Kapitel 12: A soul that sparked hope (P.6) - Chapter 7

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".....Did you make sure no one was watching?"

"She was walking through an empty street. So no worries. No one saw. I was actually surprised to see how she was walking onto that dangerous side of the street. She was basically asking to get caught."

Aya was still unconscious. But due to the voices that were talking in the room, she was beginning to regain her senses. Slowly opening her eyes, Aya found herself in an unfamiliar room where two people seemed to be talking with one another.

The room was quite spacious and beautifully designed, as if someone of high importance were living in it. However, upon closer look, it was clear that this was an office where someone of high rank would work.

And inside this room stood two individuals. One of them was a fat-looking man whose belly almost stuck out, and in front of him was a man who had many scars all over his body.

Realizing where Aya was, her eyes immediately widened in shock before she tried standing up.

"H-huh?"

However, when she tried standing up, she quickly realized that her hands and legs were chained together.

"Hm? She seems to have woken up. What are you planning on doing now?"

The man with a scar on his left eye and many other scars on his body inquired once he noticed that the girl had woken up.

"W-why am I here?!" Aya asked in fear and distress.

The fat merchant also turned to the chained girl on the ground as his eyes looked down on her.

"You caused me a lot of trouble….. little girl." The merchant said, "You have no idea how much trouble I went through just to finally be able to catch you."

Many thoughts were going through Aya's head.

Why was the slave merchant going to this extent to capture her? Was it because of the rude behavior that she showed him today? Or the fact that she had not paid him yet?