Due to President’s single sentence, the arena was in an uproar.
Of course, if the prize that was the main draw of this gladiator tournament is a fake, then the reputation of the tournament itself would be at stake.
“I am a foreigner. By using [Lost Blessings], I can tell if it is a fake. ……this is a fake. It is not a foreign magic room.”
Leaving it all to the talkative president, everyone else entered spectator mode.
There’s no need for all of us to draw fire.
“Wh, what are you talking about.”
On the other hand, the organisers are a little pitiful. But President is merciless. Amen.
“If that is real, then you can just prove it right now. You cannot right? Then it is a fake.”
The organisers are not the only ones in the center of the commotion.
“Is that true?”
The 9 winners of the Nona section are also concerned.
One of them removed his helmet.
“……ah, Arai, it was you!”
“It’s been a while, Suzumoto.”
Seems like Suzumoto has met him before. If it is your acquaintance, please recognise him from his surname.
“So, that……who was that?”
“Shachi”
“Is what Shachi says true?”
“It’s true. I guarantee it.”
Once Suzumoto said that, the Nona people all showed troubled expressions.
“We are currently slaves of a certain noble, there is an agreement that we will be released if we won this tournament and brought back that foreign magic room thing.”
Hohou, basically, if they got a fake they won’t be able to escape slavery.
Even on the off chance that the nobles couldn’t tell if it was a fake, since President already said it, it will be hard to fool them.
But then, Arai-kun, did you have any guarantee that agreement would be upheld? There probably isn’t. Are you okay?
“At the very least, we need to bring back something we can use to negotiate with that noble, otherwise we stay as slaves.”
This was the girl that shouted just now and brought down everyone.
You already recovered from running out of MP~? Fast.
But what she says is quite right. We would also like to free the 9 of them.
……hm. But there is a compromise here.
“Organiser-san, if there is no magic room for the prize, how about compromising by granting their wish?”
“……which would be?”
“There won’t be complains if you grant these 9 people the right to stop being slaves as a prize.”
In this case, the noble that bought these 9 people would make a huge loss, but conversely, by just compensating that noble the problem is solves. Something like that should somehow work out.
So, the organisers would also make a be loss for that compensation, but there is also the merit of saving face for them, so it should be a welcome proposal for the organisers.
….works?
After that President talked about this and that with the organiser-sans, when they grumbled, President stuck his hands into his pockets and they shut up, so in the end it went as President wanted.
The 9 of them were released from slavery and the noble that bough the 9 of them was granted a reward.
With this the incident is settled.
……ah, no, er, about Rosemary-san stealing stolen goods……it’s fine if no one finds out, if no one finds out.
hush hush
And so there was that kind of finale, then we returned to the 2F northeast area for now.
Since they were there, the winners of the Nona section Arai(相良)-kun (seems this is read as Arai. I get why Suzumoto didn’t realise at first) (T/N: Usually read as Sagara or Aira) mhm, Arai-kun and the other 8 are also with us. The goal is to share the information that we have and eat together.
food
Today’s menu is rice with miso soup, rolled omelette, greens with sesame dressing, pork fried with ginger, a kind of Japanese cuisine-like menu.
Like, the 9 of them weren’t in a situation where they could drink miso soup, so I thought they must be missing Japanese cuisine and chose this menu.
“It’s so delicious! Where was miso sold?”
Hanamursan, a year 1 girl has been deeply moved by the meal since just now.
A cute girl munching on rolled omelettes is extremely cute. Ufufufufufu.
“I made both the miso and soy sauce, I wanted to eat them but there wasn’t any in this world.”
“Eh, isn’t Dalisan a person from this world……?”
Ah, I forgot to turn back.
Once I quickly took out the mirror and undid [Disguise], Hanamursan understood.
“To make them, you have to ferment and such right? How did you do that?”
“Of course, with skills!”
“Eh, there were those kind of skills!? Amazing! Er, what is your profession? You were using strange magic and cut a sword with a spear right!? A magic warrior?”
Hanamursan asked me with shining eyes.
Fufufu, then I shall tell you!
“Maid”
“……eh?”
“I’m a maid.”
“Eh, er.”
“Want to see? Here here.”
Once I showed her my dog tag, she made an indescribable expression.
Stop it~, everyone makes that face when I tell them I’m a maid~.
of course, they’re jealous
The food was well received, when I got out the fruit cake I had been letting rest for dessert, it was also popular. Mainly among the girls.
Iya~, this makes me glad to be a maid, seriously.
“And so, we are gathering classrooms.”
Also, while I was preparing dessert and such, it seems they are done sharing the information we have.
I’m bad at organising and conveying the things in my head, so it’s a great help to have people like Suzumoto. Ah, in my case, at worst I can just dump the memories with [Share]. The consumption is bad though.
“Mhm~, I see. Then I think we can help too. Among the nobles, that [Foreign Magic Room] thing is going around right now. We were slaves for different nobles for quite a long time, so we became familiar with the circumstances of this world’s nobles.”
