Chapter 245 – Under the Sanctuary.
Their outfits were old, dirty, and tattered, as if talking about their circumstances. Erica’s clothes were also on the old side, but her clothes looked rather new. She seemed to know her somehow, but it didn’t seem like a very good relationship.
“Move.”
Erica’s voice, unlike what she had whispered to Usher, was also dry and subdued.
“Move away? Why me? You’re the one who has to get out of the way. If you’re a new kid, shouldn’t you say hello?”
Among the girls standing in front of them, she looked down at them with a snort. She may be taller than them, perhaps because she is quite old even after reaching adulthood, but she blatantly looks down on them.
“Does the kid here think he has to say hello to you?”
But when Erica shows no signs of being intimidated, she huffs up, her face flushing as if her fever has taken over. She clenched her teeth for a moment, tried to calm herself down by exhaling, then glared at her girl.
“Ha, then why do you take care of that child? A prostitute who lives comfortably while flirting with adults.”
Usher didn’t know what to say to that. No matter how hot you get, that’s what you mean? Erica squeezed his hand just as he was about to say something ahead of his anger. Because of her, when she looks back at her, the girl shakes her head, shaking her head.
“Don’t you have anything to refute? Aren’t you ashamed to live like that?”
Before Usher can even ask if he’s not angry, he laughs at the woman as if he’s seen it too.
“People upstairs say you’re pretty. Do you think you’re upstairs too? It’s an illusion. They all just want to fuck your loose pussy once.”
The insults she poured out on her incessantly made her, who was listening with her, forget what she had to say. She wonders how on earth she could hate a person to such an extent that a sharp stinger-like loathing was fired at him next to her, and she pricked her. In the end, she couldn’t stand it until he tried to step out. Ground, ground, ground! I heard the sound of metal ringing from somewhere. Then, the children around them quickly flocked to this place in a cheerful mood. They gathered so hastily that he blocked their way and shoved them, and Usher couldn’t even be angry.
The children were heading somewhere in a group, and Usher and Erica were caught between them and pushed into a town full of small houses. A strange smell entered his nostrils.
“Ugh, what is this?”
The smell was really strange and unpleasant. It didn’t smell like anything here. Usher covered his nose at the smell that cut in as if it had really come out of nowhere.
“Shhh.”
As Usher looked around, searching for the source of the smell, Erica raised her hand and put his hand on her nose to release it. It wasn’t too much force, so he could easily shake it off, but she followed her hand and untied his nose.
“It’s dangerous to act like that here, so you better be careful.”
I wanted to ask why, but there were a lot of children around them, so the girl just nodded and smiled. It was a time when I was feeling anxious about the unpleasant smell that was approaching me because I couldn’t even close my nose.
“What!?”
Surprised by the sensation of someone sweeping his legs, he hurriedly turned around, but there were only children with blank faces, as if wondering why, and children looking at where they were heading as if expecting something. I wondered if I was mistaken, and as I looked forward again and walked, I could feel the touch once again. This time, the feeling of approaching his hip gave me goosebumps, so when I looked behind me again, the hands that were touching him were nowhere to be found. Because of this, he couldn’t see properly and kept looking back, but Erica whispered while holding his hand tightly.
“Don’t worry too much about it, just hit it.”
“Ugh, but I feel so bad.”
“If you keep doing that, the kids will want to touch you more.”
“…Why?”
I felt worse because I couldn’t understand why he was doing this.
“The boys here do it to girls who seem easygoing.”
I was soon informed by Erica’s laughing voice. At least she knows he’s a boy, but the other kids see him as a girl. When she realized that fact, she felt the touch that was trying to touch her even more terribly. He is waiting for the idea of catching the criminal and setting an example, so as expected, a hand approaches immediately. He immediately grabbed his hand and turned around.
“Ouch!? What are you doing?”
And at the sight of the boy screaming and struggling to free his hand, Usher frowned. Because that guy was the kid who was right behind him all along.
“If you do this one more time, I’ll break you like this.”
It wasn’t just a bluff. Although he was a little taller than himself, he was strangely weak and his bones felt flimsy beyond that. It was really poor compared to the children who were apprentice knights.
“My, what have I done!”
“That’s what you know best.”
Seeing her stubbornness and stubbornness, Usher struggled and shed tears when he squeezed his hand and gave it more strength.
“Okay! I got it! You don’t have to!”
In the end, I checked the guy who was shouting and surrendering, let go of his hand, and looked ahead again.
“Gigkick, what does it hurt to be caught by such a corrupt kid?”
“Crazy, don’t talk. I couldn’t even touch it because it hurt so bad.”
And when I heard the voices of the other children, I realized that there were not one or two people who tried to touch him, so I tried to look back, but I couldn’t. People’s voices were heard along with the smell that got worse.
“Hey, the kids are here.”
“I have to share it quickly and finish it. I want it because it’s annoying.”
There were about five large barrels and adults with countless bowls standing or crouching against the wall. Covered in something like a loose, thick cloth, they donned the hats that Donnar had given them, and their faces were not even visible. Everyone was dressed the same, but the way they bumped into each other or talked as if they were annoying made them look like street thugs. I couldn’t understand why the children had come to these places, but I quickly understood why.
“Hurry up and line up. If you’re late, there’s no soup.”
They opened the lid of a large pot, banged the pot with a long ladle, called the children, and the children immediately lined up.
“Could this be the food?”
“Huh.”
Erica’s unhesitating answer made Usher even more anxious. The strange smell became clearer as their turn approached. It was definitely the smell in that barrel that was slowly approaching. By the time they approached the barrel guarded by adults.
