27. Create a world without slaves!
“This is…”
Away from Layla’s mouth as she watched the scene. There was the sound of teeth grinding. Soon she leaped lightly and landed on the roof of her wagon.
She straightened the torn and crumpled upper part. Dusting off her dust revealed a precise ice flower crest printed between them. The same as the one engraved on the fairy’s shoulder.
It wasn’t hard to guess what that meant. A symbol of any top. Perhaps, this slave is being traded.
“The top of the ice……!”
Well, I want to pretend I know something, but I’ve never heard of a name so I can’t respond. Hero, why are you surprised together?
It seems that the guild was founded during the decades when I was dormant in Vigo. Despite being a slave trader, it’s a guild big enough to have its own coat of arms, so the owner must be quite resourceful.
“What are you doing?”
A merchant who was resting far away saw the commotion we were making and came running in pantly. The Merchant’s escort mercenaries, who were resting together, also followed him while covering him.
“You!”
However, Layla easily grabbed the merchant’s collar as the escort was in vain. She corrects herself with a burning gaze… Indeed, she growled with her burning eyes pointed at the merchant.
To believe that divine power is manifested from a place other than stigmata. Isn’t that a fairly high level of skill among priests?
“How dare you sell my people into slavery!”
A fairy, to put it in words that are easy to understand, reacted sensitively to slaves like an elf. As the merchant choked and choked, the mercenaries guarding his side aimed their weapons at him.
“Calm down, Layla.”
It was only when Taka arrived late that Layla let the merchant go by the throat. But the anger did not seem to have subsided, for now even her male hair was on fire.
“Kuk, kuk. What is it? Why are you doing this?”
The merchant who was knocked down staggered to his feet with the help of the mercenary. He questioned Layla with a rather unfair face.
“Of course, thank you for saving us, but this is such rudeness!”
“What, what? What did you say now That shameless face is very…”
As if the merchant’s reaction was staggering, Layla impulsively stretched out her fiery hand toward the merchant. Those who were escorted could not respond properly, and when the frightened merchant crouched down on his body.
“Stop.”
Taka with an emotionless face held Leila’s wrist, as if the good-natured smile she had had so far had been a lie. Her expression contorted for a moment, but then the flames on her body quickly extinguished.
“Let me talk. Cool down.”
“Yeah…”
As Layla walked away, looking rather exhausted, Taka took her place, this time with an angry face. He looked angry too, but compared to the fairy, he was much more rational.
“But we also need to hear an explanation. Surely, the ones in the other wagons must be slaves too, right?”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
“How did you save so many slaves, when the number is by no means small? If······.”
When he gave him a suspicious look, the terrified merchant burst into a tantrum.
“What a ridiculous misunderstanding! We are an official guild with a certified crest. The slaves of this wagon were all obtained through the proper route!”
“Is it fair to sell our people into slavery?”
The fairy with a fever on her head grabbed the merchant by the collar again. However, this time, the minimum amount of reason remained, and it was not to the extent that I couldn’t speak at all because I was choked like before.
“Let go.”
“······· K, Heck. Damn it yes! Just right!”
This time, because of the restraint of the escort, the fairy had to quickly let go and retreat. The poor merchant groped his neck for a moment, then let out an angry roar.
“We seek slaves only within the bounds of the law! Seeing you talk about fairies, I think you’re probably referring to items 34 and 35, but those fairies are serious gamblers! A crazy b*tch who bets on my house, my family, and even my body in the end!”
I watched this mayhem with quite interest. No matter what, the slave trade is psychologically burdensome, so it seems that there was a part of the merchant who was quite nervous even if he didn’t show it.
Or maybe it’s because his life has been threatened, and his emotions have been intensified. As the merchant screamed convulsively, the fairy, who shrank from her momentum, countered in a rather timid voice.
“Then why is the little fairy next to him? Even if one was sold due to debt…”
“The last thing the mad fairy bet before putting my body up for stake was her own daughter! Damn it, don’t talk about it without knowing it!”
“My God…”
Whose sigh is that? Taka? Or one of the mercenaries who would have escorted the ascendant without knowing the circumstances? The mood was reversed from before, and this time the merchant got angry and the fairy shrank.
However, despite not having the ability, one of my pride is like a strong tribe, and the fairy immediately shouted with a sharp voice. Well, the content was pathetic.
