episode_0181
by fnovelpiaThe last item in the auction is Elise.
The pitiful expression evokes sympathy, and the sorrowful gesture of twisting the body while tied with rope stimulates the male lust.
What Elise is wearing is a torn nun’s habit.
Her outstanding appearance and her unique occupation as a nun amplify her value.
Some might see her as a pitiful nun, but the truth is that this whole thing was a show planned by Elise, including the slave auction and the product herself.
Sister Elise.
On the surface, she is a nun from the Order of Order and Balance, but her true identity is a vampire that the clergy are hunting with burning eyes.
He manipulates people to arrange a slave auction, and offers Elise herself as the prize.
The people who are captivated by Elise’s looks pay a lot of money to buy her, and all the profits from that go to Elise.
There’s no point in signing a slave contract. The transfer of ownership means the work is done in vain.
If the buyer is excited and buys Elise without knowing it, he will blow his money and get nothing in return.
This is already the seventh such fraud.
Elise arrived in Haarlem, her next work location.
Even in a poor city, if you catch the eye of a noble, you can get at least several dozen, or at most several hundred, gold coins.
The truth that Elise has come to realize while doing this job is that there is nothing sweeter than sucking other people’s money. Even Ordo, the god of order, would agree.
‘Who will donate today~’
Elise scanned the auction house with eyes focused on her prey.
Many men send their eyes with base desires, but their fantasies never come true.
Then, a priest wearing pure white robes entered Elise’s field of vision.
‘Why did the priest come to the slave auction?’
These are the gloomy back alleys that priests absolutely hate.
Even the common priest is not a priest.
He is imbued with immense divine power.
Judging from the way she looked at Elise with pity, her true identity had not been revealed. She was half vampire, but she was definitely half priest.
Of course, there is nothing good about being involved.
And next to the priest.
A black-haired, black-eyed man with his legs crossed and his chin tilted crookedly. His face was quite plain, but Elise was more impressed by his eyes than his face.
It is not a gaze of pity or lust for the nun.
It feels as if someone is looking at me and laughing at me.
Instead of feeling sorry for me, you’re laughing at me?
Don’t you feel sorry for the nuns who were taken as slaves?
Elise looks at him with a pitiful gaze, but her expression remains unchanged. She seems to be a cold-blooded person who does not feel pity even when looking at the poor.
Elise doesn’t care unless someone gives her money. She just turns off her mind.
“I’ll give you 50 gold coins!”
The price has already risen to 50 gold.
There are touts hidden not only among the auction house staff but also among the bidders. They raise the bids and incite competition. Fools don’t even know this and jump into the bidding because it’s good.
“100!”
Another unit change.
This is enough.
With a hundred gold coins, you can eat and play for a while.
It seems like no one is raising prices anymore.
It was the moment when the auction came to an end.
“thousand.”
“… … … in?”
“I’ll give you a thousand.”
He was a man whose gaze I thought was peculiar.
Without any warning, he threw away an amount ten times the previous bid.
The room became quiet.
The host, under Elise’s command, asked on her behalf.
“Excuse me, you can’t be joking… ?”
“No kidding.”
right.
It’s not a joke.
He still looks relaxed even after offering such a high bid.
I can’t read your mind.
My intuition whispers something unsettling.
Then a murmur was heard from the crowd.
“That guy, is he a slave trader?”
“The slave messenger came to Harlem?”
“It looks like it’s definitely there?”
Slave messenger.
Even Eliza knows of his notoriety.
A slave trader who harasses slaves, takes their lives, and even destroys their souls.
How could such a slave messenger desire me?
‘It doesn’t work for me anyway.’
Even though he was a famous slave messenger, to Elise he was just a fool.
Looks like you have quite a lot of money. Should I spend a little more?
Elise manipulated the person hidden in the crowd.
“One thousand and one hundred.”
“2 thousand.”
“2, two thousand hundred… ?”
“3 thousand.”
“?”
A large question mark appeared above Elise’s head.
what?
What the hell are you doing that costs 3,000 gold coins?
The slave messenger who met Elise’s eyes smiled brightly.
Something seems wrong.
A lot.
***
The winning bid was a whopping three thousand gold coins.
They poured a huge amount of money into building a mansion fit for a nobleman for just one nun.
Unlike other nuns, Elise pursues extravagance, but spending excessive amounts of money is burdensome even to her. All she thinks is, ‘I have to get out of here quickly.’
The parties gathered in one place.
“Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Karami.”
“Don’t mention it. I used it where it should have been used, so it’s no different from not spending a single penny.”
“Mr. Karami…! Ugh.”
Lucas regarded Karami, who had invested three thousand gold coins in one nun, as the savior of the century.
The idea of a slave messenger had not even entered my ears. I kept bowing my head and expressing my sincere gratitude.
“Lucas, if you don’t mind, can I speak to this woman for a moment?”
“Yes, yes. Sure.”
Lucas, overcome with emotion, left without any doubts.
All that was left were Karami, Elise, and the slave traders and the socialite controlled by Elise.
“First, show me if you have money. If it was a joke, you won’t be able to avoid trouble.”
“Don’t worry.”
Karami handed over the gold coins he had exchanged for points in advance. A heavy bag of gold coins that was divided into several parts because it couldn’t fit in one.
