Behold the lovely couple as they take off for adventure!
Harold Smith worked long and hard for over 10 years as a blacksmith and various odd-jobs to get himself a 20 million rube dream-house, only to see it all burn to ash the very day it was finished. Depressed to nearly suicidal levels, he goes to the bank and withdraws all that remains of his savings, 150 thousand rubes, and heads into town. A slave merchant for [Cirque da Slave] calls out to him and entices him to attend the local auction. Various attractive female slaves are paraded onto the walkway with the least expensive going for 20 million. The barker then brings out what he thought was going to be the crown jewel and pierce de resistance, dark-elf Atie, not realizing the horrific stigma attached to dark elves in the country where the story takes place. Desperate to sell her off, the merchant places her starting bid at exactly 150 k, and Harold Smith jumps at the chance, with the rest of the audience thinking Harold is nuts! As the sale is underway, Harold learns that the standard going price for a dark-elf as beautiful and talented as Atie is 1.6 billion. After it's all said and done, Harold and Atie decide to go Wandering the Earth.Author(s) : Yuzuriha - Koharu Michinoku
Webnovel link: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0884fk/
Under the translated title of "My house was on fire and my life became irrelevant, so I used what little money I had left to buy a Dark Elf slave."
The light novel was serialized in 2019 with the manga starting to be fan-translated in October of 2020.
This Series Provides Examples of:
- All for Nothing: Harold works for over 10 years to build his dream home, only to come home and find it on fire the very day he makes his last payment and retires from blacksmithing.
- Cerebus Rollercoaster: The story goes from happy-go-lucky slice of life to nail-biting drama and back again with ominous frequency. Harold can be out shopping one second and running off after a criminal gang to rescue a child the next.
- Cerebus Syndrome: In chapter 1, Harold is happily going home from work only to find his house engulfed in flames, helplessly unable to do anything but watch it and all his belongings burn to the ground, to then have to try and find a way to start over with little more than the clothes on his back, and savings amounting only to a month's worth of wages.
- Schizo Tech: The story takes place in a fantasy medieval setting, yet Atie's weapon is a sniper rifle, and nobody so much as blinks at it. In fact, Harold buys one for her in a shop, as he's outfitting her for their first dungeon dive. Where these weapons come from has yet to be fully explained.
- Sexual Karma: After the slave auction where Harold buys Atie, the top sale, the High Elf, mocks Atie for being bought at 150,000 while she was bought at over 633 million. Atie winds up being purchased by a guy who romances her honestly and keeps it in his pants until she makes it clear that she wants sex with him, by pinning him down and having her way with him, both of them clearly satisfied. The high elf? She winds up with a guy who routinely abuses her, sexually and otherwise, and brags of it.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: One of their first adventures involves Harold and Atie rescuing a boy who tried to steal an elixir from professional criminals to treat his ill father. They manage to rescue the boy only to find him mortally poisoned, use the elixir to try and cure him, only for it to have no effect, and the boy's corpse is so toxic, they can't even bring it home, with a burial on an island. To make matters worse, the father also died from his illness while the boy was in the criminals' custody.
