<~> Chapter 13I pulled it out and looked at Bel with an eyebrow raised. “Who would wear something like this?”

  After a gnce, “Ah that’s for sex sves. It’s illegal in most cities to walk around naked so he probably carries some of those around to dress anyoends to sell as a sex sve.” I look back down at Bitch, a weird mixed feeling in my gut. I had been saying over and over that I wao sell them into svery to get back at her but now that I was more in my right mind I felt flicted.

  I looked at Bel, “I’m not sure what to do. I detest svery and the freedom it takes from people.” I look down at the still sleeping poodle girl. “But after what she did to me… I want to really punish her, punish her for what she did to me and who knows what else she’s doo get so muegative karma.”

  There was silence for a bit before Bel answered, “It’s not unon to find svery barbaric but in this case… In this case by turning her into a sex sve you’ve probably given her as much mercy as possible short of just letting her go.”

  “I don’t uand, what do you mean?”

  “In most cities up and down the ti, rape is punishable by death. Rapists are said to be like monsters because they remind people of things like goblins, mohat rape people over and over to breed and increase their horde. In most pces if you definitively prove that they raped someohey’re immediately cut down like any other mohe only reason he would do something like that to you is because he thought he could get away with it.”

  She tinued, “Sedly, not only did you spare her but you turhem into someone who would no doubt be treated better than any other css of sve. Pleasure sves are almost always treated better than any other sves, so not only are you sparing her from death today, you’re sparihe death she would have probably had in a few months as the lowest css of bor sve. Rapists are rarely treated gently even on bonds, but as a pleasure sve she has a ce at finding a gentle master to serve, or at least ohat won’t work her to death. And the only price for her is the freedom she would have lost anyway and the ability to stop herself from being raped they way she did to you.”

  I looked at her with a frown, she was ving but it still didn’t sit perfectly right with me. At the same time my only alternative at this point would be to just kill her which was something I wasn’t ready for. I sighed. “Alright then. Do you know how any of this works? I don’t like, o be a member of a guild or something do I?”

  “I don’t think so but whery to sell her we’ll have to have someoh lie deteagic to prove that they actually raped you. It might be a hard story to expin sidering her new… situation.” She finished by gesturing to the sleeping dog girl.

  “Hmm… well, I’d prefer to get some new clothes before walking through town leadio the svers. Your old clothes don’t fit anymore and frankly aren’t very good quality in the first pce. My clothes are det but I’d at least like to get them actually tailored to my body.”

  “I’m sorry mistress but I don’t have any money… Would you be able to lehe moo get new clothes?”

  I flicked her on the forehead. “First off, don’t call me mistress we’ve beehat. Sed, don’t be silly I’m not going to make you borrow money from me, we’re partners now… maybe something more, I’m going to dress you up properly. I’m sure we’ll be able to figure out a way to make some more moer.”

  She was rubbing her head and smiling in that cute shy blushy smile she’s been doing tely. “If you say so Lilith. Are you sure it’s okay though? I don’t know how much money I make, I’m just a farmer….”

  “Didn’t you use healing magie st night? Between your healing magid my level 33 swordsmanship I’m sure we make some money adventuring.”

  “Oh yeah, I have healing magiow… Wait, level 33? His swordsmanship was that high level? What level are you?”

  “I’ve only really gained levels through sex so far so I’m only level 21 now.”

  ”Twenty-one!? How long have you been on this pne? I thought you only learned about [status] st night? How have you beehis long without knowing about it?”

  “Wait what? I only woke up here the night before st.”

  “You got twenty levels from having sex just st night? That’s insane! I’m 19 and I’m only level 8!”

  There regnant pause that hung in the air a little unfortably before I spoke again, “Well now that you’re a healer and I have a high swordsman skill maybe we go kill some monsters for some money. I’ve never fought a monster before but I think that maybe betweewo of us we might be able to manage.”

  “Actually… now that I’m looking I gaiwo levels st night too…” She had a look of flicted worry on her face. “Maybe we do it, I’ve never really fought a monster before either but if you’re level 21 and I am able to heal you, maybe we actually do it. How did you even mao make it in that forest in the first pce if you were running around at level 1?” She asked shaking her head.

  I decided not to answer sihe question seemed rhetorical. I stood up and started getting dressed again. I put on the dead nobleman’s clothes. They were still unfortable in a few pces but not too bad either. I looked over the pile of clothes that wouldn’t fit the little poodle girl anymore, it looks like the poodle previously had feet that more closely matched my own pared to the dead nobleman’s though.

  I cautiously lifted one of the high quality steel toed boots and found that it didn’t smell at all, the only thing I could smell was something akin to new leather. “Odd, his boots don’t smell at all. It’s like they’ve never been worn.”

