Chapter 6 (2/2)

Borudo wanted to scream that, but this time, Marfoi was glaring at him. As to be expected, when he thought of him yelling again just like moments ago once… Now that he cooled his head down, taking care to hold himself back as he was still a slave.

———

And then, at the appointed day, Bela was able to verify the element of all the slaves.

The day after, went to three other slave trading companies that had element pilots. One of them refused to receive her, the other one had the prices too high for the quality, and the last one tried to enslave Bela, in which resulted in a sea of blood at the place. It wasn´t necessary to say whose blood it was, but to have wasted one day due to the investigations of that incident was very tough.

And then, after seeing through the slaves, in the end, the most notable one was the dispirited old man she had seen at the Vagahte company.

“Borudo Gaian, right? It´s nice that you can use your gnome, but in the end, your price is high compared to the others.”(TL note: ->ノーム<-yeah, the=”” g=”” is=”” silent=”” brah.=”” so=”” cool=””>

Inside the room Bela rented, as she looked at Borudo´s doc.u.ments, Bela spoke.

The reason why the veteran that was Borudo had been left unsold until today was written there. It seems that he was sold to n.o.bles four times, and had returned four times as a returned good.

It seems that despite his s.h.i.+eld holding gnome, which excelled at protecting, responses such as that he sticked out too much, that the maintenance of the gnome was problematic, and that it didn´t correspond to the sense of aesthetics of n.o.bility kept repeating. Marfoi believed the reason why that problem happened was all because they were n.o.bles, but in fact, the main reason for the problem was the stubbornness of that old man that had been seen at his retorting back then when he was at the stand.

“”His wounds should be the spanking from the n.o.bles. Maybe it is because he is old, but he is kind of the type that can´t change himself to live more flexibly.””

Keeping to set his price high because of his actual strength seemed to have ended up backfiring. Because of that, even because of the of the last month´s demands, Borudo remained unsold. Looking from the perspective of the Vagahte company, this was the same as having to hold onto merchandize that was problematic to look after.

———-

“Are you really buying me then?”

Looking from Borudo´s view, this was like a nightmare. For Marfoi, it could be said he was getting himself rid from trouble.

“Hah, quite the conceited slave, right?”

“You imbecile.  [Gimru]!”

With Marfoi´s words, Borudo screamed as he scratched the back of his head.

“Yeah, this is the effect of the slave mark, right?”

“Indeed.”

What Marfoi chanted was a word inscribed at the slave´s body, which was the incantation for the binding technique used on slaves that was called slave mark. Right now, the slave mark had already been renewed, and now, except for Marfoi and Bela, the chant wouldn´t show effect for anyone else.

“Slaves that don´t obey are disciplined like that. Borudo, from today onwards, this person will be your owner. Think of it as your last chance and make effort.”

“Un-understood.”

“Hoho, [Gimru].” (ほーほーー)(TL note: Hohohohohohoho!)

“Gyaaaaaah!!”

In reaction to Bela´s chant, Borudo writhed in pain. Looking at him, Bela laughed.

“Hah, I see. It seems very effective. That´s quite the good job there, Marfoi.”

“Yes, thank you very much.”

Being pressured by Bela´s satisfied smile, Marfoi said.

“”As usual, she is quite the scary girl.”

Marfoi thought. Her appearance and the build of her body was fitting of her age. It wasn´t magic nor illusions. Or possibly, Marfoi couldn´t see through the trick and couldn´t see Bela as anything other than a young little girl.

However, from her peculiarities, Marfoi could feel the smell of money.

Milan from the Yarke town felt her to be a person difficult to handle, but it wasn´t the case for Marfoi. She indeed was someone troublesome . However, if he was to put up with that, she would become a fountain of gold. It was because he had been doing these kind of things well during his life that slave merchant Marfoi was where he was right now.

Perhaps this was the difference between a successful person and a person living an ordinary life. But even with that said, to begin with, if one didn´t put up with her well, one would end up as a corpse.

After doing the formal procedures of signing at the doc.u.ments for changing the owners.h.i.+p of Borudo, Bela left the building of the slave trading company along with him.

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