... live free!

"What the hell happened..."

With that in mind, I felt like the neck area of a man glowed for a moment, so I checked the area.

Then I realized I was wearing something like a thin collar around my neck.

"What's this?

That's what I realized when I tried to touch it.

"Is it possible that this collar was glowed to mean that a man died? If that's the case, there might be some trick to this..."

I used magic to find out what kind of item I thought it was.

Slave collar

Whosoever is put on this collar shall listen to him who is put on it. If you cannot hear me, I will punish you.

"The collar of a slave means that the man was a slave?

I was surprised to read the description of the item and found out why she suddenly died. You mean, maybe for some reason, a man reneged on his promise?

"But for what reason..."

and I remembered something when I was thinking about that. Surely he should have said that after Shafner talked about which organization or something like that, he would be cut off by the organization or something. Maybe that's why. Thinking about it, I'm a little convinced why you told me about Schaffner. I think it's because he's the one who's going to lose the deal. I don't know how that was a certainty...... and I realized there was a possibility if I thought that.

"... Could this guy have been unable to tell outsiders about his organization?

Because it had an item called a slave collar on it, and the description of the item contained a promise to the owner... But, well, I wouldn't have sympathy if I thought about what that guy did...

With that in mind, I found out if the man had anything else after I put the slave collar on his neck in the item box.

"Hmm?"

There was a ring on the pinky finger of that hand as I was checking the arm I cut off as I was checking the man's belongings.

"What is it?

You think so, take that ring off, check it out, see, lion? The pattern was carved.

"Well, does that give us a clue?

I turned that ring into an item box with that in mind. Then I checked the guy's belongings, but he didn't have anything but money. But I was surprised to see its contents, but it contained 12 gold coins, 42 silver coins, and 68 copper coins. I thought it was heavy but I was surprised you had so much money in your possession.

"Who were you really?

I was looking at the wreckage of a man with that in mind.