Chapter 266 – 266. Past
I quietly followed Frea up to the rooftop with Kyun.
“Preah”
“Owner”
Frea, who was looking down at the citizens below from the rooftop of a building with a slightly oriental style, quite different from the new city, did not take her hand off the sword at her waist.
“I thought it was strange from the beginning. “You knew?”
“Master, I… Just”
“Why didn’t you tell me? Or… What kind of conditions do I have for you back then?”
He still had no expression, but his eyes were trembling slightly.
Realizing that she had already seen through it, she lowered her gaze and closed her mouth again.
“Owner. Do I really need to know?”
“Yeah, I guess I should know”
“I see.”
After hesitating for a while, she finally opened her mouth, looking with straight eyes to see if she had made up her mind.
“When I was young… Before I got the last name Raytheon, I met my owner.”
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At that time, I was still very young.
At that time, there were no smiles, no parents, no swords raised, and I thought that each day of happiness would feel like forever.
I was living that kind of life one day.
On that day when the sky darkened, my family disappeared in an instant with the sound of a huge explosion.
I didn’t know anything about the world at the time, so I screamed at the sight of my family disappearing before my eyes.
I just screamed out this feeling of pain that was so intense that my throat was sore and the taste of iron was lingering in my mouth.
It wasn’t just family. The path ahead of me as I slowly walk while crying is filled with broken buildings and countless corpses.
Here and there, torn off arms and legs, as well as various abdominal organs, were mixed with the exploded and broken remains.
Among them, I was the only one who survived. And… The moment when I wonder why I was the only one who survived.
An excruciating pain began to surge in my side.
When I touched it, there was a broken piece of wood the size of my forearm stuck in my side with dark red blood.
It was so despairing that tears no longer flowed.
My body became weak, and my eyes began to lose focus.
I missed my family.
My age is approximately early to mid 100s.
At that time, she was usually married at the age of 170, so in terms of human lifespan, she was still a girl.
When I saw this despairing scene at that age, I was completely shocked.
The moment you sit down helplessly and slowly close your eyes…
I felt something lifting me.
Warm. When I was already cold due to lack of blood, something surrounding my cold body quickly moved somewhere.
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“…?”
There is a smell that stimulates hunger. At the same time, I feel warm heat next to me.
My fingers and toes are moving now that I think I’m dead.
The moment I open my eyes with pain in my side…
“Ah…”
It was somewhere in the forest.
“Are you awake?”
“Eh…?”
“If you wake up, eat”
When I opened my eyes and turned my head, a man was talking to me while lighting a bonfire with his back turned.
-Grrr.
“Ah.”
The cause of the smell that stimulates hunger along with the smoke rising from the bonfire was shown.
Red meat. For elves who do not eat meat, that food is considered taboo.
But…
-Crrrr…
“If you want to live, eat”
Survival.
That sentence, ‘If you want to live, eat first’ was like a sweet temptation to me now.
I swallowed my saliva momentarily and accepted the meat he handed me.
This meat, which was roughly cut from a tree branch, inserted into the meat, and grilled over a campfire, was quite fatty, so it was very unfamiliar to me as an elf.
At the same time, saliva began to flow in my mouth.
“Are you not going to eat it? Don’t make me say it twice.”
“Well, I’ll eat it.!!;;”
The moment I closed my eyes and took a big bite of the meat, a heavenly taste that could not be described in words exploded in my mouth.
“Hmm!?!?”
For the first time in my life, the juicy meat spread throughout my mouth, and it lingered in my mouth even as I swallowed it, as if I wanted to clearly express that it was rich in fat.
The thought, ‘I’ve lost half my life to have such an amazing taste!’ Made her stamp her foot.
“Ah.”
And when I came to my senses, the only thing I was holding was a stick.
Because of the feeling of hunger, I ate without realizing it.
He looked at my condition with his back to me and even began handing me the meat he was holding.
“Eat”
“To.? That one over there…”
“If you want to live, eat”
“Yes, yes!!;; I will eat well…!”
