“The hell it is! Thanks to your little crew showing up, my profits are nonexistent! That’s why I’m going to confiscate the precious cash cow of that contract-violating . . . woman that doesn’t even bat an eyelash when her slave curse is activated!”

He seemed to realize that this wasn’t his lucky day. The crooked merchant actually tried to explain his actions, all while glaring at Sadeena, obviously infuriated. What was all that about not batting an eyelash at a slave curse, anyways? I looked over at Sadeena and she pointed at her chest.

“Boobies!”

“Shut up! Just show me!”

I removed the sarashi cloth that she had wrapped around her chest, and sure enough, there was a slave curse right there, fully activated and shining bright as the sun.

“That’s what you get for being stingy and using a cheap slave curse. A little thing like this isn’t going to do diddly to a girl like me, you know?”

Filo had deactivated her own monster seal once, now that I thought about it. Maybe these kinds of things weren’t as effective when the recipient was really good with magic?

“You should be writhing in pain with each step! How the hell are you able to stand there looking so smug?!”

“Obviously because it doesn’t hurt that bad, right?”

Huh? Did that mean it wasn’t actually fully disabled? Ahh, now that I thought about it, Filo’s monster seal never actually activated. But Sadeena’s slave curse was activated and running nonstop. So she was mitigating the effect, but that didn’t mean it didn’t hurt . . . She sure was something.

“You fools will regret this! Do you really think you’ll get out of this alive?! I won’t allow it! Even if you make it out of here, you’ll have the underground guild on your tail no matter where you run!”

“Weapons merchant . . . I’m afraid that won’t happen.”

Just then a voice came from behind us. I turned my head to look, and standing there were the accessory dealer and the slave trader. Rishia had come with them and seemed to be trembling a bit. Raph-chan was there, too.

“I was really nervous watching your match!”

“Rafu!”

“I bet you were. Honestly, the combat aspect of it might have been more of a hassle than when we faced Kyo.”

Sadeena did things like nullify magic and dodge skills and was a complete monster when it came to her sense of combat. I had plenty of questions for that Murder Pierrot clown, too, but . . . whatever.

“You . . . you’re the accessory—” exclaimed the crooked merchant.

“We thought our presence might be required, so here we are. Yes sir.”

The crooked merchant seemed to be genuinely shocked. He was pointing at the accessory dealer with his eyes wide and his mouth hanging open.