Yuri Slave – 002 As Far As She Was Concerned, It Was a Blessing.

Translator: Flowingcloud    Editor: Nixie

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When that hero, Jean Intage, approached him with a talk about “selling a woman,” the merchant thanked god without even thinking.
On top of being able to make a connection with a person associated with the brave, that woman that was being sold was associated with the brave as well; there’s no doubt that he could sell her for an outrageously high price.
The merchant cautiously hastened the transaction.
If he displeased him even a little bit it would be a problem, he avoided any behavior like investigating to the possible limit, and thoroughly behaved modestly.
Jean also let out a mood which said, “Don’t investigate too much.”

——If one thought about it, a merchant should have grown suspicious at that point.

Towards Jean who was trying to hide the information one way or another, it would be a lie to say he was not suspicious.
However, it was something to the degree of only expectations being overwritten.
The first time his uneasiness exceed his expectations was when Jean handed over Flamm, and saw the moment where he mercilessly abused that figure.
He declared that, she was useless.
The girl that he was trying to sell for an excessive price, was abused in front of the man going to buy her.
How dare you do such a brazen thing.
Because he was excessively frank, the merchant told himself that it was only “a mere black joke.”
He still believed.
At least, until he bought her, brought her back to the base, and confirmed Flamm’s status.

“Damn it, I picked up an awful piece of trash! Thanks to you, I’ll be suffering a heavy loss! You, you”
“Ugu, uu…… fu, ha hyu…… higu……”

The slave trader grabbed Flamm’s hair and lifted it up, and kicked her abdomen many times over and over again.
Every time her voice leaked out, drool flowed out from the corner of her mouth.
When the drip of water that fell clung to his shoe, he was further irritated at Flamm and increased his act of violence.

A few hours after Jean left, the slave trader noticed that all of Flamm’s status was 0, and his face became ghastly pale.
Checking other people’s status was an extremely simple thing; Just use the non-attribute magic “Scan,” that anyone can use.

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Flamm Apricot

Attribute: Inverse

Strength: 0
Magic Power: 0
Endurance: 0
Agility: 0
Intelligence: 0

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Like this, with the magic that a great man from long ago made, there were rough numerical values, but on top of being able to quantify the target’s physical ability, it was able to to make clear even their attribute.
Normally, he should have checked before giving the money.
Nonetheless, if perhaps the merchant showed behaviours such as using the Scan, Jean would probably have refused to trade.
Besides, there was no way for a great man whose name was well-known throughout the kingdom to do some stingy behaviour such as deceiving a mere merchant——this was the result of great expectations.

A week has already passed since she bought her.
He did not find a buyer…… or rather, as an incompetent person with all her status totalling 0, she was such a useless “merchandise” that he did not even feel like trying to find a buyer, there was no longer any function other than being a sandbag.
However, even so, even that has come to an end.
Each time he sees Flamm’s face, the merchant would remembered his his failures in the future.
He was not bankrupt yet, but if he kept continuing to be a slave merchant, he needed to change his attitude, and steadily do business.
If that’s the case, then on top of being this useless, he had better dispose of this garbage that made him irritated him just by looking at it.
Nothing can be done about the lost portion, people of this gray business could not demand money from Jean.
Thus, he concluded as so.

Flamm was grabbed by the collar of her white dirty worn out shirt she was wearing, and dragged along the top of the stone corridor.
Where he was going to bring her this time, she has no longer cared about imagining it.
At any rate, it wasn’t going to be an upright place.
Whether she was going to be sold to someone else, or be killed.
Either way, her future was pitch dark.
Since she had been tattooed with the mark of a slave, she already gave up on her wish to go return to her hometown.
Flamm, who had gave up on everything, stopped regretting on her past actions and “why things had come to this.”

When the merchant arrived at the destination after a struggle, he opened the lock of the jail in front of him, and threw Flamm into it.
This is his base’s basement he owned.
There he installed a cage for disposing slaves.
There were already four people in addition to Flamm inside, where everyone was convinced that their life was over, and had dead eyes.
Of course, as a result of not receiving food, their limbs became thinner to the limit, and the women sitting in the most back wet herself with feces and urine and expressed a faint smile.
She was broken long ago probably; her heart was still moving, but she was like a dead being.
It goes without saying, the sanitary conditions were the worst.
Of course, the smell was so terrible that even the lethargic Flamm grimaced at the smell.

