Chapter 188 – 9. Hormia’s Dictator, Countess’s Insidious Task

Knock-knock- As expected, I immediately opened the door after making light eye contact with Perisha at the sound of knocking on the carriage door. The coachman, who took off her hat and greeted her politely, spoke softly to Perisha.

“My lady, we have arrived in front of the county. In fact, the carriage prepared by the Countess is waiting at the checkpoint. Would you like to ride it right away?”

Glancing at the coachman’s message, Perisha looked at me and immediately replied that she would agree to my signal that she would understand.

“Ah, then you can get off and change directly. You have worked hard for a short period of time, lady.”

“No, thanks to you, I was able to come to Hormia comfortably, right? Here is a small castle.”

Perisha, who handed the purse she had taken out of her bag to the coachman, began to walk towards the black carriage waiting in front of the checkpoint in the distance with a clicking sound. I immediately took Perisha’s bag and followed her.

“I will carry your luggage.”

“Thank you.”

I gave a brief silent bow to the coachman unloading the luggage on top of the carriage, then I immediately ran ahead of Perishia, loaded the luggage into the carriage, and stood in front of the maid and butler standing by the door. Again and again – Perisha, who had walked leisurely, took a step forward and began to speak softly to the maid who nodded.

“Thank you for your hospitality.”

In response to Perisha’s thanks, the elderly butler bowed her back and politely declined, then extended her arms and guided her to Perisha.

“No, the Countess said that she really appreciates coming because she must be busy with the estate. Let’s get on then.”

After reciting the countess’s message, the butler immediately jumped on top of the wagon with familiar movements and began to check the condition of the horses. The maid standing next to me began to take the luggage that the coachman was moving one by one and load it into the carriage, so I climbed into the carriage first, grabbed Perisha’s hand, pulled her back, and closed the door.

“It seems that the countess has already heard from the baron.”

Since I was still in the space of others, I secretly threw a word of honor. Perisha, who nodded her head at my question, started stroking her lips with her serious face and began to ponder.

“It is her countess who shares various information with many nobles under her command, telling nobles who want them to join her faction about rare goods and various by-products from Hormia. So you must have heard from her about her father as well.”

“Are nobles too prone to factional strife? As far as I know, the prince already exists.”

The story of the emperor was of little interest. For me to see a person related to the Empire, it was obvious that the emperor, let alone the emperor, would not be able to see the prince naked until he died. Perisha, who looked at my question with slightly cold eyes, began to explain with a clear cough.

“Emperor Heidenrich III lost all of the aristocratic factions, starting with the abolition of slavery. In the first place, most of the slaves in the nobles’ territories were abolished and became free people.”

“Oh, so what?”

“After that, it was Crown Prince Roiman who received the favor and loyalty of the nobles. He debated the revival of slavery before his own father, the emperor. He has already been praying since he was installed as the crown prince, and he is still the crown prince as if the emperor had no particular thoughts.”

“Then the countess is also from the prince’s clique? Miss too?”

“We have a slightly different story. Among those princes, there is the 6th prince who travels around the empire to carry out missions in accordance with the emperor’s edict, and he supports him.”

“The prince works while traveling around the empire under the edict of the emperor?”

In response to my question, Perisha, who was flapping her wide-open fan, continued her answer with a slight nod of her head.

“… I don’t know what the Countess is thinking, we are in the estate right next to Hormia, and without the Countess’s support, she has no influence whatsoever, except to sell her nobility. I do.”

Come to think of it, I didn’t see anything special or special about Whistle Baron’s territory. Farmers who farm hard and a baron who only takes care of tribute to the countess, there was such a story.

“Well, since you are the prince who literally solves all kinds of incidents in the empire, I don’t know why you support him.”

“Then-“

Knock- The carriage that had been running quietly came to a slow stop with a noise. Rumbling- thumping- gurgling- Realizing that we had arrived at the sound of unloading from the carriage ceiling and the busy footsteps coming and going, Me and Perisha glanced through the window.

“Oh… “

While coming to Hormia, I saw the huge mansion at the far end several times. However, since I had never thought that I would come here, a pitiful exclamation came out without my knowledge.

The mansion, which was built with a mixture of dark blue and gray bricks, was polished to the point of wondering if someone was managing it with magic every day. Numerous vines surrounding the fence of the mansion, well-groomed bushes, well-groomed lawns, and even a large garden the size of several houses. It was like a lord’s mansion that sucked up the goods of the jungle with a base right next to the jungle of dreams.

Smart tock-

[Im here. We will move your luggage, so we will guide you to your room first.]

