The day was bright, in the training ground A young child about 5 yrs could be seen practicing swordman ship in the training ground with a young man wearing soldier like attire.This young child had black hair and black eyes.He is the young lord of this Duke house, GREVEVEMIT.
"Master it is time for your history lessons", a women wearing maid attire said to young child.
"Yes, I am almost done now",said Grevevemit while clearing his sweat with the towel.
"Thanks, for sparring with me" he thanked the soldiers. He started practicing with the soldiers since 1 year ago. In this world everyone could use magic, thus they also tried to use other weapons with magic such as spear, sword, Bow, axe etc.
He sighed to himself and thought "it has been 5 yrs since I reincarnated in this world and plot will start after 10 yrs from now",
Tomorrow he decided to go to slave market, because he persuaded his mother and father saying he needed a personal maids and servants. Other than finding his harem members another reason for taking maids was that he wanted to start his own business before going to academy.
Because currently his adoptive mother was pregnant with his brother, so this kingdom of Duke ultimately was going to fell in his brother's hand. This was also one of the reason for his darkness, when he got to know that his mother was not his biological mother.
And she also started showing favouritism towards his brother, atleast in his eyes, cause in original work she loved both of them equally, but that time his mind was corroded with darkness.
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It was dinner time, and whole family was having dinner together.
"Darling, our child is now become big, he started searching for maid,and he don't want me to come with him" said Celina while pouting 😾.
"Don't worry Celina, after all he has to learn about market, this is also part of his lessons, and about maids, he needed them to be loyal to only himself, that's why he wanted to go to slave market " said Robert. He was after all a wise man, other wise how could he became rank 1 Duke.
Greve gave a thankful look to his father and then looked at his mother " Don't worry mother, afterall I am your cute child, hehe, I also wanted to get to learn many things so that I can protect my future sibling" he looked at his mother with puppy eyes.
' Seriously, it is very difficult to act like a child, only I Knew how I survived these past yrs'.
After dinner he went to his room directly and slept peacefully.
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'Finally we reached the slave market, I am still not use to travelling in carriage' Greve said in his mind.
Reaching slave market We could see a clean road, well dressed people walking around, peacefull looking place, apart from all those thoughts that comes to a person's mind when they thought about slave market.
Everyone their shocked to see a luxurious carriage entering the market.
People saw the carriage has a symbol of Duke house, the carriage stopped and a well dressed, cute boy with black hair walked out of carriage, everyone knew who he was, because of his unique black hair.
At this time a middle aged man came near the carriage " Young Duke, it is our pleasure to meet you, I am the manager of this market, Drake Carter, can this lowly man, get to know the reason of your visit" he said politely to Grevevemit.
" I am here to buy slaves for the position of my maids".
"Thank you, Young Duke can i know about your preference" said Drake.
"I don't have any, I want to see all of them myself".
"Yes, young Duke, Please follow me I will lead you to those places " said Drake politely, he was a busy man, afterall he had to manage whole market, but he couldn't upset Duke, that why he himself was willing to lead them.
We moved to different places and saw different slaves some of them were criminals previously, and some of them were sold due to debt, and some of them sold themselves due to hunger. After 1hour he was not able to find a suitable maid.
After 1 more hour he came in front of a cell.
"Young Duke, this slave is from beast tribe, she is from fox lineage, she is quite fierce, she was sold by shopkeeper, she wreaked a havoc in his shop, causes a lot of damages, she is orphan and currently 15 yrs old" said Drake with inner sigh*, cause he was tired from explaining for 2 hours.
(A/N:-In this world beastman's couldn't use mana but they use aura and berserk is their strongest move).
'Hmm, She is strong and young, about literacy, I will teach her' he thought to himself, while he looked at her, she was glaring at him.
" Ok, I chose her, please get the contract paper ready"
"Oohk, sir I will get the papers ready, please wait for a moment" said Drake with excitement. Finally he was free, then he went to get the contract.
" Hello, what is your name, I am here to buy you"Greve looked at the fox girl with kind gaze.
"Hmph, why do I have to tell you" she said while glaring at him.
" Hehe, don't worry I will take care of you for some time, and if you still want to go after that, I will set you free" Afterall he didn't needed a dissatisfied servant.
She glared at him for some time, then opened her mouth" Hmph, we will see,.... Veronica"
"..." He looked at her without reacting, as he didn't understand what did she mean.
" My name is Veronica, hmph".