It felt like only a few days had passed, but the air of the territory, which I returned to after a long ti, was refreshing. I took a deep breath as soon as I passed the boundary line, savoring my freedom. Behind
were Eve, trapped in a large iron cage, and the rmaid, humming in a water tank.
The woman who had kept her mouth shut and only spoke when necessary, even when I was dragging her to the guild master, turned out to be quite a chatty and cheerful rmaid.
"Mom, what are you so happy about?"
"Heh, it feels like we're on an outing."
"Fuck, Mom. Are you saying you're happy when we don't know what that psycho bastard is going to do with us?"
"It's fine, it's fine. We've done plenty of crazy things ourselves. I don't care if I die."
Eve's face was covered in a deep blue bruise. It was because she had tried to smash the cart and escape as soon as I left the trade city. In the sea, Eve might be Lu Bu, but on land, I was the king. I landed a punch on the resisting Eve's face and threw her back into the cart.
As if reflecting that she was an event boss from the ga, Eve's body was incredibly sturdy, moving so normally it was hard to imagine she'd had a hole pierced in her stomach and her head cracked just a few days ago. Though, it seed there were aftereffects, seeing as she periodically touched her stomach or complained about a throbbing headache.
Eve was still rubbing her face and hurling insults at . I didn't bother to reply to her curses. Beside us, the rmaid was humming and looking around. To a rmaid who had spent her entire lifeti in the sea, the mountain path seed to be a very interesting spectacle.
"Hey, you. What the hell are you thinking, taking us with you?"
Eve stopped rubbing her face and asked . Riding my horse at the very front, I grinned and said.
"For your reformation."
"Fucking bullshit. Who's going to accept
if I'm reford? If my mom is reford, will people stop trying to catch her? This is why you religious fanatic bastards are hopeless."
"And there are many things I'd like to find out personally."
What I was curious about was the story of Evangeline. But as if interpreting my curiosity in a different direction, Eve looked back and forth between
and the rmaid, then shook her head and said.
"Fuck, you pervert bastard. How can a bastard who calls himself a cleric think of fucking a rmaid?"
"I think it sounds nice....heh."
"Mom. Can you please be quiet?"
From the mont we entered the village entrance, people's eyes gathered on . The people who ran out to see , shouting that their lord had returned, wore puzzled expressions as they saw the two won being dragged behind . One was a beautiful woman with a deep blue bruise on her face, and the other was a rmaid in a water tank.
The rmaid was waving her hand and grinning from ear to ear. People felt fear at the rmaid's appearance and averted their gazes.
"Co to think of it, what's your na?"
I already knew her na. But to avoid a tedious explanation about the status window, I had to go through this simple procedure. The rmaid told
her na without hesitation.
"Cellu."
"Alright. Cellu. For now, that water tank will be your temporary dwelling. Our territory is inland, and there aren't any lakes nearby. There's a water source in the neighboring territory, but I can't send you there either."
"Heh, what great treatnt. Eve told
that in other places, they don't even give rmaids a sip of water and let them all dehydrate."
"The Archdeity Church does not abandon a believer who has co for reformation."
"Fucking bullshit."
Eve was defiant once again. Seeing her provoke
to this extent, it was clear she wanted to get hit, but I decided to hold back for now. I had far too much to do today to waste ti on Eve.
Upon entering the territory's mansion, I dismounted my horse. Bellix Karin was slowly walking from the mansion's main gate. She scanned
and my party with an expression of deep concern for the hero's and my well-being. The sight of her, always wearing armor despite not needing to as the 'lord's representative', was the very model of a princess knight. Though she wasn't a princess.
"Have you been well in the anti?"
"Bellix Karin. Have you had any special difficulties yourself? I hope there wasn't too much work. It makes
feel rather sorry. A lord shouldn't leave his post in a chaotic situation like this."
"Not at all. My Lord, you had organized everything so well that there was nothing for
to touch."
"Is there anything to report separately?"
"No. There are no particularly important matters to report, and that....."
Bellix Karin's words trailed off. I frowned before Karin could even finish her sentence, wondering if so accident had happened.
"Among the docunts I received during the handover, I confird information that criminals dealing in aphrodisiacs were in hiding."
"Yes. I see. That isn't a very urgent matter, so....."
"So I have swiftly arrested them, and they are currently under detention. Unfortunately, two of them died during interrogation, and another has yet to regain consciousness."
Fuck. I barely managed to hold back my curse. Since this bitch's job in the royal palace was to beat up criminals, she must have gotten all excited and caught them as soon as she saw the docunt. It was a place where respect for the human rights of criminals was thrown to the dogs, so she must have subjected them to all sorts of torture, telling them to spill the location of their base as soon as they were caught.
