## Chapter 372 – The Troll’s Song
The hunchback entered the cave and clumsily piled up some branches, seemingly trying to block the entrance from the inside.
He’s quite concerned about security.
“Did he go in?”
Wienia, also intrigued by the sight, asked, looking at me.
“What, did he smear honey in there or something?”
I wasn’t sure, but I had a feeling that something suspicious was inside that cave. What could be there that made him ignore the troll rampage and enter the forest?
“Shall we go? Something interesting might be happening.”
Claudie, after putting his curved sword back into its sheath, said.
Good.
With my arm messed up, I need to see what that bastard is doing in the cave. What kind of damn treasure is he hiding?
So, we approached the cave.
Next to the cave was something that looked like a lid made to block the entrance. It was crudely made by weaving wood and other things together, and its quality wasn’t high.
Still, if he went to the trouble of making a lid to block the entrance, there must be something there.
ㅡ…
As proof, I could faintly hear something like voices from inside. And I could see an orange light, as if a fire was lit.
Is he doing some kind of work inside?
Is this bastard digging a tunnel for a North Korean infiltration…?
ㅡRustle.
I immediately removed the pile of branches blocking the entrance, bent over, and went inside. Wienia and Claudie followed behind me.
The cave was quite low, so we had to bend over to enter. It was clearly a size made for a hunchback. Maybe he dug the cave himself.
The orange light was coming from the open space ahead. It seemed like he had made a room at the end of the cave.
“Heh, hehe… Ea, eat.”
ㅡChomp chomp chomp.
Now the voices were clearly audible. I tried to make as little noise as possible as I moved forward.
Soon, I saw the hunchback’s bent back.
He was doing something, but I couldn’t see what he was doing because his back was blocking my view. He was so focused that he didn’t even notice we had arrived.
Judging from him talking about eating, is he stealing grain from the village and eating it alone?
“It’s, it’s good to see you ea, eating so well.”
ㅡGurgle, gurgle.
Gurgle?
When I heard that strange sound, I realized that I had goosebumps.
What… is it?
Wienia and Claudie were also clinging to me, resting their chins on my shoulders and staring ahead. I could hear them swallowing.
“Ah!”
As the three of us, like Cerberus, were watching the hunchback’s back, Wienia suddenly exclaimed in surprise.
“Wh, wh-what… Wh-who! Who is it!!”
Startled by that, the hunchback hurriedly turned around.
ㅡKyurururururuk!!
But I couldn’t pay attention to that. The pig-like cry that rang out fiercely had captured my soul.
“Tr, troll! It’s a troll! You bastard, you were feeding a troll!”
ㅡKyururururururu!!!
For a moment, I felt like my brain had stopped.
As if trying to escape from the startled hunchback’s arms, a small monster flailed wildly.
Troll.
Did she say troll?
“D, don’t come! Get out!”
Then the hunchback started to thrash around.
First of all, regardless of the hunchback or the troll, I need to subdue him first!
We invaded the cave room he had made.
Unlike the narrow entrance, the room was quite spacious, as if he had put some effort into making it, and three people could stand inside.
“D, don’t come in!!!”
ㅡKyuiiiiiiiiiik!!!
As we entered, the excited hunchback jumped up and picked up a club from the floor, and the troll, who had escaped from his arms, cried miserably and crawled on the ground.
“You son of a bitch! What is this troll!”
“Kuheok!”
I immediately used Blood Sky Asura Kick on the hunchback to subdue him. He fell backward, his back hitting the wall, and twisted his body while clutching his side, which had been hit by the kick.
ㅡKyuuuuuuuuuuuuulk!!!
Then the troll started crawling towards the hunchback…!
As if looking for its mother!!!!
“W, Wienia? Is this really a troll?”
What is it?
I was taken aback.
In the first place, is this even a troll?
It looked quite similar, but above all, its size was incredibly small, and most importantly, its legs… were not normal.
They were as thin as insect legs.
Its upper body looked similar to a troll, but it was so different that it seemed more likely to be another monster.
They were so deformed and shrunken that it seemed impossible to use them or even stand. Rather, it was as if it had long fingers attached below its pelvis.
“U, ugh…! I, it hurts!”
ㅡKyuuuuuuu!!!
That monstrously small troll clung to the hunchback, making a mournful cry as if worried about its mother.
Then, it stretched out its grotesque tongue and began to lick the hunchback.
Is this… reality?
Am I having a nightmare?
In a terrible space where I couldn’t tell what was real and what was true, I was so shocked that I almost screamed like a child. Barely managing to hold it back, Wienia, who was watching the troll, said.
“This is a female troll! The legs… the shape is strange, it seems to be deformed!”
A disabled female troll?
“Hmph, it seems like this guy was raising a troll.”
“Raising a troll! I can’t believe it!”
I couldn’t help but be appalled by this unbelievable reality.
A person raising such a monster?
Wienia added.
“This is a troll with a congenital disability. Judging from its appearance, its nutritional status isn’t good either, so it hasn’t grown properly. If it was in the wild, it would have been culled and died a long time ago, but this damn hunchback was raising it!”
“Such a terrible thing!”
“And this smell… Hey! That sack!”
In the place she pointed to, there was a familiar sack. He must have been collecting mushrooms or something here. I immediately grabbed it and shook out what was inside.
ㅡBirdsong Mushrooms.
Then a lot of mushrooms that were said to erase smells came out.
In addition, there were various plants and fruits.
A mushroom that… erases smells?
“Yeah, I think I know now.”
Wienia, after seeing that, glared at the hunchback and said.
