Let go! Let go! Where are you taking your dad and mom?
... what is it?
"Shut the fuck up, kid!! Look at that!" This is what happens to everyone who keeps leaving a debt!! "
Gah!! Someone's stepping on my back.
I was just grabbing my arm before, but now I'm melted in. My spine hurts so much that I can't breathe properly. I exhaled a short breath, but now I can only think of the sight in front of me, and I stretched out my hand like a worm. Stop it, stop it, stop yelling at me like I've never taken you before.... oh? Why am I doing this?
Thank you, because you're the only one who can use it, so I'll take it back?
The more I say no to this grinning voice, the more I know.
It's uncle. But why did he get caught, and he's gone, or is he out of the cage? Besides, besides, why?
Daddy and Mommy are in the wagon.
... yes, all of a sudden.
Suddenly in the middle of the night, my uncle broke into my house with some weird people, and before I could scream, I heard only a dull sound, and only my uncle dragged me out. As it went on, my father and mother, tied up in limbs, were carried away by strange men... and they both didn't move much, much less violently.
No matter how much I call or scream, neither my dad nor my mom will wake up. As soon as I opened the wagon, I saw other people tied up rolling in the back. I screamed for help again, lit by the men's lamps.
Anyone, any useless guard, any knight, any adult, will take your dad with you.
"I didn't mean to make a suggestion from a kid, but it was just right." "Even if the market was crushed, the Freesians would have bought it at a high price."
Mom's your sister, isn't she?
Why can't you laugh like that and do this? Even though you've been trying so hard to pay off your uncle's debts, and you've never said anything wrong about him... why did you leave your father and your mother alone...?
Give it back. I'll pay it back if I owe you. I'll definitely grab the knights. I'll definitely not allow slaves nowadays.
They were all executed, and they were throat-stretched to the point of spitting blood.
Shut up, shut up and scream even if your uncle tramples your head over and over again. Even if it didn't reach the slave traders, they would at least cry out to the people nearby in the slightest hope that someone would hear them.... if only Gigi were here. I think for a moment.
Three years ago, Ziji died a dreadful death. I'd die first if I kept seeing a stupid number of patients every day for free in that damn queen's royal government.
I was dying not to make Mom and Dad cry, not the strangers. Even if Gigi were here now, he might have rushed in with this voice.
Why are you all dumping me?
"Thank my parents for sacrificing me, Nate. Thanks to you, I can invent things from now on." If I had the time, I would be able to make one weapon as easily. "
No, I'll never make it!
Looking at Mom and Dad thrown into the wagon, Uncle laughs as if it was nothing. No matter how hard I try, I can't beat your uncle's leg. For now, I really want a weapon that can kill people. The door closes while the transported father and mother remain. Fathers are taken away as if they were carrying livestock.
"Two humans from the Kingdom of Freesia. I did receive it."
The man who got out of the wagon handed the bag to his uncle.
There was a rattling noise, and I could tell from the uncle's dirty smile that there was a forehead in it that I hadn't seen before. Mothers are taken for that, and that's all.
"Don't be ridiculous, Tiara-sama will kill all of us..."
Some of them look back with cold eyes. I'm going to kill me, but I'm going to stare back at you. Much better than being taken away like this. No matter what I do, if I can buy you that amount of time, maybe it's time for the roaming guards.
"Ahahahahaha!!... ah ~... you're an interesting girl, aren't you?"
Sure, sure.
His spine suddenly froze as he suddenly sounded like he was being stroked.
Even though my uncle hadn't trampled on me before, I suddenly couldn't even speak. I'm not the only one, I can't put any more strength into my legs while I'm treading on my uncle.
Another one is coming down from the carriage.
There were a number of carriages, and not the only loading platform, and a woman slowed down from there. The people who gave the money to your uncle and the people who carried your father all suddenly extended their backs and straightened their postures towards the woman.
Bloody red hair and witchy purple eyes. A creepy woman with bandages wrapped around her face, hands and feet, and skin visible in various places. I knew right away that he was their boss.
Wearing high heels, a woman in a cape-like jacket approaches with a light footstep in the summer. Hiding in the hood and bandage, I can barely see my face, but I can tell by my mouth that I laughed as if it was torn. Even then, I felt so nauseous that I couldn't open my eyes.
"Hey? This is not a product, can I buy it with you?"
The woman looked up at her uncle with a licking voice. Even though my body was thinner than my uncle's, he said it with a mighty mouth and pointed at my nose with the toe of a shoe that was not dirty. At that moment, the usual tyrannical uncle suddenly feared and started to speak with a cat voice.
"No, no, he's a useless kid as I saw him..." It's useless dust anyway, so it's not even worth selling. It's no use buying it. ”
"Huh? I see... it looks very fun, doesn't it?" If you don't need it that much, why don't we exchange it for the two of you just now? I'll make it my favorite puzzle. "
Extreme cold rushes through my spine.
Underneath the hood I looked at from under my feet, I didn't have a wrap-up look. Even though my face is foggy and I can't see it, I can see it well. His purple eyes glow and his heart runs out to the point where he thinks he'll die like this. If my body is free, the urge to run away is the only thing that precedes me.
The uncle still waves, "No, no, no, no, no, no." The woman who looked down at me with her pull-up mouth didn't see my uncle at all. His teeth gnawed as if they were stung by a snake. But... if I get used to it instead of Dad and Mom...
