Forced to become a delicate companion of a paranoid lord

971 5 Month 17 Day.

Current points: 0

Current mana value:

Number of souls in the soul-guiding bottle:

Slave Contract Magic Circuit Decryption Progress: 41%

Banned drug reliever completion rate: 27%

The number of points, magic points, and souls were the information displayed on the system panel, while the progress of cracking the slave contract and the completion of the banned drug soothing agent were written on kraft paper by Xie Wei himself for daily records.

Four years have passed since the secret realm trial began. Xie Wei doesn't know how long he can stay here, but judging from the fact that Dagambie mentioned Sunset City intentionally or unintentionally, he probably doesn't have much time left.

The Akabane Mercenary Group's mission to escort the Colosseum convoy ended half a year ago, and Xie Wei also withdrew from the Akabane Mercenary Group at that time.

After leaving the mercenary group, Xie Wei disguised himself as a traveling merchant and followed the Colosseum's convoy, stopping and starting along the way. Three days ago, he arrived at a small town called Lumiere in the eastern part of the Heiseidon Empire.

Since one of the new bills proposed and implemented by His Royal Highness Elias, the eldest prince of the Hesedon Empire, was to ban gambling-related gladiatorial performances, all the Colosseums in the major cities of the empire have been closed, and only some underground Colosseums are still open in some remote small towns.

However, the Colosseum convoy that Sal was in entered the town of Lumiere not to participate in underground fights, but to acquire gladiators.

The caravan stayed in Lumiere for three days. When they left, there were a few more gladiators or monsters in the other cages, but there was still only one person in Thrall's cage.

Sal has grown rapidly in the past year and a half. He is not even ten years old yet, but he is almost as tall as Xie Wei. Xie Wei can no longer hold him.

"What is that?" Lying on the bars of the cage, Thrall asked the Colosseum guard he was familiar with in Common Language.

The guard followed his gaze and saw that it was a field of roses.

"Cecilia Rose, this flower can be found in every region of the empire. It is the symbolic flower of the goddess of light. Isn't it beautiful?"

Sal nodded, his eyes fixed on the flowers. There was not much expression on his face, but his desire could be felt.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, the guard threw two copper coins to the traveling merchant closest to him.

"Pick me a rose from the flower field over there. This is your reward."

Xie Wei took the two copper coins and without saying anything, led the horse to a flower field not far away. When he came back, he was holding a bouquet of roses in his hand. He sat on the horse and approached the iron cage. The boy in the cage stretched out his hand and he handed him the flowers.

When Sal took the flower, he smelled an unusually familiar scent on the traveling merchant and couldn't help but reach out for Xie Wei, but when he saw his sharp and dirty nails, he quickly retracted his hand.

Xie Wei noticed his actions and only warned him quietly.

"Don't grind your nails or bite them off."

For the current Thrall, the hard and sharp nails are weapons to protect himself, and Shevi doesn't want him to lose this weapon.

The guard looked at the traveling merchant who had picked a bunch of flowers from the flower field, thought for a moment and decided to give him a reminder.

"That flower field looks like it belongs to someone. It's okay to pick one or two flowers, but you picked such a large bunch. If the owner finds out, it's not something you can just pay compensation to resolve the issue."

"Thanks for reminding me, I won't do it next time."

In fact, Xie Wei did not pick roses from the flower field. The bouquet of flowers he gave to Sal was the ones he had just produced.

Holding the flower seeds in his hand, Xie Wei thought of the roses he planted for Sal in Naya Castle.

When winter is over, Cecilia roses are ready to bloom on the snowy fields.

While the guard was talking to Xie Wei, Sal in the cage held the rose and ate it all, including the petals and leaves. By the time the two men noticed him, there was not even the stem left in his hand.

"Are you hungry? It's not time for dinner yet. You're getting more and more hungry. What's the point of eating flowers?"

The guard knocked on the bars, but the boy in the cage ignored him.

Instead, it was when the black-haired traveling merchant next to him asked him why he ate the flowers that the Paraso boy in the cage said something.

"Like, this way no one can take them away."

Because I love Cecilia roses, I eat them so that no one can take away my favorite flowers.

This is the logic of 9-year-old Sal.

Supporting his chin with one hand, Xie Wei found that both the young Sal and the adult Sal seemed to have the same logic.