Chapter 833 – The Same Reason

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She sat in her carriage and watched as Aisha stopped in front of Cleon’s mansion and left without seeing anyone.

You couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

It wasn’t a metaphor; she was actually holding her stomach and laughing.

Looking at the girl who fell into despair right after she had hoped.

It’s ugly and the same. A miserable, miserable sight!

“Yes, that’s the look that suits you, Aisha. A life like a wild dog living in a place where no one can accept you, licking each other’s wounds with your family.”

Darwin, who knew better than anyone else that other people’s misfortune was as sweet as honey, smiled and muttered that.

She dared to reject her own grace and run away.

Until now, she has not been able to live a normal life, and she has barely survived by living as a parasite on herself.

The life of an ordinary person? General universal happiness?

“No, no, you can’t do that. We can’t leave it like that.”

Darwin continued talking to himself while looking at Aisha’s lonely back in her own eyes while smiling.

＂Why… Make the young lady so unhappy…＂

＂Huh?＂

At the sound of a voice coming from above her, she glanced up.

Then, there, tied by fleshy tentacles and hanging from the ceiling of a large carriage as if nailed, the tall, thin one of Aisha’s family was looking down with his eyes opened with a pained expression.

“Oh, you’re awake. It’s stronger than I thought. I’m sorry. When my son grabbed you, it wouldn’t be surprising if something broke due to the structure of your body… I think maybe your ribs or some bones in your arm were broken.”

She said that, but she spoke with a smile like a devil looking at a sacrifice with an expression that didn’t look sorry at all.

＂So the name is…＂

Then, she closes her eyes for a moment to recall the name of the man who spoke to her.

Then, the thin man tried to tell her his name, saying ‘My name is ─’.

“What. Doesn’t matter either way. Things like your name. It’s not worth it.”

Darwin continued his story while covering the man’s mouth with his son’s hand.

“You asked why I wish Aisha misfortune? Of course, I have my own reasons for that.”

Aisha is a descendant of the Oberti family and the only nobleman who was able to control her ghost powers while maintaining her sanity.

It is truly true that her blood helped her in her own research.

Of course, in the opposite direction to the ‘treatment’ that Aisha wants.

The more unhappy she becomes, the more dependent she becomes on Darwin, the only person who reached out to Aisha.

Even if Darwin found out that the research he was doing was based on the misfortune of others, that was going to be the case.

“Think with your little brain. “If she had not met Cleon and had continued to live with you in that miserable environment… Even if she had truly discovered my identity, she would have been able to refuse my help.”

The man may have thought so.

However, Darwin thought that was not the case at all.

＂Goodwill, conscience, morals, ethics. Those are the rights of the have-nots that arise only when there is leisure in life. It is a luxury for those who lack it, and it is only pain for those who are chased.”

She sighed as she spoke as if she knew that better than anyone else.

“Her original plan was to use her as her assistant by now.”

When the man hanging from the ceiling tried to scream with his mouth tied, Darwin tightened his body even more and spoke as if he was annoyed.

＂And you said you also gave up your powerful power as a nobleman? You give up on your own evolution into a new human form. “I don’t understand.”

If she had remained a noblewoman, she could have even thought of offering some resistance to Darwin.

However, Aisha became an ordinary girl with no power, and when her family was taken away, she could do nothing and was frozen in place.

Darwin says that weak humans are not given the right to protect someone.

“What. If he goes that far to become a normal person, gives up his powers and lives a normal life… Then facing the same ending as other regular extras is probably what he wants. Isn’t that right?”

It was talking about what kind of ending an ordinary person who can’t resist gets caught up in a huge incident.

Helpless and miserable.

An unknown person who is used and discarded as a stage set to highlight the cruelty of the villain.

“I want you to come down from the stage like a sacrificial lamb that signals the beginning of a tragedy.”

After speaking so to her once favorite puppet, she seemed to be anticipating, deep in her heart, the tragedy of Asteris that would follow.

Of course, this story will not go as she expected.

In the end, evil like hers will be defeated by good intentions.

Or, because she was destined to be swallowed up by a greater evil that she did not know about.

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Aisha, who started in front of Cleon’s mansion, was able to pass through the entrance of the brothel and enter the inside without much difficulty and in very little time.

At this time, men are prohibited from entering, but since Aisha is a woman, there is no need for her to be refused entry.

However, as she came here, she repeatedly felt that the eyes of the people around her were on her.

Is it because of the medicine bottle inside the bag in my arms?

Of course, I didn’t really intend to use this, but if someone were to question me about this, what would I say?

Just thinking about that made me a little tired.

However, the fact that she has come this far means that Lillim will soon arrive at the carriage.

I hope she can rescue them both safely.

And, I hope she herself is safe.

She thought so and she herself was in a daze as she was walking down the street-

＂Huh? Aisha!”

Then, she flinched at the voice calling her, her shoulders shook, and then she turned her head.

There, looking at herself and blinking, holding a skewer of dumplings in her hand, was the cat-eared girl – Schrödinger.

