A few days after the raid on Agwinas Mansion, Sieg became clear and free.
He was recognized for his accomplishments as an adventurer and for his work in rescuing Caroline. Sieg was freed and became an A-rank adventurer at the same time.
Sometimes the Lord was an Alchemist (Mariella), and although a number of conditions were added to Siege's liberation, such as continuing to act as Mariella's escort, all of them were Siege's wishes, the process went without any problems.
On the day of the "contract cancellation" ritual, when Zeke became free, Mariela said she'd been softening all morning and would just go to the slave trader Raymond's mall, but she'd try putting something new down from her shirt to her underwear and letting Zeke change her clothes, polish her shoes and armor shiny, put out the contents of her bag wondering if she'd forgotten anything, say she didn't "want it," and Zeke would say "because there's no danger," just in case she packed plenty of various advanced potions on her back.
Naturally, I was not able to create potions, so I'm off to create potions today. Instead of an eyeball-specific premium potion, Mariella has apologized to Sieg many times, "I'm sorry I didn't make it."
The ritual of slave liberation was surprisingly easy, even though he said he was looking forward to Siege's liberation in such a restless manner.
"Oh, you're almost solving this. Termination of Contract. Yes, it's done."
"Eh? Over?
"…, there is no particular change………"
As the covenant was made, as the flames rose, and the wind whirled up, and the earth rolled up, and the water dripped from the cup, "Thy flesh shall be thine! I thought it was something that shouted," and so on, but Raymond, the slaver, ended up highly-touching Zeke's chest with a slave engraving pressed from the top of his shirt.
There is no gallery or anything in particular, Sieg and his two escorts Mariella are passed into a reception-like room, and after signing the documents, they are released with the ease of pushing even the umpire.
Not if I say Raymond isn't willing to. Raymond looked alternately at Mariella and Sieg with a smile and a delightful look he had never seen.
"There will be no change because the slavery contract was about to be broken. I can barely feel Mr. Mariella's magic on Mr. Siegmund's slave print. Haven't you been doing little Orders?
"Uh, uh, yes"
With that said, Mariella recalls that the only thing that ordered Sieg was the first one, "Don't tell me you're an alchemist". Mariela and Siege didn't need an order. Although that was normal for Mariella, it seemed very unusual for Raymond and in the general case.
"Ooh. That's great. A slave print is an artificially granted one. It's not a natural form. So if you don't shed the Lord's magic regularly, it will be less effective and weaker. Even if you drilled a hole in your ear to decorate your ears, if you let it go without decorating it, you'd end up blocked, wouldn't you? It's just like that."
Is a servitude contract such an easy thing? If I don't give the Order, it will be thin, I wonder if it will cause operational problems if it is freed or escaped on its own.
Raymond went on to answer Mariella's question like that.
"The binding nature of the servitude contract is not the only thing that the Lord (or) consciously works for the Magic Order. There is only a little bit of magic in the words you usually speak. The words you unleash to make them obey, to make them listen to you, bind the words and actions of slaves through slave marks. The more powerful it is the more it is to the will of the slave. And the contract of servitude also becomes deeply ingrained.
This is my theory, but an order doesn't just bind words and deeds. I think that twisting your will and forcing your bending behavior will make you a person and distort your mind slightly. "
Mariella felt that although Raymond's tone was mild, the words contained strong thoughts. Maybe this is the magic put in it. When I saw Sieg sitting next to me with him, I guess I had something to think about, eagerly listening to Raymond's words.
"But Mr. Siegmund doesn't have it. With all due respect, when I imposed the servitude contract, I felt a lot of distortion (snoring) due to the influence of the previous Lord, but I can't even feel it now. I guess it's because your relationship was filled with love for each other.
If a bond is much stronger than a contract of servitude, then a contract of servitude means nothing. "
Raymond is a slave trader or something, but I guess the roots are very good people. It seems to be a great pleasure to see a stronger relationship than a slave contract. I was told I was full of love, and Mariela was kind of very embarrassed, but even Zeke said, "Yes. I will continue to protect Mariela." Mariela became bright red to her ears because she answered truly.
After such a mariella-friendly gaze, Raymond turned to Sieg by tightening his expression "by the way".
"Take this one. This is a copy of Mr. Siegmund's previous criminal record of a merchant."
When Siegmund received the documents, he began to look through them.
The merchant parent and son, who was the lord before Siege, raided the workshop of the Agwinas family in a labyrinth city and was captured. That's a felony to look at. Moreover, many crimes came to light as a result of pursuing abuse and other aftersins from the state of debt slavery they were taking.
Among them, it was also specified that the slave who rescued the merchant's son had been blamed for the failure of the merchant plan through the Devil's Forest and had filed a false complaint alleging that he had endangered the merchant's son.
The merchant plan to escape through the Devil's Forest without a potion, which had left many debt slaves with guaranteed human rights dead, had put the merchant's position at risk.
"We were fooled by one slave. We are victims ourselves. Because of that slave, even my son was badly injured."
Such reckless rhetoric passed by accumulating large sums of money. It may not have been possible to create sin on a dead slave, but fortunately one survived and, more conveniently, someone was highly feverish and unconscious.
Yes, Siegmund.
