Isekai Ryouridou

"Now I would like to proceed with the meeting… the Guests would like to have a seat at its wall. The four men who served as guides should return to their respective chiefs."

When I looked back because they told me it was on the wall, the side of the entrance to the aisle we came through was just the right height step. Even if you sit there, you can look out over the square as much as you did when you stood. Apparently, this square fell loosely more indented in the center, and the higher the line of sight it was between the walls.

That's how Reita, Ruja, Valb and Madarama walk under each chief as we watch.

It was instead of a woman sitting right next to Raal, the partitioner, that Ryta headed. If this is Namkar's chief, it means he's Tia's mother. It's hard to tell the difference between ages, but just like Raal, which year was right, his eyes seemed sharp and looking at Tia.

Yet, right next to the Writers, sits a giant, bright white wolf. However, the valves Dan-Rutim came across should also have been pure white furrows - and when he tilted his gaze, Dan-Rutim stared at those pure white valves with a completely excited face.

"... it's Raal, the chief of Shautarta. Does Tia mind staying like this?

and Tia, who had stood alone on the spot, called as such. Speaking of which, Tia didn't have any instructions.

"Humph," Raal grinned with his nose as he stroked the back of the white madalama.

"I don't think it's appropriate to let you sit side by side with the guests, or if you did sit on the ground, I'd lose sight of you from the chiefs behind you. As you're about to be brought to justice for your sins, I thought you should keep your appearance to everyone, but is there something you're not comfortable with?

"I'm not dissatisfied. Just, can I lower my hunter's clothes and Belze's knife?

"Hmm. Keep those things under your feet, too"

Tia nodded, putting the hunter's clothes on his right shoulder and the knife that was tucked away in his sheath at his feet.

From us, we can only see Tia's back like that. On the other side of it lay the people of the sanctuary in a sloppy formation, so it was as if Tia were standing alone against his brethren.

(Tia, we're here.)

I secretly decided to hold my fist.

In the meantime, Raal's voice echoes.

"Then let's hear your say.... Tia, the son of Hamra, the chief of Namkar, was to be in the outside world for a long time. It's boring to see why and how you spent your time out there."

"Admittedly, it's a long story spanning half a year, so I'd really like you to hear it"

That's how Tia talked.

It is the same content that I was telling the Rujahs on the road. Again, I was supposed to go after the days I was spending with Tia.

The people of the sanctuary who hear it are still silent and immovable. This square sounds so loud that you wouldn't have been afraid to miss hearing Tia's words even if you were sitting at the rearmost. Under the moss blue and white glow of the stars, their eyes were blinking as shady as a blaze.

Would it have taken plenty and a half of a minute for Tia to finish telling everything?

Then the first to raise his voice was still Raal, the partitioner.

"I think it's an amazing story. Can Tia swear in front of the Great God that those stories are not false?

"Tia swears to the Father, the Great God, that he spoke only the truth"

"So what about the Guests? If there was a difference between the truth we know and what Tia said, I want you to be honest."

Of course, we were supposed to acknowledge Tia's honesty in silence. It's unlikely that Tia would utter a lie or anything, and besides, Tia even felt skillful in objectively capturing her actions.

"Now let me ask one of our guests, Raylis"

Suddenly he was named, and Raylis put his spine up like a hack.

"A place called the Forestside Settlement, to which Tia traced, is said to be part of a Genos land. So how could the head of Genos not have tried Tia's sins?

"Tia's sin, by the way..."

"Needless to say. For the sins of the people of the sanctuary who trampled the outside world."

That's what Raal said as he glowed his eyes hard in the dark.

"If the outside man trampled the sanctuary, we would never forgive him. It shall be skinned like a beast, and its corpse returned to the outside world. How could the head of Genos not have tried Tia's sins in that way?

"It is because… it was found that this tier did not break the code in bad faith. Tia was just talking about sliding her legs and falling into the river... so it shouldn't be sinful enough to redeem herself with life"

"So why did you allow Tia to heal the wounds in the outside world? Had Tia been returned to the sanctuary immediately on the spot, it wouldn't have been such a hassle."

"That's why Tia wanted it that way."

"I see. Tia said she thought she could not return to the sanctuary until she redeemed the sin that hurt Asta and regained her power as a hunter. For the convenience of such a tier, you twisted the code of the outside world"

"Oh, no, I never twisted the code of the outside world... our code should have been that the people of the sanctuary should not be friends or compatriots. Therefore, you will be dressed to allow you to stay in a forest settlement on the condition that you abide by the code."

