Why Ignorant Harems Are Dangerous

26 – #07. Gutter rats (1)

When I first opened my eyes, my stomach was throbbing.

The surroundings were illuminated by something like a torch in the dark, making it slightly difficult to distinguish objects, but when I tried to raise my upper body, the area around my lower abdomen was pulled so tight that I couldn’t move.

“Oh, don’t move.”

A man who talks to me like that.

This is the first face I see.

He didn’t look like a normal person, judging from the muscles he was wearing in a sleeveless top, but judging from the clothes and atmosphere, he didn’t seem to belong to the s*x community.

Looking around with a slight sideways glance, I felt that this place seemed to be a very humid and dark place.

Can you think of it as a basement?

However, it was a completely different atmosphere from the dungeon I saw when I saved Lenny, and the approaching person didn’t seem to care too much for me.

“This is… ….”

“Don’t even talk about it. I somehow sewed the slit belly, but if I move it even a little, it will burst.”

He walked over to me casually and started touching something on what appeared to be a bookshelf.

“Are you a s*x person?”

“Don’t tell me.”

The man let out a sigh of relief, but then returned to my surroundings, sat down on the chair right next to the bed, and shook his head.

“Are you a s*x person? Would you like to join such a trivial group?”

“Then where is this place?”

“Stop using honorifics. Just hearing it gives me goosebumps.”

Having said that, he pointed around and smiled mischievously.

“Still looks like a lifesaver.”

“Okay. Originally, I had no intention of caring about whether or not I was dying.”

If you say so.

He had an easy-going impression on the outside, but after talking like this, he didn’t seem like a very bad person than I thought.

“Then I’ll ask again, where is this place?”

“What does this look like to you?”

First of all, it’s damp enough that I noticed right away even though I had just opened my eyes.

I could hear the sound of babbling water all around me, and the smell was hard to describe, even as a joke. The smell was natural, but it seemed to be mixed with a disgusting smell somewhere.

A place where there is no sunlight, running water, and a foul smell.

“…… Is it a sewage system?”

“Correct answer. It’s just a gutter, in short, where the filth and sewage that flows around this castle from under the cathedral go.”

Why am I here?

Since I left the cathedral, my memory has been blurry, and each scene that comes to mind has not been connected as one, like shards of broken glass.

“Who was the child with me?”

“That kid was sent to sleep a while ago. It was very difficult because I tried to stay by your side except for sleeping time. Is it your daughter by any chance?”

“No, she is not a daughter.”

“Somehow. I thought she didn’t look alike.”

At those words, I was startled and groped my face.

The mask that was supposed to cover his face was gone, and it seemed that he had been showing his face ever since he passed out and came here.

“…… Has any woman ever seen my face?”

“Huh? What is this again?”

The man was momentarily taken aback by my question, then shook his head.

“What kind of woman comes into this stinky gutter?”

…… That’s really fortunate

I didn’t want to increase the number of victims due to this ability. It was too late to realize the weight of manipulating other people’s emotions, but I wanted to correct it even now.

“Anyway, there was a commotion outside. Dude, it looks like it was stamped by the saintess, right?”

There was a moment of silence at that question.

Would it be better to tell the truth here?

Of course, I know that he is the benefactor who brought me to this place and that he is uncooperative in s*xual intercourse through a series of conversations, but it was difficult if things went wrong.

“What is it? Because it was this body that saved me from struggling and dying on the street?”

Slightly annoyed attitude.

However, there was a point in what he said, and honestly, if he was going to hand me over to intercourse right away, there was no way I could resist, so I nodded my head.

“…… Relationships are complicated, but it’s okay to target me first.”

In fact, it was absurd to say that it was filmed.

She was interested in me, after all, because of her ability to charm.

“If that’s the case, rest here first. There’s no way the Seongguk bastards will come all the way into this gutter, and honestly, we have no intention of cooperating with those bastards.”

From those words, I thought I knew a little bit about why he helped me.

It didn’t seem like he had a very favorable feeling about s*xual intercourse, and he said that he would have let him die in the first place. Perhaps he seemed to be a person who was in conflict with s*xual intercourse.

But is that really all?

This is still the middle of the city. Even if he had gone underground, it was clear that conflict with the ruling class above would do nothing good for this man.

“Just one last thing.”

“Huh?”

“Why did you save me?”

At this, he showed his teeth with a snort.

“What are you going to do with that?”

To relieve anxiety.

There is no goodwill without a reason. Especially if it can harm you too.

I still didn’t know the order and power structure inside this castle, so I couldn’t help but be suspicious of everything around me even in this situation.

The man glared at me for a while then shrugged his shoulders.

“Well, it’s actually simple. I, and we, don’t really like s*xual intercourse where we have flower gardens blooming on our heads. Especially when I see a b*tch called a saint, it makes me sick.”

“Is that the reason?”

“There’s nothing wrong with that. Is there anyone who doesn’t like to feed a b*tch they don’t like?”

Because it was such a simple reason, I had no words to answer.

