(Chastity Reversed) I'm Sorry, My Lady. I Had Sex With Another Woman Again - Chapter 66 - Refugee Prostitute S Team

“Nothing in this world comes free.”

That was the phrase Mama had drummed into me until I was sick of hearing it. There’s no such thing as free in this world. Nothing without cost could possibly exist.

Even so, if such a thing did exist, there would always be a catch behind it.

So be careful.

Especially of those who approach you wearing masks of good intentions. Mama’s words swirled round and round in my head.

The unpleasant thoughts wouldn’t leave me alone.

——Afterwards.

After I dropped the knife and witnessed Simon-sama receiving that terrible sexual harassment. Even though the person I cared for was being violated so brazenly.

By that scum wearing a gentle mask. I couldn’t say anything. Because if I said something… what would happen?

When I thought about it, it seemed I had no right to say anything in my current position.

We were penniless and under Evon’s protection. Even the clothes we wore belonged to her.

In other words, at Evon’s whim, we could be thrown out to wander the streets naked again.

Simon-sama included.

…No, maybe we could manage somehow if it were just that.

If we worked desperately, or if we met truly good people unlike Evon, it might be possible for us to live in this town for a while.

——But.

[Actually, the master of this mansion is a good person, and she’s arranging sea rescue for us.]

Nico, Shia, Ginny.

What would happen to them?

The sea rescue he had mentioned. If Evon came to dislike us, naturally that arrangement would fall through.

In that case, I could use my connections to arrange sea rescue, but… Even with the shortest estimate. Even thinking optimistically.

It would be delayed by a week.

For Nico and the others who must be suffering somewhere right now, how long would that feel?

If that delay caused someone to die. If it was Nico, the girl Simon-sama served…

When I thought of that, I had no right to interfere. After all, I was nothing to him.

So I couldn’t say anything.

[E-Evon-san!]

[Oh my, Suberia-san. Thank you for earlier.]

[T-That! I heard from Simon-sama! Is it true that you’re arranging sea rescue?]

[…Ah! Yes, it’s true. So please don’t worry♪]

[The cost! I-I can’t contact them now, but later my Phoneker family will cover all expenses! …No, we’ll pay double! So, please…]

[…Hmm? You don’t need to bear the cost, you know? It’s not about money. Suberia-san, you can just eat and sleep at this mansion. You’re a child, so please rely on me. Okay?]

The Phoneker family would bear the cost.

Even when I told her that indirectly, it was no good.

What more could I do?

I spilled the tears welling up into the gap between my knees where I held them.

[It’s not about money.]

Then what was it about?

What was she doing…?

Bad thoughts looped in my head.

I should take Simon-sama and run away together. Or I should pretend I didn’t see anything. Or maybe I was mistaken about what I saw, and Evon-san really is a good person…

My vision spun dizzily round and round.

As I shook my head.

“Hey, Suberia. Come here for a minute.”

“O-Orca-san…”

An old acquaintance who had saved Simon-sama at sea. The dark elf senior, Orca-san, had come to see me.

“Let’s have a meeting with us, about what happens next.”

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“Want to form a party? The three of us.”

“C-Captain! Are you serious!?”

In the bedroom Evon-san had given us, there were currently three people including me.

“Yeah, I’m serious. Aside from at sea, Suberia’s useful on land. Three people are more convenient than two, right?”

Standing imposingly on the bed, looking down at us was a petite girl. Orca-san. She’d always had a complex about her height, and apparently that hadn’t been cured.

She spread both arms wide and continued speaking like giving a speech.

“We need money for various things. I want to earn as much as possible. For outsiders like us to earn money quickly, we need to be adventurers. Dungeon attacks are the only way. So the more hands the better, right, Caron?”

“B-But! Th-this person is a demon! We can’t trust her!”

“…You’re saying that right in front of me…?”

Unlike Orca-san, the one showing a negative reaction to me was a red-haired girl wearing glasses. Her name seemed to be Caron.

Her skin color and the transparency of her eyes had characteristics similar to demons, but looking closely, she appeared to be human.

She seemed to harbor hostility toward demons, looking at me with a face that could be taken as either disgust or fear.

“Is this the time for such talk? If we earn money, something might change. Our SFC comrades, and your precious person too, might still be shipwrecked, you know? Don’t you want to save Ichiko?”

“N-No. Of course I want to save her, but…!”

Orca-san grabbed the reluctant Caron-san’s neck, brought their faces close, and whispered something.

I couldn’t hear the content, but judging from Caron-san’s expression, it had enough effect to convince her.

When Orca-san roughly let go of her hand, Caron-san looked off in a completely different direction, but even so, she didn’t oppose anymore.

“Then it’s decided. Suberia, let’s go dungeon diving right away.”

“…I haven’t said anything yet, have I?”

Orca-san and Caron-san. I was strongly grateful to both of them for being saved from Eil.

…But there was history between us.

Orca-san had been my fierce enemy since childhood, for the reason that I had “stolen” Shia from her.

No, to be precise, I recognized that she still was. Honestly, this sudden invitation was suspicious.

And Caron-san.

I didn’t know her well, but from her earlier reaction, she seemed to hate demons. Quite intensely.

When asked if I wanted to party with such a person, the answer was no.

In terms of making money, becoming an adventurer and forming a three-person group certainly had merits.

But the demerits seemed large. So much so that I’d rather go solo.

“Suberia, lend me your ear.”

However, the forceful dark elf senior grabbed my face.

Like she had done with Caron-san earlier, she spoke to me again.

“…I think she’s suspicious too.”

“…?”

“I think Evon is suspicious.”

“!!!”

At Orca-san’s words, my body jumped with a start.

“I can’t quite figure out what she’s thinking. If that woman goes crazy, I want to increase our options for fighting back. This party formation has that reason. …Caron alone makes me anxious.”

“O-Orca-san, you too…”

Evon is suspicious.

That might have been the words I most wanted to hear right now, as I wavered in anguish.

I, who had wanted to leave the room quickly until just now, found myself gazing at Orca-san’s sparkling eyes.

“…Hey, Suberia. We hate each other. We’ll probably never be compatible. But we’re not stupid enough to fight during an emergency.”

Orca-san, who was usually strong-willed and would never bow her head to demons.

That same person gently patted my back.

The hand of Orca-san, who had been my enemy for so long. Now, it felt so reliable.

“Let’s call a temporary truce. The refugee team is formed.”