Chapter 133 – 133. The Duke’s Eighth Sabotage (7)

– One –

Tuck, Tuck.
Tumble, stumble.
Turbuck.

Following the trail leading towards the village, Mondavi walks down.

Staggering and limping, he walks down the forest path.

Hooked

“…”

A sharp twig gets stuck in the soles of Mondavi’s feet.

Tup.
Swoop.

Mondavi stands on a tree, raising her left foot, her pain piercing through.

The soles of her feet are already bloody.

“Whoa…”

Swoop.
Took.

I pluck out the blood-soaked twigs.

The soldiers tore off her clothes and threw her shoes down the cliff.

Because of that, she was barefoot.

“Ha…”

Among the clothes thrown away by the soldiers, there were no shoes that fit her tiny feet.

Wearing the soldiers’ oversized boots, she could barely walk a few steps and was on the verge of tripping on her own feet.

So she was walking down the forest path barefoot.

If she knew it would be like this, she would have come down wearing even those shoes.

But now it was already a belated regret.

The soldiers’ corpses, and her clothes, had long since she created water and washed it down her cliff.

How long had she limped down the forest path?

Kak, kagak!
Phat, poouk!
Shaa.

I heard someone’s chuckles.

The unknown person seemed to be digging the ground alone in the dark forest.

‘That’s… Robert… ?’

She was walking alone without a torch in a dark forest where even the faint moonlight was obscured by clouds.

But it didn’t have much trouble recognizing her life form.

By sensing the moisture inside her creature, she was able to perceive and identify the life around her, no different from daylight.

However, as before, dry tree branches and gravel without water could only be recognized by looking at them.

Because that,

Hot.

“Aww…”

She could recognize Robert first under his clothes.

It seemed that it would take her a lot of time to get used to this mode of perception.

Limp, limp.
Limp.

Was it because she felt her presence?

Hooked

Robert sticks the shovel into the ground and looks around.

He seemed to be very wary of his surroundings, in case it was a wild beast.

“Who are you? Come out!”

Sigh, dumb.
Blunt, blunt.

Mondavi approached him at once, but slowly, so as not to frighten him.

“Who, Mo, Mondavi?! Are you okay? Oh, my God…! What’s this like?”

Robert makes a fuss.

Because she fell into the water and she looked like someone who had just been rescued.

She had walked through the woods in her nakedness, with only her blanket wrapped around her body and no shoes on.

Her acquaintances, who cared about her, were not surprised to see her behavior.

“For now… It’s okay now, brother Robert. By the way…”

Mondavi stares into Robert’s face.

He lowers his head gently and turns to the left.

Swoop.
Tup.

“Ugh…! Mondavi…”

She grabs Robert’s chin and turns his face away.

The left side of his face was swollen, and there was a distinct handprint on his cheek.

He looked like he had been punched in the face by someone with a fist.

“Are you sure Robert is okay? Did something happen?”

“That is…”

Robert turns his gaze to the ground.

This time, it wasn’t to avoid her gaze, but to let her know about her situation.

There was a giant there.

At one end of the coiled mat, a few strands of gray hair, like a spider’s web, can be seen.

“Grandma Bombay…”

“Uh, uh uh… I was trying to collect the dead body of Grandma Bombay, but some of the village elders stopped me. They were worried that they might become uncomfortable and harm us… I wanted to, so I brought you here to make a temporary tomb.”

Mondavi’s face contorts.

By the look on her face, she seemed very disappointed, and she also seemed sad.

“So… Her brother tried to retrieve her grandmother’s body, but did the village elders as a group seduce her brother?”

Startle.

Robert looks at her with her eyes wide open in surprise.

“U-how…?”

He glances over his body.

No matter how he looked at him, he couldn’t find any traces of beatings on the exposed parts of his clothes.

Mondavi, with this ability of her own, had noticed by sensing the blood pooling under his skin and between her muscles, but she did not inform him.

For he thought that when he found out what the world was like he saw it, he might feel a sense of fear or disgust.