“They’ve accumulated; it’s about time now I guess.”

The merchant who closed the lock from outside the prison muttered.
Something is starting——however, whatever will start, among the living corpses not a single person had an interest.
When the merchant temporarily left the front of the prison in order to prepare, all sounds other than the sound of breathing disappeared.
Flamm, who fell down on the ground, dragged her own body and crawled, moved to the edge of the room, and sat down against the wall as a backrest.
Next to her, was the appearance of an eerie slave who had bandages wrapped around their face.

“Have…… you been here the whole time?”

It was on a mere whim to think about starting a conversation with them.
Then, when they opened their eyes slightly and showed a surprising behavior, they answered after a pause.

“I’ve been here since three days ago.”

Flamm noticed that the other part was a female from the voice.
When she was covered with bandages and became thin from body up to the face, she could not conclude her gender.
Her light gray colored hair grew up to her shoulder, and there was no way for one to conclude that she was a female by just seeing the length of her hair, but the other party was a slave; even the thought and possibility of growing her hair long was none.
However, when looked she look straight at her eyes, Flamm felt that she had “beautiful eyes.”
The eye carried a feminine gentleness, and on top of that held a clear heart.
Surely if they met differently, they would probably be able to walk a completely different, happy life.

“If we were brought here then…… as expected, we’re going to be killed.”
“I don’t know. However, master said that he was going to dispose us.”
“Master?”
“The man just now. Currently, no one will buy me, so that person is my master.”
“Aah…… I, see.”

From those words, Flamm intuitive knew that she was a different living being from herself.
It’s likely that she had been living as a slave the entire time since she was a child, and was indelibly ingrained in her.
Therefore, she was not repulsed to call even such a man as “Master.”
The skin visible from the gaps of the bandaging were red and inflamed.
Perhaps, that face might have been the effect of the previous master’s poor treatment——Flamm imagined and shuddered.

There was no intentions for the bandaged girl to continue the conversation.
When Flamm awkwardly fell into silence, she started at the girl motionlessly for a brief period, and then turned her gaze towards the floor slowly.
The two of them held their knees side by side without change, casting their eyes downward, and continued to stare at the gray nothingness.
After that, footsteps sound could be heard approaching the jail.
The one that showed up on the other side of the bars was, of course, the male slave trader.
When he expressly brought a small stool and sat on it, he crossed his legs self-importantly/proudly and declared.

“Well then, I think you know already, but you guys have no value as a merchandise anymore. In other words, it means that your life has no worth. I don’t have allowance to keep such useless meat; I’ll have you disposed.”

If that’s the case, then you only need to simply kill them; there is no need to prepare.

“However.”

The shape of the merchant’s mouth evilly twitched upwards.

“Money was needed to buy you guys. Even though you guys were kept alive, it takes food expenses even if only a little. Do you think it was not worth it if I don’t enjoy you guys to the brink of death?”

The merchant asked the slaves a question, but no one responded.
He responded to the no reactions with a, “Tsk,” and he moved and disappeared from the front of the prison.
Apparently, it seems like a handle was installed on the wall of where he moved to.
He gripped the handle that was made of metal with both hands, and turned it clockwise.
Then, at the sound of the jail cell ceiling alongside the stone pebbles rumbling, and pebbles and clouds of dust fell.
The moment Flamm very listlessly turned her line of sight the place where the sound was coming from——thud, and three of something around the size of a human fell from the whole that opened in the ceiling.
No, it was literally humans, however, it did not have signs of being alive.
The corpses, lying on top of one another, fell from the ceiling.
Blood and a clear liquid scatter around the floor, and the jail became full of a rotten smell.
The merchant, who stopped turning the handle and showed up in front of the slaves again, had a proud look.

“Fuu…… do you not know what that is? It’s a ghoul. A human’s corpse would start to move on its own accord and move in accordance to its instincts under the influence of its remaining magic power——to put it simply, the worst F-rank monster.”

As if matching the merchant’s expression, the ghouls started to make filthy sounds.
Then, the body shook as if it was having a spasm, changed the direction of their head and searched for their prey.

Flamm, who traveling together with the brave’s journey, knew.
Certainly, ghoul was the worst F-rank monster.
Their movements were sluggish, and their body is also decaying flesh, so it’s extremely fragile.