“Shoo, Schrödinger? Why here…”

“Huh? Ah. I was helping two people with their requests.”

When she said that and turned her body, the two girls she had seen at Cleon’s mansion were standing there, looking in this direction just like Schrödinger.

On the one hand, like Schrödinger, there is a bright-looking girl with animal-like ears on top of her head.

And on the other side, there was a girl with her flowing blonde hair pulled down in a ponytail, wearing pure white armor and hiding her armament with a cloak.

＂Oh, hello…＂

When she looked over and gave a small greeting, Aisha nodded her head in a somewhat awkward manner.

“What? Is she also an acquaintance of Cleon?”

And, sticking out her head from behind the two people, there was a woman who was even shorter than them, a young girl.

However, although she is short, she is a woman with such unbalanced visuals that it came as a bit of a culture shock to Aisha to be wearing tight-fitting work clothes that reveal the outline of a huge peak the size of her own head. It was

However, Aisha also quickly remembered something about her.

Just yesterday, in a time that was repeated over and over again, she was a dwarf woman whom Cleon took to deal with the drunkards in his house.

Did she say her name was ‘Bourbon’?

I wasn’t sure about her at the time because I was looking at her in the dark, but I thought she had a body type that people with really special tastes would like, looking at her blankly.

＂Hmm. Where are you looking at like that?”

And Bourbon cleared his throat and lightly cautioned Aisha.

“Oh, no. Sorry, sorry…”

Aisha realizes that she has been rude without realizing it and bows her head and apologizes to her.

“This is why I didn’t want to come to the brothel. Look at the guys passing by. Everyone looks at me here and opens her mouth.”

Bourbon must have been mistaken, as she spoke while fluttering her clothes on her chest.

“Earlier, when a ghost came up to me and asked if I wanted to work at her store, she wanted to beat me up, but…”

“Well, you’ve been patient.”

When Amelia sympathized with her and spoke to her as if admonishing her, Bourbon snorted at her.

“Hey… But why are two people so young in a brothel?”

When Aisha asked Schrödinger and the others as if she was concerned about that, Schrödinger put his hand on her waist and spoke.

“Ah, that? Actually, Sasha and Amelia are in charge of guarding the half-breed dwarf over there… Bourbon. This guy is also being chased by a rather annoying guy.”

“What. It seems like he’s being quieter than I thought. You never know when they might show up and stick their fist in my body.”

Bourbon makes disturbing noises but shows an attitude that suggests he can attack at any time.

“So, I know that the guy chasing Bourbon is a man. That’s where my brilliant wisdom shined.”

Schrödinger continued his story with his hand on his chest in a confident manner.

“Men are basically not allowed into the brothel at this time. Moreover, now that people are concentrated in the market streets and downtown areas of the Five Elements Zero, the view is wide open.”

If you look around, the people walking outside at this time are either sleepless young women or store owners who are making a living by opening a store.

“Therefore. I thought that in order to protect Bourbon, the brothel would be much better than the outside. How is it? “My strategy isn’t bad either, right?”

＂Well, that’s right.＂

Aisha nodded her head honestly, but Schrödinger tilted his head, perhaps because he was concerned that her reaction was so dull.

Now that I think about it, I feel like I have a little less energy than when I saw it before.

“Now that I think about it, why is Aisha here? … No way, I work here because I don’t have enough living expenses…”

“For a moment! Schrodinger! “It’s so rude!”

When Amelia interrupts Schrödinger’s joke, Schrödinger flinches, shakes his shoulders, and scratches the back of his head.

“Oh, no. Because this guy is so saggy. A joke to lighten the mood a little…”

＂A joke is a joke… Haha. I’m sorry, I mean… Aisha. Is that correct?”

Amelia approached her as if she was apologizing on behalf of Schrödinger, and Aisha involuntarily shrank from the demeanor of a young lady from a noble family.

I felt like she was truly an aristocratic daughter, different from herself due to her lineage.

Even though she is a much younger girl than him.

“But, your complexion looks terrible. By any chance, something happened? If we can help, we will.”

＂Well, that is…＂

Aisha, she thought, would it be okay to tell her about her situation?

She recalled the story she heard from Lilim earlier.

Cleon and his party are adventurers, not government soldiers.

If you ask for help, it’s okay, but it’s not people who are well off and take it as their own –

It was said that asking for help with a promise to pay appropriate compensation is the right perception.

However, she felt that telling the whole story of her situation, as if relying on their good will, since there was no remuneration that she could pay, would be like throwing away the story she had with Lilim.

＂… It’s okay.＂

So, Aisha answers like that there.

“Well, I just went out for a walk. Since the village of Five Elements Zero is noisy, I try to stay in a quiet place…”

＂What was it like that? What. It was like that.”

Schrödinger accepted that if Aisha said so, she must have done so, but Amelia, Sasha, and Bourbon just looked at her without saying a word.

＂Okay, then I’m done!＂

“Oh, wait!”

Aisha ignores Amelia’s voice and runs to the other side.

Amelia, who was quietly looking at her back, made eye contact with the rest of her group and nodded.