Day 11
Two days after he had lost five lackeys, the bandit boss came back from
town with some replacements. Nineteen replacements, even. ...There were
eight bandits at the start, then the seven newbies, five of which died, so that
left ten. Now it's twenty-nine, three times that. Nice. I wondered where he had
gotten them... but then I saw two tied-up adventurers in their midst. Whoops.
Minus those two, it's actually twenty-seven. Isn't that still enough to form a
small village or something?
"Oh wow. Those are all slaves, except the sacrifices."
"You can tell just by looking at them? ...Ah. I see the collars now. Well,
whatever. Two sacrifices... Alright, I'll make a room just for them. I've been
wanting to make a jail and see what its deal is for a while now."
A [Jail] was an especially expensive, 300 DP room. I was hoping that it'd
have some kind of special effect or something. After adding the extra room,
the dungeon looked like (from above) a square with its top right section cut
off.
But wait. Bandits can buy slaves in this world?
"Apparently, humans who break the law can end up slaves. They're called
'convict slaves.'"
"But they'll go right back to breaking the law if bandits buy them. What's
even the point...?"
Either way, I noticed two of the slaves that stood out from the rest. One
was an adult woman and one a young girl. They weren't very dirty, likely
thanks to this world's Survival Magic. ...Yeah, those rags are so torn up
they're basically naked. That's hot. But wait a second. The slave the boss is
carrying definitely isn't even ten years old yet. Why'd he buy a kid with deadlooking eyes like that? Is he gonna raise her as his daughter or something?
And hold up, she's got dog ears too. Another fantasy staple has come—a
dark-skinned dog girl. She even has black eyes and hair. That's the first time
I've seen either of those in this world. Actually, I just noticed that the older
woman has wings growing out of her arms. Is she a bird person? Is that what
I should call them? Bird people? Nah, they're probably called harpies or
something. This world sure has a lot of colorful races... wait, wait. Hold on.
HOLD ON.
THEY'RE! S*X! SLAVES!
We're gonna turn into an adult-only story this late in the game?! Well,
sure, I guess this does make sense... There've only been dudes out there up
until now, so...
The bandit boss had likely bought those s*x slaves to satisfy the lust of his
subordinates. And naturally, so he could have some fun himself too.
The bandit boss grabbed on to the older woman and groped her body with
hands so dirty I questioned whether he had ever used {Purification} on them.
He then noisily slobbered on her mouth in a makeshift kiss before pushing
her onto the bed and... Ah, yeah, cut. Cut!
The child slave was watching, too... Well, her eyes were so dark and
clouded it was hard to tell if she was really processing anything, but still.
C'mon, at least put her in another room! Now I understand why she looks so
dead-eyed, dang! He's even gonna make her clean up after them? Holy crap,
what a monster... Oh, right. He's a bandit. He's killed people before. Riiight.
"Wooow... Wooow, amazing... That's how humans reproduce, right? I've
never seen it before... Ah?! Are you after my body too, Keima?!"
"I'm not a lolicon! And hey, stop watching them! Kids shouldn't be
looking at that kind of thing!"
"But I'm not a kid. You know that I only look like this because I can saveDP in this form, right?!"
"Oh right, I forgot about that. Right, right. Your original body was way
more developed, so... Wait, nah. You were still a busty middle schooler at
best. That's too young."
"B-But you like my feet, don't you? And look! That tiny slave is watching
too."
"Yeah, they're making her walk on her bare feet. That has to hurt. What a
waste of nice, shapely feet. Delicious brown skin like hers should be
treasured. God, I want to at least give her some socks to wear." ...Preferably
knee socks. White knee socks, or dark knee socks. No, wait. I bet socks
shaped like puppies would really go well with her dog ears.
"I feel like you changed the subject there..."
"Don't worry about it. Anyway, time for sleep." By the way, he later
locked up the harpy woman in the jail (which I had built behind the room that
the boss is more or less using for himself now).
# Bandit's Perspective
Is there anything good about being a bandit, huh...?
