Chapter 12

Chapter 12

Tarhan would arrive soon, but the fear was inevitable. Enya’s eyes widened at the familiar voice from outside the hut.

“…Is this it? Suya, hold here.”

Blinking her eyes, she slowly walked towards the entrance. There were also several people there, and they were all familiar voices.

“Ashika, stop pushing me. Even if I don’t, it’s dark and I can’t see you, but you keep hitting me.”

“…Suya?”

Enya called out a name she had been suspicious of all along.

Then, the voices whispering outside were quickly diminished. Soon after, Suya answered from outside the hut.

“Hmmmm. Enya, I’m sorry. Were you sleeping?”

“No, no… But why is Ashika and Suya here…”

The festival must be in full swing by now, though what are women like Suya and Ashika doing here?

Enya, a little stunned, removed the cloth that was blocking the entrance to the hut, but the thick three-layer fabric was fixed with wood from the inside and did not move with any force. Enya applied a little more force to open the entrance.

Eventually, the entrance to the hut, which seemed to never be open until tomorrow morning, opened wide.

Then, the figure of Suya and Ashika, fully dressed in a festive atmosphere, was revealed. They both seemed to have been enjoying the festival, and their faces were glistening with sweat.

“As, as I’ve heard, the deputy chieftain’s hut is in a remote place. It’s really impossible to come all the way here at night.”

Wearing a blue-dyed skirt and a garland woven with flowers above her head, Suya muttered, wiping the sweat from her forehead.

Enya stood looking at them bewildered.

“Why are you here?”

She knew that both of them were unfavorable to her. Because of that, Enya asked cautiously in a slightly defensive manner. She was still afraid to stand in front of women her age.

Ashika suddenly grabbed Enya’s wrist and said, “Now is not the time to be like this! Tarhan. Tarhan is here.”

Enya’s eyes widened as the long-awaited name popped out.

“Tarhan…?”

Suya wiped her sweaty, shiny forehead and together led Enya out of the hut.

“Hurry up, hurry up. He was looking for Enya. You have to go meet him. Come on.”

And so, the two women hurriedly grabbed her and led her with her strength. Enya nearly fell in front of her as she struggled.

“Wa, wait a minute. Is Tarhan really back? Still, why Suya and Ashika…”

However, there was no time to panic. Tarhan’s name, that was stuck in her ear, slightly confused her.

“Oh, don’t think too complicated, and come along! Tarhan was hurt a lot. He’s bleeding too much!”

As soon as those words were said, Enya’s heart pounded and fell to the floor.

“…Is Tarhan injured?”

Her face quickly lost its blood.

She couldn’t believe it. Even when Tarhan was left alone in a forest infested with monsters for his coming-of-age ceremony, he survived. Perhaps, it would be a case for a boy who wasn’t used to battle, but there was no way that a higher-level monster capable of injuring the current Tarhan was around the tribe.

But, even though she knew that, her reason seemed to be paralyzed. Her thoughts didn’t work.

As she imagined Tarhan bleeding, her eyes were dizzy, and worries surged like a tidal wave. Ashika exclaimed as she grabbed Enya’s trembling fingers once more.

“Come on! Hurry up. Do you want to see Tarhan die!”

Enya stepped on the ground as if being whipped at those words. As Suya and Ashika led her, they started running blindly. She almost fell over and over again because of her foot through she had no time to worry about it.

“Come on, come on!”

Suya and Ashika rushed her back and forth all the time. Forgetting the pain of her limp foot, Enya moved her leg so hard that her left foot was dragged.

Her breathing was up to her chin, but the worries about Tarhan had already blown away the thought of her body.

“Where, where did Tarhan get injured? Is it very serious? The healer…….”

“We’ll go and explain everything, so for now, run quickly! We’ll be late!”

Something was strange.

Enya realized that the direction she was running in following Suya and Ashika was not towards the entrance to the village where the men usually returned from hunting. Instead, they were getting closer every minute to the large rocky site where the festival was now taking place.

Eventually, Ashika and Suya, who arrived at the mouth of a large rock, took Enya to a place where rocks were piled up and sat her down.

Enya panted at the spot, sweating profusely, out of breath from the unexpected sprint.

Was Tarhan really here?

She glanced around anxiously and looked up at Ashika and Suya, but suddenly noticed that they were standing. Even though their expressions were hidden from view in the moonlight, she noticed that the voices that came out from them were poisonous.

“Look. The face is too pale? What if she collapses?”

“I don’t know. Tear off the clothes first.”

“You do it! I don’t want to touch her.”

