Chapter 107 – Chapter 02: The Gold Half Is a Warrior, the Other Half Is XXX
And Yeonhwa is looking at Eugene cutely as he struggles and tries to persuade her even while holding Genos’s neck.
“… .”
Despite the conversation between the two, Genos’s eyes were completely dead and he did not respond to any external stimulation and just hung limply with his neck in Yeonhwa’s hands.
“Well, I agree that a woman with Moon Gok-seong’s constitution is a talent worth keeping alive, as this is the first time I’ve seen her in my life.”
“Really?!”
“But that alone is not enough to convince her real wife. Now, come up with some more reasons why you should keep this woman alive.”
As Yeonhwa shook Genos’s body while holding his neck while saying that, Eugene hurriedly brought up a second reason.
“The reason I took out this former warrior before he was put up for auction was because if the auction went ahead, the diplomatic relations between the countries, which were already creaking, would be completely shattered.”
“The reason is?”
“As I said, the hero’s talent is very outstanding. Even if she commits a crime and becomes a permanent slave, as long as she can become the master, she can be used as much as she wants, right?”
Therefore, with the exception of empires that enslaved warriors and then auctioned them off, each country had no choice but to participate in the auction in order to somehow turn former warriors into their own power.
In the case of the empire, they had a keen sense of diplomatic relations, so they had no choice but to put the warriors up for auction and then withdraw in exchange for only the price of slaves.
“As a result of the participation of key figures from each country in the auction, diplomatic relations are once again strained.”
When a treasure is put up for auction, if you are unable to obtain it, it is inevitable that your feelings towards the person who obtained it will worsen.
And in this case the treasure was none other than a former warrior now enslaved.
“In such a situation, even Crescent and the Demon King’s army play tricks on the auction, and in the process, heroes die and all countries on the Orbital Continent, including the Empire, become distrustful of each other.”
As a result, the ending ends with humanity self-destructing without Eugene having time to do anything. Therefore, in order to avoid that ending in the first place, Eugene took out Genos, a former warrior who was to be put up for auction.
“… Hmm, I understand. “She said it was necessary for her and the future of her business.”
“That’s it!”
“But since he blocked the auction, there’s no reason for him to keep the girl alive, right?”
“Yeonhoe…”
Yeonhwa says that since the collapse of diplomatic relations between the countries on the Orbital Continent was avoided by blocking the auction, there is no reason to keep former warriors as slaves.
At those words, Eugene couldn’t come up with the basis for her denial, so he had no choice but to call her to ask her to be kind.
“No, how did you bring this woman here in such a short period of time in the first place? From the looks of it, it looks like he was officially purchased as a slave?”
The talent of the former warrior was Moon Gok-seong. Of course, those on the Orbital Continent would not know that fact, but they would at least be aware of the fact that the hero’s talent was beyond compare.
That’s probably why his eyes were bloodshot and he was trying to secure it somehow.
So how on earth did Eugene get rid of the hero that large countries were targeting? Eugene sighed and explained the question.
“… “A former warrior was taken over from the empire as a slave, and I am the majority shareholder of a company that specializes in slaves.”
“Hoo? “How do you mean that?”
No matter how much Eugene had knowledge of the future, it was incomprehensible how he could have acquired shares of a slave trading company that was already a huge corporation in such a short period of time. When Yeonhwa asked, Eugene continued.
“Even if it were a company that specialized in dealing with slaves, it wasn’t that big. “In the first place, even if slavery exists on the Orbital Continent in the present era, it is completely run by a sunny industry.”
In short, on the Orbital Continent, a slave was a criminal. The Orbital Continent, where the magic civilization has developed and morality has developed along with it, just like on Earth.
Therefore, unlike in the past, the current status of slavery is a punishment given to those who have committed a crime, and enslaving those who have not committed a crime is an illegal act that has nothing to do with the death penalty.
… And as a result, even if slavery was maintained, its scale had to be greatly reduced.
Fortunately, because slavery itself was not abolished, it was able to be reduced to this scale because there was little opposition from noble nobles and the upper class who had enough capital to purchase slaves.
“In other words, even if it is the largest company that specializes in buying and selling slaves, it is at best a small business that can barely list its stock.”
Even if the target is a company that has been doing business with the imperial family for a long time.
It may have been in the past, but the current slave market has been reduced in size to such an extent that it cannot be helped.
And at that level, it was not difficult for Eugene to purchase stocks at the level of a major shareholder.
“I didn’t originally buy the stock with the intention of using it in this way…”
There was a period in the future when the stock price of this company specializing in slave trading soared.
And Eugene had been holding on to stocks in advance with the intention of selling them at that time to make a profit.
However, as a result of the main character pooping and digging around unexpectedly, he had no choice but to use the stocks he had left in tears.
“Hmm? “Did you sell stocks?”
“… To be precise, I should say that it was transferred to the merchant who runs the company.”
It was a former warrior who represented the auction after engraving a ‘platinum grade’ slave engraving, of which there were only three in the empire.
Therefore, no matter how much you pay, it is very difficult to steal away a warrior whose price would be equivalent to the national budget if put up for auction.
In order to do so, it was necessary to offer a large amount of money, literally equivalent to the national budget, and even more than the highest level expected to be obtained through auction.
