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.

120 - - 37. The Marriage

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One evening, a little over three months after the auction.

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I was invited back to Mitra's room.

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Mitra was still the same, though.

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Whenever there was a performance of the bard at the theater, I would always show up to hear her sing.

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The variety of wooden puppets produced by Mitra now exceeded 50, and their sales were as strong as ever, even though the singers had changed.

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I set up a schedule of lectures, keeping track of each doll's inventory and so on. I asked Mitra to make dolls for me on a daily basis.

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That morning.

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When I received the dolls as usual, I was asked by Mitra, "I want you to come to my room after dinner.

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Mitra...what is your errand?"

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I feel like I've said this line before.

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Mitra stood by the window and turned her blindfolded face toward me.

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I now have a place to live and the proceeds from the sale of dolls will ensure that I will not have to worry about making a living. Clarice seems to be getting along very well with Burgess-sama.... I (I) have nothing more to worry about.

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Ah.

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I have one more favor to ask you.

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What is it?　If there's anything I can do...

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Raise your share of the doll profits. I don't know.

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I'd prefer to keep it the way it is, but...

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If Mitra is serious about negotiating, I might consider it.

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Probably, though, that will never happen with Mitra.

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"I (I)..."

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Oh..."

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Will you accept me...as Albus-sama's wife?"

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I was a little downcast, but Mitra said such a thing in a straightforward manner.

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I've already done without that before, haven't I?"

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I'm not like that time anymore.

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Indeed.

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In the past three months, Mitra has changed in many ways.

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She spends less time locked up in her room and often takes walks in the garden (theater) with the bard she has as her valet.

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Sometimes she even asked us to take her out of the house.

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I (Mitra), who was taught to walk on my own feet by Albus," he said. With that ...... heartfelt gratitude, I am now here to ask for your hand in marriage to the one whom I would like to walk with in the future."

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......

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I (Mitra) have always been. I have not been able to do anything on my own. I have been following the instructions of the people around me since I was born. No matter what the circumstances were, I (I) always hid and endured.

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Ah..."

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Perhaps, I didn't know any other way of life.

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I don't know if you can find a way to live like that. He simply followed what he was told by those around him and continued to live his life.

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In the end, it was a way of life similar to making oneself a slave to one's surroundings.

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And perhaps.

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Perhaps, it is the result of the extreme self-deprecation caused by the circumstances of having to depend on others to survive.

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Thanks to Albus-sama, my hand games have become my livelihood. My doll-making, which I thought was meaningless, now gives me more mana than I can handle on a daily basis.

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Don't worry about it. I have made a lot of money from Mitra's dolls.

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The amount of mana that Mitra said she can't have is not that much for me.

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I was earning more than four times that amount of mana every day from the sale of Mitra's wooden dolls alone.

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So, if anything, I am the one who wants to thank him as a business partner.

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If my power can be useful to Albus-sama in the future..."

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I don't have to marry you for that.　We will be involved as business associates as before, so there should be no problem.

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I don't want to.

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That Mitra said so clearly.

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I (I) want to be Master Albus' wife. I want to use everything I have for him. You have found value in my handiwork and freed me from the intimidating notion that 'I have no value in myself.

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[......

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"Will you accept...?"

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I am ......

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Of course I'm glad Mitra feels the same way.

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As Arkana said, I could make people happy again with my business.

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But...

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I'm sorry, Mitra. I'm glad you feel that way, but I've already..."

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I know you already have a wife.

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My answer was indeed a dumb one.

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I had told him about my wife (Arkana) many times during the meal.

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Naturally, Mitra must have known that.

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It is quite common for a good adventurer or a wealthy merchant to have multiple wives, not just royalty and nobility, isn't it?"

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Yes, it is.

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So there was a time when I originally thought, 'I'm going to build a harem like the heroes.

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But I am no longer the cherry boy I was back then, when I did all kinds of things on the spur of the moment.

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Arkana is special to me. Even if the laws of the world and the country allow it, I can easily ......

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You think my (my) feelings are easy?"

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No... it's not that..."

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The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how to do it.

