Chapter 11: The Beautiful Girl in the Sewer (Something Feels Off)

“Hah~ hah~ hah…”

With ragged gasps, a blonde young girl ran through the night.

The girl ran desperately, as if something was chasing her.

Her once bright and beautiful dress was now filthy and tattered…

Under the moonlight, one could see the girl’s lovely hair and her pretty face, now stained with grime…

Slowly, the girl seemed to grow tired, stopping to lean against a wall, panting heavily for breath.

“Brother… brother… why are you doing this??”

The girl spoke through her tears as she gasped for air…

“After her! If you can’t catch her alive, a corpse will do! Hurry up! We can’t let her escape! If she gets away, the Young Master won’t spare us!”

Hearing the voices from behind… the girl started running again…

“Ah… so boring…”

I yawned, walking aimlessly down the street.

I had just managed to break free and escape after Aisilis forced me to sign some prenuptial agreement at home.

‘Isn’t there anything more exciting going on??? But there are so many people today… and none of them look very happy… Could it be… that something exciting really did happen?’

As I thought this, my gossip-loving heart was instantly stirred…

‘Mmm, let me go and ask around.’

“Secret Technique~ The Art of Nonchalantly Blending into a Crowd.”

With that said, I walked towards the nearest crowd.

As soon as I got close, I heard some explosive news…

“Did you know? The Aileron family was wiped out last night.”

“Tch, I knew that first thing this morning.”

“I’m not finished…

I also know that the current head of the Aileron family and his wife were found dead in the moat…

I heard they’ve been dead for a week…

their bodies are all bloated and rotten.”

“I know that part…

It seems they were killed while traveling back to the city…”

“Tsk tsk, how tragic. I wonder who the Aileron family offended…”

“Offended? Who could Aileron possibly offend? In Erisburg, who doesn’t give face to the Aileron family…

I think it must have been the other noble families working together, otherwise, how could the entire clan be wiped out so cleanly in one night?

Right now, aside from the bodies of the eldest daughter and eldest son of the Aileron family, which haven’t been found… the rest are all laid out in the great hall!”

“Found? My ass! Their bodies were definitely dumped somewhere…

Maybe they’re floating in the sewers right now…”

“I don’t think it was the other noble families… Aileron is the most powerful family in Erisburg… there’s no family that could wipe out Aileron in one night… maybe… it was people from other cities… or the Swordsman Academy…”

“Shh!! Do you have a death wish…”

“…” “…”

They continued their discussion, but I was no longer in the mood to listen…

To say I wasn’t in the mood is actually to say I’d lost interest.

Because it has absolutely nothing to do with me…

However, speaking of Aileron, I thought of that mind-reading girl again…

She said she was the eldest daughter of the Aileron family, right?

Tsk tsk… I hope she’s okay.

But, all of this has nothing to do with a stranger like me…

Unless I get dragged into this whole mess, I’m not going to bother with it…

With that thought… I walked around a corner…

“AH!!!!”

‘BANG!!!!’

Following my scream and a loud bang… I… fell into the sewer…

“Ah… tsk tsk… that hurts. What kind of jerk… takes a manhole cover?”

I grumbled as I climbed to my feet…

Looking up at the manhole… I realized I couldn’t get back to the surface…

Because… this sewer has no ladder.

And the sewer is over 3 meters below ground level.

A height like that is impossible for a weakling like me to reach.

“Why on earth would they build a sewer this deep… And there isn’t even anything to climb on, how am I supposed to get up? Damn it, drag the idiot who designed this sewer out, give him 100 lashes, and then sprinkle chili water on him.”

With these malicious thoughts, I started walking along the sewer.

“But this sewer is really big… and it’s not that dirty. But… it’s so dark…”

Of course, there are no lights in a sewer…

But luckily, I was prepared.

I took a round stone out from my clothes… the stone emitted a dazzling light in the darkness.

This kind of stone is specialized for illumination, tailor-made for adventurers.

It also has a brilliant name… Luminous Stone…

Is it called a Luminous Stone because it’s luminous?

Very good, simple and easy to understand.

What? You’re asking why I carry this around with me?

Don’t worry about the details…

As Archimedes once said, ‘Anyone who worries about details is an idiot.’

