episode_0084

Oh my god.

“Sihyeon! Look at this!”

I was out of breath.

Who shoots with two bolts attached to a crossbow?!

Some of the bolts are already cracked or broken! Arrowheads are fine! The arrow─── The arrow split.

I was out of breath.

“Arrows are expensive! Among humans, there are people who make and sell arrows their entire lives!”

“Hmph. What are you doing with toys like this?”

Shir glares at me with a sulky expression.

The problem isn’t the toys, it’s that they’re expensive. ···no. Even if I tell you, you won’t understand. I need to persuade him well.

“That’s right. It’s a toy. Still, in just one week, you will receive a ‘real’ crossbow that only you can use. Not toys like that.”

“Ours? A real crossbow?”

“Really?”

“How?!”

okay. A real crossbow. You will receive a very heavy and powerful one. You can look forward to it.

“I asked Deberg for it. If you want to serve wild goose meat to the villagers, you have to keep practicing with that crossbow. But if you break it, you can’t practice, right? A ‘real’ crossbow is incredibly heavy and powerful. It requires such precise operation that if you use it like that, it will break down right away, right?”

Shir flinched.

Are you the one who broke the bolt?

“I didn’t break it.”

“I know.”

What you broke. Shir puffed out his cheeks.

I also need to practice my bow. I’m not good at shooting, but I haven’t shot for a few days, and I’ve already lost the feel for it.

It takes time to get used to a new bow.

Since it was a spider web, I thought it would stretch like a rubber band, but fortunately it didn’t stretch or anything.

Still, it did stretch a little bit, so I needed to pull the bowstring a little more than the bow I used before.

To get the zero point, I gently shot the arrow at the target.

Pick! Pop!

Stuck at 8 points. It was clearly Hatan. It’s this much of a fall. I get a feel for it.

“Is that all you can do? You practice every day?”

Mira grins and aims the crossbow at the target.

In the first place, crossbows are easy to aim───.

Pop!

······10 points.

Mira starts looking at me with a mocking look.

“Ugh. Our Sihyeon has been shooting a bow for a full month, but she can’t even get a score of 10?”

Shirdo comes next to me and makes fun of me with his dirty eyes.

···Look at these? Are these guys with no blood on their heads making fun of me?

“Bows are inherently difficult to shoot.”

“What should I do? If you use a weapon like that, you have to endure it yourself.”

Mira grins and laughs… What are these cheeky things?

“Really? If you’re a real hunter, you should say it in real life. Let’s not just keep quiet, let’s make a bet on who can catch more geese?”

I glanced at the children meaningfully.

“You know that animals that have lived for a long time are very careful, right? Catch as many geese as possible and measure their weight.”

“I didn’t make fun of you?”

As if he knew that something would follow from a bet like this, Yuso expressed his disapproval.

“Me too.”

Even Mira. I smiled as rottenly as I received it.

“No way, run back?”

Mira’s eyes sparkle.

That’s right, we are a hunting people in name and nature, but we can’t tolerate being treated like crap!

“What should you bet on to make it fun? What should I bet?”

Does he know how to play?

“One order each subordinate has no right to veto.”

“I don’t want to do it───.”

“You do it too.”

Mira’s eyes burn.

Toward Yuso, not me. ···No, I think you have a slightly different mindset?

“Shir, I think you’re the only one who missed out on the bet? what’s the matter? Are you scared? Is that all it takes?”

“Such childish…”

“Don’t you run away?”

Shir’s movements suddenly stopped.

Eventually, his head strangely turns towards me. Why is it so disgusting to see him making a fuss with a face that could kill a person? The corners of Shir’s mouth twisted up, exposing his fangs.

“···Sihyun. You are dead.”

“Prepare your porridge too.”

“It’ll make you cry and want to die, so I’m looking forward to it.”

It was a ridiculous challenge.

*

The children now found the fuselage and began practicing with the crossbow.

The most common object was a fish swimming in the square, and three children were taking turns shooting the fish with crossbows.

Originally, it would not have been easy to catch the fish swimming in the cloudy, muddy water, but just because it had not rained for a while, the water level went down, making the fish’s dorsal fin and dark body clearly visible.

But I can’t seem to get it right.

Bows and bolts have incomparably slower projectile speeds than bullets, which means that you have to predict how your opponent will move to some extent.

Moreover, the fish’s C-start reflex, which is an evasive maneuver, lasts 0.05 seconds. It is twice as fast as humans, so predictive shooting is never easy.

Children who were not accustomed to this concept could only catch three or four fish. Try it 100 days ago. Do you think you can surpass me?

Pop!

I caught one more.

Deberg at the counter looked at the three children as if they were strange, then smiled and nodded to the salesperson. I also waved to Deverg.

“Hmm? What toy are you fiddling with?”

