I handed Hal over at Matthias' store.
"Thank you, master. It's been a while, but it's been a long time since I've had the pleasure of going out."
"I think I'll be going to the guild again, so thank you then."
I bowed my head too. And Hal goes to the back, and Matthias comes instead.
"You're home early. I don't think they went to the labyrinth."
"Of course it is. Isn't it Mr. Mathias who said that if you hurt her, you'd have to pay for the treatment?"
I said with a laugh.
"Well, Hal seemed to want to go to the labyrinth, too, but I think she'd be better off with an adventurer's spot fight or something like that."
When I'm strong enough to take down a rabbit and dive into the labyrinth, you can explore the labyrinth with Hal then.
120 cents a day, so I need to be able to make enough money to get my ex.
Though, I'm unemployed now. And weak, it's just a miscellaneous fish.
I don't have the power to protect her, or to show her the good things.
"Sorry, I can't do that."
Matthias' reply was unexpected.
"Huh?"
"This country is easy for slaves to spend there, and they can designate a master who is also bought from slaves to some extent. For example, women, men, age, etc. However, that is limited to the first year of slavery"
"Year one?
"It's a law to protect the slave traders. I'd be in trouble if I had a slave who tightened up the terms and never wanted anyone to buy me."
"Oh, I see."
In other words, if you become a slave, you strive to find a good lord within a year. However, if time runs out, some compromise will be reached.
After a year, if you think about being bought by your most repugnant type of husband, you'll compromise, and you'll try to get him to buy it?
"Uh, I understand that system, but the way things are going right now, is Hal offering any terms, too?
"Yeah. The condition she's putting out is someone stronger than herself. The White Wolves only swear allegiance to their stronger opponents than they do, because swearing allegiance to those below them is supposedly more humiliating than death."
... Even though she's in that state, was she calling me your husband?
I did something I'm sorry about.
"... uh, so, something I don't know yet. That doesn't explain why she can't go to the labyrinth with the others."
"Actually, there was a nobleman who wanted to keep her company, and he was very supportive of the Adventurer Alliance."
... Oh, I see.
In other words, if you invite her to a party or something, the great lady will stare at you?
Does that mean there will be no way to emerge as an adventurer?
Maybe you made me wait outside when you went to the Adventurer Alliance to sell material because you knew about it?
"Of course, the law, albeit noble, must be observed. If that nobleman is to buy Halwatart more than she does not change that condition, he has to compete with her to win. Except until a year has passed since she became a slave."
Does that mean anyone can buy her after a year?
"... by the way, when is the day after that year?
"It's exactly ten days from today at noon."
Matthias said so, looking sorry.
"I'm sorry, Master Ichinojo. Knowing that you are not an adventurer, I don't think you are under the influence of that nobleman, and only for a little while, I wanted to let her out. Because slaves can't go outside without their husbands."
Right, so, she wanted to go to the labyrinth so badly?
Because if the aristocrats buy me, I won't be able to go outside freely.
"... Last question, what's her price?
"It's as beautiful as she is, usually 100,000 sence. But if anyone meets the conditions offered by Halwatart, if you give it to her for 30,000 sence, it's a contract from her seller."
30,000 Sens or...... same as the buying price of the recruit suit?
Yeah, of course I won't buy it.
I plan to spend that money on it, and most importantly, if I were sympathetic, I'd have to buy slaves from all over the world.
I go outside the store and take a big, deep breath.
In the first place, what are the benefits of buying her?
If it's my growth cheat, I can do it solo.
If you're using the Adventurer Guild, you can rent slaves like you did today. You don't have to pay the head tax. It's cheap.
Sure, she's beautiful, but today, less than an hour - no, we were just together for a few dozen minutes, actually.
30,000 sence for someone like that? Three million yen?
Ha, think rationally. That's nonsense.
"I don't feel enthusiasm for your motives."
This is from an interviewer at a computer company.
... Why do I remember the words from the interviewer now?
'Your motive for aspirations is certainly reasonable and as an exemplary answer, you have done a great job. But do you have a motive for that?
At this time, I couldn't find the answer.
As a result, I received a prayer email.
What's on my mind right now - do I have myself?
It's up to me, because it's the answer I came up with.
Mostly, it's the right answer.
What's wrong with thinking rationally?
'The way you stay is too unreasonable. Why are you dropping out of high school? With your father's life insurance, you can definitely graduate from high school. "
... Why do I remember my sister's words here?
If I did use life insurance, I could graduate from high school. But I wanted the money my dads left me to spend until I graduated from college in Mili.
Though I feel it would be more sensible to make money after I graduated from high school, I wanted to.
'... stay, don't you regret it?
Miri, who was about to cry, asked me that. What did I say back then?
I have no regrets.
Even if it's a stupid choice, I'll prove it was the right one.
Yeah, this is what I put out then, I put out, my own idea.
If so, what do I want to do?
What the hell do you want me to do, throw away a rational idea?
"I want to buy Hal."
I think it's solitary. Maybe it would be happier for her to live under a nobleman.
But you still don't have to regret it.
That's all for sure.
The due date is ten days...... no, I challenge Hull to battle in nine days and beat her.
Gear up and be strong by then.
But I don't have enough information for that.
If so, there are five people I know in this town.
I can't rely on the Adventurer Guild. I don't know where the nobleman's eyes are.
You can explain it to Matthias, but I don't really want Hal to have expectations.
Not that I can be strong.
The most dependable is the gatekeeper's sister. But I'm at work, and it's not a good idea to cause too much trouble.
There's one person I can count on. Someone who is a former adventurer and seems to tell me a lot.
So I never opened the door to the store.
"Store owner, please make me a Han" cousin "!
"Welcome!
Onei, the clothes store owner, roughed his nose and stormed this way.