"Put me back where I belong."

Akali hid behind Uto to escape the harsh gaze of Sirtina, who said so in Jen-royalty.

On the right hand of his clam, his little hand was firmly gripped.

"How can you pick up a child just because you went to get some water? We can't afford to take care of our children right now. Give it back."

"As, well, Mr. Sirtina. The treatment is the same as that of dogs and cats. Just calm down."

"Which mouth says pick up things of worse quality than dogs and cats and stay calm, Mr. Ute? Why didn't you stop it?

"No, I disagreed for once. But why did they say..."

"I'm surprised that the fondness of bringing one of my children back was in this world when they really told me what to do. If I could, I would have liked it a little more where we could be of use."

A clam hiding behind the uto in a sigh of exhalation peeks into his grumpy dewy face.

"You don't have to put it that way. It's normal to talk to a little kid like this if he's sitting alone by the river with a potpound. I didn't just bring you here because I said you didn't have a parent. I can't believe you gave it back."

"Akali is right. It is our duty to help the people of this country. I can't save one child. What is the Virgin's escort? Isn't that funny?"

"What's funny is your head, Master Fract. Just shut up for a second. Out of the way."

"Become!! Who do you think I am!?

"Now? First Prince of the Kingdom of Lydylan. But unfortunately, we're guild people, so it doesn't matter who you are or who you are. How many times do you make us say that our role is only to" escort the Virgin "in the first place? Come on, remember. Are you a birdhead? If you walk three steps, do you forget?

"... eh,"

Fract pushes silence on Sirtina's pale poisonous tongue.

Alhardt and Kreutz sighed out a long sigh at the same time watching the condition from a little further away.

"Uh, the shitty guy's pretty smart, that."

"Considering how far we've been on the road, there's no way out."

"Well. Wow, that stinks, but don't go on like that... let's go."

Having dropped off Alhardt, who seemed to have advanced to the bottom of his heart, Kreutz looks back on the road from after leaving the village of Lufhana until now.

I left the village of Lufhana about twenty days ago. The next destination was the Baron Territory, where fishing and cereal cultivation along the river known as "Egid" were the main sources of income.

It relayed some of the villages along the way, and proceeded at a slow rate for those unfamiliar with the journey, and was finally brought to the stage of arriving at the destination tomorrow.

Since leaving the village of Lufhana, it has been Frakt who has exposed his most dissatisfaction with Akali, who is perfect for Ut. Rather than that, Fract's (...) mi (...) exposed his dissatisfaction.

But if we are going to put an ass to Ut, then the clams will shelter Ut, and Ut will forgive the clams. Fract's dissatisfaction is on the other hand accumulating.

And it was the other members of the journey that spearheads were directed as subjects to dissipate that accumulated dissatisfaction. Especially when I drove him to exile from the country two years ago, his spearhead was directed to Sirtina, who flatly represented himself before him and even said that he was not overly indifferent to his ex-fiancé's self.

She complains about Sirtina's behavior when she talks about something, and if she listens properly, she gets eclampsia and calls it out.

At the end of the day, he pulled out his sword and challenged Sirtina to battle. He was easily ambushed with his bare hands, and immediately after that, he thought he had summoned something, and he began to strike without aiming at offensive magic.

Too often, Tedra manages to quiet down every time she calls, and the spearhead that was meant for Sirtina turns toward Tedra.

Completely emotionally unstable. Ningro, it was Akali who waited when the Sirtinas, who half-seriously thought that their heads might have gotten ridiculous, started discussing whether they should turn it off within the moment if they thought about what was to come.

She said,

"I'm just getting tired from an unfamiliar journey, but it's not awful to abandon me! I'm sure he can get over it!!

Let's see.

All this time, no one could stop Sirtina accidentally putting her hand on her own sword pattern.

Sirtina managed to let go of her hand from the sword pattern by fully mobilizing the reason of reason. It was a good smile,

"The Stone Virgin has a wide heart"

When I said that, members other than acari and fract couldn't stop the cold sweat inside.

That's how the Sirtinas endured and continued to endure the unmanned attitude of the fract.

In the meantime, Sirtina and the others thought, "How to erase the fract that made it look like an accident" finally went over 50.

