Chapter 201 – 9. Hormia’s Dictator, Countess’s Insidious Task

I sent Roxy to her smithy, and before she finished her finishing work, I moved to the blacksmith’s smithy marked on her list.

Since it was in the suburbs, and all the nearby buildings were collapsed as if they were being rebuilt, or were all ruins, I was able to easily find the address on the list.

Every time I passed between the abandoned buildings, the laggy bastards glanced at me, but I didn’t pay attention and approached the man who was sitting on the anvil and smoking.

“Are you the owner of this place?”

A bare top and tattoos covering the whole body, sitting in a blacksmith’s forge, but there seemed to be no proper tools around. Why did the countess sign a contract with a bastard like this? I questioned him and questioned him.

“By the way, do you have something to do?”

Giggling- I didn’t want to have a long conversation at the sight of him giggling with the other men scattered on the floor around me.

“… !!!”

“They say you’ll understand if you tell them to [Drink].”

Seeing the glass bottle, the man’s eyes widened. When he woke up from the anvil and saw his legs trembling and sweating, the men who looked like friends asked him what was going on.

Even as I watched her back crawling away like a dog, I remembered the Countess passing her lips over her cotton cloth and conveying the word ‘drink’.

Did she know things would turn out this way? Realizing that letting him run away like this was not what the countess had expected, I grabbed her chin-anvil to raise the sprawled man up, drove him against the wall, and opened the glass bottle with my pong-thumb.

“Euh-huh?! Whoop!!!”

At the man’s action of pursed lips and pushing the bottle away, I grabbed my cheeks and forcibly opened them, but my closed teeth got in the way. I poured the entire contents of the glass bottle into the open mouth of the man who opened his mouth with heavy breathing, then I put the empty bottle on the anvil and clamped my lips tightly to prevent him from spitting it out.

“God!!! Eubub- Kkeuheugh-!”

A by-product of fear flowed from her frightened eyes. I hesitated for a moment at the sight of the man with tears forming on his chin, but at his gesture of not swallowing it, I twisted my lips and looked down, but the sound of boiling water began to bubble.

“… !”

For some reason, I took my hand away from the man and took a few steps back. The man’s friends, who were scattered on the floor around the blacksmith’s shop, had already run away, so the man and I struggled, knocking our backs against the wall in the blacksmith’s shop. There were only two.

“Ghaaaaagh!!!”

Paang- With the sound of popping balloons, petals landed on the forge. By the time I questioned the petals flying freely in the blacksmith’s room on the wind, the sound of the roots stretching and breaking disturbed my ears.

“What… !”

Confused, I tried to look at the man on the wall, but I couldn’t see beyond that, even with my eyes wide open at the petals that were cluttering her vision. Grasping- Grasping- I waved my arms and plucked the petals as I walked forward, blankly staring at the wall where the man stood.

“… “

There, a tree tinged with red light dug into the wall and settled down. The fresh leaves and unknown flowers that formed the peaks, and the tree trunk and bark were full of red light.

“Ha… “

Even discovering that torn clothes were hanging from branches, I washed my face dry and took an empty bottle in my arms and got out of the smithy. Unlike the other blacksmiths, this blacksmith must have broken the contract. That’s why it must have been like this. Or did he simply do this to a man of his own choosing? I couldn’t easily come to a conclusion with my messy head.

Tuck- Tuck-

With a weak stride, I involuntarily returned to Roxy’s forge. Even though she is shocked by the unimaginable sight, her body is still trying to complete the task she has been given. After erasing my fear for a while with a wry smile, I stepped into Roxy’s blacksmith’s forge, where the heat radiated.

“How are you?”

“Oh, you’re here.”

Seeing my face, Roxy wiped her sweaty face with a towel, put down the hammer and came towards me at once. Roxy, who came over shaking her sweat-drenched breasts, twitched in a normal tone, as if asking him to offer something, as if he had woken up from his drinking.

“Huh? What do you have to give me?”

“The oath, you just have to sign that you will keep the terms of the contract with the Countess, right?”

I don’t doubt myself, but at the tone of my distrust of the countess, I handed the nicely rolled parchment to Roxy and asked insinuatingly.

