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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Vine
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“So, how did you do it?”
A few days later, I was in the warehouse with Sanyeo. Being with her during a lazy evening was no punishment. She tilted her head while looking at the bowl of meat stew and asked me a question, and I ladled a lot of meat with my spoon and said,
“So, I kept talking to the leader. I told him, ‘if you don’t fight with the vice leader now, when else will you fight and win? Even now, the vice leader secretly looks down on you. Don’t you feel it too?’”
I said that and looked at Sanyeo. Sanyeo had her mouth open, and her eyes were closed.
“Ah-.”
She seemed more interested in the food than my story, so I let out a hollow laugh and roughly shoved the spoon into her mouth.
“Oup.”
As soon as the spoon came, she closed her mouth tightly, like a hungry baby bird, and ate every last bit from the bottom of the spoon. The spoon, with the greasy stew completely removed, shone brightly, reflecting the light from the cracks in the warehouse.
“Is it good?”
“Yeah.”
Her voice and actions were very natural. I let out a hollow laugh, and Sanyeo licked her lips and said,
“So, if you do just that, then are all the preparations done now?”
I shook my head and said,
“And I advised him that it was better to increase the vice leader’s raiding expeditions. Because if the vice leader is in the camp, he can solidify his side. I told him to send out expeditions led by the vice leader from now on. And so, the vice leader has been leaving his tent more often recently.”
“That was not something you did randomly, right? You kept sleeping with the vice leader’s wife, right? It’s related to that, isn’t it?”
Sanyeo asked with narrowed eyes. She seemed to be making fun of me rather than being jealous. We had never built up enough emotion to feel jealous of each other in the first place. I shook my head and said,
“That’s right. I approached her to set up the stage properly. I was able to tell from hearing the sounds while I was here that I have mastered bedroom techniques, you know? I am more skilled than a boar who blindly pushes forward with his strength.”
“Where did you learn the bedroom techniques? Your inner energy is quite pure, but you know bedroom techniques? Did you learn from a fallen monk or something?”
I shrugged. It was common to not know the identity of a reclusive person, so Sanyeo did not ask further. Sanyeo pushed the stew bowl away with her foot, and I used my spoon to scoop up a piece of meat again. I put it in Sanyeo’s mouth and said,
“Why would a woman who lures all kinds of men in this camp want a chaste love? She’d probably prefer to get a good deal and live a life of luxury. So, while I was telling all kinds of stories to the leader, I was also manipulating her.”
“Hmm… It’s good. The seasoning is perfect today.”
Sanyeo said with a satisfied expression while munching on the food. I leaned against the tent and said,
“Are you listening to what I’m saying?”
Sanyeo nodded and wiped her mouth with the edge of her shackles.
“Of course. I’m listening.”
I nodded and said,
“So I thoroughly tamed her by sleeping with her whenever the vice leader was away. And what I told her was roughly this: ‘Aren’t you tired of living as the vice leader’s wife for your whole life? Since you’re going to do it anyway, shouldn’t you live a more luxurious life? I have a good idea, so listen to it.’”
“And so, what did that woman say to that?”
“She seemed hesitant at first, but she didn’t even hesitate after I slept with her a few more times. She asked me this. ‘So, what are we going to do?’”
When I mimicked the woman’s voice, Sanyeo tilted her head for a moment and then mimicked my voice from a moment ago and said,
“So, what are we going to do?”
I chuckled because it was so ridiculous. As I laughed, she was also smiling brightly. We laughed quietly in the dark navy blue space for a long time, and I swept my face with my palm and said,
“So what we decided to do was that when that woman’s husband comes in, she would sow seeds of doubt in him. She’d say that the leader had a strange look in his eyes when looking at her recently. She’d say it’s suspicious how he’s been sending her husband out raiding lately and how that means that he’s plotting something. She’d say that she’s scared of what might happen if things continue like this.”
Sanyeo said after hearing my story,
“Interesting. So, what will happen now? What do you want in this situation?”
I sat down on the spot and said,
“If I think about it, how am I supposed to shake off those guys alone if I just run away from here? I’ve only just barely reached the third-rate level. It’s not like they’re easy opponents for me.”
I picked up the ax on the floor. Due to the few raids, the ax was emitting a faint red glow. Sanyeo was rolling her eyes as if she was looking for the bloodstains on the ax, before looking back at me. I raised my ax and said,
“So, I’m going to make it so they don’t even think about chasing us. By making them fight each other.”