Suddenly, I thought I could sll blood from sowhere. And it didn't seem to be my imagination. It was because Eve, who was tied up behind , said this as she looked at the mansion.
"It slls like blood."
"Ah, since there are cases where inmates pretend to be unconscious to escape torture, the torture continues even if they pass out."
I suppose I was on the rather good side, even after coming to this world. Karin beca interested in the rmaid and Eve behind . When Eve's eyes t Karin's, she whistled and grinned.
"Who are they? Did you buy rmaid slaves? Or did those two commit so cri together? Could they perhaps be those infamous....."
"Yes. It's them. I brought them here because I have sothing to interrogate them about personally."
"I see. In that case, could you perhaps entrust the interrogation to ? I can make them confess everything by tomorrow."
I shook my head. I couldn't hand over my onahole to a bitch crazy about torture. Karin licked her lips, openly showing her disappointnt. In the original work, Karin was a character with this kind of feel, too. She had no forgiveness for criminals and hated it when the protagonist did bad things. But I didn't know she enjoyed torturing criminals.
"By the way, where is Sir Hero?"
"Sir Hero has left on a journey to return the victims of this incident to their hotowns."
"As expected....."
As she lavished praise on him, calling him a noble human, I let it go in one ear and out the other. It was certainly an action that a person like
could never imagine, but it wasn't sothing he should do while leaving his wife waiting in a foreign land.
I had the guards separate Eve and Cellu, ordering them to put Eve in the underground prison and Cellu in the bathhouse for now. And since Eve wouldn't run away leaving Cellu behind, it was like setting up a minimal security asure.
"Fuck, if you guys do anything to my mom, you're dead! Got it?"
Eve's mouth was still alive and kicking as she was dragged away. Karin wore a puzzled expression seeing her call the rmaid 'mom', but I just vaguely brushed it off. It was too much of a pain to explain sothing like that. I did want to have sex with Karin soday, but I didn't think my affection would go up for telling her a story of rmaids and humans mating.
Up in the office, Karin and I reorganized the docunts. Bellix Karin was a very competent knight who handled both practical work and fieldwork in the royal palace, so she was skilled at this kind of work processing. Seeing the cleanly handled grievances, I nodded my head in great satisfaction.
"This side is a pile of tasks I've set aside, as they seed to be things I couldn't do with my authority."
And on one side was a collection of tasks for the Archdeity Church high priest. The thought of having to deal with pending work again made my head ache. Most were just personnel transfers or simple petitions, but reading each and every one of those was a pain for .
"I see. Well, you've worked hard. As expected of the capital's greatest knight, Bellix Karin. You've been a great help."
"You give
too much praise. In that case, may I be excused to return....."
Only then did I rember Erina's words. Did she tell
to talk about Evangeline to the kingdom as well? That was definitely what she said. So I stopped Karin, who was about to leave, and said.
"There was one thing to report regarding the Demon King."
"Regarding the Demon King, you say?"
"Before the Demon King died, he said, 'I made a promise with Evangeline.'"
"Evangeline?"
Karin frowned. It seed Karin didn't know much about Evangeline. She muttered Evangeline's na a few tis, then nodded and said.
"I understand. But, is this Evangeline an important person?"
"Yes. According to Princess Erina, she is a very important and dangerous person. I believe the kingdom must also be on guard, given that such a person is involved."
"Understood. Then, I will submit the report including the matter of the hero."
I used transfer on Karin along with the report I had written on the way. The report already ntioned that the rmaid had spoken of Evangeline, so I decided not to give any further explanation. However, I did omit the part about
capturing Eve and the rmaid from the report.
It was because I felt that writing unnecessary words would bring in unnecessary interference.
I went down to the underground prison again. It was to et Eve. And I could tell where Karin had conducted her interrogations. The underground prison was a sea of blood itself. The wall surfaces were all stained with blood, and pieces of tal and wood of unknown origin were scattered on the floor. The sll of blood left by traces of fierce torture intensely assaulted my sense of sll. I shook my head and examined the inside of the underground prison.
In the middle of the room, a bright red lump that looked vaguely human was hanging, impaled on a hook.
"What the fuck."
As I swore, startled, Eve, who was tied up across from that lump of at, was screaming.
"Fuck! You psycho bastard! What kind of hobby is flaying a person and displaying them? You beat the shit out of
for being a murderer while doing shit like this? A cleric? Fuck, are you even human? You fucking bastard! Ah, fuck, now that I think about it, I'm so fucking pissed!"
The lump of at squird and opened its mouth.
"K-kill......please....."
Could this bastard be the one who was selling aphrodisiacs? How the hell did she do this without killing him?
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