"You're... new here?"
"Huh?"
Hearing the voice, Son of Heaven hurriedly turned to look to the side. In a corner not far from her, a girl about the same age as her was sitting against the wall. She looked exhausted. Although her clothes were clean, her entire body seemed steeped in Death Aura.
"Where is this? What are you doing here?"
At Son of Heaven's question, the girl gave a dry laugh.
"This is hell. We... are here to entertain those lords and masters..."
"Entertain?"
Son of Heaven looked utterly confused by the girl's answer.
"Like singing... dancing?"
This time, however, the girl did not answer right away. Instead, she widened her eyes in surprise and carefully sized Son of Heaven up.
"You... aren't some young lady from a wealthy family, are you?"
"Huh?"
"I can tell just by looking at you."
The girl casually picked up some straw beside her and put it in her mouth.
"There are three kinds of people who come here. One kind gets trafficked here. Another gets sent here because something happened to their family. And then there are people like me..."
As she spoke, the girl pointed at herself.
"Sold here by their parents."
"Huh? Huh?!"
Son of Heaven was even more shocked when she heard that.
"W-Why would your parents sell you to a place like this?"
"Because we couldn't go on living."
The girl sighed and raised her head to look at the fluorescent light overhead.
"Our family was poor to begin with. Then there was a flood last year, and our home and fields were swallowed by it. I have a younger brother and sister, and there were four mouths to feed. We didn't even have rice left to cook. Then someone came to my father and said he could