Well, she really did sound like she wanted it—like deep down, she genuinely wished to see succeed, to watch rise and conquer this entire world, to make it mine piece by piece. It made wonder... how would soone like her, who had always been there on the sidelines, quietly watching, secretly rooting for , actually feel if I finally pulled it off? If I actually achieved sothing that grand?
"But what would be in it for , though?" I asked, my tone casual, though my eyes stayed sharp on her.
"This isn’t my body, so I can’t just give it to you," she said smoothly, tilting her head a little. "You’d need Su’s consent first. I can’t exactly let you have sex with while using her body, can I?" There was a hint of mockery in her voice, but also sothing playful beneath it. "Well... if you managed to get to her, then maybe we could strike a deal. You’d get Su and together. Don’t you like the sound of that? Two in one. You’d basically be getting two won in your harem at the sa ti."
Her words hit like a little spark in the back of my mind. I won’t lie... I liked the idea. It was tempting. Basically, she was offering herself up, but not at the expense of Su’s will. Even if I tried to romance Han and ended up having sex with her, it was still Su’s body, which ant I had to get Su’s consent first before moving forward. And yeah, that made sense. I liked the proposal, but if I was being honest with myself, it wasn’t sothing I really needed right now. It didn’t feel like enough to match what she wanted from . Just giving herself wasn’t equal to the demand she was making.
I needed more. Much more than what she was currently offering.
"It seems like our body isn’t exactly enough for you, huh?" she teased, her lips curling into a sly smile that looked both amused and knowing. "Well, that’s fine. I didn’t expect you to agree right away. That’s why I’m going to offer you sothing else. How about our assistance with your infiltration mission? We’re slaves there, after all, and we’ve seen plenty. We know the terrain better than most, even in the deepest levels."
"Oh?" I raised a brow, leaning in slightly, testing her words. "So you’re offering your assistance? Honestly, I feel like that’s sothing we really could use... but why do you think that alone would be enough to make agree?"
"Level five," she answered, her tone dipping lower as if she was about to spill a secret. "That’s where we were locked up. And I think you’ll find sothing pretty... and I an, really pretty interesting there to add to your little collection. Just the day before you bought , I overheard the guards. They said they’d caught a rmaid."
My head tilted. "A rmaid?"
The word alone pulled into mory. rmaids. They were beings I only ever knew as myths back in my previous world. They were half-human, half-fish, and they were always described as living in the sea, in particular in the infamous Dark Ocean. That place wasn’t just dangerous. I heard it was a nightmare, a vast expanse of water where even the most skilled pirates had to tread carefully to survive. And yet, sohow, there were people crazy and talented enough to pull off sothing as insane as capturing a rmaid from there.
Catching a rmaid wasn’t so easy task, though. It was damn near impossible. That’s why selling one was ridiculously expensive, costing no less than a thousand gold coins just to buy a single rmaid slave. And still, it wasn’t like rmaids would ever willingly allow themselves to be captured alive either. No. The mont they were taken out of their waters, they’d unleash their deadly poison magic, killing everyone around them instantly—though the cost of it was their own life.
So yeah, capturing one alive was almost unheard of. Even then, when they eventually died, their bodies could be harvested. The poison would fade, and what was left could still be valuable. rmaid blood, for example, was one of the main ingredients for—
"Not just any rmaid," Han cut in, pulling back to her words. "They said she’s such a beautiful catch that so of the bandits wanted to take turns with her. Raping a rmaid... even famous pirates back in my days hadn’t done so. So naturally... they were too scared and really terrified she’d release her poison magic and kill them all in one go. However, do you wanna know why she hasn’t used it yet?"
I thought for a second, my gaze narrowing. "Considering that using it would kill her, my guess is she’s too important to throw her life away... or maybe she doesn’t even know how to use it yet. Or at all"
"You’re right with that assumption," she said, smirking like she was enjoying this little ga. "She might just be the princess of the rmaid kingdom. Wouldn’t that be fun for you? Imagine it—having not only an elven princess in your harem but a rmaid princess too. Isn’t that sothing worth looking forward to?"
"And how the hell am I supposed to believe what you’re saying is true?" I asked flatly. "For all I know, this could just be a bluff. There might be no rmaid at all, and you’re just luring into a trap."
"I don’t find any fun in boring tricks like that," she replied without missing a beat. "You already know that about , don’t you?"
Well yeah... she wasn’t wrong. From what I’d seen of her, she really didn’t get her kicks out of doing mundane, predictable crap like that.
For now, I had to take her words as they were. If what she said was true, then there was a real chance I might gain sothing huge out of this.
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