Raylis was spinning his words diligently so that he could still fulfill his mission as he soaked the cold sweat on his forehead.

But Raal's eyes remain sharp light.

"But not to trample your land must also be a covenant between us. Didn't you think you needed punishment for Tia for breaking that contraindication?

"That, as I said earlier, is the result of seeing Tia as not breaking a promise of her own free will. We were also in a relationship where we could never be friends or compatriots, and at the same time we had an agreement that we should never be hostile… to honor Tia's will to keep that promise."

"Hmm......" he snorted and Raal slightly distracted himself. Sitting ahead is Gemd.

"One of our guests, Gemd, says, is in the role of seeing if the land of Genos is ruled correctly. Was this the right thing to do in the eyes of Guest Gemd?

"Yes, we have heard that Marstein, the head of Genos, has allowed Tia the Red People to stay after trusting the people by the woods. My master, Lady Fermez, has found the decision to be correct."

"... trust the people of the woods?

"Yes. The people by the woods are a family that lives in the woods. Living in a stone town has different learnings and codes from ours. I hear that Marstein, the head of Genos, thought that if he was such a forest people, he would not break his promise to the people of the sanctuary."

In the voice of a deep baritone, Gemd spoke pale.

"Let's say the flowing tip of the Red Folk Tier was a stone town. At that time, it was presumably not even of this consequence. People may have been fearful of Morga's tri-beast tier and may have had their swords pointed at them without even being able to offer their hand of salvation."

"Who are the three beasts of Morga?

"In Genos, the Red People were called the Red Wildlings, and they were called the Three Beasts of Morga along with Valve and Madarama. Initially, we heard that the people of Genos didn't even know that the Red Wildlings looked like humans."

With his gaze pointed at Gemd, Leiris overruled him in a panic.

After nodding back over there, Gemd overlaps words even more.

"Therefore, the original Marquis Genos said that Tia's neck should be snapped. Whatever the reason, the three beasts of Morga are not allowed to go out into the outside world, so snapping their necks was the best way to stop the aftermath."

"Hmm. Rather, it seems more natural to us."

"I guess so. That's what the kingdom looks like in general. I don't know about it in the eastern kingdom, I think that's debatable...... at least in the western kingdom, there are not many people who are not afraid of the people of the sanctuary. It is presumed that only the people of the woods and a very small part of the free-flowing people can face the people of the sanctuary in peace."

"Is that why?

"That's because some people by the woods and some of the freedom-exploring people find themselves in nature. The people of the woods take the woods, the people of Drago take the mountains, the people of Shirley take the rivers as their mothers, but it is an unforgivable place in the kingdom."

Is that also the knowledge I learned from Fermes? There was so little starvation in Gemd's words that I didn't think I remembered him with a penetration.

"For the people of the kingdom, the kingdom is God. Therefore, we are identical to the name of the kingdom and the name of God. We make the kingdom God, just as you make the world itself God. And God is the Father, and there is no Mother.... But only the people by the woods and the free explorers call the world that surrounds me Mother. Perhaps it is a remnant of what could not be abandoned."

"What is the lesson of being?

"It is, of course, an exercise in making this world a god. It is that faith, which you have inherited since the time of the Tai Chi. By abandoning our faith, we have gained a civilization of stone and steel… the people by the woods and the free explorers have chosen to live their own life in the confines of the stone capital and sanctuary"

After saying it that way, Gemd looked around at the people of the sanctuary with a cool eye.

"Before I do that, let me confirm one thing… is there any recognition left here that the people of the sanctuary and the people of the kingdom were originally compatriots who worshipped the same God?

"... it is told among us that the people of the outside world are descendants of a clan that has forsaken the great God"

"I see. I'll be fine with that perception, for once. In the days of Tai Ancient times, this continent was governed by a civilization of sorcery. But because of the lack of magic in the earth, the civilization of sorcery was to be crushed. This is The Sleep of the Great God."

As if Fermes had taken over, Gemd smoothly overlaps words.

Not only the people of the sanctuary, but we were also supposed to breathe and hear the words.

