309 – Apocrypha: Golden Key – 2
I picked up the key instead of Fetch, who was sitting with a dumbfounded expression on his face, unable to even think of picking up the key. It was a key that looked the same as the model of Brunet 4.
It wasn’t until Fetch confirmed that the key was in my hand that he let out a hiccup and trembled.
I didn’t mean to say anything, so I grabbed her by the shoulders and motioned for her to sit on the sofa, then I sat down on the sofa across from her. Fetch placed his butt on the cushion with extreme caution.
‘How nervous are you?’
The skin exposed between the underboob and tights was covered with sweat, and water droplets trickled down towards the hollow belly button. It was like being in a sauna.
Even though my sweaty body must have been very uncomfortable, Fetch only looked at my stiff eyes as if he didn’t care about that. The hot pink eyes swiveled around.
“First of all, let’s relax and go. Catch your breath and call me when you’re ready to speak. In the meantime, I’m going to take a break.”
“Yes…… Thank you Hey!”
I leaned back on the sofa, holding the platter on the table. After a few minutes, Fetch began to shake his body as if his tension had eased. As the tension eased, it seemed that his sweaty body was becoming concerned.
Fetch took a handkerchief from his coat pocket and was about to wipe his body, but stopped when he checked me. I pretended to look around and averted my eyes. Then the sound of the handkerchief rubbing against the skin began to be heard.
There is no difference in the clothes you wear, even if they are lifted upwards.
“It’s all done. Thank you.”
I turned my head. Overall, Fetch, who looked much more human than before, was staring at me hesitantly.
He took off his sweat-stained coat and neatly folded it beside him, and carefully arranged the disheveled bangs and side hair. Compared to the first time, the hardened expression was also quite relaxed.
“Has your tension subsided?”
“Yes. I…… But just now… ….”
“Just now? Like what?”
“With a kiss…… Uh… ….”
Perhaps he couldn’t bring himself to say that he climaxed more than ten times with kisses, so he stammered as if he was trying to find a replacement word. But there was no archaic vocabulary to replace it.
Even if there was, there was no way I could recall it right now.
“I sent it that way on purpose to ease your tension. It’s obvious that I won’t be able to speak properly if I’m with Caicilia. Or call me back here?”
“No no no no! Thank you for your consideration! You don’t have to call me again!”
Fetch shook his head urgently. The hot pink twin tails fluttered. Fetch, who rejected my words with all his might, returned cautiously and continued to ask questions.
“…… Did you promise a future with His Majesty the Emperor? Call him by name, kiss him…… You have no hesitation.”
‘His Majesty?’
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For a while, I remembered that the fact that the owner of the empire had not been officially announced had yet to be announced. If so, Fetch must have had that kind of misunderstanding.
“You heard what Caicilia said when she came in, right? Even if I didn’t get confirmation, I would have guessed. It is as you guessed.”
Of course, I had no intention of correcting my misunderstanding. Anyway, we’ll know everything later when it’s officially announced. Misunderstanding that doesn’t mean there’s a serious danger to oneself.
“Then, the Pope’s embrace earlier…… ?”
“Right. For the same reason as Caicilia. Why?”
“Oh, it’s nothing. Just…… I’m curious, yo…….”
Fetch rapidly shrank again after just a few questions. I leaned back on the sofa again.
“There is nothing to be nervous about. Is our relationship over?”
“Ha ha ha…… Yes, it is…… That’s it…….”
When I waved the golden key in her hand, Fetch laughed hahahaha as her mouth was smiling but her eyes weren’t laughing. He seemed to remember what he was trying to do to trap me.
“I should have told you the other day. Fetch It was on purpose that I fell into the trap you laid. You tricked me on purpose even though I knew everything, so what reason would I have to resent or hate you?”
“… ….”
“I said there was a shortcut, but when I went in, I fell into a trap where the door was closed and I was locked in. I even got a stone rolled on the stairs on a slope. I did, or else…….”
As I explained the back of the head one by one by the ‘Fetch of Brightest Darkness 4’, his face gradually turned pale. How would you like to know what you are trying to do?
“So, fetch.”
I met Fetch’s gaze. The hot pink pupils trembled.
“You don’t have to be too scared.”
“Ha ha ha…… Yes, don’t be afraid…… Yes… ….”
The hand holding the armrest went into strength. The knuckles of his fingers turned white. Due to Fetch’s personality, if I bend over too much, I’ll secretly try to sneak in an opportunity, so this is the most appropriate.
“Let’s finish something quickly. Where did you find this, Fetch?”
“That, that’s a trade secret… ….”
“Where did you find it?”
“…… Hiccup.”
Fetch hiccupped.