I can't easily get into towns, and all the shops I can buy stuff from
overcharge like motherfuckers. I've tried making my more respectable
associates buy my stuff for me, but the merchants always see right through
them and keep overcharging. I can't go to a blacksmith, so I've got to get a
hold of weapons on my own and keep using them 'til they break. It takes a lot
of guts to use a weapon that can break at any time, and to tell the truth, I'm
scared shitless of the day my blade breaks in a fight. I have to risk my life
just to earn money and get anything. It's riskier being a bandit than it is being
a mercenary.
But if I'm strong enough, I can steal anything. I can never know how
much I'll earn in a year, but when I hit it big, fuck do I hit it big. Not to
mention, I can now go to gatherings of the legendary Dark Guild. I had only
ever heard of them when I was a mercenary. It's against the rules to attack
carriages marked with the Dark Guild's symbol, but the benefits more than
make up for that. I can get my hands on anything I want, as long as I've got
the cash. ...The stuff is expensive, though.
They have a tent of women I can buy... It's not a high-class brothel, but a
woman is a woman. Bandits can't normally go into town, so naturally, we
can't go to brothels. Adventurers are almost all men, and female adventurers
attract so much attention it's hard to safely ambush them. So, we bandits have
got no choice but to go to the Dark Guild's "brothel."
That's why I went there today. There aren't any good women, but they all
cost as much as high-class prostitutes in the town's most expensive brothel.
It's shameless. And if you don't have any money, you can't even get the best
among those shitty women.
...Thinking it's better to get something than nothing, I buy the cheapest
woman they have. They brought out a demihuman with wings for hands. The
Dark Guild's cheapest prostitutes aren't even valuable enough to have clothes
on them, so she's wearing nothing but a slave collar.
Demihumans like this harpy look different enough from normal people
that they're incredibly unpopular as prostitutes. That's why she's so cheap. A
lot of demihumans are still mistaken for monsters even now. In fact, they
actually are hunted as monsters in other countries. ...Oh yeah. Wasn't there
one country that considered all demihumans to be monsters? I can't
remember, but it doesn't matter anyway. What matters right now is that the
person in front of me is a woman, wings for hands or not.
Though, she hasn't been trained at all and doesn't know how to please a
man properly. It's not hard to see why she's their cheapest prostitute. Having
no other choice, I just held her down and fucked her as hard as I could. I paid
money for her. She needs to earn it. Though, she's probably not gonna see
even a single copper from what I paid for her. No reason for them to pay their
slaves.
I leave the brothel feeling refreshed, and soon decide to buy some convict
slaves. The Dark Guild deals with every slave they can get their hands on.
Slaves close to death are cheap, healthy slaves are expensive.
Would be nice if some of these convict slaves have killed before. All I
need are enough thugs to kill adventurers by overwhelming them with
numbers, but experienced murderers will still help out in a big way.
I'll need a s*x slave for the boys to use, too. Tch... Not sure how I feel
about s*x slaves being more expensive than convict slaves, but whatever.
They're a luxury, makes sense they'd cost more. Female harpies are pretty
cheap, so I'll buy one of those.
They lined up all the slaves I could buy in front of me. But hey, wait. The
cheapest s*x slave here is that harpy I bought at the brothel. I thought I'd just
be wasting the money I spent earlier if I bought her now, but I ended up
buying her anyway after they gave me a discount based on how much I spent
earlier.
They even offered me a child slave as a bonus. She apparently had grown
attached to the harpy for whatever reason. She's a demihuman too, with
flimsy dog ears. They must not have bathed her for a while, because she
smells exactly like an unwashed dog. She does look feminine, but she's too
young to work as a sex slave. It wouldn't matter much if she was older,
though. She doesn't even respond to me prodding her with my elbow. That's
no fun.
They were likely close to just "disposing" of her, judging by the fact she
cost about as much as ten slightly moldy loaves of rye bread. She does follow
simple orders, though, so I can get some use out of her by making her work
as a maid or something. If that doesn't work out, I can just sacrifice her to the
dungeon. It's that simple.
I pick up the child slave since she walks so slow and carry her back to the
[Ordinary Cave]. We come across two adventurers on the way and surprise
attack them from behind. Perfect. Now we might get a room to put these two
slaves into.
"Luck sure is on my side lately, heh." I cackle to myself.