory when he was gathering the prisoners. It was true that he had no choice but to do so because he had such a striking physique.
Nevertheless, the reason he pretended not to know was because Laurent was too busy adjusting to her life in Karaz to the point where he couldn’t afford to touch Bark.
Laurent knew that Barque was protecting the Helena Liberation Front, and because he knew that she was a formidable person, he was reluctant to touch her.
But her chance to avenge her own grudge came quickly.
I heard about Pantherans from a woman named Claire.
She doesn’t really believe what she says,
She thought the reasons for the strangely vigilant appearance and friendliness of the citizens were plausible.
Laurent suddenly remembered seeing Barque coming out of a family home in Pantera during the day.
This is his first time traveling here, so there is no way he would have any acquaintances.
A face with a light smile, satisfied with something.
And the pants zipper that was down.
Laurent instinctively knew what he had done at that time.
That’s because he quickly figured out the habits of the city’s beauties and was having quite a bit of fun.
He seemed to be close to the humans on the Rebellion side, so he naturally knew that he had done such a thing after knowing the condition of the women in the city.
Laurent thought of a good way to naturally exclude Bach from this meeting, and implemented it.
It was a timid revenge, but I still felt a little relieved when I saw Bark’s face as if he had been struck by lightning.
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Laurent naturally participated in her second magic stone escort request.
I had tasted that sweetness during his first magic stone convoy, so of course I couldn’t miss it this time as well.
Karaz seemed to provide magic stones to the Pantherans on a regular basis.
Panteran was a much more developed city than Karaz, and energy is needed to run that developed huge city.
I can only guess that it is probably the magic stone that goes into that energy.
Or… Karaz inmates may be transporting canned magic stones from the mine to the outside through a space-transportation device that may be located in the central palace.
Laurent glanced at the people escorting the wagon.
The large man who was an eyesore is no longer visible.
In this convoy, Nora brought a man named Evat instead of Bark.
Rebellion’s cloud was effective because it strongly appealed to humans and itself.
As Laurent looked at the Pan Terran barrier in the distance, he licked his lips without realizing it.
