Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne?

Year 7447, Month 4, Day 29

Maru and Rinbo both brazenly said they want to become combat slaves so in order to get them to give up I was having Zulu and Angela knock them down until Sanno, Ruttsu, Rodrick, Denda, and Karimu appeared. The five of them appeared covered in sweat as expected from just finishing their running this morning and it seems they came along to get John and Terry to make some baldoggie for breakfast.

"Morning, Greed-kun. What are you guys doing?"

"Yo~ so you were already finished with your running? Zulu, Maruso. What's going on?"

Sanno and Ruttsu called out to us. You're loud~ Don't interfere.

"If it's about baldoggie then Mekku and the others are cleaning inside so just say something."

I replied with just that before turning my attention back to Maru and Rinbi.

It seems that Sanno and the others quietly went into the factory.

The two of them are still looking at me bitterly as usual.

Even if you look at me with eyes like that those who are useless are still useless.

In the first place something like wanting to be combat slaves, you screwed up in how you suddenly brought it up with me first.

If it's to report bullying then that's fine but it's not even that urgent of a matter right.

First off you should have consulted with the head slave Zulu and passed it through him and then only finally came to make the request with me after you've convinced him, even Cathy would have been fine. If it's with her then I'm sure she's easy to talk to as well. In the first place what have John and Terry been doing.

Completely skipping over the head slave Zulu and making a direct appeal to me is ridiculous.

Do they not understand that it completely ignores Zulu's position?

Though they must have done such because they didn't know.

Ronslail-san~ you never properly finished training them...

Zulu's still making a strict expression.

Well, it's not like you're normally together with them after all.

It would be barking up the wrong tree to criticize Zulu over something like this so don't make that face.

Though it's a face that doesn't seem to be worrying about himself.

"Hey, the two of you. You want to die?"

"No, I don't want to die."

After a short pause Maru nervously replied.

"What about you?"

I asked Rinbi once again.

"U..Umm, I don't want to die either."

Her voice started to crack up a bit.

"That's only obvious right. Even I don't want to die."

I throw the remainder of the baldoggie skewer I had in my hand into my mouth and play around with the remaining skewer.

"You two, are you saying that fully understanding what kind of thing combat slaves are?"

""...""

You never know when you might be ordered to be my shield you know?

You never know when I might abandon you in order to earn time to escape?

There's no way I'd bring along someone who wouldn't even be able to properly earn any time if it comes to that!

If the number of people increases then so does the food we have to carry.

For as long as the number of people that can teleport at once is limited we can't waste any spots.

Now both Zulu and Angela are combat slaves whose names are known pretty well.

It's to the point where if a random newbie with no achievements meets them on the street or somewhere they'd have to quickly move out of the way and bow down in respect.

Ever since we cleared the 8th floor they've even made it into a reasonable number of rumors over here in the capital I'm sure.

I wonder if that's why...

It would be stranger if these two hadn't heard about things like that.

"How about trying to bring them into the dungeon once?"

Rodrick started talking to me after coming out from the store.

It's got no relation with you right.

Let alone that, even if I were to make these two into combat slaves then...

"Rodrick, sorry but if you aren't willing to take responsibility can you show a bit of discretion? Also, if I were to use these two as combat slaves they'd end up being put into the {Exterminators} you know?"

There's already your Denda and Karimu, along with my Mekku and Jesu a total of four combat slaves. If there's anymore it might end up as a party with nothing but combat slaves.

Of course, it's not as if becoming someone like the elf slave user Rozuwera is prohibited either. Taking into account that his slaves haven't rebelled while inside of the dungeon and you can tell Rozuwera's got a firm grasp on the hearts of his slaves and is proof that he's treating them properly.

Whether it's from a rebellion or he's killed by monsters, for combat slaves who have lost their master you never know where they may end up through inheritance of relatives so you could say Rozuwera's properly earned the loyalty of his slaves.

Furthermore, it's obviously okay to fortify an entire party of 10 with slaves but even if you were to make such a party I can't imagine it functioning properly. I'm sure they'd take advantage of the fact that there's no overseer and just spend all of their slacking off in the teleport room of the 1st floor.