Chapter 25 – Welcome to Slave Park! (2)
A space like a theater in a huge art center.
Seats in the form of stairs are spread all the way down, and people in black suits and white dresses can be seen sitting on the seats with soft amber lighting.
All of them were wearing rabbit-shaped masks, and they were looking toward the central podium with a smile on their lips exposed under the mask.
Cheolreuk—!
The curtain goes through, revealing a procession of bunny girls holding trumpets and bouquets.
“Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the underground auction house of our Neverland amusement park!”
In the center, a clown dressed in a black fedora shouts while holding a cane.
Wheeeee– wheeeee—
Boo—
At the same time, the sounds of whistles and toy bugles are heard all around.
The bunny girls standing right next to the clown would blow trumpets and whistle with their fingers.
“Whoops.”
“Lol!”
Bunny girls wearing black leotards that reveal their bodies, fishnet pantyhose and high heels.
Like their name, Bunny, they had bunny ears symbolizing rabbits and white cotton-like tails on their hips.
At first glance, it looked like a simple decoration suitable for a bunny girl outfit.
Snap. Snap.
Flinch-!
If you look closely, you can see that its ears and tail are moving very minutely.
Since it is an underground auction house, did they equip the Bunny Girls with state-of-the-art equipment?
No.
Knock-knock-
They were really the ears and tails of bunny girls.
“A lot of rare items and artifacts are sold at this auction house… Also! We also have a variety of ‘prisoner slaves’ that our Neverland auction house boasts are also fully prepared!”
Slave slave.
The gentleman jester put the word into his mouth.
Beast person is a word that usually means an animal type human being.
Although it is expressed in numerous words such as werewolf, lycanthrope, cats, and furry.
Of course, they are virtual beings that do not exist in reality and only appear in creative media such as fantasy films and drama novels.
“I hope you get the number of slaves and items you want, this moderator! I’ll beg you earnestly! Haha!”
However, in this world.. ‘Boys, Become Heroes’, prisoners actually existed.
In this Neverland underground auction house, such prisoners were treated as a commodity as slaves.
“Then the auction–!! Let’s begin!”
Clap clap clap —-!!
Along with the shouts of clowns, thunderous applause echoes from the theater audience.
Clap clap clap—
“Yes..”
The loud applause raises the spirit that had been quietly sinking to the surface.
You feel the turmoil through your hearing, and realize that the air inside has changed through your sense of smell.
“It must have been awake because it was noisy.”
“..Dad?”
I slowly lifted my eyelids and spat out the words I was used to.
I felt the cushion of the soft sofa against my back and reflexively reached out my hand at the feel of the hard mask covering my eyes.
Turn-up
Hard, large fingers grabbed his hand.
“Be patient even if it’s a little uncomfortable. You can’t take off your mask here, dear.”
“…”
At the words of the voice, his father, Cheols, Hiro nodded and lowered his hand.
Instead, they move their pupils to capture the surrounding landscape.
Below, you can see the heads of people in luxurious costumes, and on the stage in the center, you can see a man dressed as a clown and a woman with strange bunny ears, often seen in amusement parks.
Click-click.. Click-click..
There, in the center of the podium, through the iron grate, I saw a large figure.
Clearly, brilliant lights are on and cheerful songs are playing, but the iron barred prison placed in the middle of the podium gives a strange feeling of displeasure rather than pleasure.
“Here… Where are you?”
Then, realizing that this place is not an amusement park, Hiro turns to Cheols and asks.
“The underground auction house of Neverland Amusement Park. It’s a place that sells slaves and sells stuff.”
Cheols told Hiro that this was a slave auction house without hiding anything.
“A slave…?”
Of course, Hiro knew what that word meant.
Hiro’s gaze moves from Cheols and back to the podium.
“Number 16! This product is a shark beast! When you think of a shark, do you think of fearsome teeth and predators of the sea? This product is also a slave for combat use!”
Match-!
Let the gentleman clown clap.
Beep.
A bunny girl nearby pressed the button on the remote control in her hand.
Jiying– clap–
The closed iron cage door opens.
“Big…”
There, a beastly man with the face of a shark and fins sprouting from his back and arms was moaning with his arms bound in thick metal restraints.
“Let it come forward.”
When the clown turned his head and gave a command in a quiet voice, the bunny girls nodded and approached the shark beast with whips.
“Please come out quietly!”
“Listen to me~ If you don’t, you’ll be scolded by these noonas?”
Even in front of a shark beast twice as tall as himself and with fang-like teeth, the bunny girls with whips kicked his legs with high heels and gave orders leisurely.
“Keuuuuu…”
He had already administered anesthetic to paralyze an elephant as well as restraints that suppress magical powers to the shark beastman.
So, no matter how delicate the woman is, she has no choice but to listen to it..
“Kuaaaaa!!”
Pachang–!!
“Kyaaaaagh!”
“Boo… Did you break it?!”
.. Surprisingly, the shark beast overcomes his anesthesia and releases the restraints on his hand!
“I’m not a slave!! I’m not a slave!!”
Thud-! Thud-!