As far as Sirtina is concerned, it has become black history to be engaged to Frakt, even though the word "former" can be used.

The next dirty land, the Egid, was finally reached to this day.

The arrow tip that I was looking to seriously erase the fract when doing the demon extermination, the child that the clams picked up as if they were going to take the lead.

There is no way that Sirtina's response to clams and fractals can become cold enough to be cold.

"A creature I don't know very well about humans…………………………."

Migliane nodded silently at Kreutz, who shrugged so.

Uh-huh.

- I'm sorry.

"Yo, kid."

Alhardt, who had come to Sirtina and the others, called out to the child, who was shrinking to the scene with a swordswallowing atmosphere.

……

He turns around in front of the child, suddenly solidified by a voice called from behind, giving in to align his gaze.

As he reached that stage, the child dazzled Alhardt's presence.

"Are you an orphan without a parent?

A child shakes his head to the left and right in Alhardt's words.

"Dad and Mom, where have you been?

……

To the child, who shook his head left and right again, Alhardt looked back at Sirtina with only his neck.

"Mouthless, huh?"

"First of all, no doubt."

The sigh that followed out is heavy.

"What do you mean?

The two nodded at each other and returned their gaze to the child, not answering the question of Akali, who was unable to grasp the situation.

"Boy, how old are you?

"Four"

"Do you have a brother or sister upstairs?

"Yeah, I have a brother."

"How old are you, brother?

Six.

"Your brother's gone with your mothers, too?

"Yeah……………."

"Boy, where's your house? Is it close to here?

"Yeah." Egido. "I'm going all the way over here."

"Over there," he said, pointing at the direction Sirtina and the others were headed.

"Confirmed."

"You're right."

"Hey, what's going on?

The two nodded at each other again, and now Akari came to ask a little more strongly.

The gaze of the two men, directed at such a clam, contained plenty of fright.

"We've got all the information so far and you still don't get it?

Standing up, Alhardt shrugs his shoulders in his gaze as well as his attitude.

"We're headed to the town of Egido. It's a town with that kid's house. But it's already a land that people can't live in because of dirt."

"Now, remember what the boy was saying here. Did the boy say that? Without my parents. But that didn't mean an orphan. I mean, my parents left Egid to evacuate somewhere."

"So that's when you got away with your parents?

"Uh, no, no. How peaceful thinking is that? I'm not out of line. They left me. as a dictation."

"Mouthlessness? What, that?

"Oh, no, no, from there? Well, if we're going to use it in a case like this one, we're going to cut off someone in our family to live. And this boy was chosen as his" truncated. "

"Why is that..."

"Everything is for us to live. You said the bandits before, right? There is no place for accepting people who have had to leave the land they lived in because of the filth. Every village and town is full of food just to get their own support. I can't count on anyone else. Then we'll have to reduce the number of people by a little bit. To increase the amount of food we can eat. To increase the number of places you accept. That's how he was chosen to be reduced."

"Why? Because it's not our child……"

"Because it's our own child. Besides, he's the youngest of two brothers. If you have a child on top who is a bigger worker than this child, the younger child will always be cut off."

"Oh no..."

"This world is, Virgin. It's never pretty. Not beautiful, not gentle, not merciful. It's just ugly, cruel, irrational and merciless. But this is the world. You've just been looking at the ideal" world "that you envisioned from a safe and warm castle. Look, look at this. The existence you picked up in front of you is the" status quo "of this country."

……

"Well, it's better if you still have life. The boy's parents left" kindness "at the end." As long as I live, "he hoped. That must be the last thing the kid ever got from his parents."

"Me, how do I..."

"Take a lot of responsibility for what you picked up. However, you can't take him. You know what that means?

"... Meh, cause I'll take care of it!!

"What?"

"I'll share my rice with you, too. So I'll take you! Isn't that good?"

"I told you I can't take you - but..."

"… do you know how dangerous our journey involves and speak of it?

"I know! But not good!! You have no right to talk about what I do!

"... Indeed. Fine. However, the treatment is the same as that of the princes and knights there. We won't protect the child, and if we feel a little out of the way to protect you, we'll cut it off at that point. Is that good?

"Okay."

His pure eyes, still unclear of the dirt, just stared straight at Sirtina, who exhaled like tired in front of him.