"Ugh... that's fine! Give me back my dad and my mom! I'll be all my passion! I'll be useful!" You can invent it, and it's special. "
Shut up, you son of a bitch!
The moment I tried to finish, I was trampled on by the momentum of chewing my tongue.
Time and time again, instead of breaking my skull, I'm stamped so hard that my brain miso is about to pop out. I didn't have time to say, "It hurts," and my chin fell to the ground again and again, and I finally took a breath. Guns, guns, guns, my head goes round and round, my eyes go round and round, my breath is hard, I don't know what's going on, I get distracted.
Ahahahaha! This isn't a crushed frog!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, and a woman laughs happily when she sees this.
I've been beaten and trampled by my uncle many times before, but I've never been laughed at like this. It makes me suspicious that he's really the same person.
"... well, if you can't sell it, you can't help it." I don't think I can use it anyway, and it's useless. Did I say invention...? "
"Yep! That's right! [It's] not really a children's toy, but a piece of junk below it. [It's really something that the Rajya Empire people like..."
Then you don't need it, do you?
... I heard something rubbing.
With no room left to raise your face, only your head is twitching. His ears were thin and he picked up only his uncle's flipped voice, "Oh, what do you mean...?" Almost at the same time, my heavy legs retreated from above my head, and my uncle's cry went a little farther. With a body that has lost its weight and is easier to breathe, you can turn the air into your body little by little.... I wonder why your uncle quit. Could it be that the guards or the knights were really there to help?
Zpan, zpan, zpan.
At the same time as the strange sound and vibration, the scorching heat ran on my right hand.
Ah, ahhh, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, that's all I can scream like an idiot.
It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts.
There was supposed to be a hand, and there was no other sensation except pain anymore.
"Come on, let's stop the bleeding properly? It's not our product, but if you die, it's not pathetic."
That's what the guy who took my arm says and gives instructions to the people around me.
As she tied my arm to stop the bleeding with her accustomed hand, the woman began to laugh happily again. Just listening to the laughter clinging to your ears makes your lungs shrink strangely. When my body changed direction due to the pain, the hand that had been stuck to my arm before was rolling with blood at the tip of my gaze. Why, why am I cutting my arm off now?
"... invention.... is it just a piece of crap?"
Even though I was in so much pain, the woman's eyes were turned in a different direction.
Yes, of course, the trembling voice of my uncle could be heard from the same direction. No, it's not junk! Even my uncle was selling the invention properly.
"Hmm. You're not a special ability inventor, are you?"... ahaha! If you tell me such a lie, you'll be in the wagon with me. "
"Of course, it doesn't matter whether you have one arm or not. It's definitely impossible for me to lie like that."
Ahahahahahahaha... and the next moment, the woman's pleasant laughter resounded again.
... I've never heard such a frightened uncle before. I think it will rub my head. I don't have enough blood. Even though the bleeding should have stopped, I think I will die already. I can't turn my head. It looks like the stepped on head, the lost hand, it's not all yours.
I screamed so desperately... but now I can't move a single finger. Just before her eyes opened, she saw a woman laughing and returning to her carriage. Without putting my blood on my waist, I dragged my sword and wiped my body into the carriage with a light footstep. "Oh, you're home early?" "Only the voice of another man could be heard thinly from inside the carriage.
Before they shut the door on one of them, I stepped out once. Along with the ripped laughing mouth seen from under the robe, the purple glowing eyes were certainly directed at me. As if after playing with a fun toy, a full smile burned into my sight.
The carriage moves, and I take Dad and Mom on board.
Towards overseas, it gradually becomes smaller with a slow pace. It was as if I could only see the carriage driving away in the middle of the road as if it were my own country... I could only see it with a blurred vision.
No help came.
……
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"... it? Nate, are you okay?" Wake up, Nate? "
... my eyes open with a round voice.
The bright light came in and I can't see anything. All of the vaguely opened tips were oozing out.
Nate, after my name was called and my head was stroked tightly, my fingers were wiped around my eyes. For some reason, my breath was so bitter that my throat twitched like a hiccup... and I could tell my dad was there because of the smell of inhalation.
"Good, did you wake up?" It's time for dinner. Did you have any bad dreams? "
"Nate! That's why I told you to get some rest in bed, but after dinner?" I'll go to bed first. "
Dad and Mom's voice.
I just don't know, but my eyes got hot and overflowing again. I rubbed myself with my hands, laid down on my face, rubbed my eyes against Dad's lap... and squatted. I was embarrassed to be seen crying, but I wanted to cry more than that.
Are you having a scary dream? Are you okay? After all, I don't know why I can't stop crying so much, even if you two tell me it's impossible. I can't even remember if I had a dream. I think I may have even dreamed of Uncle, but even if Uncle had dreamed of me, I didn't feel like this.
It's so painful, I can't breathe, and I don't want to leave this place right now. When I noticed, I was holding my right hand as much as I could. More than a backpack, this arm and warmth is important now.
"... I'll eat... I'll eat...! Dad and Mom..."
I don't know, I want to eat with them now.
My dad stroked my head with the sweet words of a child in my throat while I was choking. This time, I came to my mother who was supposed to be in the kitchen and clutched her head. Without knowing what kind of dream I had, neither my dad nor my mom asked me any more.
Thirty minutes later, the dinner that the three of us ate was a bit burning because of me, but... it was so delicious.