Elise checked with the slave trader. When she opened the pocket, she saw a large quantity of shiny gold coins. They were real, not fake.
“Now that you’ve proven that it’s not a joke, can I take over ownership?”
“Um… Okay.”
The slave trader handed over the magical contract containing the master-servant contract with Elise. Karami, who received the contract, glanced over it briefly and then smiled.
“Confirmed. Then I will take possession of the nun. Oh, and.”
Exactly!
Karami snapped his fingers.
It was a split second.
Before she could react, Elise’s soul was chained.
“What?!”
Elise was very embarrassed.
“I also know how to use contract magic. I bet just in case. No problem, right?”
The host shouted.
“There’s no problem! You’re just going ahead with the contract without my consent!”
“Agree? Whose agreement are you talking about?”
“Of course… !”
“The nun is now my slave. I paid her a fair amount. Whatever I do to her is now my will.”
It was clearly a correct theory, but to others, no, to Elise, it was just an emergency.
‘I had a strange feeling.’
I thought you could handle magic.
Is this really a slave messenger?
There is a reason why he became notorious for being a mere slave trader.
I think I underestimated you.
It’s an operational retreat.
Now that the priest is gone, he nullifies the contract and runs away with the money.
‘That slave trader’s magic.’
Elise is skillfully trying to nullify the contract.
‘Oh, it won’t come off?’
It doesn’t come off.
The fake contract Elise had prepared disappeared in an instant, but the chains Karami had placed on her soul would not budge no matter how hard she tried.
“Don’t resist. If you use magic, won’t the priest think it’s strange?”
Elise’s body reacted immediately to those words.
The magic was suddenly broken.
At the same time, the bodies of the host and the slave trader fell apart like puppets with their strings cut.
“Huh? You suddenly collapsed. Are you feeling sleepy?”
Karami spoke nonchalantly and looked at the fallen people. They did not wake up even when he kicked their heads with his foot.
Elise was greatly embarrassed by the unexpected situation, but she did not show it and spoke in a soft tone.
“Did you say you were a god of death? Weren’t you trying to save me?”
“That’s right.”
“But why did you sign the contract?”
“I will save you. However, I will continue the slave contract.”
They said they would save me if I signed a slave contract.
It was a contradictory statement.
“Do you think you can get away with enslaving a nun? The priest won’t stay still if he finds out.”
“Of course. So this is a secret between the two of us.”
“Why should I do that?
Then Karami approached Elise and sniffed at her. Elise frowned and slightly distanced herself.
“What are you doing all of a sudden?”
“No, I just smell blood somewhere. Am I the only one who smells it?”
Elise’s red eyes flashed.
The blood Elise used to control people was vampire blood.
Since it is a unique trait of vampires and not magic, even priests cannot detect it.
It doesn’t make sense for her to smell blood with her sense of smell, let alone a human’s. However, Elise, who had a sense of shame, couldn’t come forward confidently.
“That, that’s… .”
“That’s it?”
The moment their existence is discovered, they will be defeated by the outside priests without any resistance due to the contract.
We have to somehow gloss over it and get over it.
But I can’t think of any excuses to get over the situation.
‘… … .’
Just one thing came to mind.
I can’t bring myself to open my mouth, but it’s better to be ashamed than to die.
Elise said, her fists clenched and trembling.
“That, that’s me… … It’s the day… .”
“Huh? I can’t hear you.”
“That, that day… .”
“… Aha. Sorry about that.”
Karami apologized for not being tactful. It was a lie, but Elise’s self-esteem had already died.
“Anyway, please be careful. If you get caught as a vampire, it will be a problem for the nun too.”
Then, Elise, who had her eyes tightly shut, raised her head with her eyes wide open.
“How about that?”
“You made a contract with me, right? My magic is a little special, so I can see through the slaves’ identities. The nun’s soul is in the form of a bat.”
I never thought that would happen.
Elise bit her lower lip.
Then suddenly.
“Wait a minute. If you knew I was a vampire, wouldn’t you also know why I smell like blood?”
“Hey, I’m not even a dog, how can I tell them apart by smell? I’m just making a guess.”
“Ah… ?”
“I was also flustered. I didn’t know that you would want to be caught that much… But it was still pretty amazing. I couldn’t help but let it go.”
Karami offers words of comfort in her own way.
But it was no comfort at all. Elise glared and trembled. She was so resentful that her eyes were glistening with tears.
“… What are you going to do with me?”
“Well, let’s get out of here first. If we keep you waiting too long, the priest will get suspicious.”
Karami opened his pockets and began to fill them with gold coins, but ended up only taking the top part of one pocket.
“Why do you only care about that?”
“Because the rest is all fake.”
“Yes?”
“I just sprinkled it on top. So that it all looks like gold coins.”
Elise, who had cut the ropes that bound her body with her own strength, hurriedly searched through her pockets.
It wasn’t really gold.
The inside was just a single stone block painted yellow.
Even the other pockets didn’t contain any gold coins.
Three thousand gold coins, what, you bought Elise for free without any payment.
Elise felt a sense of emptiness.
Because I pretended to be a slave and ended up becoming a real slave.
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