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Mitra is ten years older than Clarice, so she is already 26 years old.

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A woman of Mitra's age, married at sixteen, would have had several children by now.

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I am sorry. I know I'm causing you trouble.

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Saying this, Mitra choked up a little.

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Still...I don't want to give up on this so easily."

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After saying this, as if trying to squeeze it out of her, Mitra bit her lower lip.

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Mitra bit her lower lip.

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The up and down movement around her chest that had been there earlier had stopped.

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Mitra seemed to have stopped breathing.

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Perhaps...

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. too nervous.

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Like me when I was competing with Sir Warren at the auction. She was concentrating so hard that she forgot to even breathe.

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Because Mitra can't see my expression.

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She seemed to be trying not to miss even the faintest sound I made.

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While I was watching such an appearance of Mitra...

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I understood.

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I felt that I could not ignore Mitra's feelings.

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I've known this for a long time, but...

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I'm not a pushover.

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I'm not a good pushover, and that can be fatal for a merchant, so there's room for improvement.

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Really...?"

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Mitra, who had been looking down, lifted her face.

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But there are some things I can't give in to.

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But let me talk to Arkana...and my wife. I can't have more wives if Arkana doesn't want me to.

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For my part, I couldn't give in on that part.

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Even if it was just a spur of the moment thing to begin with...

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For me, Arkana is too big.

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I understand.

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I'm not sure if it's a good idea.

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The most important thing to remember is that you can't just take a chance on a new person and expect them to be happy.

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The most important thing to remember is that the best way to get the most out of your money is to be honest with yourself.

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I finally received a reply from Arkana after a full week of being impatient.

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During that time, Mitra looked exactly the same as usual. I still can't read what she is thinking.

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I felt as if we had become a little distant again.

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And then there was Arcana's letter that arrived at my warehouse...

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I had thought that one day such a day might come, since Mr. Albus is a man who will eventually become a real big merchant.

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It started out like that.

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Is it bad?　If she says, 'Then I'll divorce you,' I'm sorry to say to Mitra, but no matter what you think, Arcana is number one. I read the rest of the book with that thought in mind.

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Now that I had contacted Arcana. I was very worried that it would be a story like, "He who runs after two hares will get none. I was also worried that it might be like that.

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But...

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The reply from Arkana was very open-minded.

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I was very worried about the story that I would not be able to get two rabbits.　There is no way I can stop him from feeling the same way I did at that time.

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Including all of this, Arcana told me that night, it was her 'determination to become a merchant's wife'. In her letter, she said.

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'Please continue to make people happier and happier!　Great merchant!　Also.... Please let me meet her later for sure.

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It was concluded with such words.

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Does that mean, perversely, that I should continue to have more and more wives?

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Arcana..."

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Whatever the true heart.

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It took the form of an approval from Arcana.

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I visited Mitra's room and told her of such a reply from Arcana.

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I am sorry for making you wait for a week.

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?"　If it was a letter to and from the village of Yak, it would normally take that long.

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Indeed!

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As for the connection between my "warehouse" and the crate in Arcana's house.

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I had never heard of it anywhere else, and since it is a skill that is so mysterious, I tried to keep it to myself.

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Loloi, Clarice, and Burgess knew, but Mitra probably did not.

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Perhaps.

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The timing of Arcana's reply, one week later, was probably based on the possibility of such a situation.

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I (I) would also like to meet Arcana-sama in the near future.

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He said, "Oh, yes. After things settle down, let's make arrangements for that, too.

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After all, Arkana is an amazing woman (person).

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In a room late at night, I faced Mitra.

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They had decided to become husband and wife, and what they were going to do after that was already decided.

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Mitra was trembling a little.

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I guess that's what happens when you don't have a history of marriage.

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But actually...

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Mitra's trembling came from a completely different concern.

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Before we get physical. I have to tell you something about my husband-to-be, Albus-sama."

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Saying this, Mitra moved to the back of the room.

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Then, with a faint rustling sound, Mitra pulled off her blindfold.

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With a rustle, a thick piece of cloth fell to the ground.