I asked a little forcefully, but I couldn’t help it because the information that wasn’t even in the game was right in front of my eyes. It was an opportunity to satisfy curiosity that had been going on for 10 years.
“…… Can’t you hear me and get angry?”
“I won’t pay. Say it.”
“You really shouldn’t be angry…… ?”
“Aren’t you angry?”
I wondered where he found it and why he had such an attitude. While my doubts deepened, Fetch, who had been fiddling with his index fingers in front of his chest, cautiously opened his mouth.
“Actually, I discovered it a long time ago and wrote it down.”
“…… ?”
Did I just hear wrong?
“I have forgotten where it is now, but I found it in an abandoned workshop. I went in thinking it was a cave at first, but it turned out to be a workshop. When I entered, there was only a dead skeleton and a few junk sitting on a chair, but there was a golden key and a note on the desk in front of the skeleton. If you use it a thousand times, it will break, but until it breaks, it’s a key that can unlock any lock that exists in the world at once, so I grabbed it and came out.”
I wondered how good he was as an alchemist to make something like this, but that wasn’t the point right now.
“A thousand times?”
“Yes, yes! That’s what it said on the note! It will break after a thousand uses!”
An unexpected secret has been released in an unexpected place. My eyebrows naturally narrowed.
Fetch shuddered, as if he thought he was making this expression because he was offended by his own use of the golden key, but my attention was directed elsewhere.
‘…… Does that mean it wasn’t disposable in the first place?’
I stared blankly at the person who changed the golden key, which was said to be usable 1,000 times, into a disposable item. There was another hiccup.
“Do you have anything more to say?”
“Th-I pursued business profits with it, but I was saving it because I wanted to use it for a really big one…… Delta told me to bring the golden key…….”
Fetch stopped talking and trembled as he crouched down.
“Ah, I heard you weren’t scolding me!”
“You’re not scolding me. You can go ahead and explain.”
“I told you everything I knew! It’s real! I picked it up from the abandoned alchemy workshop and used it, and I left the rest while thinking about where to use it, but Delta-sama told me to come find it, so I brought it all!
“When I asked you to find the golden key, didn’t you protest how to find something you don’t know?”
“… ….”
Fetch slightly averted his eyes. At least it must have been a lie.
It was the same in the game, but it was a really admirable personality. Even in such a situation, judging what the other person knows and what they don’t know and lying.
Even now, if Fetch had been a little more relaxed mentally, he might have taken an opportunity to lie.
‘I’ll have to reward Caicilia later.’
It wasn’t intentional, but it did a great job anyway.
“I can understand why you came to me now. Did you come late on purpose because you were afraid that if you returned too early, you would be questioned about how you found it so quickly?”
“Yes. You got it right. But you really don’t scold me, right? Lol.”
Fetch, who had shrunk a lot, smiled cutely. I wasn’t interested in that kind of smile.
‘Somehow, he handed over that precious thing without hesitation…… You f*cking swindler, did he give you only one leftover after he used it to the fullest? At the same time, he gave all he had to be considerate?’
Because I was busy pouring insults at Petch in Brunet 4.
‘The front and back are aligned now.’
The reason why the previous emperors of the empire failed in the end even after investing such a huge amount of time and money to find the golden key was that the key had already passed into someone’s hands.
The reason why the golden key is disposable is because Fetch, who first acquired it, used it happily.
“Hey…… You’re not scolding me, right? … ? Yes…… ?”
After confirming that my expression was distorted, Fetch erased his smile and started talking to me trembling.
Of course, I had no intention of taking my anger out on the ‘real’ Fetch right in front of me. After hearing the whole truth from Eclipse, I drew a clear line about the relationship between Brunet 4 and this world.
The NPCs in Brightest Darkness 4 and the humans here are only similar in behavior, but they are distinctly different beings. So I won’t try to repay the human fetch for what happened to the NPC fetch.
Because the person I was pissed off about was the NPC Fetch, who, despite beating the player like that, lied even when giving the final reward, and showed all sorts of condescension, saying that it was really precious for such a subject.
‘I’ll have to tell Eclipse to update the brunet 4.’
Of course, it didn’t mean that he wouldn’t take revenge.
“I told you. No such thing. I was just a bit surprised because it was different from what I thought. I thought it was your behavior.”
“Uh…… Thank you…… ?”
Fetch didn’t know if that was a compliment or a curse.
“Instead, let’s stop by one place with me.”
The hot pink twintails, who thought the job was over, flinched as soon as they heard my words. His face turned halfway into a weeping one.
“Oh, where are you talking about?”
“Alchemy Workshop.”
If this is indeed an item created by an alchemist, there is something to check.
“Wait a minute. Then, how old are you? I heard that there are records of failure to find the golden key from 200 years ago?”
“… ….”