What the hell was that?
Sarcasm inbound:
Let's give the objectively horrible person a sob story background about never fitting in and let's use that as an excuse for him selling kids to paedophiles.
Yes, let the child slavers go. So they can kidnap and sell kids again in the future.
Omg he is so starstruck that he can't walk straight, the poor baby. Really nice to see the thugs he brings care enough for him to delay the child-abduction fees until he can get over being starstruck.
I feel so sorry for the hard life the child trafficker has. He never fit in in his home town of bumfuck elfland. Such a sad story that completely justifies all his current action 100% and who cares about the kidnapping, selling, abuse, rape and possible death of kids because the poor thing has been bullied by the mean adults in his village by saying that it's not his fault he isn't as capable as the rest.
Can we get a torture and kill the trafficker and corrupt aristocrats chapter now?
And it's the authors fault for setting this up the way he did. He could have called the trafficker a recruiter who goes around on a less than benign way of recruiting but no he brought in paedophile aristocrats and child slaves. I'm disappointed with the direction this took. I'll hang on for one more chapter but if the half elf is a recurring character or child slaves are something that gets a feelgood chapter then I'm dropping this like hot garbage.