“This is too little!”
The voice of the girl who interrupted them in front came from. So, if you stick her head out to the side of her line and look in front of her, you will see her glaring disgruntledly at the grown-up with her bowl and ladle.
“You have to receive something separately, but what? If you are dissatisfied, ask for more later.”
Or not, he shouted, and she soon bit her lip and walked away. Soon their turn came. As expected, it was at a time when Usher was very nervous because he was the person from before.
“Oh, is that Erica?”
For some reason, I heard words full of goodwill. When Usher opened her wide-eyed eyes in surprise, the girl bowed her head with a dry face.
“Hello.”
“Yes, yes, you know how much he cares for you, right?”
Then he gathered her ladle full of strange ingredients and put them in her bowl and gave them to Erica. Then, belatedly, she saw Usher, and she saw him.
“Huh? Who is this kid? I’ve never seen him before.”
“A friend.”
The girl smiled and said, and he nodded her head and gathered the ingredients in her bowl as he had done to her, and presented it to her Usher.
“Now, take it. He’s Erica’s friend. Are you giving him a lot?”
“…Thank you.”
Usher got goose bumps and took the bowl from him and forced her head down.
“Let’s go back quickly.”
And scaring him, Erica took him and started going back the way she came here. Usher eventually got impatient with her and asked her out.
“Hey.”
“Yes why?”
“Are you really going to eat this?”
I know it’s rude to the girl, but Usher had no choice but to ask. Because the smell in the bowl he was holding now was the same as the smell that had gone to the place where food waste was accidentally collected on a particularly hot day in Lantua and was rotting there.
“Right. That’s why you have to come out early in the morning.”
Usher was at a loss for words at her words. When I looked inside the bowl, I couldn’t even see the proper food. It was when he couldn’t help but walk along with Erica.
“Sssss! Ha, sssss!”
A sticky moan came from somewhere. Besides, it was the voice of her having just quarreled with the adult who was holding the ladle. As if there was nothing to hide, the sound came from the side of the street they passed. When Usher looked back in amazement, sure enough, the girl from before was holding her against the wall and spreading her legs.
“Kuh! Ha! How many times has this been?”
“Ha ha, ah! Three, three.”
-Jjibjjigeuk jjigeuk!
Every time the man shakes her waist, you can see her cunt swallowing and spitting out the other’s black pillar. He didn’t even want to know what he was referring to as the third, but his eyes had already caught the transparent water and white turbidity flowing between them. It would have been better if that was all.
“Then you can do it one more time.”
“Hey, are you giving me more food?”
“That kind of jjambab. I’ll ask for more.”
Because of this, Usher stopped walking, forgetting where he was going. Usher looked again at the bowl he was holding. Bone fragments, limp plants, and some of the unidentified fat were medicinal fruits in the yellow broth that was not mixed, as if it had been randomly mixed and boiled, but with oil floating around. It also contained an unknown black string, a small piece of metal hanging over the bowl, and a cloth soaked in broth. He couldn’t understand what the hell was going on.
“It’s common here.”
Erica whispered to him. When Usher sees her in surprise, her girl stops after him, as if she always did, and with her bored eyes, she spreads her legs at her man and watches her fawning. There was. She didn’t know what to say, so when she kept her mouth shut, other men’s voices were heard.
“Is it really good to fuck guys who haven’t even had pubic hair yet?”
“What, how is it? Where is the opportunity to fuck those guys normally?”
“So you’re not coming downstairs to do this troublesome thing?”
Behind them, three men were approaching with about two women. Besides, I accidentally met eyes with one of them.
“Huh? Look over there. It’s the first time I’ve seen him?”
“What, then, is it new? It’s worth fucking.”
And the moment your body stiffens at the sticky gaze that scans you. Erica took his hand and started running.
“He’s gone. It’s okay because I have a baby today anyway.”
“Let’s catch it next time then.”
“Forget it. They can’t touch it.”
The men watched their backs and swallowed their regrets, but a man stopped them.
“What are you talking about?”
“Your clothes are too clean.”
Then, pointing to Usher’s clothes, they shook their heads in realization.
“Oh, was it the ignorant girl who came downstairs?”
“And one is Erica.”
“Ttsk, was this the kid who was being sponsored by Yekrani? It’s a pity. It’s rare to see such a pretty kid.”
“So the high-ranking person applied saliva in advance.”
Usher and Erica ran and ran without even hearing their conversation and finally arrived near the secret base. Fortunately, there was a place to sit, so I relieved my exhausted breath there.
Haha, the food I received. I almost spilled it.”
As they ran in a hurry, there was not much soup left in the bowl they were holding, but it didn’t feel like a waste because the contents were the contents. Sadly, the scene from earlier runs through my head. Maybe even Erica.
“Do you think I would have lived like that child?”
“Ugh, sorry.”
If such a situation were common, then she imagined that Erica might have been helpless, but she was resentful of herself.
“No need to be sorry. He could have lived the same way if I hadn’t found the secret base he left behind. I’m just lucky.”
“Then beforehand.”
“There is no need to respond to self-tortured words.”
I remembered her cursing Erica. She seemed to have some idea why she hated her girl so much. Still, for some reason, the thought of Erica being hurt by someone else haunts him. It was time for her to let out a sigh as she couldn’t figure out why this desire kept her constantly inflating.
“Huh, if you’re really suspicious, I can prove it now.”
“What?”
Before Usher can understand her, the girl pushes him down. Erica was sitting on top of him, facing him with a dull gray glow.
