The Necromancers
Ch. 40.5: Shackles and Freedom (5)

"alright. Let's start deliberating about the costs you're gonna have to replace for the problems you've made now."

"Yes." Yeah."

On the employee-only indoor sofa, Regard and the restaurant owner, a fat man, were sitting face-to-face while staring at each other with their serious expressions.

For restaurant owners, property damage and the loss of customers make their restaurants lose revenue on the problems they created just a moment ago. Not only that, he who was also upset and hated for justice defending one of his slaves made him wonder about his strange mindset.

"All the damage and loss of visitors that I should have gotten, I want you to replace them in this amount."

Pouring the paper that had been written the total amount of the change fee for the problem he made, Regard watched it carefully and smiled.

"alright. I'll replace everything."

Picking up the cloth bag from behind his light brown robe, he placed a large amount of coins onto the table which could be clearly heard by the restaurant owner.

"Can I count it?"

"certain."

Finished getting permission from him, the restaurant owner took out a cloth bag and took out a few pieces of coin to thoroughly count.

The coins issued by Regard mostly have many gold coins and some silver coins can be seen.

Overall, the price of gold coins is quite expensive beyond anything because the price it has is quite high. Unlike gold coins, silver coins can be said to be standard for a price that can be purchased or obtained because it is fairly common.

"Can I ask you one thing?"

"Yes." Yeah."

The diverted gaze of Regard to a person standing on the right side behind the restaurant owner made his owner turn his head and look at the gaze of Regard that led to his slave.

"I want to buy him."

"uh? Are you sure you can buy it?"

"certain."

Standing up and taking out a few thick bags of cloth dropped ringing a lot of coins in it made the man surprised at the number of bags of cloth containing coins in large quantities.

As far as the restaurant owner was concerned, the amount that one possessed was based on the level of adventurers one possessed. But looking at the man before him, Regard who looked like a low-level adventurer, Black Adventure, the man was sure that he could not afford to buy it easily.

Unfortunately, his estimate was completely wrong.

"Hows it? Are you going to sell it for me or not?"

Cold sweat was pouring down his face.

In his ego, the man did not want to let go of his sexy-looking slave who attracted a large number of customers to serve him with some extra service. But deep down inside his mind, all the necessities he could not buy, he could buy them with the many coins placed on the table.

"I. i..."

"....."

"I want to take it."

"Good then."

Picking up and pocketing the five coin bags containing a large amount of about fifty million Rupees, the man shook hands on the Regard as a mutual agreement between them.

They also did not forget to write a letter of agreement that his slave had been released and given to Regard as strong evidence that he had released him.

"Thank you for the negotiation, son."

"I'm also grateful to you."

Leaving the restaurant while carrying the Demi-human girl by his side who had removed the curse mark made the girl wonder why she was willing to buy it with such a large sum of money for herself.

Whether she was so valuable that the man bought her or not, the girl remained ignorant of the answer.

"Hey, may I ask you one thing?"

"Yes. What do you want to ask me?"

"Why...why would you buy me with all the money you have? Wouldn't it be better to just leave me at the restaurant without having to buy myself?"

The footsteps of the Demi-human girl who had stopped made the steps of Regard come to a halt while looking at him.

"The reason is yes."

His view that leads in the other direction makes Regard hesitant to answer what it looks like.

He who deliberately bought it to let him live freely using his own rights aims to give meaning to the life lived by people in general.

But, Regard hesitated if he told her directly, that Demi-human girl would understand or not, he doubted her.

"I did it because I didn't want you to be harassed like that by them."

"Hidden?"

"Yes." Yeah."

The one correct answer is to be harassed, which is the thought that Regard came up with through a conclusion of the reason he defended her.

A person who abuses another person is inexcusable. Be it adventurers or nobles, those who are guilty of harassing others will be considered the toughest criminals for their sins.

Although the Knights of the Kingdom turn a blind eye to the cases and problems that have occurred to the nobles, Regard will still put him on trial in his own way on the eve of the hunt to solve the crimes with their own deaths.

That's the system that applied so far in living his daily life.

"Is that all?"

"Yes." Yeah."

Reversing her body towards him, the girl was shocked over his gaze which looked solemn in defending her.

For the Demi-human girl, she should not have been saved and released by him because it was natural for her to follow the orders of her master in serving the restaurant's visitors. But, he had absolutely no idea that there was such a good man willing to save himself from them even though it was unpredictable by him.

"Let's go buy some clothes for you."

