Hitsugi no Maou

Twenty-three Stories: Reasons for Footprints

As the girl said, there was nothing left in the village of the birth canal that could be called food. Inevitably, breakfast will be served from the hands of the Sabitogas' Gentile Side.

Nevertheless, most of the food was consumed by everyone within last night, as everything but the bottle (bin) stuffed and wrapped in oil paper was flooded when it sank in the underground lake.

Thinking about the future, I kept the breakfast just to take the bottled nuts one by one. This is the only portable food left for him, with Ledge down on his hips with his sword. He dropped a luggage bag full of bread and kung fu meat when Kurnov attacked him.

After the meal, water was poured from the underground lake and boiled (shaved) and disinfected, filling all the water bags and water bottles (suito) before leaving. The clothing and luggage bags that had been on fire since last night were fortunately perfectly dry, and even the straw kakakashi, which had disassembled and left it on the ground, had flown water air to the yang as if it had dried.

Thanks to the girl for sparing no effort and keeping her branch leaves abundantly on the bonfire. Straw climbing the ground inclined to his upper mood turned his voice to the girl as he followed the nuts stuck in his teeth with his tongue.

"How long till we get to the oldest secret? Are you walking this way?

"As I said yesterday, by noon we'll be out through the forest basement to the 'womb'. From there is the open plain above the earth. You'll reach your destination in the sun."

"Fine, fine. There are guided shortcuts here and there that other explorers may be looking at. That's a special treatment. It hurts a little."

Hiccup, to a laughing stroll, the girl looks up at the band of light (obeisance) descending from the cracks on the quite ground.

"- There must be more than fifty Gentiles on that one right now. The people of the birth canal confirm the landing of hundreds of Gentiles a year"

"Hundreds! You're coming so fast! Every year!?

"If you can't get out alive, even if they hear that no one has ever survived before, they will gather from all over the world for the treasure of immortal water... the average survival of those people is three days. Some survive months hanging in there, others die just after landing. And 90% of them die in front of the womb."

"Wait a minute. What do you mean, you die right after you land?

The girl slowly looks back at the pine (sweet) fire with the rusty toga holding her mouth. Three other people than the girl had impromptu pine lights (both) on the branches of the buna today. Thanks to this, the surroundings are bright and the signs of darkness are felt far away.

"You mean to be ambushed and killed by beasts like Warebear or bandits like Kronov?

"... there are things like that"

"What else is going on?

"Whoever turns around dies. After landing on the coast, those who tried to return to the sea die again.... there would have been a lot of footprints on this island's coast, wouldn't there? But all of them must have headed deep into the island, into the woods."

There shouldn't have been a single trail back to the ocean.

To the girl's words, Sabitoga and the others look at each other.

A girl said, cutting out the darkness with a pine light.

"The people of the birth canal hiss in the rocky shade of the coast and observe the landers. That's not just to discern a good Gentile. … first of all to shoot the Gentiles trying to escape with their bows."

"Become!"

"When I landed on the island, if the footprints of my ancestors were on their way to the woods, I'd be willing to try to cancer myself. But if the footprints were scattered and there were lots of signs of escape...... cowardly (groaning) wind would blow me home. So if a lander ever tries to walk away, the people of the birth canal will shoot an arrow and kill him. The body and footprints are then processed using a hiccups without any footprints. for the next lander."

The girl looked with no emotion at the rustlers stopping her legs. Purple eyes stained the colour of blood for a moment reflecting the flames.

"It's hard to remember the island halfway through and get spoken of in the outside world. The island, the people of the birth canal, needs an excellent Gentile. We had to protect this situation, which the Gentiles regularly visit. So he was also sneaking up on restoring the 'Sand Road', which is continuing from other lands.... but as we know, now the people of the birth canal are in danger of extinction. Killing cowards is now closed."

……

"A native who guides strangers to just the presence of a treasure. There can't be such a convenient existence.... You're right about Omae, Straw. The people of the birth canal sacrifice themselves and sometimes others for their mission."

That's our fashion. Sabitoga and the others continued silently to the girl who said so and started walking again.

When I checked the look on your face, although there were some upset (how) colors, there was no fine dust (mistletoe) to disturb or enmity towards the girl. Something about last night's vow liquor, but I guess it's a big deal that the identity and mindset of the girl who's been wrapped up in mystery has been revealed and she's starting to understand the girl as a person.

Absolute mission. Prioritize the role of peoples over human life. That's what I grew up with in the natural world.

That's probably the only difference between the Sabitogas and the girls.

The four walked on the sloping ground, then silently for a while.

Gradually, the ceiling is so awkward, as it rises.