Sephiroth walked through the lower "cargo hold" with Marguerite, watching the knights free the slaves along the way, though they also sorted them into groups and kept them under guard.
The women and children were placed together, while the male slaves were kept under supervision.
"Your Majesty, we found a problem in one of the rooms on the middle deck... We need your decision."
A knight jogged over to Sephiroth to report.
It was indeed something they had never encountered before, and they dared not handle it on their own. After all, they knew their High God... was exceptionally merciful.
"...Let's take a look first."
His emotion absorption told Sephiroth that his subordinates seemed to have wildly overinterpreted something again, but now was not the time to discuss it.
The knights saw Sephiroth head toward the stairs to the middle deck, with a spirited, beautiful blonde girl following him...
Remembering their High God's reputation in a certain area... they all pretended not to notice and returned to their work.
In less than two minutes, they reached the so-called "problem room."
-and Marguerite threw up.
Women lay sprawled in grotesque, spread-eagled positions.
Completely naked, they lay motionless on the floor, their legs still spread from the assaults they had suffered, their arms raised as though cheering. They appeared to have stopped breathing.
They seemed to have suffered fatal injuries during the assaults.
Such scenes were not uncommon aboard slave ships.
After all, these were long voyages, and there was valuable cargo aboard. If some idiot could not restrain himself and damaged the merchandise, it would cause trouble.
Killing that idiot afterward would not make up for the loss.
So the merchandise that would not fetch a good price met this fate, becoming toys for the crew.
Thus, this scene was not