Chapter 197 – Initiate Investigation

000

“Indeed! Then you did a great job of finding me! From wind investigations to state secrets. I think the time has come to prove that there is no information that this detective ‘Gray’ cannot find…!”

Eustes, who somehow calmed down Perdia, took Rosaria and Perdia to find Gray’s detective agency.

Although it was because of her grace that she planted her Ring of Convenience so that she could save her former Eusteth her when she was kidnapped by her demons, it was a bond that continued there.

Sitting in an armchair he bought with the money he earned for his hard work, Gray, holding a toy pipe in his mouth, said that with a smug expression.

“…Haa. Why me too.”

And, what followed there was Ruba. There was a reason why she came today in plain clothes, not maid clothes.

No matter how much Eustes knows about her situation of her, and she says that she cares about leaking secrets, she is also a victim.

If something happens, it cannot be undone after it has already happened.

Therefore, one of the servants of the Tromeia family tried to keep an eye on Eustes who had left the monastery, but Ruba followed because he knew best about him.

Although she reminds me of a past where, for Ruba, it was foolish for her to have to follow in the footsteps of her previous master her.

Among her attendants her, she was the only one who knew not only Eustes, but also Perdia and Gray.

Besides, she must be the only one who can hold on to the reins of the three of them.

Eustes also tried to avoid eye contact with Rubera as much as possible, and she stood a little awkwardly apart.

When Ruba looks at her, she sighs as if she can’t adapt to her her changed appearance her no matter how many times she sees it.

And Rubera’s gaze slowly moves away from her to Rosaria, who sits in her serenity to her.

Not only does she look like her, but she is said to have turned into a beautiful woman due to the curse of Yinma-

The way she sits fully respect, the way she puts her legs together, and the way she covers her mouth with her fingers when she laughs.

‘…If the mind is feminized by a curse, will that part change?’

Ruba thought so, and she felt uncomfortable with Rosaria’s behavior of her, which was almost indistinguishable from that of a woman.

“According to my hypothesis. Men who have been feminized by the Yinma have traces of their male days somewhere. The color of their hair, the color of their iris, or a mole on their body.”

Saying that, Gray looked at Eustes.

Certainly, Eustes had already completely changed into a woman’s body, but if you look closely, her hair color and eye color her have only slightly changed compared to before, leaving traces of them.

Eustes listens to Gray’s words and looks ‘hot’ and rolls up the sleeves of her arms her to see if she noticed something.

“Really… There is a point. I didn’t notice it because it was so obvious.”

“Since the curse of the Inma is applied to the soul, the change in the body is a side effect of that. Well, of course, the rapid change in the body means that the curse is high and the quality is bad. “

Ruba quietly listened to Gray’s constant pouring out of her knowledge of her, and then she quietly opened her mouth.

“… You’re quite knowledgeable. It’s like Lyla.”

“Ah- that, of course. I’m a detective, so it’s because I searched through various documents and researched it.”

Gray responded with a slight bewilderment.

Ruba still seemed to be worried about something, but for now, it wasn’t that important, so she turned her gaze away.

At least Gray was on their side, because he had something to trust.

“Hey- so what do you mean?”

When Rosaria questioned Gray’s words, Gray put the pipe she was holding on to on the desk and took out a large drawing paper on it.

Then, moving the brush and pencil, he draws something on top of them at high speed.

“Wow…”

Perdia unknowingly exclaimed admiration at that unstoppable hand movement, and Ruba also naturally opened her eyes wide.

What was drawn on the drawing paper was a portrait of a person.

At first glance, it was similar to Rosaria’s current appearance of her, but her hair of her was short or her jawline was a little thicker, so Rosalia looked like she was dressed as a man.

“Hmm. Is it like this?”

Then, when her hand stopped her, Rosalia covered her mouth while looking at the painting.

“Is this… Me?”

“To be precise, it’s more like a montage. If Miss Rosaria was originally a man, she would have looked like this.”

