Chapter 256 – 9. Hormia’s Dictator, Countess’s Insidious Task

Smart-

“Perisha?”

After leaving the countess’ room, I arrived at Perishia’s room with familiar steps. I felt someone’s presence and called out Perisha’s name with a knock, but someone in the room just hovered in place and didn’t come to the door.

“Perry… “

[Wow!]

Suddenly, Undine opened the door and rushed in, hugging my face like a chewing gum and clinging to it. I didn’t feel any weight, but as I rubbed my face against my soft belly, I couldn’t see properly.

“Did you come back early this time?”

Perisha, who approached with the sound of shoes, said in an excited voice, clinging to my arm. The weight of Perisha’s drooping and her talk were stimulated every time her breasts touched her forearms.

“It was quickly resolved. Go into your room.”

“Yeah… “

Hmm, with a strange nasal sound, Perisha pressed her breasts a little more and led her by my arm into her room. Kuuk, feeling that Undine’s embrace clinging to her face grew stronger, I harassed Undine by shaking her head frantically.

[Whoa, whoa, whoa!]

Shaking like a tumbler, Undine burst into laughter with her cute scream. Suddenly, Undine, who let go of his limbs and rose to the sky, spoke to me while flying round and round in the sky.

[Do it again next time! Fun!]

Grabbing Undine’s cheek with a grin, I pulled Jiik’s cheek and smiled mischievously. When I was waving up and down and watching Ungine’s cute expression, the necklace on Woo-woong-Woong-neck began to vibrate.

“Huh?”

With a click, she took her necklace out of her clothes and stroked the red jewel to generate mana.

[Ah, can you hear me-]

I smiled at Minerva’s languid voice, but I immediately responded to her urgent voice.

[You caught a suspicious person, but you keep looking for the owner?]

“Who? No, should I go there first?”

I had just arrived, but the thought of going back to Hinera village made me feel a bit sick. However, when he heard that an intruder had invaded the village where the women were, he had to confirm it.

[I’d like to tell her not to come, but she doesn’t seem to have any intention of opening her mouth unless it’s the owner, and even if I’m simply harassing her, she doesn’t open her mouth easily… It looks pretty familiar, doesn’t it?]

“Okay, let’s go there for now.”

[Go to town? Shall I go with you?]

She almost nodded for a moment, but I recalled the reason why I had put Ferisha and Undine next to her while I was looking at her, and I shook her head and explained to Undine.

“No, protect Perisha as usual, and if something happens… “

[Yes, if you can’t solve it, go find Cassano. I remember!]

Tung, Tung-I patted her chest and stroked Undine’s head as she proudly replied, then I kissed Perisha’s forehead as she glanced at me.

“I’ll be back for a while.”

“Yes, please be careful.”

Looking at Perisha’s naive smile, I took out the space movement spell from my bosom, and as it was, I tore up the order and watched Perisha staring at me through the shimmering field of vision.

Tup, as I stretched out my feet beyond the blurry vision, the surrounding villagers murmured as they looked at me as I suddenly appeared. There were some familiar faces among them, so I waved and greeted them, and the residents who accepted the greeting told the gathered people about me and then scattered.

Tuck- Tuck-

Across the plaza and passing numerous new buildings, Tsuruka’s house immediately caught my eye. Slowly, as I opened the sliding door and climbed the stairs, the people on the second floor began to stir.

Drooling!

“West! You are here!”

“Welcome.”

“… “

Pook, I stroked the golden-haired Tsuruka in my arms and looked at Minerva and Erilda surrounding a tied up woman. I waved her hand at her bowing bow, and the moment I took a step closer to her bowed woman, I swallowed her saliva at her familiar atmosphere and her familiar hair.

Kwaaaaak- The knot tied around her mouth was tightly tightened, and hatred dwelled in the two relaxed eyes. I was just embarrassed by the unknown reason, and despite Tsuruka’s concern, I called her name while untangling her knot.

“Katra.”

“Tweet!”

“Kyaaak!”

When his name was called, his swollen lips spat out thick saliva. I knew how to answer and didn’t prepare anything, so I was hit with spittle. Surprised, I wiped my spit with the handkerchief Tsuruka gave me and said to Katra.

“The greeting is rough.”

“… How is your relationship with the Countess?”

I couldn’t help but laugh at Katra’s clean tone that I hadn’t heard in a long time. Catra frowned at the corners of her mouth as she grinned, and I glared at her with her ferocious eyes.

“It’s not a big deal, you know, right? That he’s acting as the Countess’s dog for Lady Perisha.”

“… Yes. Did you know?”

Recalling the maid who said she could see Undine, I quietly nodded. It was difficult to distinguish the countess’s maids because they all wore cotton and the prescribed maid uniform, but it was easy to tell them apart because there was a singularity that they had witnessed Undine once.

“Are you suddenly asking such a question to a subject you’ve been watching because you were worried about Felicia?”

