I looked into her eyes, I stared deep into her soul, and she blushed a little for being so intimately searched, but I stood firm, then I said:
- Akira, don t worry, I will treat you with care and respect you all deserve, even though others don t; I will!
She shyly nodded and silently smiled back to me. Stephan, with a small cough, brought me back to reality. He wanted me to give him directions on where each of them would be assigned to.
I first told Stephan that they would probably want to take a bath and eat first, and I told him to take them to the newly built employee dorms, I wanted them to move there as soon as possible, together with the other people, so all would be happy.
I decided them to take a look at each of my purchases background history, so I could understand them better, and be a better patriarch, so I took their papers, sat on my couch and started reading those:
Reinold was the oldest one of the group; he was 20 year-old human, serious and sad brown eyes and black hair. He was about 6 4 feet tall and his skin was black, full of scars. His story was one that was very common for those that end up turning slaves, he used to live in the poorest part of the city, his father was an alcoholic and his mom was a prostitute.
On his early teens, he started drinking, doing light drugs, getting laid with prostitutes. That soon, some years later, gambling and heavier drugs got him some heavy debts, on the final hand he bet his freedom versus all his debts on a Texas hold em poke table, and as usual he lost his last hand and freedom.
Maria was his wife , more like they were living together, sharing the same roof, she was the only person he ever loved, and for a twist of luck they both got to be slavered at the same time by the same person.
Reinold also bet everything he had on that last hand, and Maria was part of that bet , she was a 17 years-old nekomimi girl, she had golden fur on her ears and tail, she was 5 2 feet tall and her green eyes were bursting with will to live.
She didn t hold any grudge against Reinold, she knew he was a gambling addict, so she thought that now, that both of them were slaved but at least were still together, she should stay at his side and help him endure this new life. She accepted the fact the best among them.
The other man was Momiji; he was an 18 years-old nekomimi guy with piercing dark eyes and blonde hair, his fur was black he was 6 1 feet tall, his background was a little different and unique, which drew my attention.
He was the first son of 12 siblings, he worked 2 jobs and did some extra ones, used to get all chances he had to get money to buy food to his brothers and sisters, and it was like that since both of his parents died on a mine accident where both of them worked.
One day, he got mugged on his way home; he just received his monthly pay, he reacted against the muggers and killed 2 of them barehanded, while a third one fled. According to Neo Verona laws, even though he was the one attacked, he still took away 2 lives.
Murder is a death sentence crime, since he was acting in self defense, his punishment was slavement. That was the motive he was so silent and serious.
Saori and Kikuri are twins, Saori is Momiji s girlfriend, she was helping him raise his siblings selling homemade cookies and candy, she was a 5 3 dark haired blue eyed girl, and she was a 19 years old girl that had brown fur.
Her problem was a bit of misfortune, one of the local nobles got really found of Saori candies and used to buy them quite a lot, but he was found dead some time ago, with signs of poisoning, Saori s candies were blamed as if she was conspiring to kill him, since they never found one of her stuff poisoned to justify murder, she was sentenced to slavement.
Kikuri was also trapped together with Saori for the same reason, but she is also 19 years old, it was hard to tell Saori from Kikuri, they were like perfect copies of each other!
They were very grateful I let both of them together, and that set up a REALLY good mood for all of them work. The only one that didn t seem so happy about it yet was Akira she was a bit more relieved, but she seemed rather scared.
These though kept flowing through my head, and I noticed I didn t have Akira s file with me. That was weird, I was sure to have brought it with me well no use worrying about it now I would find out sooner or later
That is, until I heard a scream from the direction of the woman dorm