Chapter 61

Chapter 61

I Became a Prisoner Trainer in the Dungeon.

Episode 61: The Dantalion Mine (1)

Before negotiating with Blake Gilberte, Baron Gilberte, there were three things to keep in mind.

First. Jake Gilberte was Blake Gilberte’s half-brother.

Unlike other illegitimate or half-siblings, the two half-brothers were known to have a fairly good relationship, at least outwardly.

Second. If Blake Gilberte died, the barony would pass to his son.

While this was the law of the kingdom, his son was a young child who had not even reached adulthood.

Of course, under the kingdom law, a guardian would act as the lord’s proxy, but if he was too young, the lord’s proxy would essentially act as the lord.

Third. Jake Gilberte was ambitious.

I didn’t really intend to pay attention when I was a porter.

I just dismissed him as a snobby noble bastard hanging out with adventurers.

But now that I had gathered information, it was different.

Jake Gilberte.

A man that someone would have wanted dead.

“I’ve studied human society a bit more this time. And I’ve learned. Jake Gilberte, how much of a political threat that bastard is to you.”

“……..”

The baron said nothing.

The baron’s bodyguard behind him looks at the baron’s eyes, but the baron only blinked without saying a word.

“In the first place, it’s strange that a bastard is so grown up and in the territory. Even several years have passed since the late Baron Gilberte passed away, right?”

“It’s been seven years since I became baron.”

“For seven years, a bastard has been deprived of his barony by his half-brother.”

The baron’s eyes twitched momentarily.

As expected.

“So, I guess he thought.”

“……..”

The eyes that seemed to flash with anger slowly relax.

There was nuance in words, so even if I didn’t tell him for sure, he must be feeling it to some extent.

“So maybe he was trying to take it away. Pretending to be an adventurer and not interested in the title, he stayed out of the castle, raised capital and built connections outside, and at the same time, he pretended to be active in the Knights and had a pretty good relationship with the knights.”

“Did he say that?”

“It’s just speculation. We know the bastard’s past, but we didn’t intend to figure out the intentions in that past.”

I lightly tap the hand on the table to draw attention.

“One million gold.”

An absurdly large sum.

As soon as the value came out, the knight behind him widened his eyes.

“It wouldn’t be too bad of a price to release Gilberte’s bastard, would it?”

“……..”

We were talking about the price of a person’s life, but even I thought it was quite excessive.

“Do you want the bastard to be released?”

“……..”

“If so, you must have prepared one million gold, right?”

“……..”

“If you haven’t prepared one million gold, we have no choice but to kill the hostage. Do you want to kill the hostage?”

“Tell me what you want.”

The baron said in a slightly annoyed voice.

“It seems like we’re just going to keep asking each other questions, so let’s get to the point. It’s not good to talk to demons for too long.”

“Okay. Then I’ll tell you one-sidedly.”

I snapped my fingers lightly.

“I want to make a deal with you. I’ll kill Jake Gilberte.”

“……..”

“You will become a kind-hearted baron who lost his family, even though you are half-brothers and bastards because of evil demons.”

“What do you get from that?”

“I want you to make it known to the outside world and close this place and use it as a relay point for regular trade with us.”

The knight’s eyes widened at my words.

“Lord!!”

“Stop it. Calm down.”

The baron glared at the knight.

“They haven’t killed Jake yet.”

I killed him, but if necessary, I could say that he was alive even if he was dead.

Even if the baron knew that ‘Jake is dead’ was beneficial to him, he suppressed the knight by saying that Jake was alive.

‘I guess it’s a bit of a problem to abandon the bastard and trade with demons.’

Trading with demons.

Even if you just made a trade, it wouldn’t be strange if the lord’s head flew off, but the lord even asked them to kill the bastard who was a political threat and traded with them?

“Are you worried? About your public reputation.”

“……..”

“Well. If you’re not willing to pay a million gold for the sake of your territory residents, and you’re a ‘good man to my family and my territory residents’, then I won’t kill him for now.”

“You won’t kill Jake?”

“Yes. But I won’t let him go either.”

I smiled under my mask on purpose.

Did the baron notice that the corners of my mouth went up and my eyes narrowed?

“……It’s a threat. What are you trying to get from us with threats?”

“I’m glad we’re communicating well. We want people. Not a specific someone, but an absolute number of people. In other words, you can call it a sacrifice.”

“Sacrifice….”

“It’s a pleasure for adventurers to come into the dungeon, but unfortunately, it’s a bit of a hassle for us to have too many. Instead of having an oversupply at times and a shortage at other times, I came forward like this in the hope that sacrifices would be supplied regularly.”

“……..”

The baron looked at me with cold, calm eyes.

“You want me to offer people here?”

“Yes, but you can deal with it ‘unofficially’.”

