I’m surprised when I ask her price. She’s the cheapest. Even though cat ears generally should be comparatively more expensive.
“This girl has a few problems, you see. She has bad eyesight. Although she can see in dim light, she stumbles when she walks. She fails when you make her work. She bumps into things inside the house. She’s fairly strong, but with the exception of that she’s completely…”
Wouldn’t she be cured if healing magic is used? And also using something like glasses?
“She’s been shown to a healing technique user, you know. According to the technique user that area is incorrigible. If it’s a high ranking healer it might be cured, but even so I don’t want to spend a lot of money when it’s uncertain if she could be cured or not.”
Seems like spectacles are unknown. I wonder if they don’t exist in this other world?
“You know, her appearance is good and undoubtedly she’ll serve you? As for me, if possible I’d want someone as nice as you laddie to buy her. At this rate I wonder what would happen to her if she remained unsold?”
What will happen to her?
“Will she become a plaything at a brothel or sent off to the mines? Do you know about the mines?”
“Eh? I don’t know about them…”
Plaything at a brothel? Sent off to the mines? To such a pretty girl?
“That is an extremely dreadful place, going into a confined dark hole and with human labor excavate to extract minerals. And besides poison gas and flooding, sometimes the mine collapses. If she was sent there…”
“In my case. I really don’t want to send her there. However a girl that remains unsold can’t be left behind, you know.”
“She only has a bit of a bad eyesight, right? She doesn’t have any other problems, does she?”
“It is so. However, there aren’t many people that would buy a girl with issues, you know. Look, please come here.”
“She’s a pitiful girl. The truth is her parents sold her when they heard she’d be useless because of her bad eyesight. Hey, come and greet this person.”
“Errr, I’ll do my best, so please purchase me. Master.”
The cat girl teary-eyed is making an appeal. Such a girl is being sent to the mines?
“Say, can I try healing magic?”
“Heh? Laddie a healer? That is, there’s no problem, however I won’t be paying for it?”
“It’s okay. Instead, please don’t hike the price if she’s cured, ok? Come here. What’s your name?”
“My name is, Sati.”
“Well then Sati, since I’ll be using healing magic on you, stay still, ok?”
“Yes.”
I hold my hand around her eyes and concentrate magic power. [Heal], [Heal], [Heal], moreover I tried using [Cure Disease] and [Detoxification] too.
“Okay, try opening your eyes? How is it?”
The cat girl opened her eyes wide and shook her head. It didn’t work? Should I try discussing it with Angela-chan and company? Since there are drinking glasses, making lenses should be possible. I could also raise my healing magic level. Healing magic is level 3. I have 29 skill points, it will take 4 points for level 4. It’ll probably take another 20 points for level 5, but there’s enough. Well, if [Heal] would cure her was a gamble anyways. While I was pondering I was talked to.
“Did you become interested? Are you going to purchase her?”
Suddenly, I realized. I fully feel like taking her home… I can do nothing but purchase her already.
“I’ll buy her…”
In the end the slave trader got his hand. The baldy left Sati behind and exited the room with the other girls. That number 4 girl was too good. Frankly she was exactly in my strike zone, if only I had enough money.
When turning around, the cat girl was quietly looking at me while she stayed on the same spot she was left at. Well, yeah. You’re cute too. Silky short black hair, her tail is fluttering left and right. Looking at her face closer, she’s a beautiful girl. I feel she’s still a bit young, but in a few years I believe she’ll grow up to be a beautiful woman. I wonder if dressing her in goth loli clothes will suit her.
“Sati, you are coming home with me, are you alright?”
“Yes, please treat me well. Master. I’ll do anything, so please order me.”
She repeatedly bowed her head. Master is it?. Master-sama… Master, Owner-sama. Onii-chan? No way. Nope. My normal name will do. [TL Note: Masaru is simply repeating Master with different spellings.]
“I’m Yamano Masaru. Please call me Masaru.”
“Yes, Masaru-sama.”
“You can see a little, don’t you?”
“Yes, long distances I can only see hazy, but I can see close up fine.”
While saying that, suddenly she brought her face closer. It’s close, too close. Her face is so close her nose could hit me. Before she could touch me, suddenly she moved away.
“Ah, I’m sorry. That’s how close I can see.”
I take a big gulp. At any rate, these clothes. They are thin and suggestive. Each time Sati moves, I’m tempted by catching glimpses of various things. And then I realized. I thought she was a bit thin, but isn’t she skin and bones? Is she being fed enough? That’s pitiful.
The bald guy returned.
“Well, then your name, please. And also did you bring your identification papers?”
“Yamano Masaru. Is the guild card okay?”
I handed over my guild card and once he took a glance at it immediately returned the card. When he asked ‘Do you have the money now?’, I replied with a yes.
“Then 35,000 Gold, please.”
I take out the gold coins from Items and hand them over. The bald old man carefully counts each coin.
“Yes, this is correct. Then let’s certify the slave’s crest. Could you please draw a bit of blood? The master’s blood is added to the crest to be acknowledge as the owner.”
Sati extends her arm. On the back of her hand, just above her wrist, like a tattoo some pattern is drawn. The baldy hands me a needle and I prick my finger. I spill the blood over Sati’s wrist as told. At that moment the slave’s crest shined.
And suddenly the Menu opened. It’s not mine, it’s Sati’s.
“Okay, with this she belongs to Masaru-sama.”
“A-Ahhh. That’s right, does Sati have any other clothes? And she’s not wearing any footwear, taking her back home like this is a bit…”
With this, I received the clothes and sandals that have already been prepared. I hand them over to Sati and with some rustling she pulls it over her head and completely covers her body. A robe, huh? It’s white and she looks like a teru teru bozu. She puts on the sandals and like that, as far as it goes, there’s no issues going out. [TL Note: Teru teru bozu: that white doll the Japanese hang as a charm so it stops raining and be sunny.