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Expanding the garden
171 ? Expanding the Garden #1
Brigitte slumped down on the bed, perhaps because the stimulation from touching her chest was too great.
“Ouch, yeah, ahh…!”
He appears quite anxious, with repeated short convulsions and an inability to control his body. His breathing is unsteady and his focus is greatly disturbed, as if he is very sick.
Knock, knock-.
Miss, are you okay?
Outside, a cold-hearted maid knocked on the door, perhaps concerned about Brigitte’s screams.
“Excuse me, Miss Brigitte, someone is calling you from outside, so please answer first…”
So, when I was trying to calm down the Baron’s daughter Brigitte by holding out my palm to her.
Ss …
Something black and liquid flowed from her body.
As if the black paint on her body was being washed away by the rain, Young-ae’s hair gradually began to lose its color and took on a blue tint.
What’s going on all of a sudden?
So, at that moment, as if my mind was wavering slightly, the door behind me shattered with a loud bang.
“Miss, I came in to check since you haven’t answered.”
It was Sydney.
Sydney broke through the door, which looked quite sturdy.
I never thought that maid, who was like a grim reaper, would have the strength to break down a door. I couldn’t help but be shocked, like someone caught in a crime scene. In reality, it was no different.
Sydney, who had come in after visiting, also seemed to be rolling her eyes trying to figure out what was going on.
Her eyes turn to Brigitte, panting, with her dress pulled down, her breasts slightly exposed, and her ink-stained body covered in ink.
“Therapist, what is happening now…?”
“… Well, there was some reason behind this.”
“Are you saying that you just told our young lady about the situation?”
“No, that’s not the case. It’s a complicated relationship in many ways…”
“Are you saying that you even had a relationship with the young lady?”
I just kept my mouth shut. I rolled my head in confusion, thinking that no matter what I said, I wouldn’t be able to avoid getting caught in a spider’s web like a butterfly.
“Sister, sister…?”
At that very moment, Brigitte, who had been lying on the floor gasping for breath, came to her senses and began to breathe heavily.
“Miss, are you okay?”
Sydney, who had been questioning me as if she was going to blow my head off just a moment ago, approached the bed to check on Brigitte’s condition.
A maid who supports the noble’s daughter as if she doesn’t even care about the damp black ink soaking the bedsheets.
As expected of an employee of a noble family, he has a professional spirit.
“Miss, your eyes….”
“My eyes? My eyes feel so much better. The therapist pressed on them. My eyes feel clearer too….”
“No, it’s not that, your eyes are blue… .”
“My eyes are blue…?”
Brigitte rubbed her eyes as if she couldn’t understand. Sydney took out a small hand mirror from under her black maid’s uniform.
She held it close to the face of her master, Brigitte.
Brigitte accepted the small hand mirror and opened her eyes wide as she looked inside.
“What, what? The color of my eyes… . My hair color also turned blue… ? Why… .”
She opened her mouth as if she couldn’t believe her own change. Her eyes, which had been darting around in the mirror, eventually turned to my mask.
Those blue eyes seemed to be asking, “What is happening?” And they were really asking that question.
But how can I know the reason?
I don’t understand why people have blue hair in the first place. But in this world, there are blue hair and pink hair.
I guess it’s because of mana or something.
“Miss, are you hurt anywhere? Did that therapist do anything to harm you?”
At that moment, I became very nervous at the question that came out of Sydney’s mouth. Brigitte then covered her chest and her hands with her clothes and narrowed her eyes slightly.
“… Not really?”
“okay.”
Phew, I lived like a bum.
* * *
A reception room on the first floor of a huge villa mansion.
Baroness Fleur sat on her plush sofa in silence.
Because her face and body were covered entirely with black veils and cloths, it was impossible to tell what expression she was making.
But I could tell that he was thinking seriously and important thoughts.
I found this silence and awkwardness extremely awkward. He called me out to say something, but I didn’t say anything.
I don’t want to buy gold bars or anything, I just want to go home.
I wanted to shake my legs with anxiety and nervousness, but I barely held back for fear of my feelings being revealed, when Fleur finally opened her mouth with a deep sigh.
“My daughter’s hair was black.”
“Yes, it was.”
“But now it’s blue.”
“… That’s what happened.”
Swish.
Baron Fleur took off his wide-brimmed hat, like that of a Mexican musician. Of course, his face was still wrapped in something like a black bandage, making it unrecognizable.
At that moment, I was feeling slightly nervous.
The Baron asks me.
“Are my daughter Brigitte’s eyes really blue now?”
“Well, that’s what happened… .”
“Do your eyes resemble mine?”
Swish, swish.
Baroness Fleur slowly unwound the bandages wrapped around his face. The cloth covering his eyes fell away, revealing his blue eyes to the world.
No, to be exact, it’s closer to something called blue eyes.
“Tell me, do my daughter’s eyes look like mine?”
“Uh, that, I don’t know how to say it. What is that…?”
I found it difficult to give a ready answer.
That would be the case, since Fleur’s face, completely exposed after the bandages were removed, was not really something that could be called a face.
A skull with gleaming blue eyes.
That was the true identity of Baroness Fleur.
This man is undead.
Dead.
A monster that only seeks life and hates the living. Oh my, the Baron’s true identity is an undead.
It seemed obvious why his body was wrapped in black cloth, and why the villa itself was covered in blackout curtains.
Didn’t they say that the dead instinctively hate sunlight?
“Your karma is in disarray. You must be surprised. I get surprised every time I look in the mirror. So, I threw away all the mirrors.”
