Chapter 5 – The Lady of Pleasure, Alice – 2

Five minutes. Ten minutes. Roughly that much time has passed.

“Turn it off… “

Dormouse moaned in pain.

It’s funny how he’s trying to figure out what the hell happened even with both of his shoulders smashed.

I sat back in my chair in a comfortable position.

“What are you doing? Your master says he doesn’t care if you die.”

“Doc… Hit… “

Iron-!

I threw the pizza in his face.

“Town!”

It is said that a three-year-old habit lasts until eighty, but it seems that the habit of mixing curse words with every word will not be changed even after death.

In any case, when things go like this, I have no choice but to kill Dormouse.

It is a specification to be treated as a man with only a living mouth. After killing this guy, go out and kill the rest yourself.

Bang-!

As soon as I picked up the pizza knife, the door opened with a loud noise.

Why is there no one quietly opening the door in this mansion?

The first thing that comes into sight is the hat seller. And behind him was Elise with a rabbit headband.

“Greetings are over here~”

Dormouse with the dagger pulled from its shoulder staggers out of the parlor, and the Hatter and Alice sit across from me.

Nice to meet. Hate. Looking at Alice, I don’t feel that kind of emotion.

However, it’s been a very long time.

Alice, there was a time when just hearing that name made her legs tremble.

There was a time when I was shaking and coughing up blood when I saw something related to rabbits.

‘Looking at it now, it’s cute.’

Before entering the shadow of Elfriede, she passed through the most despicable young criminals from one continent to another.

So now she just looks like a frog in a well. Since it’s a rabbit, should I treat it like a rabbit in a fairy tale?

To hee hee, Ellis burst out laughing and breaks her silence first.

“What did you come for?”

He was smiling brightly, but underneath was an irritation that he couldn’t hide.

A rabbit headband in a bunny girl outfit, it may look like a costume that stimulates men’s feelings, but there must be a lot of memorization hidden between the skin and the costume.

An uninvited visitor to the drug factory must be annoying.

But that’s not my knowledge.

“I was curious about how drugs are sold.”

“Then I wish I had bought it myself and found out.”

Tuk-tuk-tuk, Alice tapped the table with the tip of her fingernail.

“Why did you carelessly hit people in someone else’s mansion? Oh, and I’ll admit to beating the dormouse, of course. But people here are doing very important things.”

“So?”

“If work gets in the way, am I the only one who blames you? All of the people involved will resent you.”

“So.”

“The people involved are all very high-ranking people~ Can you handle it? Couldn’t you?”

Iron-!

I threw the rest of her pizza as hard as I could in Alice’s face.

Her hatter blocked it with her hand, but couldn’t help it until her cheese splattered all over her.

“Tell me the main point. Don’t turn around.”

Alice then spreads her three fingers out.

“If you ask me for three spades, I’ll return it in kind. I will cover the treatment cost as if my subordinates were not enough~”

Her eyes curve like crescent moons.

“How about it, isn’t it too good for you who don’t belong? You don’t have the confidence to engage in an all-out war with me, do you?”

Without realizing it, I burst out laughing.

After defeating the dormouse, it’s uneasy to rush at it blindly, so isn’t it like trying to appease them by pretending to cut gold coins?

Besides, if you have a conscience, of course you should only pay for three spades.

I asked for a king, queen, and jack, but they brought me three spades. Where

“Ellis.”

I muttered her name softly. Her name, which I still haven’t figured out.

“That’s why you die. I just have to do my job faithfully, but I do a little bit of hair here, and a little bit of hair there.”

“…?”

She has no intention of provoking her.

I just calmly talk about everything I feel.

“Know the subject, Alice. Even if you do your best in business without hiding anything, will you survive on this floor or not?”

Suddenly, the fingernail of Elise’s index finger breaks as she bangs on her table.

The smile on her face disappeared, and when she closed her eyes once and opened them, she was completely straight.

“Did you say this floor? Do you know this floor?”

“Know.”

I nodded and continued talking.

“For the first three months or so, I’m going to be tapping a calculator to see how well the customer identifies drugs. And after that, if you’re sure it’s okay to cheat, you’ll sell low-grade drugs while pretending to be high-end drugs… Sell again… “

Alice’s expression hardened. Like a stone statue.

