Chapter 171 – 8. Perisha, the Proud Lady of a Suspicious Baron

Cook- Bindel, whose arm was pierced by a sharp branch as he ran blindly, lowered his stance again, barely swallowing the profanity that sprang out spontaneously.

“Whoa… “

Barely calmed by tapping her wobbly knees and throbbing thighs with her fists, Bindel slightly lowered her stance and crawled under her rusty iron bars.

‘I’m glad I remembered.’

The entrance Bindel had now crawled into was one of the entrances he had heard while investigating the whereabouts of smugglers who came from the neighboring territory on the orders of Baron Whistle. Grateful for his unforgotten memory, Bindel crawled forward slowly, holding hands on the muddy soil.

Unlike the writer Whistle Nam, who only has a large farmland and a mansion nearby, he should be able to stay as long as it is a manor with a proper castle wall. Exhaled

“Ha… “

Not knowing when the knights would find him, even a moment of rest was unacceptable, but he felt like he would break if he ran without rest, so Bindel raised his hand with the feeling of wanting to rest instead of reason to run away.

It was then.

“Isn’t it here too?”

Hwareuk- The torch that burns brightly in the dark air shimmered. The soldier holding the torch shook his head and explained the places he had looked at, and the knight, who took out a notebook from his pouch, wrote down one by one with a serious expression and urged the soldier.

“You keep looking until midnight. I wouldn’t have gone far.”

“””Yes!”””

The soldiers scattered throughout the territory with the chorus, and only one knight who was leading the soldiers stood in the dark and started guarding the passage through which Bindel could escape.

‘Why? !’

Thinking the same thing, Bindel, who gritted his teeth, covered his mouth with his soiled palm, lowered his stance more quietly than anyone else, and looked around.

‘The most important thing right now is a way out… ‘

It was a territory of a certain size, so I was planning to stay for a long time, but it was a different story if the soldiers were released. After making a decision, Bindel looked around him while examining the knight with shining eyes across the alley from him, and eventually succeeded in grabbing a tiny bit of hope.

‘Found… !’

A manhole with a unique pattern was sitting under the alley next to the alley guarded by the knight. The imperial aqueduct could have been an entrance anywhere, but the patterned manhole that Bindel had discovered was especially important. It was because it was a secret passage prepared by assassin guilds and thieves guilds, which were located throughout the underground canal.

‘It’s a place I’ve only heard of, but… ‘

Bindel, who thought that it would be the same as being given to the baron like a pig being caught by a knight and being led to a slaughterhouse, or going into a secret passageway and being killed by the people of the underworld, decided to bet on the side with the slightest chance of survival, so he jumped straight into the alley without hesitation.

The footsteps echoed as the wet ground splashed, but the knight, who was watching the soldiers running around the territory, could not hear it. Relieved, Bindel exhaled a breath he had been holding in and pulled the rusty manhole open, then threw himself into the stinky underground waterway.

After falling through pipes filled with moss and water residue, Bindel was taken aback by the fact that he couldn’t see the bottom even after a few seconds of jumping, but since he was the one who threw himself into the gamble, he finally resigned himself and closed his eyes and waited for the results.

Fluff-

Before long, you could hear the sound of straw breaking in your ears, and there was a safety device! Relieved, Bindel sighed and looked around while brushing off the straw shavings from his body.

In the first place, as the estate was not far from Baron Whistle’s mansion, the scenery of the underground waterway was not unfamiliar either. Recognizing that the area was a bit far from the dwarves’ shop, Bindel hurriedly checked his own appearance before entering his shop.

“Whoa… “

He had scratches here and there, a groggy face, and the smell of sweat wafted from his whole body from running around for more than a few hours. It was a situation where clothes that were soaked in water, sweat, and muddy water were rather tolerable.

Cheerreuk-

Bindel, who put his hand in the pocket located in the deepest part of his arms, jumped into the street without hesitation at the refreshing sound of gold coins flowing in his palm. It was this gold coin that should not be lost while hiding in the underground waterway crossing the border.

“I heard that the supply of moonlight ores has been completely released this time?”
“Don’t you know that’s an old saying? All of those bastards of the Slave Freedom Corps wiped them out.”
“Fuck bitches, I wish they would have released them through the Liberation Decree. What’s the point of freeing the original slave bitches?”

Stealing the stories of the merchants and permeating the crowd, Bindel lowered his stance a little more, ignoring the bumping shoulders. Perhaps the Moonlight Stones that Bindel had sown were quite effective, so most of the topics among the crowds and merchants were about Moonlight Stones.

“Did you hear that? That there was a fire in Hormia’s general store?”
“Is there a crazy bastard setting a fire here? There must have been an uproar.”
“The thieves’ guild came forward and suppressed it, but it seems that there were nobles… “
“Huh, it must have been noisy inside. So?”