“If you defeat them, I’ll take you out from there, and sell you as merchandise again. That is to say to live longer for a while. However, be careful, they are……”

However, on the other hand, even though they are F-rank, stories of negligent novice adventurers getting their head bitten off were often heard off.
At least, for ordinary people, who have no combat experience, they are not monsters that can be dealt with unarmed.

“Aah, see I told you so, they’re immediately swarming.”

The ghouls rushed towards the women who discharged feces and urine in the corner of the room.
The instinct that operates them is their “appetite.”
Rotting and decaying, they pursue fresh meat that they personally parted with, and get their teeth into living humans.
Crushing, crunching, slurppppp——
Without even raising a scream, the broken women was devoured greedily by 3 ghouls, and killed.
Flamm and the remaining two had planned on giving up their lives long ago, but they realized when they saw the death of the other person.
That I don’t want to die yet.
The one that was completely resigned was the bandaged girl.
Sensing the fear that started to fill the insides of the jail cell, the merchant’s mouth warped even further.

“This is serious, if you don’t do something one way or anything, you’ll all experience the same thing that women did? However, you can’t kill a ghoul unarmed; a weapon is needed, right?”

What was he getting excited about; the man’s tone seem to be theatrical.

“Ooh oh, somehow there’s a huge sword decorated on the wall? It’s not a weight you can handle, but if that was the highest grade epic equipment, if it’s covered in a magic enchantment, even the frail you guys can possibly deal with it?

Anyone would’ve understood without even thinking that that was a trap.
However, if they wish to live on, they have no choice but to rely on that.
A single man was the first that rushed to the big sword on the wall and held the hilt of the sword.
Of course, there was no way that a thin man could lift up that big lump of metal.
The naked sword blade that fell naturally to the stone floor with a crash, bounced, and scattered a small spark.
And yet, because of his persistence, he barely let go the sword’s hilt.
Be that as it may, is there a meaning to such persistence?
As a reaction to the noise, the heartless ghouls approached him but he couldn’t swing the sword to intercept them in such situation.

“Hah, hah, hah! W-with this…… with this, I can live, live and restart my li……f……e?”
“I have received, the feelings that you have shown. You’ve endured well, in light of that perseverance, I’ll relieve a bit of that pain for you.
“It…… it’s hot……m-my body, is, ahhhhhhhh!”

The man who took hold of the sword suddenly shouted.
Looking closely, the skin on the back of his hand was peeling off, and his flesh and body started to become naked.
No, it wasn’t only his hand.
His arm, shoulder and neck too——perhaps even his legs and body under the cloth.
His skin peeled off, furthermore even his flesh was being reduced to a thick liquid, and throwing away the form of a human as it flowed out.

“Ahahahahaha! Well, it’s a shame. That looks like it’s cursed. If you see something like a black sword blade, it’s usually like that right? It’s the same as that girl called something like Flamm. Long ago, I was deceived that it was a superior epic equipment and bought it…… I haven’t learned. Well, the fact it’s an epic equipment itself is the truth, but however it seems to be suffering from a strong curse and it’s article that can’t be used normally. Kuhihihi, hyahahahaha!”

The merchant guffawed and his laughter rose, as if it was something comical.

“However, such trash has become a stage setting in order to exterminate trash now, so I don’t know what it’s useful for.”

While he was talking, the ghouls approached their next target.
It was not Flamm, but towards another woman.

“Why are you coming my direction…… don’t come, don’t comeeeeeee!”

While frantically waving her hand, the woman stepped back.
When that struggling was similar to entering depression, the merchant smiled even more.
The opponent could not defeated with bare hands, and the sole weapon which was the last ray of hope was useless.
There were already no ways of defeating them.
The girl who believed so used her last resort.

“Please save me…… please, I’ll do my best! In order to sell me properly, I’ll bet on my life that I’ll put effort into itttttttttt!”

When she mustered her strength and jumped at the bars, both hands grasped it tightly, and had her head bitten into that moment while begging for her life.
Even her remaining weak pride was throw away, and succumbed to the other party that she should’ve detested.
She would not mind if she lived because of that; it’s much better than being eaten and dying.

“Please, pleaseeeeee!”

The merchant, who heard the desperate petition, “fuu,” put out an amiable smile, and stood up.
Squatting in front of the bars, and made eye contact at a close position.

“Ah……ahh…… y-you’ll save me?”

A small light of hope was lit in the woman’s heart at the merchant’s expression that he had not shown until now.
He said one thing towards that women.

“You sure stink.”