The carriage door opened with the butler’s words. First, I quickly got out of the wagon, grabbed Perisha’s hand to keep her from falling down, and quietly entered the mansion with the butler waiting in front of the front door.

From outside the window, it looked like a large mansion, but when I looked closer, I felt like a dark blue monster was welcoming us with an open mouth.

I joked around by stabbing Cook-Perishia in the back of my neck in a vain delusion, looked around to find the owner of the subtle gaze, and entered the assigned room following the butler’s guidance.

“The escort knight is here.”

Kung- I was taken aback by the butler’s act of closing the door without listening to an answer, but that was also for a moment, and I, who was choking on a suit and various other clothes neatly placed next to the bed in a fairly spacious room, thought that I should change- tok- tok- I undid the buttons and took off my top.

“Looks like something fat.”

How long have you been training? I carefully contemplated my lazy body in a situation where I was blessed to meet a woman just walking around, and I passed the time by arranging various positions in the black jewel-decorated full-length mirror placed in the middle of the room.

Shiny- The jewels were shiny, but I couldn’t take them off, so I turned off my attention. Ji-Ik-Tuk-I have to change clothes anyway, so let’s take off our pants- I unbuttoned my pants and unbuttoned them. Should I change my panties too? Just as I was thinking, I heard a steady knocking sound.

[Excuse me. The Countess has come to attend, so I will open the door.]

Just as he was about to respond to the bold notification, the door suddenly opened. A black maid outfit, white leggings, and black shoes. In addition, the two maids, wearing white hoods and black cotton cloths, saw me and paused, then quickly picked up the clothes that had fallen on the floor and the clothes that were hanging, and began to put them on me while arranging them.

Swish- Swish- Swish-

Because someone else was putting it on, I felt cloth rubbing all over my body, and soft fingers pricked my body. I was thirsty at the strangely kneading movements of my hands, but I couldn’t say anything. The maid in front of me was staring straight at me as she locked the tick-tick-tick-button with her familiar hand movements.

“… “

It was so black that I couldn’t see anything beyond it. But it seemed to be visible. Slightly trembling pupils, the familiar sound of breathing, and a situation that seemed to have been encountered many times. As the lips parted, the maid standing behind her spoke in a graceful voice.

“It’s all over. I’ll call an attendant to guide you in a while, so please take a break.”

Bowing – The two of them, who separated from me and greeted me neatly, came like a storm and left like a storm. I rolled my feet at the scent of a fragrant woman left in the room and the feeling of deja vu. I thought my head was getting complicated for no reason, so I lay down on the bed and quietly closed my eyes.

Once he had to face Perisha and her countess face to face. But why are you ranked as an escort knight? Not even a knight The thought that was once tail after tail eventually kept messing with my head, and in the end, I was dragged out of the room without resting even for a second until the attendant came.

Trudge- trudge-

I walked for a few minutes through the undifferentiated aisles, following the attendant who didn’t talk at all except when he said that he would guide me. The face of Perisha whom she met at the end was more welcome than the face of her lover whom she had met after a year.

Tuk-Perisha, who stood next to Perisha, who first poked her elbow into my side, began to spit out her quick-fire advice.

“Don’t interrupt the conversation until I ask you to bring it up first, don’t interrupt no matter what the countess says, don’t interrupt the countess no matter what she asks.”

“… It’s like warning some kid before going somewhere to play.”

“Whoops – that means you have to be careful. You know? Do you really have to listen to me?”

In a dream, light blue eyes filled with the will to believe covered the eyelids and disappeared before reappearing. Knowing that she couldn’t easily refuse if she looked at me with those eyes, I saw Perishia’s tactic, which I secretly drew a circle on the back of Perishia’s hand without the attendants’ knowledge and whispered in a low voice.

“No matter what happens, I won’t give up on protecting the young lady.”

“Huh, at least here, my own knight, will you protect me no matter what?”

“Of course.”

Kwok- No matter who said it first, the thin pinky finger was entwined. Even though only our fingers were connected, it seemed like a more pleasant warmth was transmitted, so we smiled happily, but the moment the sound of the shoes of the servant and servant stopped and the moment we stood in front of the huge dark blue door, our smiles naturally erased.

When she heard that she was going to visit the countess to ask for her support, she honestly didn’t think much of it. It was a simple thought that I could just protect Perisha.

However, from the moment I realized the overwhelming difference from Perishia’s mansion, I became more and more nervous. This place was a tiger’s den, and she couldn’t think of anything before she arrived here, so in her room alone in her room, worrying and worrying, Perisha climbed into her carriage and walked in with her open mouth knowingly.

She had no awareness, but she was not without responsibility either. I took a deep breath and decided to enter the tiger’s mouth with a firm resolution, even now.