Ryoumin 0-nin Start no Henkyou Ryoushu-sama Episode 3 Discussion

"They're not slaves, they're human merchandise". Riiiiight. And the distinction is what exactly?

I guess this is a world of magic, so maybe it means actual slaves have obedience crests or other crap like that. We did see someone in a collar, and the girls didn't have any of that going on.

Looks like the approaching lord has an entourage of slaves, though. Seems like some of them might be beastkin too. I doubt that's going to go over well, though perhaps they're aiming to subvert expectations.

Supposedly they were super sick and dying, so they wanted their kids to have a chance to survive away from them -- it'd be too late after they died. Presumably whatever it was wasn't contagious (so the kids didn't have it despite both parents having it) and for some reason they couldn't use that money to pay a healer.

In other words, plot contrivance reasons.

Coughing up blood doesn't do it for you?

At first I thought the episode was critically commenting on the common anime trope of "slavery, but it's OK because the nice MC is doing it." Obviously I was a fool, mere minutes later the nice MC buys orphan slaves despite supposedly hating it. WTF.

If froggy was not a slaver he would not have only taken the kids after being convinced they were "merchandise" and would have given them to Dias without having to be paid. Froggy is 100% a slave merchant.

At first I thought the episode was critically commenting on the common anime trope of "slavery, but it's OK because the nice MC is doing it." Obviously I was a fool, mere minutes later the nice MC buys orphan slaves despite supposedly hating it. WTF.

If froggy was not a slaver he would not have only taken the kids after being convinced they were "merchandise" and would have given them to Dias without having to be paid. Froggy is 100% a slave merchant.

@amf85
That's not what happened. The parents asked the merchant to take the kids because they were dying but he refused and only agreed after they paid him to take them. Eventually the money they paid him ran out and they were eating into his profits so he was looking for someone to take them in, not buy them, and Dias agreed and offered to pay back the money the merchant has spent on the girls up to that point.

@KingGarland
Frog: "we couldn't offload 'em in the beastkin nation, but you're a human, I bet you'll take them."
Frog: "I said no, seein' as I don't do charity work."..."but then they offered money and said I could take them as merchandise"..."but the money is all gone and they're putting me in the red"
Dias: ...And I'll pay in materials to cover what you've spent supporting them.
Frog: "you got yourself a deal sir!"

He refused to take them until he was told he could treat them as merchandise, failed to sell them, so he went to the human nation where he knows they have slave trading. He then accepts the deal after being offered enough money to break even because he's desperate to offload them to anyone because they're costing more money than they're worth.

He's not technically a slave trader (which is why the blue horn showed he wasn't lying), he is a merchant. But he only took them to sell and then does just that.

@amf85
Some extra lines that add context.
Maya: I'm sorry , but we do not wish to purchase slaves.
Peijindo: Ya, got it all wrong. These two ain't slaves! If I hadn't taken as merchandise, they'd be dead, I tell ya!
Peijindo: I said no, seein' as I don't do charity work...but then they offered money and said I could take them as merchandise.
Peijindo: Couldn't say no after that.
Dias: I'll take custody of these two.

He was reluctant to take them until the parents twisted his arm seeing how desperate they were.
There was nothing to indicate he was looking to sell them just to find someone to take them in. If he wanted to make a profit he could have just taken the money and dumped them off somewhere.
Dias did not purchase them but took them into his custody and decided entirely on his own to pay the merchant the cost of supporting the kids.
Peijindo seems to only see things from the perspective of a merchant so he see what just happened as a trade deal.

@KingGarland
Frog: "we couldn't offload 'em in the beastkin nation, but you're a human, I bet you'll take them."
Frog: "I said no, seein' as I don't do charity work."..."but then they offered money and said I could take them as merchandise"..."but the money is all gone and they're putting me in the red"
Dias: ...And I'll pay in materials to cover what you've spent supporting them.
Frog: "you got yourself a deal sir!"

He refused to take them until he was told he could treat them as merchandise, failed to sell them, so he went to the human nation where he knows they have slave trading. He then accepts the deal after being offered enough money to break even because he's desperate to offload them to anyone because they're costing more money than they're worth.

He's not technically a slave trader (which is why the blue horn showed he wasn't lying), he is a merchant. But he only took them to sell and then does just that.

@KingGarland Shrug. Interpret how you want. It seems very clear to me and none of that changes what I've already explained.

@amf85 That's not an interpretation, it's a fact. Regardless, Dias apprehension about buying slaves is in regard to the economics of it, which doesn't apply to this trader who took in the girls as "merchandise" on an exception from their dying parents. At the very least there's a huge difference between a technicality and someone whose only business is slaving. I don't even know what you're arguing about at this point. lol

@LostSpectre I posted an opinion, YOU decided to argue about it. YOU responded to ME. I'm uninterested in arguing with you about it. What happened is very obvious. Believe what you want. Good night.

@amf85 You're completely assuming he failed to sell them as slaves, and not to someone who would adopt them.