Chapter 301 – 12. Miserable Woman, Love-Hungry Maid Katra

“Could you please tell this lowly fellow what he doesn’t know?”

When I said it as if teasing Katra, who was acting frustrated, she flinched and her eyebrows furrowed. Katra, who blatantly frowned, said quietly, as if Katra felt uncomfortable at her open mockery.

“Do you really think the Emancipation Society are criminals?”

“Honestly, yes. If slavery was officially abolished in the empire, the empire should take care of it, but if the Liberation Corps goes after it without permission and creates more chaos, wouldn’t that be a crime?”

“I was the one who suffered from that abolition.”

Katra’s tightly clenched fist trembled. Cartra, who took a step closer to her claiming to be a victim of the abolition of slavery, put her hand on her forehead as if her head was throbbing, and began to speak in a mournful voice.

“What can a female slave who was led by the imperial army and freed by her master with the abolition of slavery do? Ah! There are things you can do. She remains a slave and gives her body in exchange for money. That’s what makes it different.”

“Of course, not all of them are like that, but the majority of female slaves flowed into the red light district, and I was born in the imperial red light district. How will a child grow up who is taken by her prostitute and abandoned in her back alley?”

Black eyes filled with emptiness began to strangle me.

“Slavery was abolished, but a child who was picked up by someone becomes a slave called an orphan. It was he who rescued the child from place to place on her leash and in shackles.”

“You mean the captain?”

Katra, who nodded at my answer, meekly even talked about the leader.

“You’re right. The one who saved not only me but also the children suffering from the shadow of the Empire was the leader, Larerba. She is him If it wasn’t for Captain Rell, I would have lived a miserable life, quietly selling myself in the red light district.”

Whoop, Catra took a deep breath and continued the story with a lively expression. She seemed happy when she talked about the woman who saved her, named Lell.

“He saved countless people from hell because of the emperor’s careless policies. It is different from the emperor who keeps the arrogant nobles in check and takes care of his own authority, who sucked capital through slavery and the slave market.”

“Whoa… “

It’s a sin not to be born in this world. Knowing nothing about the history of the Empire, I silently conformed to Catra’s indignant speech.

“We are different from the Emperor. A truly victimized slave, no! Not even a slave. They are truly free people. It’s all about rescuing victims who have been victimized by greedy scum.”

“Even so, stealing the money from those nobles to save the slaves, storming the market and injuring innocent citizens is not a good thing.”

“What-!”

Her anger, her blushing face, her spirit of Katra squinting her eyes at her chatter once more, I raised her hands to calm her down. I haven’t seen it either

“I don’t know the details because I heard it from the prince, but it’s just a story.”

“… How do you know the prince? No, how many princes are you talking about in the first place? No… Countess, you, the 6th prince. You are talking about the 6th prince.”

Catra, who reacted to the word prince, pursued me as if she would eat me, then alone put her finger in her mouth and began to reason. However, the reasoning that had just begun caught her right away, and she immediately found out the identity of the prince.

“You said it without thinking.”

I let out a self-deprecating reflection and blocked Katra’s mouth as she tried to ask something back. Covering it with her palms and silently driving her to her wall, it was her kwajik, her katra staring at her biting her hand, but her throbbing stifled her pain and told her,

“Anyway, whether it’s slavery or the Liberation Corps, I can’t send them back there. The biggest reason is that Perisha wants to be with you- and I can’t let go either. Because I’ve become a person who accepts and eats imperial money.”

Now that he has become the prince’s wage earner, he cannot raise Katra’s hand. Of course, it was unfortunate that he couldn’t take the side of the dark elves, the walking lasciviousness he met in the underground canal, but that was the way things were in the world.

“Puha! Dirty… ! You got the wrong person.”

Catra glared at me with disgust in her eyes beyond her rage, pushing her hand away and accusing me. Seeing her screaming, pushing her hand away, and cursing at me, I said to her calmly.

