Rising Of The Shield Hero Web Novel ver

Carrot and the Stick

“Slave Trader!”

I marched straight to the Slave Trader’s tent first thing in the morning.

“What are you doing here so early in the morning Hero-sama.”
“Your Demon Seal was a sham! Depending on your response I might have my dangerous slave and demon here to go on a bit of a rampage, you see?”
“Filo is hungry. Can I do that later?”
“….. If you keep up that behavior I’ll turn you into breakfast instead.”

The Demon Seal that was placed on Firo didn’t work as intended.  Not only that, the option couldn’t even be checked.

“Hm? Now what do you mean about that?”

I then explained to the Slave Trader about what happened this morning.  It sure was rough.  We somehow got Filo to calm down and had her change to her human form and from there headed to the tent.
Raphtalia was hard enough, but Filo on top of that.  Having to constantly stay on watch to make sure they don’t do anything out of the ordinary was stressing indeed.

“It seems the Filolial Queen can undo a normal Demon Seal, yes.”
“Elaborate?”
“You can’t restrain a higher order demon with a normal Demon Seal.  The grand prize of the lottery, the Kiryuu, must have a special Demon Seal engraved.”
“So you’re saying a normal Demon Seal won’t work on this thing?”
“Yes.”

This bastard Slave Trader is happily jotting down this new discovery into some pocket notebook.

“So, will you be giving me this special Demon Seal?”
“Good gracious! That is outside the realm of our free services, yes.”
“What did you say.”
“As you would expect, this is not a cheap process and doing so for free would place my in a rather difficult position.  The costs are starting to weigh down too much on my end you see.”

Damn, it looks like getting any more free services from him would be pretty hard from now on.  Well I guess it can’t be helped considering all the damage I did…

“How much is it?”
“As I look forward to Hero-sama’s future prospects, I will be taking a huge loss and price it at 200 silver coins.  How does that sound?”

Shieeeet that’s expensive.

“Could you please---“
“By the way, the market price for this kind of service is 800 silver coins at the cheapest.  I would not lie about this as I have much hopes placed for Hero-sama.”
Ack!
That was a heavy blow to my consciousness.
I accept my defeat and so very reluctantly hand over 200 silver coins to the Slave Trader.

“……If I find that you’re lying I’ll have my dangerous subordinates start a bloodbath you hear.”
“I understand indeed.”

Filo, who was in the form of the Filolial Queen and looking around restlessly, was taken in by Raphtalia who was holding Filo’s enormous wings.

“Stay right there, Filo”
“Why-?”
“If you do I’ll let you eat something real tasty.”
“Really?”
“Yup.”

With her eyes gleaming, I had Filo stand still at the place that the Slave Trader indicated.
Alright, if you’re going to do your magic now is the time.
I gave the Slave Trader the signal.  The Slave Trader nods his head as well, and 12 of his robed subordinates with their faces covered and invisible, surround Filo.
Then they poured some kind of medicine or other substance onto the floor, faced towards Filo and began chanting their spell.
The floor began to shine, and a magic circle started to unfold with Filo at the center.

“Eh, W-What’s going on?”

Bam, Bam. Filo tried to put up a resistance, but was unable to do so as the magic circle enclosed in on her further.