Jules? Before we knew it, the people who had gone hunting had returned.

Normally, these would be people carrying deer on their backs, but most of them are empty-handed. The smell of game is buried in the water, so what can you do?

Most of them just dug a rabbit hole and caught a meal. Except Jules.

“Wow…”

I don’t know how he found it in this rain, but Jules has caught a large cow and is dragging it by its horns. A gentle one is like a domestic cow, and a wild cow is literally a wild animal.

Power is as strong as words, without exaggeration. Even such a cow was quiet in front of Juul, as if she was embarrassed.

“I was catching fish.”

“No, you are patients. Already like this…”

Juul was about to say something to me, but when he saw Heilang staring intently at Shir, he kept his mouth shut. As if reacting to Heilang’s boring gaze, Shir’s ears fluttered and turned to Heilang’s direction.

“Is mom here?”

“Yes. Amor, are you feeling better?”

Heilang approached Shir and stroked his head, and Shir smiled and looked up at Heilang with his ears folded.

“Yes. It doesn’t hurt at all anymore.”

“Play for a little while, and come up right away if you feel sick. Got it?”

Heilang blocks the front of Shir.

Other adults also spoke to Mira and Yuso and asked how they were doing. Meanwhile, Juul struck down the cow’s head with a curved sword.

Suddenly! ────Splash!!!

“────────?!!”

A cow that has lost its head trembles and collapses.

Why don’t you cover my eyes?!! And yet, I looked straight at the cow’s carcass. It’s because of our instinct to not take our eyes off something irritating.

Blood does not flow like a fountain like in the movies, but rather beats to the rhythm of the heart.

The head of the cow, cut off with a single knife, was picked up by another Hosott and brought to Deberg, who skillfully began cutting off the cow’s tongue and cheek meat.

From then on, unlike usual, a thorough dissection began.

As expected, the heart and liver are taken out first.

“Amor. You eat this.”

Juul offered his liver to Shir.

Shishi was disgusted by the steaming pool of blood.

“Yes?! no, I do not want! It’s not delicious!”

Shir shook his head in disgust and began to back away from Jool. But Heilang grabbed Shir’s shoulder.

“Eat.”

“That’s right, sir, it’s better to eat it.”

The Earth Mother God’s protection revitalizes people to a strange degree. However, it is only a force that provides healing, vitality, and support to the human body, and lost blood or nutrients used for regeneration do not return.

I can answer this because I have experienced it.

In that sense, the liver and heart are good for the body─── People’s eyes are all on me.

Why? Ah, that’s because I called Shir’s name.

It’s not that I don’t understand.

I already knew it would be like this. Shir is brought to life in a strange way, and they feel that Shir’s name is Amor.

If you dig deeper, you might feel like I’m playing Shir. That much could be taken into account.

but······.

It’s so blatant. He gives me a very emotional and dissatisfied look. What did I do wrong? The priest approached me.

“Sihyeon. Why do you call Amor Shir?”

···Even if this were the original name, it’s clear that you wouldn’t understand it.

“This is the nickname I call Amor. Right?”

“Yes.”

The priest who looked at Shir slowly returns his gaze and walks away from me.

“···Okay.”

He is a quiet person who doesn’t particularly ask questions about things like this.

It may be an overreaction to think this way in the first place…

“Eat it.” “Eat it.”

When the priest and Juul made an offer, Shir reluctantly accepted the liver. Shir chewed on raw liver and ended up in a state of arrogance. By the time Shir had finished eating the liver.

“Eat this too.”

Juul held out his steaming heart to Shir.

*

As it was the rainy season, it started raining again without warning.

no. It was a situation where it was on notice all week, right? Fortunately, this time, it didn’t rain as heavily as it did last night, so the drainage ditch didn’t collapse.

The only thing the watchdog does is occasionally remove vomit accumulated in the drain.

Everyone seemed reluctant to eat fish before beef, so out of consideration, I took a piece of grilled fish and ate it. Everyone else was preoccupied with the beef Jules had caught.

I thought I would throw away the intestines, but with the sudden rainy season, there was nothing to eat. After wiping the intestines with water, the Debergs collected the meat, cooked it with spices, stuffed it into the intestines, and made sausages mixed with rabbit meat using a meat injector made from bamboo.

A sausage of enormous length was created that way.

It seemed like it was about 30 meters away. Even so, because there were so many villagers, it wasn’t long to get back to each individual.

“Why eat white meat instead of red meat?”

Jules handed me some cooked meat. But I didn’t feel like it.

“This one is enough for me.”

Because it was his responsibility to bring it.

“Well, if you don’t like it, don’t.”

The chunk of meat disappeared into the huge mouth like a crab hiding.

Jules sat next to me and ate the meat. The remaining bones were thrown into the waterfall. The waterfall made an angry roar and swallowed up the trash in an instant.

