I Have Been Called The Idiot Son Behind My Back. But I Remembered Memories, And I Can Use The Abilities I Had In My Past Life. So I Will Make Use of Major Online Stores Like Am**on And Aim for a Slow Life for Now - 62

Chapter 62: Seen as an Individual

To have such decent parents or relatives with a strong sense of justice who rescue children from such situations would be considered winning at life from my perspective.

Even so, for children still dealt with by less fortunate parents, they might be placed in orphanages. Yet, those not even granted that are left with only options like begging, thievery, becoming adventurers or miners, or living as prostitutes.

Nevertheless, the Empire does nothing for us in such circumstances.

They say to us, “There are orphanages, so what more do you need to do?” or “Isn’t it because nobles donate to orphanages?” while hitting us, kicking us, and spitting on us.

It seems as though the country itself is saying from the Empire, “We don’t consider such people as human. They’re in the way, so they should just die.” In reality, they probably don’t view us as humans.

Still, because I fear death, I have no choice but to sell my heart and continue living, but those who couldn’t endure selling their hearts and went insane or committed suicide, and those like us who lost their sense of crisis and were captured as commodities for human trafficking, await a dismal end.

That’s why we’ve lived only thinking about the present without considering the future.

It was at such a time that we encountered a curious noble who picked us up.

This noble offered us a choice: to erase the slave crest engraved on our bodies and live in the outside world, or to continue living as slaves under the noble. When this choice was presented to us, I chose to become a slave to this noble.

If this person had treated us like mere objects just because we were slaves, they would have undoubtedly enslaved us. However, by choosing to erase the slave crest and allowing us to live outwardly as ordinary people, it is evidence that this person sees us as “individuals.”

No one had ever looked at us in that way before.

Trying hard to suppress the urge to cry at being seen for the first time as an individual, my vision blurred with tears.

That’s why I can’t help but want to be truly useful to this person from the bottom of my heart.

If serving this person as a slave is considered useful, I would gladly become a slave.

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With such strong determination, I became Kaiser-sama’s slave, and a week has passed.

The first surprise was that each of us was given a proper room.

The building itself was assembled from kits purchased by Kaiser-sama at Mamazon on a large plot of land. It was completed in just one day thanks to the physical enhancement skills, levitation skills, earth magic, and other skills included in the skill and magic sets Kaiser-sama purchased for us, assembled by ourselves like Mariel-sama, Sue-sama, and Asha-sama.