35 - Episode Two: The Past That Caught Up

Gosha answers the voice of Sasha, his employer.

'We had to stop because a racial (human) slave who was loading a load in front of the Chamber of Commerce collapsed, and the load got splattered all over the street as well.'

Wow, that sucks ......."

After meeting her fiancé, Mikael, the deputy commander of the "White Knights," Sasha was hurrying home on a horse-drawn carriage. Then trouble happened.

When Sasha heard the coachman's reply, she looked out the window and saw that the load of the coach had indeed collapsed and fallen to the street in front of the trading house.

Because of this, they could not proceed and had no choice but to stop the carriage.

The racial (human) slave who collapsed the load was whipped by a member of the Chamber of Commerce.

Don't play the fool!　You useless human (inferior)!　And get on with it and put the cargo back!"

Oh, forgive me, forgive me. ....... I've been working all day and I'm tired ...... and I just need a little more rest ......."

You talking cattle have the luxury of wanting a day off!　Just move!"

The clerk becomes enraged and continues to whip the fallen racial (human) slave.

The elven species watching them do not think of them as 'pitiful.

For the elves, human slaves are relatively inexpensive slaves.

Therefore, as the shopkeeper said earlier, they are almost like "talking livestock.

Ninety percent of the human kingdom is made up of farmers. Therefore, most of their foreign currency earnings come from crops, which are easily bought and sold. Therefore, children who cannot support themselves and adults who have fallen into slavery for some reason are sold from the human kingdom.

Therefore, elves in general tend to look down on the least capable of the six races (humans).

The maid let out a sigh of dismay.

"This is exactly why humans (inferior species) are ...... They can't even carry a load and stack it. ......

Besides, it's ugly, it's dirty, it's ...... really disgusting."

Sasha agrees with her and thinks to herself.

（If Wright had been a real "master," I would have had to use my body to keep him. I would have had to allow myself to be taken by a stupid, lowly race of people!　Ugh ...... I feel sick just thinking about it. (I'm really glad Wright is an imposter and is dead.)

Thanks to you, I am engaged to Mikael, who has beautiful royal blood and the title of Deputy Commander of the White Order.

I am able to enjoy my happiness because I was able to get rid of Wright as an impostor.

(I would like to thank you for that, though. Garou, until the very end, was asking himself, "What is a master? I don't know what he was thinking. He is an idiot, why does he use his head for such nonsense? The most important thing is to make myself happy. I really don't get it.)

Remembering the past, I recall the face of a former member of the Beastman Wolf species who was chosen to be the next top right-wing leader of the species.

(They are probably still indulging in alcohol and women as they were during the "Gathering of Tribes" period.)

I couldn't help but let out a giggle as I could easily imagine that image.

As I was recalling the past of about three years ago, something nostalgic appeared at the edge of my field of vision.

It was standing quietly in the shadow of a building leading to a back alley.

Sasha's eyes followed it reflexively.

（A short child with dark hair, a boy of his race, or perhaps a boy of his race...?)

Sasha was hit in the head with a "bang" as if by a blunt instrument.

The carriage will be moved significantly to avoid the collapsed luggage, so please do not get up and sit down for a while--Ma'am!

Oh, miss?

Sasha jumps out of the carriage, ignoring the voices of the maids and the gyoja.

Picking up the skirt of the dress she had made for the tea party with Mikael, she rushes toward the back alley in the opposite lane.

On the way, a carriage coming from the opposite direction screams, but she runs without paying attention.

A maid's scream can be heard behind her, "Miss, look out!

She jumps into the back alley in her dress.

Sasha mumbles repeatedly with a blue face.

'No, no, no, no, no, no!　Those aren't lights!　I must have seen it wrong!

Although he denied it with his mouth and emotions, he could not help but follow a figure standing quietly in the shadow of a building leading to a back alley.

The place where the black-haired human boy had been standing earlier was empty.

His ears, trained as a scout, catch the sound of small footsteps moving in the alleyway.

Drawn by the sound, Sasha followed.

She was dressed in a high-class dress, but since she had surpassed level 500, she followed with more leg strength than the average man.

When she turns a corner - the footsteps disappear as if it were a dream, a phantom, or an auditory hallucination.

'Yes, it's a dead end,...... and there's nowhere to hide your figure,......

Sasha looks around and searches for any sign of the scouts, demonstrating without regret the skills she has cultivated over the years as a scout for the "Gathering of Tribes.

The area was originally a dead end with no space to hide, not even a single piece of luggage discarded, so even an ordinary person could tell at a glance that no one was hiding.

After looking around and confirming that no one is there, Sasha slowly regains her composure.

Oh, was I wrong?　I know, it's impossible for a human (inferior species), level 15 light to get out of the "abyss" in one piece, and it's been almost three years since then. Normally, they'd be much bigger than that."

If you think about it calmly, even if Wright had been safe, it would have been about three years ago.

There is no way that a human boy, when he reaches the age of 12 to 15, can remain as tall as he was before.

He will be taller, less childish, more muscular, and have a more mature face and atmosphere.

If you think about it, there is no way he would have remained the same 12-year-old he was three years ago. ...... I think I mistook the human (inferior) child for a light because I had a nice talk with Mikael-sama and because I remembered Garou and the others."

Sasha makes a theory that makes sense to him.

The footsteps that ran down the back alley to get away from her were not convenient and did not fit the logic, so she subconsciously tried not to think about it.

But - she notices a paper on the wall.

Because the building of the capital of the Queen Elf Nation is white and Sasha was looking for a "race (human) child," she was too late to notice the white paper pasted on the wall.

She clamped her trembling hands over her mouth and slowly went deeper into the dead end.

She reads the text on the paper taped to the wall.

'Waiting at the Giant Tower. Light."

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

On this day, the past caught up with Sasha.