Read A Merchant With Zero Combat Power Who Was A Baggage Handler In A Hero Party (Me), Was Finally Banished And Wants To Be A Steady Merchant.

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Then one day.

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About two weeks had passed since the Gandora incident.

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While Loloi and I were selling relics in the wagon square as usual, something started to get noisy in the center of the square.

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We caught a customer coming from that direction and asked him about it, and it seemed that there were "elves" there.

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"Elves...?"

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Loloi doesn't know about elves?

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I don't know anything about elves.

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Well, that's not very heartbreaking.

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Elves.

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They're a well-known fantasy...

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In this country, they are considered slaves.

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Originally, elves lived in this western continent.

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However, when the Norn Empire, the predecessor of the Auld Nostalucia Empire, invaded the western continent, the elves who lived there were forced to leave.

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They persecuted the local elves and took away their sphere of life one after another.

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After a fierce battle, the elves were driven to the western edge of the continent, and the battle ended in victory for the human side.

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That was about 200 years ago.

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This continent has such a dark history.

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There has been considerable resistance in some parts of the continent since then.

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Most of the elves who were defeated in battle were captured and became human slaves.

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They were bought and sold by slavers and made into a spectacle.

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They were sold by slavers and used as a s*xual outlet for humans, both male and female.

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Many of the elves were forced to become half-breeds with the humans who had settled on the western continent, and the number of elves gradually decreased.

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As for the human side, it is said that almost all the people born in the western continent have some Elvish blood in their ancestors.

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Nowadays, except for the slaves in the mansions of a few rich nobles, there are very few opportunities to see so-called "elves" who have the external characteristics of elves.

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It is said that, occasionally, an elf who has come down from some hidden village is seen, but...

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Basically, such an occurrence is rare.

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An elf girl without chains is walking around town like a normal person.

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Normally, slaves who are surrounded by nobles are shackled and shackled to prevent them from escaping far away...

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The story is that the elf is not wearing any shackles.

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In other words, they are not slaves who are surrounded by some nobles or managed by slavers. They are elves who have come out of hiding.

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You are a merchant, aren't you?　You can get quite a bit of mana for your money if you catch them and sell them off.

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......

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When I saw her, she was already surrounded by some thugs. Poor thing, she'll either be a slave of a nobleman or a showpiece for perverts tomorrow.

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So it seems there is a commotion going on.

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"Are you going too, Albus?"

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I'm not going. I have no intention of getting involved in the slave trade.

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That's Albus for you.

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No, that's normal, isn't it?

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Even elves are people.

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The actuality that you can't just buy and sell people is just too terrible.

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On the contrary, he even did something like emancipating slaves as a result.

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However, it is also a fact that the buying and selling of slave elves is still allowed in this country and goes on as such.

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In such a country...

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I could only say that it was that elf's fault for appearing in the city in the first place.

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The commotion didn't quite subside.

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The elf must be putting up a very strong resistance.

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If that's the case, why didn't he just show up in the middle of a human town from the very beginning?

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As I continued tending to my store with this thought in mind, the center of the commotion gradually drew closer.

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Finally, it came right in front of my store.

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Surrounded by a few thugs, the elf was walking leisurely.

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Leisurely. He wore a white hooded robe like a sorcerer.

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Silver hair, pointed ears, and jade green eyes.

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As if to inversely exaggerate those three elven features, he covered his mouth and nose with a white cloth.

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You're hiding the wrong part..."

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I whispered to myself.

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If an elf is going to cover up in town, it should be the hair, ears, and eyes first.

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Put the hood on the back of that dress.

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That's why we're in such a mess!

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"Aaaaaaah!　There's a chance!

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At that moment, one of the thugs jumped at the elf, swinging a wooden sword.

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I don't think he knows how to use a sword properly, but...

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The reason why they don't use a serious sword is probably because if they get hurt, their value as slaves will decrease.

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But even a wooden sword would not be enough.

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Oh!　Look out!

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Loloi shouted unintentionally and tried to jump out of the way.

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But the elf leaped toward him.

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He leapt toward the elf, parrying the elf's wooden sword with the peak of the knife in his hand and dodging as he passed by.

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He passed her, dodging. "One last piece of advice. If you follow me any longer, you will ...... die, okay?"

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With the three thugs at his back, the elf said calmly.

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His manner of speaking was calm and sounded like he could really afford it.

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The reason why this elf appeared in the city without even hiding his elfish features.

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Could it be that he has considerable confidence in his own fighting ability?

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I felt a little shiver down my spine as the elf stared at the gangsters with cold eyes.

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The thugs were still surrounding the elf, looking for an opening.

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If we capture him and sell him to the slavers, we can live happily for a while..."

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The elves are clearly superior to the men in the way they just carried themselves.

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However, the thugs, blinded by mana, seem to have lost the ability to make sound judgments.

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You are still going to do this?　I have warned you..."

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The elf then sheathed the knife in his hand in the sheath at his waist.

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You seem to be ready for this, so it's okay, isn't it?　Then please die as soon as possible."

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Then he thrust his right hand forward.

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He then thrust his right hand forward, "Medium Flame Magic (Mil Flare), Three Pillars (Tri-Pillar)."

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Flames burst from the elf's right palm, and the faces of the thugs instantly twitched.

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"This elf. You use sorcery?

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Of course she does.　Elven warriors are skilled in magic, you know?

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The flames burst out in three separate bursts and landed at the feet of the three thugs.

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Then a huge pillar of fire rose up from it, burning all of the thugs.

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Gyaaaaaaaah!

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screamed the three thugs.

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The pillar of fire quickly subsided, but the fire that had ignited their bodies was not extinguished.

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If left unchecked, they would surely be killed.

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When the elf said 'I will have you die' just now, it means that he was completely serious.

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Then the elf thrust his right hand forward again.

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Is he trying to finish me off?

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I felt it, and shouted out.

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This is a place of business. If you want to kill people, do it somewhere else!

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Oh, dear. You pretended not to see me when I was surrounded by thugs.

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"Ugh..."

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It hurts to hear you say that.

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I have almost no fighting skills myself, so I can't act like an easygoing hero in that situation.

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I'm not sure how much more I can talk to you than those thugs over there. That's why I called out to you. ...We've already got a fight on our hands, don't we?

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Even if we put out the fire right now, the thugs won't even be able to walk for a while.

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And there was no need to go to the trouble of putting out the fire.

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I'm not a killer. I am not a killer.

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But the elf released the magic again.

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Wait ......

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'Small Water Stream Magic (Ural), Rain (Reimu).'

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This time, a stream of water surged from the elf's palm.

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After rising into the air, it rained down on the thugs, who were rolling around on the ground, on fire.

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Then, in the blink of an eye, the fire was extinguished.

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"Is this ...... correct?"

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Perhaps this elf is the one to finish the job.

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Was this the plan all along, instead of just putting an end to it?

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The Thugs were quite badly injured, and the white magician's treatment would be expensive...

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At least they were getting one life.

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And that elf was staring at me with jade green eyes.

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......"

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Perhaps I had offended this elf.

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