After collecting all of my stuff and putting it in my storage ring, I left with the six girls in tow.
“Was it okay to just leave the princess in the morgue?” Celeste asks uncertainly.
“It’d fine, it’s not like she’s tied up or anything. When she wakes up, she’ll just know we’ve left.
“R-right! Not tied up!” Salicia coughs. “So, Boss, since you’re now our Master, are you going to buy us stuff?”
“Eh? What’s that?”
“All of my armor was destroyed upon my death.” Carmine declared.
“Exactly. We’re expensive women with expensive tastes! We need things beyond these slave clothes!” Salicia demanded. “I need armor, and weapons, and magical items, and a personal servant!”
“Why do I feel like I’m being extorted here!”
“Since we’re making requests, I’d also like something to wear that can change size with me. My only shape-shifting outfit was destroyed upon my death. As well as all of the stuff in my ring.”
All of the girls were actually wearing simple servant outfits provided by the palace. Salicia and Carmine were a step below in slave outfits. Well, this was the palace, so even these things were a bit better than a commoner whore, but compared to all the clothing I used to buy them, it seems that it was all destroyed.
“Let me see what I have…” I responded, checking my ring. “Ah… I’m poor.”
I only had change at this point. I had left the vast majority of my money with Faeyna, and since she had been freed, I don’t really know where she is. I had forgotten to ask the prince about her whereabouts. The Prince seemed very busy recently and we only had a few moments to chat. Simply put, we barely had enough to feed ourselves for a few weeks. If I started buying clothing, it’d fall to a few days.
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We finally reached the address the King gave me. We stopped in front of a small mansion. Wait… isn’t this place familiar? It was the smallest place on the block and was about as far from the top as possible.
“Hehehe! Looks like this place is yours now!” A voice came on the other side of the fence that went into our neighbor’s yard.
I had to look over to see a small man standing there. “Pait?”
That’s right, the property we got was the small mansion that had previously been Pait’s place.
“Looks like the royalty finally listened to all my complaints and got us a new place. Sorry, we took everything, even the light fixtures. Had I known at the time you’d be taking over the property, I wouldn’t have been so merciless. Well, at least when I found out, I undid the sabotage.
“Master flooded the place with sewage…” Dav sided. “It took us two weeks to clean it.”
“Haha! He didn’t need to know that!” Pait gave an awkward laugh. “Well, it’s all good now. Since we still owe you a little. Well, you were sleeping so no harm no foul. I’m glad your ladies were able to be recovered. You really should buy life insurance for them. That’s what I did for Dav.”
“A little?” I shook my head wryly. “Wait, what do you mean by life insurance?”
“Eh? You don’t know? There is a service in every city. They tie a gemstone to your lifeforce and then store a few drops of your blood in it. If your gemstone goes out, they’ll know and be able to resurrection you quickly.”
“…” My mouth fell open as I thought about all the trouble I had been in. “Even such a thing exists?”
“Well, it’s pricey. 25 gold coins just to get a gem, and then 1 gold coin a month just for them to keep it. If you really worry, you need 10 gold. In that way, they check your gemstone every couple of weeks. One gold only ensures they store it safely. Your death still must be reported for them to resurrect. Ten gold is needed if you’re going to be far enough away where your death might not be reported or if you find your own friends and family untrustworthy.”
That would have saved us a great deal of heartache and frustration. I wish I had known about this thing ahead of time, but it really was costly. Just paying for the seven of us would take two months’ salary, and I was a part of the high lords.