"Good."

Without having to talk to her again, Regard turned back to her and walked over to immediately change the clothes that the Demi-human girl had.

To his knowledge in assessing the way she dresses, the girl looks beautiful when dressed in expensive and luxurious clothes. But unfortunately, the, the owner does not see the aesthetic value of his appearance makes Regard sigh at his folly in dressing in obscene clothes that seem to stimulate the lust and desire of the opposite sex to serve him in a profanity and unnatural way.

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The Regard POV

As long as we chose clothes for her, she was confused in deciding which one she would try to wear first.

If you think clearly, all the clothes around are devoted to women. No wonder they looked at me with disdain, they thought I was her partner who accompanied her shopping.

Forgetit.

"Wouldn't it be better if you wear one by one the clothes you choose?"

"I want to do it. But, I don't know if it's okay or not."

So yeah.

In other words, she was not confident in wearing the many outfits she had chosen for fear of being scolded by the clothing store owner.

There's no choice.

Rushing closer to one of the employees, I began to negotiate with him.

"Can you let me see the clothes he was holding? I'll replace it at twice the normal price if there's any damage."

"really?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"All right."

Sip. Negotiations worked.

Although this was not a price bargain, it was at least profitable enough for him to earn a large sum of money in case of damage to the clothes he tried.

"You can try on any outfit."

"really?"

"Yes. Isn't that right, sir?"

"Yes, that's right."

It was good that he voiced his agreement.

I know negotiating in the usual way won't work. That's why I gave him a quote twice the usual price in case of damage making him agree without thinking long first.

The girl went to the dressing room to change some clothes in it.

As long as I waited, I decided to exit the store while waiting at the entrance to pay attention to the situation from the outside. The reason is simple that I do not want to be constantly looked at disgusted by them, the women who are buying clothes in the store earlier.

"Huh...."

Whether my decision was good or not, I did it based on the teachings given by Uncle Veru earlier.

Prioritizing one's right to life, promoting the principle of justice, helping the needy, and being friendly to that person were the basic things that were applied to me as long as I began to look at this world in the dark.

In the end, I was able to live like a human in general. Compassion, sympathy, compassion, all I could feel without a single feeling disappearing from me due to homelessness, the closest people, as well as my parents.

For a few minutes I waited, he came out near me.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

"How's it?"

"I've chosen it."

"really?"

"Yes. Come here!"

Drawn in my arms by her, I smiled at her who had started to ventured to interact with me.

At first I was afraid that she was not used to my attitude of treating her special, but it seemed like she was getting used to my habits even though we had just met and walked together like now.

"Is this all?"

"Yes." Yeah."

There were five neatly folded clothes that were on the cashier's desk. The five clothes have different designs and colors that look beautiful for a glimpse of the clothes he chooses.

"alright. How much is everything?"

"Everything has a price like this, son."

Pretty expensive price yes.

Naturally if they were, the ladies who looked like royalty bought clothes in this shop because this was a store devoted to nobles in spending money for the sake of their daily appearance.

Unlike them, I am only a lowly adventurer who has income far from enough for everyday life. Let alone everyday, the fees that exist now will not be able to pay with my income for months as an adventurer at the Black Adventure level.

That's everyone's general thinking.

But in fact, I have some more investments that I managed to keep well all this time. Money in large quantities, it does not matter to me in the present or the future, on the contrary, it is all within my grasp if I want to spend them in a short time.

"Here we go."

Giving one bag of cloth containing gold coins, the Shop Owner opened it and counted it many times on the cashier table.

"alright. That's enough."

"Thank you for the visit, son."

"Yes. I'm also grateful to you, sir."

I lost a lot of money all day.

First, I spent my money to reimburse the cost of damage to the property and the loss of the visitors who came to the restaurant. Second, I bought a high-priced slave of tens of millions of Rupees for just one slave to be freed from the shackles he had. Third, I was required to buy her clothes to immediately change into stone clothes so that she looked beautiful and indecent to make people carried away with their lust and sexual desire increased drastically later.

"Huh..."

It was a really exhausting day.

"Are you okay, sir?"

"Yes, I'm fine."

Beside me, the girl looked at me with an anxious expression on her face directed at me.

Maybe according to him, I was unnatural in buying all my money for his sake alone. Moreover, in general, slaves were still slaves so there was not the slightest difference to their mindset.

I can understand his doubts, but I did all this to gain your life's freedom from the torturous shackles of being a slave.