Life with my Little Sister
Episode 347: Mud Comes (Part 13)
"Huh... Huh!? What, is that...!?"
Ahead Aletta looked up, she saw something like a brown tsunami.
It is coming in a straight line, towards the village of Rühling.
"Landslide……!?"
Slipping off as it rings, earthy waves.
At that speed and scale, won't the village be devastated?
(We need to evacuate everyone...! But that's what I have time for!?)
She looks around in a hurry.
There, there was no sign of that mentor.
"Those guys! Didn't we just run away...!?"
While I thought it was outrageous, I also thought it was impossible.
Because in front of the fierceness of nature, everyone is powerless.
".................. ugh"
Aletta got lost.
I was wondering if I should escape at first sight, too.
If you're out of the village, you're more likely to help if you run away now.
However,
(Lat......!
Her feet turned toward the centre of the village.
"Dear Aletta, eh!
As expected, Lato could not be evacuated.
Rats are not the only ones.
Many people hesitated to evacuate their homes with families lying on their beds.
"Lat......!
Embrace the girl who comes running.
But what can we do from here?
Running away with Ratto and his family now probably won't make it.
(Expand the Devil's Wall only around this house......? No. My magic power can't support that dirt sand. In case you can't stand it, there's no way to get out of it...)
I grind my teeth tightly.
That's when Lato opened his eyes that seemed anxious in his arms.
"Oh yeah...... Huh!?"
Those eyes were pointed at the sky.
Aletta, who was caught and looked up at the universe, also saw what was there and was stunned.
"Hey, what, is that...!?"
Something reflected in the sky.
It's, like, white, cheeky, alien Phantom.
You're kidding me as if I wore a sheet and only drew eyes and eyebrows on it.
A presence I have never seen before floats in the night sky.
Aletta was stunned.
Naturally, Lato and the other inhabitants too.
For a moment, I forgot about the imminent danger to my life.
That's all, the appearance of the Phantom in the sky had an impact.
White monster eyes glow.
Then a number of longitudinal rectangles appear in the sky.
They fall to the ground one after the other, lining up perfectly and without gaps.
Aletta quickly realized that it was' wallproof '.
Thus, the earthy tsunami strikes directly at the rectangle.
But the walls that seem to have been created by the Phantom don't even loosen up.
The solidity of the rectangle, which takes nature's energy head-on and bounces back, was unthinkable from Aletta's common sense.
Moments, the monster's eyes shine again.
The rays emitted from it seemed to hit the 'waves' across the wall.
At the same time, a large amount of steam rises, but a gust of wind blowing into the sky causes all of them to mist instantly.
Is it the work of that white Phantom, not just the rays, but the gusts?
"Hey, what the hell is that guy...!
Aletta trembles, nothing but watching what is happening in front of her.
It's as if I don't know what the white monster thinks and what it's intended for, but at least I only found out that he's willing to attack that 'tsunami'.
About twice, shooting the light stopped ringing.
At the same time, both the rectangle and the white Phantom disappear like hot air.
All that remained were the stunned villagers and Aretta.
The next morning.
Waiting to be brighter, Aretta and the villagers head towards those whose dirt and sand have flown.
There were countless trees and crushed rocks that fell and fell all over the mud, but we could confirm that all of them were crossing a single line and stopping the progression.
The amount of soil left behind is small enough to be shuddered.
That means that that ray has extinguished enough 'waves' to swallow the village lightly.
From all the circumstances, everyone had to believe that last night's weird phenomenon was not a dream.
"Hey, what was that, then...?
"Wow, I don't know... I don't think anyone would believe me if I told the others..."
"Is it a miracle of God, or is it the work of the devil..."
Support also comes from nearby villages to the villagers who think with their necks twisted.
"Lato!"
"Uncle Ditt!
There is also the figure of Lato's father's acquaintance.
"What the hell happened, is this...?
Even if they say so, no one can explain it well.
Apparently, he couldn't see the monster floating in the sky until some other village.
The people of the village of Rühling turned aside and told the story, but they looked half-hearted.
"Even if we leave that white Phantom behind, we need to find out why the landslide happened..."
The sturdy ones in their hips are armed and headed to the summit.
So I discover something odd.
"What the fuck, dude!? There's something like a broken weir!?"
What was there was a crater in the volcano, or a cavity that looked like an empty storage pond, and its' exit 'and thought it was like a broken water gate. And there's tons of mud.
Even the little-schooled villagers knew immediately what this was.
I suppose it means that someone kept a large amount of mud here instead of water and tried to destroy the village by releasing it.
"This isn't something you can make in a day or two, is it? Who, since when did you make it?
"There's no way I can tell. There are not many animals that can be eaten near this summit, and there are few mountain vegetables or herbs. Besides, on the road to the summit, there's even a passage for monsters. Even we locals don't bother to lean in..."
Either way, yesterday's 'wave' seems almost certain to be a man-made disaster.
"What's in it for the killer, like this?
"I don't know! Ask the guy who did it! Even though it's hard with the odd epidemic, I can't believe he even shows up to do this...!
As spit out, one of the villagers says:
But checking the perimeter didn't seem like any more clues, and they had to go down the mountain.
Night.
Aletta, who had heard from the villagers who had come down the mountain, was twisting her neck in the empty room she was using as a sleeping bed.
She hears from Siebel that the cause of the odd disease is some kind of unleashed parasitic species.
So is this deliberate disaster connected to an odd disease?
It's not strange to have, but there's no certainty.
I don't have a clue, so I'm not going to make up my mind.
I don't see the purpose or benefits of the killer in the first place.
If you don't know, you can't even see who the white Phantom floated in the sky is.
For once, if you look only at the phenomenon, you can even cloud that you protected the village, but there is no guarantee that it will be good.
I didn't know everything.
As I arch my hand and contemplate, the empty door is knocked.
If there's anyone else coming here because Lato can't wander outside at this hour...
"... come in."
Aletta glanced at the door with a rugged look.
It was as expected that he came in, a magician with no expression.
"How dare you, well, keep it on the loose and come back?
"... I'll go back if I have to, and if I don't, I'll leave. That's all the story."
"Get soaked...!
He yells at me, but he doesn't look like he's moving.
Aletta punches her tongue and asks what it is for.
"... the continuation of yesterday's story. What information do you have?
"What do you do when you know that? If it's out of your control, you're gonna wind your tail again and run away?
"… naturally choose it if withdrawal is best"
Aletta glanced at Siebel.
But there's no sign of her moving.
Aletta felt like pounding her tongue.
There comes a new visitor.
It was a man as a village gatekeeper, and he had asked for it.
The villagers mouth the information Aletta has been waiting for.
"Doctor, no. Master Missiello is arriving in this village tomorrow, isn't he?