Yo, you're awake, don't worry, the operation was successful. ”

When Belle awoke from her slumber, she heard the voice of a strange but nice boy beside her.

I opened my eyes a little confused, and what caught the girl's eyes was a face that perfectly interpreted what it meant to be handsome.

Belle was a little stunned by the strange boy who appeared next to the bed, and it took a few seconds for her to come back to her senses and pat her red face with her hand to sober herself up.

"Brother I don't know, who are you? Where is this? What about my sister? ”

The girl's clear eyes looked at the boy and asked three questions.

This was not the bedroom of her and her sister as Belle remembered, but a bedroom more luxurious than she had imagined, the kind of luxury that perhaps her father's clothing store income could not afford to buy the quilt she was wearing now.

Suddenly came to such a high-level place like the palace in the story, and there was a beautiful boy who was like a prince sitting next to him, such a fantasy unfolding made Belle's brain a little overwhelmed, but these are not the point, the point is that my sister went.

The girl, who has never been separated from her sister since she was a child, can't see her sister at this time, and she is very panicked.

On the other hand, Merlin, who was playing in a different world, couldn't understand it at all, and naturally couldn't get the response he wanted, he was a little bored, he lay back, leaned back on the back of the soft chair, and then said with a smile to the girl who didn't know her situation.

"Your sister doesn't want you anymore, she sold you to me for 10,000 gold coins."

He was mischievous and made jokes that teased children.

"Brother, you lie."

Contrary to Merlin's expectations, the little girl's unexpected wit debunked his joke almost without hesitation.

"Belle can't sell for 10,000 gold coins."

The girl on the bed said with a smug face.

Merlin: "????"

Is that something to be proud of?

He couldn't understand the little girl's brain circuits.

But come to think of it, there are four kinds of currency in this world: iron, copper, silver, and gold, and the exchange ratio is 10:1.

At first glance, this gold coin seems to be quite worthless, but in fact, this gold coin is not made of pure gold, just a little gold added to the coinage process, and now there is only one name left for gold coins, since the banking system has spread throughout the empire, those metal coins have gradually been replaced by more portable paper money, and I even heard that there have been prototypes of memory cards similar to bank cards on the market recently.

In addition, the price of goods in this world is actually quite low, a normal lunch of three dishes and one soup is almost only one copper coin, and the price of a single-family house on a middle-class street on the edge of Xicheng District is generally about 5,000 gold coins.

Therefore, it is indeed quite unrealistic to buy a little girl with 10,000 gold coins, after all, the vast majority of the so-called middle class may not reach this number in their entire assets.

"Well, you're kind of self-aware."

Merlin had to say to the little girl on the bed with some convincing.

"Hmph, of course, I've always been smart."

Perhaps she didn't understand what Merlin meant, and the little girl crossed her hands on her hips again, looking proud.

"By the way, good-looking brother, you haven't answered my question yet? Where's my sister? ”

Belle asked again.

Merlin spread his hands.

"Of course this is my home, and as for your sister, in order to save you, your sister sold herself to me, and now she is being trained as a novice maid in this castle."

Because of the previous momentary soft-heartedness, Merlin finally signed a contract with the sister of the sisters, Anna, although it was daytime, Merlin couldn't use the power of the demon king, but because he was using the body of the illusory snake at the time, the illusory snake as a clone of the snake, naturally also a demon, and the demon contract This is a racial talent skill that all demons will.

So, the moment Anna nodded, the contract was formed.

And to Merlin's surprise, the snake has not fully recovered her count-level demon strength, so the illusory snake she clone is actually just a cannon fodder-level little devil, and the level of the demon contract drawn up by that bit of power is naturally the lowest level contract.

But hell, when Merlin's consciousness left his signature on the contract, the contract that should have been the lowest level suddenly rose inexplicably, as if someone had opened the back door for him, and this low-level contract that should have been automatically accepted by the abyss rules suddenly became the highest contract personally accepted by the abyss consciousness, and this supreme VIP treatment caught him a little off guard.

After all, his original plan was to release a simple little task to them after saving the two sisters, as long as the task is completed, he will tear up the contract and return them to freedom, but now that the whole thing is done, the abyss consciousness has intervened, and it is not so easy for Merlin to cancel the contract.

At the very least, he had to apply to the Abyss Consciousness before he was dissolved, and as for the disagreement after that, even if it was up to the Abyss Consciousness, Merlin's application to terminate the contract with Alice had been called hundreds of times, and there was no answer so far.

Of course, it's actually good that he didn't reply, after all, if the abyss consciousness really replied to him, a few random words of "mother's nagging" could make him, a false demon king, explode on the spot.

However, in this way, the contract could not be dissolved, so what to do with the two sisters gave Merlin a bit of a headache, and finally he thought about it and had to skip today's class and bring the two sisters back to the castle.

If you think about it, Alice is quite lonely alone in this castle full of demons, and she doesn't even have a playmate, and the sisters happen to be about the same age as Alice, so let them be Alice's playmates.

By the way, there are too few humanoid creatures in this castle, although Vioris has the name of the chief maid, but his subordinates are actually bare-bones commanders, and they don't even have an errand and handiwork, and the sisters can teach Vioris to cultivate them well.

Of course, it was only his sister Anna who signed the contract, and her sister Belle was actually still free, so Merlin decided to give her the opportunity to choose freely, he pointed to a set of maid outfits that had been prepared by the bedside and said.

"Now that you're awake, decide for yourself where you're going next, if you want to leave, you can do it at any time, and if you really don't have anywhere to go, then put on this and go and be a companion with your sister."