Chapter 65 - Fort Polwyn (4)

"It's nothing else... There's a blood mage in that lance."

"T-Tell me about that in advance...!"

"Miss Kaen asked me where I was going... I'm sorry."

All in all, a place was a place... I was conscious, so it seemed to pop out without my knowledge.

Only then did Kaen let go of her guard and slowly approached me.

I waited for her and opened her mouth.

"No matter what, the fact that we have to go to Changgwan remains the same.

"He won't come out of the window? How much stamina does he have left, he...?!"

"...It's not like that, there was information that there was a hiding place in the window."

My answer followed after a while.

It was because there were times when I couldn't quickly understand the meaning of Kaen's words.

Hearing this, Kaen let out a small 'Aha...'.

I continued to recite the information.

"The opponent is only one blood mage.

After I heard that Kaen had no information, I looked back at Fallwyn to see if there was a quest that only a 'female character' could solve.

Unfortunately, the range of options was not wide.

At least, this was what Kaen did with the 'setup' she firmly believed in.

It was hard to see the reward as good, but it was as simple as that.

If Kaen's faith was strengthened because of this, she would benefit from it.

"Again... A virgin... Any information about the Changgwan we're going to?"

Kaen, who was pondering my explanation, spoke in a slightly shy voice.

"The lascivious adventurers... They say it's a store."

"The name..."

"...First of all, it's Changgwan."

After ending her embarrassing conversation with Kaen, she prepared for her departure by handing her the robe she had prepared right away.

[Hmm... It's a blood mage...]

Sierra only mumbled, but nothing else came.

Of course, I knew where Changgwan was, but I had never been there as Zeto...

...Maybe I should walk down the street where Changgwan is located with Kaen.

***

"The thrill of angels... Not here... The weird hair... Not here... Uhh..."

Her face grew hot every time she read the signboards of the window guards.

I remember seeing prostitutes from Changgwan occasionally soliciting customers while traveling around the continent with her grandfather.

However, most of the windows were tightly closed, probably because this is the northern region where the bitter cold stings.

If you open that door, an unknown world will unfold.

'The blood of a virgin...'

I like hiding in the shadows and secretly catching villains, but why am I being called only for this?

I suddenly recall the sound of the unicorn chimera with a horn on its head when I wiped out a criminal organization that was infested with chimeras.

'This bitch is the perfect virgin!'

I don't know what a perfect virgin is... But thanks to that, I don't think there's any problem with opening the door this time.

When she turned her head, she could see Jeto quietly following me.

"..."

He lowered his head, and when he vaguely raised his head, he hurriedly turned his head forward.

It's been honestly hard being with him and her face to face lately.

It was all because of the sauna.

The body he saw in the sauna...

"...Miss Kaen."

"Huh... Yes, yes...?!"

Suddenly, Jeto, who was behind me, grabbed my shoulder and spoke to me, and a strange sound came out of his mouth.

I immediately straightened my posture and answered him again.

"...What's going on?"

"Maybe you haven't found it yet?"

"Ah, if that's the case..."

I muttered and looked around.

"...I found it. Ugh, lustful adventurers..."

I stood in front of the store with him.

Even though the door was firmly closed, as I approached, I could hear the laughter and chatter of women from time to time inside.

"Don't be too nervous. We're just going in as 'guests'."

"So, customer... That's right...!"

If you were a guest of the Changgwan, you would only hear it as a strange sound, but you could understand this level of expression.

In the first place, neither as a guest nor as an assassin had ever been to the window.

When it came to acting, I was confident.

I immediately crossed arms with Zeto and opened the door to the window and entered.

When I crossed my arms, Zeto tilted his head, but the window was already open.

Before long, he welcomed the unknown world.

The first thing I could feel was warmth.

The sticky heat of Chang-gwan touches his cold nose.

Then, the images of courtesans and customers working in the window began to appear.

In particular, the prostitutes were wearing very revealing clothes.

"Uh..."

"Concentrate."

As I was stunned with my mouth open, Jeto, who was next to me, whispered to me.

...But I couldn't help but keep my eyes on him.

The lewd and lewd scenes unfolded, and the heat in my face was so great that I couldn't concentrate easily.

In particular, Zeto's breath in his ears reminded him of a terrible dream he had in the inn room.

Even though I was very embarrassed, Zeto showed no other reaction as if it were natural.

How does this sight feel to him?

Are you sensitive to sound?

When he heard a chant from inside the window, his face was slightly reddened.

'Calm down, Kaen...'

Those things weren't important.

Now we were in a situation where we came to kill the blood mage.

I came to my senses and went inside the window with Jeto.

Then, a woman stealthily approaches us with only the important parts barely covered.

"Uhhh? Is this your first blindfolded customer?"

She came to Jetto's side and walked around Jetto.

"It's a pity that you can't see my body, but it's okay, I just need to cover my eyes. Wouldn't it be bad for both of you to cover your eyes and act like animals in the dark? But a lover next to you? Then... Will the three of us do it?"

The woman was very talkative.

No, she should say that she is talkative or that she is faithfully fulfilling her role given to her.

The corners of Jeto's mouth didn't move, and he didn't say anything.

I decided to act as Jeto had informed me.

He took her coin out of her pocket and handed it to her, opening her mouth.

"I'd like to look around the room without any interruption... I'll just take a look."

Saying that, I smile at her woman, and she takes her coin and whispers to me.

"...Huh-huh. Do you think you like your boyfriend a lot? I can satisfy both of you, so it's better to look around and come back. Isn't this kind of opportunity common? Hehe."