Immediately, he jumps out of the cage and hits the bunny girls with both arms, trying to run onto the podium.
Whack- Then the tip of the gentleman jester’s wand points toward the shark beastman.
“Please display your products as they should.”
Pajijik–!!
Emits blue sparks.
“Kwaaaaagh–!!”
Dump–!
Shark Suin, who was hit directly by the thunderbolt, screamed and collapsed on the spot. Although it is normal for his skin to burn black when struck by a high current, the shark’s beastman seemed to have no major trauma except that his body was flinching as if a spasm had come to his body.
“Oops! There was a little commotion! Customers!”
The reason why the shark’s hand was relatively intact was because the gentleman clown, who had elemental powers, controlled the current.
“But look! The vitality of the product that breaks it and goes on a rampage even after kicking a metal that suppresses mana! If you have this level of physical ability, wouldn’t it be a very reliable bodyguard when you teach me combat skills? Let’s go! We’re going to auction number 16! If you’re interested, please write down the price and hold up the sign!”
Rather, the commotion is turned into an advertisement for a product, and when the gentleman clown shouts, signs with prices written on them are raised here and there to indicate the desired successful bid price.
“1 billion! 1.2 billion! Nothing more than 1.2 billion.. Oh! 3 billion! 3 billion!”
Indeed, billions of prices keep popping out of the clown’s mouth.
It was a price that was difficult for common people to mention easily, but the VIP audiences here were people who could afford to pay that much.
“Shark beast battle slave! The auction was sold for 4.5 billion won! The goods will be packaged well and delivered when it is over! Now, the next slave…!”
The prisoner slave auction continues.
‘It’s said that fantasy is mixed, but the background is modern, but the slave market… It’s a worldview that hasn’t been played, but it’s ridiculous.’
Prisoner slave auctions were not legal.
But it wasn’t even illegal.
It was criticized by human rights groups of each country as a violation of human rights, and there is also a strong perception that it is a socially uncivilized culture, but the slave trade was active in secret.
The reason this was possible was because of the setting that the amusement of those with money and power and the basic perception of prisoners that most of the people had were the worst.
During the Middle Ages, when the Demon King first appeared in this world, magic also came over and had a great influence on this world.
Monsters appeared and destroyed human civilization, but at the same time, the energy source called magic made humans stronger.
Some use magical powers to strengthen their bodies, while others use magical powers to manipulate the forces of nature.
Others displayed miraculous powers, such as foreseeing the future or stopping time.
However, magic did not necessarily have a good effect.
– He… He’s got a tail!
– What is that? Are you a bird or a person?
A side effect was that some of those affected by magic took the form of a beastman mixed with an animal and a human.
It was just that the unprecedented energy of magical power awakened the genes of other animals in the human body, but it seemed to be cursed to people in the past.
‘It has been said that since the Middle Ages, beastmen have been treated the same as monsters… Even though science has come in and it has been revealed that it is just a side effect of magical power, there is a deeply rooted perception everywhere.’
Until now, society has not yet established a legal system that excludes prisoners and protects prisoners, most of whom are from the lower classes.
“Number 19! This time, it’s the female wolf Su-in! Although her magical power adaptation is low, the trainers have perfectly mastered her sexual skills, so if you’re a male customer, you might want to take a look at it for a fun night!”
Even the prisoner slave auction was held in this way, so there would be no need to explain the level of conditions for the prisoners.
‘In the end, a villain called the cult leader, who received the power of the demon king, appears and leads a revolution leading the alienated magical misfits and the prisoners who were excluded from society… Is the main stream of episode 4.’
Cheols turned his gaze from the auction house and looked at Hiro.. To be exact, his eyes.
“…”
It’s like silence, but your eyes are agitated.
In the original work, Baek Shin-hyeok enters the slave auction with the heroine…
– Stop it right now! Don’t treat people like slaves!!
His eyes are turned upside down at the prisoner slave auction scene, and he smashes them all while shooting his sword.
Often, the cliché of the warrior’s visit to the slave market was included in the scene, perhaps because he wanted to show it in the original work as well.
‘The reason Baek Shin-hyeok in the original story was angry was because he saw himself in the past in a prisoner slave who was helplessly treated like an object.’
In the original work, Shin Hyuk was adopted as if he were entrusted to a male pervert, a collateral of the Baek family.
-Hehe .. It’s a pity he’s a man, but his face is pretty..
The purpose of the pervert pigman and Cheols were the same, but the methods were very different.
If Cheols is the style of nurturing Hiro, hoping that he will be embraced by himself, the purpose of Pervert Pig Man is to wield Baek Hyuk and crush his personality as he desires.
He was subjected to many terrible pervert acts and his character was destroyed as he was not even treated as a person.
Baek Hyuk’s trauma was so strong that there was a narration that if he had not awakened his magical powers in the middle, he would have been thrown away as a really breathing six-figure doll.
– I’m going to… I’ll kill them all. You.
Baek Sang-hyeok, thinking of Baekga’s pervert, whom he had already killed, seeing male audiences who were excited to see slaves and seeing him the same as slaves, destroyed everything.
“Hiro. What do you think?”
“Yeah..?”
