Chapter 141
Translator: yun
“… What?”
However the woman replied imdiately by nodding to herself and whispering in a thick voice.
—If it’s you, I believe you won’t willingly abandon .
Boom.
My head shot up in surprise at the loud sound. Cracks began forming on the ceiling.
And the person who was watching from afar raised their head.
“Ah…”
The person slowly lowered his long sword before smiling at . In this space where there was no wind blowing, his black hair swayed. His long toga fluttered. His lips that were drawing a fascinating smile parted before whispering towards .
—Ashley.
With a gentle expression, Castor raised his sword once again. He then shifted his gaze and smiled.
—What do I an to you?
The mont the tip of his sword pointed towards the cracks, my dream ended.
***
“Damn it, are you awake?”
Soone whispered towards softly. I woke up within the afterimages of the dream.
“W-Who?”
When I shot up, sothing brushed against my face and tickled . It was soone’s red hair.
“How could you ask that right after you wake up? Shouldn’t you stay calm?”
I spotted a woman looking down at . A very gorgeous-looking beauty stared at with an eyebrow slightly raised. I thought I had gotten used to it. But had I ever seen anyone this pretty excluding Rebecca?
“Ah.”
As I pondered over it for a while, I realised. This was soone I had not seen in a while. The man who looked like Dane who bumped into along an alley. It was the woman who was with him.
“Why are you here?”
“Hm, there’s a lot to explain but I should say it as briefly as possible, right? My lover betrayed . They sold to this place.”
The woman who tilted her head smiled skillfully.
“So, as soon as you woke up?”
“I found myself here.”
“It’s dangerous here.”
Out of relex, I grabbed the woman’s shoulders and exclaid.
“This is a kidnappers’ den. You might not believe but it’s a dangerous place. The man who knocked out used poison on .”
The woman who stared at shouting urgently, tilted her head before smiling and saying.
“Damn it. I thought you’d have so difficulties understanding the situation since you just woke up but you’ve adapted faster than I thought you would?”
The woman laughed at whatever she found humorous before leading to sothing behind her back.
“Alright. Shall we escape from this dangerous place?”
When the woman straightened her back, the rattling of the necklace around her neck reverberated.
Would soone who was kidnapped be this calm?
The red-haired woman strolled around the room alone and observed ticulously. Her luxurious clothes and glamorous jewelry moved lightly as if they did not tickle at all.
After a while, I decided to follow her only to find out that the condition of this place was serious.
“First things first, the front door is impossible. I tried opening it and it’s locked.”
“So, it is locked.”
The room was filled with dust as if it had not been used for a long ti.
The shelf in the room had been broken and one side of the ceiling had crumbled making the air in here gloomy and ventilation uneven.
“Is this perhaps a door too?”
After careful examination, we discovered a small door hidden by a huge wooden barrel and the shelf. The woman looked at it and nodded.
“You’re right? It’s a door.”
The woman pondered over sothing after seeing the door before taking out a long stick from sowhere.
“Move out of the way.”
Clang.
She thrusted it onto the door and once she noticed that it worked, she simply tossed it away. But the stick was now half broken before she spoke.
“Listen to the sound. It’s nailed shut.”
“… Will it be difficult?”
“The nails were probably worn out too?”
The woman grinned.
‘What the hell is this?’
Her movents were sharper than I thought. My questions only grew when I realised that her actions did not suit her luxurious clothes.
‘Were we really just left here?’
Before I realised it, I was searching through my skirt. But there was nothing to look for.
‘My diary.’
I could vaguely rember the items from my bag pouring out. My things, where did my things go? It should have been here. No longer able to stand from the anxiety, I fell to the ground. It was then I felt sothing heavy at the end of my mantle. When I felt around the inside of my hood, I touched sothing familiar.
‘Don’t tell .’
When I hurriedly lifted my hood, sothing large fell.
“Impossible…”
It was the diary. When I flipped it, I noticed the familiar writing on the cover. I recalled the passing words.
—Take care of it preciously.
Was the voice in my dreams you? I scoffed. At least once, I had thought about dropping it into a river or tearing it apart dozens of tis but was it a good thing that I did not? I smiled vainly before opening the diary.
I checked just in case but there was no major change. In other words, it was not midnight yet. Or perhaps I did not notice the small changes.
But I was sure of one thing.
That I would never lose it again in the future.
“… Just as I thought, I can’t throw it away.”
It was a little sad.
There was a lull in our conversation for a while. There were results to our efforts. A way out was made after knocking on it diligently. It was small enough for one person to pass through.
“It’s a doggy hole.”
