The story of the black silk female knight

However, most people just rinse off when they take a bath. Facilities like these, where you can soak comfortably, are only found in the homes of nobles or in luxury hotels. Places like Sergin Town are very rare in such places.

Activate the water-type magic crystal to pour water into the wooden barrel, and at the same time activate the fire-type magic crystal to heat it.

Thanks to the magical power of the magic, this bathing equipment was even more efficient than an electric water heater, creating perfect bathing conditions for Valensa in less than two minutes.

"...Hmm~~"

Valensa reached out to test the water temperature, then licked her lips with a dazed look in her eyes.

She took off her last piece of underwear, thought for a moment, and then put her black pantyhose back on before slowly sitting down in the water.

"Hehe... Since I'm going to treat myself properly, how can I not wear black stockings?"

The hot water made Valensa feel more comfortable, her fair skin turned slightly red, and she even couldn't help but stick out her tongue and roll her eyes.

Pfft!

Just as everything was ready and Valensa was about to enjoy the hot water, another figure suddenly appeared in the bathroom and fell into the large wooden tub, hitting Valensa.

"Yeah~~"

After a very charming but brief moan, Valensa quickly snapped out of her daze, jumped out of the tub, and stared intently into the water.

"This is!"

She nearly bit her tongue in surprise... because the uninvited guest in the barrel was none other than the phantom thief who had stole the show that night.

Unlike her composure not long ago, the phantom thief is now in a terrible state.

Her silver bodysuit had a large hole torn at the waist, revealing skin that was bluish-purple and black, even smelling burnt. It must have been struck by fire or lightning magic.

Miss Phantom Thief herself has completely lost consciousness and can only moan in pain as if in a dream, with the red fox mask on her face on the verge of falling off.

At the same time, it started to get noisy outside the hotel room, and the noise was clearly getting closer and closer.

! !

There was no time to hesitate; Valensa gritted her teeth and made a decision.

She didn't even have time to dry her body before she put on a bathrobe, still wearing only black stockings, took out her longsword and round shield, put on her noble insignia, and rushed out of the room.

Almost simultaneously with her opening the door, a man in a security uniform also reached out his hand outside the door, but quickly withdrew it after suddenly seeing Valensa.

"What happened?"

Valencia was throwing a tantrum, gritting her teeth, looking like she was about to pounce and stab someone twice at any moment.

"I just finished running hot water and was about to take a nice bath when I suddenly heard a noise... Has a thief broken into this inn? Or is some bastard trying to peep at me while I'm taking a bath? Hmm?"

After speaking, she glared at the two security guards outside the door, the longsword in her hand radiating even more chilling light, as if silently questioning, 'Were you two bastards trying to peep at me?'

"It's a misunderstanding! It's a misunderstanding, miss!"

The two ordinary guards, who weren't even at the Firefly level, were terrified. They seemed very afraid that Valencia would actually kill them with her swords, mistaking them for voyeurs. They even forgot their own purpose for a moment and could only keep apologizing and explaining.

Chapter 36 The more beautiful a woman is, the more wicked she is.

After much persuasion, the two guards finally explained to Valensa that they were there to search for the Phantom Thief Red Fox Mask, not to spy on her.

Valensa perfectly portrayed a grumpy noblewoman, and stared at the two men for a while with a long sword in her hand before finally becoming suspicious.

"You mean that bastard who disturbed my bath might be Red Fox Mask? But wasn't she fighting three Lighthouse-level adventurers on the roof? I was there just now... Could it be that she was defeated?"

After successfully intimidating the two guards with a preemptive strike, Valensa did not rush to send them away. Instead, she began to ask them for information.

"We're not quite sure either..."

The two guards were quite honest:

“We were originally on night duty at the north city gate when we suddenly received a notice that the phantom thief from the revelers had disappeared in the vicinity, and we were told to go door to door to check the situation.”

"Disappeared?"

Valensa's heart skipped a beat, but her face showed disdain:

"How ridiculous... Red Fox Mask disappeared around here and you come here searching door to door? That's the phantom thief who can come and go as he pleases even in the royal palace! You don't really think she's still around here, do you?"

