Chapter 166 – 8. Perishia, the Proud Lady of a Suspicious Baron

When I opened the door with a creepy rusty sound, I saw a dangling string and a deep-looking staircase greeted me. After fixing the door before entering, I tied the sword tightly around my waist and thought about it before holding on to the string and heading down the stairs.

-Kihihi… Thump!

“Oh…”

It’s a passage that I don’t know where it might have led, but when I got my bearings now, I came to the idea that it would be better to finish it, but it seemed like a wrong choice.

Drip-drip-drip- The smell of rotten water was dripping, and the pipes attached to the walls were not even doing their job of letting the rotten water flow.

“Is it an underground waterway?”

I walked along watching the stream flowing in the dug waterway. Looking at the constant flickering of the torch, it seemed that the wind was blowing from somewhere, and thinking that there was no chance of being trapped, I grabbed the sword at my waist tightly and headed forward.

Jerk-jerk-jerk-

After walking for a long time through the boringly long aisle, the fork in the road appeared as expected. However, the word “Fork in the road” Was colorless. On one side, there were no traces of footsteps on the floor, and on one side, there was a lot of dust and moss on the floor.

Slap- slap- slap-

Like a moth jumping into a campfire, I approached the flickering light and stepped on a puddle of standing water. As I continued walking while ignoring the splashing water droplets like a crown, I could feel the presence little by little.

“Ugh…”

When the wet floor ended and the stone road began, the identity of the human figure was revealed. Beggars and patients lying on the floor as if kissing each other were reaching out their hands to people in pain, and several people passing them were digging through the canal.

“Oh…”

I thought it was a simple secret passage, but realizing that it was a fairly serious place, I put my hand on the sword at my waist and looked around. Anyone can see the menacing gang, the suspicious people wearing robes, and the strong people who straighten their backs and show no signs of shrinking.

“Lily…!”

“Please… Just a penny…”

Before I even fell into sentimentality, I dodged my hands that were trying to grab my pants like a pitchfork, sticking out my tongue and slightly shrinking as I went deeper into the aisle. If there was a fight in an unknown place, it was obvious that it would be difficult to rectify it.

When I was in the mercenaries, I had never been to a place like this before, so I had to be extra careful. I had to go to the red light district or the back alley, but it was the first time I had ever been to such a suspicious place in earnest.

Took-

“Ah.”

“Heebal…”

I made a mistake to the extent that my promise to be careful was overshadowed. The man who bumped into my shoulder looked at me up and down as if he was licking me up and down as if his jaw had been crushed.

Tup-

“This dog-saehi- is Sarameul mushi?”

I stuck out my tongue at the man speaking in an incoherent leaky voice, as if his pronunciation was leaking arbitrarily.

“Even after seeing the bitter taste the other day, I’m still fed up.”

“It doesn’t matter because we have fun watching.”

There were only a few people who looked at me flirting as if they were having fun when they saw me getting into a fight, but most of the people passing by didn’t care whether they were fighting or not, so I tried to solve it and leave, but unexpected salvation happened to me.

“Didn’t I tell you to be quiet?”

The cold female voice that cut her spine separated me from the took-man. The man who grabbed my shoulder and glared at the woman’s voice ran away with a ghastly sound, drooling with a crushed jaw like a dog frightened by the woman’s voice.

He fell over and over again to see if his legs gave out, but the man didn’t look back until the end. I was afraid at the thought of how amazing the woman behind me was, but I had to say hello anyway, as I resolved the commotion, so I turned around with my teeth clenched.

“Thank you.”

“…”

As soon as I turned round and round, I greeted him, but there was no reply. When should I straighten my slightly bent back?

“…!”

She was wearing a black robe, but how tight she was, the outline of her exploding body was clearly visible. I unknowingly looked at her body first, and when I hurriedly raised my gaze, more shock awaited me.

“That’s rude.”

Her lips over the veil scolded me, but I looked at the woman in front of her without blinking an eye. Her nose and mouth were covered with a black veil, but the skin around her eyes was exposed. A sweet color like milk chocolate, the tight red eyes set on it never blinked, just like mine.

“Sorry.”

As she bowed her head once more and apologized to her aura that couldn’t be ignored, her woman let out her word in her low voice with her uh-huh-light snort.

“I’ll go.”

I said something for a moment, but I realized that it wasn’t me at the sound of the rustling, and I followed the two departing figures with my eyes. Her big buttocks, her breasts that seemed to burst with her confident gait, and even the heavy sack she was carrying on her shoulder did not match them.

In-young, who was closely following her, suddenly stopped her steps and glanced at me.

“…?”

It was more tightly wrapped than the woman who saved me, but only her eyes were clearly visible.

Those eyes were the clear eyes that I looked at so often that I was sick of it after Perishia after following Sierra to Baron Whistle.

“You…”

“…”

Unknowingly, at the words she said, she wrapped her whole body tightly and stopped – she stopped her steps, but then she turned around and started following her woman.

