I surveyed the shop, mainly looking at price tags. Surely the best slave would be the most expensive one! All the hard-hitters were here; goblins, orcs, wolf-like people, golems, and a few hybrids. Thankfully, my choice was simple, as they were sorted in order of ascending price.

　　The one I stopped at was a tall, green-skinned male with with dark eyes and long, pointed ears. I guessed he was about my age. It wasn`t immediately obvious what he was supposed to be though, as he didn`t match the catalogue that the shopkeeper had posted up on the wall.

　　"Hey, what are you supposed to be?" I asked, making no attempt to be polite.

　　"Oh, my dad was a goblin, and my mom was an elf." he responded concisely.

　　"Wow, freaky. So& what can you do?" He didn`t look particularly well-built, so I wondered what warranted the high price.

　　"I`m pretty normal, relative to some of the other slaves. I`ve got a mean uppercut, though."

　　"Yeah, well I wouldn`t call you normal, given your pedigree and all. You do seem strangely relaxed about all of this though. I think I`ll be taking you with me, surely I can find a use for you. Considering the price tag on your name, that uppercut must be quite something." I figured that I could find a way to use sweepstaking to make him more useful if I had to.

　　"Oh, not really. The cost is from these clothes that I wear, actually; I nicked them off of the Supreme Emperor a while back. They got bound to my soul after I did that, so this dude trying to sell me couldn`t take them for himself."

　　"You`re ambitious, I think. I like that. Well I suppose I`ll be unchaining you now then. Also who`s this Supreme Emperor person? I`m kind of, for lack of better words, out of the loop."

　　"Oh he`s the ruler of this nation. Well, he was, anyways..." The slave shifted around a bit.

　　"He, for lack of better words, was?"The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.

　　"I, um, kind of had to off him a while back... for the drip, of course."

　　"Maybe you`re more useful than I thought." I took the key to his chains and released him. "What`s your name, slave?"

　　"Saleo of the Hariseppu." Saleo shook his body a bit to loosen up; he must have been bound for a long time, judging by how stiff he was.

　　"I`ll just call you Sally or something."

　　"Oh, sure. I guess that`s alright."

　　As we left the shop, I made sure to give the shopkeeper the middle finger and spit on his shoe. We spent the night at the local tavern, which I just so happened to be the 50,000th customer of. Naturally, we won a free room for as long as we needed it. Not just any room though, it was the nicest one they had, with lots of sunlight. There were two beds that I assumed were king sized, and they looked well made for the time period that this world seemed to be set in; the walk-out balcony gave us a great view of the entire town as well. Truly, a room fitting for one such as myself.

　　Despite the ample room, I had to be a firm leader, so I made Sally sleep in the closet and put the two beds next to each other so I could have a double-king sized bed.

　　Just as I was about to turn off the light, a voice emerged from the shadows.

　　"Wise choice, my friend. I`m glad you saved room for me." A voice emerged from the shadows, sounding quite familiar.

　　"Tchadd. I suppose you have some sort of instructions for me now?" He climbed into my bed while I was talking, and lounged seductively.

　　"Due to the presence of the Devil King in this realm, all of the water has dried up. I need you to kill enough people so that the remainder can have enough to drink, in the form of blood."

　　"Uh& right. But wouldn`t it make more sense to just kill the Devil King?"

　　"Nah, he`s immortal. He`s only doing this water thing once though."

　　"Oh, sure. Makes sense, I guess. Anyways, about how many people have to die?"

　　"Probably about, like, 90% of the population? It`s gonna be a few months."

　　"Is this something that people in this company can actually do? Like how the fuck am I gonna kill what`s probably like more than a hundred million people in that span of time?"

　　"There`s a lot more than just a hundred million, you know. What you should be worrying about is how to know when you`ve killed enough. I`ll leave that part up to you." He promptly fell asleep, and despite my efforts to wake him up, he did not budge. I`d have to get my answers tomorrow.

　　I crawled into bed with him, of course there was ample space between us, given the setup. Sally kept prying at the closet door throughout the night, without success.