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The Adventurers’ Guild has lost its vitality.
Daniel was frustrated to hear the staff member blatantly saying, [It’s all Guild Master’s fault] but he could find no way out of the situation.
The staff says that the punishment against Ryu should be withdrawn, but that’s not possible. The punishment must be effective, it must be.
……Maybe it’s having an effect……I hope it is…..
Then a visitor came to the Adventurers’ Guild in the city of Mimru, much to Daniel’s delight.
It was [Red Meteor] an A-rank party.
The Red Meteor is a party led by Big, the son of an aristocrat from a distant city, and although it is a party of mostly A-rank adventurers, it has just been formed and does not have many achievements.
So, [Red Meteor] came to conquer a dungeon east of the city of Mimru in order to quickly improve their performance.
Daniel is very flattered by Big, who is an aristocrat. In this world, the status of nobility is absolute. Even adventurers must treat nobles with respect.
The presence of an A-ranked party would give the guilds in this town a good reputation. He would like to encourage them to set up a base in this town. And if they were A-rank adventurers, they would be able to compete with Ryu.
Unaware that Daniel was thinking of this, Ryu continued to visit the Adventurers’ Guild every day, as was his routine.
He would naturally encounter the [Red Meteor].
That was how Ryu met Big again.
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Actually, Ryu once fell into slavery when he was a child.
One day, Ryu was abandoned on the doorstep of a merchant’s house. One of the wives of that merchant family picked up Ryuujin and raised him.
However, an evaluation soon revealed that Ryuujin had no magic power, no skills, no class, and no blessings.
The owner of the merchant family was a cold-hearted money-grubber who told him to throw the child away because he didn’t want an incompetent child, but the stepmother who had found him protected him, saying that he might be useful in the future, and she decided to see what would happen.
The stepfather had four wives, each of whom had children. In other words, Ryu’s setp-brothers. All of his siblings were gifted in some way, and were expected to become a force for good in the family in the future.
His stepfather did not love him and told him from early on that he was an abandoned child, but his stepmother loved him as if he were her own son.
However, when he turned 10 years old, his stepmother died of illness.
Immediately after the funeral, his stepfather called him and said
[I thought there might be something useful in keeping him alive, but I have come to the conclusion that it is all for naught.]
We don’t need incompetent children. Ryu’s stepfather had told him to leave.
Moreover, Ryu’s stepfather wanted him to pay for all the expenses that had been incurred to support him.
Ryu was grateful to his stepfather for having taken care of him so well, so he agreed to pay, but of course, a 10-year-old child has no money, so he said he would pay out of his own pocket.
However, his stepfather said that he could not wait for that and that he would be paid now, so he sold Ryu to a slave owner.
[That didn’t amount to much, we’re in the red !}
Ryu, who had no skills or class, could not be sold at a very high price.
A friend happened to find out and felt sorry for him, so he asked his father, who was a merchant, to buy him.
He was Ryu’s best friend, Thunder.
Although Ryu became Thunder’s personal slave, he was allowed to attend school as usual, thanks to the kindness of Thunder and his father.
Ryu’s position was that of a slave. Although he was sometimes harassed and abused by the mischievous Thunder, it was only a child’s prank, and the relationship between the two was good.
Ryu was very grateful to Thunder and his father, and vowed to study hard and support them in the future. He and his father expected the same of him.
But such a life did not last long. A son of a noble family, who was a classmate of his at school, took notice of them.
He was the son of a nobleman who said he envied him and wanted one himself, even though he didn’t have a personal slave himself.
Big asked his father, a nobleman, to pressure Thunder’s father to buy Ryu from him. Under the aristocrat’s order and pressure, Thunder’s father could not disobey.
Being an aristocrat, he could have bought as many slaves as he wanted, but Big was attracted to the idea of [enslaving a former classmate.]
From then on, the days were hellish. Big locked Ryu in the basement and beat and bullied him every day.
It was not an interrogation that would end if he confessed to something, but simply endless violence, as if he was being tortured every day of his life.
Even if you are hurt to the point of near death, you can be cured again with potions and healing magic. It is a horror for those who are tortured.
But one day, about a year later, it came to an end. Big’s father found out what his son had done.
In this world, when you become a slave, you are put in a collar of servitude and can never disobey your master’s orders.
However, this is only to make them do their work, not to allow them to do anything. Slaves are guaranteed minimum rights. The owner is obligated to provide food, clothing, shelter, and a healthy life for the slave.
Slavery was a form of work contract, and the human rights of slaves were more protected than those of commoners.
If a slave owner was found to have violated or mistreated a slave, he or she would be severely punished. Even nobles could not get away with it.
However, Big did not understand such laws. To Big, slaves were toys that he could play with and destroy as he pleased.
When the father learned that his son had severely abused the slave boy, he turned pale.
If the slave boy went out and complained about what Big had done to him, not only Big but also his father, the owner, would become a criminal and be enslaved.
Fearing this, Big’s father hurried to free Ryu from slavery.
Once freed, Ryu was just a commoner. In this world, the power of the nobility is very strong. It is a world in which it is acceptable to take rude revenge on a commoner. If they were made commoners, they would be able to suppress any lawsuit they might be accused of.
Fortunately, the slave boy does not seem to have a proper understanding of the rights of slaves and does not seem to have any idea of suing.
So, Big’s father moved Ryu to a distant town, gave him some money, and released him as a form of ingratiation.
The town where Ryu was thrown out was here, in Mimru.
Thus, the boy Ryuujin was left to live alone in this town.
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