NOVEL NEXT chapter 23
23 – To the female who touched someone else’s property (3)
“Please continue.”
Even though my white hands turned red,
Even though the fingertips that drank water were full of wrinkles,
The command to wash your hands has not changed.
Even though I groan in pain and look pitifully at the woman in front of me,
Rose’s situation did not change.
If you try to stop your hand from time to time or slow down –
“You make me tired.
Make me repeat it over and over again.
To the point where I’m sick of it.”
Without a single change in posture,
Without blinking an eye,
Her red woman drove her.
I wanted to try to resist that, but I was tied up in her window.
And the treatment of her brother waiting at her house continued to bind Rose to this absurdity.
Now feeling the texture of the skin that doesn’t slide properly, I force myself to move her hand –
“Ugh…!”
Rose left her scars on her own skin.
Unable to bear the bitter pain, her mouth twitched and let out a sound.
“Stop.”
And only then,
The terrible command came to an end.
Where did the white and beautiful colors go?
Where did the warmth of the girl who walked the night street holding the boy go?
The hand, which now had an unsightly wound, was blushing and spewing out resentment at its owner.
After being soaked in cold water over and over again, being rubbed and spoiled, it has no power to scream.
He only conveyed heavy, tingling pain and let out a quiet anger.
“Ugh, huh…!”
Poor Rose sat down helplessly, looking at her own hands in despair.
Then she stretched out her hand to her without hesitation,
“Hmm, that’s right. Shouldn’t it be like this to be able to say it was washed cleanly?”
Smiling with satisfaction,
Looking down with her scornful eyes,
I stroked the skin, which was now starting to be covered with a light bloody smell.
“───────! “
So that the back of the hand, which is already injured, makes a crackling sound.
I tried hard to swallow her pain, but I couldn’t bear it and ended up shaking my head.
“…Well, I was wrong…!”
In the end, Rose raised her white flag.
Even though he didn’t know who he was, he decided that there must be a reason why he was so hated.
I am confident that I have a deep relationship with one of the many men I have accepted.
“Ha, ha… Hmm…
Are you saying you know what you did wrong?”
I didn’t know who it was.
But her own job,
Her own desire to help her younger brother, who had to grow up without his parents, grow up without any shortcomings,
I think she must have caused the problem,
Rose only bowed her head more miserably and servilely.
“…”
“You don’t seem to know. Yes, even though I saw it clearly with my own eyes.
Well, since you must have flattered so many men, how ugly are the things you did,
It’s messy,
It would be natural to not know whether something is low-quality or not.
Isn’t that so?”
She was a red woman without a scratch on her hands, but
Rose was trembling with fear.
It was Rose who hurt her own hand, but she was herself-
She couldn’t even make a sound, just shedding tears.
“You know the chestnut-haired boy, right?”
The reason it stopped for a moment was because that old-fashioned voice was soothing.
Sweetly and gently,
It’s like putting expensive alcohol in your mouth, enjoying it for a while and then swallowing it.
She was a person who smelled like she was spraying a poisonous smell into the air.
“I would have even told you your name.”
“Are you talking about Russell?
But I didn’t even touch it – “
I tried to quickly get up from my seat to express my resentment towards her.
Instead of raising her, what hung her in the air was,
Red scales appear on her face, glaring with eyes that are not human-
“You’d better choose your words very carefully.
It’s not like I don’t know what you did.”
It was something.
A being other than a human woman,
This is even more unimaginable,
He was expressing his anger in front of her.
“You didn’t even touch me?”
“No, no!! I touched it, yes!
I grabbed your wrist to help you get out of here…!!”
My body, which should be warm, feels cold,
Feeling pain as if my dazed head was swelling as if it were about to explode,
Rose stamped her feet and screamed through her constricting throat.
“And?”
But the pain did not stop there.
Rather, being pushed further into the wall,
She had to struggle as she felt the hot breath reaching her ears.
Passing my breath through a space that seemed like a thread could barely pass through.
“That, and, and – “
But nothing emerged from her fading consciousness.
No matter how much I thought about it, I didn’t think there was anything more lustful –
Thoughts that passed by in a moment,
Things brought about by the desire to live,
It made Rose move her mouth.
“Breasts… Great, great…”
Recalling the shy gaze of the innocent boy who made an effort to turn his head away,
Just before her life line was cut off, she talked about the most beautiful scenery in her life that passed by her,
She closed her eyes.
