episode_0163

The two cried for a long time.

For a really long time.

Jules sat nearby and watched in silence until the two stopped crying. It was the same for me too.

“If I go this time, it will take a month.”

“Let’s go together.”

“Don’t come.”

“Body odor and appearance have also changed. No one will recognize me anymore. It doesn’t matter because I’ll kill them all so it doesn’t spread.”

“I told you not to come.”

“The kids got hurt because of us, they—!”

“It’s not our fault. It’s their fault.”

······Jules is right.

Although they are different from the two young sisters, traces of their passing remain.

Their bodies were full of traces of torture.

From face to toe.

Because they were sirens, they seemed to have been sexually tortured as well.

But I arrived here.

This indirectly means that both villages have been blown away.

They let the two go and lured me in. They are calling me.

But what if I don’t come? It will encourage me even more.

─Kill them all somehow.

In the face of pure evil, pure anger rises.

Juul was also a judge, so there was murderous intent in his eyes.

I approached the two sirens.

“Debor, Deborah. Have you calmed down?”

“Ugh, yes…”

“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry…”

Some people apologize profusely and others agree.

Even the voices are similar, so I don’t know who is who.

“First, wash in the river.”

It was a godsend that I brought soap so I could wash right away after training.

I held out the soap to Deborah.

“······!”

He said he seemed scared, so I just handed him some soap and walked away.

” After washing, please let me know what happened. I’ll have to go there with Seolrang and take them down.”

“······Okay.”

Soon Deborah took the soap and dragged Deborah’s hand towards the river. Since there was nothing else to do, she returned and sat down next to Jules.

Sirens basically live together.

Therefore, when a village was attacked, other sirens were expected to help at the same time.

The closest Siren Executor is Elysia.

“What is Elysia doing these days? The last time I saw it was 2 years ago.”

“Elysia? I gave birth to a baby. They said it was a boy.”

···There was no message. Let me tell you one thing.

“I had no idea.”

“Because they lay eggs. Normally, women can’t work after giving birth. Because my body is broken.”

It means you were fired.

It’s the same everywhere that you can’t work if you’re pregnant or have a child.

It’s a sad reality.

“It’s so unfortunate that I’m being forced to not work.”

“Okay. From now on, I will be receiving a certain amount of pension until my child turns four years old. I’ll probably return to work after that.”

······uh? Pension? rehabilitation?

In this day and age?

“That stupid bitch gave up her pension and tried to return to work, but her husband caught her and reported her. Where are you going to leave your child?”

“Puhuhuh····!”

“Quuk! I guess I have no choice but to rest now. Sitting on a year’s worth of pension that came in at once!”

We giggled and laughed together.

“Aren’t you crazy?”

“I’m not a workaholic, and I don’t know why parents-to-be would do that.”

How good is unearned income, why don’t you want to receive a pension? As I chatted and chatted with Juul, it wasn’t long before the Siren sisters, who were at least as relaxed as possible, appeared.

“How do you think those two escaped?”

“Now I have to find out.”

“I knew about the Precious Blood. There, there is an immortal.”

Jules’s spirit became fierce.

Because we had been together for a long time, I could feel it.

Jumble-jump-

Deborah and Deborah stood in front of me.

Now that he has received treatment and has come to his senses to some degree, he will tell everything to me and Jules at any time of the day.

“Thank you so much.”

I was very scared just a moment ago, but I don’t feel that way anymore. Even if I don’t know if it’s Ri Si-hyeon, I guess they at least thought I was trustworthy.

“It’s okay. Deborah, Deborah. From now on, time is the most important. Can you tell me what happened?”

I need to focus from now on.

Deborah stares at my face.

“···The village was attacked by Terub in the middle of the night.”

“Terub? Are you referring to Terup from ‘Drekar’?”

“Yes.”

I finally understand it now.

If you are hit by a Siren’s wing, your bones will break and your internal organs will burst, and if you are hit on the head, your skull will crack.

There is no way that anyone other than Terup or Hosot could block it.

“He was holding a short knife in one hand. In the village, Sirens also tend to walk. Plus it was night.”

Terup is the best ranger among Ajin.

It’s obvious even if you don’t look at it. After the sentries were removed and the village was surrounded…

“They quietly killed the people on the outskirts…and surrounded the village and started hunting us…! Aim only at the wings, cut the ligaments or kill if there is too much resistance—!”

Deborah gritted her teeth.

The terubs attacked the village, and the Sirens flying into the sky must have been hit with concentrated fire.

“I wanted to run away… but I couldn’t fly into the sky…”

“Why?”