Jerk-jerk-jerk-

The two people who helped me were swept away by the crowd before I knew it. I put my forehead on my head and thought about the sudden situation, but it couldn’t be easily sorted out, so I shook my head and forcibly moved my legs in a feeling that only my head was complicated.

It’s enough to sort out the situation later, so the top priority now was properly snatching Bindel’s tail and the evidence to be sure.

“Whoa…”

Fortunately, the candidate site was already visible, so I waded through the wave-like crowd, carefully observing the stalls and shops that were set up in the middle of the waterway, and inspected them all.

I only looked at it with a suspicious eye, but there were no restrictions, so I looked around all the places nearby, but I didn’t see any places that dealt with minerals. Do I have to search all the canals that I have no idea how wide they are? My head hurts, but when I can’t see the answer, I can hear a conversation that I can’t hear.

“It looks like that bastard is fat, isn’t he splitting it up all day?”

“It would be like me too. Because I’m eating a lot of moonshine stones that I paid for a penny.”

The two men were talking about something in a dissatisfied tone as they walked with bouncing steps, probably having had a drink. Afterwards, the man who swallowed the flowing saliva lowered his head slightly and spoke in a low voice.

“… Shall we go for a preventive education?”

“It’s not bad, since I’m eating alone, there won’t be any people coming to help me, kekeuk.”

Whipping-whistling-was it a joke made out of drunkenness? In the end, seeing the backs of the men pushing through the crowd with their shoulders as if nothing had happened, I looked around and noticed where I might have bought the moonlight stone.

Jerk-jerk-jerk-

At first glance, it looks like a large square, but it was divided into eight roads, so if I quickly looked around the corner, I got an estimate that it would be solved within today, and I started running right away.

One, two-

As I entered the third winding alley, avoiding the tramp grabbing my pants, the smell of minerals tickled my nose. Before I lost sight of the trail, I weakly raised mana, focused on reverberation as much as I could, and ran, finally reaching my first goal.

“Huh? What?”

Sitting on an anvil smaller than his size, the dwarf kicked the empty box at his feet and counted the gold coins, then looked up at my shadow covering him and asked a question crookedly.

“What are you doing here?”

A peek revealed that the box on the floor was not the one Sierra used to keep. However, the faint smell of moonshine still lingering on the tip of my nose clearly insisted that it be here.

Hearing my question, the dwarf noisily placed his pouch on the tongue-anvil, rubbing his beard with the hooked end of his right arm, revealing his yellow teeth.

“Where are you? Or a foreigner? It seems like the first time, so why don’t we just go the way we were going?”

I frowned at the foul smell and answered without hesitation.

“I want to, but there is something I need to find. Is this the only place that handles minerals?”

I asked honestly, thinking that the dwarf in front of me would be capricious if I looked up or hid it. At my question, the dwarf made a wheezing sound and opened his mouth by tapping the anvil with his heel.

“Well- what is it?”

Tung- With the sound of steel resonating loudly as if it were a final warning, the dwarf hid his yellow teeth and looked up at me with an ugly smile. I laughed bitterly at the trick I could see, and took a silver coin from my pocket and threw it.

Tup- well-

“Hehe- Only the Imperial Silver Coins.”

The dwarf snatched it up quickly, smiled mischievously, chewed the silver coin once, and put it in his pocket. Isn’t that what you usually do with gold coins? Just as I was thinking, the dwarf with his arms crossed asked me first in a gruff voice.

“I would have paid for it. You seem like a real foreigner, what’s your business? I’m the only one who gives good prices for ores around here.”

“It does look like it.”

I glanced around at the Dwarf’s words, but this was the only place that had a proper appearance. For the rest, there were only stalls with cluttered junk that I wouldn’t have even if I gave it to them, or people selling trash that couldn’t even be called cigarettes with dried grass clumsily rolled up.

At my answer, the dwarf smiled wide with an ugly face and snapped his hook.

“There are not many people here who really appreciate things. I wish I could go further inside.”

“Is there more going in? If you go further, is it toward the capital?”

At my question, the one-armed dwarf laughed with a trembling beard and began to answer while wiping the slightly drool with the back of his hand.

“Are you a total novice? No one asks that question here. This is the underground conduit of the Empire. They are all connected.”

If you know anything, don’t ask questions like that. It seemed like he was laughing at me for no reason, which bothered me.

“Then do all the aqueducts have beggars and sluts roaming around as they please, like here?”

“Hey, what do you think?”

Faced with the grinning Dwarf wriggling his hook, I finally showed my teeth slightly and pressed for an answer.

“Please answer me quickly. It would have been enough if I had received a silver coin.”

“Okay, okay, I guess young people these days are all impatient. It’s rare to find a place where people from the underworld or bastards have settled down like here, and they’re only grouped under most cities.”

“Is it because it’s easy to come and go?”

“There is that, and the old passage that the emperor can’t reach is eaten by warlocks and alchemists, so what can they do in a place where chimeras and creatures made by them lurk?”

I thought he was a dwarf who was simply doing business, but looking at the detailed information coming out, he seemed like a guy who had been working here for a long time. Thinking that I had come to the right place, I must have collected information about the underground canal. I threw a bait to get to the point.