Vol 1 Chapter 6 (1/2)
Chapter 6: Light and Shadow Part 6 – translated by Azakura
One hundred gold? Everyone in the room was completely shocked One by one, they turned to face the one who had shouted Silvester was no exception He stared straight at that person and was pleasantly surprised as he shouted, “Red Cloak!”
An extremely bold red cloak appeared at the door The overly dramatic entrance made everyone in the room momentarily confused about what had happened Only the host of the auction, the fatty, was slightly alarmed by the situation because he ell acquainted with any and all people ould come to purchase slaves fro the red cloak
The fatty swept through the room in a circle There were indeed a few noble fa families that he definitely could not afford to offend What if he was someone employed by one of those families? He did not dare to provoke the other party even in the slightest, so he continued to speak in a fairly respectful tone
“Might I ask if you have your invitation, sir?”
Red Cloak stretched out his hand and pulled open the ribbon holding his cloak closed, allowing his cloak to slip off and fall to the floor His true colors were thus revealed
He had a tall and slender figure with long legs and a thin waist His bodily proportions, contrary to what one would expect, resembled those of a woman except that there were no particularly distinct curves around the chest area, so it very well could have been either a flat-chested woman or a man with some pectoral muscles However, because of his oval face and features that were se uess that the person before them was a woman… if not for that pair of eyes
His pair of black eyes which was burning with a fearful murderous spirit did not resemble the eyes of a woman in the least On the contrary, they were eneral who had murdered countless men Once one had met those eyes; size, body proportions, oval face, and delicate facial features were entirely forgotten That pair of black eyes was sufficient to make people think that he was male
“Breaking the law by selling slaves in private and even forcefully arresting some of the common folk to sell off, have you no conscience, city lord?”
When he was done speaking in an icy cold tone, the color of everyone’s faces had changed, and the fatty… no, he should be addressed as the city lord now His face was as white as a sheet He tried to defend hiorously as he could, “W-Who are you? Don’t try to influence others with your venoe the slaves we already own ast each other!”
The slaves i the city lord’s words
“Of course not!”
“We were kidnapped and brought here!”
“We are not slaves!”
The city lord promptly exclaimed, “There are many aristocrats present in this roo to believe e say, or would you actually go so far as to listen to the words of those lowly peons?”
Red Cloak simply paid no attention to him He pointed towards Silvester and said, “You, tell us what has happened thus far”
Upon witnessing this situation, astonishh idea of as going on so his eyes no longer held any animosity when he looked at Silvester Instead, there was a trace of aent this useless is truly very rarely seen
Silvester spoke, bri with confidence, “They captured people ere not willing to be sold off as slaves for this auction!”
The look on the city lord’s face was so bad that it could not possibly become any worse However, he still tried hard to squeeze out a smile as he said, “That slave is actually very disobedient which is why his oanted to bring hihtly more obedient one—”
“He is one of mine,” Red Cloak coldly interrupted himme search for him for thole days!”
The city lord was shocked He growled, “So this was all just a blatant attempt to take a slave home for free!”
Red Cloak ignored the accusation and instead turned to face Silvester He said in a conia for them to see!”
Insignia? Silvester stared blankly, but since he only had a single insignia on him, he fished it out from an inner pocket in his clothes at once, and that was the inia!
Everyone was dunia For a ’s white rose insignia would actually appear in a place like this
The city lord was standing right beside Silvester, so he could see it the clearest The engravings on the rose insignia were so exquisite and graceful that it looked nothing like a fake
Come to think of it, when I was captured earlier, I would have been able to free ht? As he watched the emotions in the room turn froht be a little stupid
At this point, the city lord feared that it was ier With shi+fty eyes, he saw the crowd on the floor looking around in all directions, trying to find an exit, as if they wanted to run away After all, if any of theed to escape, no one would be in power to convict them of any crimes In the end, only the city lord himself had nowhere to run!
The city lord turned to face the city patrol captain and shouted, “If the Holy King hears of this, we are all dead! He’s only one person, so killing him off will solve the problem! Patrol team, attack!”
If the man was killed, everyone present would have no choice but to help conceal the criht he had the perfect plan— if they were to survive, they would survive together If they were going down, they were going to go down together
Purchasing slaves was one thing Watching without acting when one of the Holy King’sas the two people involved with the insignia died, no one in the roouilt!
The patrol captain had hiscapture people and passing theood commission, so he was more than happy to do that However, he definitely did not have the guts to actually kill the holder of a white rose insignia
“I said attack!” The city lord’s e He furiously berated the patrol captain, “If they get away froer! A death sentence for all!”
Death sentence… Upon hearing those tords, the patrol captain ie If I kill him, I will probably die If I don’t kill hiht as well risk my life!
The patrol captain turned to bellow at his subordinates, “Hear that?! Aren’t you going to attack? If each person lands a strike, no one would be able to escape!”
At this point, Cale proe He then shouted to the slaves, “Quickly, protect the two of them! If they are to die, ill definitely be silenced as well!”
Evidently, the slaves were very obedient towards Cale Once they heard hiathered around desperately to obstruct Silvester from vieever, as Red Cloak was farther away and the city patrol had long since charged over toward him, everyone could only helplessly watch as sword after sword struck in Red Cloak’s direction