Chapter 33 (1/2)
Translator: Wawaa
Editor: WilsonWilson
After Demian came back, Lara heard from him about Valentine’s hideout.
Her prediction was right.
Valentine still could not break away from his vicious master. He made fake potions, sold them as aphrodisiacs, and dedicated all the profits to his master.
“So, he’s a panhandler.”
Lara concluded that the future alchemist was a panhandler. She waited for him the next day, at the same time, with the carriage parked at the same place.
It continued to rain even after a day.
Konny complained with a sigh, saying that the laundry didn’t dry because it was too humid. Demian was looking out of the window without saying a word.
Valentine showed up a little late. Dressed in a large raincoat, he began the auction, moving back and forth from carriage to carriage.
Demian mumbled.
“He’s limping.”
Lara clung to the window and looked at the place Demian pointed at. As he said, Valentine was walking with a critical limp.
“He must have gotten hit a lot.”
“He’s coming this way.”
Lara’s carriage was the last one.
Valentine approached the window, knocked three times, and asked the same question.
“How much?”
Lara turned her eyes and looked at Demian. Then, he nodded without hesitation and asked Lara.
“Should I catch him?”
“Yes.”
He opened the carriage door.
The sound of the rain, which also sounded loud inside, filled their eardrums even louder.
Demian grabbed Valentine by the back of his neck and lifted him up. He pushed Valentine in with the damp rainwater through the open door.
Valentine was too flustered to even scream. He was dragged into the carriage like luggage and came face to face with Lara.
Demian closed the door and asked Lara.
“Should I cover his mouth?”
“No. He can’t scream.”
Lara said calmly.
If his master found out that he caused a disturbance, he might end up with more than just a broken leg.
Just as she said, Valentine did not scream.
He only sat back in the corner of the carriage, looking alternately at Lara, Demian, and Konny.
Lara opened her mouth first.
“Valentine.”
“W-who are you?”
“You should ask me first how I know your name.”
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“Why are you doing this? Who are you?”
“I’m someone who could go to the watchmen station with the aphrodisiac that you sold me yesterday and tell them to investigate it because it was made by a black sorcerer’s apprentice. I can even hand you over to them.”
Valentine’s face turned pale.
One ought to feel sorry for him with the way his whole body trembled, but Lara still talked to him in a dull and calm voice.
“Did you learn black magic?”
“N…no.”
“Don’t lie. I know your master is a black sorcerer.”
He trembled as if he was having a fit.
He looked at Lara with his mouth moved slightly. As if asking how she knew about that with only his facial expressions.
“Why did you make this potion?”
“To…to earn money.”
“Why?”
“My father is sick and my mother has left the house. So my siblings are starving back at home…”
“Don’t lie.”
He seemed to have a habit of lying. How many people has he deceived so far, to the point that whenever he opened his mouth, lies poured out smoothly?
Lara pointed out the truth once again.
“You were a guttersnipe. So your master picked you up and raised you. You have no talent that you can’t even make a contract with a low-level demon. That’s why you’re panhandling every day.”
“Who in the world are you, milady?”
He asked.
It was a trembling, yet powerful voice.
It was as if he was thinking that since he was caught, he should at least know about Lara’s identity before he died.
Lara took a glance at Demian and said to Valentine.
“I will be your employer from now on.”
Valentine was not easily persuaded.
It was understandable. She showed up in a suspicious way, forced him to get in her carriage, did all his background checks, and used all that to threaten him.
He held out, saying that he would never ever be her subordinate.
He would never change his mind if Lara hadn’t said this.
“I will deal with your master.”
“Pardon? What do you…”
“I will reveal every single detail of your master’s crime so she would never do it again.”
“Are you serious?”
“You are already planning to run away. You think that you might be abandoned anytime. So when there’s someone like me who wants to help you, then you get out of there as soon as possible.”
Even though Valentine was a grown-up young man, he was still beaten by his master every day.
Taming was a scary thing.
What he feared the most in the world was being abandoned by his master and then silenced by death.
“So if you, I mean, when you become my employer… What should I do?”
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“Just do whatever you want.”