Soon after, the snoring woman left us.

'To satisfy both of them... How the hell...?'

I feel like her face is going to explode because of the picture that I have been drawing in her head without even realizing it.

At that time, Jeto, who was arm in arm with me, whispered in my ear.

"Are you curious about that?"

"Heh, heh... Don't whisper all of a sudden...! Did you hear everything?"

His breath gave him a strange stimulus, and his body shrank.

Normally, it would be nothing but a whisper, but the atmosphere from the window seemed to make my body feel strange.

"I have a good ear, so unintentionally... It's a joke, let's move quickly."

Jetto tapped his ear and he said so.

'Really...'

It becomes difficult for Jeto to resist without knowing something.

The body reacts on its own.

When I turn my head away from him, the costumes of the prostitutes come into view.

Didn't I also wear such a bizarre outfit in front of Jeto because he couldn't see?

Then, until the voice that resonated in the Changgwan.

I need to quickly get things done and get out of the Changgwan before my head goes crazy.

Just like that, Jeto and I moved to the depths of Changgwan.

It was easy to avoid their gaze, as all the guests and prostitutes at the Changgwan all seemed distracted.

"I think it's a warehouse. I don't see a separate door."

"Hmm..."

At my words, Jeto let out a drool, then untied his arms and went around the room doing things like hitting the walls and thumping the floor.

Then, Jetto stands on one side of the wall and calls me.

"Looks like it's here."

The wall he was standing on was nothing.

It was an ordinary wall.

Jetto then sniffs around the wall, muttering, 'The smell of blood.'

"Miss Kaen, would you like to get some blood in this area?"

He said to me as Jetto, who had stopped sniffing, stood on one side of the wall.

There was trust in Zeto's senses.

Soon after, I bit my thumb hard and bled.

Jetto placed his thumb where his finger pointed.

ㅡKoo-gu Palace...

Then, the ordinary wall vibrates and moves, and a dim passage is visible.

"It really was..."

"Sure."

The aisle was so dark that I had to hold onto Jetto's arm and walk.

He was walking very well in this darkness where not a single light came in.

Visual information was of no use to Jeto.

It was strange and at the same time a little bit, but his heart was full.

How many times did he stumble and collide to walk out of the darkness of the world?

I quietly followed Jeto with a bitter smile on my face.

His back, dimly visible in the dark, felt secure.

"It is possible to enter and exit with the blood of a virgin inside the window... I think it's quite ingenious."

Jeto, who was walking ahead, said.

Certainly, as he said, it was an ingenious hiding place.

Not the blood of an ordinary woman, but the blood of a virgin.

But the hiding place is Changgwan.

It had to be seen as a very difficult place for a virgin to remain.

What's more, the entrance door was hidden like this...

"...What on earth is he doing to hide so tightly?"

As I was thinking about the hiding place, I had such a question and asked Zeto.

"The answer comes when you think about what kind of blood mages they are."

"If you're a blood mage..."

"Bloodstone. These guys are crazy about bloodstone."

After I cut off my words, Zeto's concise answer follows.

"Then what hides in this window... To make bloodstone...?"

"They said that the prostitutes in this prostitute are disappearing in secret. It doesn't take a day or two for a prostitute to erase the past and run away to live a new life... There weren't that many people interested in the prostitute's disappearance."

"Was it the perfect place to make bloodstone?"

At my words that follow, Jeto nods.

"You said you were dealing with a blood mage for the first time, right?"

"Yes, other mages don't know... It's not easy to see a blood mage."

"There is one important thing you should never miss when dealing with a blood mage."

His words brought back memories of his grandfather telling him stories about blood mages.

I answer him based on that memory.

"...Did the blood mage eat bloodstone or not?"

"You're well aware of it. Fortunately, I don't think the guy we're dealing with has yet to make a bloodstone. It's only based on the rumors heard by the informant... But they say the number of people is still insufficient."

Hearing the praise from Jeto makes me feel better.

Jetto knew more about the world than I did.

From what I've heard, it seems that he has traveled the world with Master, just as I have traveled the world with my grandfather.

'Could he have run into him as a child...?'

Maybe we've run into each other without even realizing it.

Looking back, however, I had no memory of meeting or seeing a child blindfolded with a bandage.

As I walk down the stairs while talking to him, I begin to see the light.

"Looks like they've arrived. They made something like this in the basement of Changgwan..."

It was when I said that as I opened the door in front of me.

As soon as I opened the door, a sharp red figure flew at me.

It was easy to react, so I avoided it.

ㅡToo bang!

The red spear pierced the wall behind it and soon turned into liquid and melted away.

"Why did these rats come in...? How the hell did they come in..."

A woman wearing a robe of black light in the room spoke.

"Are you from the Church? Or did you come from the Empire at least? You must be a virgin... Next to you, a blind man... Ha, what kind of combination is this...?"

The blood mage became very angry and began to chatter.

Soon, Jeto grabbed my shoulder and spoke softly.

"Miss Kaen seems to be enough on her own, so is it okay if I leave her alone?"

"Sure."

I said while pulling on the 'gloves' that Jeto had given me.

Soon after, the blood mage who overheard Jeto and I spoke.

"I still get a headache from the moaning of the crazy bitches upstairs. Are you guys going to do this too?"

"...Should we just shut up and fight, shall we?"

At my sharp answer, blood began to collect in the blood mage's hands.

"Heh, bitch Angkaljin... I'll make sure to turn her into a prostitute and put her in bloodstone."

I figured out his level at once.

I don't think I'll ever bring out my grandfather's swordsmanship today.