181 Episode 122.5: A Handful of Relief

* * * Berg * * *

- Bullshit. Bullshit.

"Ha... I wonder why this happened..."

I whine with a sigh as the carriage rocks me.

My name is Berg.

Until a while ago, I was an arms dealer in the kingdom of Eldia, in the city of Tiezo, but the Eldia Kastal war changed my life dramatically.

I'm a slave, not a shopkeeper right now.

That, too, is the type of slave that is certain to die.

We, the carriages carrying the slaves of the former King Eldia people, are headed to the Kingdom of Brown Wall on the south side of Eldia territory, not the Kingdom of Eldia...

I hear we can be engaged in desert openings there.

The vast desert of the Kingdom of Brown Wall is famous as a barren land in vain no matter what it does.

This is probably a kind of banishment.

The kingdom of Eldia, our home country, waged war on our neighbour, Queen Castar. It's also an insane war involving brave men summoned from different worlds.

The brave men called to defeat the Demon King are very strong. A normal national opponent wins and deserves a war.

But the kingdom of Eldia lost. It is also a tragic defeat to annihilate all the brave men who took part in the war.

The kingdom of Eldia, which lost the war, was doomed and the territory belonged to Queen Castar.

But there's no way we can talk about compensation on the territory alone.

That said, the treasury of the kingdom of Eldia is completely teased and there is nothing to pay for.

Therefore, Queen Castar has demanded the enslavement of its people.

We have had to make reparations at that cost, using the people as slaves.

That number, what 10,000.

At this point, the royal family of Eldia had almost been wiped out, and no one had matomo authority, so they couldn't even refuse Castar's request.

And there are two terrible things about this demand.

The first is in that 'the slave to be taken is up to the Kastal side'.

Simply put, ordinary people walking in the city are suddenly enslaved one day.

I, too, have been forced into slavery by the knights of Castar who came to the city.

The second is' Prohibition of the movement of King Eldia nationals outside the country '.

I mean, I'm telling you not to let me get away with it.

Protests were also raised that it was inhumane, but it was overtaken by the unnecessary, such as the undeclared declaration of war and the enthusiasm for a country that waged war with the participation of brave men.

From Castar's point of view, I guess the Eldians were not already treated like humans.

Since the story of the enslavement of the people, there have also been a large number of people who have abandoned their country and tried to flee.

But as far as I know, not a single person has succeeded in escaping. Wherever he fled, he was bound to be captured and subjected to heavy penalties.

But I don't hear you talk about being a slave for some reason.

Finally, I also heard that people in other countries do not choose to be slaves in any way.

Conversely, I don't even hear about successful attempts to leave the country by pretending to be a human being from another country.

... What the hell happened to Castar's information network?

The only thing we could do that made us such a poor lamb was hope that we wouldn't be included in that 10,000.

I've been included in 10,000 prayers.

I seriously don't think Twi is in that only two slaves were chosen from the city of Tiezo where I was.

My other choice was a young pregnant woman, pathetically.

By saying it was inhumane to a boulder, the Adventurer Alliance guild leader tried to stop the Kastal knight with his exertion of strength, but he was unconscious without being able to do anything with a single blow of his bare hand.

That guy must have been a former A-rank adventurer......

But the strange thing is that the pregnant woman didn't have a sense of sadness.

I was curious to talk to you, but you seemed to be doing better than I thought. Rather, I even feel like there was hope in my eyes.

Is your liver still there? I envy you.

* * * Lisa * * *

- Crap, crap, crap.

"You're getting a lot bigger"

I groan as I stroke my growing stomach in the carriage.

My name is Lisa.

Until not long ago I lived in the kingdom of Eldia, in the city of Tiezo, but the Eldia Kastal war has drastically changed my life.

Now as just a slave, I'm taking a carriage with my beloved belly child to the Kingdom of Brown Wall.

I wondered what would happen when I was enslaved by the Knight of Castar, but on second thought, it wasn't until then that I could even know tomorrow.

My husband was attacked by bandits in January after his marriage and died.

It was an event in the middle of a major business meeting towards Wang Du. And I was taking most of the assets I owned for that business deal.

All that was left of me was a small fortune and personal savings.

My husband's wedding ring was also taken away by the bandits and not left behind.

Whether you're about to make a request for a bandit crusade, your opponent is a famous band of bandits, and you don't even have an adventurer to take on the request.

But January after my husband died. It was in the abyss of despair, and I learned that the bandits who killed my husband had been destroyed.

Plus, surprisingly, he said it was just travelers who devastated the bandits.

And the traveler said he undertook to buy it back.

I asked to buy it back with a hint of hope.

Luckily, the traveler was in possession of her husband's wedding ring, and thankfully, he returned it free of charge. The traveler only has a word of thanks.

I told the traveler that I would put it in my husband's grave once I bought it back, but it remained on hand for a while from untrained.

Now that I think about it, I guess that wasn't a good idea.

A little while later, my pregnancy was discovered.

My beloved husband is dead, but it wasn't like he couldn't leave anything behind.

Having regained the energy to live, I was determined to raise my child splendidly.

However, there remained a major problem as well. It's a financial matter.