  I spoke mostly to myself but Bel had an answer for me. “Oh he probably just used a simple trip to his boots every night. She lifted up a pair of socks that looked too big for her now, made a motion on them with her finger and spoke, “[]” and just like that a shimmer of magi across the fabrid the socks looked pletely grime free.

  “What the fubsp;this world is amazing.” I said stupefied at her.

  “I used magic to literally seal up the cuts in your asshole in mere moments and the thing you’re impressed by is a [] trip?”

  “Don’t get me wrong, healing magic is amazing on its own but it’s… expected. Magic that for you ges everything!”

  She looked at me still mystified. “How did you do it in your home pne? ing trips ’t be used on all of your clothes but how do you your mouth in the m?”

  “You… don’t o brush your teeth? You just use magic to your mouth?” Shit, I just realized, I haven’t seen ah rotteh. Maybe people had crooked teeth but I hadn’t noticed any that had stained or rotting ones.

  ”Brush… Your teeth? Why would you your teeth with a brush, that’s bizarre. Why didn’t you use magio one could figure out a simple trip?”

  “My realm doesn’t have any magic. At least not to the extent that anyone really knew about it. We had to use other means to deal with things.”

  “No magic? Do Succubi have some different source of power then? Wait, how do the demons of your world kill people if they don’t use magic?”

  “Demons aren’t real, or rather, just like magic there’s no way to prove that they exist anyway. Succubi in particur are story characters more than anything provable to actually exist.”

  “Hmm… I ’t really picture a world without magic. There are so many things that I just wouldn’t know how it would work otherwise.”

  “Well, I’m sure we’ll e across things as we go along. Just don’t be too surprised if I ask you questions that seem rather obvious to you. Now, before we move on though, how do you use this trip? anyone use it?”

  We finished getting dressed as best as we could with all of our ill fitting clothes. After, Bel spent the wenty minutes describing how to pull at the mana from your body and then described drawing or very clearly visualizing particur geometric shapes in order to execute the trip. She taught me a few basies, oo something small, oo slightly heat something up, ao slightly cool something down, and oo quickly dry something small. She said there were more but promised she would teach me the ones she knew as I hem.

  “What happens with people who ’t visualize the sigils in their mind?”

  “Hmm, I’ve never heard of ahat ’t use at least some of the smaller ohrough visualization but I know some people aren’t able to use trips at all for some reason. I ’t imagi would be possible to use magic at all in that case though, I don’t know of any magic that doesn’t have a visual element to it but I’m hardly a schor. Though the [System] might make some of that automated or instinctive but you ’t really gain a skill if you’re uo do the basics. Otherwise more people would be mages.”

  “How do people create new spells? Is there some pattern to the spell sigils that be used?”

  She smiled sadly. “I’m just a farmer, I wouldn’t know any of that sorry. Maybe we’ll e across a mage that help you, just be careful not to give away you’re a world traveler.”

  I nodded. “I’ll try to ask you if I’m going to ask a dumb question but I probably just use the cover story of being a nomad traveling in the wilds.”

  “Even that might not be the best story really. I remember thinking that your story sounded suspicious when you first started travelling with us. Especially since your clothes look like they are iyle of the capital city and you had retively local currency. I’d bet Mark just guessed you were a noble who ran away from their family or something.”

  “What would be a better cover story then? I need something that will expin away why I know o nothing about anything around here.”

  “Well for things like basic magic I don’t have anything that would expin it away but in terms of why you wouldn’t know any of the politics or s you could say you traveled from the Queendom of Ara. It’s a Queendom oher side of the Aralian sea on the Northeastern coast of this kingdom, the Kingdom of Torlimal. Right now we are he Wilds on the eastern edge of the Dutorstet ruled by the Duchess Erica Morstet. The Queen of Ara is Meena Ara, you should probably remember that if it’s going to be your cover story.”

  “Are Queendoms and female led Dutchies on on this pne?”

  “Well, Queendoms aren’t as quite as on as Kingdoms but noble nds be held by either sex. Is it different where you’re from?”

  I nodded. “Nearly every major civilization has beeher patriarchal or at least mostly sex ral in nature. I think there may have been female kings before and there are kingdoms actually headed by queens but for the most part that’s how it was.”

  “Strange, I’m not sure wh- Oh! Actually, most nobles are pretty high level and after around level 10 or so your stats would pletely overe any differences in sex. If there’s no magi the world then stats wouldn’t level things out.” She had a rather thoughtful look. “It’s se to think that even something as basic as stats doesn’t eve on another pne…”

  “I wonder how much malitarian that makes this pce by parison.” I smiled wryly as I finished g up my boots.

  Saine