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◆Protagonist’s Side

“W-We beg you, please make us slaves of Kaiser-sama!! Th-Thank you very much…!!”

“Thank you very much!!”

Before me now stood a group of young women, enough to make me think there might be a hundred, all kneeling respectfully.

Asher called me over to the courtyard of my family’s estate, where these women had gathered, waiting for me. Wondering what was happening, I asked Asher first what was going on right in front of me. It turned out they had dismantled an organization involved in human trafficking in the underworld and brought these women here temporarily.

Unlike Asher, these women had slave marks tattooed on them with ink imbued with magic, which apparently couldn’t be undone by burning or tearing up contracts.

Incidentally, in Asher’s case, it was stated in advance that slaves themselves couldn’t nullify the contract. Essentially, only the master (in this case, me) or a third party, or an external event like a fire, could nullify it.

I thought, if they asked a third party or deliberately started a fire, wouldn’t that work? But if the ultimate goal was to nullify the contract, such actions would be seen as attempting to nullify the contract and would not be carried out. However, this applied only as long as the master existed. If the master died for some reason, the slave could nullify the contract on their own and end their slavery.

However, if the slave had a slave mark tattooed directly on their body with magic ink, the mark wouldn’t disappear even if the master died, and they would become what’s called a feral slave.

Because such slaves could easily form a master-slave relationship with third parties, in most countries, it was considered illegal for the sake of protecting the master, not the slave.

The reason it’s for the master and not the slave is because there were frequent incidents of people killing the owners of slaves they desired or thought could be sold for money, so contracts on paper became the mainstream solution to resolve such issues.

I had learned about slavery in a previous class at school, and I remembered it clearly. Before my memories from a past life returned, I couldn’t help but feel a little pain in my heart, realizing how ignorant I was in this world.

“Is that so… Then, would you like me to cleanly erase your slave marks?”