Book 2: Chapter 13
“Aren’t you the energetic one, sir? You’re already here so early in the morning?”
I sweat that this is my first time going to a place of this sort. As soon as I entered, all my senses were overwhelmed by the scent of cheap perfumes and the smiles of women. The majority of them appeared only wearing short skirts. They smiled mockingly as they looked over my way. One of them was smoking a pipe, while the others who were covered in heavy make-up looked at me with enchanting smiles and said.
“Hmm…”
“I haven’t seen you before. You’re not an old customer, so did you just arrive in the city? You’ve come to the right place. Of all the places in the imperial city, we’re the best at helping men relax and have fun. Many travellers lost track of when they had to leave when they came here…”
I smiled bitterly. Are you sure that you didn’t off them when they didn’t have money to pay you? I feel like the probability that is highly probable… But from a logical standpoint, the chances of such cases occurring in the imperial city shouldn’t be too high, I don’t think…
“Hey, uhh… I’d like to ask where blacksmiths are commonly found in the imperial city.”
I really didn’t want sink into depravity here, probably because all the women around me were all national-level beauties like mom, the empress, Nier, and Lucia. I’m currently not interested in common women. However, I still need to gather the information I need… Nier didn’t enter with me just as I predicted. Once I get to the second floor, I’ll find a window to jump out of and all will be well.
“Blacksmiths? Blacksmiths are gathered three neighbourhoods away from here. You’ll find a city wall inside the city there. I wouldn’t go out of my way to go there, it stinks like rotten eggs.” She frowned as she fanned her nose vigorously as though she was there smelling the stench.
I smiled bitterly to go along with her. The rotten egg smell she mentioned must be sulphur. But is it alright to have blacksmiths within the city? Isn’t it better to have production engineering equipment placed on the city outskirts…? The blacksmiths and artisans here must commonly use sulphur, right…?