Hormia’s miscellaneous goods street was a street with dwarves, so Bindel stopped walking and leaned closer to the store to overhear the conversation. Tuk-tuk-tuk- The big guys expressed displeasure by tapping or bumping their shoulders, but Bindel, whose information was more important than anything else, didn’t care.

“By the way, I heard that it was a nobleman who got caught in the fire? I heard you were hurt quite a bit by being run over by a building.”
“Damn it, isn’t it fucked up then?”

Puck- The merchant who slapped the swearing merchant on the shoulder continued the story with a snort.

“He came on his own, and there is no place for the guy who set the fire to jump out and get fucked. He himself came down and he himself was locked in the building, who will he punish?”
“That man is an idiot too, but why did a noble man come down to a place like this?”
“I heard that they came to catch a thief-the owner of the moonlight stone rumored to be that noble.”
“… “

When Bindel heard that the aristocrat who had been stricken by fire was Baron Whistle, no other story could be heard. Kung-kung-kung-Bindel, who felt a sense of excitement or tension wrapping his body, was swept away by the moving crowd and headed for the store without saying a word.

Malevolent malevolent-

The shop I came to while bumping into people was already covered with so many people that I couldn’t take a closer look. If he acted extravagantly, he could be caught by the baron’s privates who might still be there, so Bindel hid for a while avoiding the crowds.

-Tup

Bindel, who had been watching people with one step lost, approached the old man who had put various miscellaneous goods on the stall, bought a roughly crumpled robe, and put it on. As soon as he put on the robe, he squinted his eyes at the musty smell wafting from his body. Bindel, who was fully prepared for a moment, went straight to the store, cutting through the crowd.

“Get out of the way! I mean Vicky!”
“Let’s go on our way!”

Looking at the knights spitting out threats like back alley bullies, Bindel pulled the hood over his head more tightly and glanced at the store. The store, which at least had a decent wooden roof, had already been burnt to ashes.

As if he had cut down a few of the bastards who had already approached it, there were scattered blood and trembling bullies crawling on the floor near the store.

“Whoop… “

I pinched his nose and looked around him, but the baron was nowhere to be seen. Concerned that he had already moved somewhere or that the merchants were talking nonsense, Bindel walked out of the store, bowing his head at the smell of burnt and the stench tickling his nose.

‘Still, looking at the store, I don’t think it’s a lie… ‘

The pillar collapsed and the store collapsed, and everything inside the store had long since turned to ashes. It was clear that the baron was severely injured, as there was no way they were exchanging false information with each other as they were merchants on the street without underground water.

Took-

“… “

Bow-

Bindel, who was blind while thinking deeply about the baron, lightly bowed his head toward the opponent he bumped into, but soon hardened. The silver plate that covered her whole body, the ferocious blue eyes beyond the helmet cover, and the sentence engraved on the chest were clearly written by Whistle Nam.

Feeling as if the world had stopped for less than a second and was suddenly thrown away, Bindel used the sound of his heart beating madly as music to avoid the knight’s eyes and begged him to pass by.

Iron gruck- Iron gruck-

The knight who glanced at Bindel passed him by without thinking much and went to the store for a long time, but Bindel, who felt that he was close to death, hid like a rat in the alley until the cold sweat running down his back dried.

‘I’m tired, how long do I have to live like this? Is this correct?’

Bindel was exhausted when he said that he could run away bravely, but at some point it seemed like he had already hit the limit. Bindel, who helplessly watched the residents passing by him with his cloudy eyes, found a familiar stall in the distance and regained some vitality.

The old woman alone guarded the stalls glittering with all kinds of jewels, spewing eccentric shouts at one person at random.

“Ah… “

The unchanging appearance of an old woman, the golden topaz she peeped at a stall, the baron who was said to be seriously injured, the baron who was left alone in the mansion, and the baroness who was lying around with an affair man. Bindel, who felt like everything fit together like a puzzle, felt like his head would explode, but he looked at the old woman with eyes that had found the last hope as he managed to sort things out one by one.

‘Is it right to run to the lady now and save her life? No, not to save her life… ‘

Feelings that a mere butler shouldn’t have, Perisha’s heart that a mere butler shouldn’t have, and love that should have been abandoned in vain.

Bindel, unaware that the scales in Perisha’s heart had already tipped due to her own stupid behavior, was mistaken that she had lived just by recalling a jewel that the old woman was proud of.

‘Okay, let’s go back to Mrs. That’s all for me. I’m going to fix everything right now… ‘

Bindel’s love, which was pure and capable of being pure, has already faded. He ran away from the baron’s leash and arrived at the underground waterway, because his feelings had already been changed by a means.

“Miss… “

Soon, Bindel’s delusion of not knowing what would happen to Perisha in the empty mansion began to bloom quietly in the middle of the underground waterway.