Chapter 51: Astapor
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(Lancel POV)
After 15 days of travel, Daenerys stared at the city of Yunkai for a long moment, the system gave me information about this city, which I transmitted to the ladies next to me in the carriage.
As I looked at the city, the plan I had with Rhaenys came to my mind, and in which Lisa agreed. Lisa whispered in my ear why I didn't conquer this one first, I replied that we should go to the furthest city and return the same way avoiding the spread of the news of the conquest
"Aren't we going into the city?" Daenerys asks me curiously, seeing that we follow the path without approaching the city.
"No, we're going to Astapor" I tell her and watch Rhaenys take out the chess pieces again, as well as Daenerys's lamenting expression.
"Rhaenys, I'll show you a new game, listen carefully how it's played" I tell them, making Lisa and Daenerys sigh in relief, besides, Rhaenys loves to play games unknown to her.
"What wins the one who beats the others?" Lisa asks me with a confident smile after I explain the game.
"A promise that losers have to keep to the winner" I tell them and look at Rhaenys's enthusiasm
Unfortunately for me, I was the first loser, because I didn't know many cities in this world, also I never liked studying geography and history in my world. After me, Daenerys was eliminated in this round, only Lisa and Rhaenys were left vying for victory.
While they were still competing, I taught Daenerys rock paper scissors to play, so we wouldn't get bored waiting for both of them to finish.
An hour later, Lisa beat Rhaenys by naming many cities that she had never heard of in this world, Rhaenys looked dissatisfied with her defeat, while Lisa looked euphoric and laughing without being able to stop.
Lisa wrote her wishes on a piece of paper, then she cut and folded them into three parts, one she gave to Rhaenys, another to Daenerys and the last one to me.
"You can't open it until I tell you" Lisa tells me with a mysterious smile
"Okay" I tell her putting the paper in my pocket.
"Lisa, this wish will make me suffer" Rhaenys tells her with a pitiful tone.
"You lost, so you must fulfill my wish" Lisa tells her refusing to change her wish.
"Should I do this?" Daenerys asks Lisa with a red face
"Yes, otherwise I won't be able to help you later" Lisa tells her something that I don't understand and that Rhaenys seems to know.
"May I know what it is about?" I ask curiously, and before I activate my spiritual sense, Lisa takes the piece of paper and crumples it up to prevent me from peeking.
"You can't see this paper" Lisa looks at me with a smirk.
"Hahaha, I wasn't going to look at it without permission" I tell her with a red face
"You don't know how to lie" Lisa tells me with a smile, making Rhaenys and Daenerys laugh along with her.
Twenty-five days after passing through Yunkai, we reached Astapor
Arriving at the city gates, the guard stops us and collects the entrance fee from us, I pay him and he lets us through
"What are you doing here Lancel?" Daenerys asks me without using honorifics
"Do you remember that one night I told everyone that I didn't like seeing people being slaves?" I ask a rhetorical question, raising an eyebrow at how strange I feel hearing Daenerys treating me differently.
"Yes, I remember" she tells me and looks at me waiting for me to keep talking.
"I will try to free people from their slavery, for today we will find a place to stay, tomorrow we will meet with Kraznys mo Nakloz" I tell her with a smile seeing his confusion for such a strange name
"Here they speak more High Valyrian than in the city of Mereen, but their names come from ancient Ghis" Rhaenys explains to Daenerys why the names sound strange to her
We entered an inn to spend the night and the next day visit the slave trader. Lisa asked for three rooms, one for us and the other for our companions
"Will you sleep with us?" I ask Daenerys seeing that she follows us to our room.
"Yes" she answers me in a low voice, Lisa takes her hand and together with Rhaenys they lie down on the bed to rest, while I go to the window and contemplate the sea, as well as the colors of the lanterns and the pyramids; In addition, I look at the barges on the Worm River
"What are you staring at?" Lisa asks me with a frown.
"Nothing, I'm just thinking about where I'll sleep" I answer, looking that there is no space for me to sleep
"It won't be on those barges" Lisa tells me and points to where I have to sleep, a chair near the door.
