We asked the slave trader’s assistant to retrieve our fight purse for us and dashed out behind Sadeena into the streets of the Zeltoble markets. After all, Sadeena had gone and done something completely different than what she had been asked to do by the crooked merchant.

It was easy to imagine what I would have done if I had been the merchant. I would confiscate the skyrocketing authentic Lurolona slaves and call it compensation. Then again, that may have been the plan from the very start. It would be a huge headache if that actually happened, which is why we were running in such a hurry like this.

“That debuff magic was quite powerful, wasn’t it?”

“Yeah, it was.”

After leaving the arena, my body felt light as a feather . . . so light that I almost flipped over at first.

“Little Rock, this way.”

We went in the direction that Sadeena was pointing toward. Finally, we arrived at a building in a residential quarter of Zeltoble that had a bunch of hostile-looking thugs standing guard outside. It looked just like the kind of stone-built house that a merchant would prepare. Something about it resembled Kizuna’s house. In front of the house, there were several carriages lined up that looked like the kind they used to escort prisoners. It looked like my guess turned out to be right on the mark.

“We’re currently in the process of collecting a debt inside of this building. Anyone not involved is unwelcome here!”

A group of mercenary types that were probably hired as protection were standing in front of the door to the house.

“Sorry, but we are involved, boys.”

Sadeena began casting a spell and the mercenaries realized who we were.

“It looks like that bunch showed up just like they said they would!”

“I’m afraid we can’t let you pass, lady. Be a good girl and come with us. Accept your punishment for going against the boss’ wishes!”

And then, from out of who knows where, a whole bunch of mercenaries and whatnot, around forty men in total, appeared from all around and rushed at us to attack. It looked like they were nice enough to bring a few magic users, too.

If they thought they could overpower us with numbers, they were in for a real surprise. Had they even considered who their enemy was? Even if they thought they could bombard us with debuffs, this wasn’t the arena. There was no way that Raphtalia and Filo were going to lose to a bunch of riffraff in a place that hadn’t been rigged up beforehand.

“Here I goooo! Jingle-jaaangle!”

“Ugh . . . Uwaaaahhh!!”

Filo changed into her filolial form, attached the morning star to her leg, and began swinging it around, mowing down the mercenaries.

“You’re in our way!”

“Gahhh!”

Raphtalia began cutting them down with her katana.

“Too bad, boys! Drifa Chain Lightning!”