bookpub Chapter 756: She Doesn't Know Her Own Value
Chapter 756: She Doesn't Know Her Own Value
Dinner was rather simple like the one from last night, which was basically stew again with the drained monster meat and vegetables.
I guess since they needed to feed even more people, a stew was the easiest and best food they could make for this occasion.
Interestingly, I saw the slave traders letting the slaves take their food first before they took theirs.
"It wouldn't be beneficial for them if their slaves were malnourished or weak as that would lower their value," Linette explained to me without me asking.
I guess she must have seen the look on my face when I was looking in that direction which gave away the question I had in my head.
"Mnn... I see. So he paid you for the food they're eating?" I asked.
"Hmm... In a sense, yes."
I tilted my head at her, wondering what she meant by that.
She took a spoonful of her stew before answering, "I bought a few of his slaves from him. He's selling them for cheap so I don't see why I shouldn't take that opportunity to get some good slaves I can sell later in the Kingdom. I'm not restricted to the border like he is so I would get a better price anyway."
Ah... I actually forgot that Linette was still a merchant.
I did notice that she was talking to him before dinner and I assumed he was negotiating a price to buy food from her.
Well, turned out I was right but just the method of payment was off.
"So you bought all his slaves?" I asked.
She waved her hand in front of her, "Oh no, no, no. I only bought a few of the females. I'm still not that willing to travel with males. In fact, I'm only tolerant of there being males sleeping here because you are here, Aster."
I blinked, "Me?"
"Yes. Because I know I can trust you."
"Come on now. I don't think you should place that much trust in me."
"Why not? You basically saved my life twice now, haven't you? If I can't even trust the person who saved my life twice, who else can I trust?"
Touche...
"But you know... Maybe I'm just doing that to get close to you so I can get benefits?"
She raised an eyebrow at me, "What kind of benefit can I even give you that you can't get yourself?"
I blurted out the first thing I could think of, "Sex with you?"
The spoon that she was bringing up to her lips stopped before she turned to face me, "What?"
"What?" I parroted back.
Ok, what I said was completely weird and I'll admit that. But she shouldn't be that surprised right? I thought sex was something normal in this World?
She looked at me, then at her chest, then back at me again.
"What?" She repeated.
I honestly thought those men would protest or even try to push their luck but they simply shrugged and took their bottles before switching to simply conversing with them.
It was quite an interesting sight to see to be honest.
I then found myself being pulled by some of the Mercs as they held several bottles in their hands.
"Aster! Come drink with us!"
"Yeah! Let's get drunk tonight!"
"Yes, yes! Drink with us!"
I frowned, "Is this really ok though? Wouldn't all of you get hangovers tomorrow and you won't be able to fight properly if we get attacked?"
One of them giggled, "What are you talking about, Aster? Of course we'll have our healers heal us tomorrow morning so we wouldn't need to worry about that! Let's let loose tonight!"
Oh right, I forgot you can use magic to fix that. That's really convenient.
Only one problem though...
"Ermm... Is the alcohol sweet?" I asked.
The girls paused and turned back to me.
"Err... I don't think so?" One of them muttered.
Bleh, if it's not the sweet kind, I don't want it.
"Then sorry... I don't really want to drink that..." I apologised.
The girls who were pulling me groaned collectively.
"Awww... And I was hoping that we could have drunk sex too..."
"Hey! We agreed not to say it!"
"It's already off the table anyway so no point hiding it."
Ah... So that was their goal. Yeah, sorry about that.
I let them go and enjoy the alcohol and went back to my side of the camp where Linette had intentionally placed her bedroll beside mine while everyone else was busy.
"Was this your plan?" I asked.
She turned to me, "I did say that I have a way to prevent us from being found out."
"I mean... You would need them to get drunk first right? How many bottles would it take for them to get drunk?"
"Not a lot. Those are pretty high in alcohol content. I'm pretty sure by the next hour you would see a few of them being knocked out cold."
I blinked at her, "Are those alcohol expensive then?"
"If I just need to give up three crates of that just to sleep with you tonight, that would be totally worth it. Now, shall we? I wouldn't mind starting out with some foreplay under the sheets first."
And here I thought she was just an innocent girl who wanted to listen to my stories yesterday...