"...Wait. I would like to end our talk here, but we have two unusual demons in this time's batch. And I think you know what that means..."

Hearing Urgus' abrupt words, the cloaked man turned his head back towards him.

"Unusual demons, you say? What kind of unusual demon can you even get your hands on...?"

The cloaked man's voice seemed skeptical, clearly knowing what kind of demons these ogre groups were.

But it wasn't like he was trying to ridicule the ogre in any way, since these people were betraying their own kin too – just in a different kind of way. They were birds of the same feather, after all.

Urgus also understood the meaning behind the cloaked man's question very well, responding by making a hand gesture to the ogre trio keeping all the demon slaves in line.

Seeing his gesture, one of the ogres stepped closer to us, and forcefully pulled back the long hood covering both of our heads.

"""Ohh....!"""

Immediately, Yera's perked-up ears were exposed along with her objectively pretty face, attracting quite a lot of attention from the cloaked Etherians.

Even my exotic look managed to garner a few 'ooh's and 'aah's from them, though not as much as the Lycan woman, while some of them started talking among each other in hushed voices.

"So, what do you think? For such rare goods, what price do you think you can offer?"

The cloaked man, who seemed to be the leader of this shady group, was left gazing at Yera's face with a clear fascination, his jaws hanging open in the air.

"Hmm, certainly. Those ears, and those canines....she is one of those shapeshifting demons, isn't she?"

The cloaked man was too busy admiring the Lycan's appearance to answer Urgus, instead sending him a question of his own.

"Yeah, and the boy next to her..."

Urgus, not noticing the oddity in his gaze, nodded his head in confirmation, before moving on to explain my obviously forged origins and a few selling points he hastily came up with.

"...he is a special, mutant variation of a Night demon, so charming that even this Lycanthrope woman couldn't resist bonding with him."

"Hm, that's oka—No, what did you say...?"

The cloaked person was about to nod absentmindedly, but suddenly stopped and tilted his head slightly to the side in incomprehension.

"For your information, all Night demons are heavily coveted in our realm because of their natural looks, and this one looks completely indistinguishable from your people..."

Thinking that he was asking for a clarification, Urgus began telling him why I was treated as a special demon, which only served to make the cloaked man's mood darker.

"No, I didn't ask you that. What did you mean by saying that they 'bonded'?"

Urgus made a confused face upon hearing his question, but he still answered him truthfully.

...by making a few shamelessly vulgar gestures in the air, causing the cloaked man's mood to turn extremely gloomy all of a sudden.

'...Yep, you're dead after this anyway. But now you're even more dead, Urgus!'

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Externally, I didn't even bat an eye after he made those gestures, but inside, I was left seething with a stomach full of anger.

I knew it was better for me to go along with whatever nonsense this ogre had cooked up, but the way he phrased it – or should I say gestured? – was just beyond unforgivable!

'I wonder, is he somehow trying to get back at me by doing things like this...?'

The look on this dumb ogre's face didn't suggest that he planned to use such crude methods to exact revenge on me, but his actions definitely felt maliciously aimed at me!

However, even if everything he said was fake, Yera's face still reddened a little bit upon hearing their talk, making me stealthily clench my fists tight.

'Damn it! I already decided to leave my shame behind, why are you trying to bring it back now...?!'

Only through my sheer will, I kept my face deadpan as the soon-to-be-dead ogre explained all the made-up things he knew about us to the cloaked person.

However, even if the dumb ogre didn't notice, I could feel something off about that man's response to those words. His clenched hands were left trembling, while a small vein bulged on the visible part of his lower face as he gritted his teeth.

...It was as if he had experienced a heartbreak immediately after falling in love at first sight, the silent wail of a despairing male resounding in my ears.

'...*sniff*...*sniff*... Ahh, no wonder. It's the smell of a loser…'

The unbearable scent of a loser assaulted my nose immediately afterward, making me certain of my deductions.

But he seemed to recover his wits pretty soon, making it obvious that even if he was a loser, he was not a pushover either!

"Haah... You said this boy bonded with her, huh? Then....isn't it great that we have both of them in a single package?"

After he seemingly took a deep breath, a disgusting grin appeared on his face as those ominous words left his mouth.

'No, what are you smoking, my friend? That ogre clearly said that the woman bonded with me! Your wording feels like it's shifting the blame to me instead...!!'

I didn't know why, but his grin felt a little bit too menacing to me.

With that same disgusting grin on his face, the cloaked man walked in front of Yera, followed by another cloaked person – who I assumed to be this spokesperson's bodyguard.

"Umph!"

"Huh... I'm sure your people must have paid a heavy price to secure someone like her."

Forcefully grabbing the Lycan's chin, the cloaked carefully inspected her face, before turning his head and looking down at me with malicious feelings brewing in his heart.

'Ahh... Here comes another series of drama.'

"Ump! Ugh–!"

Yera was still trying to pull back her face from the cloaked man's grip, but unfortunately, with her limbs tightly chained, she didn't appear to be very successful in doing so.

The man didn't pay any attention to her struggles, keeping his eyes on me with that toothy grin still on his face.

"Heh... Usmark, if I don't remember wrongly, you enjoyed playing with tender young boys like him, didn't you?"

'Wha–?! What is this guy...?'

Goosebumps arose on my skin, as I tried to make sense of the outrageous words that came out of this man's mouth.

But before my puny mind could make sense of the horrific cue hidden behind the man's words, the other cloaked man silently following behind him spoke up in a deep voice.

"...Y-you are...right, sir. B-but does that mean...?"

The barely hidden excitement leaked out from his voice, making one of my eyes twitch as I felt a chilling cold seeping into my spine.

'N-No way... Don't tell me, even in this world—?!'

"Yes. We will have some good entertainment today, it seems..."

"...Oh, no."

As he spoke those words, my eyes widened in horror, a terrified shudder running down my back.

Only now did I understand the meaning behind that disgusting grin on the cloaked man's face...

'Damn it! What sin did I commit to end up like this?!'

*gulp*

As the bodyguard audibly gulped down his saliva, the cloaked man turned his head in my direction and gave me the most chilling smile I have ever seen in my life.

"Now, why don't we finalize our deal for these two demons?"