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  It took a while, but I managed to secure the parts we needed. Unfortunately not all had gone smoothly. As I had left the knight workshop, I saw my sister. A mana nullifier on her wrist and worse, a colr on her neck.

  "Put the colr on, elf bitch. This here, is a paired colr. If you don't put it on, your sister dies."

  Gritting her teeth, I did as I was told. I took the colr and gred at the men before me, then the colr snapped around my neck. The men roughly dragged us to a tent.

  "Can we taste 'em?"

  One of the men asked, only to receive a sp up the back of the head.

  "Are you fuckin' stupid? The boss specifically said if we do ANYTHING to these women, he will torture us to death, very, VERY, slowly."

  The man who asked swallowed hard, looking like a tasty morsel was snatched from his pte. With a sour look he responded to his superior.

  "Then I need a brothel, I haven't got id in over a month hunting these bitches."

  The bigger man gres at him.

  "Do that when we are done, we need to get to the next town. Meet up with the merchants men, then we can have a month to do as we want."

  The men all chuckle, the look they had on their faces made me feel sick. She couldn't help thinking.

  'Are all men disgusting perverts?'

  After getting to the tent, myself and Nura are stripped of our possessions. Then shoved roughly into a carriage, then after being sent from where we were to an unknown location

  "Big sis... I am so sorry..."

  I shake my head.

  "Don't worry, I will find us a way out of this."

  I didn't know how I would, a mana nullifier on my wrist, a paired colr on my neck. Was there a way out of this? I didn't know, but the second I had a chance I would try. Even if it killed us. It was a week before we arrived at a new town. A sve merchant. Our chastity was checked. Then we were given bnkets and put in a back section of the tent.

  "Why put us here alone?"

  Nura asked, I too was curious. There was only one expnation.

  "They are hiding us, if the elves ever find out about us. Being ensved it could spark a backsh. The elves aren't understanding of the lower races and their slights."

  I expin my thoughts, she nodded. I did manage to convince the sve merchant to remove my colr, since I told him I could only use house keeping magic. Cleaning, heating etc. So I was able to detect and remove drugs in our food, intended to make us compliant puppets by the time we arrived for our buyer. I also broke my mana nullifier, this guy was poorly informed and as such didn't know my skills, but he would likely check soon and back on it would go. So I had to make sure it didnt work before that. He did order me not to remove or tamper with Nuras nullifier though. It was my one issue, if I could have gotten that off, we could be gone colrs left behind in an instant.

  "If only I can find a loophole in that order..."

  There were a few, I could have someone else remove it. Then tamper with it, before it goes back on. Unfortunately, everyone seemed to know of Nuras skill. I only got mine off from giving half truths while under contract magic. Luckily my mother only taught me none combat magic, I had to learn that on my own with books my father provided. I couldn't use the shadow step magic, they didn't know which of us could. Me getting mine off required me confirming my sisters shouldn't be removed. I couldn't hold her coin and undo orders, since our coins were linked with silver steel. As such they counted as both mine and hers, since a sve can't touch their own coin, we couldn't go that route. If it had been two normal colrs, I would have killed the sver as soon as my nullifier was removed. Nura grabbing my coin and me hers. Then we could undo the orders, then off with her nullifier and off to the forest, but unfortunately it wasn't to be, they were heavily prepared. Apparently they had an idea of the shadow powers versatility. We had our location changed multiple times, the st time we were transported with a girl with blue hair.

  We ended up in the city, not far from where we were captured. It should have only taken a week to get us here, instead it had taken months. Months being fed cheap gruel and leered at by fists and ruffians.

  After arriving, we were washed, fed and dressed in shabby clothes. We were also checked for chastity. Which was still intact. Finally the sve merchant told us of our fate, the man who had ordered them ensved was on his way. He would arrive in a week. It looks like my pns just got a time limit.

  It was our first night, so me and Nura slept hugging each other, waking up we were given a soup and bread. I quickly get rid of the drugs, then me and Nura enjoyed a good meal.

  "We need to start pretending to be drugged and more compliant. It is unlikely we should be able to resist drugs at the levels I just removed."

  The rest of the day was boring, me and Nura discussed options. Hopefully we could trick someone into removing Nuras nullifier after being paid for, but preferrably prior to that. I decided to sing the lulby my mother sang me and Nura as children.

  "Tall Trees~, Green~ Leaves, Roots that run deep~. Home~ is the heartwood. No one can stand as tall as we~. Know~ your heart, know~ your soul, know~ your path to truth~."

  I smile as I look at my sisters head on my p, her eyes soften as I sing the lulby over again, until not only she was asleep, but even my own eyes were starting to grow heavy.

  The second day, the merchant checked on us and tried to get Nura to suck his dick. I lunged at him, fighting the sve colr as much as I could I managed to get my spell to scorch his exposed junk, just before he got to order for me to stop. He wailed in pain as he left. After that I got a new nullifier and me and Nura were both chained up. I shouldn't have snapped, it left us in a worse spot. I just lost it, with that disgusting pig ordering my little sister to taint herself.