“It’s obvious how those obstinate adults would have acted.”

“Haa… That’s embarrassing…”

Robert strokes his face and trembles.

The pain still felt in her face.

“… I’ll help too, brother.”

“No, it’s okay. I’m almost done. By the way… You…”

Robert looks at Mondavi with a worried look.

She used to have a crush on herself, not the girl she is.

She is a woman who has confessed her heart many times, but has rejected all of her own confessions.

But she is still the woman he loves.

She is a woman who can take care of herself so naturally.

She’s a girl so she always wants to hug.

“Are you really okay?”

She came alone in the middle of the night through the woods.

Because she was wearing only a blanket around her bare body, there are signs of violence and coercion all over her body.

There were bruises in the shape of handprints on her wrists and ankles.

Her left cheek was bruised blue in the shape of her palm.

The soles of her feet must also be covered in blood.

But,

“Yes.”

She resolutely replied that it was fine.

Now that she’s done her primary revenge, she can say it’s okay.

“I-I see… Me, the masters? Are they all dead?”

“Yes.”

Mondavi did not add that they had returned to the side of the Goddess, no, to Hell.

“It’s good… You’ve cleared your name… Then you don’t have to worry about anything anymore? Has everything been resolved now?”

“…”

Mondavi could not give Robert a definitive answer.

She didn’t know much, but she could be sure that as many as 50 soldiers had been slaughtered, and that she would not go unnoticed.

But she couldn’t let him know that speculation.

Even Robert, her kind neighbor and good friend, found it difficult for her to open up and share her story.

“I’m fine too…”

“I see…”

She saw the bottom, the bottom, of the most repulsive humans.

She was on the verge of falling into a terrible distrust of humans and extreme hatred.

“First of all, let’s take care of Grandma and go down together. Do you want to wait a bit?”

“Yes, brother.”

She sat down on a boulder at a distance.

It seemed that he sensed a sense of distance between her and himself from that distance, and Robert felt somewhat saddened.

– 2 –

A man and a woman were gathered in the living room of the village chief’s house.

They were seated around a table with stiff faces.

“Chief. Why is Mondavi still not coming down?”

“… I wonder if it’s going to be a long time for the ministers to interrogate Mondavi and Gogeol’s crimes…”

Casillero and the village chief exchange glances full of fear.

“Huh. Since she’s like a whore, she seems to be opening her crotch to the masters to cover up her sins.”

Hearing Hadith slander Mondavi, the village chief and Casillero wince.

As they flinch, the corners of Hadith’s eyes soar into the sky.

“What is it? What’s wrong with the reactions right now? Am I the only bitch? The chief saw Mondavi first and called her a whore!”

“That, that… I, that, for the prosperity and development of our town,”

Hadith cuts off the chief’s excuse in the middle.

“So, Mondavi is a whore or not? Just say that!”

“That, that… Seems like it’s long, and maybe it’s not…”

“Aaaaagh!”

Bang bang bang bang!

Hadith couldn’t stand the frustration and punched me in the chest.

She turns her head to Cassillero.

“Casilero! You said you saw Mondavi’s hidden husband, too!”

“That’s… Now that I think about it, it seems that Mondavi went there by chance to gather herbs in the area where a lost stranger appeared…”

“Aaaaagh! What are you talking about now!”

Thump thump!
Bang bang bang!

Hadith can’t stand his temper, stamps his feet like crazy and has a seizure.

Her two men look at her with her tired eyes.

Her eyes, looking at them, were red with anger and resentment.

“You assholes! If you come and say it was a misunderstanding, do you think we’ll survive?!”

“…”

The two men had no choice but to keep their mouths shut.

As she said, their situation was no different from spilled water.

“If you have a mouth, talk a little bit, huh? If we tell you that we’re mistaken and that we didn’t mean to frame you, do you think the masters will laugh and say ‘Oh, that’s right’? You’ve wasted so much time, but you’re not sure. “

“Keep, keke…”

The two men bow their heads.