“As soon as I went up into the sky, arrows came flying from all directions. My father showed me that when he ran away first, leaving us behind. Because he fell with an arrow piercing his heart and neck.”

It’s a harsh voice.

Was he a person worth dying for?

Both the first and last meeting were late at night.

What parent would kick their children out at night when the sea water is flooding in?

What the two explain is the same as the content in the textbook that I once heard while torturing the Wall Keepers.

They are most likely regular soldiers.

“How many people were there?”

“W, about ten people…?”

“What about the villagers?”

“It was a small town. There were only about fifty people there, and except for us… everyone was dead…!”

“How many Sirens were hit by arrows while flying into the sky?”

“Su, there will be more than 20 people.”

“Did you fly up all at once?”

“As the pressure intensified, the majority of people took off… but at first, five people took off at once. But hundreds of arrows flew from somewhere!”

It is ‘Rain of Arrows’.

In modern terms, building a fire net.

This is a method used to surprise Sirens.

It’s nonsense to hit arrows with such force and fire ten arrows at a time, but the accuracy rate and penetration distance are all poor.

However, apply poison.

So, if you just brush against it, you die.

But arrows are neither cheap nor small.

To use such arrows at the height of inefficiency, ‘Arrow Rain’, it would be a regular army with abundant supplies, not a Ranger.

“There will be over 50 people, including Terub.”

Acting as a soldier in front of Terup may be too risky a choice. Since it has no armor, it is certain that if it is scratched by a fingernail, its internal organs will spill out.

He has used up all the paralyzing poison and doesn’t even know how to use a sword. In the end, you have to fight with a dagger and a bow, and no matter how good the fire net is, it’s late at night.

It’s possible that someone could have run away.

It seems like a skilled designated marksman is hiding somewhere.

“Okay. I think so.”

I wanted to ask how he was able to escape, but at the same time, I felt very uncomfortable asking. But, it has to be done.

“How did you escape?”

“They said they attacked us to punish you. If you’re going to blame, blame you… We knew you, so we were released.”

“What about medicine?”

The complexions of both turned pale.

This made it clear. It was an inducement to summon me or the Eucharist.

And, in order to entice, something valuable must be held as collateral.

They both seemed to read on my face that I had reached the truth.

“···Help! My mom is captured!”

He hugged them as if they were trying to appeal to their emotions.

These are people who have seen a lot of ugly things. I had no intention of letting it get any uglier.

“Yes. Of course we will help you.”

Jules glances at me.

“Sihyeon, I don’t think this is a problem you should pursue.”

Even judging objectively, Jules was right.

As long as Terub is involved, I won’t be able to do anything even if I go. They can catch flying arrows and have ghost-like reflex speeds.

but.

“I’ll go.”

Ten terubs trained in combat.

Terup is as dangerous to Juul as he is to me.

The fact that my father told me that Terup could defeat Hosot must have been based on the training of Terup.

not good.

“How good is Terup’s sense of smell?”

Jules squinted.

“Better than humans. It’s worse than Hosott. It’s not right.”

You have to think about ways to help as you go.

They should be returning to the north gate by now.

“I guess I have to go up to the northwest, right?”

The terrain in the northwest is─ “No, it is north.”

My thoughts stopped.

Why north?

“Unless they’re crazy, there’s no way they wouldn’t think of a retreat route.”

“No, they are plundering around there.”

“How did you know that?”

“An eagle flew in this morning.”

···What does this mean?

“Executive officers are gathering there. I’m planning to join there too.”

Juul’s decision to take a month could also be a time to wait for their supplies to run out and pop out first.

“Let’s go together. Got it?”

“I might really die this time.”

“When didn’t you do that?”

“It may be small, but even if the enforcers gather, they are outnumbered this time. Someone will definitely die.”

So you were always the one facing death on the front lines. Even when I was in Root Village, I came back covered in blood.

I just share Jules’ pain.

Besides, we have multiple lives.

Therefore, if I die, I die like Jules.

“I’ll pretend to be a hunter and raid the inside. The number of them was fifty, right? After a few days, there is bound to be a shortage of military supplies.”

Sirens are also a hunting people.

The characteristic of hunting people is that their profitability is extremely poor.

“With that face?”

“Uh-huh, you don’t know anything. If it happens well, it’s all probability.”

Even if we are wasting time looting, each person’s tastes are different. In particular, Terup’s eating habits are no different from Hosot.

You need about 5% of your body weight in meat per day.

Humans may carry dry food with them, but considering the amount of calories consumed and the humidity in the South, it gets soggy quickly.

Mold will probably grow in two weeks.

The most important thing is ‘water.’