"Your wrongdoing has been proven. Compensation will be paid from merchant parents and children's personal possessions, but it seems that the flow of funds has deteriorated considerably since the failure of this merchant plan, and this trip to the labyrinth city also seemed to be aimed at a thousand dollars. There are many other victims, such as slaves, who were forced to carry out this raid and were about to be killed, so you can't expect the amount of compensation."
The only thing Raymond would have wanted to tell you would have been "proven guilty". The A-ranker adventurers make good money. Conversely, the honor is not redeemable with some compensation.
"Compensation is fine. Divide it among its nearly murdered slaves. Just proven guilty is enough."
Sieg answers quietly. As if to try that answer, Raymond went on like this.
"Is that so? By the way, he's the merchant's father and son, but he's been corrupted by criminal slavery, and now he's in this mall."
—— Do you want to buy it? You can avenge it. You can clean up all the humiliation you've been subjected to, the fear, the anger that makes it difficult to rule you from time to time --?
That's what Raymond asks.
The fact that the Merchant Parent and Child Guilty Records were available on this occasion, and the fact that they took the Merchant Parent and Child Buy and Sell, may be Weishardt's measure against Sieg for helping Caroline because he pursued the Merchant Parent and Child's aftermath and cleared Sieg of his wrongdoing.
However, Zeke answered without hesitation.
"No. I've wasted too much time so far. I don't want to worry about that anymore."
"Is that so? This is too much of a suggestion. If you need more manpower again, please be sure to use it in our business hall."
Slave trader Raymond hangs his head in a daze. Zeke is no longer a slave. He's an adventurer with A-ranker status and has enough customers for a slaver.
"Let's go home, Mariella"
"Yeah!"
Mariella happily answers Sieg's unchanged call to "go home", who is no longer a slave.
"Yeah, but I just need to stop by."
And I'm kind of looking at Zeke. It's unnatural to pretend to be subtle at all costs.
"'Yagoo's Bouncing Bridge Pavilion'?
"Ugh, yeah. Yeah but......?
Mariella with her toes and shitty deception. Sieg finds out about planning a surprise party for Sieg's liberation at Yagoo's Bouncing Bridge Pavilion. What was decisive was that the master, who was always stuck with Mariella, said, "I'm going first, come on!" and went out with a candle face. "There is something wrong with not being able to split.
"We look forward to seeing you again," Raymond dropped off in his usual dialogue as he warmly watched the two returning at the same distance as he did when he arrived.
On the road to "Yagoo's Bouncing Bridge Pavilion," Sieg told Mariella pompously. The sun is setting and there are two shadows stretching out on the street for a long time because I came out of the house to coincide with a surprise party.
"Mariella……, Links…………"
"Yeah……………."
Slowly walking side by side, Mariella stares at the long stretching shadow. It's like the day I first came to Labyrinth City, when I walked with Lynx.
"Lynx liked Mariella."
"Yeah……………."
Lynx said that when he became an A-ranker, he was going to tell Mariella how he felt. So Sieg thought this was the word he was left with to tell now.
Mariella stares at the shadow at her feet and doesn't know what she looks like.
"Mariella. I like Mariella, too."
And this feeling too. I'm sure I have to tell him now.
"Sieg........., you know. The day I retreated from Cal and followed Shizuku..."
Mariella connects her pompous words to Sieg's confession.
"I tried so hard to retrace Master Cal, and after I found something, I fell to the ground with the rain grain."
I've found my destination, Cal, so I don't have to go back to the sky again and again. He poured down with the rain grains and soaked them into the earth. It's like Shizuku of Life returns to the earth's pulse.
"That's when I thought about it. If we go to the vein, we can meet Lynx."
Sieg breathes quietly in Mariela's words.
"... did you see him?
I can see my lost loved ones again. How sweet that is.
"Yeah. I didn't see you. But when I thought I'd see you, I'd sink more and more into the vein."
Mariella's ego, which spread thinly, had become very rare, and her memories and emotions were terribly uncertain. If I go like this, I can't go back, or I need to help Master Cal, or I can't recognize those clear intentions and thoughts well because of the fact that I left them in the flesh. Only the fluttering serenity before waking from sleep filled Mariella so deeply that she sank in.
"But then I heard it."
There's a voice calling Mariella from Sieg.
"I thought you wanted to go home."
I guess that's Mariella's full answer now.
At that time, I was kind of embarrassed and I said, "Odori."
Mariella noticed.
But Mariella still doesn't know what she wants to do.
Mariela, who was supposed to be looking at the shadows, turned to Sieg at some point. The illuminating smiling face looks glowing red in the sunset.
"Really?"
"Yeah."
Even such Mariella's reply was satisfactory to Sieg, and the two proceeded again to the 'Yagoo's Bouncing Bridge Pavilion'.
The sunset was warmly illuminating those two.
After a while.
One piece of information was sent to Siege, who lives on a 'wood leak day' in a completely unchanged way. Apparently, there are a number of people in this city who care about Zeke.
The information belonged to the merchant parents and children who raided the workshop of the Agwinas family.
The man who bought the parent and child who fell into slavery was said to be the merchant's slave. The man, who was ordered to raid the workshop of the Agwinas family, had been placed in slave status longer than he had been for the original period by a merchant's rape plot. The merchant's sin came to light and he said he was one of the freed.
There's nothing left for me.
No one knows what the hell happened to the man who left that behind when he left the slave trade house.
The man said he took the purchased merchant parent and son into the labyrinth.
And then the merchant father and son and those who saw the man said there was just not one.