My husband didn't leave me any money.

It was hard for me to live with one child without being close to me.

But there was also the generosity of the city people, who managed to live their days.

But in such a fold, the Kastal Eldia war began.

I don't know about breaking the rules and launching pre-emptive attacks, but I can't complain to a single citizen or anything.

The city of Tiezo was close to Queen Castar and during the war it was conceived that the army would stop to replenish it. That's good to hear.

But the army of the kingdom of Eldia was worse than we expected.

The Royal Eldia Army worked in the city of Tiezo as a supply.

The people in the store were forced to take away the product.

Weapon stores in particular have been relentlessly taken with all their weapons, making them unable to even have a decent life.

And my, our wedding ring was also featured as an 'addition to the funds'.

If this were the case, I regretted that I should have kept them both in my husband's grave.

Furthermore, the whole city was in distress, which made it less generous to even be able to pay.

There was nothing I could do, so I was just selling off a handful of household goods and doing the exchange, and I got word that the Kingdom of Eldia had lost the war.

The future of me and my child was not bright, whether or not I became a slave or not.

No, you can deny that now, too.

Being a slave brightened my future and that of my child.

To me as a slave, the Knight of Castar handed me something.

It was me and my husband's wedding ring.

"Why!?" This is what the female knight of Castar said to me asking.

"This is a message from those who picked this up." Don't lose it anymore, "he said."

So I remembered the name of the unidentified knight who ended this war.

I mean, I guess that's what it is.

Besides, when I went to the Kingdom of Brown Wall as a slave, I was even told that I could take my luggage, if at all.

I decided not to hesitate to take the remains of my husband.

I don't have any other property to take with me.

I shall no longer live in the city of Tiezo.

The only way for me and my child to live is to admire the courtesy of the knight of the ring.

I don't know what's going to happen there, but I'm sure it won't be bad.

* * * Lucea * * *

The slaves have arrived safely in the Kingdom of Brown Wall.

Good luck. Then, after tomorrow, assign the job as planned. "

Yes.

I was contacted by a maid in charge of transporting a former King Eldia national slave, so I will give the following business instructions as I work with the mindset as well.

The maids affiliated with the Advanced Chamber of Commerce are escorting us, so I predicted there wouldn't be any major trouble, but above all, that we're safe.

10,000 slaves who are former King Eldia nationals.

They took us in the name of opening the Kingdom of Brown Wall, but the essential purpose is not there.

As slaves, the purpose was to detach them from Erdia territory.

"The Lord will take care of the children and the decent and the needy."

In the first place, out of 10,000 slaves, more than 60% are orphans and stray children.

By saying that it is not sneaky for innocent children to be harmed, even though they are former King Eldia citizens, we gathered orphans and stray children from all over Eldia in the name of forced enslavement.

Your husband asked you to make your meal 'black bread and crumb vegetable soup' like harassment or something, but if you try it from an orphan/drifter, it's still a good enough treat.

Additionally, you are allowed up to two replacements.

We also plan to make the field when we open it, but we decide to say that some of its harvest can be eaten by slaves.

There is even the possibility that a stranger will be added to the soup of black bread and crumbs vegetables.

Your husband said, 'The Treatment of Ordinary Slaves', but there is no doubt that ordinary slaves would be outraged if they heard.

Of the slaves, the remaining 40% are what your husband calls' decent people '.

Your husband tends to treat you accordingly if the other person is a decent sensitive person.

So I followed the Lord's instructions and gathered people from all over Eldia who were driven by a decent sensibility and disadvantage.

The first disadvantage is the absence of a family. There is no reason for the Lord to forgive you for having a family but leaving you as a slave. Even King Eldia citizens who don't like their opponents, are.

The next thing you know is that you are economically and physically disadvantaged.

If you become a slave at a financial disadvantage, you will mourn at first, but in the end you should be grateful. At least, it ensures daily eating and safety.

To say physically unfavourable would not even need an explanation now. Just one more believer.

In addition, there are only two of them, some of whom Jen nominated by name to enslave.

If I was in a disadvantaged situation, I would have been told to make it a priority and a slave.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the two were in a tough situation inside, so we enslaved them and took them to the Kingdom of Brown Wall.

One was a pregnant woman, so I'm putting her on a carriage that won't shake in particular, and I'm letting her take more breaks. The meal is also scum vegetable (consomme) soup and black (raisin) bread, and the maid of honor is attached to the escort.

Because it would be hard if something were to happen to those brought in on the Lord's direct instructions.

You'll be convinced if I ask you this far.

What the Lord really valued was not the people who remained in Eldia territory.

He's the 10,000 people who took him out as a slave.

In the unlikely event that the exchange with another country would make it okay for Queen Castar to let go of Erdia territory, we have separated important personnel from Erdia territory beforehand.

Getting the carriage out of the North Gate also makes sense to take charge of the gen by the way of the Lord's actions.

There's no better place to separate yourself from Eldia than the North Gate.

The Lord doesn't care about things he's not interested in.

Those who remain in Eldia have not been the subject of the Lord's interest and will be forced into a rather unfavourable situation in the future.

Of course, we maids don't break our hearts about things that the Lord doesn't care about.