Volume 5 - CH 16

Chapter 16 – Last Conversation

Sorano walked behind a knight in a dimly lit corridor leading toward the interrogation room of Kabs. And at the end of the corridor, she saw a wooden door.

“It’s here.”

The knight who guided her stopped and stared at Sorano.

“Please open it.”

“Will you be okay?”

“I’m fine. I just want to talk.”

Nodding to Sorano’s words, the knight took out the key ring, opened the door, and then went inside the room first. Prompted by the knight, Sorano also went inside the room. And since she was currently in a dim corridor, the bright light of the magic tool seems more dazzling than usual.

“It’s you, huh. It seems you have become successful.”

Sitting on the chair, Kabs said.

Kabs that she’s seeing right now was no longer the same Kabs with eyes full of desire that Sorano met before. The current Kabs looked at Sorano with a tired look, likely because of the harsh interrogation from the knights.

Sorano then sat across the table on a chair opposite to Kabs. There is also a writer whose job was to record the conversation during the interrogation sitting in the corner of the room, while the knight who guided Sorano was standing by the door.

“I requested them to let me talk to you.”

“Talk to me? I guess you have something to ask?”

Sorano nodded and stared at Kabs.

“Why did you enslave me? If your objective was to take revenge on your son, you could have killed me.”

“Because you can become money.”

Kabs answered immediately.

“It’s not because I killed your son?”

“He is just a child of my mistress, not someone I have a blood connection with. I just used him because he wanted to help with the business, and I didn’t think he would make such a mistake. Since then, the elves has increased their vigilance, making me suffer a big loss because I can’t get an elf slave that sells at a high price.” Kabs laughed scornfully.

For Sorano, that answer was very anticlimactic, because she always thought that Kabs enslaved her because she killed his son. Knowing that she had been put in such a humiliating position just because of money, Sorano’s heart filled with anger.

“You enslaved me just for such a reason?”

“I can’t make a profit unless I enslave you, don’t you think so? Making a slave certificate in court costs money, after all. At first, I was thinking of finding a suitable buyer for you, but there was an annoying noble who wanted to kill you. You know him. He is the man whose cheek was ripped out by you. When I said that I couldn’t kill you anymore because you had already signed a slave contract, he told me to expel you from the territory. Although he is just a small fry, his family is not. Since I couldn’t ignore it, I brought you to the Royal Capital and sold you.”

“So the only things that you deemed valuable were just the money and the order of the noble, huh.”

“I am a man who has risen from someone with nothing but my own body, to a merchant employed by the great nobles. Of course, I obeyed the orders of the nobles because it will definitely lead to more money later. What’s wrong with a merchant trying to make money?”

“And now you are a prisoner.”

“…Isn’t that because you became the slave of a Hero-sama and is living a good life? That’s why our position has been reversed. Where did you learn the tricks of deceiving a man?”

Kabs exposed his gums and showed a mean laughing face, seemingly trying to irritate Sorano. However, Sorano just silently stared at the distorted face of Kabs.

“Hah! Looks like you aren’t willing to answer the grumblings of a loser!”

Kabs said as if to spit Sorano off.

“I just found people I can trust. You could never shake me with your words.”

“Oh, what a praiseworthy attitude. Sorano, didn’t you hate humans? You even killed my son and bit a noble’s cheeks. Can you even trust someone who was a mere stranger a while ago? I’m sure in your mind you think that humans are just ferocious beasts that you resent. It’s no use pretending to be a disciplined dog. Because I know your true nature.”

“I am astounded.”

“What!”

“Don’t let your delusions grow. You think I thought of humans as ferocious beasts that I resent? Do you perhaps want to become a dramatist?”

Hearing Sorano’s words, Kabs’s face turned bright red in an instant.

“Sorano, you bastard!”

“Kabs, I think this will be the last time I see you. That’s why I wanted to know your thoughts. Because I did kill your son.”

“…”

“Now I am satisfied.”

Sorano then stood up from the chair, gave a signal to the knight, and then headed for the exit of the room. And Kabs didn’t say a word until Sorano left the room.