“This hunchback was using that to erase the smell and secretly raising a female troll here! That’s why the male trolls were going crazy! They knew there was a female, but they couldn’t see her, so they rampaged near the village!”
That is.
“As a result, they lost their stamina and hunted humans, the easiest prey!”
It was a terrible truth.
“W, woo…! It hurts…! Ge, get out of here! This is Ku, Kuul-Kuul’s house!”
“Kuul-Kuul? You bastard, you even gave that cursed monster a name! Are you even human!”
Giving a name to a murderous monster and taking care of it!!
This is something that should never happen!
“D, don’t make a loud noise! Kuul-Kuul doesn’t like loud noises!”
“What nonsense is this bastard talking about!”
Enraged, I kicked the hunchback, who was crouching while holding the troll, indiscriminately. “Kuheok!” My arm got messed up to save a guy like this!
My brain felt like it was burning because of the unbelievable reality.
I couldn’t imagine that this was happening in the real world.
This is something that should never happen…!
ㅡKyuruuuuuuuuulk!!!!
Then Kuul-Kuul, no. The troll screamed.
It was a terrible and cursed monster’s scream. An unpleasant sound like a nightmare’s cry that shook a person’s soul just by listening to it!
That kind of thing should be eradicated before it grows up and eats people.
Besides, if this female troll is left alone, other males who smell it might invade the village.
Then more people will die!
“You seed of sin!”
I immediately reached out my right hand to snatch the troll, but the hunchback went crazy and tried to bite my arm.
“D, don’t do it!”
“This son of a bitch has become a troll in his mind! Get out of the way!”
“Kkeueuk!”
I easily pushed him away and grabbed the troll’s arm. ㅡKyururururulk!!!! The deformed and weak troll just screamed.
“Ku, don’t hit Kuul-Kuul, hit, hit me!!!”
“Alright, you two are going to die together today, you sons of bitches.”
ㅡThwack!
ㅡKyuoouuuuuuuulk!!!
I threw the troll on the floor as it was.
It was truly a terrible scream and a cruelly miserable reality. A person raising a troll and causing other people to die.
It is an act that denies the origin and foundation of humanity.
“You monster! Die! Just die!”
ㅡKuuk! Kuuk!!
Thinking that, I grabbed the club that the hunchback had dropped and beat the troll.
“St, stop it!!!!!!!!!!”
“You bastard!”
The hunchback put his weight on me and pounced, but I wouldn’t be caught by such an attack. At the same time as dodging, I hit his back with my elbow, and he fell to the ground.
“Kkeueuek…!”
I grabbed him by the collar and shouted.
“Why did you raise a troll? Do you know how many people died because of you!”
“St, stop hitting me…! Pl, please get out of here! Kuul-Kuul is scared!”
“You son of a bitch! Answer me!”
It seems like he intends to pretend he doesn’t know.
“You raised this troll and seven villagers died, you fucking bastard! Why did you do it, why! Why did you raise a troll! Why did Jacob have to die, and Jake had to go crazy!”
Jake lost his younger brother Jacob to a troll and went crazy.
Although I only saw Jake for a few minutes, the tragedy that befell those brothers was entirely the fault of this hunchback.
“I, I don’t know, I don’t know! Stop it! I, I was wrong! D, don’t hit Ku, Kuul-Kuul!”
“What do you mean you don’t know, you son of a bitch…! You even erased the smell and did all sorts of crazy things!”
“Cr, kheueueuek…! Kuul-Kuul, Kuul-Kuul, come here…!”
ㅡKyururururulk!!!!
He must have trained it well, because when the hunchback cried and stretched out his arms, the troll dragged its battered body and crawled over.
The troll climbed onto the hunchback’s stomach and grabbed his collar as if trying not to fall.
The hunchback cried and hugged the troll.
“Ku, Kuul-Kuul is my friend… Ch, the village chief and the other adults aren’t my friends. Th, they always hit me… Only Kuul-Kuul doesn’t hit me…! Heueuk, pl, please don’t hit me… If you’re going to hit Kuul-Kuul, hit me…!”
ㅡKkuuuung!!!
“Kuul-Kuul likes it when I give her food… I, I like seeing her laugh… Ku, Kuul-Kuul, I’ll protect you…”
Then he stroked the troll as if it were the most precious treasure in the world. Seeing that, I could only feel anger, hatred, and violence.
“These sons of bitches are putting on a fucking melodrama without knowing their place…!”
I felt like a blood vessel in my brain would burst because of the insane anger. It is right to kill all these bastards. They’re pretending to be pitiful, but the fact that seven people died and one went crazy doesn’t change.
A world full of monsters and violence.
An individual’s deviation causes the annihilation of the community.
It is not that guilt is not established because one is stupid, pretends not to know, or does not try to know.
Can we say that the heretics who kill people by blindly believing in the wrong beliefs are innocent?
Can we say that it is not a sin if an innocent boy drowns his friend for fun?
Is it not a sin if a preschooler, out of curiosity, sets a fire and burns people to death in terrible pain?
Of course, I cannot give an answer called ‘truth’ about such things.
There are things that are right on Earth but not in this world. Likewise, there are things that are common sense in this world but not in Earth.
The value judgments of sin and good are all different for each individual.
However.
Kim Kat, a seeker of Fusion Confucianism and a Heavenly Demon who has the duty to purify this world and establish justice, can say.
That is sin.
It is evil that must be killed and eliminated.
“Whether you know it or not. Seven people died because of your damn troll play.”
“Eueuk…!”
“This is something that deserves to be judged.”
Anger surged.