And happy information from Airkun. With this, we now know the location of a new classroom.
It must’ve been extremely tough for them to be slaves for so long, but that was very beneficial information.
We don’t know about this world.
So it’s extremely reassuring to have people familiar with this world.
“But……we don’t have money. There’s no way we can get 100 platinum coins……ah, do you guys know this world’s currency?”
“We do. 100 platinum is basically 1000 gold or 10000 silver right?”
Meaning it is a sum we can get by selling 20 dresses to that uncle in the pawnshop in Deichemoore.
Quite a sum.
“Can the classroom be bought as long as we have the money?”
“No, there’s a rumour there will be one showing up in an underground auction soon. The minimum bid is 30 platinum. So……the problem is more of this yeah? Seems like if you aren’t a noble, you can’t participate in that auction. So to become a noble, a minimum of 70 platinum is needed……”
Auction? Which means, 30 platinum most likely, or more like, definitely won’t win the bid. I would like at least 10 times that.
But there’s no need to become nobles. Because excluding me, everyone here is a noble(lol).
“I see, then there’s no problem. We’re kind of nobles.”
“You guys are doing quite strange things again……”
Mhm, I think so too.
what did you guys do before…..
“At worst, we have a way to get about 100 platinum coins. I think we can do something about that auction. It would help if you guys join up with the information room, news club group and get control of 3F or look for others sold in the capital or Deichemoore.”
“Then I guess the latter? Utagawa, what do you think?”
“Mhm, a few of my friends have probably been made into slaves too. I want to save them quickly.”
“How about the others?”
When Airkun asked the remaining 7, there were no objections, so they will be using their experience and knowledge to be the slave-saving group.
give them that troublesome job
“Then next is Airkun’s side.”
“Yeah, we don’t have much information though……first, Utagawa and I were bought by the same noble.”
Come to think of it, the uncle from the pawnshop in Deichemoore said something like that.
“Then we were made to use the skills we had all day long, basic necessities were provided, but the treatment was horrible.”
“It was terrible! Both me and Utagawsenpai were almost forced to be the noble’s night attendant!”
……ah, almost, means they weren’t? What to do, this is very awkward to ask about.
“Ah, it’s okay. After I punched them once when they tried, they stayed away from us!”
Ah, that’s good.
……mhm. Somhow~, I’ve understood how the foreign slaves are treated in this country.
Basically, that.
You kind of own them and they are slaves……but if you lay your hands on them you might die.
But the worth of gaining them……the value of the skills, is priceless.
So they were treated like bombs?
…..interesting slaves…..
“Actually, why didn’t you guys escape?”
Ah, that’s the question. If the nobles backed off after being whacked, wouldn’t they release you if you hit them two or three more times?
“Ah, that’s simple. Slaves are made to wear collars meant to prevent escape. Seems like it’s made to explode if we go out of the area set by the nobles.”
Hohou, if there’s that kind of convenient collar, it wouldn’t be strange for them to put it on me when I was kidnapped.
Well, it should be very expensive and betting your own head as the chip to check if it’s real is too risky.
“That’s why disobeying is also supposed to be out. Seems like Hanamura unintentionally punched them, but we don’t know when they’ll make it explode. I just froze them with my skill at those times.”
By the way, Utagawsan is the one that used the skill that made us lose in the Nona section.
Her profession is [Song Princess]. Her skill [Magic Voice] is something that conveys her thoughts through her voice and compel the opponent to act.
During the first in the Nona section, she spoke with the thought [Become unable to fight], so it ended up that way.
Now I know why my MP was used up when I went sky diving the first time.
Basically, at that time I had activated the [Magic Voice] on the choker with the thought of [Come, fast] towards Ketorami.
I see, no wonder Ketorami arrived so quickly.
maid can give orders too
“We had things that made the nobles think that killing us would be a shame, so we weren’t killed. If the nobles were more short-tempered, our heads might be gone already.”
Hmm, quite a heavy topic.
The nobles wouldn’t want to kill the priceless slaves they bought for a large sum.
But if the drawbacks of the slave exceeds the value of the slave, it wouldn’t be strange for them to be killed.
The demerits of killing them is large, but it’s not like they can’t kill the slaves.
There really seems to be a need to save them quickly.
before more horny nobles cause accidents
“The same noble bought Utagawa, Hanamura and me, but the others were bought by different nobles. But before the gladiator tournament, the noble that bought Utagawa, Hanamura and me also bought Konno, Kaji and Shiina from other nobles as well as Kaburagi, Umino and Ikeda from the market……well, he was cautious and we only came into contact with each other this morning.”
Seems like that noble intended to immediately release the slaves into the market again after winning the Nona section.
So that means holding onto multiple foreign slaves is risky.
Hm, that gives us quite a lot of information to work with.
But……mhm. Those forced into slavery didn’t meet such horrible fates, and if it seems like they would they can resist……that’s a relief.
the end