…After those words, the breath that seemed to be completely cut off,
Before she knew it, she had broken down on the floor and was inhaling once again.
Inflating my completely shriveled stomach once again,
Even as I beat my aching chest, as if I was running through the winter air,
“Keek – Cough, Clock, Clock…!”
I chased old breath and death out of my mouth.
Hot tears flow,
The snot and saliva that seemed to be pouring out made a mess on the floor.
“…I am aware of my mistakes.
It’s surprising that you know my subject much more than I thought.”
I suddenly regained my normal human face and kept my cold eyes for a moment.
The red woman was soon taken away.
Something fell with a clunk, and the sound of pain echoed through the room.
“Originally, I had planned to slaughter the four years that robbed me of all my first glory.
But no, I can’t do that.
At least you understood my topic in front of me.
Unlike many humans.”
Water is poured on Rose’s face, who still cannot escape from her pain and fear.
As she coughed, a money bag filled with heavy things shook and shook in front of her.
“From what I heard, you have a precious family.
I am like that too.
It won’t hurt even if you put it in your eyes.
You’ve grown up looking only at me, but before you know it, you want to see more things.
But there are things you can look at and things you can’t.
There are things to like and things to dislike.
Isn’t that right?”
“…Kek, kehek, yes, yes…! Of course, of course…!”
But I wasn’t even interested in it.
With red marks left on her neck, she bowed her head once again and cried out.
She didn’t dare say the words she asked for help.
But with her body humbly pressed to the floor,
I just focus my gaze on the woman standing in front of me.
“So, I want to buy your future.
I would like to put a value on it like this.”
A small sack fell in front of my eyes.
However, Rose could not raise her head.
“…You need to see what’s in it so I can continue the conversation, right?”
Only after her command was given, was she able to move her sore hands little by little and touch her rough shaft and straps.
After enduring her tingling pain for a while,
“hehehe…!”
An even more unbelievable sight unfolded before my eyes.
The brown pouch was filled with sparkling gold.
Inexplicable chunks of bright, clear color, like coins, were colliding and making noise.
There were even things in between that bounced light and showed off her presence.
Gold and silver treasures.
The word was in a sack.
“Okay, so.
What do you think?
Talking about your present,
I’m not talking about your past.
It’s about your future.
If I were to live with this for you in the future…
How would you answer?”
Faced with even brighter things in the shining room, Rose stopped even taking her breath for a moment.
She was a woman who was confused by the riddle-like words,
Not whether to accept the offer or not,
Rose was trying to understand the meaning of the words themselves.
“I heard these are desperate, but maybe they’re expensive…?”
A sound like a marble falling and bouncing was heard in front of my eyes,
What I saw was not beads, but precious stones pouring out of a small bag overflowing.
“No, no!”
As soon as she saw it, she held out her swollen hand,
Instead, she lifted her head and looked at her shadowy face.
I dared to look into the gaze of someone who was not human.
“…Everything, just,”
No additional questions were asked.
There were no words that pressured her.
The heavy presence was still in the room,
Rose was given an unfounded confidence that she could move her mouth freely.
“I want you to know what it means to sell my future.”
Was that correct answer?
The red-haired woman smiled her faint smile at her, her eyes sparkling.
A look full of brilliance that cannot be compared to one’s own.
She is so beautiful that you can forget that she was the person who was trying to kill you just a moment ago.
“I guess my choice to keep you alive wasn’t that bad.
There is still some mercy left to show to a child who knows his way around and is even smart.”
But the change in my thoughts took place in an instant.
A glimmer of hope turns to despair,
Even the fear she felt until now was a glimmer of mercy,
“But you are trying to clearly meet the person you are asking about with your own two eyes.
And engrave it on your poor mind and soul.”
Red tail.
Dark red horn.
And the wings spread out.
“Hee… Hee hee…!”
From the moment I saw the red scales,
She regretted not having noticed her sooner.
“I asked you whether you would accept it or not.
And there are two options I gave you.”
A strange voice, like scraping metal, rang out from a monster in the shape of a woman.
Her presence that seemed to fill the room was never an illusion,
The size of the wings showed no intention of shrinking.
“Sell your future to me,
Choose now whether to do so or not.”
The evil dragon asked.