When Gray says so, Eustes quietly raises his hand.

“Wait. But… Even if the men who are cursed are sloppy men, they change into a delicate woman like me now. Isn’t this a too idealistic picture?”

“I-I’m a rookie…”

Rubera looked at Eustes, who called herself a thin woman, with cold eyes, but she didn’t seem to care, and Rosalia answered in a voice that seemed a little frightened.

It must be something that doesn’t feel right to her, the level at which she has fully accepted that she is a woman.

“You don’t have to worry about that.”

But after Gray said that, he got up and went to Eustes. She slightly rolls up her clothes which she is draping over her.

Then, the vulva engraved on her belly will appear.

“For a moment…!”

Eustes is startled by Gray’s sudden action her and tries to take off her clothes her, but Gray thumps her hand her and stops her.

“Will Miss Rosaria show me the pattern?”

“Ah yes…”

Rosaria also listened to Gray, and when she lifted her top slightly, she saw that it had the same vulva as Eustes engraved on it.

If it were something else, would it be color?

Rosaria’s are light purple. She could tell that Eustes was a clear purple color if it was too cloudy.

“It’s a different color.”

Perdia is the first to notice and mentions it, and Gray nods her head.

“The color of the vulva gets darker as the body changes more. Mr. Eustes, who had a body like a man who was trained to a certain extent, had such a rich purple color.”

Gray jumps up to her trot and points to Rosaria’s stomach her.

“Comparatively, Miss Rosaria’s pattern is a light purple color that is hard to see. What this means is-“

“There was little change in the body. In other words… He was a man with a slightly delicate impression from the beginning.”

“That sword!”

When Rubera gave her correct answer, Gray responded by giving her a thumbs up.

“…The tension is so high that it’s noisy.”

When Ruba replied as if she was getting a little fed up with Gray’s attitude, Gray raised the corner of her mouth and burst into laughter.

“Ahaha! I’m sorry. If I give you the information, you’ll guess and come to a conclusion! Isn’t it fun because it’s like solving a puzzle?”

“Not really…”

Lubera said so and turned her head, and Gray grunted and let her shoulders droop.

“But. If that story is correct. Maybe, someone might recognize Miss Rosaria’s face when she sees it?”

At Perdia’s words, the party fell silent for a moment.

Aside from finding a family, if Rosalia was originally a man, no one should have noticed that she had changed into a woman.

“Uh, is that a sword…”

When Gray himself talks as if he didn’t notice that part, Rosaria ponders for a while.

Then, after getting up from her seat, she puts on her head a tightly pressed hat in her office.

If you tie up your long, light pink hair and somehow tuck it into that hat.

On the surface, the impression was quite changed.

“Wouldn’t this be all right?”

As Rosaria said, it seemed that few people would recognize her if she hid her hair a little of her.

“It’s a disguise… Miss Rosaria might have the talent of a detective.”

Gray nods his head and he holds up the montage he has drawn.

“Sure. It’s the sword going out into the streets to show you this montage!”

001

After that, the five of them went out to the streets and showed people the pictures.

When Gray, a short-haired man in the street, approaches with a portrait, people laugh and try to give Gray information.

Even when looking at portraits, there were many cases where people shook their heads or raised questions.

Did you walk aimlessly for about an hour like that?

“Ugh… I want to rest a little. The sugar has gone down.”

At first, Gray, who moved the most ambitiously, raises his voice of surrender.

In fact, the other four were not very motivated as they were still walking around and fooling around, so they calmly agree to Gray’s proposal.

So, the party went to a small cafe near the Royal Capital Plaza.

Both Ferdia and Rosaria fixed their eyes on the display case, where sweet cream and sugar-filled desserts were lined up just by looking at them.

Conversely, Eustes and Lubera turn their heads away from the group of desserts.

“…Come to think of it. Ever since I was little, I hated things that were too sweet. You. Even if your body became like that, that part didn’t seem to change.”

When Lubera said that, Eustes nodded her head as well.