“Afterwards, they give you the lowest-grade drugs, but they charge you for the highest-grade drugs, right? By that time, customers are addicted to drugs, so they don’t care about quality.”

“That… How… “

“It’s all good, but it’s your problem that you use that way even with people higher up than you.”

Ha ha, Elise burst into laughter as if incredulous.

Her fingertips trembled.

“Where did you hear that story?”

“It’s written all over your face.”

Now her whole body was trembling.

“I was going to solve it in a good way, but looking at it now, it could have been a big problem if I solved it in a good way. He was the kind of person who had to be killed.”

I guess I only realized that now.

The territory where Wonderfentanil’s influence is in itself is a drug growing farm and a drug factory.

In order to reduce Elfriede’s influence even a little later, I have to prune these things first.

I had no intention of resolving things well with Alice from the beginning.

“Ellis.”

Once more she put her name on her lips.

She stares at me with her red eyes full of murder.

Towards her.

“You look more like a prostitute than drugs.”

Kwaaang-!

At the same time, Alice slams her table with her fist.

“The hatter!”

And as I shouted, at the same time, the hatter fired bullet-like mana toward me.

To dodge, defend or attack.

There were three options given to me, but unfortunately, there was also a way to do all three at once.

Grasp—!

I kicked the table and turned it over. If mana was used to support leg strength, this level of work would be ridiculous.

Phut! Phut! Pan!

The mana bullets made a bloody sound as they collided with the table. Seeing that the table didn’t break, it must have put a lot of effort into the parlor interior.

Bang—!

I pushed the table that was floating in the air with my front kick once again.

First of all, I decided to start with the hatter rather than Alice.

Knock—!

The hatter was pushed up to the wall by the table. Regardless, I kicked the table as hard as I could and kept pushing.

“Cuck, coo heap! Whoops!”

Every time the table is kicked, the Hatter is in pain. If he couldn’t, he would have collapsed with his nose completely broken.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

“Stop it! Wow! Big… Omg!”

Bang! Bang!

“…!”

When I stopped even screaming from across the table, I stopped kicking.

“Whoa.”

When I cleared the table, it was very spectacle. A hatter whose face was crushed and a table covered in blood.

Even in the bloody mess, I was clean thanks to the table.

“Ellis.”

I called out to Alice, wiping the sweat from my forehead. She sat down on the other side and covered her own mouth with both her hands.

Her jewel-like red eyes were shaking as if an earthquake had struck. The one-sided defeat of her hatter must have been a great shock to her.

“Ellis. Answer.”

“Uh… Uh?”

Alice stared at the hatter in disbelief.

In fact, if we look at her fighting power in detail, Elise’s fighting power is the highest.

She’s from a prestigious family in her own way. She’s pretty talented at handling mana, and she hasn’t neglected her efforts either.

“What… ?”

But she had already lost her will to fight.

Her instincts must have told her. That no matter how much she flew and crawled in this place, she would end up just like the Hatter.

I handed her a word towards her.

“Don’t worry too much. The Hatter is alive.”

Really. Even though his face was all crushed, he was barely alive and breathing.

And these were not words he said to comfort Elise. He strides towards Alice.

“Tohei.”

This time I sounded like that.

“Now, wait a minute.”

“Why aren’t you smiling like that? You laugh so much.”

“Don’t come any closer. Please don’t come.”

She approached her and bent her knees to her eye level.

Those eyes that had completely lost their will to fight contained my image like a mirror. My appearance without a single scar.

“What are you going to do, do you want to live?”

Alice quietly nods her head. At some point, her life-threatening attitude toward me had completely disappeared.

I also nodded her head.

“That’s right.”

I picked up a pizza knife that had fallen on the floor.

A dagger dropped by a dormouse remains on the floor, but a pizza knife is more appropriate in this situation.

Holding the blade, the handle pointed towards Ellis. To make it easier for her to be handed over.

She put a blunt-bladed pizza knife in her hand and pointed with her chin at her hatter.

“Kill the Hatter with your own hands. Then I’ll save you.”

“Mo, I can’t! I can’t!”

She shakes her head as she cries. It’s cheeky for the attitude I want to live.

“Okay?”

But I smiled brightly. Just like Alice always smiled.

“Then what can you do?”