He declared coldy, drew out the knife from the scabbard hanging from his waist, and stabbed the soft portion of her lower jaw.

“Ge……bube……”
“Ahh…… how strong, you wouldn’t think we were fellow humans, this smell. No, she’s already not human; I’d wish you spare me from your thinking that we’re the same, haha.”

As the women pressed her head between the opening of the bars, she slowly fell senselessly.
As soon as the knife he stuck in got jammed, she met eyes with the merchant just then, and returned to the the chair seeing the women’s dying face and smiling as if he bursted into laughter.

——The world is, very wide.
The place I know was truly small, that just one part of it, just a step outside was full with stagnant corrosion.
If I had not left, it would’ve been fine, I really did not want to leave.
Flamm cursed, at the creation god Origin who made her participate in the Brave’s party.
What oracle was that? What chosen hero? If there wasn’t such a thing, I wouldn’t have been seen with that kind of look.

She helped her parents in the field from morning to afternoon, ate a warm lunch with her entire family, and when she thought it would be same after the afternoon, her friends would invite her to play, and her parents would send her off kindly saying see you later.
Also, she would tell silly stories until it got dark, visit the village’s merchant’s home, have a little adventure up to the forest to gather flowers.
When she returned, it would be time for dinner.
They would have a warm conversation, everyone would laugh, prepare to sleep and when dawn breaks a similar day would start again——

That was good.
She never wished for more than that; she practically did not say anything selfish, and everyone said that she was a good girl.
Well, she might have been a bungle daughter, after all she had statuses 0 and caused trouble for her parents probably.
But so what? After all, the other kids should have been troublesome more or less; the trouble that Flamm caused was adorable. Even her parents said, “We’ll be happier if you caused that sort of trouble,” and laughed.
Then, as expected she was mistaken.
Like this——something must be wrong with a life where it ends by dying while being eaten by a ghoul and screaming unsightly.

“No…… no way…… I don’t want to die in such a place…… I, I didn’t do anything wrong!”

In front of the gradually approaching ghouls who increased their low moans, in the head of Flamm there was rage and fear; at any rate, there were a variety of negative emotions bouncing around one place to another like a mixer.

“You have disagreements right, you deceived me, you stole large amount of money from me. Obediently die already.”
“I didn’t! It wasn’t me, It wasn’t me, I’m not the one at fault!”

It was true.
She was sold without permission, enslaved without permission, and going to be killed without permission.
It is fine to press all the responsibility of the that deed on the victim. Was it acceptable?

“No, the bad one is you. You were garbage despite being sold for a high price.”

Even the world should have its rules, but why, why is what the merchant saying true in this place?
At this rate, Flamm would die at her wit’s end, unsightly, unhappy, and fall over in the corner of the room, and follow the pattern end where she would not even leave behind a grotesque corpse.
No one would mourn for her, no one would be sad.
Even her parents would not know she died, surely thrown away to some garbage dump, eventually disposed by incineration, and the existence known as Flamm would disappear.

“Even so, if you hate dying…… ha, you can only take hold of a weapon and fight right? Ahahaha!”

A weapon——the gigantic sword was lying down on the surface reflected into Flamm’s eyes.
Besides that, the mere shadow of the male slave who transformed into a skeleton.
Would she give up, be eaten and die?

“U…… uuuu…… uuuuuuuu!”

Flamm slowly stood up.
Her physical condition was the worst, her stomach was left empty, and her body was tried.
Also, during this one week, the merchant exerted violence on her, so her body was worn-out.
Her legs became bow legged, slightly shaking, and the most unsightly.
In fact, the merchant was staring at her appearance with a faint smile.
She took one step and advanced forward.
Her step was small, and at this rate, the ghoul would probably eat her earlier than she would arrive at the sword.

“Ha……aah, ah……ahhhhh……!”

“Even so’.
When confronted with an absurd situation, it was the words that she told herself numerous times.
She repeated it in her mind.

Each time she did, her foot proceeded one step forward.
After increasing many times, it felt like her paces were becoming bigger.
However, rather than smashing a bad dream with a heroic determination, the cruel reality was far stronger.
If noticed, the ghoul would draw near her immediately close to her, and finally the inflamed arm would grab hold on the girl’s shoulder.

“Ah——”

Drawing Flamm to itself with an unworldly power, Flamm’s body leaned over while shaking violently.
When the ghoul put its mouth close to the falling girl’s left shoulder, splat, and the widely opened its stretched mouth, pierced the clothes with its light brown dirty teeth, and bit into the flesh.