As the Luminous Stone in my hand emitted waves of light… the darkness of the sewer was gone for good…

Mmm, I nodded… this old man is very satisfied…

I continued my search for a sewer exit…

“Wuwuwu…”

Suddenly, a sound that made my hair stand on end came from in front of me… like someone was crying…

“Impossible, Yuren Xing, there’s no way someone would be crying in a sewer. It must be a hallucination, yes… a hallucination.”

I kept comforting myself… but the sound came again…

“Ahhhhhhh! Prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony! Freedom, equality, justice, rule of law! Patriotism, dedication, integrity, friendliness!”

On the verge of collapse, I began reciting the socialist core values to drive away my fear… but I discovered… it was completely useless…

“Ah, help me… big bro, I didn’t mean to disturb you… If you’re going to blame someone, blame the guy who took the manhole cover, and also the designer who designed this sewer. It would be best to drag that sewer designer out, whip him, then sprinkle chili water on him, then throw him into the tentacle room for some tentacle play… mmm, just thinking about it is exciting~. I have no elderly parents to care for, nor young children… Σ( ° △ °|||)︴ Wait, something seems off… I have a fiancée. Please let me go…”

Sigh… everyone has one or two things they’re not good at dealing with, right?

There’s nothing to be ashamed of…

I-it’s not like I’m afraid of ghosts or anything… I’m not.

“P-perverted tentacle man.”

“?”

A weak voice drifted over… and it sounded very familiar…

I held the Luminous Stone out in front of me to illuminate the area… lying there was actually that blonde tsundere loli… but she looked very weak right now… as if she could kick the bucket at any moment.

“So your body really was dumped in the sewer… But is it really okay to give someone a nickname like that after only meeting twice?”

“Help…”

After saying that one word, the blonde tsundere loli passed out…

“So, this is the reason you brought a girl back, Yuren~?”

“What was I supposed to do? I was desperate too! She fainted right there. Since I saw her, I couldn’t just leave her, and besides, I teased… I mean, played a prank on her last time… I had no choice.”

Faced with Aisilis’s questioning… I answered righteously.

“Oh? I thought Yuren only brought her back because she’s pretty. Isn’t that the case?”

This is not good, this interrogative tone… If I answer wrong, I might get the kitchen knife treatment…

“Of course not… having Aisilis is enough for me… How could I possibly go around seducing other girls?”

“Ehehehe!!! S-since you put it that way… y-you… silly.”

Aisilis covered her face with both hands, shyly wriggling her body…

“Although her chest is indeed a little bigger than Aisilis’s…”

“…Yuren❤, did you say something just now???”

“No… you must have misheard…

By the way, Aisilis, I’m a little hungry… could you make me something to eat?”

“No problem~ I’ll go right away…”

Watching Aisilis leave, I breathed a sigh of relief.

How careless of me to actually say what I was really thinking…

Good thing I managed to distract her…

Even though I said it so quietly, she still heard it. Women are truly terrifying monsters…

Kitchen…

‘Ah! Ah! Ah! So annoying! Why did Yuren have to bring that trash back? Wouldn’t it have been better if that trash just died properly in some stinking ditch… And Yuren even carried her back… Tsk, even I haven’t been princess-carried by Yuren before. And she’s lying in Yuren’s bed… That trash… I really want to do her in…’

Looking at the blonde loli sleeping peacefully on the bed… I couldn’t help but feel a sense of melancholy.

Just a few days ago, she was a perfectly fine young noble lady, and now she’s ended up like this…

I wonder what this child will do in the future…

“Yuren… it’s ready… I’ve finished cooking. Go and eat.”

“So fast? But what about her?”

“It’s fine, don’t worry, I’ll watch her.”

Aisilis gave me a slight smile.

I looked at Liya lying on the bed, sighed, and walked out.

“Tsk!”

I don’t know if it was my imagination, but the moment I walked out of the room, I thought I heard a clicking sound from her tongue…

But… it was probably just my imagination…

Watching Yuren Xing walk out… Aisilis’s smiling expression vanished, her face turning gloomy as she looked at the blonde loli on the bed…

“So, while Yuren isn’t back yet… how should I dispose of this trash? But this trash is a bit big… I should clean it up a little before throwing it out.”

With that, Aisilis clenched her right hand in the air, and a black greatsword appeared in her hand…

“Hehe~ Trash should go where trash belongs. Right, Black Moon~”

The greatsword in her hand seemed to understand Aisilis’s words, letting out a cry…