Hitsugi no Maou

One Hundred and Seventeen Stories: Firebugs

Gentile settlements. Sabitoga thought of it as a house that cut out the trees in the woods and a collection of clothed tents, but the reality was quite different.

The majority of the buildings that make up the settlement are towers (tortoises) and walls made of old stone, many of which are damaged or semi-destructed. The auditorium was littered with squares and bridges that were nowhere to be connected, making it a better place for spreading plants and cockerels.

It is also not the same as the style (fussy) of a fort (by the way) built for the battle against the devil.

The ruins of some civilization that flourished a long time ago. It was the exploratory base on which it was based.

Sabitoga and the girl cross the dead waterway around the settlement perimeter and enter the building group instead of Zaire. As you enter through the window of the nearby tower, your shoe steps like a carpet. Something fluffy with white flowers fills the stone floor.

The space lined with rubble-based desks and chairs is unquestionably used as a residence by someone. The landlord seems to be away, but he should have left before he was misunderstood.

A broken cobblestone was stretched out in front of him as he knocked through the door left open. Decaying and cracked stones are unstable to accept shoes and can scratch your feet when you step on them poorly.

I'm guessing it was once a city. Stone roads like ruins. There is no longer a single figure on it. Sabitoga asked the girl before the ancient stone, which was tickled by the weeds that were just swayed by the wind and held by a tiny lizard.

"How many people were we talking about in the settlement?

"Eighteen," Hanglin said.

"... a vast ruin, but too unpopular nonetheless. I didn't know you weren't even standing watch."

Sabitoga proceeded with his steps as he said, looking around at the settlement building.

Furniture and daily necessities often peek through the towers suitable for dwelling, and cloth and wooden planks are stretched in the shadows of the collapsed high walls, showing signs that people were awake.

But wherever he peered in, he did not look like a dweller, but was quiet as a nest of abandoned beasts.

When we reach the central square of the settlement, the roofless auditorium is opening its mouth, and there are a number of moss (koke) columns that support nothing.

Sabitoga shouted once, "Somebody! I'll call it." A few bats that were stuck in the pillars just escaped in a noisy way, and there was no response from people.

"A mockingjay shell (from)? But if you abandon the base for some convenience, there's too much left."

"It doesn't look like we've fought our enemies and been wiped out. No body, no blood."

A girl went up to the altar of the auditorium and put her ass on the stone podium. When I wave my legs around, the hard noise rises from behind the podium.

A girl peeking behind her back took up a jar filled with bright red wood fruit in her hand. The food hidden in the podium rolled out shaken by a girl. It was a familiar and genuine fruit, unlike the bearded wooden beard found in the woods.

"... if I took it, I guess not"

"Let's not. The truth is brand new. It's just been harvested."

In Sabitoga's words, the girl honestly placed the bottle on the podium.

Even though we have reached a settlement with a smell of life, for some reason we cannot encounter the inhabitants.

Sabitoga and the others left the auditorium with few words due to the twitching and falling anxiety, it was then.

"Sabitoga! That!

Looking in the direction pointed by the girl, Sabitoga's eyes hoisted with the sharpness of the blade.

There is a single horse shadow at the end of the settlement (Shutan), on the bridge to the sky that leads nowhere.

A horse with white electric light is a horse with no clutter. It's the stolen horse that took Sabitoga's baggage.

The horse is now connected to rubble by a strand of attached horse equipment, with no one on board. Sabitoga quickly ran his gaze and found a shadow at the further tip of the bridge, making a noise and gripping (and tightening) the spear.

"... fly into the fire. What the hell. You might be able to hear what's going on in the settlement."

"Look scared, Sabitoga. You look as scared as you want."

It continued with a girl waving her arms around Sabitoga stepping out of her feet.