“Offer’s tempting, Ron. Not going to lie…
But I don’t like to leave loose ends behind if I can help it.”
Eren’s nonchalant attitude turned Ron’s mood and expressions sour. But he couldn’t just give up just like that.
“Eren, what would you gain by killing us? It’s not like we have a blood feud. And think about what would happen if LA comes to find out. Your life will be ruined.
I’m saying this to stay alive, I agree. But it doesn’t change the fact that it’s the truth.
Instead, why don’t we sign a contract that’s completely in your favour? I’ll agree to any condition as long as it’s feasible for me.”
Eren kept on juggling with his two array controllers while hearing what his prey had to say before he executed what he had decided to do from earlier. He said this while continuing his circus act:
“Well, I can certainly go for the hush-hush contract. But it’s not that secure and it can be easily breached. It is more convenient for me to kill you and blame it on the Amazons.
I’ll just have to carve the Amazonian symbol on any nearby tree’s trunk. Then it’ll be taken as you were killed because of trespassing into their territory. It’s a weak excuse, but it’s the one that’ll still work. After all, nobody fuc*ks with those crazy high-ranked femme fatal. Hehe!”
Ron’s eyes opened wide in surprise that immediately turned into his despair. Eren was right. The possibility of Amazonian sentries killing them was low, but never zero. Some of the ladies were known to be hostile to outsiders even without the rhyme or reason.
Ron and Dino thought the Amazonian region to be an ideal place for them to take care of Eren.
But only now did they realize that it was in fact a carefully selected region by their enemy to take care of them while facing the least amount of repercussions. If there were going to be any repercussions heading the vile character’s way in the first place.
Knowing Eren till now, Ron was sure the paranoid guy like Eren would have even more countermeasures ready even if things do turn haywire for him.
Ron knew he needed to come up with something that could bring some assurance to the wretched person in front of him to make him spare their lives. A way that can put them at the disadvantage so that Eren will at least consider sparing them.
“Slave contract! We are willing to sign a slave contract with you.”
Eren raised his eyebrows after he heard Ron finally speaking what he wanted him to speak:
“Slave contract, huh? I know how this idea sparked into your head. You must have done a background check on my information again and found out I now have a legal slave.
A slave contract could work. Tighter restrictions. No easy way to breach the contract. And I’ll always know something is wrong if and when that does happen. Good job, Ron. I’m willing to consider your proposal.”
Said Eren and looked at the beasts that were growling in his presence. They have sensed that their lack of movement and entrapment has something to do with him. So they were trying to intimidate him with their gazes.
Too bad, Eren didn’t have any fear of the two beasts. That’s because he was by now confident in the two arrays he had spent a sizable part of his fortune on.
Dino was mad after he heard Ron’s statements that conveyed that the guy had lost all his backbone after the entrapment. He couldn’t help shouting at his old friend:
“Ron, for fuc*k’s sake, man, have some dignity in dying at least. There’s no need to beg or apologize to this conniving bastard. We… We will die fighting.”
Ron was pretty mad after hearing Dino’s comments. He verbally bit back in response:
“Once a meathead, always a meathead. Get this one thing clear in your head, Dino. you can live with dignity or shame. But there’s no dignity to be had in dying. Dying is dying. And I don’t want to die.
If you want to die while keeping your so-called honour unsullied, go ahead. Be my guest. But don’t drag me into your suicide fest.”
Said Ron while looking angrily at Dino. His gaze told the latter only one thing. Either get killed by Eren or get with the program.
But Ron didn’t need to convince Dino much. Eren’s next words did the job just fine:
“Ron, if the man wants to die, let him die. No need to get angry at him for speaking his mind out. Dino, we both shall kill you nice and easy before pinning it on the Amazons. Hehe!
Here, Ron. take this. A slave contract. You know what to do.”
Just as Ron thought, Eren had come prepared. Then all of this was just pressure tactics. A tactic that worked on him so far because of him caving in. Eren wanted them to be his illegal slaves. He just let him come to that conclusion on his own.
Eren threw the contract Ron’s way and offered him just enough freedom of movement to catch it with his hands via the array’s controller. The latter opened the contract scroll and read the terms and conditions carefully.
This was an illegal slave contract, one which wasn’t approved by the Edinburgh kingdom. Carrying and enforcing the contract was a punishable offence to both the owner and slaves bound by the illegal contract.
Hence illegal contracts tended to be even stricter when it came to information breaches compared to their legal con=unterparts. And the severity of breaching the contract conditions was instant death.
These were the C-Rank contracts Eren had also asked Jack to deliver to him along with the array scrolls. They were costly as well, but compared to the array scrolls, they were basically peanuts.
Eren gave the slave contract to Ron and thought of teasing Dino some more.
The array lit up again after Eren tinkered with its controller. The runes lit up on the ground started producing a buzzing sound. And a few tongues of electricity could be seen getting produced from nowhere.
Dino regretted speaking so boldly. Then he looked at his old friend who didn’t even pay him heed. Because he was busy reading the contract.
Even a meathead like Dino had understood that this was all Eren’s plan all along. But he was also sure that the wretched person was ready to make him disappear from this world should he decide to not cave in.
“Wait… you mother***… Err… I mean Eren. just wait. I… I am ready to sign the slave contract.”
Dino finally decided to follow Ron’s example.