“That scene. Seeing the people selling and living as slaves.”
“…It’s pitiful. I think there’s something strange about treating people like objects.”
Although the trauma is gone, the main character’s tendency remains. Baek Shin-hyeok shows off the temperament of the main character of Hogu to his heart’s content throughout the pre-play. When he sees injustice, he can’t stand it and helps the poor with ignorance and sexuality.
‘Behavior of good intentions is not bad, but bad habits should be caught in the first place.’
The first purpose of coming to this slave auction house was to prevent Hiro from becoming the ignorant protagonist type.
“Then how about helping?”
“Really? Ah..! Did you feel sorry for Dad too? If you can help, I’d love to help!”
Hiro’s eyes lit up and he clenched both of his fists and said…
“Yes. Instead, you have to use your own strength to help Hiro. I can’t get any help from this father.”
“With my… Power?”
“The swordsmanship you have learned. If you have the master swordsmanship, you can defeat a slave market host like that. Now, I brought a sword here too.”
I’m not kidding. Hiro is a beautiful girl on the outside, but she has learned the secret swordsmanship of the steel sword called the sword of the king, and his magic power is also beyond normal due to the elixir.
– Probably intermediate hunters can deal with up to 10 people.
There is no doubt about it because it is the words of the steel sword emperor Iron Infinity.
“I brought a weapon here too.”
Saying that, Cheols held out a sword in a scabbard to Hiro, which was propped up next to the couch he was sitting on.
“I want to help. I want to save a slave. If you really have these thoughts, pull out your sword right away.”
It won’t be easy.
Hiro is different from Baek Hyuk.
Although the initial starting point is the same, the environment for the past few years is different.
They have gone through less harsh things, are thoroughly educated and remodeled as females, and have weaker venom than Baek Hyuk.
‘Even so, Hiro, will you pull out your sword?’
Swoop.
Baek Ji-hyuk with his hand on the black scabbard… No, Hiro.
Seuleung-
‘As expected.’
Wriggle–!
Cheols grabbed the sword that was about to be pulled out again with his tentacles and retrieved it.
“Why..!?”
Although Hiro exclaimed, opening his eyes wide.
“Hiro… My daughter. Let’s say you saved them. Then what’s the difference?”
“Yes? If you ask! If you ask…?”
Excited Hiro’s words fade and his expression changes to a confused expression.
“They’re slaves. They have chips inside their bodies. Even if they try to escape, they’ll be caught right away by the chips. In exchange for escaping, the captured slaves will be subjected to more thorough torture and education.”
This is true. As a result of researching the structure of the slave market in advance, Cheols knew that all slaves were managed by a strict restraint system.
“Then…Then you can either buy it with money or take it to my house after getting it, right?”
“Yes. But what happens after that? It would take a lot of time and effort to protect and help those who were thoroughly brainwashed and educated as slaves and tools?”
“That’s…”
“Even the cost and the rental of the mansion are my power, not yours, Hiro, isn’t it?”
“…”
Hiro shut his mouth.
He only thought about asking, but when he thought about what happened later, he couldn’t see any answer.
Swoop.
“Hiro. Helping people is a very good thing. Also, if you, my daughter, want to help someone, this father can help as much as he wants.”
“Dad..”
“Just because you blindly help someone doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a good thing. Hiro, you wanted to help those slaves who were prisoners, so you drew your sword. But then, whenever you see something similar like this, do you intend to pull out your sword and help them? What’s your heart? Why don’t you go back and forth because it’s uncomfortable?”
“..No. I don’t think so.”
“Yes. I’m not saying that you should live selfishly thinking only of yourself. But moving your body just because you’ve seen injustice unconditionally is a very irresponsible act that doesn’t consider the responsibilities that follow.”
What Cheols wanted to teach Hiro was ‘responsibility’.
This is to avoid becoming the protagonist with a Hogu-like personality who blindly jumps in to help others.
“Come here, Hiro. I’m sorry Dad brought you to a place like this.”
“Eh.. No. Dad is here to tell you.”
Hiro sat on Cheols’ lap and shook his head as he buried his face in his arms.
As hard as it was to see the treatment of captive slaves, it was impossible for a young girl to take on the responsibility of rescuing them.
‘Maybe this will twist Hiro’s path to becoming a pure hero. But I can’t help it. The only way forward for the ignorant Hogu protagonist style is the thorny road.’
Cheols wanted Hiro to defeat the demon king as safely as possible.
Even if it follows a slightly selfish way.
“Number 44! Next is number 44! This is the white fox beast! A virgin who has already learned all kinds of sexual techniques by the trainer, but surprisingly, has never had sexual experience! The first experience of this beautiful fox beast is for you, the buyer! Number 44! Let the auction begin! !”
At that time, I hear the modifiers attached to a certain sex slave prisoner in a different order…
“…”
With her snow-white fox ears and her long tail drooping down, Su-in, looking at her anxiously, walks out from the side of her curtains.
‘I couldn’t find it even after looking for it… It’s as expected from here!’
The second reason for coming to this slave auction house, and of course, the 132nd slave market, appeared on stage.
