Chapter 284: The Past of the Criminal Slaves, and Subordination by Fear (2)

Even so why did that master of Nadja die? Illness, maybe? Then succeeding to a child or someone, maybe? Well not that important. Probing too much and digging up Nadja’s painful memories was cruel too. Here let us hear the talk lightly. "So knowing there were many girls having the same thoughts as me I gathered companions."

"I see. But I thought Nadja was human."

Because not caught even by Gejia’s nose, at least I thought a race living in the human world. "Ah, if known I was oni race I would be feared. The only one who knows among those is Roza."

Whether she had such experience in the past, Nadja talked distorting her face painfully. "Did Elmegaldo know?"

When Nadja said she was an oni race half child Elmegaldo did not seem particularly surprised, so I thought she knew. "I do not know that sort of thing. But a useless large woman being a lowly demon race is not unexpected or anything."

Elmegaldo laughed funfun with her nose. "Gejia."

I had a bad premonition and on the spur of the moment called Gejia’s name. "...Understood. Sorry, Master."

That hit the mark apparently, Gejia who had an angry expression softened the expression somewhat and responded to me. "There is a demon race among us too. Please refrain from that way of saying."

Toward Elmegaldo who spat words belittling my own Dules I had places enduring too. I made a somewhat scary face and admonished Elmegaldo. "Ugh... w-understood. I will try..."

The last word was a voice volume about to disappear, but by saying herself let us lower the drinking. "Then next is Elmegaldo."

"Me? Right, hear and be surprised. I am the daughter of the chancellor of the great country Cardilia Kingdom, Burgundy Duke Philibert von Kunzendorf."

Elmegaldo whether throwing her head back, her head lowered somewhat backward and faced diagonally up. But the cloth loosely wrapped on the body hid Elmegaldo’s posture, and almost unknown. "The Cardilia Kingdom should have perished."

Giacomo and them should have received a counter from the Demon Lord army trying to take back and fled. "N-not yet. Father and them will surely take back! Such an ugly ma... ahem, those people I will not lose to!"

The words Elmegaldo said gripping a fist were close to a wish. Holding where she was about to slip a word midway I wanted to praise. But...

"Have you heard the chancellor’s talk?"

When I beckoned Muriel and whispered she answered shaking her head sideways. If Muriel who was detailed in such things did not know... if there was an opportunity once ask Giacomo, maybe. "So captured by the enemy and sold?"

"Yes. Forcibly made a Ze-Dule, taken around naked... even terrible things..."

Whether recalling, Elmegaldo while talking bowed her head, shook her shoulders, and the words began to break. "Absolutely... absolutely I will not forgive..."

Elmegaldo who raised her face gu streamed large tears, and muttered like a curse while glaring at something. Elmegaldo had hardships too, probably. No, that might be present progressive. "Understood. I have no more, but does anyone have something they want to ask?"

From now we would live together. Of course asking even things they did not want to say I thought how, but better to know each other’s things to some degree. Thinking that I asked...

"May I?"

First the one who raised a hand was Muriel. Because she was substantially summarizing my Dules, entering this side there were probably various things she wanted to ask. "Ah, fine."

"Thank you. Then... from the earlier judge’s words the two will be treated as To-Dules from now. This is before becoming Master’s Dule, and after becoming too. Is it fine to think you understand that sufficiently?"

After thanking me who gave permission Muriel asked while looking at Nadja and Elmegaldo with sharp eyes. "A-ah. I am prepared."

"So I will not become a Dule!"

Nadja nodded vertically with a solemn expression, but Elmegaldo refused becoming a Dule and turned sideways pui. "...But if you do not become Master’s Dule you will be executed. Is that fine even so?"

Muriel was patiently persuading Elmegaldo while twitching her temples. I thought, but...

"No, I do not care about you. More than that Master will receive punishment. If so not a single one of us will forgive you."

Thinking I heard a buchi sound, Muriel approached Elmegaldo with a terrible expression. No, not visible from my side, but from the voice color such a face floated. "Hii!"

Whether having such a face brought close, Elmegaldo who raised a short scream looked around as if seeking help. But none of my Dules tried to help, conversely they were releasing freezing cold air. Elmegaldo looked at Nadja who seemed the only one who could become an ally with clinging eyes, but the Nadja in question was streaming cold sweat from her face and shaking gatagata. As if saying if moving she would be eaten, not moving a bit. "Fa, fakari mashita..."

Whether giving up, Elmegaldo who made her face blue as if seeing a ghost nodded many times kokkoku like a broken doll. Speaking of which people pressed by Muriel mostly trembled in fear, but the words themselves were polite. Well she was releasing quite killing intent and cold air, but still not to Gejia’s degree. Then was Muriel’s face scary? I had never seen such a face of Muriel. What kind of face was she making? "Then I will return to the main subject."

While I was escaping reality Muriel returned to the original place and began talking the continuation to the two. "From now we will treat you two as To-Dules. Tiria, Rina, Yanica, Lily, come."

""Yes, Lady Muriel.""

"Understood."

"Un."

The four To-Dules called by Muriel each answered and gathered in front of Muriel. Then all four faced Nadja and Elmegaldo’s direction. "Among Master’s Dules there are four To-Dules. These girls, but you too will spend with only a collar like these girls."

"S-such!!"

Muriel explained not things she wanted to ask Nadja and Elmegaldo but about the future, but the one who raised a scream when talking that far was of course Elmegaldo. "Is there some problem?"

"Hi, a-there is not!"

Looking at the smiling Muriel Elmegaldo nodded while frightened. "Then first take off that cloth. Then have Master look at your bodies. Talk after that."

Muriel who had the four step back scolded the two in a strong tone. "Ah, right. That is so."

Nadja stood su, and dropped the cloth she was wearing on the floor.