“Yes, it’s a doggy hole.”
This was the short stick’s limit.
“It’s kind of weird to bring it up now but should we introduce each other? I’m Marissa.”
“I’m Ahn.”
“Ahn. That’s a pretty na.”
The woman placed the long rod down. Marissa curled her eyes and smiled.
“Does your na have any aning?”
Blinking, I slowly shook my head.
“No.”
For so reason, I kept thinking of her na. It just lingered in my mind. Perhaps it was because it was a good na for soone as rough as her.
“Don’t you feel stuffy with your gloves on?”
“Hm, this? It’s alright.”
She raised the hand that was wearing gloves before patting my head and letting it go. Despite exposing other parts of her body provocatively, she continued to wear gloves. It was a strange combination.
“I’ll say what’s on my mind honestly. I hope you won’t get too disappointed with , my dear.”
“… My dear?”
“Yes, my dear. Do you see that hole? That size is the most this tool can do. I don’t have any other tools and you can tell too that I won’t fit into it.”
Marissa ntioned lightly before placing her hand on her waist and turning away slightly. My eyes did not an to drift there but I nodded without realising it when I spotted her bust size. Even if it were not for her chest, she was also very tall. The hole was too narrow for her to enter.
“I’ll have to head in. And what do you want to do once I’m inside?”
“Wow, it’s nice to see that you understand what I’m saying. You’re better than any other man I’ve t. You’ll look cute if you smile more.”
“Don’t joke around. I need to head back quickly.”
“What? You’re so closed up. I’m liking you more and more.”
Marissa pulled the corners of her lips before smiling.
“Say what you want to say.”
“Well, that’s good. The sooner we escape, the better. I think this is the layout of this place.”
Marissa ford the possible floor layout by gathering the fragnts of the shelf. It looked like the floor plan of the building but it was much simpler than that. Then, she unexpectedly began a well-inford explanation.
“We are probably in the basent. Based on the construction materials mainly used here, I think we might be on the 2nd floor of the basent?”
I was amazed by the information that ca out of her continuously. It was as if she had looked around the place herself. In the end, I continued to glance at her suspiciously.
“Who the hell are you?”
“A capable woman?”
Was she laughing at my light comnt? I narrowed my eyes thinly.
‘I can’t say that I’m not suspicious of her.’
Since our goals matched each other’s, I thought it would be best to cooperate with her for now.
“Anyway, you understood right? Most cells like these are usually locked from the outside.”
I carefully looked over at the blueprint that Marissa drew before giving a small nod.
“So I should head to the next room and open the door to this room?”
“Yes. That hole is the food pipe. It leads to the next room which is the surveillance room. They used to send my als through here. They don’t use it now seeing as how the tube has collected dust. So, the room next door is probably empty as well.”
It was quite reasonable to assu that security here was loose since no one ca running to find out what was behind the loud noise that just now.
I nodded before finally asking what I had been curious about.
“But why are cellars locked from the outside in?”
“Simple. Look at the both of us.”
I glanced at Marissa before looking around the room. I thought of sothing.
“Don’t tell .”
“Yeah, they use it to specifically lock people in. I’ve been trapped in so place like this before. Is this enough to explain why I’m so knowledgeable?”
After noticing my expression, Marissa smiled. With a mature expression, she whispered softly.
“Usually ‘pimps’ would use such a room to kidnap won.”
The woman continued to smile as she spoke.
I could guess her circumstances from the hints she was giving but I would not have known if she had not told anything. I decided not to judge her. Instead, I would focus on what I could do.
“I’ll try to see if my body can fit.”
I thought it would be possible for to fit into the hole but Marissa tapped on my shoulder. When I turned my head around, she looked proud.
“This is a big issue. You neither laugh nor cry. It would’ve been cute if you at least cried.”
“… Because I didn’t grow up in a verycomfortable environnt.”
I was sure Lord Ray would be worried about by now.
“You’re loved now, right?”
“… You can tell?”
She nodded.
“People who talk about their scars are one of two kinds. They’ve either given up or they decided to face it.”
It reminded of Lord Ray. Soone who did not laugh nor frown too obviously. He might be frowning as we were speaking. I wanted to see him smile unintentionally with that face of his at least once.
“I have to hurry.”
I folded my skirt roughly before lying down and crawling through the hole. Now, I was only slightly bigger than my original body so the hole was not too small for but it was uncomfortable.
I winced before saying, “it would have been nice if I had been in my original body.”
I must have been struggling for about 10 minutes. When I finally reached a large space, it was the empty room adjacent to us just as Marissa said. When I grabbed the handle, the door opened easily.
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