Katerina Hafen looked at the map pasted on the wall of the slightly darkened room and let out a shallow breath.

　The map, which looked like layers of ovals, was a map of the royal capital of King Karluk. The map had a number of red lines drawn on it, and there were points surrounded by circles in places.

'Are you curious about the next location?'

　She heard a man's voice and turned her face to the side and saw a face that Katerina knew was diagonally behind her.

　Looking at the man's face, Katerina turned to the map again. Letting out a sigh at Katerina, who didn't reply or do anything, the man also looked at the map.

''........Already, the power of the Koshmar Chamber of Commerce has been reduced. All that's left is to bleed those who have been asked by the Koshmar Chamber of Commerce to procure slaves. Then the kingdom will shift its attention from the Koshmar Chamber of Commerce, which is unable to gather slaves, to the Reginion Chamber of Commerce. Once we get the priority of slave trading from the king, we should be able to do whatever we want with the rest.

　Listening to the man's explanation, Katerina opens her mouth quietly as she stares blankly at the map.



　The man was silent for a few seconds as Katerina muttered this, and then he eventually opened his mouth.

''If the Reginion Chamber of Commerce goes down a different path than our ideals, we'll just give them the same bloodbath.

　Hearing such an answer, Katerina exhaled deeply in silence.

　The man who took one look at Katerina's profile left the scene, scratching his own head in frustration.

　In the empty room, Katerina mutters quietly and quietly.

''A ... vain battle.''





　The man who conversed with Katerina gave his name as Gray. Gray has experienced relentless torture from the nobles to whom he was sold, and he resents the nobles and the merchants who trade in slaves for a living.

　At the same time, he has a tender heart for the slaves he will sell.

　It was the other fugitive slaves who hid Gray, who had escaped after killing the nobleman who had become his master, and who had escaped. One of them introduced him to Zig, the head store manager of the Reginion Trading Company, as a merchant who would help them in their activities.

　Until then, the Greys, who had been secretly raiding the nobles little by little, were given a clear target by Zig, and they gained weapons, clothing and food.

　Zig only wanted to take away the power of his rival, the Koshmar Trading Company, but not to the Greys. It seemed to them that Zig was a good merchant who wanted to change the current slave trade.

　It was partly because of Zieg's verbal prodding, but Gray and the others were completely convinced that the Koshmar Chamber of Commerce was the culprit behind everything, and that it was the aristocrats who were next in line to buy and murder slaves.

　So they believed that once the Koshmar Chamber of Commerce was gone, if the Reginion Chamber of Commerce got priority in the slave trade, that would make a big difference.

　However, Katerina's words would leave a thorn in Gray's side.

　Gray thought about many things for the next few days, but in the end, his own serious nature came to the surface.

''Let's........see Zig once and hear what he has to say.

　Gray muttered and took his companions to Zigu.




　A resistance that is more short-sighted than Grey and the others, but has only enthusiasm. That is the resistance with Licht.

　Although the territory is different from Grey's group, whose main battleground is the nobleman's town of the royal capital, Richt and his team also had more people.

　However, this one is simply a group of fugitive slaves and families who ran away in the night on the verge of falling into slavery due to debt. Therefore, they had no intention of fighting properly.

　There are those who cannot forgive the aristocrats who buy them and do their best to take revenge, but the majority of them are living in fear and hiding in the corners of the city.

　Even to such lichts, an entity appeared to set a goal for them.

　It is Taiki, the King of the Sky Country.

　A royal family from another country that treats them as human beings. This was a great hope for the Lichts.

　Therefore, when Taiki returned from an audience with the king of the Karruk Kingdom, they were astonished by his words.

''Come on, let's all work together and open up the right slave shop outside the city.

What's this all about?

I thought you were going to negotiate for a change in the treatment of slaves...?

　Taiki looked at everyone in confusion and shook his head from side to side.

''It was going to take a very long time to get the law changed, so we will establish an exemplary slave trade here. If we succeed in doing that, then the Karruk Kingdom will look at it differently.

　Such a line from Taiki caused everyone to be extremely confused.

''What kind of an exemplary slave trade is this...''

'We will not buy or sell illegal slaves. Those who buy slaves are subject to the preconditions of food, clothing, shelter, and not abusing them. That's about the first thing.

　The murmurs grew louder as Taiki complained that if it was true, he should be treated better.

　In the midst of this, Licht, who was the first to make up his mind, nodded vigorously.

''Taiki-sama will do it. There's no way it's a mistake!

　He shouted, and Richt looked back at everyone.

'Hey, guys! Isn't that right!

　At Licht's cheerful voice asking for sympathy, the air in the place gradually relaxed.

　Seeing that, Taiki patted his chest in relief.

''Alright. Next time we have to go to Letitia-san's place.''