“Is it dirty that I don’t take your side?”

“Of course… ! Not that the whole empire is at fault! Rescuing injured people, but stopping them… “

“Then you can ask for it through official procedures. Whether they went under the empire or sought cooperation. Did you think you would hear good things about the empire under the grand name of the Liberation Corps?”

“That, that… “

Kuuk, Katra biting her reddish lips spoke quietly.

“This is Rell-nim’s will. She would take over the will of her deceased husband and save the slaves in his name. Everyone pledged in front of his tomb.”

“Ha… “

I took a step back from Katra, fed up with those eyes filled with conviction, those eyes that seemed unbreakable no matter how much I suppressed and trampled on them. Immediately upon her freedom, she gave her one piece of advice for her as she looked at me with her crushed body and her wrists twisted around.

“Don’t think I’ll let you go as long as you’re here. Perisha wants you and asked me to, but I have no intention of letting you go or treating you well. From my point of view, it’s not enough even if I catch you and offer you Katra.”

“Do whatever you want. A body that had already given up since being captured by a witch. Even if they are tortured to death, cut off and sent to the leader, they will obey.”

Aside from insulting the liberators, Katra seemed to have no desire to live. Seeing her resignedly resigned, I spontaneously spit out something I didn’t even want to say to Katra without even realizing it.

“I owe a lot to you, and I know what kind of person you are, so I won’t kill you that easily.”

“Is that so… Good luck then.”

Laughing at Catra’s strangely lighthearted appearance, I spit out words that would make her angry in order to sneak a peek.

“Also, Captain, I don’t think you have to kill that person either. There are things I don’t know—because I can’t conclude everything.”

“Also… ! I thought you would notice too.”

“Even so, harming ordinary citizens of the Empire… ”

“… Certainly that is… “

… Did you lie like that? With her tension relaxed and her flimsy looking katra feeling like I wanted to experiment one more time, I immediately drove her slowly against the wall and looked down at her stern-looking katra.

“What is it?”

Big breasts, expressionless face. As I stroked Katra’s body like a snake coiling around a tree, a voice filled with disgust scolded me.

“Ha, I thought he was a lecherous man, but to show his teeth to me… “

A lewd man, I laughed at the evaluation like a book title and said while looking at the expressionless Katra.

“If you’re a man, you can’t help it. Are all male creatures like that?”

I told her to look at her anger once, as if provoking her, but Katra trembled at the corners of her eyes, closed her eyelids, and after a moment of silence, looked at me with her clear eyes and answered calmly.

“You can do whatever you want. Even if you insult me, all I can do is wait for the leader here.”

“Hmm… “

Oh, it’s ambiguous. It’s ambiguous to release it and it’s ambiguous to pressure it, but leaving it by Perisha’s side makes me want to go back with the information of the Slave Liberation Corps. It would be most comfortable to seduce Katra, but I kept thinking about what to do.

That’s how Katra and my first night passed quietly. There was no more exchange of questions and answers, and Katra’s response would be the same even if he squeezed, so he chose to retreat.

The next day, after taking a walk, I asked Perisha, who was chattering about how she decided to learn from Sierra, that Catra’s ears were a bit thin.

“Ah, come to think of it, Katra has been like that since before. No, absolutely no-“

Her ears are thin, and if you push her, she will eventually allow it. At first glance, there were parts similar to Perisha, so do maids resemble her master? I thought for a moment.

“Thank you, it helped me decide what to do.”

“Yes, please… She didn’t give up on Katra, but… I couldn’t convince Carra that I talked to yesterday. It felt like a woman I didn’t know was dealing with Katra instead.”

That’s right, she would have treated her as an officer of the Slave Freedom Corps, not as the old maid, the soft-hearted Katra who had infiltrated her. However, I knew that her heart was shaken by the appearance of Perisha, so I decided to tell Perisha later with the good news of her, and started preparing to meet her Katra while comforting her sullen woman.