Some who learn of my situation might think like this.
'If you don't like danger, can't you just hand everything over to your older sister Gadia before getting your neck cut and live?'
No, that's not it~
According to the game settings, all the authority of the Kruger family, the richest in the continent, is concentrated in the head of the family.
How?
Well, by magic~
The family's magic is passed down through the bloodline.
This is primogeniture, so unless I die, our sister can't take even 1 copper from the family vault without my permission.
Can't I swear to cooperate, write a contract, and make a fuss?
No, I can't.
Would Gadia, who is set to distrust men and be a jerk originally, believe the words of Adelian?
Moreover, when you become the head of the family, you can magically withdraw money from anywhere on the continent, but Gadia comes to Adelian and begs every time she needs money.
Even fan art would get all kinds of curses if it came out like that. They'd say it lacks plausibility.
Besides, whether I intervene or not, the incommunicado no-answer party will roll on unchanged, leaving only the ending where Kane's infamy spreads across the continent.
Who would properly voice their opinion in a party mixed with dragons and ice magicians?
It's not for nothing that the party rolled with only women who fell for Kane.
There was no one else who could handle them. It's a party that can't be endured without fierce love at least.
"In the end, it's only me, huh."
I said it playfully, but I can only sigh.
The fact that I don't feel this realistic and think it might be doable to this extent is probably due to my hidden trait of Sense of Affluence.
It's ambiguous what exact role it plays but in a place like this where even the wind touching the skin and the sunlight feel realistic.
Seeing how my thoughts conclude with 'It's just a game anyway', it must be in charge of my mental barrier.
I don't want to deliberately change that and feel vivid realism and be afraid of the war ahead, so for now, let's go!
"Lord Adelian. Where are we going?"
Luna, holding a pink cotton candy as big as her head, asked me as she followed with small steps.
"The auction house."
With one ear folded and drooping, she looks cute.
I liked the older sister style, so Luna, who was a loli type, wasn't a heroine I pushed for, but seeing her in person is pleasing to the eye.
Grabbing and stretching her drooping rabbit ears, I spoke again to Luna, who was about a head shorter than me.
"You need to come of age for traits to awaken, you know, according to game settings?"
"Oww… What?"
"Rabbit-race people become adults at 15, so it's too late to change your timidity, but humans become adults at 18, so you can change your representative trait before your birthday."
"Ugh… Ah… I don't understand… Anyway, my ears…"
The starting point of Innocent Saga is after the protagonist has already become an adult, but from what I've found out in the days since coming here, it's now early to the middle part of the original novel.
In game terms, it was two years ago.
If my guess is correct, it's two months before the protagonist's birthday.
'This is the time when his family is massacred as sacrifices to an evil god, he's dragged away by a passing black magician for live experiments, then runs away and gets backstabbed by everyone he asks for help, and finally gets sold as a slave and is now in the basement of the auction house.'
Just thinking about it briefly brings tears to my eyes.
It sounds short when I say it, but that rolling takes place over several volumes, and there's only one satisfying moment in all of that.
Only the scene where he stabs the black magician in the stomach.
'That son of bitch.'
After a moment of silent stone-throwing at the original author, I let go of the soft, fluffy ears.
Ah, that could become addictive.
Did they intend to throw me here from the beginning?
The place where I opened my eyes as Adelian was Labes, the pleasure city where the Kruger family's main house is located, and there was the continent's largest auction house.
Although human trafficking is illegal, it's almost a dead law, so the continent is always rife with human trafficking, and many humans and the Ain race are traded here.
Kane was also sold here after drinking a glass of water given by an innocent-looking village chief.
In the original work, he's immediately sold to an assassination group, and in the game, I buy him and use him as a living punching bag to hone my swordsmanship.
Then, when even beating him like a dog doesn't make Swordsmanship F appear, I just resell him and he ends up being sold to an assassination group.
Despite going through all that, Kane, who never gave up his will for revenge, displays the Indomitable trait at the same time as his first murder training…
Back then, I was moved and expected the start of cider. My younger self. Just close the window, please…
"Welcome, Young Master. You may bring up to three companions into the auction house."
I just nodded at the words of the elf doorkeeper standing in front of the VVIP-only gate and entered.
Anyway, one is Luna, and two will be from those guarding in invisible places.
Although the main auction hasn't started yet, as a VVIP privilege, you can buy items in advance except for the main products.
'But it's not good to go buy Kane right away.'
A playboy who only indulges in drinking and women comes to the auction house and selects a specific person to buy before the auction starts.
And not someone with good traits determined to be useful, but a human male before trait confirmation?
Even though I'm trying not to care about reputation, that's a bit much…
'And no one would buy first before the auction starts.'
If that were the case, the Adelian in the game wouldn't have bought Kane either.
For now, it would be better to act like I'm just here to look around and then buy during the main auction.
"Shall we go to the upper floor first?"
I spoke as if I had come without any particular intention and took a step.