Chapter 11 (1/2)
Volume 1 — Different World Life, Start
11 The Curse-Slave Market — 1
I alking down a little out-of-the-way street in the market This is where there are ‘contractors for curse-slaves’… popularly called 〈The Curse-Slave Market〉, the place for professional dealers There were those in cells like in prisons, while there were those sitting with the shopkeeper like normal people
Also…I heard that curse-slaves are sold at other places than this street While I alking down this street, I overheard soher grade curse-slaves called ‘the Curse-Slave Trading Post’ It seems that mostly nobles buy from there
“Anyhow… there are a lot of curse-slaves”
I stopped walking and looked back at the road I cah
I was trying to get a grasp of the prices… and they were cheaper than I expected The cheapest curse-slave had old coins There’s no upper lie? Just 4 h to buy a person No, to be exact, a contract of 5 years
Even if it’s just 5 years, people’s lives weren’t exchanged like these in japan Even though it’s called a curse-slave, I have resistance against buying… contracting a slave
What should I do
For now, I have 10 gold coins If I et a cheap curse-slave But to contract a curse slave I wonder if thatsomeone to me under the name of contract
I… what is Kusunoki Hina Hana? Helping …?
No
For oal
Then, to that extent, what do I need…?
A stable life
A good friend
Delicious food
A healthy body without illness
Time to pursue hobbies
No
I can s safe…
Hana is living the precious life God has helped save
Because of that, ‘paying back God for his help’… is my identity now
“Hinami!”
“Hinami-dono!”
Let’s breath deeply first Noill be ‘for a contract with a curse-slave’
The moment I had steeled my heart… and was about to step foot into the curse-slave ain, there were voices fro voice
I think lad to hear familiar sounds so anxiety disappeared a bit from my heart
“Alfred-san, Clef-san…!”
Why are they here? I thought but fro They both earing proper knightly attire I wonder if they’re on patrol…? No, if it’s patrol, I guess people like the soldier who talked to me would do that
“Why are you at the curse-slave market? What about Thia?”
“Erent business”
“An urgent business even though there’s Hinauy”
“…?”
Having soh Behind him, Clef-san had a face that seeuy…? Noticing that I had a question mark on me, Alfred-san told me, “Her fiancé”
Believe it or not, Thia-chan had a fiancé…! No, well… I wonder if nobles have that It’s not related with me who only worked and had no boyfriends in japan… Then, did Thia-chan go to ent business
“Sorry, Hinami Her fiancé is a duke… so Thia can’t reject him forcefully”
“Eh! She didn’t go happily?”
“I wonder I… don’t like the guy”
Huh, isn’t this siscon? He’s jealous, right? Alfred-san ht have it worse than me
More importantly, I’m worried about Thia-chan I don’t knohat kind of person the fiancé is… but if he’s calling Thia-chan using his position not throughnext time Because, we’re friend…!
“Could it be that Hinaht that you would stay with Thia, so I had not prepared… I’m sorry”
“N-No…! Please don’t worry about that!”
“A child should let herself get spoiled Or could it be that because you lived alone in the forest, it’s siet back home… is it?”
“No no I don’t kno to get back! Ah…”
My true thoughts accidentally spilled out How eised, “Sorry thatme, it looks like he understood why I’m here That I’m here to buy a slave for escort purposes since I can’t return on my own
It felt like I did so his gaze I feel like a child that was caught doing so bad
Clef-san patted ht”
“There are a lot of people for contracts with curse-slaves for escort Rather, it’s a natural thing Thia’s escort, Kiruto is also a curse-slave”
“Eh… really?”
“Ah, well, most people don’t, but nobles or adventurers make these contracts rather often”
I couldn’t believe it when I heard the explanation frouild, but I could when it was fronity of a knight…?
Rather, Kiruto-kun was a curse-slave I had no idea… Certainly, he was sticking close to Thia-chan and he didn’t speak when Thia-chan and I were talking An obedient attendant… that was all I thought
“I alance that Hinami-dono is not fit for combat”
“Ah… yes”
“Froo back and forth between the city, it will be good to get an escort If not, I think living in the city should be good Hinaerous as the forest”
It’s a secret that I thought that people wouldn’t have to be a knight to tell as I looked at my arms that lacked muscles
First of all…condition is the key point However, I can’t abandon the house Because it’s the precious house God gave to e Also, I grew attached fro in it for 2 years Plus, it’s pleasant and cute For the rest, I don’t have any coredients
“So… I do want a house in the city… but the house I’o”
“I see Then it would be best to for purposes Travelling through the forest alone is dangerous”
“That’s true Thank you for your advice”
Thanks to Clef-san’s kind words, the guilt I was feeling fro a curse-slave was decreased He’s war
“Hina because you were living alone in the forest of the lost…”
“Alfred-san… what did you see irl”
“Ah—… come to think of it, you were scared of Schtrein too”