They also had nothing to say.

“Unconditionally, unconditionally, that old Mondavi must have a whore, and that dirty bitch must have a pure-race husband hidden away. It should be years!”

“Keep, keep…”

“Otherwise, the prize aside, we and our families will all die!”

The village chief avoids her gaze.

Cascilero cautiously retorts her.

“Well, but… What can we do to help you judge? It’s just a relief if you don’t interfere…”

Hadith takes one glare at Cascilero, then calms her excitement.

And the eyes of the two gather.

“Chief, Casillero.”

“…”

“Uh.”

Her expression was spleen.

“Why are the masters not coming down until this late at night?”

“Uh, making rice cakes with Mondavi,”

Cheer!

“Hup!”

Hadith blocked Casillero’s candid expression with a wink.

No matter how ignorant they were, they all knew how Mondavi was being treated now.

Even if there was no exposure of Bombay, the treatment of slash-and-burn farmers who do not pay taxes in matters related to the country was always and everywhere the same.

“It must be because Miss Mondavi was cunning enough to cover up her own crimes. So we have to step out and go up to the rulers with the proof that her Mondavi’s crimes are true.”

“There is no such evidence, Hadith.”

Bang bang bang!
Thump thump!

Once again the hadith stamps his feet.

Her eyes contained a terrible madness.

“If there is no evidence, you can make a witness! The three of us weren’t enough, so the masters are still trying to find out what the prostitute did! They took all the villagers and said that old Mondavi was a prostitute, and that they saw that she had a hidden purebred husband. Let me tell you! That alone, without complicating things, will surely nail old Mondavi’s crimes!”

As she screams at her, the two men close their eyes.

It is unclear whether they do it out of guilt or because her voice stings their ears.

“Will the, that, Mondavi’s mother and father stand still…? Even if it’s not them, as the dead Bombay grandmother said, there isn’t a single person in the village who hasn’t been helped by Mondavi. “

The village chief disputes her opinion.

“Then… Let’s die like this…?”

“Oh, no, that’s not it…”

“If Miss Mondavi doesn’t admit her guilt, we just have to scare her that we might all die. You, the chief, can’t even do that?”

“That’s a bit…”

“Shut up. Do it unconditionally. Mondavi’s family,”

She turns to Cascilero.

“You lock it up on your own. Beat it to stun it, or cleanly kill it.”

“Mo, I can’t! I can’t do that!”

“Then will you die…?”

“Hee, hee…!”

Casillero was completely terrified.

Cassillero, who has an indecisive personality, was not confident that she would ever hit or kill anyone.

A heavy silence hangs around them.

Casillero trembled in fear of her, and Hadith chewed on her rage and her limbs trembled.

The village chief was silent and thoughtful.

How long has it been?

“…Hadith, I think you are right…”

The village chief, who had been silent for a long time, opened his mouth.

“Casilero.”

“Yes, yes…”

“I’ll give you a few people to bury Mr. Mondavi’s parents.”

“Gee, are you serious?”

“You should lock it up, it will only cause trouble in the village later. So bury it quietly.”

The village chief hardened his heart.

Hadith’s expression is full of joy.

“And Hadith.”

“Tell me.”

“You and I are preparing to gather all the villagers together and report the sins of the Mondavi year to the rulers.”

Suddenly the village chief cuts off his words.

“Chief?”

At the sudden silence of the chief, Hadith calls him.

Cascilero blinks her eyes.

“Keah uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh!”

The village chief grabs his chest.

His face was pale, and his body was shaking.

His breathing sounded like spit out underwater.

“Water…?”

Hadith suddenly realized something,

“Mondavi, you motherfucker!”

Get up from one’s seat

Kudang.

The chair she was sitting on falls behind her.

“Ha, Hadith…! This, this, this, what, what,”

“Shut up, you idiot.”

Hadith looked around carefully.

It is a secret room.

Mondavi is invisible.

Neither by the window nor by the crack in the door, her existence was not caught in Hadith’s field of vision.

