The Heavenly Demon Cult’s Strongest Maid - Chapter 321

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Chapter 75

“Meat! Meat! Meat!”

“Ah, I’m hungry!”

“What kind of food will come out today?”

“I worked hard on breathing exercises all day, so I think I’m even hungrier!”

When the waitress announced dinner, the Bongwang-dae members came rushing down to the first floor.

Once Eok I-geon and I took our seats, a feast was soon laid out on the table.

“Is everyone here?”

I was about to do a headcount when I first spotted Eok Hwi-gyeom pacing by the window and looking around.

“Gyeom, what are you doing not sitting down?”

“Well, Ha-rin noona isn’t here.”

Eok Hwi-gyeom gazed endlessly beyond the window like a dog that needed to relieve itself.

“Ha-rini isn’t here?”

“Yes, she hasn’t been seen since this afternoon.”

“Isn’t she in her room?”

“She’s not in her room either.”

Eok Hwi-gyeom replied smoothly as if he had already searched everywhere.

Then Jeon Hye-yun scratched her forehead and said.

“It seems she hasn’t come back yet. She said she’d definitely be back before dinner.”

“Would it be easy to part with a friend you haven’t seen in a long time?”

“She’s probably playing without knowing how time passes. Hehe.”

“Witch noonas, did you know Ha-rin noona went out?”

Eok Hwi-gyeom came running over to the three witches’ conversation.

“Yeah.”

“She told us before she left.”

“But why did you say you didn’t know earlier?”

“Well, Ha-rini asked us to keep it a secret.”

“…She asked you to keep it a secret? Why?”

Eok Hwi-gyeom asked again, completely unable to understand.

Then the three witches giggled simultaneously.

“She was going to meet a friend and was worried you might follow her.”

“Hehehehe.”

“That’s more than enough reason. Kekeke.”

At the witches’ blunt answer, Eok Hwi-gyeom’s expression looked like someone who had lost everything in the world.

“Who is the friend Ha-rini was supposed to meet?”

When I asked, the three witches shook their heads saying they didn’t know either.

“She just said a friend, but didn’t say who it was.”

“It was personal business, so we didn’t pry either.”

“Instead, she said if anything urgent came up, to come to Cheonggak Tea Room.”

“Cheonggak Tea Room?”

Eok Hwi-gyeom glared at the three witches as if frustrated.

“So you witches knew exactly where Ha-rin noona went?”

“Yeah.”

“That’s what we’re saying.”

“When I was searching for Ha-rin noona earlier, you pretended not to know…”

“Ha-rini said she was scared you might come.”

“We’re not at fault.”

“If you want to complain, complain to Ha-rini when she comes back later.”

Eok Hwi-gyeom must know it too.

That the three witches weren’t at fault at all.

The guy immediately became dejected and let his shoulders droop.

I felt sorry for Eok Hwi-gyeom and forcibly sat him down in a chair.

“Gyeom, let’s eat first.”

“I have no appetite.”

“Still, eat. Is what you eat going to someone else?”

“Sigh.”

The guy who wouldn’t budge at my words immediately picked up his chopsticks when Eok I-geon glared at him.

His picking at his food was annoying to watch, but I didn’t scold him about that too.

He already had no appetite, so if I nagged him more here, he’d put down his chopsticks entirely.

“Ha-rini will come soon.”

When chatting with friends, you get hungry, and then you eat and have a drink or two, right?

I barely finished dinner while comforting the sulking Eok Hwi-gyeom.

“Shall we have some sweets?”

Of course.

It would be disappointing if dessert was missing after a meal.

Now that the grandfathers weren’t here either, there was no one to interfere with my date with Eok I-geon.

I felt a little sorry for Eok Hwi-gyeom who was digging into the ground alone, but I grinned and stood up briskly.

“I’ll go change clothes and come back!”

I wanted to dress up prettily before going out.

Running up to the second floor, I fell into contemplation.

What color should I wear?

Passionate red?

Innocent-looking pastel tones?

Or maybe calm, sensual ivory?

Ah, I don’t know.

I’ll have to look in the mirror and choose whatever looks prettiest!

Hehehe!

I hummed a tune that naturally flowed out as I opened the door to my room.

“Huh?”

I stopped in my tracks as I was casually entering because of a breeze that came from somewhere.

The pale yellow cloth attached to the window was fluttering in the wind.

Had I opened the window and gone out?

As far as I remembered, I had never even touched the window.

What’s this?

Suddenly my nerves stood on end and a red light flashed in my head.

“…”

Sure enough, there was a neatly folded piece of paper stuck in the window gap.

If you want to save Yang Ha-rin, come alone to Cheonggak Tea Room, First Miss.

