Published at 22nd of January 2024 4:53 pm

Chapter 370 Part 2

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And it’s said that they still have to live together despite that. I don’t know who made up this law, but I feel a sickening obsession with being together.

Despite that, she is here now, and moreover, she just completed the first round with the chest-haired gentleman. I’m pretty sure she broke up with her husband.

「And so, what happened after that?」

The chest-haired gentleman asked her with a curious expression as if he wanted to know what had happened between the time they became sick of each other and the present.

But her reply did not meet the gentleman’s expectations.

「I do my best work outside like this to reduce the time we spend together as much as possible.」

Because her answer was plain. Just doing nothing but endure the situation, not moving the story in any way.

「Well, there’s also the fact that I wanted to be able to live on my own without having to depend on my husband.」

After much thought, apparently, she chose a job as a massage therapist’s assistant. Of course, it wasn’t an erotic one, unlike mine.

『Improving the flow of blood vessels and nerves that are congested by compression by relaxing the muscles and returning the skeletal structure to its proper position.』

That kind of massage.

It’s true that you can do it with only your body without the need for tools. As long as she was skilled enough at it, customers would come and the demand for her service would never cease.

Whether it was because of her talent or her seriousness, she seems to have absorbed everything she could while working there and was eventually hired as a master, not as an assistant.

『A skilled woman on top of being beautiful.』

Thanks to this, it seems that she began to get nominations from well-paid customers, such as owners of a merchant caravan or pilots of mercenary knights.

And as she broaden her horizons, the idea of 『leaving the country』 came to her.

「I often have conversations with my clients while I’m giving them a massage. And that’s where I find out and was surprised that this kind of marriage only exists in this part of the world.」

She continued, “When I think about it, I guess I was living in a small world”.

In a small city where ten people around her would give the same answer when she asked, she had no idea that there were various different ideologies out there.

(I feel you.)

I grew up in the countryside, so I can really understand how she feels. Because there are so few people in the countryside, people assume that what is common sense around them is common sense everywhere else in this world.

So when I left my hometown, I was shocked to find out that what I found normal is actually a minority among many.

『Going to the city changed that kid, he’s a bad kid now.』

Also, when I occasionally go back to my hometown, I often hear people say these things behind my back and so obviously as if they are deliberately making it so that I can hear them.

It’s because we have developed our own common sense, our own way of thinking, and values. In their small world, foreigners are conspicuous, and they are often antagonized just because they are different.

(Back to the story, marriage in the Empire should be the same as in the Kingdom.)

I know this much about the great country to the West from my experience working for the merchant guild. I don’t know how it is in the religious country in the East, but since churches have replaced brothels in those countries, they shouldn’t be that different from the Kingdom.

It’s probably a custom that remains only in her birthplace, a city-state on the eastern edge of Easternmost countries.

「Right after having my mind opened up, I decided to leave everything behind and run away from my home. I couldn’t stand how I was wasting away my life day by day there.」

She must have recalled it as she said it with a strong tone. The chest-haired gentleman shakes his head as if he’s touched by her story.

「You made a wonderful decision. That must have not been an easy thing to do.」

I feel like it’s a serious story to talk about, but the chest-haired gentleman leans forward so much that her cheeks went red.

「I could see what I had to do once I decided on a path, and time just flew by like an arrow.」

She spent her earnings from giving massages to learn the traditional dances of the Easternmost countries and to attend schools as an auditing student to acquire a good education. Whenever she had free time, she would also attend etiquette classes for rich people.

『The surroundings and the country must not know of my runaway.』

『I must not let anyone bring me back after I left the country.』

『The journey to another country must be safe, even if only comparatively.』

As a result of her research based on these three conditions, she decided to 『sneak into the Continental Circus』. Incidentally, the reason she paid so much money to study was so that she could be hired as a worker in a brothel.

A good-looking appearance is a must, but if you don’t have substance, you won’t even be considered.

(She made the right decision.)

Because of their high demands, brothel workers have a high social status everywhere in the world. Therefore, they are less likely to be interfered with by the country than traders or travelers.

And because they have money, the quality of the guards they hire is often high-level, and multiple of them.

「Fortunately, they were willing to let me hide in the corner of the golem carriage for a few days.」

However, although she could massage, dance, and hold an educated conversation, she had no experience with anyone other than her husband.

Therefore, she started out as an apprentice, mainly doing menial work.

「It took some time. But after I became a full-fledged employee, I was even offered jobs at the stores we visited.」

“I’ve turned them all down, though,” the slender beauty continued.

「There is the debt for taking me out of that place, but above all, I love the life I’m having currently.」

As the Continental Circus is called, it’s a moving brothel that travels around the Ost continent.

It’s fun to see the wide world, so she doesn’t feel like getting off the train of golem carriages until she gets tired of traveling.

「As for my husband I left behind, I am sure he knew I would take some kind of action sooner or later. Though I don’t know if it was in his expectation that I would suddenly disappear one day.」

He didn’t ask her what she was doing, nor did he do anything to stop her. She said that they were sick of each other, so I guess this is also what the husband would have wanted.

「It’s just a rumor, though.」

Apparently, long after the slender beauty left the country, her husband married another woman. I guess this means that his divorce from her disappearance was officially recognized by the country.

「That’s why, if I go back to my country, I will be seen as a complete villain and immediately arrested and enslaved. So when the store goes to the Easternmost countries, I ask them to drop me off temporarily in the country before the caravan goes there.」

The slender beauty who said so closed one eye and stuck out her tongue. She is definitely more lively and bright now than when she was married.

(She had to take the legal charges alone.)

But I think it was the best solution for both sides.

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