Mary and Meetier are rare beasts around here.

They're two of those, but they haven't migrated from anywhere, and they're both born and raised in this Kerg town.

However, Mary no longer had a mother when she was attentive, and she seemed to have been raised by the hands of two sisters and one father.

As you can see from the Marys, his father was also an animal man, using his strength to earn money in the earth.

The money was a little more than a normal human being, but not enough to raise two children, but not enough decisively.

In such an environment, Mary was in charge of the house instead of her mother, while living quite peacefully.

But it was some time after the Satomi Virgin Church began to flourish in this town that the gears of those peaceful days went crazy.

The landlords of the houses that Mary and the others had rented were very ordinary people, without permission or impossibility, who would not have said anything if they had paid the rent properly.

The landlord was embedded in the Church of the Virgin of Satomi.

Buy 'Holy Water' in large quantities and gradually you will have trouble with your money.

So what the landlord took was a short-circuited means of selling real estate.

Some of the real estate sold off that way, unfortunately, also included Mary's house.

Unlike Japan, in this world where there is no law of excessive borrower protection, the person who bought it was a little problematic based on Japanese common sense.

Suddenly a significant rent increase was made.

A notice telling you to leave if you can't pay.

Rumor has it that he wants to destroy all the buildings around him, including Mary's house, and build another, but from Mary's point of view, suddenly he tells me to leave, there's no way I can leave right away.

Mary's father had chopped up the storage and was looking for another property while he was paying the rent, but it was the Kerg commotion that happened at that time.

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The two people who were at home that day felt the disturbing air and shut the door of the house and kept quiet.

The noise of noise sounding from the outside.

The father is at work and not at home.

Mary, trembling anxiously, couldn't help but notice it was delayed.

And when I noticed something unusual, it was too late.

If you open the window, the flames looming right in front of you.

He takes his sister and rushes into the back of the house, but the other houses built around him were also in flames and were not in such a situation that he could already escape.

Furthermore, it was disastrous to tighten the door tightly, and Mary was unable to even open the door of the house because something had broken down and become a stick.

While doing so, the flames also burn in the house where Mary lives, a wall that begins to collapse.

Then it was Mary, who sheltered her sister, but she couldn't move while she was stuck in a broken wall by two.

It was their father who jumped in there.

He was already suffering numerous injuries at that point, but when he stuck his hand into the burning debris and dragged the two out, he threw them outside the house.

"After that...... honestly, I don't remember much. Only thing is that the house collapsed before my father came out is burning clearly in my eyes. And then I remember thinking about my sister..."

You remember that time, Mary leans down, pounding, pounding and weeping.

Meatier cried out, "Ouch..." in the middle of the conversation, saying that the pain of the injury had disappeared and her stomach was full.

Perhaps it's still better considering that I couldn't even afford that before, but now I'm tired of crying and sleeping quietly being held by a nutcase.

"In the meantime, I understand the situation. Good luck with that."

"Excuse me. Ugh."

As Hulka offered a handkerchief and held Mary tight, she killed her voice and began to cry.

Me, Toya and Yuki, who stayed in a rather heavy story, look at each other and lose their words.

I'm in trouble. I don't have enough life experience to say good things at times like this...

"Hey, I'll get you some tea!

Yuki gets up and leaves the room in the name of replacing the tea that has cooled her down because she couldn't stand the air like that.

"Ahhh... I wonder if it would have been a good tea contract..."

Toya turned her back on this one as she purposefully spoke to herself and began to stick her hand in the magic bag that was placed in the corner of the room.

"Eh..."

I look at Natsuki and Hulka without a seat, but Natsuki only laughs bitterly.

Hulka, sit quietly, and I'll just turn my gaze.

Right, you should sit down, right?

If you look next door, you have a little beast ear.

Shouldn't I touch it?... you can't. Yeah, you can read that much air, right?

A stretched hand bounces back into Hulka's gaze.

Just wait until Mary calms down for a while.

The warm tea Yuki has been getting and the nutty honey cookies handmade by Natsuki that Toya has been searching for are lined up on the table, cheeking it up, while the discussion resumes.

Meetia, who was asleep, also woke up with her nose snapped at the time the cookies were lined up at the table, and now she's happily eating the cookies.

I cried until just now, and I don't have to think about it, but I guess some parts of this world where death is familiar, can't survive without this degree of toughness.

I'm sure it's not about not mourning death or anything, it's about another dimension.

It's impossible to spend days in grief without saving up here.

The majority of ordinary people who earn money and live will starve to death if they do that.

I'm sure the Marys have also lived to see those who say so.

