episode_0005

“………..”

So Aion left them behind and went outside to look at the stars.

As the house became filled with silence, Dana, who had been thought to be asleep, slowly opened her closed eyes, got up from her seat, and began to look around.

Wooden furniture and desks… The room they were in was filled with furniture that looked expensive at first glance.

Dana pressed her fingers against the bed she had just been lying on.

Dana, who had never known the existence of a bed because they had only slept on the cold floor, felt addicted to the soft yet warm bed and touched it.

Dana, who had barely come to her senses while touching the bed as if possessed, looked at her younger sister, Fred.

Perhaps because he had been through so much today, Fred was sleeping so soundly that he didn’t even notice when someone carried him.

Seeing Frey like that, her older sister Dana smiled with relief and stroked Frey’s head as he was sleeping soundly.

“Umm…..”

Fred momentarily tossed and turned when her older sister Dana stroked her head, but soon smiled as if she was at peace.

Dana, who had been stroking Frey’s head for a while, looked at her own hand in silence, feeling the warmth from it.

Her young hands were covered in countless wounds.

The wounds on her hands told of how difficult and desperate her life had been.

“……”

Dana stared blankly at her hands and then placed her hands on her head.

And then he began to stroke his own head with his still warm hands.

“This isn’t it..”

Dana’s expression crumpled as if she was somehow dissatisfied.

Dana wrinkled her face as if she was dissatisfied with the feeling of the man’s touch that was different from what she had felt today.

Soon she began to recall the days before she met him in the room where no sound could be heard.

Her past life was so miserable.

The townspeople, including their mother and father, treated the young girls like monsters or criminals and forbade them from associating with their own children.

Because she was born as the daughter of a prostitute, the village elders avoided her, fearing that their children might associate with the daughter of a vulgar woman and go down the wrong path.

The villagers all harassed Danawa and Fre, even scolding them for doing nothing wrong.

They were bullied by the villagers simply because they were born as that woman’s children, and the main perpetrators were the village elders.

As the parents began to avoid Danawa and Pre, their children also began to gradually distance themselves from them.

Even children who exchanged greetings as they passed by began to visibly avoid them as time passed.

When they saw them, they couldn’t say anything because of the frowning behavior.

Dana forced a smile on her face every day to calm her younger sister, fearing that she might have a hard time. They thought that spring would come someday, but…

They were sold into slavery by their parents, and eventually gave up on the cruel reality and thought that everything was over.

“Let me buy it.”

A man wearing a strange mask appears before them and purchases himself along with his younger brother.

At a whopping price of 30 gold.

‘Are you crazy?’

Dana thought as she watched the man readily hand over the large sum of 30 gold to the merchant without any hesitation.

The masked man, either thoughtless or crazy, bought them without a moment’s hesitation.

The masked man now holds an iron leash in his hand to control them.

Dana couldn’t hide her look of despair when she saw the iron collar in the man’s hand.

If I am dragged away as a slave like this, isn’t the ending obvious?

It was clear that she would either become a man’s plaything and live a life worse than that of an animal, or die as a tool for relieving stress, so Dana was thinking of at least helping her younger brother, Freman, escape.

Fred was born with a weaker body than other people.

Dana was always there to protect Frere as her older sister.

That’s why Dana was wondering how she could escape Frey even while she was being dragged away by the man.

Meanwhile.

“Hey, wait a minute.”

A man’s voice was heard from behind the man who had purchased him.

And when Dana turned her head to look at the owner of the voice, she was overcome with an inexplicable sense of fear.

The man was bulging like an animal that had gained weight before hibernation, and next to him stood a giant who was twice the size of the masked man.

“Did you just buy that slave?”

The fat man, like a pig, pointed at the women who were tied up with iron chains and asked them.

At the same time, he was delighted like a hyena that found food, licking his lips.

“That slave… I like him, but you don’t plan on selling him back to me?”

The man looked at us with greedy eyes, and we soon tried to persuade the masked man several times.

“I refuse.”

“I like these slaves too. No matter how much money you give me, my heart won’t change.”

The masked man rejected everything the man said without a moment’s hesitation.

The man who had been smiling kindly at the stubborn attitude of the masked man soon turned red in the face.

“Don’t do that. Sell it to me, I’ll buy it for more than I paid for it. ”

The fat man spoke in a raspy voice, as if he was squeezing out the last of his patience.

The man who bought them refused such a man’s offer.

The fat man smiled in disbelief at the masked man’s actions.

Soon, she began to threaten the man with a completely different face than before.

“Ha.. I guess you don’t know the level when you look at it.. From what I can hear from your voice, you seem quite young. Do you know what this place is?”

The man with the protruding belly threatened him in a low voice.

When communication was not possible, the man, filled with anger, ordered the man next to him to harm the man and bring them to him.

At the man’s words, the giant next to him threw his fist without a moment’s hesitation.

The man who narrowly avoided the punch was looking at the large man.

“Ah…ah….”

At that sight, Danawa and Freya froze.

The fear of violence that had been ingrained in them since childhood made them unable to move.

In their heads, images of their father and mother beating them were playing out.

Traumatized, they could not calm their trembling bodies and continued to tremble.

Seeing their appearance like that, Aion began to cautiously approach the frightened women.

He began to move closer to them, who were shaking with fear.

Dana shut her eyes tightly in fear that the man might hit us.

Dana could only look at him without saying anything as the man continued to act.

The masked man knelt down to meet the eyes of the short women.

He looked into their eyes one by one and said.

“Don’t worry. It’ll be over soon.. Can you wait a little bit? ”

The man looked at them and said.

Danawa and Frey stared at the man, taken aback by his words and actions.

The women, who had been giving in to the man’s words asking for their understanding, were shocked by his actions and were speechless.

Danawa and Fre nodded without realizing it at the sight of the man’s eyes through the mask.

It was clear that he was someone they had never seen before and they didn’t even know his face. But for some reason…they believed the man’s words for some unknown reason.

The man, now with both hands free, quickly subdued the large man and the pig-like man.

Danawa and Fre could have escaped the man during that gap, but they remembered their promise to the man and did not run away.

Those who had picked on the man who bought them were crawling out of the market place in an ugly manner.

Dana felt an inexplicable sense of pleasure as she watched them, but perhaps it was because there was so much noise during the process of subduing them that many people who appeared to be slave traders, carrying knives and swords, rushed to the source of the noise.

“What the hell is this noise!”

The people who appeared to be slave traders shouted loudly in surprise at the incomprehensible situation.

The man who saw them seemed to be taken aback by the larger number of people than he had expected.

“Hold on tight!”

The man who had been confronting the merchants ran away at a fast pace, holding them in both arms.

In the process, Danawa and Fre held onto the man’s collar to keep him from falling.

Having barely escaped the slave market with the man, they stared blankly at the man, who was breathing heavily.

“Phew…thank goodness..!”

The man, who had been looking around with heavy breathing, let out a sigh of relief as he realized that they had escaped.

He immediately untied the heavy iron collars around their necks and said:

“Was it really frustrating?”

As he shook off the merchant, the man took off the mask he was wearing and released the chains that were binding them.

When the chains that bound them were released, they began to shed tears.

Was it the joy of being free or the relief of being alive?

Danawa and Fre cried with tears streaming down their freed necks, and the man who saw them like that gently stroked their tangled hair and said.

“You must have had a hard time. It’ll be okay now.”

Instead of yelling at them, the man calmed them down by gently patting their heads.

For the first time in her life, she felt warmth from someone and for the first time, she shed tears in front of her younger sister, Frega.