I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

"Then Angeline and I will wait outside, and Lotte will accompany the princess."

"Okay, Miss Camisia."

Leaving the task of protecting Ella to Ruthie, Camisia took a step back and stood with Angeline, watching Ella, Ruthie and Shen Gan walk into the slave market.

After passing through the gate smoothly, we found that the interior of the slave market was different from what we had imagined. It was not a dark and sentimental place, but an open-air courtyard. The slaves who were sold as commodities were all well-dressed. Although their clothes were a bit simple, they were much better than those seen from the outside world.

Most of the slaves were strong men or plump women, but there were also petite girls and magic casters with magical abilities. However, the signs in front of the latter usually listed the prices in gold coins.

"The people here seem to be in much better condition than those slaves outside."

"Since it's being sold as merchandise, more resources are allocated to food and clothing. If you're interested, you can buy it. The mansion seems to be short of servants."

Perhaps he was already used to this kind of scene, so Shen Gan said it nonchalantly.

The slave next to him heard what Shen Gan said and turned his gaze to Ella. After discovering Ella's clothes and the slave Ruthie behind her, his eyes were suddenly filled with envy and expectation, and he kept making small movements to show his value.

Ella just gave a perfunctory smile in response to Shen Gan's words. Although there were indeed no servants in the mansion, there was no need to arrange servants since there were only four people living there. Camisia also arranged for people from the demon clan to clean the yard regularly. If it weren't for her strong opposition, those demon students would have moved into the mansion as servants long ago.

Every time she thought about the demons working hard while muttering, "It is the greatest happiness to be able to work for the Demon King," Ella felt a sense of wonder.

And in the final analysis, even if he was arranging servants, he was unwilling to give orders as a slave and a master. This kind of forced order was something he had always disliked. If he didn't know how to cancel the slave contract, he would have removed Ruthie's slave collar long ago.

Facing the slaves who kept showing off themselves with a wry smile, Ella pulled Lotte, who had not spoken since entering the slave market, to sit beside her.

"No need, Lotte is all I need."

"what……"

Lotte's face turned red very quickly, and she lowered her head in silence and followed Ella.

“Haa ...

Glancing at the two people behind him, Shen Gan let out a long breath.

"There are many people on this street who can't afford to eat for various reasons. Forced to make a living, most of them choose to come here and become slaves, waiting to be bought by wealthy individuals. But even if they become slaves here, they're not guaranteed a good life. While they might have enough food and clothing for the time being, whether they'll be chosen and sold as commodity slaves is another matter entirely."

"Chosen to be a commodity slave?"

"Well, after becoming a slave here, you won't be sold directly. Instead, you'll be trained by specialized slave trainers and then displayed in the yard. During this time, your food supply will change from nuts and acorns to black bread and salty soup. If you're not sold within a certain period of time, you'll enter a long period of isolation. If you're not bought during the second sale as a commodity, you'll be labeled as worthless and wait to be resold to places like mines that need labor."

After speaking for a long time, Shen Gan looked at the slaves in the yard with sympathy in his eyes.

Not knowing what to say, Ella looked at the slaves with sympathy. If Ruthie had not repeatedly advised her not to sympathize with others easily, she might have taken the money in her pocket and bought all the slaves.

Sympathy...sympathy...

When Ella was sighing in her heart, Shen Gan continued to add, as if to ease the somewhat awkward atmosphere.

"Like that guy just now, he's probably just registered as a slave, waiting to be used as a commodity for the first time. He's afraid of me because I'm familiar with the boss here, and he's worried I'll say something bad about him in front of him and send him straight to the mines—oh, right, I forgot to mention that most people don't actually get the chance to be used as a commodity for the second time, because during the first lockdown, they'll get sick, turn black, and die."

Although he was talking about something very scary, Shen Gan still used that flat tone, speaking completely from the perspective of an observer.

"Dead? No treatment?"

After a moment of silence, Fukagami answered Ella.

"No, the cost of treatment has already exceeded the value of the slave itself."

"Ah, ah, I'll be angry if you say that, Ms. Fukagami, you know?"

Before they reached their destination, a fat woman wearing nauseatingly heavy makeup walked out of the yard, swayed, blew kisses to Ella and the other two, and slowly walked up to them.

Chapter 50 The Possibility of the Black Death

"Ku, I wasn't wrong."

Shen Gan snorted in dissatisfaction as he saw the overweight woman slowly walking towards him.

Ignoring Shen Gan's dissatisfied behavior, the fat woman looked at Ella behind Shen Gan.