"So the people of the Great God chose two paths. Do you live like a beast in nature to await the awakening of the Great God? Or build a new civilization that is different from magic? … the former will be the people of the sanctuary and the latter the people of the kingdom. And very few human beings were to live between sanctuaries and kingdoms."

"... that's the people by the woods?

"No, in fact, the identity of the people by the woods is riddled with mystery. However, their raw is so similar to the freelance people that in order to avoid confusion, let me speak as the same on this occasion."

Not to be discouraged, Gemd replied as such.

"The liberal pioneers did not let it fall into the sanctuary. But he couldn't even make the decision to live as a people of the kingdom. Such was their acceptance of the new gods, while at the same time calling their homeland their mother, which cut through their own raw. The benefits of the new civilization are kept as far away as possible, living in wooden houses, not stone building, hunting for their prey in the wild. It will be the original freelance people."

"The original means it's not currently, is it?

"Yes, very few liberal pioneers currently find themselves in that kind of life. Humans who have lost sight of the bounty of civilization and heard the voice of the earth can no longer be different from the people of the kingdom. If I did badly, would the people of Gigi and Gerd in the eastern kingdom be closer to the original liberal pioneers - that's what Lady Fermes said."

In response to Gemd's gaze, Schmiral-Lilyn nodded yes.

"I, my predecessor, am a people of Gigi. The people of Gigi, the meadows, the irreplaceable, thinking. Meadows, Mother, to call, I suppose not to be forgiven... is equal to that, I think"

"... why is the guest Schmiral-Lilyn talking so strangely?

To Raal's question, Schmiral-Lilyn spills a soft smile.

"I'm sorry. I was an eastern clan. Words of the West, they're crippling, they're terrifying."

For whatever reason, the people of the sanctuary, who had been so hard to remain silent, only bothered a little there.

Raal opens his mouth, as if to represent it.

"Guest Schmiral-Lilyn, were you of the East clan? The legacy is left to us too"

"Yes, even in the eastern lands, the sanctuary, exists. Detailed location, I don't know, but blue sanctuary, black sanctuary, should exist"

Then Gemd, who had given way to Schmiral-Lilyn, also opened his mouth again.

"On the continent, there are supposed to be seven sanctuaries. To the west, red and yellow. To the south, green and white. To the north, purple. To the east, black. And in the narrow north and east, blue. - and each holy colour is named after a clan."

"... the white sanctuary, doomed," Raal responded in a low voice.

"A long time ago, the last magician, Atura, told the truth, and it is left in the legacy. The white people lost their friendly birds of thunder, and were destroyed by the black beast... and the story was that Atullah was a tribal blue people of the east, and that his words were not free."

My heart bounced on that word.

I'm not sure what a thunderbird is, but to a white people, a black beast is - is it about a clan of white queens and black monkeys?

I snuck around, left and right, but I didn't have any fellow Moribe to react to it.

It's just - it felt like Gazran-Rutim's eyes were shining a slightly hawky light.

"... but such stories have nothing to do with Tia's sins. What would the Guest Gemd have thought and told such a story?

"Yes, I wanted to tell you that the people by the woods are so close to the people of the sanctuary. Of course, the people by the woods are also the people of a clean kingdom, dealing with contraindicated steel weapons in the sanctuary. Therefore, I cannot be friends or compatriots with the people of the sanctuary… a family that uses the forest as its mother and lives in the woods. If he is a clean and resolute forest folk, he wonders if he can keep Tia's figure without treading the code or the covenant - and I hear that's how Marstein, the head of Genos, decided."

"I see. So you didn't try to judge Tia for her sins, did you?"

Donda-Lou reacted perfectly to Raal's low crush.

"Me too, I want to make a statement. Are the people of the sanctuary unhappy with our deeds? It feels like you want Tia to be punished."

"Sure. If the people of the outside world had given Tia the punishment she deserved, we wouldn't have had to come together like this."

Raal smiled sarcastically and replied as such.

"Raal spent three days in the land. In the meantime, we have to spend time away from our precious blood families. Honestly, I'm very dissatisfied."

"But it will be to determine Tia's sins. You mean your own comfortable life is more important than Tia's life?

"The lives of our compatriots are, above all, heavy. So this is how we gathered here without complaining. Not to mention that Tia was supposed to be Namkar's next chief."

There was no way to be bad, Raal said.