The hardest thing to find in a tropical rainforest is water.

There is no way that 50 people could drink enough water from the sap of a plant.

“We will follow you too…!”

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

I almost burst out laughing at Jules’ harsh refusal.

On the contrary, the twins were begging to come with their eyes.

Especially Deborga.

“We know how to shoot a bow too! I’ve even hunted bears before!”

“Debor. That’s hunting, fighting is different.”

If you stab anyone, they die.

However, there are people who mistake themselves for being great people just because they know how to stab. Even though self-objectification is most important on the battlefield.

It was just these two, and it was me in the past who had seen difficult situations many times.

“What’s the difference?! If you shoot it, you’ll die! It was at night when we were attacked! If you fight in the air when the sun is shining───.”

“If the two of you can attack the other person, the other person can also attack the two of you. It will become a target.”

“What Sihyeon said is correct. I even gave you treatment, so you can find your own way to live individually.”

“But that’s where my house is?! We have nowhere to go…!”

Deborah looks at Jules with mesmerized eyes.

“Crow’s wings are a symbol of bad luck. The other sirens hate us!”

Just as there are many races among humans, such as Samoans, Mongolians, and Sudanese Negroes, there are many races among all subhumans.

Even non-humans discriminate against each other, so there is no way there is no racial discrimination.

“That’s up to you.”

“That place… with only fifty people, it was the largest village among the Crow Wing villages…! Someone will come there. We want to settle down there again and live there again…”

Jules, who had been making eye contact with Deborah for a long time, looks at me.

impossible.

A person, not an artificial intelligence, is building another village on top of a village that was attacked and wiped out?

I understand the desire, but it doesn’t work if it doesn’t work out.

Once a village has been swept away by wild bandits, people do not enter the village because they think it is ominous.

Everyone runs away again.

“Sihyeon.”

“Yes.”

“I have a favor to ask.”

······what.

Are you saying you have a favor to ask me at this point? I can’t feel it.

“I want you to hand over the tip of Elysia that you have to me.”

ah!

“I’ll give it to you.”

How could I not give it to you?

It’s an antique that was put in place for 6 years and then forgotten.

It was too big to make a quill, so I couldn’t lift it and was thinking about throwing it away.

“Thank you. I’ll bring it, so just wait a moment.”

Jules turned around and headed towards the village.

On the other hand, the two sirens are looking at me with a puzzled expression.

“What do you mean…? Elysia’s tip…?”

“Do you know?”

“Who doesn’t know Elysia?! You’re the warrior general of Baek-ik!”

“There was a connection. Seolrang owns that husband’s collar.”

Two people, two people.

Elysia and Barusa will help them settle in.

Now that I think about it, I understand why Elysia was surprised when she heard the name Barusa.

Of course, I was surprised to hear that my old maid friend received a gift from her husband-to-be. Your nerves will be tense.

“I’ll be honest. That village will never recover. I know you’re trying to go back because you have nowhere to go.”

“But──”

“I will make sure to save your mother and send her off safely.”

When I glanced behind me, I saw that Juul had also moved quite far away.

“This is not given for free.”

The twins take a breath.

His eyes tremble as if an earthquake has occurred, but he ultimately has a resigned expression.

And───

“You turned away─?!”

I tried to take off my clothes.

“You guys like this kind of thing…?!”

Deborah looks at me with a trembling voice.

He is gritting his teeth with a resigned expression.

“Don’t be crazy. If you don’t want to hear all the swear words you’ll hear here for the rest of your life.”

“But, there’s nothing we can give you…?”

Unlike Deborah, Deborah’s voice is sorrowful. Sometimes it happens like this. People who see themselves as downgraded.

All pride to nurture one’s soul would have been lost in that village.

“Cut off the end feathers.”

Only then do they both look at me with blank faces.

“Huh…?”

“There is something I would like to ask of you two.”

The two people looked at me for a while, and their expressions began to show shame, shame, and a hint of self-deprecation.

It was an action on my part to boost their pride.

“I will protect you…”

“I’ll help you with anything.”

Their voices are extremely serious.

It seemed like he had finally regained some of his pride.

“Do you remember the black-haired Hosott I sent back earlier?”

“Yes.”

“I remember.”

“If this village becomes dangerous or the host becomes dangerous, don’t forget what happened today and help us even if it means risking your life.”

That’s enough.

I thought it would look good if I glazed Shir’s collar so it wouldn’t get damaged and made earrings for him.

“···Thank you.”

“Hurry! Cut it before Seolrang comes.”

Only then did the two Sirens, who were watching, cut off the end of their own feathers.