  The next two days we didn't receive food, nor did the merchant visit us. We were just chained to the walls, unable to even huddle together for comfort.

  I was so broken, I look over at my little sister.

  "I... I can trigger my colr to kill me. It will take you with me, so..."

  Nura smiled at me sweetly.

  "If we fail to get away, just before one of our purities are taken, we do it then."

  Tears ran down her face, and I could feel the same. We knew it, we were going to die in a couple of days. We were so lost now.

  My eyes open, it was the fifth day since they arrived here. I hear muffled and pained compining coming from a famiir voice, then as the door is opened. We see the sve merchant get forced into the room. A tall man, a very tall tiger woman, a human knight and an older woman following after.

  The tall man approached Nura, my sister was entranced by him. I knew why of course, she thinks I am stupid. I knew about that picture in her knight, I still remember her reading that book written by his friends, the man who syed the demon king.

  This man before us looked the spitting image of his younger self, maybe a bit taller.

  "Leave my sister alone, you filthy man!"

  From the conversation that followed, I realized this was technically a robbery. Then after being given the reset orders order, the mana nullifier was removed. I volunteer my magic to alter the sve merchants memory. My sister immediately started robbing the unconscious slime ball of every penny. Our new masters sves seemed to hold him in high respect. Especially the tiger woman.

  On arriving back at an apothecary of all things, he asked us.

  "So, what is you twos story?"

  He said leveling is striking blue eyes on me and my sister.

  "H...h...hi, my name is Nura... erm"

  My sister was practically drooling, so without letting out the frustrated sigh I could feel building, I interjected.

  "My name I Lei, this is my sister Nura. Our parents were taken by the Elven nation, fairly sure our father is dead. Not sure about our mother. We have been on our own for 3 winters, soon to be four. We just want a pce to be safe and warm."

  Nura looked at me, hurt that I would stop her talking to her ideal man personified. The man for the most part just nodded along.

  "Okay, I seem to understand now. How did you end up as sves?"

  I gnce at Nura, who flinches. Then after some fidgeting under my stern gaze and Conners expectant one, she finally speaks.

  "I was taken by surprise, I was being a bit zy. Then in an instant, I had a mana nullifier on my wrist, then they threatened my sister. If I didn't put on the sve colr, they said.."

  Conner raised his hand, my sister had tears in her eyes.

  "No need for details, bckmail, threats and lies. That is all I need to know, they threatened your sister if your didn't comply. Then I am guessing that this coin linked to another, means you are in paired colrs. Hilda told me about them particurly nasty. With one on you, your life was leveraged over your big sister. Making her a sve... I fucking hate svers.."

  I could feel a burst of energy erupt from Conner, it was immense and terrifying.

  'How can one man have this much energy!?'

  It was then I noticed it wasn't mana, it was something else. I had felt it before, this was pure natural energy. No one else seemed to notice, except for myself. I looked around and saw the girl with blue hair, she had noticed it too. I could tell from her body nguage. Then as suddenly as it had risen, he sighed and all that natural energy withdrew. It was surreal, and no one other than me and the blue haired girls felt it. That power was crazy, pure and incredibly intense. She was actually a bit fttered his anger for her and her sister was such, to cause said reaction.

  I smile internally, while maintaining my face in its normal neutral expression.

  "After capture, we were transported all over the pce, likely to hide our tracks. Same with the blue haired girl."

  The girl in question interrupts.

  "Emilia."

  I nod.

  "Emilia joined us for the st carriage ride and then seperated into the next room after arriving."

  Conner nods along, his gaze only leaving me to gnce at the girl in question, then return to me.

  That calm, serious gaze.

  I quickly school my thoughts, there was something going on with that mans eyes. She had to keep her mind.

  "After arriving here, me and my sister were trying to escape. At the very least to come up with a pn..."

  He nodded and stood between me and Nura, holding up our coins. Then a warm golden aura burst from his hand. Then as if no time had passed, it faded. He stumbled, dropping to his knee. A loud ctter hitting the stone floor. My eyes track to the noise, then widen. It was a paired colr, coins connected.

  My hands tremble as they graze my neck, a tear escapes my eye. I look at my sister, her eyes never left Conner.

  I swallowed, then touched her neck. She jumped, grabbing my hand, then froze. Her fingers wrapped around her neck, the absence of a colr felt in an instance. She turned to look at me and lept into my arms, crying into my chest.

  We were free, without any motive or any cost to ourselves. Conner had set us free. After undoing mine and my sisters colrs, Conner looked drained.

  Conner wearily turned to Emilia.

  "So princess, what is your story? The short version please, I am pretty tired after that colr removal."

  Emilia blushes a little, the pet name shaking her from her prim and proper persona. However, she catches herself and manages to push onward. Despite Conners perfectly timed flirt. My eyes drift to his and he notices, winking at me. This pyful and mischievous side reminds me so much of my father, the fact he might be no longer with us...

  "My name is Emilia, my mother was killed by bandits, along with the whole town. I was apparently the target of a noblemans design, to what ends I am unsure. However I am most pleased to have been rescued from such bondage."