“Then what is the purpose of bringing me here?”

Catra, graciously ignoring my answer, licked her lips and spit out another question. Catra’s way of asking random questions about her caught subject was funny, so I decided to let her do what she wanted for a while.

“It wasn’t something I did, and I had no intention of doing anything to you, Carra. It seems to me that you fell for the Countess’ trick.”

“… “

After biting her lip, Katra rolled her eyes and then opened her axe eyes and spoke to me.

“The Countess has been tipping off to the leader that there seems to be a slave trade going on in this town. After that, I decided to infiltrate the village and collect the traces by order of the leader… ”

“This is how you got caught.”

Katra, gritting her teeth, glared at me all the way while nodding her head. With familiar eyes, I vaguely recalled the day I went to the underground waterway at the baron’s order, and licked my lips as I asked Katra a question.

“You were the woman you passed by in the underground waterway, so what about that lecherous woman you were with?”

“Isn’t that what happened to your hair?”

I don’t think I’ve ever been saved. Shrugging my shoulders, I avoided answering, and Katra, swallowing a deep breath, obediently reminded me of their identities once again.

“… I am a mid-level member of the Slave Freedom Corps. At the command of the leader, he freed illegal slaves and acted as a servant to the countess who sponsored the Liberation Corps. It was the same reason I infiltrated Baron Whistle.”

To Katra, who meekly talked about the past, I said, thinking of Perisha who would remain in the mansion.

“Did you trick Perisha too?”

“… I would say yes, but my feelings for her were sincere.”

“Perisha wants to see you.”

“Since she is a clever lady, she must know who I am and what I am doing. Maddened by lust, you defiled the young lady… “

“It’s a mutually consensual relationship… “

“Joy.”

As the atmosphere of the conversation softened a little by throwing out jokes, Katra’s expression softened. Katra, who had sharpened her blade like a forged knife, calmed her eyes a bit and answered calmly, continuing the conversation. Soon, she glanced at my women and looked at my women, saying that she wanted to talk with them.

“Tsuruka? Minerva, it’s Erilda.”

Kuuk, I stroked Tsuruka in my arms and called the names of the other women. The women nodded and quietly left the room. Erilda and Minerva kept glancing at me, as if they were worried, while Tsuruka stood over the threshold and was busy wagging her tail vigorously.

“Are you okay. I’m waiting outside.”

Tak, the sliding door closed, and Catra demanded information from her eyes, so I explained to her obediently.

“I don’t know what the countess told you about, but the people here are of the beast race. Only now, the village has been opened and human mercenaries, adventurers, and various people are settling in.”

There was a lot of confusion and a lot of stories about the growing town and the increasing number of people, but from the stories I heard from time to time, it seemed that Tsurukawa Haruna was able to control the residents well and take care of the humans well. When she spoke in a proud tone, Katra muttered, “Sure,” And nodded her head.

“She didn’t look like a villager from slavery, and the woman called Tsuruka followed you closely. I definitely understood that.”

“I’m cooling my head here. I will go to the countess and find out what happened.”

You sighed with an angry face, and then you made up things like this? I guessed that she was a snarky woman, but I couldn’t tolerate this kind of thing easily, so I muttered as I stroked the captive Katra’s head.

“If I can’t escape like this, the leader will find me.”

“That’s it, isn’t there a price to pay for invading the village? How could the intruder be so brazen?”

“Keugh… “

The moment I smiled at Katra’s glaring eyes and turned her body around, the space around me shook and water droplets formed. I hardened my expression at the portent of Undine’s appearance, and I put my hand in my chest and took out the order book, but when I saw that the order book for Hormia was gone, I covered my head.

[Casano! It’s a big deal… Strange knights appeared and started tying up her sister!]

Fluffy, the distorted Undine urgently shouted. After confirming that Undine’s mana was empty, I grabbed her wrist, opened her sliding door roughly, and went down to the first floor.

Thump thump!

The women gathered at my rough steps opened the door and looked at me. Tsuruka, Eruka, Haruna, and Rachel. After confirming that Aryl was gone, I held out her hand to Haruna and shouted out loud.

“Haruna-sama, the order form I gave you!”

“Hmm.”

Quickly, Haruna reached into her arms and quickly threw her scroll at me. I felt sorry for Undine as she melted away, probably resisting the knights, so I gently stroked her head and said,

“I am resting for a while. I’ll go and call you when things are settled.”

[No, I should go and help save my sister. Sisters! See you later!]

Kuuk, I tore up her order book while laughing at Undine’s answer as she grabbed her dainty hand and burned with enthusiasm. The shimmering vision, the floating feeling of emptiness, and the momentary anger! The landscape changed and the familiar bridge in front of the mansion greeted me.

Presence, Presence-!

Guards with spears drawn spotted me and blocked the front door. Stimulated by the posture they took as soon as they saw me, I went straight to them, using my anger as the driving force, crushing my palms with my nails.