It took an hour to make that door open again.
After which we decided to move to the living room to hear her story.
Anyway, looks like Eris picked up Rinia while accompanying Leo for a walk.
She is already in her fifth month of pregnancy.
After her condition stabilized, Eris started to take Leo out for walks again.
Her first exercise is light walks.
I could certainly feel her strong will.
Well, I also think some light exercising isn't bad for pregnant women.
While walking nearby the slave market area, that incident happened.
First, from hiding, she told, that Rinia suddenly leaped towards her.
Then, following her were rough-looking men.
Sadly, Rinia's tail got caught....that’s business.
Eris, after seeing that, immediately came to a decision.
She drew the sword from her hip, giving help to the poor soul [nekomimi][5], and slashed the area between the two.
She then brought the spoils of war [Rinia] back home feeling triumphant.
"I am the one who helped her so she is mine! I’ll raise her!"
And, Eris was determined.
Claiming the ownership over Rinia like a bandit.
"....Y, Yes, I’m Eris-sama's property nya!"
Rinia saying that, she placed her ears above Eris's knee.
Her body was still shivering but I only saw a little shiver on her plump body.
She was trembling in fear.
Waving her tail to the strong, that’s the law of the beast.
Well, it's okay ... but.
"By the way Rinia, why were you on the street? No, why are you here in this city?"
Certainly, that day, the day we parted with Rinia in an evening sun.
Saying she will become a great merchant, as her gallant figure walked out of the city.
And now, here she is wearing rags like a slave, and appearing dirty.
"Want to hear nya? It’s a long story, full of tears........ "
"Give me a short summary."
"Nya."
She left town after graduating from the school, and said that she will become a merchant.
She purchased goods from Asura Kingdom and took them to the North and sold them.
She then purchased goods from the North, and sold them to Asura Kingdom.
In other words, work as a peddler.
For that reason, she purchased a horse drawn carriage with loan.
Taking this opportunity, she also stocked up on goods.
Also with a loan.
Usually, you would do a round trip to the next town by foot and do that repeatedly to earn little by little, but...
In short, she wanted to earn big money in one trip.
And, as a result, her debt interest increased and she was always in the red. Well, that’s a given.
Living in poverty day in day out.
It seems she was paying her debts little by little, but she didn’t know when her debt would be cleared and those days continued on.
That way, she carried on, hoping to gain glory under the sun someday.
A merchant belonging to the firm where she borrowed money from had approached Rinia and talked to her.
He eagerly talked about paying back the debt with something. But looking at the business, it wasn't going well.
[You can’t erase the debt, but it’s possible to become a member of the company. It will make payments much easier.
To become a member, 20 Asura gold coin pieces were required as fee to pay the management in the firm, but you could also gain that back later.
You could return the remainder of the debt later.
Once you write IOU, just trust the rest to me.]
Rinia's story continued.
When I heard of that, it really sounded fishy. And the cat was successfully baited with fish.
Rinia's 20 pieces of Asura gold coins were gone to purchase a badge of the members of the Chamber of Commerce.
But, that bright red member's badge was a fake.
When the time came to make her debt payments, they gave her a [What's this guy doing?] kind of face when she showed her badge to the Chamber of Commerce debt collector, and they immediately noticed that it was a fake.
But, the IOU is real.
Rinia's debt increased by 20 Asura gold coins.
Asura gold coins are the most valuable gold coins in this world.
20 Asura gold coins, and surely, the interest from that is a big amount of money.
Originally, Rinia was already up to her neck with the interest payments from her previous debt. With this new debt, she already couldn't pay them.[6]
Her carriage was seized, and Rinia was taken into custody.
"Achishi[7] I was swindled and that's how I ended up being sold to a slave merchant."
I think half of it was her own fault, but ....
Well, a fraud is a fraud.
That swindler is the one in the wrong.
"Hmm."
Though, it's already come to this.
Eris already injured the slave traders, and that is a problem.
There's children and babies in the house.
Given these circumstances, I don’t want lowlifes as my enemies.
"...... I wonder what’s wrong?.... "
"Boss, help me, nya. By all means nya.......I don’t want to become a slave, nya ...... "
Rinia begged me while clasping her hands.
She's dressed in rags and has a collar.
Somehow, it’s erotic.
"Rinia...... you ......"
"Yes Nya~?"
"Mou~, are you still a virgin?" [8]
"Nyaa?"