Chapter 547: Offer (2/2)
”I get it, don't strain yourself. Would you like me to carry you to her? Or is there something you would like to get back from the place you lived in so far?”
With how she was most likely used as a useful tool to gather the energy for her former owner, I could tell that she would never dare to venture back to get her things if she was given the chance of escaping the hellish life she had to suffer so far.
Yet as I thought about what should I do to help her forget about all those experiences and start her life again with her sister, a new idea appeared in my head.
”Wait a moment, before you answer, can you tell me whether there are other girls like you in where you lived so far?”
While for a moment, the idea to use those girls to grow stronger myself, it vanished from my thoughts as soon as it appeared. After all, for a person of a modern world like me, exploiting those girls would be akin to partaking in illegal and forced prostitution!
”S-sir… Th-here were… sev-ven other girls and t-two boys…”
With how I was currently comparing the situation of Jelleria's sister to those tragedies I heard about back when I was nothing but a clueless teen, I felt how my usually stoic self started burning up with rage. Just when I was imagining Eve in the same position as this girl, I heard her answer, only further fueling my fury!
”I know it will be hard on you, but I promise right now, nothing will ever happen to you again, for as long as I'm nearby. With that in mind, would you mind showing me when the other people sharing your fate are held? I'm not willing to let their suffering continue.”
Even though that I wasn't supposed to project my own morality on this completely different world, with how I knew the backstory of this poor girl, there was no way I would allow such hellish situation to continue!
”No! I don't want to go back there!”
As soon as my request reached the girl's ears, she instantly backed out a few steps before losing the stability and falling down on her bottom. With her face twisted in the purest form of horror, I could tell what was going on through her mind. After seeing the chance to escape, after nearly touching the possibility of escaping her previous life, she was going to go back to the place she wished so much to escape from?
”Okay then, can you at least explain me how can I get to that place? While I don't like to flaunt, there is no force on this island that is capable of standing against me right now, so while I think you would be safer beside us rather than waiting for our return, if that's your wish, I can leave you with my fiancee and friend here, so that I could free the rest of those poor victims of the gorilla sect!”