If you tell anyone, Yang Ha-rin’s life will be forfeit.

Hyeolcheon-hoe is watching you.

Crunch!

I crumpled up the paper and threw it on the floor.

Since you can’t do anything to me, now you’re going to touch those around me?

But isn’t this cliché way too overdone?

What’s with this tacky hostage situation out of nowhere?

It was such a clichéd method that I hadn’t seen in the original work, so I was a bit dumbfounded.

Still, since they’re telling me to come alone, I have no choice but to go alone.

Slam!

I threw the window wide open and looked around in all directions.

As if telling whoever was watching me to remember this face clearly.

Because I’m the one who’s going to make today your death anniversary.

And I don’t know if you realize this, but I probably won’t be alone.

It’s true that I’m going alone, but would Eok I-geon really just sit still?

The protagonist of this novel is quite the obsessive type.

Haha!

I smiled coldly and leaped out without hesitation.

Eok I-geon was silently looking up the stairs from the first floor.

She’s pretty just as she is.

She’s pretty in whatever she wears.

No, maybe she’d be prettiest wearing nothing at all…

Bang!

Eok I-geon struck the table and pulled himself together from the lewd thoughts that arose without his knowing.

The table cracked with a splitting sound, but Eok I-geon in his current state couldn’t notice such things.

‘Whew, but why did she go to change clothes?’

Even that time felt precious to Eok I-geon.

Since Seolha said she wanted to do that, he had no choice but to wait silently.

“…?”

Just then, he sensed something strange.

Pop!

Eok I-geon immediately sprang up and opened Seolha’s door in one motion, rushing inside.

Seolha, who had said she would change clothes, was nowhere to be found, and the window was wide open.

Seolha went out through the window!

Eok I-geon’s intuition told him so.

But Seolha wasn’t the type of child to do this without any reason.

As Eok I-geon hurriedly scanned the surroundings, his eyes caught a crumpled note lying on the floor.

After checking the contents, murderous intent bloomed in Eok I-geon.

“How dare these bastards!”

It had been precious golden time when all the obstacles had left and they were finally alone together.

Vowing to kill every single one he saw, Eok I-geon chased after Seolha.

“Wait a minute.”

My furious steps came to an absurd halt after not even going very far.

The reason was that I didn’t know where the destination, Cheonggak Tea Room, was located.

In novels and movies, everyone seemed to find their way just fine, but reality was indeed different.

If only I had a phone to search with.

In the end, what I chose was to ask the owner of a nearby street vendor selling skewers.

“Excuse me… may I ask you something?”

“Sure.”

“Do you happen to know a tea house called Cheonggak Tea Room?”

“Cheonggak Tea Room?”

The vendor owner tilted his head as if he wasn’t sure, then shouted to the shop next door.

“Hey! Do you know Cheonggak Tea Room?”

“Where?”

“Cheonggak Tea Room, the tea house!”

“Why there?”

“This pretty young lady is asking.”

When the vendor owner pointed at me with an empty skewer, the shop owner next door kindly told me.

“There, if you go straight down that noodle shop alley over there, it’s at the very end.”

“Ah! Thank you! Thank you so much!”

I bowed to both shop owners and then ran toward the alley.

“Cheonggak Tea Room, Cheonggak Tea Room.”

I opened my eyes as wide as possible and looked for the sign.

But since it was such a complex commercial area, it wasn’t easy to find.

“Did they give me the wrong directions?”

Even after searching the surroundings thoroughly, there was no tea house called Cheonggak Tea Room.

Thinking this wouldn’t work, I approached a grandmother sitting alone on some stairs in a corner and asked again.

“Grandmother! Do you happen to know a tea house called Cheonggak Tea Room around here?”

“Where?”

“Cheonggak Tea Room!”

“What?”

The grandmother, who appeared to be quite elderly, seemed hard of hearing.

I shouted very clearly and very loudly.

“Cheong! Gak! Tea! Room!”

“Huh?”

“Tea house. Tea! House!”

Only then did the grandmother slowly nod her head.

“A tea house… there’s one over there.”

The grandmother gestured with her chin toward the right alley.

“Thank you!”

Please let it be right this time!

I bowed at the waist and started running again.

“Here it is!”

The joy I felt when I finally discovered the small, neat sign.

“Whew…!”

You’re all dead now.

I caught my breath and kicked the tea house door open with all my strength.

Bang!

“Wh-what’s this?”

But what was waiting for me inside the empty tea house was yet another note.

If you want to save Yang Ha-rin, come alone to Noga Herbal Medicine Shop.

“Damn it, where the hell is that now!”

Curses rose up to my throat.

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