“I wish someone would close the hole in the sky.”

“···Sure.”

The amount of rainfall is ridiculous.

It looks like someone is spraying water from the sky with a huge shower. ······Can I tell this person about Shir’s name?

──No.

The reason I think we’ve become close friends is because the only person I can rely on is Jules. It is natural that Shir is more important to Jules than me. If I spew out pointless nonsense, I might only end up hurting his feelings, and if I end up incurring Jules’ hatred, my position will be ruined as well.

“I asked Deberg to make a crossbow.”

“Toys? Why?”

“With that, I plan to go catch wild geese with Yuso, Mira, and Shir.”

“Shir?”

“This is the nickname I call Amor.”

Jules wrinkled his eyebrows and smiled.

“Well, that’s not a nickname that suits you.”

······That was the original name of Shir.

A fresh thought crossed my mind.

If my family and friends subjectively judge my name without much recognition, would they think it doesn’t suit me?

“If anything goes wrong during the trial, take the three of us on a wild goose hunt.”

“Yes.”

“If you ask Deberg, he will explain about the crossbow exclusively for Hosott. Please commercialize it.”

I threw the fish bones I had eaten into the torrent and washed my hands in the muddy water. After falling into another world, my sense of hygiene seems to have faded.

“I like that side of you.”

what? What about hygiene?

Jules was smiling with the corners of his mouth raised.

“Yes? What do you mean, giving me goosebumps?”

“Don’t misunderstand. Because it gives me goosebumps.”

“···The only person who had a strange misunderstanding was Juul.”

Jules snorted and stood up.

“There will be nothing wrong with the trial. I will make sure that doesn’t happen, and if it does, I will overthrow it.”

I followed Jules, who stood up first, and headed home.

It was extremely dark inside because the sun was covered by clouds. I thought about giving him an oil lighter as a gift, but Jules has a sensitive nose.

If it’s a level that I find awful, to Juul it’s no different from the smell of a skunk’s fart. And in the first place, Jules is a person who does not feel the need for fire.

If you bring something like that for convenience, it’s obvious that it won’t be viewed very favorably.

“I think this rainy season will end quickly.”

“Why?”

“It rained too much. If this happens, the next rain will most likely be weak.”

is it? Edeline said that the total amount of rain itself does not change.

“Wasn’t it supposed to come this way originally?”

“Look at the village. If this happened every month, I wouldn’t be able to live in this cave.”

······That’s right.

Does it make sense that the water inside the village is full of water and fish are moving around? The waterfall hitting the ceiling of the cave right now is also on the verge of breaking the ceiling.

“Let’s sleep.”

Jules, who was lying down on the bed as usual, pulled me into a hug and held me in the same position as usual, wrapping my arms around Jules. My body is cold. If you sleep in a cold and humid place like this, your internal organs will become cold and twisted. You will experience massive abdominal pain and diarrhea, and if you do something wrong, acute enteritis will break out.

Moreover, I am still young.

I needed something to cover my stomach. However, I can’t face Jules. I took off my clothes, threw them on the chair, and brought Jules’ hand to my stomach. Jules’ body was also wet and damp, but soon a warm feeling came over it.

······Even though the day is this cold, my hands are so warm.

“Don’t worry about what people think.”

“You did something worth it. I can’t help it.”

“The sight of you reviving people and your judgment of making their hearts beat directly gave me goosebumps. It was as if Dragonia was bringing people back to life.”

It was an unsettling sound.

“···Do you think I’m reluctant even in Juul’s eyes?”

“But it was I who cut Amor’s belly skin and cut open his diaphragm. Do you know why?”

“Well?”

“Because I saw how to bring a dead person back to life. Other people don’t know that, so they’re scared. You also saw the Ramrats in Root Village, right? I will explain this myself. So, carry on as usual.”

However, it is natural to be wary of unfamiliar things.

Curiosity kills the cat. There is an English proverb that says: This means that if you are too curious, you will face danger. There is no way the residents of this world, where death is light, do not know this. So I guess no one really wants to understand me.

“I say so. A person came back to life by sticking a dagger in his heart and massaging it, but of course he would be reluctant. I knew it was going to be like this from the moment I asked them to cut open my stomach. I took it into consideration from the beginning, so stop and sleep.”

If you had seen Shir come back to life without knowing anything, it would have been seen as nothing more than voodoo. Even if you know it, it’s probably true. And the current phenomenon is also similar.

“Sihyeon, don’t be mistaken. You didn’t do anything wrong. Don’t go to the extent of overinterpreting kindness.”

“······.”

“You’re smart, but you’re so kind that you’re stupid.”

Am I nice? I just anticipated this situation and took it into account to revive it. If Jules helps, the villagers will probably make an effort to understand at least a little. I quietly closed my eyes, using Jules’ body temperature as a blanket.