Verbütt let one hand hang down and let him trim his fingernails.
The operation of applying oil to the nails and grinding them round so that there are no sharp corners at the ends.
It was a job that was usually left to maids, but a nobleman’s touch was more pleasant than a lowly commoner’s.
Verbutt looked down at his well-groomed hair and blew the other nail.
It was a pretty good idea to receive the doppelganger potion by entrusting the hair she got from combing Guardia’s hair to the church.
‘It’s so much fun these days.’
Doppelganger potions show different effects depending on the amount used.
If you drink a certain amount, only your appearance becomes the same, but if you drink too much, your mind completely becomes that person.
‘I wish I hadn’t been vulnerable to torture.’
Verbut pursed his lips and sighed in pity.
Then, you could get a lot of benefit from only getting someone’s hair or blood and then making a doppelganger potion.
If you wanted to know someone’s secret, you would have known it all if you tortured a useless person with a doppelganger potion.
What if you die then?
‘Because I can feed it to someone else and torture it again.’
sorry, sorry
But why not.
Excessive pain destroys the potion’s effect.
But what if you use drugs like drugs to get confessions or make you vomit your secrets?
If you eat something like that, your brain melts. Because the doppelganger potion is also a drug that has an effect on the mind.
‘It’s worthwhile to beg and beg my father for permission.’
Although it is a potion that is not used very often because it will cause confusion if it is revealed to the world, and it is feared that the church will suffer damage due to it, the target was the Guardian of the Kruger family, and it was decided after careful consideration.
Rather than the risk that the identity of the doppelganger potion might be known to the world, the benefit of obtaining the guardia moved the balance.
If she makes a scandal about her and makes people criticize her, and if Verbüth herself doesn’t visit for a while, the proud guard will be anxious and isolated by herself because she didn’t find her first.
It was meant to make her feel like the whole world was swearing at her.
While feeding the fake guardia, whose appearance has changed only with a little potion, to a bad store, he deliberately spreads more dirty rumors and makes him anxious with eyewitness stories from places he has not been to.
Guardia In a situation where others don’t easily believe what she says, what will happen if she feeds a lot of potions and puts a fake that she believes to be Guardia in front of her eyes.
You will end up trying to solve it alone in your pride, and your mind will be torn apart.
At that time, what if Verbut himself approached like a savior?
‘I believe in my older sister.’
‘Because I’m on my sister’s side.’
If you approach Guardia, who is originally mentally weak, as if you were her only light, then you would be able to attract her to the church very easily.
Because Guardia’s mind is weak enough to be so sure.
In the end, you must request an artifact for confirming paternity, which is said to be used only in the royal family.
Then, just make the fake guardia go missing.
Well, it would be better if people knew who the real Guardia was and tried to look good to Guardia.
There will already be distrust in everyone but herself in Guardia’s heart.
Doppelganger Potion is very difficult to make and uses a lot of rare ingredients, and I don’t know why, but aside from the downside of not being able to produce it for a while, the Doppelganger Potion is useful in many ways, and Verbutt has been enjoying its effects these days.
“How is Guardia?”
The man who was manicuring Guardia’s nails opened his mouth at the giggling question.
“It looks like a younger brother came from the family.”
“Brother?”
Verbütte tilted her head and tilted her head, causing her thick brown hair to shake.
“It’s probably not at a level where you can recognize it as blood.”
As if to match her mood, the man who was trimming his nails laughed awkwardly at Verbüte’s expression as if he was puzzled by putting his index finger to his lips.
“sure. It’s the lady’s plan, so it has no choice but to be perfect.”
“Don’t flatter me for being obvious.”
The man who was manicuring his nails hurriedly lowered his head at Verbute’s words as he pulled out his manicured hand and held it up to the light.
And then, the sound of someone knocking on the door in a certain rhythm rang out.
“come in.”
A rhythm of knocking that normal visitors would not do.
After verifying that he was a follower just by sound, Verbüt opened his mouth, and when the door opened, a middle-aged man standing in front of him was wiping his bald forehead with a handkerchief.
Seeing that, Verbut opened his mouth in a mischievous voice,
“Oh, isn’t Professor Hartran? You can’t come to the girls’ dormitory like this.”
Verbute, who was stroking her brown hair as if she was going to scold her if it came as something insignificant.
Heartran, who was wiping the sweat from his forehead with a face as if he was being chased by him, took a deep breath and opened his mouth.
“Bee, Lady Verbut… The fake Guardia has been exposed.”
Verbütt’s face, which was lightly smiling at Hartran’s trembling words, hardened.
“What do you mean?”
“that… Guardia’s younger brother from the Kruger family found the real Guardia and did something to the fake Guardia. The effect of the potion has been lifted.”
At his words, Verbütt sat down and nervously slapped the armrest of the chair.
The tip of his manicured fingernails cracked and slowly red blood began to seep out.
“What are you talking about! Nonsense. Do you know how many potions he made me drink? Could it be that the idiot, said to be Guardia’s younger brother, even stabbed his own sister with a knife?”
There was no way the potion could be released simply by threatening or intimidating her.
In words, he screamed that he had stabbed him with a knife, but if it was going to be solved that easily in the first place, he wouldn’t have started.
