Chapter 1 - The Reason Why She Became A Slave (1/2)

Chapter 1: The Reason Why She Became A Slave

She lives in the back alley of Golddina.

She found her hope and fortune in that dirty alley. The back alley that was flooded with dirt. The narrow dirty road between the buildings that was covered with corpse-like beggars. But she felt energized whenever she thought of her fortune.

Today, she set up a stall and waited for customers to earn a little money. She doesn’t have any sign, but she has quite a few regulars.

She stared blankly at the end of the alley, arranging the stand.

‘Why isn’t Serek coming? He said he would definitely come today. These days, it’s usual for him to postpone appointments.’

As she was about to give up, someone approached her. It was not Serek, but Leberty, who ran a pawnshop in the back alley. Knowing all about her talent of picking pockets, she was a very

good source of information.

“Celestia! You came to work today too?”

“Welcome, Leberty.”

With her green hair hanging down to her hips, Lynn Leberty smiled and walked by her side into her small stall. There were only two chairs kept in a small tent. Leberty sighed the moment her eyes fell on those.

“Honey, are you waiting for him again? Do you think such a great officer would take you seriously?”

Celestia closed her mouth and gripped the arm of Leberty and looked around it. She can’t learn magic, but somehow she has mastered the ability to erase magic, so she makes a living by erasing magic tattoos.

There was a tattoo on Leberty’s arm that she saw for the first time.

“I told you not to get tattoos like this because I don’t believe in my abilities either.”

“That’s not the problem right now. Stop expecting him. I’m telling you, Serek is just using you.”

Celestia gently rubbed the tattoo, concentrating all of her attention on the fingertips as if she had not heard it.

For instance, if the magic is to carry 1 to 10 to be engraved into the skin, she had to reverse it by 10 to 1 in consideration of the intentions of the person who wrote the magic.

She has never seen anyone do the same thing as her, but she has learned the stratagem in this job. Well, she wasn’t very proud of it, but she could not deal with mana as she had a magic seal all over her body, but she could remove magic if she concentrated well.

The tattoo on Leberty’s arm quickly faded.

“Okay, it’s done. And, Serek will come. He promised he would.”

“Get a hold of yourself, darling. Why are you so pure?”

Celestia laughed bitterly. It hasn’t been a day or two since she heard Leberty say that.

But Serek is different from such nobles. He was quantitatively different from other officers who used and abandoned people in the back alley.

His real name is Serangueban.

The generosity of nobles are short, but Serek was originally from a back alley. It’s all because of Celestia’s help that he’s so advanced in the society as he is now.

Celestia, her brother, and Serek grew up together in the same back alley ever since they were young.

They have always talked about getting anyone to succeed and feeding all of the three. They escaped from a nursery school where people used to beat them as if they were not human. And among them, Serek was the most talented in magic. Not to some, but to a greater extent.

They thought that magic was the only thing that could make the world, regardless of identity. Magic was a gift. A nobleman’s status was not something that could do better. They are highly educated from an early age, but magic was not something like that. It was a way to showcase talent and hard work.

Celestia spent all her money on Serek because she wanted to see him succeed. She has heard rumors of herself being smart, but no matter what she learns, there must have been a limit to her career because of her humble background.

Serek did not understand the magic formula as being discharged, but Celestia taught him all. She could not understand how she was a crybaby but was good at handling mana.

But Serek had a great response to using his magic of ten thousand talented people. Wizards called it ‘influence’. Usually, in aristocratic families, they would buy pills to treat the sick, but Serek could not afford them.

Once, Serek had red boils all over his body, and he suffered all night with a high fever. Another time, he lost his sight. Celestia was the one who took care of him every time, but she did not have enough magic talent to heal him. Jin himself taught Serek the magic to heal, but Celestia also wanted to be of help to Serek.

As a result, now her body is engraved with a magic wand that invalidates magic from the back of her neck to the top of her back and arms. It’s a calculation with the brain. She could have done a rough job with her useless head, but it’s not easy to nullify it.

It was Jin who found an ancient book that rolled around in a secondhand store. There, it was said that engraving magic on the body was a taboo that could lead to death, but gold was not important to a straight and ignorant street life.

Although it had enormous side effects, it eventually succeeded.

Since Celestia had everything engraved on her body, she had to connect to them before they were activated.

Celestia would wake up from sleep and would wander around with Serek all night whenever he wanted.

Some days, he would go far away to practice ball magic saying, ‘It’s the gateway of succession’, and would hit on her playfully. And some days he would…kiss her.

Recalling the moment, Celestia blushed unknowingly.

She had started having feelings for him from the beginning, and now he’s the only one to take care of the three of them. If she thought about it now, every moment would be a way to break their destiny.

“….No. Serek, he’s not like that.”

“Really? What are you going to do?”

Leberty sighed heavily and turned her ‘cleaned’ arms around. Celestia rose up from the spot where she was sitting.

“We have decided to get married.”