"But if Tia were to return her soul on this occasion just now, our hardships would also be in vain. If the outside world had settled for me, I wouldn't have had to put such effort into it."

"... you still hope Tia returns her soul. Is that because you are a family of Valve hunters?

"Hmm. Guest Donda-Lou says Raal isn't fair?

"I want to believe it's not. But I don't know why you want Tia dead."

Donda-Lou said so, letting that giant take the quiet force for granted.

"From our eyes, Tia looks like she redeemed all her sins. If not, let me know why."

"Reason. It seems obvious from the beginning."

Raal had a relaxed face and stroked her under the throat of a white madalama.

"First Tia committed the sin of trampling the outside world. But it would not be a great sin, because it was not an act by one's own will.... but Tia hurt the outside human asta. And spent a long time in the outside world healing his own wounds. They are due to the will of Tia, so consider them a great sin"

"As for the sin of hurting Asta, I hear she was redeemed. Was that Tia's misconception?

"If you threatened the lives of others, you have no choice but to use your own life to redeem them. Tia seems to have redeemed her sins, as per the sanctuary's code... but she was to spend a long time in the outside world to exchange the deeds"

"Tia was spending time in the woods to heal the wounds," he said.

"But even if the wound healed, it would not have made it back to the sanctuary if it had not redeemed sin against Asta. Earlier, Tia herself should have spoken that way."

In describing the past six months, Tia did say so.

"Also, apart from that, Tia remained in the outside world to heal the wounds. That seems like the biggest sin."

"Why? Tia said that she would not be allowed to return to the sanctuary without losing her power as a hunter. Was that a mistake?

"... we should discuss that point first"

Raal's sharp eyes were directed at Tia, who stood silently.

"It's Tia. You thought it would be unacceptable to return to the sanctuary without losing the power of the hunter?

"Hmm. Was that a mistake?

"It's not a mistake. After breaking numerous contraindications, it will never be tolerated, for example, for a man who has lost his power as a hunter to return to the sanctuary with congratulations.... But was the act of healing wounds in the outside world really the right one?

If you noticed, a faint laugh had disappeared from Raal's face. Raal's eyes, which look black because of the blue and white lighting, look at Tia as she shoots.

"If you were back in the sanctuary, the fangs of Madarama or the swords of your compatriots would have brought you to justice for your sins. Didn't you just fear your own death?

"No!" And I screamed reflexively.

Then panic and let Raal bow his head.

"I'm sorry I interrupted you in the middle of a conversation. But Tia feared death, not once. Tia initially insisted that people in the outside world should be tried for Tia's sins, but that was rejected by this side. That was also said in Tia's description earlier, wasn't it?

"But hey, Tia's going to accept that sweet decision"

"No! Tia has been wondering why she didn't snap her neck! Tia has always insisted that doing so should be the best way to go! Even this time... Tia said if it was enough to bother us, we'd better give our souls back!

I just couldn't be as calm as everyone else.

But still, I couldn't help but raise my voice.

"Rather, in the beginning Tia was as strong as she hoped to return her soul. Tia has committed a great sin, but insists that if you give your soul back to the Great God, that sin will also be redeemed... so for Tia, it was about easier to give your soul back! But Tia chose the path to redeem her sins with her own hands, suffering for a long time! Was that the wrong thing to do?

…………

"It should be a great pain to spend months surrounded by people who can't be friends or brothers. As I mentioned earlier, the people by the woods may have been close to the people of the sanctuary... but still, they can't be friends or compatriots. No matter how hard and painful it was, Tia would never sweeten us. In that situation, I want you to think about whether Tia spent six months…"

"But looking at Guest Asta, it's like she's a friend of Tia's. I wonder if Tia would have enjoyed her day."

Raal's words swept deep through my chest.

That's why...

"... that's why. Tia told me she preferred us. We liked Tia, too. But I can't be friends or compatriots. To be honest, I... I was wondering how happy Tia would be if she became one of my brothers by the woods... but Tia didn't escape on such a cheap path. More importantly, it is the compatriots left behind in their homeland who take care of themselves and offer their souls to the Great God… Don't lose any solitude, Tia is now allowed to take her place."

The cave square was quiet.

The Red People, Valve and Madarama are silently listening to me.

There - suddenly the boy's high laugh echoed.

"I see, that's what made me good at it! Is that why Tia has been sinking like that for so long! It's utterly emotional to try to move your feelings to the outside world!

