《17 Eleanor》
My name is Eleanor, I’m from the dog beastman tribe, and I’m 15 years old now.
I was born in a provincial city called Luzobl in the Fur Milan Kingdom.
As such, I am now a slave.
It seems that my mother died a short time after I was born, so by the time I could remember, I only had my father.
A father who has been drinking all the time, unable to heal from the loss of his wife.
When I was little, they still had money, but by the time I was 10 years old, my father told me, 『We don’t have any more money, so go earn some.』
That life came to an end by the time I was 13 years old.
The reason for this was because my father had died.
My father was in debt, and soon after he died, a slaver came to our house.
And I was made a slave in exchange for that debt.
As a slave, I was educated in various ways, and at the age of 14, when I could do some calculations and read and write, I was purchased by Master Oran, a peddler.
The quality of the food I eat, the amount of food I eat, the amount of sleep I get, and the place I sleep are incomparably worse after I became a slave.
However, as long as I helped with the business, there was no violence, so I thought it was better than the life I had heard about.
About a year has passed since then, but this time, when I was in a village for work, about 100 bandits attacked me.
The peddler with the money was the first target, and the master was killed.
At that moment, I knew what my future would be, and despair overtook me.
I was not killed, but slaves are treated as property, as determined by slave law. If the owner is killed, the ownership is transferred to the person who killed him. If the person who killed them is caught, the ownership of the property will be transferred to the lord of the land.
But even with the village so overrun, no one will show up to capture or kill the bandits, so I’m probably screwed.
Up until now, as long as I do my job, the master has not touched my body, but I already know …… what will happen if I am with the bandits.
I wanted to at least have experienced first love.
I’m still a girl, you know.
「Huh, when I think back on my life like this, I don’t have any good memories. ……」
I muttered to myself subconsciously.
「What was the point of my birth? What was I born to do? Perhaps I was born to be the comfort companion of a bandit?」
I was saying these words even though I knew that no one would answer me anyway.
And so, as I silently watched in despair as my village was being overrun, I noticed that more and more of the bandits were being killed by a silver-haired man.
And in no time at all, the so-called leader of the bandits was also dead.
Seeing this scene, the bandits finally ran away.
I had been in despair just a few minutes ago. …… It was like a lie, and I felt my mind clearing up.
Apparently, the silver-haired man was going to be my next owner, so I decided to say hello.
I’m so nervous.
The man with the silver hair is strong and cool. ……
This is not good! I’ve heard that many beastmen are attracted to strong people, but I guess I was one of them!
I bet my eyes are hearts right now!
I definitely want to remain a slave to this man!
I willed myself to talk to the silver-haired man!
「Ma, ma, master, please take care of me.」
Awawawawa…… I was so nervous, I bit my tongue. …… I did it.
Bu, bu, ,bu, but it’s not just about looks and strength, it’s also about personality if we’re going to be together forever, so we’re going to be together and see!
And if he has a good personality …… then I want to …… give him my all!
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It had already been a little over a year and a half since Dan and Sarah had died.
――Sometimes I suddenly remember Dan and Sarah’s smiling faces and their voices calling me 「 Louis-chan」 and 「Louis」 with affection.
I can’t say I’m at peace when I think about them like I do now, but I maintain my peace of mind.
That made me realize the fact that my feelings are finally calming down – though the sadness won’t go away.
Maybe it was because I was consciously trying not to remind myself of it, but it took me a while to realize it. I chuckle to myself.
That being said, it’s been ten days since I conquered the Labyrinth of Time’s Lament.
I continued on my way, crunching through the occasional monster that attacked me.
I think about a lot of things along the way.
After experiencing the bullying in my previous life and the actions of Stampede and Alfred here, I have made up my mind to thoroughly resist unreasonable actions in the future.
As I walked along, thinking, “I haven’t seen anyone for a long time. ……,” I saw a village.
The map I saw at the library in Dallas only had the big city on it, so I don’t have any information about this village.
However, I could smell blood on the wind from the village, so I started running at once and entered the village.
Then I saw the scene of bandits attacking the village.
When I used 〈Detect〉, I found out that there were quite a few bandits, maybe a hundred.
Then the bandits attacked me as well.
I’ve never killed anyone before, so just to be safe, I’m going to start by using〈Create〉to get〈Mental Resistance〉.
【Mental Resistance】
I can reduce the burden on my mind at will.
I can choose which content I want to reduce.
It can also repel mental attacks and charms caused by〈Dark Magic〉.
Having acquired the skill, I mercilessly cut down more and more of the attackers.
The bandits gradually began to flee after I had killed about forty of them.
The original target was probably this village, and it would be too much trouble to go after it. Let’s leave it alone.
As I watched the bandits fleeing with these thoughts in my mind, I heard various voices from the villagers.
「Go after them and take them all down!」
「This is going to save us!」
「Quick, kill more bandits!」
「Save the village!」
「If you’re so strong, why didn’t you come before the damage was done!」
I couldn’t help but wrinkle my brow at this comment. There are too many people saying selfish things.
As expected, I ignore the villagers with such arguments.
Then I saw a girl coming towards me.
She wore tattered clothes and a black collar with dog ears growing out of her head. Is she from the beastman race? I’ve never seen a real one before.
The beastman tribe girl came right up to me, bowing and shouted.
「Ma, ma, master, please take care of me.」
At that moment, my thoughts stopped. There should be〈High-Speed Parallel Thinking〉……
I managed to reboot my thoughts and decided to talk to her.
It seems that this girl was a slave of a peddler, and her master was killed by a bandit by bad luck, and then the bandit was killed by me. So it seems that her ownership was transferred from the peddler to the bandit, and then from the bandit to me.
When I used〈Apprasial〉 on the collar, I found that it was called a servitude collar.
While the villagers are still buzzing and noisy, I tell the beast girl that I don’t want a slave.
But no matter how many times I refused, she would say, 「That’s the way it’s supposed to be under the slave law.」
She was so insistent that I was losing my resolve.
And although I will return unreasonableness with unreasonableness, if I am going to live in this world, do I need to follow the rules that I should follow? I reconsidered.
At any rate, as we were about to introduce ourselves to each other, one of the villagers came near us.
The villagers pushed the beastman girl away, saying, 「Just let me talk to him」, and started talking to me.
「I am Garo, the chief of this village. If you don’t chase the bandits quickly, they’ll escape! You have to destroy the bandits!」
The other villagers, in unison with the village chief, shouted in unison and urged, 「Hurry, hurry」.
What are you talking about? This Garo guy or the villagers ……
It certainly seems that quite a few villagers have been killed and looted, and I guess this village can’t afford it.
But are you ordering me to do something I’ve never done before for people I’ve never met before, almost from the very first word, or are you a …… idiot?
I naturally refused and pulled the hand of the beastman girl who was knocked down to the ground to help her stand up.
Then the yelling and accusations got worse, and I was getting annoyed for good.
I decide to take the beastman girl and leave the village.
Before leaving the village, I realized that I didn’t have any money on hand, so I just collected the money from the bandits I killed.
I wanted to sleep in bed for the first time in a long time. But I don’t want to stay in this village. I guess I don’t have a choice.
After leaving the village and settling in, we sat down to rest.
Then I decided to listen to the story of the beastman girl.