“Yeah… And, it seems that this body gains weight quickly…”

“Then move as much as you eat. Working will naturally burn calories.”

At Rubera’s cold argument, Eustes let out a sigh and shrugged her shoulders.

“Hey Gray! I have a lot of companions today!”

The manager of the cafe also greeted Gray from across the counter, as if he knew Gray, just like the residents of the town.

“Manager! I’m always asking for a drinker!”

When Gray said that, the man nodded and the other four turned their eyes to Gray.

“The one who always drinks?”

When Rosario spoke with interest, Gray nodded.

“It’s a special coffee. The coffee the manager makes is originally for adults, but I added sugar and sprinkled cream and chocolate powder on top—”

Perdia and Rosaria’s faces lit up when they heard those words, while Eustes and Ruba’s faces gradually changed to uncomfortable expressions, as if their stomachs were suffocating.

“Me too. Then… With that.”

When Ferdia said that, Rosalia also nodded beside her and asked her manager to do the same.

In the end, the three drink special coffee that seems to have an effect similar to injecting sugar directly into the blood flowing in the veins.

Eustes and Lubera calmly receive black coffee and sit down.

Perdia sees her suddenly, then Rubera’s cup and her own cup alternately.

“…I wonder if I ordered something like a child…”

“…? Aren’t you actually a child… And taste… Tastes differ from person to person, not age. As far as I know, Sir Percy is also extremely sweet. I have sweets ready.”

It is a fact that those who know the face of Percys would not be able to imagine, but Eustes, who heard the story, unknowingly choked on the coffee he had been drinking and coughed.

“Is it a high-end snack!? What kind of gum?”

With such a Eusteth, when Gray raises her voice and pushes her body at the word sweets, Ruba pulls back a little with that momentum.

“As far as the name goes… However, the existence of the sweets was revealed to me earlier and the bags were handed out, saying that one of these is equal to the price of gold of the same weight… “

“That’s the price of gold…”

Hearing that, the excitement subsided a little, and Gray sat down.

The store manager opened her mouth as she set the plate in her hand on the table.

“That’s probably it. Maybe it’s a guy with a reputation for being able to make it only in the academy’s cooking department. The number is limited, and the route to get it is complicated… What was his name His-“

The store manager himself blurts out his words as if he doesn’t remember well, but the others also become silent as if they don’t know the name.

At that time-

“…`Forbidden`.”

“Yes! That’s it!”

The manager raised his voice and smiled as if he had remembered, but the others looked at the person who gave the correct answer as if a little surprised.

“…Uh?”

Even himself, he covered his mouth as if he didn’t know why he was able to answer this name.

The answer was ‘Rosaria’.

“Lady, are you an aristocrat? Unless you’re someone who’s interested in desserts like me, it’s a dish that ordinary people don’t know much about.”

“Oh, that’s…”

Rosalia, who has no memory of her, of course, stutters her, puzzled over how to answer, and Gray quickly intervenes between the two.

“More than that! There’s something I want to ask you. Have you ever seen this person before?”

When Gray said that and opened the portrait he was holding, the store manager looked at the portrait with his eyes slightly narrowed.

“Um… This face… Somewhere…”

While talking like that, the store manager persevered through the portrait—and suddenly opened her eyes wide.

“Ah!”

“Oh! Do you know the sword!?”

When Gray rushes at the manager who raises his voice as if he has realized something.

The store manager looked at the portrait again with her mouth open.

“No. I was mistaken.”

Saying that, Gray slipped and almost fell, losing his balance.

“What is it! Let people expect!”

Gray talked to the store manager like that, but the manager just scratched his head and replied.

“Sorry, sorry. Anyone who resembles me knows, but isn’t this a ‘man’? If it’s a ‘woman’, I know.”

And, at that answer, Gray’s eyes his sparkled once again.

It was the same with Rosaria, who was listening to her story of her.

She is a woman who resembles herself… Maybe. A small hope that she may not have been a man.

