43 Episode 3: The Situation of Serra

Huh? You want to hear a little more about my past? Why are you doing that again...

No, I'm not saying I don't like it. There's nothing like hiding it now.

Well, where shall we talk from? Is it because I wasn't born in this country? I was born in a country called the Kingdom of Sanokia, on the north side of Queen Castar. The Kingdom of Sanocchia is an aristocratic society in Cotecote, where the difference between the rich and the poor is so great. And for aristocrats, children are just tools to develop their homes. I'm a 4 woman myself... and I think it was probably just given birth for that sort of purpose, like letting her marry me.

Yeah, I've never felt any love from my parents. My parents have only instructed me to do that.

There seemed to be a lot of brothers, but you rarely saw them. From a young age, my unnaturalness was known all around me. My brothers creeped up and didn't even get close.

Huh? My parents gave you instructions earlier, didn't they? I don't like it, it's up to you to leave that to your servants. It was less about seeing my parents than seeing my brothers.

Yeah, this physique, this skill from childhood, right? I was avoided from around because I weighed heavily, ate well, and was sick and weak with this skill disadvantage. For once, as a parent, he was trying to get his daughter-in-law somewhere, and he was taught aristocratic manners and sagging. Of course my parents don't show their faces...

But although I was only neat on my face at the time, it was lean and seemed to have bad luck from the looks of it.

Better than a mummy... I know you're right, but is there any decenter way to put it? I don't have any pride left, but I'm still a girl. I don't treat mummies very well.

Yikes! Suddenly what!? Huh? Much bloated, huh? Well, thanks to your husband's meal since he bought it, I have a lot better tension and shine on my skin... You'll know if you say so...

Continuing, right? Your husband is too free.

Rumors will soon spread in the aristocratic community. You also seemed to know that I existed and that I was neglected by my family.

My parents seem to have had a few friendships, too, but there was no nobility to take because of that rumor. Sounds like you didn't do anything good to make your daughter-in-law do under the less beneficial, and you were after all the more beneficial things. I might have been able to force you to screw it if you compromised.

Even as a noble duty to me, I was also prepared to marry someone I didn't want. I'm ready to end up wasting it... But that didn't come to me at all. Is it about time you come to take pictures for the occasional fringe? When I was supposed to take a picture, I said, "Oh, do we have an affair soon? 'Cause I thought so."

That's right. Sometimes eating a lot and feeling better is when I get eaten more than I normally do, trying to figure out what's gullible before I take pictures. It won't last that long, but you were slightly lighter.

Why not increase the amount of meals? My parents have specified the amount for the cook. I told you I used to eat better than civilians, but from other relatives, it looks like a few ranks were dropped. For once, I was fed 10 servings until I was about 10 years old and 3 after that, but as you can see, it's not enough at all.

Huh? No big move in the story? Naturally. You were trying to keep your stomach down by trying not to move as much as you could for time other than learning. Well, it was basically a wasted effort...

My parents seemed to cut me off like that, and I stopped coming to talk about the friendship. Just then, your parents didn't seem to be doing very well either. I heard stories about my parents disposing of bad luck. Naturally, I thought I'd be disposed of, too.

Is that why I fell into slavery without being killed? Well, it has something to do with the current story of my parents' activities, but one of my brothers seems to have teased me of something, and I'm going to die of illness...

Yeah, as you can imagine. So it seems that when I sickened and killed mine at the same time, I thought it was a little bad face-to-face...

... I agree. I don't think you have any dignity or anything left to kill your family. But considering I survived because of that, it's bad for that brother, but you must have been lucky.

Decent thinking parents banished me..., well, it sounds like they were planning on letting me die eventually, but it sounds like you made the choice to sell it to slavers in other countries.

Sounds like you're missing as a treatment. They snuck me out in the middle of the night.

You can't resist. I can't help it like that. Some parts of me gave up in a way. I remember thinking about how swallowing it would be to just not get killed.

You've been harsh since the slave traders took you. Until a while ago, I was noble, so cooking..., no, that's bait, isn't it? I can feed you, but it's not enough at all. Because the carriage is uncomfortable, it's a cycle of death where you use your strength to get hungry.

I've managed to bring a few servings of dishes about the slave traders, thinking that the slave traders who saw me were unlikely to sell as they were. That made it look like I could manage to see it, but it won't last long. He also didn't seem to think the slave traders were enough opponents to put his hands on him, and the means were taken to say leave him alone.

This is a story I heard, but you don't seem to consider treating me somewhat politely because I'm a former nobleman at all.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he was willing to kill me after all. I was immediately gullible and in that condition. Honestly, if I'd been a day late, I'd have died. I really appreciate your husband.

A sense of belonging? There isn't, is there? I mean, life is too good right now, and I feel like hell in those days. At least, because there's nothing here that I can't sleep on an empty stomach.

More than that, you're worried that my survival will be found out by the house and that even assassins will not be able to turn it over.

He said if you're after him, you can take him down... My lord, they are nobles. I'm a former nobleman, but I'm not a good person to deal with!

Oh, pretty hostile? Are you insane... No, you're not lying because your husband says so, are you? So are you safe until now?

No, he said there's hardly any S-rank adventurer even the aristocrats hold... I knocked it down. Besides, I don't even get a big one-on-one wound... and how monstrous is your husband...

Ouch! It hurts! Excuse me! I'm sorry to say monsters!

Ha, ha, uhh...

No, please don't proceed as if nothing happened.

You seem unnecessarily worried about chasing after your husband. I don't even think I can hire someone in that house to succeed in assassinating someone with multiple S-rank equivalents.

... Thank you. I'm about to be laughed at for being an S-rank equivalent myself and being able to repel myself, or even scam me if I'm a normal person. It's going to be more true than your husband says...

In the meantime, is that about all I need to talk about as my past? I'm sorry I didn't have a big story.

Yes, as your husband's slave, I will continue to serve you.