“Did the Countess have a bad reputation?”

“What, who knows? Since she is a noble, I don’t know the details, but she is the wife of the lord who rules over this vast Hormia, so she can’t be without a bad reputation.”

“Hmm… “

I didn’t know anything about the Countess, so I just nodded and responded. Scratching at my reaction- Roxy, who scratched her temple with a pen, said crunching- and signed.

“There wasn’t much to say about the wedding with the lord, but after the lord collapsed and the countess seized power, a lot of bad stories were going around. Some say it sounds like preparing for war.”

“Okay?”

Roxy put the rolled parchment on my palm, took off her greasy apron, and stroked his bubbling breasts with her palm. Witnessing the bizarre hand movements and the wet tongue wet with saliva licking my dry lips, I put the parchment deep into my bosom and squeezed my breasts tightly in front of my eyes.

“Heuuuuu-♥”

“I just wanted to go, and I was tempted like this.”

“Who told you to prepare first? Come now… ?”

The moist voice and the eyes dripping with lasciviousness, wet with lust, captivated me. I went into her smithy, breaking through her sweltering heat, and hugged Roxy, who was about to divorce her husband.

“Whoa-“

Saying that it was a pity to part, one last time-! After fainting the clinging Roxy, I sniffed and went out of her alley, furrowing my eyebrows at the smell of flesh and lascivious smells wafting from my body.

There was no space to wash in the smithy, so he planned to wash up before going back to the Countess’s mansion, but as he exited the alley, he saw a familiar carriage.

Jerebuck-

The maid took a step forward, bowed her head, greeted me, and opened the door.

“The countess came to meet me because she wanted to hear the report. Let’s get on.”

Listening to her form, hand movements, tone of voice, and voice, I figured out that this was a maid I had met many times. Imagining her face through her cotton cloth, I got on the carriage as she said. The maid who came up behind me closed the door, and at the same time as she locked it, I heard the sound of a whip.

Rumbling – rattling – Inside the carriage running on the well-paved road, sniffing – I looked at the maid in front of me, blushing slightly at the smell of the lustful flesh that I smelled immediately.

“… “

The maid in front of me was sitting in the right posture with her hands on her lap, staring straight ahead as if nothing was wrong, but if you look closely, the hand on her lap is full of energy.

Feeling embarrassed by the maid who found out the identity of her smell, I opened the window and watched Hormia unfolding beyond. I felt the air clear before I knew it, so I closed the window again and looked at the front.

Flutter –

I closed the window, and a sudden wind blew through my face. The cotton cloth, which had been fluttering and curling up like a fairy’s mischief, sank and returned to its original state with quick hand movements. As if to cover the hem of her skirt that had been overturned by the gust of wind, the maid was pulling on the cotton cloth with her small hands. I prayed that the carriage would stop as soon as possible, chewing on the familiar eyes that caught my eye the moment it fluttered.

Rattling- rattling- the sound of wheels getting weaker, the sound of horses clattering through the windows that were slightly less closed, and the scene of the mansion, which I had become accustomed to seeing a few times.

“Enter carefully. It’s late today, so you just have to wait until the countess calls tomorrow.”

I looked blankly at the maid’s back as if she was familiar with her, and in the end I quietly returned to her room without even having a conversation with her.

I opened the door and threw off my clothes in an instant, went into the bathroom, turned on the water, and greeted the water drops hitting my body with my eyes closed. Concentrating so hard that I couldn’t even feel the touch of the water droplets that wet my hair and hit my body, I recalled the words of the man I saw today.

I still couldn’t understand why she would do such a nonsense. Sorcerer or Alchemist? What did he do with the potion as a medium? My inconclusive thoughts bit into their tails and lengthened them, and it wasn’t until I wondered if I was getting used to the hot water stream that I gave up and stepped out of the shower.

“No matter what happens, don’t run away.”

It was I who said that I would do it to the countess, and I was the one who told Nagoferisha not to worry. All I can do now is to protect Perishia and myself, and not fall for the Countess’s sneaky tricks. That was all.