“Gy, aaaaaaaaaaaaaa…… ga, ha, ha, gulp……!”

Even for Flamm where that spot was supposed to be used to pain recently, it was painful to the degree than it couldn’t be endured.
Nevertheless, the ghoul sank its teeth without caring, and bit off some flesh including the cloth.

“Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

Rip, and one part of herself came off, and Flamm’s face warped into pain.
Not being able to bear it, involuntarily fell down.
Even so, beyond her gaze was a sword.

“Do your bessst, you’re almost thereee.”

The merchant’s inattentive support could be heard.
Even the bandaged girl who maintained to be indifferent was staring at Flamm before she knew it.

“Fuu, fuu…… uu, uuuuuu, gi, guuuuu.”

While gritting her teeth and breathing roughly through her nose, she was certainly getting closer.
When the ghoul flopped onto her, it bit into that girl’s right calf.

“Agyauuuuu!”

Her muscles were teared off, chewed and swallowed deeply.
Furthermore, another ghoul reached out and ate her left thigh.
The last one also finished his previous meal, and the girl’s legs could no longer function.
It was only her right hand left.
She was bleeding excessively, her body was freezing, and her consciousness was hazy.
It wouldn’t be weird if she fainted from pain; if you think for a moment in your heart ‘I give up’, that would be the end.
Therefore, for sure that was a miracle.
Her fingertip——her middle finger’s tip touched the hilt of the sword.
Moreover, Flamm extended out her arm, and gripped onto the cold sword.

“With this….. fin, ally……”

With this, at last.
At last, she’d melt, and die.
The ghouls would further devour Flamm’s body and left it untidy.
She’d die at any rate even if it was neglected.
What’s important is that she grasped the sword and died by her own will.
Therefore, if she were to say what changed, she wouldn’t really know; it was probably just up to the point of self-satisfaction.
There was only a strange sense of accomplishment.

“……Ah? What’s this.”

As far as the slowly dying Flamm was concerned, hearing the voice of the merchant was trivial.
…… That’s right, that’s what she thought.

“What’s going on…… why, why are her wounds healing!?”

Flamm, who felt an uncomfortable feeling of confusion, decided once more in the end, and opened her eyes.
Then——

“Eh……?”

For some reason, the ghouls took distance from Flamm, and stood stock still.
That appearance looked somewhat perplexing.
And then, the most surprising thing was that the leg injuries that the ghouls should’ve bitten were completely healed.
Of course, her shoulder as well.
Flamm tried opening and closing her own palm countless times immediately.
Furthermore, she tried pinching and pulling her cheek.
……It hurts.
It was not her imagination, it was not a dream, in other words, this body’s light feeling was also——

As Flamm stood up, she picked up the sword with one hand.
By no means could it be said that it was light, but even so she was able to hold it.
The metal lump whose size that was 80% of the height of the weak Flamm, with one hand.

“I see……”

She didn’t understand the reason, but she understood the result.
Flamm did not give up.
Even in hopeless situations, she sticked to her own intentions as she went down on her hands and knees.
Her whole body that was overflowing with power was rewarded by that resolution.

“……I, can stay alive. That’s right isn’t it, that’s right, I haven’t done anything bad, but to die in this sort of place…… must be a mistake right.”

The bewildered ghouls started to slowly move forward slowly towards Flamm.
Even that ghastly appearance, the fear from before couldn’t be felt.
She closed her eyes and let out a breath, “Fu.”
She sharpened her senses, put strength into her palm that was gripping tightly onto the sword, and advanced towards her enemies with her own purpose.
There was nothing to be afraid of, the blade’s reach was far longer than the arm of a ghoul.
When she made sure of the appropriate opportunity and swung the sword lightly——

“Haaaaa!”

Boom!

The upper half of the three ghouls burst open at the same time.
Nonetheless, even if the body was rotting, it was powerful enough to bisect them with just the graze of the tip.
It couldn’t be possible expected from a blow from a girl with a physical strength of 0.
There was no doubt that it was some sort of mechanic from the sword.
However, as far as Flamm was concerned, right now that sort of thing was irrelevant.
The important thing was to live and leave this place.
When she approached the lock sealing of the prison this time, she gripped with her both hand and swung downwards from above with all her might.

Thunk!

