It was before noon that I woke up in the bustle.

Since when, such as sleeping to this hour? Thanks to the start of an unfamiliar journey, you may be getting tired without knowing it. Usually a few hours of sleep is enough.

If you look out the window, a dozen villagers gathered in the square.

Are you rubbing it to decide on sacrifice? Some of the gathered people can also see yesterday's Yestas brothers and sisters and the old master of the Inn.

You're right, and if you don't come to wake me up, they shouldn't even call me for breakfast.

"Ha, I told you I'd ask you to do me a favor."

'Penta', who paid a fortune on his own, left the room laughing that it was a very botched inn.

"Village chief... this time, who..."

"Uhm."

The old man, who had accumulated a splendid white beard - the village chief nodded heavily at the villagers who lurked his voice weakly.

On either side of it, the large surroundings of the body refrain. A total of five. Bad looks and patterns, doesn't look like a legitimate race.

The mayor strolled through his wrinkled face, his glittering eyes...

"This sacrifice shall be made - Silena, daughter of the Feglein family"

The proclamation was followed by a perimeter.

"What...?

Yesta... my brother leaks a whisper. The nominated young sister was just silent and solidified. With a look like you don't know what happened.

"Damn, village chief...... but Silena just turned ten......!

"I shouldn't have been out of candidacy yet......, yes, whatever..."

The villagers around also raise a slight protest,

"This is not a trust. Do you want me to defy you?"

When they turned a hard eye, the villagers pressed silence.

"Ma, wait!

Stuck in front of my brothers and sisters was a middle-aged man who started mixing gray hair. He was the father of the Yestas.

"The village still has... ugh!... with me, I won't say! When the time came, I was ready. But...... Sirena is still too...!

His father was desperately swallowing the words that followed under "Not yet in the village -".

There are still six young women left in the village.

I swallowed that word so hard.

Silena has just turned ten. He was too young to be counted as a candidate for sacrifice. It is only natural for protests to rise not only from fathers, but also from those around them.

but the village chief answered resolutely.

"The other daughters... also contribute to village work. We'll have to choose them in less harmful order. Don't say you're too young to be here. Fegrain, your daughter is all I have this time."

"To village work... say a contribution...?

My father's voice trembled.

Everyone knows.

Of the six remaining, he said there was a lazy, notorious woman.

In the village she was a wealthy house person, so working hard was a woman who publicly stated that it was stupid and so on and so on and so on and so on.

Few people sincerely think that that woman should be chosen.

But until now, no woman has ever been chosen.

On the contrary, this time, it is a matter of choosing a child who is not a candidate and who is not old enough.

"Village chief...... you, you can't be!

His father opens his eyes when he realizes' the fact '.

"... all of you. We don't have much time. Get ready."

It was fast from there.

The vicinity of the village chief trying to pack Silena in crude barrels to carry the sacrifice.

My father, who tried to stop me, was held up by the neighbors and slapped me for wanting to stop by.

Yesta also flies, but can't possibly be enemies with force, and is gently blown away and rolled.

"Ooh, ooh...!

"Sirener!

Even as the risen Yesta tried hard to rush over, he was kicked over by a man of good stature. The earth of sand is littered with red splashes.

"Gu, uh-oh!

Yesta still doesn't give up. I ate my teeth and stood up.

Blood from his nose, tears from both eyes, challenges the men.

"The kid! Come on, motherfucker!

He was kicked up his thoughtful jaw, and Yesta rolled up a lot. Now it is not time to get up, fall in big letters.

"Ouch."

Silena couldn't even resist the appearance of resistance and was forced into the barrel. The lid closes roughly.

The sound of the barrel slamming from the inside and the screaming of the cuddly girl leaked, but the village chief gave the instructions coldly.

"Bring it out."

A luggage truck with rattling and rocking barrels began to be pulled by the village chief and the five sides.

The assembled villagers only stared at the sight far-flung without the art of exchange.

Poor thing, whining in his mouth. As if it were the curse of redemption, Serious.

The old man, who tried to return to the inn with a sigh, noticed the guest standing there with his back on the wall, making him look like a bum.

"Customer, were you watching?"

"Oh. It made me feel good and indulgent. What's the darkness of a closed village society? I'm impressed with the tobacco that fills the barrel with kids."

Kuk, and Dino shakes his shoulder and laughs. Laughing, frankly speaking.

"Long time no see, this village too"

"I, too, honestly... think so. No way... I can't believe Silena was chosen"

The old Lord closed his eyes and just shook his head in regret.

(Ma, money or - no, if you think about the value of money in this village, maybe the woman herself)

Anyway, the six remaining daughters and the others, perhaps at the price of the village chief, are spared from sacrificing.

It doesn't mean anything, the act of extending the life of a sword on the spot.

Everyone is trapped in the raw and gold of the moment, and if you think about it a little, you can't even make a decision you're likely to understand.

But only that village chief might also think about collecting money and running away. The type that seems obsessed with raw and gold, Dino analyzes. The rough eyes, unsuitable for wrinkled faces, dwelt on the color of obsession. The humans in that hand, they don't give up so easily. If it's for your own good, it's a race to do anything.

"Ma, whatever. Get ready for lunch, please. It's not breakfast, I'm hungry. Can you ask for two gripping meshes?"

"Ah, ha... that's about it, right away"

"Soya Yorosik. I'll be leaving the village soon. You took care of him."