"This is—a noble sir?"

"Nice to meet you. I'm Elelaya Nott Mistytin of the Demon Clan, and this is my maid, Lotte Nott."

In order to prevent this man who looked like a slave owner from making things difficult for Lotte after discovering her identity, Ella deliberately emphasized the word "Nott". The effect was very obvious. The fat woman who had been behaving a little frivolously instantly became solemn and bent down to salute.

"So this healer is the Demon Queen those adventurers have been talking about. I'm Hana, the manager of this slave market. I beg your pardon for my poor hospitality, Princess. Are you here to purchase a servant?"

"I'm just here with a friend. I don't have any plans for anything like that. Miss Hana, there's no need to be so reserved. It's going to be a bit awkward to talk standing here. Let's go inside and talk."

Ella glanced at the person who was walking past her and across the yard, and spoke a little embarrassedly.

I felt somewhat apologetic for standing in front of the store and blocking the way even though I was clearly not a customer.

After hearing Ella's words, the fat on Hana's face suddenly squeezed together, revealing an expression that looked like a smile.

"Of course not. The presence of the noble Demon Queen here is itself a form of advertising."

"Hana, Naza and Nayou."

Feeling a little dissatisfied because the two completely ignored him, Shen Gan interrupted the conversation. Considering what Shen Gan said when he came, Nazu and Nayou should be the animals to be taken care of this time.

"Oh, excuse me, Ms. Fukagan, Nazanayu is in the backyard. Do you want to go see her now?"

"Yes."

"Please let me lead the way."

Hana put away the open paper fan in her hand, made a gesture of invitation, and walked out first.

After walking through several narrow passages, Ella came to a place that looked like a backyard. It was completely different from the front yard she had seen before. Most of the houses here were low wooden houses connected together, or sheds supported by a few pieces of rags and branches. There were also oil stains everywhere on the ground, and from time to time there was a hint of the stench of rotting meat wafting out.

In the entire backyard, only two creatures trapped in the corner still had life.

"Ms. Fukagan should have brought some dried meat or something, right?"

"Um."

After nodding slightly, Shen Gan walked towards the two leopard cubs that were trapped in the cage and looked to be still in their infancy.

Looking at Shen Gan squatting in front of the cage and taking out dried meat from the storage items to feed the animals, Hana shook her head helplessly.

"If you like them so much, why don't you take them? If it weren't for Miss Fukagan, these two little guys would have died long ago."

"I have no interest in keeping pets. I just don't want to see the animals I rescue die in vain."

Shen Gan said this as he stroked the leopard cub that had its head poking out of the cage.

"Dead? Come to think of it, Fukagan mentioned before that slaves often turn black and die before they can even be sold as merchandise a second time. Why is that?"

Ella was slightly concerned, as she thought of something bad from the fact that his entire body was black.

The one who answered Ella was Hana, the slave shop owner.

"Because at that time, the slaves would be infected with a strange poison. Black lumps would grow on their bodies, and they would start to have a fever and talk nonsense. They would die within two or three days."

After hearing Hana's words, Ella used the terrain search to take a look at the distribution of people in the backyard - most of them were squeezed into wooden houses with eight people in a room. Their HP was still healthy, but their physical strength was mostly at the bottom. In the most serious one, the HP of the people inside was at the edge of danger, and the word "sick" was marked on the status bar.

Isn't this quite dangerous?

Staring at the group of people whose HP was slowly being deducted in her field of vision, Ella asked the question while pretending to be unaware of the matter, but her clenched hands already reflected her anxiety.

If you didn't see it, it would be fine, but if you saw it and pretended not to see it, your conscience would be tortured - for the time being, you still have enough room to solve this problem easily.

"Is there anyone poisoned here now?"

"Yes, they do, but Master Mistin, are you going to see them? The temple priest said that the ominous poison might be contagious... If that weren't the case, I wouldn't have separated them from the healthy slaves."

"It's okay. As a healer, it's only natural for me to go and take a look, right?"

"If you say so... well."

Soon, Hana brought Ella and Lotte to the wooden house in the corner, but for some reason, Fukagan, who had been feeding the animals, also followed behind.

"This is it. They were all poisoned yesterday. They haven't left since being placed here. But... have you been baptized in the temple? If you weren't baptized and were poisoned, I—"

"Don't worry about that, Lotte. Just change into your battle clothes before going in."

"Okay, Miss Ella."

While Lotte was changing her clothes, Ella began to recall the information she had read.