“Unofficially…?”

“For example, this dungeon has been cleared, so it’s closed. To the outside world, you can say that everything dangerous in this dungeon has been resolved.”

The baron was still wary, but his body slowly leaned towards me.

“And this dungeon is controlled with something like ‘no unauthorized access’. A passage to our side will open from time to time in the dungeon. But that moment is only when you and we trade.”

I put my hand in my inside pocket.

The knight pointed his sword at me, but I calmly took out a glass bottle from my pocket and held it out.

“What is this?”

“It’s a love potion. A love potion containing the succubus’s yin energy that humans like so much.”

“……..”

“Of course, it’s not poison or anything like that. Well, it’s understandable that you can’t believe it.”

In the first place, I didn’t think I could get the love potion recognized as it is in this place.

“One bottle per person.”

“Is this love potion worth that much?”

“I experimented on Jake Gilberte, and he ejaculated ten times without any problem.”

“……!!”

There was no such experiment, but it is indeed a powerful love potion that can produce such effects.

“I don’t discriminate against people. It doesn’t matter if they are prisoners, slaves, heretics, or political enemies. Ah, but if possible, I’d prefer young men and women. Old people are trash to us too.”

“……..”

If I hadn’t said this, would he have sacrificed old people, saying, ‘Old people are also people, so the numbers match’?

“This is the price of Jake Gilberte’s life. You can call it an advance payment.”

I deliberately pushed the love potion further across the table.

“One bottle per sex. You can apply it to your partner or to yourself. Either way, if you lick and suck each other, you’ll both enjoy the effects.”

“……..”

“If this deal goes through, you don’t have to give me a million gold.”

I spoke as if I was doing him a favor, as if it had already been taken care of, but the baron didn’t say a word to my words.

“Let’s summarize.”

First, how would it look to the outside world?

“Baron Blake Gilberte tried to negotiate to save his half-brother Jake, but he is troubled by the absurd price of one million gold. Originally, he would have been agonizing like this and making a deal because of the demon’s threats… but it seems like you don’t want that.”

Therefore.

“After agonizing, the baron decides to prepare one million gold, but decides to have a meeting with the territory’s administrators and executives. After a sharp confrontation, the opinions are united in one way or another, but when they come back to the negotiating table, the door to the dungeon has disappeared.”

I lightly brushed the dimensional gate, which was like gray mist, with my hand.

“The baron, realizing he was deceived by the demons, expresses his condolences. I don’t know why the demons suddenly broke off the negotiations, but the baron, who still expected Jake Gilberte to be alive, placed knights in the dungeon and watched the dungeon for over a week. However….”

“The door won’t open, right.”

When I deliberately paused, the baron finished the words.

“People’s interest will be forgotten, and after Jake Gilberte’s funeral is held, this dungeon will be banned from entry because it is a dangerous place.”

It was not a tone like ‘it will be’.

“Even if adventurers look inside the dungeon, they won’t see anything, and the knights who manage this dungeon will keep their eyes wide open to prevent victims like Jake Gilberte from happening again.”

He continued the story as if he would do it himself.

“And when I come to this dungeon someday….”

“The gray mist will spread out like today, and I will appear like this.”

“……..”

“Whether you drag people in as a execution ground, or buy slaves and send them here, it’s up to you. Ah, it would be nice if they were heretical worshipers.”

“One question. What are you trying to do with humans?”

“Well, first of all, food?”

“……..”

The baron’s expression openly distorted at the word food.

“Don’t misunderstand. I mean to eat them, but I don’t mean to bite and tear them apart.”

“Then…?”

“I will make them sex slaves.”

“…….?”

Baron Gilberte tilted his head for a moment.

He seemed confused as to whether the word he heard matched the word he knew.

“Sex slaves. Sex slaves.”

“……..”

“Don’t think too complicatedly. Just think about what you need.”

I slowly got up.

“Is a day enough to make a decision? Huh?”

“……I will discuss it with the officials of the lord’s castle. About the million gold.”

Baron Gilberte also got up.

“Until we meet here again, Jake Gilberte must be alive. Demon Dantalion.”

My name was Azazel, but I turned my back and lightly waved my hand as I crossed the mist-

“……..”

I returned to the dungeon of the Vampire Legion.

‘That bastard.’

At the end.

‘He can’t resist the love potion. Whether he thinks about using it himself, or whether he doesn’t use it, considering its value.’

When I glanced back, the baron’s eyes were definitely on the love potion.

‘He can’t easily agree to the deal yet because of the deal with the demons. But he will eventually make the deal.’

Not between humanity and demons.

A deal between ‘forces’ called the Gilberte Barony and the Vampire Legion.

‘If we both turn a blind eye, it’s a win-win for both of us.’

That link would be none other than the love potion.