"This……"

The two guards looked at each other, seemingly sharing the same view.

"Forget it."

Seeing this, Valensa stepped aside and opened the door completely.

"I am a person of noble honor, and I will not stoop to your level... Since you are here to search, then come in and have a look."

"Thank you for your understanding, Miss. Then we won't be polite... Hmm?"

One of the guards breathed a sigh of relief and tried to enter the room while thanking Valensa, but was held back by his companion.

"I'm sorry, miss, my partner is still young and doesn't know any better. I hope you, with your broad-mindedness, won't hold it against him."

Another, slightly older member of the security team pulled his partner back, quickly moving them away from Valensa's door and towards the stairwell.

"Please continue enjoying your late-night shower; we won't disturb you any longer."

"……snort."

Valensa didn't say much, but just watched them leave with a "you're quite sensible" look for a while, until the footsteps of the two guards had completely faded away, before turning back to her room.

Meanwhile, outside the hotel, the security guards who were prevented from entering were complaining to their partners:

"Why are you stopping me? Didn't that lady already give us permission to search the house?"

"idiot!"

The older guards immediately gave their partners a hard knock on the head:

"I was saving your life! Didn't you see? That noble lady was furious because her bath was interrupted! She probably wanted to kill two people to vent her anger. Do you want to die like that?"

"Oh no?"

The young security guards were somewhat skeptical:

“Hasn’t that noble lady already believed us? And even if she is a noble, she can’t just kill us like that, can she? After all, we are official members of the guard.”

"Hmph... The fact that you think that way is proof that you are still young, naive, and foolish... You have no idea how cunning those nobles are!"

The older guards looked like seasoned veterans:

"Isn't it easy for her to find a reason to kill us? As long as we enter the room, she can say that her underwear and stockings have been stolen, and she'll have a perfect reason to cause trouble for us!"

And didn't you hear what she said? She's someone who values ​​aristocratic honor very much... What is aristocratic honor? Simply put, it means being willing to do anything for face!

"Then she'll slap a huge accusation on us, threatening our innocence. Even if she doesn't kill us on the spot, we'll be tortured half to death because of all sorts of trouble!"

"Is... like this?"

The young security guard clearly trusted his partner, and instinctively shrank back slightly.

"But that young lady is quite pretty... she doesn't seem like a bad person..."

That's why I said you're an idiot!

The older guard member smacked his partner on the head again:

"Don't you understand that the prettier the mushroom, the more poisonous it is? Do you think a woman is kind just because she's pretty? Then you'll die a mysterious death one day!"

. . . . .

Valensa was unaware that two people were discussing her downstairs, and she was startled again by the Red Fox Mask after returning to the bathroom.

The young thief seemed to be seriously injured. She hadn't woken up after falling into the hot tub. In the short time Valensa had spent getting rid of the security team members, she had even choked on several mouthfuls of water and almost drowned.

Valensa quickly pulled the phantom thief out of the large wooden tub, carried her to the bed in the room, and then sat on the edge of the bed with a furrowed brow.

How to do it?

Send Miss Phantom Thief to Nora's Trading Company to collect her reward and get that beautiful blue evening gown.

The idea was very tempting to Valensa at first, but soon she succumbed to an even greater temptation.

"Never mind, that dress is very pretty, but I can buy it again when I have more money!"

Having made up her mind, Valensa quickly reached out and forcefully tore the silver bodysuit around the young thief's waist apart...

It couldn't be torn.

"This outfit... is really a nice piece of clothing."

Valensa couldn't help but rub her silver bodysuit a few times, then sighed as she looked at the hole, which was almost the size of a human face.

"It's a pity, this kind of damage is probably hard to repair... It seems that the ability to easily deflect swords and other sharp weapons has also been destroyed."

With no other option, Valensa had to search the young thief's body for a while, looking for the zipper or buttons on the silver bodysuit to remove it properly.