Enya stared up at them with her mouth wide open in shock.

At that moment, it seemed that her reason, which had been blown away by worries for Tarhan, returned to her mind.

…It was a lie from the beginning.

Tarhan did not return. He wasn’t even hurt.

Ashika and Suya had deceived her.

Surprisingly, Enya felt ​​more relieved that he had not been hurt than the fact that they had deceived her. Then, as if waiting, Ashika’s hand tore her wet front part to pieces. It was torn apart, revealing her swollen chest bone.

Enya shouted, covering the torn part with her arms.

“Why, why are you…! Please don’t do this! Aacck—!”

However, they did not stop and ripped the hem of Enya’s thin skirt, which was rustling around her ankle, just above her thigh. In an instant, her moon-like body was exposed under the moonlight except for the chest and groin.

“Hold on! I’m trying to make you pretty. Make men like you on the Day of Repose…”

“Yes, I’ll take care of Tarhan for one night!”

Enya tried to rebel as best she could.

Even though she bit the women and kicked them, her body had run out and fell continuously from the house to the top of a big rock. After being slapped by them a few times, they pulled her hair up and even the tied-up hair was loosened.

Ashika, who had messed up Enya’s hair, which fell back to her waist in an instant, suppressed Enya’s shaking head before forcibly placing the red jasmine flower she was wearing in her hair to Enya’s hair.

“Huuhh, don’t! Ugghh…!”

Although she tried to get out of their hands again and again, the two young women were determined and subdued her, and she couldn’t resist.

“Stay still…! Enya should enjoy it now, too! You’ve been sucking up a man’s d*ck to live right? Now that Tarhan has a new woman, poor Enya should enjoy it freely and debauchery… Aacckk!”

The next moment, Ashika lifted her hand and shouted.

“She bit my finger!”

“Crazy bitch! Blood, there’s blood…!”

Enya spat at the fishy taste that spread through her mouth. In an instant, she caught hair was released, and Ashika screamed and took a few steps back from Enya.

Gasping for breath, Enya then waved her hands forward and shouted.

“Don’t touch my, my body…! One more touch, and, I’ll-I’ll hurt you! I will break bones, bones!”

As she spat out all the threats she could think of and endured the rage that filled her throat, Suya and Ashika uttered out a bunch of swear words and left. Every word they spit out was as sharp as a viper’s tongue.

“Poisonous girl…”

“That’s why you’re sitting in Tarhan’s hut and holding on.”

The place, which was released from the hustle and bustle in an instant, became quiet except for the occasional noise of the festival’s heat.

Enya fell on a rock, with no difference than a tattered toy of a child that got tossed out.

“Huu, huuh…”

She couldn’t see properly because of the tears that had welled from what had just happened to her. It didn’t even feel like the places where there were scratches here and there from fighting were hurt. It wasn’t her limbs, or the pulled hair, that those women tore apart.

Enya’s heart was hurt so much.

She strengthened her chin and, holding back the weeping, as she glanced around in search of a way back.

Putting everything else aside, she had to go back.

Tarhan would be back soon, and he’d be surprised if she looked like this. However, the road that would normally have been easily found was obscured by darkness. It was as if her head had been broken in the aftermath of what had just happened.

Without further ado, Enya took a deep breath and made her way to the large rocky ground where the festival was in full swing. In the center, there was a huge flame that was burning high in the sky, and only the area around the large rock site was shining brightly.

From there, she thought of following her way home again. Nevertheless, after not being able to move her limp feet for a while, Enya had to stop once more.

“So, they ended up calling that woman here? Suya and Ashika? She’d never come…”

“I told them to just walk her around.”

A familiar voice came from the back of the tree where the lights were flowing. Two women were smoking leaf cigarettes, stroking their sweat-drenched skin over a wood fire. One of them had a bulging belly.

It was Ruhan.

“She has been trying to come to the women’s workshops lately, so they’ve been messing around. They were just trying to make fun of her.”

The woman who was talking to Ruhan giggled and laughed.

The laughter of the women seemed to resound in Enya’s ears like loud thunder. Her eyes widened enough to reveal the whites of her eyes, and she backed away from Ruhan’s voice. She couldn’t even hide from what was hurting her.

“I still feel sorry. I’ve been thinking about it for a while. Throwing everything that woman did…”

“There are a lot of things to think about. Are you kidding me now? How are you going to eat and use the things she touched? She said it’s not contagious, but who knows?”

Cigarette smoke from Ruhan’s mouth rose red in the light of the firewood.

“We are just being careful.”

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