"I feel like I'm your pet" I say with a bittersweet tone
"May it not take long for you to become one" he tells me with a low laugh, looking at Daenerys who fell asleep in a short time next to Rhaenys
"Rest, I'll keep an eye on you" I tell her, looking at Lisa who is also about to fall asleep..
The next day, we left the room to have breakfast before going to find the slave trader, I told them to eat little, to avoid throwing up if they see something they don't like later.
When we left the inn, I told them to pretend not to know the Valyrian language and to only speak to me in the common tongue. That they do not dislike what they hear, that later they can take revenge
We arrived in front of the slave trader, next to him was a girl of about six or seven years old; " Tell them how many unsullieds they want to buy, otherwise they can get out of my presence, since I don't like the face of this young man" Kraznys tells the girl in high Valyrio; she translates into the common language part of what the dealer wanted to tell us
"Tell him what the price is for a single unsullied, knowing the price, I'll make him an offer" I tell the girl, she tells her what I asked her
"Tell this effeminate that an unsullied is worth a lot of gold together with his weapons, as well as his discipline. That's why the price for one of them is around one hundred gold coins" Kraznys tells the girl to translate
The girl replies by telling him that before they were worth fifty coins, he hits her with the tip of the whip making her shut up and tell us in the common language the words of Kraznys
"I want two thousand immaculate" I tell him without showing discontent on my face
"Tell him that if he gives me his three servants I will give him ten unsullieds ones" Kraznys tells us with a cruel smile looking at the ladies next to me.
Hearing this I felt like killing him instantly, but I held back. 'Tomorrow will be your death' I thought looking at him with a smile of false joy
Before the girl told us Kraznys's words, he hit her again and the girl gave us a farewell greeting, and that the deal would be the next day.
Upon arriving at the inn, Lisa looks at me angrily and pinches me furiously, telling me to make Kraznys pay for his offense against them tomorrow. With a frown in pain, I affirm that I will make him pay for tears of blood.
The next day, I gathered the two chests with gold coins together with my helpers and we set out together for the dealer's mansion.
During the meeting, he offered us a banquet, and through the girl he explained to us how strong the unsullied are, as well as the most famous battles they won with so few soldiers.
After the banquet, I gave him the two chests, which his servants took and arranged to count them in front of our presence.
"How will I make them obey my orders?" I ask knowing the answer
"By means of this whip" he tells me, handing me a whip similar to the one he is holding but black in color, since there are not many unsullied around us, I ask him the difference between this whip and the one he has at the hand
"This whip is used to command all the unsullied ones that have not yet been bought" The girl tells us the conceited words of Kraznys, he is in a drunken state, so I take advantage when everyone is distracted to snatch his whip
Kraznys looks at me puzzled, before he gives an order I touch his forehead, making the illusion that I buy all the unsullied ones appear in him, after Kraznys wakes up from the illusion he continues the same without paying attention to what happened
I told the girl to give me the liquid that the unsullied drink, Kraznys tells her to bring it to me after I hear the translation, then I make all the masters drink the liquid and command the unsullied to kill all their masters, men and women; and to leave children under the age of ten alive
"Why did you order the women to be killed too?" Daenerys asks me with a pale face
"In my thinking, it is better to condemn a hundred people than to let one of them cause them some harm later" I tell her without expression on my features.
"But you can protect us, so that wouldn't happen" Daenerys tells me with a pitiful expression.
"Do you see the faces of those children?" I ask looking at the children, she nods.
"No one feels sorry for the death of these people, that means they feel relieved to be able to take revenge on them for the mistreatment they receive since they were little" I tell her, bringing her along with the girl who translated Kraznys' words
"It's true, we wanted to take revenge on the masters, but they have enough military force to persuade us to do it" The girl tells Daenerys, convincing her that I did the right thing
"What is your name?" Daenerys asked the girl taking her hands
"Missandei" the girl tells her, Daenerys tells her that from now on she will be her assistant, she nods in agreement with Daenerys' words.