Chapter 149 – The Mermaid Bride (3)

“It’s not good to be suspicious all the time.”

Said Elsie, clutching her love bridge necklace. It was because the image of Sarang Bridge in the eastern plains was quite good. Even within the Marimba tribe to which Elsie belonged, there were many children who left saying that they would help Saranggyo and save other comrades. Elsie questioned and listened.

“It makes no sense if the cult of love is strange. It’s been a long time since the cult of love appeared, so how could she hide it for that time?

Even in the closely guarded slave market, it was the prisoners who escaped whenever they saw an opportunity. As much as that, their physicality was difficult for ordinary humans to handle. Slave traders used all sorts of means, such as torture and threats, to discourage the prisoners.

Eve frowned. Anne said, rolling her eyes back and forth at Elsie’s bloody expression on her.

“Ah, no. I’m not saying that all Sarangkyos are like that. That’s right! They could be people impersonating the Sarangkyo name, right? I can make any number of necklaces like this, or they could be wizards who want to sell me the Sarangkyo name and use me in a bad way!”

There was a possibility. Said Elsie.

“I thought so.”

“Do you also believe in love?”

Eve asked. Elsie shook her head.

“In the territory where I was staying, Sarangyo was banned from entering, so I only heard their names. I used to see them often when I was in the plains, and we talked about joining forces to save the children who were taken prisoner. “

“To whom? To you?”

“No. I did it to our chieftain. I don’t know how the chieftain made his decision because I was taken away shortly after the story was over.”

Elsie explained it that way. Eve frowned at her. The more I listened to the story, the more suspicious it became. Seeking cooperation with prisoners to free slaves? Eve asked again.

“Hey, you said you were from the slave market.”

“Yes.”

“Then why didn’t they break into it? I read the papers all the time? I’ve never heard of a slave market being raided anywhere.”

“The slave market is legal. It makes no sense to raid the slave market itself because if you touch it, you will not be able to exist as a religious group. They probably raided the slave hunters and caught them. That’s just the hunters shutting their mouths.”

Seluga refuted Eve’s words. Eve nodded her head. But I still felt uncomfortable. It was because the name Sarangkyo itself somehow made me feel uncomfortable.

“Suspicious…”

“It’s not good to be too suspicious.”

“You need to be a little suspicious.”

“Still, Sarangkyo has liberated many prisoners in my hometown. Some of my tribal friends have also returned thanks to Sarangkyo.”

“You came back thanks to the Sarang Bridge?”

Eve was interested in the words. If the guys who really did the job of releasing the prisoners in the eastern plains, they could have been surprisingly good guys. Of course, in the human standard of conflict with the beastmen in the eastern plains, they were traitors like no other in the world.

However, from Eve and Sellu’s point of view, the motto of the religion itself was not so bad. When Eve showed interest in the story of the Sarang Bridge, Elsie started explaining again.

“Yes. I came back thanks to the Sarangkyo. Every returning child gave compliments on how good the Sarangkyo was, so there was no one in our tribe who didn’t know about the Sarangkyo. The chief heard the compliments and decided to meet the Sarangkyo leader. I did. I heard that the leader of Saranggyo was originally a very high-ranking person.”

“A very tall person?”

“He’s a very high-ranking person. What kind of religion did he belong to… He said he was in a very high position…”

“Chief priest?”

Eve called the most familiar title she knew. Elsie nodded her head at those words and said.

“That’s right! He was the chief priest! He was said to be a high-ranking person among the chief priests! Mermaid. I know a lot.”

Eve sometimes felt frustrated and annoyed by Elsie’s reaction to her. Eve said, narrowing her eyes slightly.

“Hey fuck, my husband is also a priest. How smart are you?”

“Clergy. They call it the head of the priesthood. So, is the priest the leader of the Sarang Church?”

“No.”

“I see. Anyway, he said he was the priest of some religion.”

“What is it? The priest of Daecheonsingyo runs Sarangyo?”

Eve was lost in thought. It was because even thinking about it, I was not inspired by this religious group called Sarangkyo. All the things he did were awkward, but when he tried to tackle them, there was nowhere to hang them. Eve pointed at Anne and said.

“First of all, let’s wait until my husband comes. I think we should talk about the Sarangyo together.”

“Yes, you mean ‘our’ West?”

Ann asked without missing Eve’s mistake. Eve responded nervously by scratching her head.

“No, fuck ‘my’ groom. Okay? Huh? My groom! Huh?”

“Ah, please take good care of me. My first wife. I will do my best as the second wife…”

“Why are you the second wife? Since the second wife is separate, put it aside.”

“Ah, then… Selu-nim is the second wife?”

“I’m the mother-in-law.”

Selu shook her head and said. Anne asked, looking at Elsie this time.

“Ah, then, who is the beast here? Seobang-nim has a wide range of tastes.”

