Chapter 96

[Yes, I’ve also received the same information . ]

[Probably . ]

[It might become complicated though if we were to negotiate with her using gold . ]

She’s not the type who looks like their eyes would glow after seeing money .

[However, there’s an information I got that kind of worries me . ]

Seras came a bit closer to me .

Lowering her voice, she whispered .

[Apparently, she seems to have had enough money to buy her freedom back two years ago . ]

[Hmm? Then, for the remaining two years, is it that she had been earning money to spend after she had became free?]

Well, it must have been that .

And now, she must have been able to save quite a lot .

[I’ve also thought that was the case, but it seems that it’s different . ]

[What do you mean?]

[It seems that she’s trying to buy back the freedom of another person . ]

[So, she has been trying to earn extra money for these two years for that?]

Fumu…

[Whose freedom she’s trying to buy or the whereabouts of this person— as expected, you wouldn’t know huh?]

[No . ]

Seras held out a piece of paper .

[This is…]

I received the paper and checked the contents .

There was a name written on it, along with some brief information about her .

[A child?]

[This child had been sold here in Monroy by the slave trader at the same time as Eve . ]

[Is she Eve’s daughter?]

[No, she’s not a were-leopard . ]

[Funnn…]

It seems that there are some surprisingly complicated circumstances .

[Either way, I don’t think there’s any chance that we could solve this with gold . ]

I remember that time when I talked with Eve about the Witch of Taboos .

That impression I had about her .

I had the impression that she’s stubborn and stiff when it comes to her decisions .

It’s possible that she’s feeling gratitude towards the Witch of Taboos .

To make someone like her talk, it may be necessary for her to have more gratitude towards me .

I started pondering about it .

[Now then, I wonder what bargaining chip we could use…]

I want some kind of clue .

She has already earned enough money to buy back the freedom of the young girl Seras had mentioned before .

………………… .

Should we just drop asking the information from Eve and just directly enter the Demon Zone?

Or we could—-

—hire Eve as my guard immediately after she buys back her freedom…

[Also, I have one more thing that I want you to hear . ]

[………… . . ]

How much information does Seras have?

The amount of information I collected can’t even be compared to hers .

[Can I ask you one thing before that? How did you get these information…?]

Hesitating for a moment, Seras replied .

[I went towards an information broker . ]

[Information broker?]

[They weren’t found in Mills, but in large cities like Monroy, you could find information brokers that handles information that usually weren’t opened to the public . ]

So, that’s why she went to another district huh…

They may also know a place where you could sell the Azure Dragon Stone…

I can’t make light of such a place .

Speaking of which, she was the leader of a company of knights .

Did she usually get information that weren’t opened to the public by going to the information broker?

[I learned from the princess about the “dark room” . I heard that there were times where conspiracies were rampant inside the royal court . It seems that the princess managed to protect herself by skillfully using those people who were from the underworld . ]