It cannot be solved by being stabbed with a knife or being beaten several times.
The doppelganger potion is only released when you feel continuous torture, death-threatening wounds, or equivalent fear.
But is it solved?
“miss… nails… … .”
“Is this a problem now?”
The tips of the neatly trimmed nails split and the blood drips from them. Nervously chewing on the split end with his teeth, Verbuth raised the corners of his eyes and narrowed his brows.
“dare… … .”
I can’t count the losses that passed through my head momentarily.
Because of the waste of the doppelganger potion that can no longer be produced, the only thing gained from discovering its existence is the loss of Guardia’s image?
Before even pushing her into the arms of the Holy Protestants?
“You’re crazy, right?”
There is still a lot of time left for the potion to dissolve naturally.
Doesn’t that mean that Guardia’s brother gave his sister fear or pain close to death while not being sure whether it was real or fake?
Verbut chewed on it and spit it out with a bit of torn fingernail.
“Get to know him. I’ll make you pay for ruining my plans.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
Hartman, who had been wiping from his forehead to the top of his head with a stretched handkerchief at Verbute’s words, nodded.
* * *
“None.”
“No one is there.”
It must be this inn.
Since it is a high-end inn, the entire top floor is decorated like an inn.
So there’s no way he entered the room by mistake. It sounds like you went out to play after all.
I moved my head when I saw Rachel’s robes scattered randomly in one corner of the living room.
“Did you go out to play?”
“No, are you going to abandon us?”
At my words, Zero put on an unfair expression. If you call Siren, you’ll know where it is right away.
‘Why?’
If it were Luna, she would have told her first and then left, but seeing that she just left, she might be saying that she doesn’t really want to let people know.
“Riff wrote down a note.”
Kane lifts a slip of paper from the table and hands it to me.
The content that only women go out to build a strong relationship between the three.
‘No matter how much I think about it, it’s a line Rachel would say.’
Even in the original work, the women often chatted with each other in a bar and a gambling house. Because there is a record of fighting around the arena… … .
I thought for a moment and shook my head. After all, with those three, nothing dangerous would happen.
“Then, shall we play with the boys?”
Knowing everything, Zero thinks for a moment, then opens his mouth expecting something.
I only read diaries and novels of adventurers in the labyrinth and took them with me without giving me a chance to socialize… … .
There are no folk game stars and no role play here, so what are three men doing?
alcohol? Alcohol tastes better when you are drunk, but Zero and Kane are at the point where they won’t get drunk. Gambling won’t let me do it.
“I fall for anything once.”
Kane seems to have the same thoughts as me, and he tries to fall in before he even listens.
Oh, I can’t stand it again.
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“What are you going to do first?”
When I asked with a smirk, Kane tried to go to his room, but I grabbed him as if I was trying to catch him.
“Adelian. The capital of that empire is the first. Senior Kane is also new to you, right?”
“I fall.”
As if feeling something creepy, Kane was about to cross my feet, but Zero blocked his way.
I heard on the way, the night market is open today. You must have heard it too.”
Wow, under Rachel’s leadership, Luna and Leaf would be drinking and gambling, but under Zero’s leadership, we were able to visit the night market or shop.
The night market has some street food and some handicrafts, isn’t it? No matter how you think about it, it’s not a space for me, Kane, and Zero to go to.
Actually, it would be best to just wash up and rest in bed.
“Hey, if you miss something like that, write it.”
It’s obvious that Kane will be more annoying than me, so I’m leaving right away.
“While you’re out, buy some presents for Luna, Leaf, and Rachel.”
If I have time, I may drop by the Magic Tower.
Zero looked excited at what I said while raising the corners of his mouth, while Kane put on the hood attached to his robe with a tired face after a long time.
“Let’s go quickly.”
At that, Zero opened his mouth like a hamburger. To be honest, I’m not very inspired, perhaps because of my sense of wealth, but it must be a different feeling for Zero, who spent his entire life in a prison-like labyrinth, and Kane, who was sold as a slave and abused as a test subject.
If you only see too much strength and run, people will become impoverished. There must be times when the strings are loosened.
The night market, which opened when the sun went down and the sky was getting quite dark, was definitely held in the capital of the empire, so there were many people and the scale was not small.
“You sell everything. It’s amazing.”
Zero, who buys one by one by sticking to street food or home-made food, and Kane and I, standing in the back as if we weren’t part of a group.
“It’s a unique knife.”
This time, Zero and I got away from the back as Kane showed interest in unique deformed weapons and various weapons containing craftsmen’s souls.
In general, cheese or beef jerky, other than those sold in stores or complex foods such as cakes, do not change their taste even if they enter the subspace.
Zero turns his head as he puts a weapon that uniquely transforms into the subspace along with food made with their own recipe at home.
“That is so amazing.”
Juggling with 8 balls, or a bird made of fire flying around and hitting a target thrown into the air with feathers.
In a way, it’s not much of a circus, but Zero, who has experienced a night market like this for the first time, seems strange.
Also, Kane doesn’t talk, but it looks interesting.
‘As expected, children.’
I shook my head once, but sirens rang.
＜Adelian… … .＞
Luna?
＜Help!＞