At those words, Elsie scratched her cheek, then twitched her tail, then lowered her head. Eve looked at it and snorted at her, then she said to Anne.

“No, I’m just human.”

“Ah…”

Ann nodded her head, looking slightly disappointed at her remark that she was human. Eve didn’t like the look on her face her, so she asked again.

“Hey. What are you disappointed about? Let’s hear the reason.”

“No, it’s just… It’s because my taste is more ordinary than I thought.”

“…Isn’t that a good thing?”

“But! It seems that having a particular taste is much more fateful than mine! Huh? The tendency to be excited only by scaly bodies! The tendency to be excited by women without legs! Of course I knew it would be this way!”

“What the fuck. Don’t make someone else’s husband an idealist.”

“Right.”

“Right.”

Anne and Sellu nodded at the same time. Eve tried to refute it immediately, but she had no words to refute. Fucking a woman who has changed from a man to a woman, fucking an elf, fucking a mermaid, and fucking a beastman. Eve murmured as she wrapped her hair.

“…Fuck. I have to refute something, but I have nothing to refute.”

“Normally, they don’t fuck with mermaids or beastmen. Hehe.”

“No, what do we do if mom says that?”

Hehe.”

Eve squeezed Sellu’s cheek and shook it as if she was angry. Selu, who was swaying by Eve’s hand her, groaned and grabbed Eve’s hand her. Anne carefully stopped Eve.

Eve pinched Sellu’s cheek and said to the others.

“Anyway, since there is a Sarangkyo issue, let’s wait until the groom comes. You. Wherever you go, our God… No, don’t say things like this to my groom. Do you understand?”

“So where can I stay?”

“You can stay at the pool with my mom.”

Sellu smirked. Ann looked at Sellu with a very burdened expression. Sellu asked, patting her Ann on the shoulder.

“Why. Don’t you want to be with me?”

“Oh, no! Sellu-sama! Of course, it’s good to be with Sellu-sama, I too…Haha…”

Sellu poked at her cheek, which was dripping with cold sweat. And she asked Eve.

“So when are you coming?”

“Well. If the prom is over now, it won’t come in a week or so.”

“This week?”

Anne looked a little surprised at her word her for a week. She seemed too burdened to have to live with their chief for a week. Eve said.

“I’m sorry, but there’s only a bathtub in the bathroom. Anyway, it’s a little uncomfortable for me to give the groom’s bath as your living space, right? Or do you want to stay here in the public bath for the employees? “

“I-I’ll just stay with Sellu-nim. I like Sellu-nim! Right? I really like Sellu-nim, don’t I?”

Ann clung to Sellu, forcing herself to play her charms. Said Sellu, gently pushing Ann away.

“Yes. Yes, yes.”

The rain was subsiding. Eve went up to her office again and began her work. Her everyday life her at the mansion did not change just because Anne was there. It just added one more member of the military family. She said Anne was so quiet, and little further rumors about her spread, for she escorted them on a rainy day when no one was out.

Anne asked Eve every day when Lucius was coming. Eve answered appropriately, but she too was impatient when he returned home later than she expected. Although she had become accustomed to her work as a lord, she was still faced with various tasks that she could not solve on her own.

For example, there was a problem with tax calculation or budget allocation for the territory. These were problems that could only be solved with Sieri. It was because Aira couldn’t work on the budget alone under Lucius’ instructions. Eve could n’t understand why Ira could n’t handle her budget her on her own her, but she still obeyed Lucius’s words anyway.

Anne waited for Lucius to do her hair her every day. She chattered next to Sellu, talking about what a wonderful person Lucius was and how good he had been to her. Sellu, who had gone in with a moderate smile for a day or two, had gradually lost her expression, and within a few days her face her had reached the point of emaciation.

“So, what a wonderful person Seobang-nim is. I was a really broke mermaid. I don’t have any money, and you don’t even know what skills I have? But, Seo-bang-nim appeared in the middle of the arena pretending to save me! Are you talking about something?”

“Didn’t I say stop!?”

“Yes, yes! Stop!” After saying… “

“Did you say you paid your ransom?”

“Yes! Yes! You paid my ransom and set me free! Isn’t that amazing? You proposed to buy me!”

“Hehe, if you listen to that story one more time, it’s now the 34th.”

“Really? Did I already say that? Oh my, how I don’t know. I told you so much about our boss. Sellu-nim. Then, me and my boss in the alley for the first time… Ouch! It hurts! It hurts oh oh! Ouch! Yaya!”

Finally, the impatient Sellu began to pinch Ann’s cheeks.

“Ayayayaya! Aha! Yayai aha!!”

Ann’s screams echoed high into the sky. Meanwhile, somewhere on the continent, a carriage carrying Lucius and Sieri was approaching the territory.