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“Those participating in the auction will undoubtedly pay a high price for the prisoners. And the new owners might make the prisoners suffer for a while, but they probably won’t kill them. Therefore, instead of entering the auction or mounting an assault, it seems reasonable to approach this with the concept of theft in mind.”
“Indeed… theft does seem to sound more plausible.”
After all the prisoners had been sold, they would be under the management of the individual buyers. At that stage, with Sarkegar’s shapeshifting ability and Eleris’s magic, we would be able to rescue them one by one.
“It might take some time, but as long as we know who bought who, we’ll be able to rescue them one by one.”
I was focusing so much on the black-market auction itself that I had only been thinking about solving the problem during the auction.
The fact that the demons who were going to be sold would have to endure unspeakable hardships during the time before we rescued them made me somewhat uneasy, but this was our best chance to rescue them. And to do that, what we needed were the records of which buyers purchased which demons at the anonymous auction.
Eleris’s plan certainly seemed less dangerous and more reasonable.
“We may not be able to rescue everyone with that method, but it certainly seems safer.”
Sarkegar nodded in agreement.
“However, after we...
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