“… “It would be unreasonable to squander all of my assets, 12 billion won, that can be used right now.”
The amount was almost equivalent to the annual budget of a large city, but to put it another way, it was only that much.
Compared to the amount the country could raise on a national basis, there was bound to be some shortfall.
“Are you saying that they replaced it with stocks of the company that the commerce and industry owned?”
“If I were to vote against the auction of the former warrior whom the imperial family asked me to represent as a major shareholder, it would be a headache for that company.”
So, the story is that they recovered their company stock from Eugene and sold ownership of the former warrior, Genos, to Eugene for a large sum of 12 billion won.
“Is that okay? “Didn’t you represent the auction of slaves that had been engraved with a platinum-grade slave stamp in the empire?”
Because the empire had to watch out for other countries, they could not participate in the auction and retrieve the warriors, but they would still have been able to recover the amount for selling the warriors as slaves.
And with that amount of money, the empire’s intention was to somehow make up for the loss of having to sell the warrior they were protecting as a slave.
However, Yeonhwa thought that the imperial family would be angry because Eugene intervened and destroyed that target from the front.
“I plan to protect her even if she becomes a traitor to the empire, but if that happens, won’t it be difficult for her to fulfill her karma of salvation?”
“That’s no problem. “In the first place, 12 billion is a small amount compared to the national budget, but it is not a small amount compared to the price of purchasing one slave, right?”
The company that represented the former warrior’s auction also believed that the final selling price of the former warrior was between 20 billion and 30 billion won.
No matter how much money the state raised, there were bound to be limits.
Even in Orbital World, where prices are rising as the magic civilization develops, 10 billion is, as I said, the annual budget of a large city.
Even for an empire, it would have been difficult to immediately mobilize such a large amount of money to buy just one slave.
Even if an empire has a budget in the trillions, would it be easy to immediately borrow tens of billions of dollars when the budget itself has already been determined where it will be spent?
“In that sense, if you deliver the entire 12 billion to the empire at the former warrior’s sale price, it will at least be worth the price of engraving a platinum-grade slave.”
Of course, it would have been unfortunate for the Empire, which was expecting tens of billions of dollars, but the Empire had transferred full authority over the sale of former warriors to a specialized slave trading company.
“You mean the imperial family?”
“To be exact, that company had an annual contract with the imperial family.”
And Hero, who was sold as a slave this time, was also transferred as a slave by the imperial family to the company based on the contract that had already been signed.
“Of course, considering the former hero’s talent, the company was planning to open an auction house exclusively for former heroes, as they said…”
Before that, it was said that Eugene had stolen Genos, a former warrior from Nalreum, based on the contract.
From the company’s point of view, they could not say anything since they were the majority shareholders, and from the imperial family’s point of view, it was difficult to criticize the company because the work was done according to the contract.
“Of course, the company will be branded by the imperial family, but it’s none of my business since I’ve already transferred all the stocks, right? “I’ll figure it out.”
In the first place, the company would have had no choice since Eugene, the majority shareholder, had decided to tackle the warrior’s auction.
“… In other words, this woman is a slave purchased by the government with all its assets?”
“It’s a whopping 12 billion.”
“Speaking like that makes me want to kill you even more.”
“Why not?!”
It was Genos, a former warrior, who bought a whopping 12 billion worth of all the assets he could immediately use.
Thanks to this, the establishment of the intelligence organization he was planning to organize was pushed back a long time, and Eugene couldn’t help but be horrified when Yeon-hwa tried to kill the former warrior who was supposed to be working on his behalf.
“Well, do you think that the fact that her boss spent money on a woman other than her main wife is enough to make her jealous?”
“Now that I think about it, I see… !”
“Even 12 billion… , She, the main lady, went all the way to self-sufficient dungeons to make a living for the merchant, but her merchant lost 12 billion won to this kind of woman, so she thinks the main lady is justified in being angry.”
“I can’t deny it… ! Damn it!”
If it stayed like this, she would rather be persuaded by Yeonhwa’s words, so Eugene held her head and looked up at her sky and lamented.
If Genos thought of the talent she possessed, he should have kept her alive and grown for the sake of Yeonhwa and her future.
If even Genos dies in a situation where the main character is left behind in vain, then no matter how Eugene is, he has no confidence in preventing the destruction of the world after taking the ending route that twists the normal route.
However, there was no way to persuade Yeonhwa, so when Eugene was screaming, Yeonhwa sighed and loosened her grip on Genos’ neck.
“… Well, I understand why the commercial government is trying to save this woman at all costs.”
“Yeonmae?”
“Originally, no matter what reason Gong Sang gave, I didn’t like the idea of a woman like this staying by Gong Sang’s side, so I tried to kill her…”
As she continued her words, she spoke while looking at Genos, who did not even move, with a gloomy gaze.
“… “Looking at this girl’s condition, I don’t think there’s anything to worry about.”
As such, Genos did not show any reaction while the platinum slave engraving was engraved on him and he was transferred from the imperial family to a company that specialized in buying and selling slaves and became Eugene’s property.
It was the same until the ownership of the company was transferred to Eugene and he joined Yeonhwa, and it was no different at this moment when he could die.
In that respect, Yeonhwa understood Genos’ current condition and changed her mind.