And another thing might be a clue about her family.

“What kind of person is that?”

“Ah. What a lovely young lady with pink hair. She always buys a lot of sweets, and she moves fast like her ghost her. She came and went today as well.”

And the words from her manager were n’t that clueless.

“…Is that the end?”

“Yes. Although he’s a regular. He does n’t say a word and just points with his finger his, so he does n’t know his voice or his name his. What? He seems to have a lot of money, so where are he from the nobility?”

“…”

Gray listened to the manager’s words and shut her mouth for a while. She sighs heavily.

“Manager… It’s not helpful.”

Rosaria, who smiled wryly at Gray’s words her, somehow felt that something in her was holding her own breast her.

A woman who resembles herself.

Perhaps… She may be her own family her.

… Somewhere she felt reluctant to dig up any further clues to her own past her that might be hers.

002

In the deepest room of the Great Temple, as always, the Crusaders stood guard.

Wearing splendid armor all over their bodies and holding huge halberds in each hand, they are strong enough to be counted with one hand even within the capital.

But they were never the best.

Choi Kang was a girl with pink hair standing in front of them.

“I’m back. Esca-sama.”

With a paper bag in her hand, Vera Stol enters Esca’s office wearing plain clothes rather than her usual armor.

As always, Esca, sitting in her own seat, leans her back against her chair with a rare expression of her lack of energy.

“…Esca-sama, are you okay?”

“Noisy. Be quiet.”

When he answers Vera Stall, who worries about her, with an infinitely cold voice, Vera Stall replies with his body her trembling and his face her blushing.

“Yes, yes…♡”

“… Chit… A child who is always on his own… “

And, Esca looked with contempt at Vera Stoll, a pervert who couldn’t help but feel aroused by such cold treatment.

“The Cleon ingredient… Cleonium is not enough… After I came to the capital, I put up surveillance… But the place I went to now is not being monitored…”

“That’s right… But since Setos is emptying the capital. I don’t have to think about it, so isn’t that a bit of a plus or minus…?”

When Esca clicks her tongue and snaps her fingers at Vera Stoll’s words her.

Golden lightning immediately fell on Verastol.

“Kyaaaaa

It was such a powerful magic that smoke rose from his body, but Verastol endured it while feeling the pain.

Even that pain was turned into pleasure.

“Will you stop dirtying my head with the names of people you don’t want to think of…? You’ve been like that since you were a kid. You have no knack, and you get into the parts of others that It bothers you… That’s probably why you’ve acquired such a transference ability.”

“I’m sorry…♡”

Esca looked at the paper bag that Berastol staggered after saying that.

However, her tendon her soon sprouts from her forehead her, and she stands up from her seat, swinging her fist and hitting Vera Stoll’s stomach.

“Again, sweet things like this…! I told you I should control myself now that I’m old!!”

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry♡♡”

“If I had known this would happen… It wasn’t you!!”

When Esca said that, Verastol’s body froze her instantly.

Although she was the one who endured any beatings and painful punishments with pleasure, until now.

Like, something. As if she had remembered something she wanted to forget, she sat down with her head wrapped around her head, shaking her head.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry”

“…”

And as her empty eyes she continued to apologize to her someone her, Esca looked down at her in silence—

She holds her shoulders and arms.

As if the determined, persecuting attitude up until now had been a lie.

A benevolent expression and a kind voice. And caress her with her gentle hands.

“…Verastor. It’s okay. You, you didn’t do anything wrong. I’m sorry, Verastol. I broke you again.”

And, the wave of divine magic that flowed from Esca’s hand gradually calmed her and Vera Stoll’s trembling body her.

“That I-Les is definitely alive.”

And Vera Stoll, now completely back to normal, took a small deep breath and looked up at Esca.

“Now, Verastol. Let’s have a tea time with the refreshments you bought. We’ll be busier after Cleon returns.”

At Esca’s words her, she nodded like a child and stood up from her seat.