Just as I finished my conversation with my father-in-law, Seol, still chewing on dried ginger, turned to me and asked,

“Chomp… So, Ryong. Where exactly is this Fire Carp?”

“Oh, it’s at the Sacred Peak of Botasan.”

At that, both Hwa-eun and Seol exchanged shocked glances, their eyes widening.

“The Sacred Peak?”

“If it’s the Sacred Peak, then…? I remember my father telling me that Botaarm is normally a monastery for nuns and strictly off-limits to men. They make rare exceptions for certain guests, but the Sacred Peak itself… No man is allowed there under any circumstances! How are you planning to get in? Are you just going to ask the nuns to bring it down for you?”

‘Wait, what? So it’s basically a martial arts girls’ high school or women’s university?’

When the princess first mentioned the Sacred Peak, I thought it was the only area where men were forbidden. But now it turned out Botaarm itself was already an institution that only allowed women.@@novelbin@@

I hadn’t told them about the whole crossdressing situation yet, so Hwa-eun and Seol were both staring at me with expressions demanding an answer.

“The Fire Carp is the size of a human head. How exactly are the nuns supposed to transport it alive? They’ve probably never handled a living fish before. The only ones who could manage something like that are our Tang Clan, maybe—but definitely not Botaarm.”

The Fire Carp was supposedly located near the Sacred Peak of Botasan.

And the thing I needed to retrieve was a carp the size of a human head.

Sure, our Tang Clan was used to catching all kinds of poisonous creatures—including pufferfish on occasion—but expecting a group of nuns to catch and transport a massive live fish?

That was out of the question.

It wasn’t like they had water tanks in this era. And I highly doubted they understood how aquatic respiration worked.

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