If we only look at the mental confusion and body fever, it may be just a fever caused by ordinary poisoning, but the black lumps on the body and the almost certain death make me think of the original world, the Black Death that brought great disasters to the West when the sun was in the Little Ice Age in the 14th century - it should be called plague, not so-called poisoning.

Considering that so many people were crammed into one wooden house with extremely poor living conditions, it would be strange that the disease had not yet spread to the entire Sacred Academy.

—Baptism? Perhaps that baptism is the key to why only people here are infected...

"Ms. Ella, sorry for the wait."

After changing into the "Elf's Tribute" that could block out external impurities, Lotte appeared beside Ella.

Ella nodded.

"Well, come on in."

Under the worried gaze of the slave owner Hana, Ella pushed open the half-rotten wooden door, and a foul smell that had not been cleaned for years hit her face. Four people who looked like children were lying on the stone bed, closing their eyes and groaning in pain.

『Low-level identification technique』

Because of the level relationship, the information displayed on the terrain search would not be particularly complete, so Ella could only use the identification skill on the four girls lying on the bed and check the status bar again.

"Is it really the Black Death..."

"Lady Elelaya, have you noticed anything?"

Hana looked curious when she heard Ella's whisper, but her voice in this situation startled Ella.

"Hana? Why did you come in here? Aren't you afraid of contracting this disease? And Fukagan too."

"I've been baptized in the temple, so it's okay. Miss Fukagan was fine when she came into contact with these people before, so she must have been baptized in the temple as well. People who have been baptized in the temple will not be harmed by this kind of toxin."

Chapter 51: The Magic That Saves the Girl

Despite saying so, Hana still covered her nose with a paper fan and looked somewhat frightened.

She seemed to want to say something, but quickly took it back. Ella looked at the slave lying on the bed with a complicated look.

I wanted to say, if that's the case, why not bring these slaves to the temple for that so-called baptism? But then I remembered what Shen Gan had said before, that the value of the slaves might not be as much as the cost of treatment, so I had to swallow my words.

It’s not that Hana is a bad person. It’s more that in this world, Hana’s behavior is normal. People like Ella who don’t consider the consequences and treat others indiscriminately often end up becoming slaves to others or starving to death.

The first one to take action was Shen Gan.

Walking up to the closest girl, Shen Gan lifted the girl's hand without hesitation, and then tried to feel the girl's breath.

"He should be...dead soon—if I do this now, will the people in the temple find out?"

Standing next to the girl, Shen Gan skillfully took out a small bottle of black liquid from his pocket, an action that looked like he had done it many times.

"I haven't reported it to the temple yet...but it would be very troublesome if they found out."

"It doesn't matter."

"Ms. Fukagan, as you're the Dragon King's niece, it's not a big deal, but if those guys in the temple find out, they'll come after me. I've already warned you..."

"Trouble? And what did Fukagan take?"

Ella used a tool to identify the small black bottle. It was not the kind of medicine she had imagined, which was meant to give the girl quick relief because she was in pain. Instead, it was a kind of magic medicine she had seen before, which was expensive and could cure most diseases.

"'Panacea', at this level, one drop is enough."

"Wait, that's not the point. Why do you say it would be troublesome if the temple found out? Shouldn't the temple be happy to see fewer patients?"

Although there is only one God in this world, there are many different churches due to different doctrines. Generally speaking, almost all churches have a decent image, spiritually teaching believers not to fight, and physically setting up temples with medical properties to heal patients. So the scene where this temple looks like an evil one now makes Ella feel a little strange.

"Well... Miss Ella, the temples also need funds to operate. Providing free treatment to non-temple personnel like this not only steals the temple's business, but also does not bring a positive image to the temple. Therefore, most temples do not want to see this..."

"Is there such a thing?... I understand, but it still seems a little strange. Well, never mind. We'll talk about this later. Hana-san, don't worry. Lotte and I won't tell anyone about this. As for the treatment method—Fukagan, can you let me try it first?"

Without answering Ella, Fukano turned his gaze to the slave's owner, Hana. Hana understood what Fukano meant and nodded, making an expression that it was okay.

"No problem. Rather than letting this child die, why not let Lady Elelaya give it a try?"

After getting permission, Ella walked over to the girl where Fukagan was.

The girl in simple clothes had beads of sweat on her face and moaned in pain from time to time. Most of her body was covered in purple and black, and there were rashes in some parts of her body. She was so ugly that people would subconsciously think that she would not live long.

Frowning, Ella raised her hand and placed it on the black-haired girl's head.