The Lord of Laughter was Luja.

Raal looks back at you.

"Is that Razma's eldest brother? You're nothing but a servant of Sheikh Hola, so make yourself comfortable."

"Oh, is the confession forbidden to open your mouth? I've never heard such a story."

"Ruja, be modest," cried the women of the flesh. I'm sure this is Ruja's mother, Hola.

But Ruja didn't shut up.

"I guess the divider on this occasion is Raal, but even we shouldn't have to shut up! Instead, isn't it the partitioner's job to sum up our words and our moods?

"... what kind of mood are you in, Lazma's eldest brother?

"Of course I believe Tia's sins have already been redeemed"

Laughing at the garlic, Ruja said so.

"Tia committed numerous sins, but let them all be redeemed! Surely it would have been easier if the Guest, Asta, had just returned his soul! Mostly in this, there are people and so on who can stand spending half a year on the outside? Only someone as innocent as Tia and as strong as Tia can imitate that!

"... it is not decided that a path that is not easy is the right one. Instead, didn't Tia suffer because she chose the wrong path?

Raal said so in a calm voice.

"It would certainly be painful to have spent a long time in the outside world, to have been threatened with life with a steel knife, not to be friends or compatriots with the person you prefer. That bitterness seems to be a testament to Tia's mistakes"

"Even so, it doesn't make any difference that Tia redeemed her sins. In other words, the pain is the punishment inflicted on Tia."

"Then doesn't that mean Tia kept sinning? Tia kept making mistakes, so she kept punishing her. I don't think the people of the sanctuary deserve it."

Raal's words beat me like a leather whip.

Ruja looks a lot nosey, looking for words. The people of the other sanctuaries were looking at each other with what an obscure face.

"As the Son of the Great God, we must keep our souls clean. If Tia had returned her soul immediately when she had committed a great sin, she would surely have been cleansed by the mercy of the Great God. But Tia sinned against the great sin, and was to mourn her soul. To welcome such a filthy human being as a compatriot again..."

When Raal nearly said that, most of the humans on the spot put their hips up.

It was from outside the cave that the howl of the beast echoed.

"That's a far cry from the Valve. What the hell is going on?

Raal glanced back at Tia's mother Hamra, frowning.

Hamra stands up with a stunned face.

"When the Great God is crying... the Valves are telling him"

"Oh my God!," Raal stood up.

"That's the truth, isn't it? Such a joke would never be tolerated, would it?

"Hamla doesn't make jokes." The Great God's Tears. "

Hamra also stood up and flew words to his compatriots who sat on the right side more than he did.

"Sheikhs, look out for the will of the Great God! On the surface, hurry!

"Wait! You're not going to let us out!

After that, it was already a lot of noise. The people of the sanctuary, gathered in the square of the cave, were killed before us and in the passage to the outside world.

Red people, Valve and Madarama disappear across the aisle. Where the tail of the last madalama disappeared beyond the darkness, Donda-Lou rose.

"I don't know how refreshing, but we should see the same thing. Let's go."

That's how we're gonna throw ourselves in the aisle to the outside world.

The passage is darker than it was earlier. When the moss glow of the stars reached an unreachable place, it was almost in the dark.

"Don't hit me in the head, Asta."

Along the way, Ai-Fa pulled my hand.

We go through the darkness as we watch out for the lower and lower ceilings. I guess it's already night outside the cave because no matter how far we go it never brightened up.

That's how we got to the exit of the cave - we were supposed to see an incredible sight.

There were a number of meteors flying in the darkened sky.

(Is this... a meteor group?)

That kind of phenomenon existed in my hometown, too. But this was the first time I had seen so many meteoroids.

Countless meteors rush through the blue night sky, pulling the tail of white light. Its brilliance stood out so much because it was in a mountain where no light existed.

Beautifully, it is a horrible sight somewhere.

All the people of the sanctuary who descended to the bottom of the cliff were kneeling on the rocks and gazing up at the sight.

"That's the" Great God's Tears "or... the Great God is crying."

From behind me, I heard Tia. Tia didn't follow her brothers, she was acting with us.

"Now it looks like Tia's fate has been decided.... I'm really sorry that we've all had to go through this."

I was supposed to look back at Tia while the miracle in the sky took my soul.

In the dark darkness - Tia felt smiling with the expression of stillness itself.