Ok, big surprise, there's actually a title for Off-worlders? So why don't I have one? And what do you need to do to get multiple titles?
Not that I'm jealous about it or anything of course.
At least I now know why he was so eager to turn himself over since he could use his Astromancy to teleport himself out from his binds later on.
Also, I found the transmigrator who is trying to solve slavery singlehandedly by freeing all the slaves he comes across! I knew there would definitely be at least one of them!
Although the fact that he's a bandit brings some questions to the method that he is using to free them… The fact that he has skills is Assassination as well does not help his case either.
I can most definitely take all of them on if it comes to a fight but I worry that Lisa may be caught in the crossfire and that would be pretty bad.
"What do you think, Lisa? Should we take the deal?"
Lisa shrugged, "I don't mind either one! If Miss Aster wants to claim the reward, then turning in the leader of the bandit group is also an option too!"
I turned back to the bandit, "In that case, I accept your offer."
He sighed in relief and nodded at his companions who quickly left the room while avoiding eye contact with us. The fact that none of them even said any word of protest pretty much confirms that they already planned this ahead of time.
"Where are they going?" Lisa asked perplexedly.
The bandit leader sighed, "To recover their brethren of course… They will need to take whatever we have acquired and make the long journey north home… Without me of course."
"Lisa, I think you might need to help them untie those bandits you captured… I don't think they know how to undo your ropes."
"Ah! That's right! I'll go help them! If they try to do something to me, I'll shout for Miss Aster to help me! Ehehehe~ Getting rescued by Miss Aster doesn't sound too bad~"
She quickly pranced outside to follow those Wrunches, leaving me alone with their boss.
He turned to me, "So… I guess err… You can just tie up my hands or something… Just not the legs unless you want to carry me off by yourself…"
I grinned, "Why? So that you can still move after you've teleported away from us after your people have ran off?"
He narrowed his eyes at me, "I'm… Not sure what you are talking about, Miss Nilm."
"Oh? Looks like you picked the [Screened] boon as well, huh? I never said my family name out loud, you know?"
The fact that he doesn't know the significance of my family name is also a big indicator.
He froze for a moment before his face broke into a grin, "I see… But how did you manage to hide your Off-Worlder title?"
"Haaa? I was about to ask how you got your Off-Worlder title! I didn't get a title until recently, you know?! In fact, you're the first person I've seen with multiple titles!"
He frowned, "What are you talking about? Have you not been using your boon on yourself? You have multiple titles too? Like quite a lot of them…"
Eh?
I did a quick check on my status and…
I still only have the "Young Mistress of Nilm Family" as my one and only title.
"What the hell are you even looking at? I only have one title!" I fumed, upset that I actually got excited for nothing.
"Huh? Are you even using it correctly? You have so many titles it's not even funny… It took me a while to even confirm that the Off-Worlder title was absent from the list!"
"Wait… What titles do you see?"
He raised an eyebrow, "Are you being serious?"
I nodded quickly.
The Wrunch sighed before squinting his eyes at me, "Aside from the one you had said, there's also 'The Dearest Child', 'The One And Only Dearest Little One', 'Prodigal Child', 'Destined Conqueror Of The Stars', 'The Adored Young Mistress', just to name a few…"
"Why can't I see it then?!"
He shrugged, "Beats me… I wanted to ask though… What's a futa?"
My head snapped towards him, "You can see gender too?!"
"Err… Yes? So what does it mean when someone's gender is a futa? I've seen it plenty of times on some people but I don't know what it is."
"Wait, wait, wait… You have no idea what a futa is? What were you doing back in the old world?"
"I was an office worker in my late forties, young lady."
"Do you know what anime or manga is?"
"You mean those silly cartoons for children?"
Oh… Err… Ok… This kind of makes sense now… Also fuck you.
I cleared my throat, "It means… Well… It means I have both reproductive organs in between my legs."
His face turned from one of confusion to surprise to shock and then to disgust in that order.