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The part of Mitra that had been hidden was revealed.

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I had heard that she had lost her sight in an accident when she was a child...

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Her two closed eyelids show no scars to suggest that.

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She had a beautiful face.

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If that were the case, there would be no need to go to the trouble of covering the scars with a cloth...

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No. This is not to cover the scars. No, this is not to cover the scars.

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If it's not to cover the scar, then what is it?

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"It's..."

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After saying that, Mitra is standing there.

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Her breathing had become raspy and her little tremors were getting worse.

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The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you are looking for.

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Something was obviously wrong.

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He was clearly in a strange state. If you're in pain..."

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I said, and Mitra desperately controlled her breathing with her hands.

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After she regained some composure, she withdrew her hand covering her face.

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After regaining some composure, Mitra withdrew the hand covering her face and turned to me again.

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That cloth. That cloth... is to hide this.

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And then...

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Mitra's eyes...

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They were opened.

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"What...?"

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There were jade green eyes.

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Like the elves Amaranthia and Thinley, they were deep jade green eyes.

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The elves...were elves?

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Probably a half-elf.

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'Yes. Clarice is the only one who knows about this.

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The mother of Mitra and Clarice, a slave of a noble family, was an elf.

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And despite being bought as slaves.

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She was favored by her master, Kilt Warren, who treated her as his wife and lived in this detached house.

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As a half-elf, half-human and half-elf, Mitra had the characteristics of an elf in some parts of her body.

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She had been blinded in an accident when she was a child.

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'My mother and father told me to keep it that way in front of servants and strangers. If they saw these eyes. Everyone would treat me as an elf-slave..."

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With that said.

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Mitra closed her eyes and began to tremble again.

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Mitra and Clarice's mother.

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It seems that she was treated very badly by the servants in the absence of her common-law husband, Kilt Warren.

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Mitra's father and mother decided to keep the matter of Mitra's eyes a secret so that she would not be treated in such a way. They decided to keep Mitra's eyes a secret.

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The few servants who happened to know about it were "dealt with" in various ways by the power of the great nobility.

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But, Albus-sama doesn't treat me (me) as a slave?"

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The voice sounded as if it was being squeezed out of me.

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I was originally against the system of elven slavery.

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I will not treat Mitra as a slave.

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When I answered firmly, Mitra's trembling gradually stopped.

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Mitra smiled at me, narrowing her tear-stained jade-green eyes.

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'Master Albus treated the elf Sinry as an equal human being. And the other day, he treated me, the owner of this mansion but in an overwhelmingly weak position, as a human being.

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That's... natural, isn't it?

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"That's why. The most important thing to remember is that the best way to get the most out of your own home is to be sure that your home is not a place where you can't be bothered to show your family members.

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Mitra was conflicted about showing them to me.

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She was so distraught that she was hyperventilating.

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Then, Mitra turned to me again.

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She stared at me.

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Ah...Albus-sama. You have such a face.

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Was it different from what you imagined?"

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Yes. Yes, your face is much more dignified than I imagined.

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Mitra smiles again saying so.

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And then...

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Albus-sama..."

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He was so moved that he came close to her and hugged her.

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I responded and hugged her.

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Mitra also put strength into her hands.

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I'm sorry, but this is all I (Mitra) can do.

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I'm not sure what happens after this..."

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"......"

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Without thinking, I pushed her straight down onto the bed.

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I lay my hands on Mitra's fingers, which are as delicate as craftsmanship, and touch each one of them.

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As I move, Mitra stares at me with her jade green eyes and twirls her fingers back at me.

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My heart began to race.

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And then...

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I kissed Mitra, who had quietly closed her eyes.

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Albus-sama..."

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I put my hands on Mitra's clothes and remove them one by one, feeling my body heat up little by little.

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I was struggling to control myself so that I would not become wild.

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I was trying my best not to be rough with myself.

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I (Mitra), who has made up my mind (to do this), am not as delicate as Master Albus thinks I am. Please do as you wish, Master."

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Under my body, a half-naked Mitra said such a thing...

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My reason was completely blown away.

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