During this time, she glanced several times at the red fox mask that was about to fall off, very curious about what the face under the mask looked like.

But she eventually managed to control her curiosity and impulsive actions... After all, there were so many plots like that in her previous life's works... You either have to marry a beautiful girl or be killed by her after seeing her true face.

If Valensa were stronger than Red Fox Mask, she would have already removed the mask.

Unfortunately, she didn't, so let's be a little timid here.

Valensa successfully found a zipper at the back of the silver bodysuit. After unzipping it, she turned the Phantom Thief's body over and over several times before finally managing to remove the bodysuit.

"What...it turns out it's just that the bodysuit is too tight. Your figure isn't even as good as mine."

With feigned disdain and mockery, Valensa gritted her teeth, suppressed the impulse in her heart, and took out her storage magic pouch to start rummaging through it.

She quickly took out two bottles of medicine and a roll of gauze and began to treat the phantom thief's wounds.

Chapter 37 I want you to repay my kindness now

Sure enough.

After carefully examining the thief's naked body, Valensa nodded with a snort of surprise, as if she had expected it.

She had felt something was off before.

Although the wound on the young lady's waist, which appeared to be caused by a fireball or lightning and showed signs of burning, looked gruesome and must have been very painful, it was not enough to knock her unconscious.

So she carefully examined the phantom thief's body and found another hidden injury on the phantom thief's back near her heart.

It was a black circular mark, only the size of a bottle opening, not very noticeable from a distance, and even looked like a mosquito bite or some kind of birthmark.

However, upon closer inspection, one will find that the mark exudes an extremely ominous aura, and there seem to be many tiny human faces on it, howling and shrieking like vengeful spirits.

This must be some kind of curse, and the culprit that caused the Phantom Thief to fall into a coma.

That's why Valensa found two bottles of potions, one of which was a healing potion commonly used by adventurers, which had a certain healing effect on various cuts, punctures, blunt force injuries, burns, etc.

The other bottle of milky white potion is more expensive. It's a dispelling holy water from the Church of the Sun, which can remove most curses and negative magical effects, and it's very pricey.

The bottle Valensa is holding now is one she bought before she fell on hard times; she simply can't afford it now, and she usually doesn't even use it herself.

But for the sake of some benefit from the phantom thief, she gritted her teeth and decided to make the investment.

Miss Phantom Thief's waist injury was easy to treat; a swab of medicine and a bandage were all it took. This was an essential skill for every adventurer, and Valensa was already very adept at it.

Using the dispelling holy water to remove the curse is a bit troublesome... because this holy water is not for external application; it must be drunk to be effective.

The mask on Miss Thief's face wasn't a big problem, because it resembled a playboy from Valencia's previous life's movies who liked to fight criminals in Gotham at night wearing a cape and a storm. It was the kind of mask that would show the lower half of her nose and mouth.

The problem was that Miss Thief kept her mouth tightly shut, and occasionally she would mumble something like in her sleep, making it impossible for Valensa to get the holy water down her throat. She even almost bit her finger.

After several failed attempts, Valensa frowned and thought for a few seconds before taking out her storage magic pouch again and rummaging through it, eventually finding a hollow wooden tube.

This wooden tube is similar to the straw she used to drink beverages in her previous life, only thicker and longer. She had it specially ordered from the Nora Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, such a thick and long wooden tube was definitely not for drinking beverages, but for diving.

Near Sergin Town, there once lived a monster that was not very strong but was extremely cunning, making it difficult for ordinary people to get close. In the end, Valensa used this wooden pipe to hide in the pond where it was drinking water and ambushed and killed it.

This happened almost two years ago, and Valensa had almost forgotten about the wooden pipe. She never expected it to come in handy again today.

While the phantom thief was muttering in her sleep again, Valensa swiftly inserted the wooden tube into her mouth and poured holy water into it from the other end.

"Woo~~"

The phantom thief instinctively bit down on the wooden tube, and resisted the holy water flowing through it.

Seeing this, Valensa raised an eyebrow, then put the other end of the wooden tube in her mouth and blew hard.