230 Determined

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Kazuya had handed out soul contracts he had prepared to every slave that he had brought. While the ones on guard duty were to be briefed after a few of them had successfully completed the process, there weren't many that hesitated to come under Kazuya's banner.

Why would they? All of them had basically given up any hope of ever getting out of their predicament. It was either they would win the favor of some noble while participating in the coliseum or dying in the hands of other participants. All of their other choices had been almost the same. In the end of it all, they were nothing else but slaves.

This young man had offered them an opportunity amidst the risk of death they would have faced in the coliseum anyway. They would not be bound up by chains but rather treated as real subordinates as long as they did not break any of Kazuya's rules or orders.

"(This is…)" Nell had three copies of soul contracts in front of her.