Sanyeo tilted her head. She said,
“You made them suspicious of each other, so they’ll fight soon? They were just cowards who had been sizing each other up until now. Isn’t that too optimistic?”
I shook my head. And then, I smiled and leaned back. The old, unkempt weapons emanated the smell of dust and iron as I moved. This unpleasant smell that I faced every time I came into the tent had recently started to give me a cozy feeling.
I said,
“By the way, I did use my bedroom techniques to bed a woman this time.”
Sanyeo nodded.
“Yeah.”
I moved my fingers in the air. When I stuck my middle and ring fingers together and moved them habitually, they automatically formed a lewd hand motion.
“Will that work on martial arts masters as well? If I talk with them somehow and manage to sleep with them, that is.”
Sanyeo shook her head at my question and said,
“You can’t forcibly conquer a martial artist who has built up their mental and physical power with just bedroom techniques. It’s said that not only the bodies of a man and woman need to be compatible to share the joys of love, but their minds need to be compatible as well, right? The type of insidious techniques you’re talking about are within the realm of seduction techniques. Bedroom techniques and seduction techniques are different.”
I thought about whether there was such a thing in the manual I had read. In the manual that I had memorized, there was definitely no mention of “how to brainwash and control martial artists” or “how to make martial artists into perverts with just a finger.”
“That’s, that’s right.”
Sanyeo smiled when I gave up easily and said,
“But it’s not impossible either. I don’t know what kind of bedroom techniques you use, but if you can use your inner energy to push against their inner energy, that is, if you can push away the defense mechanisms that they unconsciously use in their body and stimulate them with your inner energy, you might not be able to conquer them completely, but you can give them pleasure that they can’t even imagine. Whether or not they’ll start to want you because they are writhing with pleasure is a matter that depends on the person’s personality.”
“So, simply put, I have to get stronger?”
That meant that the higher my level in martial arts, the more women I could approach and manipulate. Sanyeo nodded at my words and blinked and said,
“Don’t stare at me so intently while you’re talking.”
I raised the corner of my lips and avoided answering.
It was a topic that would only make me sound strange if I talked more about it.
Instead, I looked at the outside situation through the cracks in the tent. I could see torches coming in a line like fireflies in the distance from the direction of the forest corner. I grabbed Sanyeo’s cage and said,
“The vice leader will be back soon.”
Sanyeo had a bewildered expression when I unlocked the half-broken lock with my hand and opened the door.
“Does that mean you’re going to fight as soon as the vice leader gets back?”
“That’s right.”
I opened the bars of the cage and grabbed Sanyeo’s shackles. Sanyeo did not resist even when I grabbed her shackles and pulled her. She was silently led by me, just like a guest being guided.
Instead of going outside with her, I crouched down at the corner of the tent and opened up a crack. I could see the vice leader brushing his hair and entering his tent.
Both the vice leader and the leader were cowards who would only fight if I set up the stage.
The two of them were equally matched, so if I just expected them to fight, they would never fight.
So, I made a place where they could fight. I framed the vice leader to the leader, saying that the vice leader was always trying to get rid of him. I made her suspicious and the vice leader’s wife would frame the leader by saying that he was trying to get rid of the vice leader.
In that situation where the anxiety had reached its peak by repeatedly doing this process,
all I had to do was to set off the flare.
I heard a faint voice from the tent.
“Honey… I can’t live like this anymore. The leader… The leader told me to come to his bedroom tonight, you know?”
The flare was the vice leader’s wife. I had ordered the wife before I came to Sanyeo’s tent. When the vice leader came, she was told to shed tears saying that the leader had been harassing her. To tell him she couldn’t live like this anymore, and to tell him to do something about the leader soon.
She was a whore of the camp that only the vice leader didn’t know about, but the vice leader cherished her not knowing this fact.
In the vice leader’s heart was the thought that the leader was trying to remove him right now.
Moreover, he was tired and stressed from the recent raid, and the fact that his wife was harassed was numbing his reason.
After exchanging a few words, the vice leader’s roar echoed in the air.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
And then, the tent was ripped open, and the vice leader ran towards the leader’s tent with a weapon.
“Come out, you beast! I’ll settle this with you today!”
The leader was also not able to make rational decisions.
He thought that the vice leader was always aiming for him.
He thought that the vice leader would be coming at him with a sword for any twisted reason.
So, the leader couldn’t think of the option of persuading him through conversation.
“Okay! I was going to deal with you anyway.”
The two faced each other, and we sat in the tent and watched the situation.
“Other people’s fights are always fun.”