The lock was easily destroyed, and the door opened with a squeak.
The girl left from there, and stood in front of the merchant.

“W……wait, wait! Listen up, it’s okay to leave! Therefore…… at least my l-life……”

There was no particular reason for Flamm to kill him.
In the first place, she, who had roughly no battle experience, did not plan on becoming a murderer at all.
In addition, if it became clear that she was the criminal that killed him, if you thought about her position as a slave, she probably could not escape from death penalty.
Therefore——

Thud.

Flamm easily thrusted the sword selfishly into the merchant’s face.
The wide blade precisely cut apart that head’s tip to his jaw, and when she pulled and extracted it, his skull split open splendidly like a flower blooming.
His blood and spinal fluid flowed down.
The contents of the merchant expelled a much more unpleasant smell than the girl he called ‘smelly’.

Flamm’s heart was so composed that she herself was even surprised, and did not feel guilty.
The feeling of her palm felt roughly the same as when she cut the ghouls.
That’s right, she had already killed human-shaped monsters, so there wasn’t a big difference in killing a rotten slave trader.
It was a logical reason.
It’s okay, Flamm was normal, she had not gone mad.
With her experience she tasted this one week, he values were only slightly warped.

There was no scabbard prepared for the large sword being held by Flamm in the beginning.
Even if it could he handled with one hand, she could not afford it carry around the exposed edge like that.
‘How do I store it’——The moment Flamm thought that, the large sword became particles and disappeared.
Then, on the back of the girl’s right hand, a red crest was engraved.

“Come to think of it, he said that it was an epic equipment…… the equipment that Cyrillic-chan possessed was also like this right; the one that could be stored away with just her mind.”

This was the feature of the ‘epic’ ranked equipment that contained high magical power.
Equipments were ranked separately as grades: common, uncommon, rare. legend , epic; the closer it approached epic, the better the performance became.
These ranks, as well as status and equipment, could be confirmed by invoking the skill ‘Scan’.
Also, it was possible for a ranked epic equipment to be stored away freely in another dimension by having it in mind by the possessor.
To put it simply, it’s abilities were high, moreover it was convenient to carry, and epic equipment was absurdly expensive.
It was not something a regular slave trader would possess, but——it was likely that it a ‘cursed equipment’ that absorbed people’s grudges and therefore traded at a low price probably.

Well, if she didn’t have to make use of it showing bare, it was better than nothing.
Flamm, who succeed on successfully safely storing the equipment, sat down in the jail cell, and approached the bandaged girl that was looking at her direction.
Then, give her a hand in silence.
Of course, the girl was puzzled.

“Hm? That’s not it. Let’s run away together.”
“Why?”
“Well, if the merchant is dead, there isn’t any reason to remain here right?”
“……”

The girl motionlessly started at Flamm’s face, and sank into silence.
Her eyes were pretty, but she did not know what she was thinking about.

“Come on, after all if it was leaked that I killed the merchant, it’d be bad. Come on, let’s hurry up and go!”

Without waiting, Flamm forcibly grabbed the girl’s hand and took action.
Like that she left the jail cell, and took her out of the location.

“Um……”
“Hmm?”
Could, you become my master?”

Flamm stopped her legs reflexively.

“I didn’t particularly have that intention though.”

How did she arrive at that conclusion just by taking her outside?

“But, aren’t you taking me along? Aren’t you trying to make use of me?”
“Use……”
“Am I wrong? If so, why are you taking me outside? Even if I follow a person that isn’t my master, I do not know what to do.”

That girl is a slave by nature.
In addition, perhaps all along since her birth.
Therefore, as far as she was concerned, human relationships outside of ‘slave’ and ‘master’ did not exist.
To be frank, the reason Flamm thought of taking her out was only because it’d be disheartening and lonely alone.
However, if the bandaged girl told her to become her master, and if she did not consent, then——

“I get it, then from today on I will be your master, will you follow me?”

She nodded her head in agreement.

“Then…… first can I ask for your name?”
“Yes, I am Milkit. I will be in your care, master.”

Milkit bowed her head very deeply.

“Ahh…… by all means, Milkit.”

While being perplexed at this unfamiliar way of calling her ‘master’, she took hold of the girl’s hand, and broke into a run again.
They left the location, escaped the alleyway, and went to the main street.
After coming this far, it should be safe.
Flamm finally felt after a long time a sense of security after returning and being sucked into her fellow humans in the atmosphere of an upright place.