"Heh, heh, does that sound... I've shown you something you don't like..."

The Lord nodded as he bewitched, and went into the inn.

"Father...... Father!

If I turned my face to my sad voice, Yesta was just desperately rocking her father, who wouldn't even move with Pickle. He is injured himself, but cares for his father unintentionally.

"Yesta-kun, you can't move that much!

The boy is stripped by the villagers, and a decent father is carried away.

"Chi... Damn... Damn!

Yesta strikes his fist to the ground with all his might. Only faint sand and dust appeared to symbolize his powerlessness.

"Hey, kid."

There, a man of power speaks.

"To, Yi..."

Yesta had wet eyes in tears, a face dirty in sand and blood, and just glanced up at Dino.

"Me... what should I do...?

"What's wrong with Omei?"

"No, it's settled! I want Silena back, it's settled!

The powerless boy, he just screams with all his might.

"Whatever the consequences"

…… I don't know what you're talking about. Wanting to bring Silena back is something I shouldn't...?

- Listen to such a boy.

"What's wrong with you? I want to live..."

My former cry rises to the back of my brain.

"... Yikes, Omei is right. Haha, was it a little hard for the kid"

Dino crouched in and gazed at the same height as Yesta.

"But... but... eh"

"What's up?"

"Here... if you didn't sacrifice Sirena here..., the village..."

"Ooh, a fine concern. If it's for the village, how can my sister be sacrificed? You have the qualities of a saint."

"I don't like that either! But... what else am I supposed to do!?

"Is there a cot I've been thinking about? Kid."

Like I tell you. Like trying. Dino hoists the edge of his mouth and throws the question.

"As Omei's sister is about to be sacrificed, there were six other women. So, the women were sacrificed one after the other. Well...... after that, what happens?

"... Huh?

"After we run out of things to dedicate... will the devil and the others leave in search of another village? Even the sole..."

I wonder if you're coming to destroy the village itself,.

"Do other humans miss because they've sacrificed? Negative. The devil is bad, and he eats people thoroughly. That's why I'm being told and feared by all kinds of heirs. If I were a demon... I wouldn't want to leave evidence. One or two tiny villages...... huh?

The boy dyes his face pale in a way that sticks his thumb and index finger together.

"Oh, no...!

"It's in the wax. I assure you. It doesn't make sense that Omei's sister will be sacrificed. To die for nothing."

Yesta was stunned and silenced.

Even if the villagers find themselves in this situation, they must be vaguely thinking.

By the time the sacrifice is lost, the village chief - or God - should be able to do something about it. The daughters I'm dedicating now are an unavoidable and honorable sacrifice until then. This is a trial.

It is a very common idea of a man who believes in God.

Perhaps Yesta would have thought the same way. Until my own sister was chosen like this.

You can view the catastrophe that comes down as a 'trial', etc., because you are like a party and in the end you are other personnel. What is the 'trial' if you try to make it a chosen Sirene this time. I don't have the power to resist, I can just push unilateral death.

Sounds stupid.

Dino kicks one of those things.

"There is an easy solution"

"Huh?"

"You can defeat the demon itself."

For the powerless, the idea of not even floating.

Yesta no longer remained a pocan expression and uttered no words.

"I have the power..."

Yes, if you whisper like a temptation. The sound of Yesta swallowing his spit reaches to Dino's ear.

There is no way that an old boy can spot the skill of the chanter Mage. But my instincts as an organism may have felt it. A tremendous power hidden in this Red Lotus man.

"Honestly... if you're my brother,... the devil...?

Dino hoisted up the edge of his mouth, "Oh," against the boy who sparkled his eyes.

"I do all kinds of work depending on the money. If Omei's gonna ask me to do it, I'm gonna bust the devil and bring my sister back."

"Hon... and... to...?

That's exactly what it is - as if you're about to make a pact for contraindications, before a fearful demon.

"Well... but... I... hardly ever have any money..."

"How much do you have?

To Dino's words, Yesta removed a single coin from his inner pocket of clothing.

"That's all..."

Five hundred esc coins.

In the cafeteria of Midir College, the cheapest fixed meal was enough money to ask for. If it's around 13th Avenue in Wangdu, you can't even have a cup of tea.

"K, kuk...... hahahahahaha......"

"No... right? That's all..."

Yesta shrugs with a crying face to Dino, who lays down her face and starts laughing.

but

"- No. Fine. Enough money. I'll give you this job."

The flaming 'penta' plays a coin pin, catches it in the air and grips it in.

"... what, really... to?

Yesta stared at Dino with such expressions as incredible.

"There's only one thing, there's a condition. Omei, come with me. It's Omei's job to pull the sister you helped."

"Ugh, yeah!

The boy wiped his tears and nodded forcefully.

Dino stands up with a nigga and a grin.

"So, take a good look. What happens when Omei decides to bring her back?"

Saying, Dino makes his fingers dance and develops Oracle, the divine chant of communication. I guess Yesta didn't understand what Dino meant by words, he was leaning on his little neck.

"Holle, you're hurt. You can take care of the injury. Three hours to the west woods. Get ready."

"Ugh, yeah!

Looking at the running boy, Dino starts a conversation with his opponent on the other side of the communication.

I have trouble waiting, even if it's too early. I just wanted to adjust my time well.