Chapter 256: A Slave’s Equipment, and Inside the Arena (1)

"Sara, how strong is Regina?"

"Let me see, at least with me at that time I was no match. At that time in Capeva, among the female gladiators she was the strongest."

"Capeva?"

"A city of the Ventia Kingdom. There is a gladiator school too, and it produces good gladiator slaves."

I asked Sara, but Freit answered.

A notable of this city of slaves and an excellent merchant, so he probably knew that sort of city well.

But. Hmm, I did not know what scale that Capeva was, so I could not say, but at least with Sara at that time she could not win.

"Can you win now?"

"I do not know... I myself think I have grown strong, but I think Regina has grown strong too..."

Well, right.

"Hmm, for now have Sara fight, and for the worst case I will fight too."

This was what I had talked with Freit in the carriage.

I looked at Freit, and he nodded while smiling.

He seemed to be enjoying something.

"Master, is it?"

But the one who raised a dissatisfied voice was Muriel.

"Yeah, that is so, but you look dissatisfied."

"Not dissatisfied, I am worried. If Master is injured..."

"Have Rosina or Sheena heal. And Birga is there, Tiria is there. No problem."

It was not actual combat, so it would not go to killing each other.

And with that I could not stand on the battlefield.

"That is so, but... but!"

"Well, it is only for the worst case. For form I will wear armor too. Ah, are there weapons over there?"

I ended the talk with Muriel one-sidedly and turned the talk to Freit.

"There are, but is a familiar thing not better? Well, I am not that knowledgeable about that sort."

Freit said that and shrugged.

"Then will it be with real swords?"

"Of course. In the arena only real swords are set too. If not, it is not interesting, is it?"

Freit shrugged at my words again and drank a mouthful of the tea Lotte had brewed.

Right. The arena was a place for entertainment more than training, so to excite the customers they had them fight with real swords.

But Dules fighting each other, even if they died they could be revived.

I looked at Muriel, and she wore a bitter expression.

"Anyway, I will take a weapon too. Destroyer is too dangerous, so... take two bastard swords. Then for us training in the arena take several weapons without blades too."

I looked at everyone, and they wore faces of resignation the same as Muriel.

Only Freit was smiling.

Different from when talking with Ivano, what change of heart was it?

"Right, right. Lotte, come with Laura. We will go watch too."

"Understood, Master."

Lotte lowered her head a little.

The metal lumps attached to her nipples swayed, and Lotte distorted her face a little.

"Even so, that looks painful."

Lotte’s nipples faced down from the weight of the metal lumps, and the breasts drooped and distorted a little.

I pointed at that and asked Freit...

"Lotte, does it hurt?"

"Yes, it hurts."

Freit made my question to Lotte as it was.

Lotte answered plainly without grimacing her face this time.

If not moving she could endure, but when it swayed it hurt.

"So she says. Well, punishment for having Lord Hiroyuki carry the luggage."

Ah, come to think of it there had been that too.

Had she reported dutifully, or spite at me.

"I am sorry."

Lotte bowed her head toward me.

Of course the metal lumps pulled the nipples and breasts without mercy.

Maybe from that pain, Lotte gritted her teeth in the middle of apologizing.

Her face faced down and could not be seen, but she was probably distorting her face from the pain.

When raising her head she grimaced too.

"No, it was something I did on my own, so fine separately."

I did not know how Lotte had told Freit, so I defended Lotte that way.

"Hahaha, I have heard that area from Lotte too. Well, Lotte insisted, so I am doing it. And... Lotte, open your legs and roll up the waist skirt."

"...Yes."

Lotte, ordered by Freit, stood and opened her legs a little wider than shoulder width, and with an expression shy for the usually expressionless Lotte, pinched the one waist skirt of about below-knee length she wore and lifted it.

Knees appeared, and above that the cloth wound to about the middle of the thighs appeared.

Further white thighs were exposed, and the hairless slit was exposed.

That honey pot overflowed with love juice, several lines flowed on the thighs, and the cloth wound on the lower part of the thighs was wet enough for the color to change.

Both legs having cloth wound on the thighs was probably to prevent the juice from flowing to below the knees and being seen from outside.

"It is not becoming punishment, though."

Freit smiled wryly, and when he said enough Lotte lowered the skirt at once.

Her face had returned to the usual expressionless, but her face was still red.

Well, if she was enjoying it, fine.

But I felt a strong gaze and turned my eyes, and Rine glared as if I was at fault.

Disliked by Rine again.

...

The arena was located on the north side of the Central District, and from Freit’s mansion near the center it took about fifteen minutes on foot.

The same as this morning, Freit, I, and Freit’s three guards rode Freit’s box carriage, and one of the guards sat in the outside driver’s seat and walked the carriage.

My and Freit’s Dules, including the eight To-Dules and Te-Dules whose leashes were tied to the back of the carriage, all walked outside the carriage.

Right, all.

Including Lotte and Laura, a total of nineteen Dules followed from the rear of the carriage.

I, sitting facing forward in the box carriage, turned and looked outside from the rear window.

The Te-Dules Ilma, Helma, Yuki, the To-Dules Tiria, Rina, Yanica, Lily, and Freit’s To-Dule Laura, connected by leashes to the carriage, walked silently, and from behind them Cathy followed silently looking bored, glancing behind enviously at times.

Further behind the A-Dules walked chatting.

Sophia, Rosina, and Lotte chatted.

They seemed to be talking about the weights attached to Lotte’s nipples, and Sophia and Rosina touched those weights timidly.

Birga, Gejia, and Ito talked too.

They seemed to be teaching Ito words, and Birga and Gejia talked while moving their hands like sign language.

Lilli, for some reason, ran around the carriage with Rine who had come along.

At times Lilli showed acrobatics, and Rine imitated it.

Rine, maybe because she had been a circus member originally, handled it quite nimbly.

Muriel... spoke to Sara.

Muriel talked one-sidedly, and Sara nodded silently with a serious expression.

What were they talking about?

This line like a circus attracting customers, the people who passed all stopped and looked curiously.

"Sorry. A little many."

"No, I do not mind. I want to see the skill of Lord Hiroyuki, who was a sword instructor in the Torrestia Kingdom."

When I apologized to Freit feeling sorry for us standing out, Freit answered that still smiling.