Well, even if she is, then I don’t think that it’s something that we should be spending too much time worrying about.
「Lord Michio, I have to admit that I am quite surprised by the results of this duel myself. If I may ask, then what exactly did you do to your opponent? Pardon my bluntness in this matter, but it’s just that I don’t seem to be fully understanding what exactly has transpired. The only thing that I do understand is that your opponent’s Sacrificial Misanga has been cleanly cut, which means that you must’ve hit your opponent with at least two attacks. I knew that you’re not just an ordinary Adventurer, but even so, what you did was quite something.」
Gozer is amazed of what I managed to pull of with Sabo. Also, I’m not an average Adventurer. Heck, I’m not even an ordinary Adventurer in the first place! But even despite that, is he... is he admiring me?
「He was truly a formidable opponent. If I had done any less than what I did during our duel, then the things might have became pretty dangerous for me real fast.」
「I have to admit that your companion, Roxanne, also demonstrated some pretty overwhelming abilities in quite a spectacular fashion. That being said, I think it would be best if you left early for today before the other Party comes here. You were lucky that I was present here this time, but it was only by chance, not to mention that the Duke himself is not in the castle today, so we will have to conduct a detailed discussion of today’s events some other time.
Oh, so you’d like to talk about what happened here today with the Duke, huh? In that case, I am definitely not looking forward to the next time when we’re going to meet... but there might just be no way out of it for me.
For the time being, however, I decided to go back home. It has been one hell of a long day, so the thing that I want to do first and foremost now is to lie down and have some serious rest.
「Are you all right, Roxanne?」
As soon as we arrived back at the house, I spoke to Roxanne about what happened today, since I assumed that she’s going to be the most shocked one from all of us. After all, most of the unpleasant happenings from today were related directly to her and her actions.
「Yes master, despite everything that happened today, I assure you that I am feeling quite all right. Uhm... it might be a bit presumptuous for me to say something like that, but... but about what that woman said.... You don’t have to worry about any of it.」
「It’s fine, Roxanne. You should just forget about everything that happened today.」
「I know I should, but... there is just this one thing that I cannot stop thinking about. When my uncle finalized my purchase as a slave, he also added a certain condition to my slave contract: a condition that stated that I could not be sold to the other members of the Wolfkin Tribe. Even though my uncle was not exactly kind to me, then I think... I think he did that to protect me in some way. Or at least that is what I like to believe.」
If that woman was that hell-bent on getting revenge on Roxanne for some made-up offense, then I am pretty sure that without that rule in place, she could have just gone and bought Roxanne as her slave, just so that she could turn her life into living hell. Roxanne’s uncle might have sold her into slavery in the end, but at the very least he took some pretty smart precautions to ensure that something like that would never happen. Thinking about it now, these might have been the circumstances that Alan the Slave Merchant mentioned to me last time when I went to visit him in Vale. After all, if the condition that Roxanne’s uncle added was that she cannot be sold to any member of the Wolfkin Tribe, that also means that by extension, she also cannot be sold at a slave auction where some member of the Wolfkin tribe might have tried to purchase her.
「You know what, Roxanne? Now that I think about it, I should actually be grateful to that woman for what she did. It was definitely horrible and reprehensible, but if she didn’t perform her machinations to sell you into slavery, then it wouldn’t be possible for me to meet and buy you.... So yeah, if nothing else, then I think she at least deserves some credit for that. So as you can see, there’s no need for you to be worrying about anything.」
「Yes. Thank you for your kind words, master. I’ll do just that.」
「You and I just have continue living our lives while being as happy as we possibly can. That is going to be the best kind of revenge you could ever use against that woman.」
「To live well is the best revenge」. That is a famous Spanish proverb that I have heard somewhere while I was still living in Japan.
I lightly embrace Roxanne with one of my arms, and draw her closer to me. Roxanne silently lays her head on my shoulder without saying anything, because there is no need for words at this point. Her head is on my shoulder, and its warmth is everything that I need right now.
While feeling her weight and her gentle warmth, I soon fell asleep.
〈To be continued in『A Harem in the Fantasy World Dungeon Volume 8』〉