The breathless sound of the village chief, and the trembling Cascilero,

Bread, baaang!

“Kuaaaaa! Kuk, kkeukkeureuk! Kkeukreuk! Kkeukreuk!”

The sound of eyeballs exploding was heard.

Water began to fill up in his lungs as well, and Casilero’s screams gradually faded.

Death hung over the faces of the two men.

It came silently, like a shadow stretching quietly under the setting sun.

Hadith’s whole body is wet with sweat.

“Dirty whore! Where are you hiding!”

She shouts out loud

It was nothing more than a shallow struggle to overcome fear.

No answer is heard.

The village chief and Casillero were steadily dying.

“Greureuk… Kurup…”

“Geuuuuu…”

The movement of the two men comes to a complete stop.

They lose their breath

Hadith was afraid to urinate.

‘Even, run away… !’

The moment she slipped her body toward the door,

Gurgling.

“Oops…!”

Something started to stir in her stomach.

“Hee, heeik…! Eh, what is this!”

Surprised by the unfamiliar sensation of something constantly fluctuating in her stomach, Hadith sat down on the spot.

Feeling a strange feeling that she would get sick of diarrhea, she reflexively shrank her body.

Gurreuk, Gurrurreuk!
Woo woo woo woo!

“Ah, ah, ah! Ah, it hurts… It hurts!”

Her belly swells in an instant.

She was lying flat on the floor of the village chief’s house, clutching her stomach and gasping for breath.

If anyone saw her now, they would consider her to be her pregnant woman in her full term.

She might feel unfair as she didn’t know men yet, but in fact, that didn’t matter.

‘Sah, save me… ! Help me! Mondavi, please! I don’t want to die!”

She was begging with all her might for her life.

But the sound that came out of her mouth,

“Greuureuk, groureuk! Oooh! Oweheek!”

Chow ah!

There was only the sound of gurgling and spitting water.

Cheeky, cheesy profit.
Boo Woowook, Geeeeeik.

Her clothes are torn

No one has ever ripped off his clothes.

It just couldn’t bear the expansion of her belly, and her fabric burst.

No.

As her clothes burst, her bare body was revealed,

Rocking, rocking.
Gloop, Gloop.

All her limbs were swollen.

Perhaps the pain she feels far exceeds even the pain her mother feels during childbirth.

Profit, profit.
Pood deude deuk.

Muscles, flesh, all parts of the limbs and torso swell.

Bones are out of alignment

Buried in flesh

“Greuk, geureuk…”

She swelled up all over her body except for her head.

Buried in her swollen flesh, she couldn’t even hold her head properly.

Sigh.
Rattle.
Zap, zap.

Someone enters the house

Hadith, struggling for her life, quickly turns her eyes to look at the source of her sound.

But she couldn’t lift or turn her head, so she had to lift her eyes up and look at the toes of the uninvited guest.

A small, scarred, white foot came into her field of vision.

She instinctively recognized whose foot it was.

‘Mo, Mondavi… ! Bitch like this! You’re telling me what I did wrong! Years to rip and kill! Crap bitch! Speaking of a slut who was beaten by dozens of people… !’

Hadith turned the tip of her anger to Mondavi again.

She couldn’t admit her fault until the end.

“I heard you well, Hadith.”

“Greuk, geureuk…!”

“Those scumbags were going to kill all three of you anyway, so please don’t feel so unfair about dying at my hands. You only wanted to kill me and my family, right?”

“Grrrr!”

“The scum? I killed them all. I, I, I, killed them all.”

“… Geuuuuu!”

“If those scum are dead, don’t you see why you have to die?”

“Gururururuk! Goooooh!”

“It’s because you’re trash too. Hehe. Then, bye.”

Mondavi relentlessly turns around.

Zap, zap.
Sigh.
Rattle.

The door closes.

The house is immersed in darkness.

Hadith was left alone.

Only her bloodshot eyes, trembling anxiously, shone in the darkness.