  Conner blinked, even I was taken back. The way she spoke was of high css nobility. I decided to speak up.

  "Emilia, are you a noble?"

  She smiles softly.

  "My father comes from a Ducal family, he is not the heir, however he was given more favour after marrying my mother and subsequently my birth."

  I nodded, Conner was right.

  She is a princess!

  Conner just smiled as if he was proven right, by the goddess he was just like my father.

  "Well, that will do for now, one more thing to do. Then I can go get some much needed rest."

  With a pyful smile, he reached out and gently touched her colr. That same golden glow, then a ctter. Then a thud as Conner fully colpsed, unable to catch himself. The three women who obviously were his lovers from the looks in their eyes, rushed to help him up. After Emilias colr dropped to the floor, Conner looked exhausted. Happy, but exhausted. He even had blood in the corner of his mouth.

  I couldn't believe it, it was too good to be true. All the fear, pain and humiliation, not to mention the dread of what was coming, the readiness to take my own life and the life of my sister. This kind, cheeky, handsome man, stormed into our lives, saved us and gave us hope and freedom. On top of all that, he offered us a home. Something we had wanted for a long time.

  A home.

  The man who had once briefly been her master, had, after only an hour of being so released her and Nura. He wasn't like any man I had ever met. He had a softness that I hadn't seen outside of her mother, the cheeky pyfulness of her father.

  She looked over at how he interacted with his sves, especially the women. Unlike their mother, her and her sister didn't hate men, but learned that behaving like that, made men keep their distance. We had stopped acting like that with Conner after leaving the sve house, their saviour had long earned their respect, and a little admiration.

  She also saw how he behaved with women he accepted as lovers. First was the Sheep woman Hilda, she had been twisted with healing magic, I could see the damage, it was very twisted heeling magic. Making her appear human, even if she was in constant agony.

  That was until they left the city, he had restored her to her true self. Held her, kissed her and everyone heard how they were that first night. She was even quite a bit younger.

  (AN: Picture in glossary updated.)

  After he returned Hilda to her true self and still looked at her the same way, it made me happy for her.

  It was obvious why the woman fell for the strange human man. However he also slept with the fox woman and tiger woman. He was even flirting with a lizard woman, pying into her courtship. Following the swaying of her hips as she entices his eyes. If she was being honest with herself, she too was drawn to the man. He made her feel comforting, like no one had apart from her father.

  He didn't like the idea of sves and didn't treat them like they were. Most of these sves looked at him with reverence. She gnces at the blue haired princess, it was obvious that blue Knight had foreign design. She obviously had a unique bloodline too, from what she overheard the girl was the daughter of a wanderer, this was big. She was definitely going to.... her eyes shot to her Conner, she pondered on how he looked like the hero who went home.

  "Could he be a wanderer."

  He was tall, regal and handsome, but smart and kind. He was unlike any man in the world. Because he wasn't from this world.

  "Sister?"

  I looked at my little sister, I saw her looking at the man with a blush. It was easier to see on her, having lighter skin than even their father. However they were both basically full elves in appearance. She had the same hair colour as her father, but Nura had hair that father said was like his mothers in her youth. Neither had inherited the vibrant purple hair of our mother. Although I had gotten our mothers eyes. Nura was born with red eyes, that neither our mother or our father had. Nura was also lithe and ft chested, which was not true for our mother or myself, they were both blessed in that area. She shook her head, gncing at Conner once again, he noticed her, smiled and waved softly. She tried to remain calm, she knew her dark skin blocked her blush, but she could feel the warmth on her cheek. She returned a refined wave, trying not to let her attraction to him force her to look away. Although her mother was a sve, she got along with her father. He truly loved them both. Refused to put colrs on them, he taught them everything about being knight commanders. He doted on them, so both her and her sister never gained the man hating nature of elves, but they learned to use it to their advantage. This man over the st few days, he was like their father. She could feel his kindness, the will to care for others. Her father was a brutal man when it came to a fight, but he loved their mother and them both.

  "Nura.. I think I am falling for that man."

  Nura nodded.

  "Me too, but.."

  Lei hugged her little sister.

  "I would never want you to give up on your love, he already has three women. I don't mind sharing with my sister."

  Nura hugs her sister back.

  "I love you Ley."

  "Love you too Nunu."

  They re enter the knight of their master.

  "So, any guess why he has all these extra panels and compartments?"

  Nura thinks out loud.

  "I mean, having snacks and drinks in a long escort, it definitely helps right?"

  I smirk, taking another piece of jerky and begin to chew it. Humming as the sweet fvour spreads in my mouth, this was apparently his personal recipe jerky. The one made normally was dry, with a hit of spices. His was sweet, juicy and you could taste the smoke, all with the under current of the meat, this one being some kind of oxen. She was truly addicted to his cooking, she had tasted it twice since in the st three days.

  I gnce at Nura, she too was in a state of bliss from the jerky. Unlike her though, a fsh of determination came over Nura, as she vanished into shadows, using her shadow step skill.

  "Oh no.."

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