It seems that this man doesn’t yet know that women are attracted just by looking at my face, and if so, he probably doesn’t know why I’m being pursued.

Then, rather than wanting something, I could barely understand her saying that she helped me out of resentment toward the saintess or her kingdom.

“Why do you hate the holy kingdom and the holy woman so much?”

“Sure, this hyung has a lot of questions.”

However, as if he had no intention of refusing to answer, the man who met my gaze as I was lying slightly turned slightly turned his head away.

“To be honest, I don’t really hate Seongguk itself. Originally, they used to do business here, and even though they are messy, they don’t know the real situation here, so there was no better place to do business than here.”

“But what happened?”

“I couldn’t understand that b*tch.”

The man who got lucky with that started talking little by little.

I specialized in smuggling and distributing prohibited items from the border through backdoor dealings, or smuggling and distributing high-alcohol alcohol to places where excessive drinking is prohibited.

“It wasn’t long after that b*tch seized power, and a paladin came in without a hitch. Originally, we were in a relationship where we secretly tolerated each other’s existence.”

“Isn’t that a crime?”

“Under the law here, it must be so.”

If it’s illegal, isn’t this man wrong?

Of course, he was the lifesaver who saved me right away, so I can’t say much, but even considering that, I wondered if disturbing the social order was the right thing to do.

“I don’t remember living a nice life either, but that b*tch is too much.”

Come to think of it, five years after leaving the imperial palace.

In the meantime, I did not know how other people lived. There was no way to know what Meana Neira, let alone Cecilia, had done to come up with such a thought.

“Is it that serious?”

“Because she denies all the desires in the world and takes them for granted. Well, that’s roughly how I helped you.”

The man said that and then stood up.

Judging by the conversation I had with Cecilia the other day and the story of this man, if Cecilia were an intelligent body, she seemed to regard the desires and desires that she naturally possesses as sins.

“Now stop talking and lie down and get some rest. It is said that there is nothing good for patients in a place like this, but there are still many paladins and soldiers outside.”

“…… He, I want to say thank you.”

“Stop saying itchy words like that. And if you need anything, find me. You can grab anyone nearby and ask them to call Jack.”

The man who identified himself as Jack wrung out a cigarette and walked away waving his hand.

Made of a suitable structure with a little bit of wood, this space had no door, so I wandered around and watched him leave for a while, then lay down on the bed again.

He clearly called this place a gutter.

There won’t be any problems for the time being, but if the search on the ground fails, the s*x workers will definitely look underground.

Until then, you should feel better.

There is still a lot to be done.

Meanwhile, the friction between a man named Jack and Cecilia kept on haunting my mind.

A saintess who denies her desires and a merchant who makes money with her desires.

Objectively, it was clear that the former was correct.

Then, is Cecilia walking the right path?

It was difficult for her to answer that question right away.

* * *

“Boss. Are you really going to do that here?”

“What is it?”

Jack looked at the man approaching him and shrugged his shoulders.

To be honest, protecting that man is just a risk factor.

Jack could understand why he was asking this question, and he also knew that it was something they could relate to, who had been pushed off the surface and eventually fled underground.

“I’d rather just offer that to the saintess and get immunity…….”

“Does that make sense? What good would that couple forgive us for? At any rate, that man will be taken care of as a man, and we will immediately punish him according to our own.”

Saint Cecilia hates crime.

She is a woman who believes that if she is an intelligent being, she denies her unavoidable desires, and because of that greed, she is a woman who believes that disputes and conflicts are endless in this world.

Negotiating with such a woman?

It would have been much better to get out of this filthy gutter and leave the Holy Land.

“If you have time to say useless things, gather more people.”

“Yes, boss.”

It was only after the men left that Jack threw the burnt tobacco on the floor and crushed it with his shoe.

Rats in the gutter.

The saintess definitely said that, referring to Jack and his gang.

Jack saw her looking at him with her loathsome eyes as he fled down this filthy, stinking gutter, and he always wanted to give that smack a punch.

“That dog b*tch.”

Since you are an intelligent person, it is natural to have desires.

I want to eat delicious food and live more comfortably.

There are times when you want to have s*x, and sometimes, isn’t it a natural physiological phenomenon that follows because you are an intelligent body?

However, the current saintess denies all of that.

They say that unnecessary greed eventually leads to sin, and they pushed the black market away. In the long run, it seemed that they were trying to castrate the desires that naturally follow them as human beings by further strengthening the laws of the kingdom.

No matter how Jack thought about it, he couldn’t understand it.

That’s why, while everyone else left, he and a few gang members were the only ones who came down to the gutter and stayed in the Holy Kingdom, and about two years passed like that.

“They called us gutter rats.”

One day I wanted to prove that even that little mouse could bite an ankle.

Perhaps it was just coming, but he did not want to run away when he thought of what had happened here and the crazy saint.

Then, she met a dying man at the entrance to the underground waterway, and the saintess was desperately searching for the man.

How can I use this material I have now?

Jack pulled out another cigarette and asked, rolling his head.