Just as common sense varies from time to time, it goes without saying again if the world is different.

"Meetia, delicious?

"It's delicious!

We dusted with honest words and a smile that made us laugh all the time.

That said, dusting doesn't keep the conversation going.

Hulka modifies the orbit and asks Mary.

"So I'm confirming, none of the Marys are particularly reliable, are they?

I don't think he should be down there if there's someone he can count on, but once Halka checks, it turns out, Mary nods.

"Yes, my father never told me about my relatives, and I usually had a relationship with a neighbor..."

Mary doesn't affirm, 'You couldn't help me,' but clouds the words.

Especially if you're a common man, you can't afford to take other people's children, and it's going to be hard to do that on a 'neighborhood dating' level where you're not a relative, until you've cut your own life off.

Besides, from earlier stories, it's likely that your neighbors have been burned down too, and they couldn't even afford to care about Mary's?

"If you guys want, can we help you?

"I need your help!

"Here, here! Shh, excuse me!

Responding to Hulka's suggestion, Meatier keeps her cookies cheeky and hands up shrugged without getting her hair in between.

Mary scolds Meetia like that, lowers her head to us and pulls Meetia into the corner of the room.

And the beginning of a secret story.

"(Me, your father said it!" Horse stories have their backs "!

"(Sister Halka must be a good person!

I'm talking in a whisper, but in the same room.

Sounds solid to my high-performance elf ear.

Not to mention Halka, who is slightly more bitter, and Toya, who is better than us, but also sounds like Natsuki, who is getting all sorts of high performance on the level, and Yuki, who is subtly moving her mouth with Nyonyo.

I won't point it out because it's interesting.

"(I believe in my instincts, but I still have to be careful!

"(But there's nothing I can do. I'm sure you'll die.)"

"(Ugh...)"

"(Me, I don't like twitching, it hurts)"

"(Ugh...)"

"(And cookies, they're delicious!

"(And anyway, my sister's gonna listen to you properly, so please keep me quiet, okay?

"(... ok)"

Meatier nods, though a little dissatisfied.

"(Really?

Mary, who pressed again, when she brought Meatier back, sat her in the chair and sat herself back in the chair again.

"Thank you for waiting. Uh... help, why are you taking us?

"Why..."

Asked, we look at each other and think again.

Why did you want to help Mary and the others?

I can give you a reason for the postfix, but if you argue -.

"Because you noticed?

Mary looks at the words I said potpourri with surprise.

But it is.

If we hadn't happened to fall on our way back then, we wouldn't have met or tried to help.

Perhaps there are other people in Kerg who are in a lot of trouble, but we are not saints enough to try to help until we find those people.

"Finally, those ears. Look, it's the same beast man as Toya, isn't it rare?

Mary's gaze seems increasingly suspicious to the words Harka added as she pointed her finger.

But this is also true.

If it didn't have a beast ear, it could have gone out of Toya's sight.

"It's suspicious. No one takes a child for that reason. As hard as it is to raise a child, even I understand.... Father, I was struggling."

I was clearly told, not just my gaze.

But my sister doesn't even care how she looks like that, because she told me to be quiet, or even reach for the cookies placed in front of my sister and carry them silently to her mouth.

But Mary was happy to eat too, so there was only one left.

Meatier's eyes, who ate it, are directed at our cookies, which are still there.

Hulka realizes that, smiling and subtly moving the plate in front of Meatier, answers Mary's question.

"Mary's say is good, but from us, it's a little different, isn't it? Just to be clear, Mary and Meatier, the extent to which you feed them until they grow up, from us, it's not a big deal."

You would hesitate if you were told to pick up your child in Japan, but in this case, education and health care, which make up a large proportion of the cost, are almost unnecessary in Japan.

Ordinary injuries and illnesses can be magically healed, and nutty herbs exist.

Furthermore, there are no luxury items like games or smartphones that are available to children of ordinary people, so there is no gold hanging around them.

I don't live in an inn, so if I go back to Lafan, I don't need to pay for housing.

Clothes can also be made by the Hulkas, and when it comes to the cost of food, which is likely to be a little more than humans because of the beast man, it is unlikely to be a huge burden if we get meat in front of ourselves.

Even if we think about our own cost of living, if we just let it live normally, it won't cost us much.

"Of course I'm not going to make you extravagant... in monetary terms, that's enough to cover Toya's pennies"

"Toya, brother, it's awesome!

"Whoa. Isn't that awesome?

Toya gets a respectful gaze from Meetia and a good look on her face.

But the expression froze on the words that went on.

"Yeah, it's awesome! About Me, I want 'do it'!