"What the fuck?! What the hell do you mean you have both?! Are you a freak? And you picked this option for yourself?! You ought to be ashamed of yourself, young lady! This is disgusting beyond comparison!"
I raised an eyebrow at him, "You do realise that futas are also rather common in this World, right?"
"And they're all disgusting! I can't believe I've even talked to them now! If only I had known! You really are a damned freak!"
"Errr… I don't get it… What's so freaky about it?"
He pointed one of his fingers at me, "There are only two legitimate genders! Anything else is just wrong!"
"You do realise you're saying that while being a Wrunch right?"
"This and that are two different things!"
What the hell is this guy even on about? Is he just jealous about the fact that I got both a pussy and a cock to play with?
I shook my head, "You know… If you really want to change yourself to a futa, you can just go learn Somatomancy or something… There's no need to take out your frustrations on me…"
"Who would want to change themselves into something that disgusting?! Only the truly perverse and sick in the mind would even think about choosing such a thing!"
Ok… I admit that I might be a little bit of a pervert but hey… It's a normal thing in this World and you're the abnormal one you know?
Oh wait… He's going around trying to liberate slaves so he's definitely abnormal.
I sighed, "Whatever… Andrew right? I think you might want to keep those opinions to yourself or you might get into trouble around here… This World isn't that nice, you know?"
"Ha?! What are you talking about?! You picking a fight with me?!"
I leapt the distance between us and kicked him in the abdomen, sending him crashing into the wall and leaving an imprint.
I then used a hand to grab his throat, lifting him up to face me, "Did you forget? You are technically a bandit right now with a bounty on your head. I can very well kill you and even claim a reward for your damned head. Heck, I can kill you here and no one would even bat an eye either. You really want to go there?"
"You… You wouldn't kill a fellow from the same world, right? And what's wrong with liberating slaves?! Slavery is the worst! It deserves to be abolished!"
I sighed and dropped him on the ground, all the anger in me leaving my body when I heard those ridiculous words of his.
"Andrew, Andrew, Andrew… Do you even know the name of this World?"
He massaged the throat that I grabbed, "Cough… Ugh… What does that have to do with anything?"
"Just answer the question."
He kept silent.
I waved my hand at him dismissively, "So you get sent to a new place and instead of adapting to that place's customs and values, you force your own on the locals instead? Is that what you do when you go touring in the other World as well? The locals must love you."
His jaw clenched and his brows furrowed, showing that he most definitely did not agree with my sentiments.
I shook my head at him, "Let me guess, you're going to tell me that slavery is an evil thing no matter what World we are in? I never said it was not evil, but maybe you should go and see how this World is affected by it before making your decision about this matter."
"Why? Are you going to tell me that it's because a huge chunk of the economy relies on it and thus we shouldn't do anything that will mess up the status quo?"
"Like I said, why don't you spend more time researching on this topic instead of reusing your old world values in this new World?"
"Hmph! Why should I even bother?! It's already clear that it's an evil that needs to be removed! So why not just work on dismantling it?!"
"Do you even know why those people you rescued became slaves?"
"Why would I even bother?! They were forced to work in the mines and that's grounds enough to rescue them!"
"Because only criminals get sent to the mines… You basically broke out a bunch of criminals from their sentencing… I'm going to guess they might have been pillagers or bandits themselves before they got caught and sent to work in the mines… In this World, being jailed for a crime is not that common you know? It lowers efficiency when able bodied people are sent to be locked up and they still need to keep the prisoners alive too…"
"Ha! Say what you want, but what does that matter to me?! You can say such things easily because you aren't one of them!"
"Because your attitude really pisses people off," I told him as a matter of factly before delivering an uppercut to his jaw and knocking him out.
Yeah… Originally, I had wanted to let him go on account of him being an Off-Worlder, but I guess handing him over to the knights might give him a much needed wake up call.
"Miss Aster!! That was so cool!"
I jumped at the sudden voice to see Lisa standing there with a big grin on her face.
How… How long was she there?
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