However, there was quite a difference between the undead I knew and this baron. First of all, he seemed to be conscious and even knew how to use a rather old-fashioned way of speaking. I wonder if he was really an undead.
But I didn’t have the courage to ask that.
“Anyway, do you really have my eyes? I’m asking if my daughter, Brigitte, looks like me.”
But this creepy skeleton baron kept asking me if his daughter had his eyes.
So I suppressed my fear and looked at the skeleton’s face.
If you ask if the blue eyes are similar, then yes, they are. But the Subal isn’t the pupil, it’s the glare.
Still, this was a question that had a completely predetermined answer, so I decided to give the Baron an answer that would satisfy him.
“… Yes, they do look alike, but I think your daughter looks more like her mother.”
“I see. Brigitte’s appearance is actually very similar to Clara’s, except for the hair and eye color. Anyway, thank you for your hard work. This is a thank you.”
Swish.
The skeleton baron took out a gold bar from inside his dangling sleeve and held it out to me. My eyes opened even wider at the sight of the shining gold.
The gold bar I promised in return. Damn, I didn’t know something like that could actually exist in this world. My heart was pounding so hard I couldn’t calm down.
On the one hand, I didn’t know if Brigitte’s heart condition would get better or not, so I wondered if it was okay to receive such a gift in return.
Of course, the Skull Baron didn’t seem to care about such things anymore.
Well, he’s a man who owns two such huge mansions. If you say something nice, he’ll give you something like this.
I thought I knew why sycophants followed those in power.
Flatterers make a lot of money.
I was wondering if there was anything I could say that would make the Baron feel better.
Nothing came to mind, and I was afraid that if I felt bad, even the gold I had received would be taken away, so I decided to just keep my mouth shut.
Anyway, it’s gold.
Shit, gold.
This is really awesome.
The gold bar in my hand was heavier than I thought. It was heavy, hard, shiny, and just plain cool. I felt like I understood why people struggled to obtain gold.
As I was looking at the gold bars, the Baron said:
“I can tell even with the mask on. It looks like you have a lot of gold.”
“Is there anyone who doesn’t like gold?”
“Of course not. However, in your case, it feels a little different. You are definitely a believer of Pluto. Pluto believers generally like gold.”
“Is that so?”
Swish.
The Baron put his tall hat back on to hide his face. I felt relieved that I would not have to look at that hideous skull face.
The Baron said.
“I, Fleur, am a sorcerer who served as a professor in the ivory tower. I can say with pride that I have a better understanding of necromancy and hell magic than anyone else. You, you resemble the leader of the cult I once met in Sodomora.”
“The leader of the cult?”
“Not much has been revealed, but he was a man known as the leader of the cult. The fact that I am in this state now, and that my daughter is alive and well, is all thanks to that man.”
colon.
The captain?
There is something that is on the verge of coming to mind, but then isn’t there.
Now that I think about it, I feel like the first time I went to a social gathering, there was a guy standing there with his arms crossed in a dark corner.
Didn’t you say he was the boss?
Shiver, not all the cultists who had infiltrated Sodomora were driven out. The most important cult leader remained.
Click.
But soon I saw another gold bar sticking out of the sleeve, so it didn’t matter anymore.
“Here, this is a token of my sincerity, unrelated to a thank you. Tell your captain that I have not forgotten our past promise.”
I don’t know what the promise means.
I had no reason to refuse the gold bar that was offered to me, so I took another one into my bosom.
I felt it again, but the gold was colder and heavier than I thought.
A heavy feeling.
That was so good.
* * *
“Hassan, where have you been and now you’re back?”
By the time Luna’s cabin came into view, the sun was slowly setting and the sunset was beginning to appear.
It was only when I saw that funny pink hair that I truly felt like I had left the nobleman’s mansion and returned to my daily life.
I felt a sense of relief. On the other hand, I felt like all the strength in my body was gone.
“Hassan, you don’t look so good. What happened?”
Luna looked around me and sniffed around as usual.
“You must have sweated a lot!”
“The weather is hot.”
“Yeah, it was super hot today. So, I was going to give this to Hassan when he came. Ta-da.”
Luna held out a leather water bottle from her waistband to me. Water? Potion? I don’t know what it was, but I was thirsty so I took it.
“oh-.”
I was really surprised at the temperature of the leather water bottle, which was colder than I had expected. It contained something cool and cold, like ice water.
So I gulped it down without even thinking. The texture of the contents was like konjac or jelly, so bland, but it was cold and refreshing and delicious.
“What is this? It’s refreshing and nice.”
“Wildling Potion! How is it? Is it okay? I’ll work hard to make it and give it to Hassan first!”
“That’s amazing.”
I knew Luna had been busy making potions for a few days, but I didn’t know she could make something this cool.
“I think it would make a lot of money if I sold it.”
“This isn’t for sale. We should drink it among ourselves. I made three cases out of one, so we’ll be able to stay cool this summer!”
“I see.”
In this world without fans or air conditioners, it takes a lot of wisdom to survive the summer. Luna seemed to be thinking of surviving the summer this year with the help of the wildling she got from the underground.
“If we plant some trees and grow some vegetables around here, it will be shady and cool.”
Luna finally looked around and licked her lips in regret. Luna often told me this story because her immediate goal was to build a yard around this cabin.
He once again keenly felt the weight of the gold bars he had hidden in his bosom.
I’ll have to sell the gold tomorrow and expand the land further.
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