episode_0116

Has it been staying in the same place for several days?

The sky that her red eyes were looking at was indifferently blue again today.

Several days have already passed since I looked at that scene.

After the blue daytime sky, the dark night sky comes, and the night sky, which I used to feel so lonely and disliked, is filled with countless stars, and I get the feeling that I am not alone.

Perhaps that feeling meant that he might soon be able to go see his precious friend again.

“Mr. Leah… … I… …

I brought you something to eat… …

Try some… … ”

And at the small whisper she heard, she helplessly turned her head and began to look at the sky on the other side.

“If I continue like this, I will die… …

You know Leah… … ”

It’s like a small creature weaker than you is worrying about you.

Perhaps thanks to the characteristics of a rabbit beast, Pina would quietly go out of the tunnel and return secretly carrying food from somewhere.

Of course, it was mostly just leftovers or leftovers, but the children wrapped themselves in hooded cloaks that seemed to have been stolen from somewhere, and even welcomed food when it was brought to them.

It’s not a large amount of food, so it’s not enough to just share it with the kids, but they’re giving it to themselves, who won’t be surprised if they eat it at any time.

She smiled softly without knowing why, but slowly closed her eyes with a faint smile on her face.

A tall castle wall blocking your path.

It was only after seeing that that I remembered the moment when I was finally able to decide my own end.

“Now you just have to go your own way.

My journey is already over… … ”

“That… I don’t know about that… … !!

Like this… … You didn’t come this far to end it!!”

“If you make a loud noise, humans will come.

Now let’s go somewhere.

If you have talent like that, you can make a living doing anything.”

Still, looking at Pina walking around quite well and finding food, it was obvious that she would somehow be able to survive well by wandering around the back alleys even if she went out like this.

But that’s all in the back alleys.

The Kingdom of Groden was particularly sensitive to illegal activities occurring in the royal capital.

Including public security police departments that often perform general police duties, the Combat Mage Special Forces, the Defense Knight Corps, etc., the regular military also performs security work in parallel.

Therefore, not only was the scope of the shaded area itself very narrow, but due to the nature of the back alleys, which had to become more closed and vicious in order to survive in the shaded area, the difficulty of survival was almost hellish.

Therefore, in order for illegal activities to be carried out secretly, it was necessary to join hands with a very high level of power and bury the matter through the family’s prestige, like Vivian.

If that were not the case, and if the intensity of the crime had not become so heinous that not even witnesses were left behind, there would not have been many criminals who would have survived.

The criminal organization that had literally been caught could no longer survive at that point.

In such a situation, it was difficult to live the rest of your life without your identity being discovered, no matter how much you tried.

What he was saying was that it was not only difficult, but almost impossible, to bear alone the repetition of the daily life of being chased and chased as an escaped former prisoner slave who would be caught someday, and the shackles of having two children to protect.

Pina, who knew it was a long life as a slave, shook her head and looked up at Leah with desperate eyes.

But despite those looks, Leah just stared at the high walls, as if she already knew that she couldn’t respond to them.

“Me too… … I can’t live alone in a place like this with my children… …

I am now speaking to Ms. Leah… … I’m holding out hope… … ”

“I can’t climb over the castle wall…

I can’t take you with me…

So go… … Leave like this and don’t come back… ”

“If it’s going to be like this… … It would have been better for him to stay in his den… …

Freedom with nothing left… What does it mean… … ”

“I already got what I wanted… ”

“But… !!”

“I am now… Yunmei… … ”

“Mr. Leah… !!”

“I don’t want to be caught by anyone anymore…

I am… I am… at las… now… …

It means that you are free from everything… …

Now I can finally go see Yunmei… … ”

“I… … I realized… … ”

In the end, Pina looked at Leah, who kept repeating the same thing, and made a vain expression on her face, and then she gently sat down, as if leaning against the wall of a tunnel.

A solemn tone lingered in her voice, as if she had reached a conclusion about what she had been thinking about.

“This city… Since he was sold as a slave within the royal capital…

It can never go out without human hands… …

but… A human who can take us out… It can’t be… ”

“……”

“Actually, I knew… There is no more hope for us…

I wanted to be free… I just wanted to live without worries…

but… There’s no way something like that would be possible… … We are escaped slaves…

All the prisoners in Groden are slaves…

From the moment you are discovered to be a prisoner by the slightest chance… …

Even before that, I was constantly shaking with anxiety… … That’s how you spend every day… …

And at some point, there will come a day when there won’t even be a day like that… … ”

At the sound of Pina’s voice muttering with her head down, Leah’s red eyes were gently shaking.

It was not that she did not know at all that the burden she carried could not be less heavy.

“That means… … ”

“I… … Even for these kids…

I’m trying to go back there… …

If Leah had given up… …

There is no other way for us…

At least there… … As for life… ”

At Pina’s words that she would risk her life to make a deal with Enic again, Leah’s head began to move and turn towards Pina, who was squatting.

Leah, who rolled her eyes to the side for a moment and focused on the children playing house among themselves inside the tunnel, was shouting softly at Pina again.

“How can you believe that?

This time, they sent it back, saying it was a promise, but…

It’s prey that came back on its own feet… !!

Didn’t you see what was happening to your colleagues!!”

I watched it to the point of boredom.

What happened to the colleagues who tried to run away?

The nursery was violated in front of their mates, and sometimes the males were eaten and used as food.

But Pina had nothing more to say about that.

Unlike her, who believed in Enic who trusted her and helped her, others simply chose not to trust Enic.

It was natural for Enic to become dangerous as a result, and it was hard to conscientiously think that his choice would always be mercy.

But at least through that, she was able to know that he would keep his promise.

Isn’t the fact that you are here a proven example of that?

“Instead, me… I will dedicate it… …

Since you clearly made a deal with me once…

There’s nothing that won’t work twice… !!

Probably me… You won’t kill me…

therefore… These kids… …

As for innocent children… … ”

“Now, other than that… …

Does this mean there is no other way… …

then… It’s something that can’t be helped… … ”

In the end, it was Leah who closed her eyes with a gloomy expression.

Unlike herself in the past, who was unable to protect and help her friend, Pina says that she will risk her life and go back to death for the children she did not give birth to.

As Leah looked at that scene, she felt that her old self was gradually becoming shabby.

“Then, I hope you made the right choice… …

for a moment… Something’s wrong… … !!”

Leah’s voice suddenly cut off due to the slight vibration felt from the tips of her legs.

It’s already been a few days since I arrived at this place.

The moment Leah looked up at the ominous vibration she had never felt before, she noticed dust fluttering down onto her hair.

“No… It’s falling apart… !!”

Tunnels made with kernel worms are basically a construction project in which the kernel worms dig a tunnel and harden the surrounding area with mucus from their skin.

Therefore, as it was only a simple process, the larger the scale, the more unstable the stability of the structure was.

If the tunnel had been made of giant kernel worms, it would have been hardened with a lot of slime, but due to noise issues, this tunnel was divided into several small kernel worms for construction, so there was no way that much slime was used compared to its size.

That meant that there was a lack of support base to withstand a large cavity.

“Get out… I have to get out of here… !! iced coffee… !!”

Leah, who was screaming at Pina, instantly focused on the children inside the tunnel.

“Unni?”

“Guys!! Come here!!

ah… no… !! Aaaa!!”

However, before Pina could finish calling out to the girls, the tunnel began to collapse, and looking at it, Pina could only scream helplessly and do nothing.

However, along with the heavy feeling of grabbing her, the person was completely disappearing into the thick dust of the collapsing tunnel.