As I open the door, the sounds of music were the first thing I could hear.

It was coming from the staircase leading down below.

As I descend, I carefully hid behind a stash of boxes, to not let anyone see me.

The entire area was like a strip club in my old world.

There were a couple of platforms raised up with a pole in the middle.

At first glance, anyone would've thought that it was a normal brothel, but as I look closely.

On one of the platforms was a girl, her bruised skin lay bare as she forcefully moved her body to dance.

A metal collar could be seen wrapped around her neck.

I know from the novel that the owner of this slave market has a device on her that can activate those metal collars and the head of the wearer would roll on the floor.

In the novel, in an attempt to save herself, she would sacrifice a poor slave, to show to Reynold and Oliver, that if they approached her, all of the slaves would die in front of their very eyes.

And I cannot let any of that happen,

I soon scanned the buildings with my sharpened eyes thanks to the lens.

Looking for any signs of the cougar,

Sh*t

In the novel all that was described about her was that she was an old woman.

And currently, now, there were a lot of ladies with wrinkles on their faces present in the area.

And I have no idea on which of them is the owner.

I got back out of the area and took off my mask outside the door.

After deactivating my skill, I once again head back in and descend the stairs.

Some of the guards standing watch looked at me strangely, but after that a while, they stopped.

I immediately made my way to the bartender,

"What's your poison?"

The bartender greeted me as I sat on one of the stools, he was wiping a glass cup with a cloth.

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"No, thanks, I actually have a question,"

"It would cost you,"

I inwardly curse in my mind.

"Here,"

I slip him a 200.

He took it instantly and put it inside his pocket, and continued to wipe the glass cup.

"I'm all ears,"

"I'm looking to buy one of your slaves, who should I talk with?"

"Aren't you a bit young?"

"I have the bells,"

"Fine,"

He then stopped cleaning the cup and pressed something beneath the table.

Then two guards approached me from behind,

They had muscles bulging from their black suit both were wearing dark-shaded glasses.

One of them soon spoke,

"Follow us,"

I then stood up from the stool and carefully followed them from behind.

We soon got inside a room, in the center were two couches, a small table in the middle of them, and another one full of papers at the corner.

"Wait here,"

I soon sat on one of the couches, and the two guards stood still in front of me behind the other couch.

After a couple of minutes, a freckled old lady in her 40s soon entered and sat down on the couch parallel to me.

She was wearing an extravagant piece of clothing that revealed her nasty shoulders and one of them was a tattoo.

It was a doglike creature with 3 heads, like the Cerberus.

I soon gaze back at her as she took a puff from her pipe.

"I was told that you were planning to purchase one of my products,"

A nerve was struck within me as I hear the woman speak,

To call a person a product?

But I held it in,

"Yes,"

From out of her pockets, she then threw a piece of paper on the small table.

"Pick one,"

I then grabbed the sheet on the table.

As I carefully read the contents.

There were countless different women and men,

Some of them old, most of them young.

Each and every kind except for demons were available for sale.

Anger was present inside of me,

But I buried it down once again,

"I'm interested in the girl named Mellisa,"

I say to her as I hand her back the paper.

"Good choice, she cost 400K bells, do you have the money?"

"Yes," I lie to her without any hesitation.

Afterward, she gestured her hand toward one of the guards.

He soon left and came back with a girl.

She had short black hair, and a face full of bruises,

Her green eyes were devoid of life, the metal collar on her neck making her hard to breathe.

"Here she is,"

I look back at the cougar,

"Is she to your liking?"

She was smiling as she looked at me,

I held back my anger for the third time today,

"Yes,"

"Then, wait here, let me go grab the contract,"

She then stood up and started making her way toward the corner of the room.

As she had her backs turned against us one of the guards looked at Melissa while licking his lips.

While the other one faintly laughed.

The poor girl shuddered,

I then put my hand on my chest,

I can't hold back any longer.

*BANG* *BANG*

Two silent gunshots,

*SPLAT* *SPLAT*

Two sounds of the human brain popping,

*THUMP* *THUMP*

Two sounds of corpses falling.

The cougar immediately turned back,

The pipe on her hand fell to the floor.

Her eyes were shaking as she stared at me,

"Wa-wait!,"

"We can talk about this,"

"You need money, I can give you some!"

"You want that girl for free, she's yours!"

Her pitiful begging failed to bring any mercy from me.

Seeing that her pleading wasn't working she soon let out a green aura and reached for her pockets.

*BANG*

The bullet was able to easily pierce through her D-tiered aura, and her body instantly fell to the floor.

Blood flowed through the carpet.

Not a single remorse flowed through me.

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