“You are like a cold-blooded man without blood or tears! Aren’t you sorry for that child?”
A fight broke out in front of the wagon, and the little fairy shrank as she shrank, holding onto her mother’s sleeve and hiding behind the corpse, shivering.
Anyway, that kid is also very strange. It is illegal to sell anyone other than the debtor into slavery, so if the Ice Merchant had been a ‘legal slave trader’ as the merchant claimed, that kid wouldn’t have been sold.
As a matter of fact, the fairy bet her daughter as a stake, so they were sold together. To make things worse, her mother died on the way up, so the debt would naturally be paid to her daughter.
“Pity? Then what about me?”
“What?”
The merchant, who was hit by the fairy’s sharp blow, suddenly went crazy and started doing a striptease. Resisting the pressure of the people around him, he ripped off the clothes covering his upper body.
Of course, the middle-aged man’s naked body was shabby. Contrary to her skinny body, her bulging belly. And.
“Huh?”
[Huh?]
The brand of an ice flower that is bigger and clearer than that of a fairy engraved on its chest.
Slaves selling slaves, this is a kind of comedy. Even I know that the larger the size of the stigma on a slave, the stronger the restraining force.
“You know about the Ice Merchant, but you haven’t heard the rumors about it!”
“What, what…”
The fairy’s expression was truly lost. The slave, who threw off the splendid outer shell of a merchant and revealed his shabby appearance, snared at the fairy.
“I feel more sorry for myself! I’d rather have to roll all over the place watching my wife and daughter work in the Changgwan than those guys who have the possibility of being sold to a noble family and receiving even lavish treatment!”
A level adventurer, maybe even a strong man, was pushed back by the spirit of an ordinary person. Looking at it, the merchant sent a mockery to the fairy.
“How about it, do I look a little pitiful now?”
Perhaps he was laughing at himself.
*
We had to leave because the atmosphere sucked. Of course, I didn’t get the reward that was promised.
But it seemed like I was the only one missing the reward. The hero had a thoughtful face from earlier, and Taka and Layla were busy sucking each other.
“Are you okay?”
“I couldn’t save my people again….”
“It couldn’t be helped.”
The warrior was busy soothing the gloomy fairy. It would have been fun not to be able to overcome the anger and attack as it was, but the merchant’s nude performance was shocking.
Well, if the fairy with skills unmatched by that silver-level adventurer had run amok, the other slaves could have been saved, but as the merchant said, the Ice Merchant was officially approved.
If we attacked the guild, which is protected by the law, we would rather break the law, so we couldn’t help it. Your adventurer license will be revoked, and a bounty will be attached to your neck.
[Sorry, sorry.]
I felt sorry for the missed reward, but it was even more regrettable that I had to leave it alone even after seeing the good owner’s lumber right in front of my nose. This is the moment when the magic sword becomes more desperate than ever.
Now that I am the master, I have very little use for my strength. No, wait. Wait!
[Quaaagh!]
“Didn’t you hear something just now?”
Lightning flashed from the warrior’s hand as he slid his finger through his scabbard. I forgot to hold back the mental waves and screamed at the exhilarating pain that pierced my entire body.
Is this man crazy! What if you find out your identity? Taka and Layla opened their eyes wide at the sudden scream and looked around.
“·······Well. I don’t even know with my senses.”
“Maybe a slave from the upper ranks… Ah.”
Good job. Do well. Taka, who uttered a slip of the tongue, swallowed her words and looked at Layla. She just lowered her head gloomily, as if she had no strength for her anger.
“Even if it were, I wouldn’t be able to do anything.”
Slaves are the owner’s property, and a third party has no right to intervene when the owner mistreats, assaults, or even kills his property.
“Layla…”
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“You took too much time. Let’s go.”
The heroine who overcomes her wounds and the male protagonist who stands by her side reassuringly! In the meantime, the warrior who became a folding screen was still immersed in his own world.
[Hero? Hey. Hey.]
I stayed still until the two of them were ready, so in the end I had to wake up the hero by sending a mental wave. The warrior who had been absent-mindedly raised his head.
Soon the hero stood up without a word and followed them. In a disturbing silence different from before, the procession proceeded toward its goal.
Annoying noise, unpleasant stench. Piles of bones decorated trees everywhere.
The home of the orcs is getting closer.