His every word, which was almost like a threat, was like a giant bear speaking, so I unconsciously accepted the food he offered.
And then I ate it hungrily again.
“Whoa…”
“I thought you said elves don’t eat meat, but that’s not necessarily true.”
“It’s my first time eating meat.”
“… Is this true? Tell me later when your stomach hurts.”
Elves can sense magic, but he couldn’t sense magic at all.
No, there was no magical power itself.
“Human species…”
“Are you dissatisfied?”
“Oh, no… Huh? Uh…?”
“Does it still hurt?”
Apparently, a wooden beam was stuck in my side.
But now, instead of bleeding, only a very faint scar remained.
“When you grow up, the scar will disappear.”
“Thank you.”
And instead of my tattered clothes, a thick cloth was wrapped around my body.
… Means naked.
Hehe…!;;; Bad person!?;;”
“I’m not interested in a child’s body. And I didn’t take that off.”
“…”
“Don’t make me say it twice”
“Yes.!”
Scary. A man who speaks crudely without changing his expression is terrifying.
He was taller than my father, and small scars filled the gaps in his visible flesh.
You can never win with force. Even if you use magical power… The result will probably be the same.
If something bad happens in this state…
I have to run away.!
“I could have run away like that. “There’s nowhere to go.”
“Ah…”
That’s right. There is nowhere to go. Family, friends, and home no longer exist.
If you run away like this, you could be killed by an animal somewhere or by another bombing.
Even if you get violated, your survival rate seems to be high if you stay with that guy.
“I thought I said I wouldn’t touch a child.”
“…”
“If you eat, you will sleep”
“Ahh~!! You guy! That’s Jim’s! How dare you covet what belongs to me!”
A small dark-skinned woman walking from the forest and an unknown thing walking silently behind her, wrapped in black cloth all the way to her head.
One was a race I had never seen before, and the other was walking barefoot, making no sound at all and not feeling any sign of presence, so I couldn’t identify him at all.
“I don’t have it for you”
“What!? Do you want to become an electric grill again? “Isn’t this the food that Jim brought himself?”
“I ate it all. And this is mine too”
“Your conscience is so broken, you idiot!”
“What are you saying, just wipe whatever is on your mouth and then speak?”
“Oh!? This is a misunderstanding! It was just a shame that my luggage was left lying on the way back!”
“I ate. This bitch”
“You bitch! Avoid saying things like that! Jim asked for it, so why can’t he do what he wants!”
“What I ate was a sin. Rotten kid”
“W-what!? “Oh my, this bitch has finally gone crazy. It’s a shame I didn’t kill her then.!!”
Blue electricity came out from her black skin and soon began to surround her whole body.
“Hey, Dabi”
“This time I’m sure what it means to insult Jim.”
My breathing stopped for a moment.
It was not the woman in front of her who was radiating electric shock at her questions, nor was it the woman (?) Wearing a black cloth who looked at her without any worries, but it was him who was quietly sitting in her seat and lighting her bonfire.
“Shut up, before I kill you”
“Well… Uh, why did Jim say that…”
“Because yours is here. Eat, don’t make me say it twice.”
He was looking at the bonfire calmly, but his life was so intense that even the surrounding magic was shaking.
“It’s not like I’m now thinking, ‘I can’t kill a single witch.'”
His casual remarks did not feel false at all.
His faint emotions reacted to the magic around him as fear.
I don’t know about other races, but the magic power around him is denying that man.
This man is definitely not a good person…!
“If you eat, go to sleep.”
“…”
“Answer”
“Yes…”
Helpless Obviously, the little woman over there who radiates electricity also has formidable magical power, but she warned him that his life is more dangerous.
For me, who had no power, there was only one option.
“I’ll sleep…”
The only option is to follow what that person says.
Having lost my parents, friends, and home, I hoped that this moment was just a dream.
Please… Please… I hope this hellish moment is just a dream…
That day, I was so shocked that I stopped crying.
And… I thought deep down inside that I had to become stronger than anyone else, and I thought about getting rid of this painful feeling as much as possible.
