Estimated reading time: 5–7 minutes
Chapter 6
【Arde’s POV】
My name is Arde.
I am an elf slave, sold off.
That said, I have neither hands nor feet.
On top of that, my face is terribly burned and scarred, hardly something one could look at.
My village was burned down by thieves, and my companions were all captured and made slaves.
I was caught in the same way and made a slave, but I suffered severe burns when the village was set on fire.
My hands and feet were also burned, needing to be amputated due to the severity of the injuries.
Even so, with the slave merchants insulting me, I was fitted with a collar.
So they say, I have almost no commodity value as a crippled slave.
But since I cost money for meals and such, defective slaves like me are greatly despised by the merchants.
But I think it is I who wants to cry more.
To have my village burned, my limbs cut off, to fall into slavery after that, and still be told I’m unwanted and cursed…
I can only curse this fate.
「The likes of you can’t even be a sex slave. You’re completely useless!」
I don’t even have the means to open my mouth and talk back. My throat was also burned and damaged.
I think about biting my tongue off and dying right now, but I can’t even do that.
I think they should just kill me if I’m not needed, but it seems they can’t dispose of defective slaves as they please either.
Though it seems they can if they make me their own slave… I don’t really understand the details.
Even so useless as I am, I’m told there are some who would buy me out of pity.
But no matter how long I wait, there are no signs of such a day coming.
And even if I were bought, it would surely not be a pleasant fate.
Just as I was thinking so one day…
A peculiar person who wanted to buy me appeared.
Eld was the name of that person, still a child.
But he looked at me with a burning, focused gaze.
At first when he took me home, I was anxious about what he would do to me.
But that anxiety quickly blew away.
「Alright, I’m going to cast a healing magic on you now. With wounds this bad, it will take quite a bit of time, but bear with me okay?」
Huh…?
Healing magic…?
And on me, a slave…?
By the master himself…?
At first I did not understand what he meant.
But when the master started using healing magic, I immediately felt comfortable, and my body started being healed.
The master spent a long time, sweating as he treated my face and voice.
Seeing him like that, I was filled with gratitude and emotion.
To think there was someone who would go this far for a slave…
To me, he seemed nothing short of a god.
「A…amazing…! It’s really healed…! Master, you are an incredible person…! Thank you so much! I can’t thank you enough!」
「Well, I mean…whoa…look at that…you’re super beautiful…」
「Oh…m-me, beautiful…?! Thank you so much…」
In spite of myself, those words made me fall in love.
Master Eld was a young man around that age. And his face was very attractive too.
Not only that, he had risked his life to heal me.
How shameless was it for me to fall for such a man after he called me beautiful?
Until now, I had given up on myself as a woman… No, as a living being.
With a face burned like this, no one would ever love me again. I would die never having known love.
Yet he restored my face to how it was before, and even said I was pretty.
The miracle brought about by my master – no, my god – did not end there.
「Alright, next I’ll regenerate your right hand.」
「R-regenerate…?! You can even do something like that…?!」
「Just wait…」
Incredibly, master regrew my hands and feet too.
His healing magic was clearly different from normal magic.
Even among elves, it was rare for someone to get this much effect out of healing magic.
Compared to minor healing magic that treats small wounds, regenerating limbs was on a completely different level of difficulty.
And it wasn’t just difficult – it also greatly consumed the caster’s stamina, willpower, and magic power.
If done poorly, it could even cost the caster their life. Even with master’s talent, that was…
Yet in spite of that, he poured himself into me without care, a mere slave.
How could I not devote myself completely to this master who had done so much for me?
I swore in my heart to serve this master for life as his slave.
「Uu…」
「What’s wrong? Does it still hurt?」
「Sniff sniff, UWAAAH… No, it’s not that. I’m just so happy that master went so far for someone like me…! To think I’d have a day where I could walk again, it’s like a dream! I’m really blessed to be kept by you master. I’ll serve you for life!」
「That’s good. I want to be with Arde forever too.」
Overcome with emotion, I suddenly burst into childish tears.
And master gently embraced me as if I were his lover.
For him to cherish a slave like me so dearly, as a living being…
For me who had given up everything, master had given me life once again.
I would devote this life entirely to master.
After that, I was embraced by master and truly happy.
Even though I’d given up on ever knowing love, to be loved as a woman by master…
There can be no greater joy.
Is it really alright for me to be this happy?
But master is always humble about it, never boastful or arrogant. He must be shy.
「Don’t get the wrong idea. I only healed you so I could use you properly as a slave.」
Even when master says things like that, it is charming in its own way.
He must be saying it so I don’t feel pressured.
Truly, I am fortunate to have been bought by such a wonderful person.
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