125 (7) Toxic teeth (top)

"Bye. I asked for the rest, Dalm."

Leaving behind that, Donda-Lou left the sacrificial hall.

Take all the women, except Ai-Fa, who are

The parents are mischievous fish sleepers on this occasion, but the ladies just don't either. Therefore, they were given vacant accommodation by the Sung family.

And since anxiety remained to move only the women to the spot, Donda-Lou became the step to accompany them.

"... shouldn't Asta and I-Fa move this way too?" Mother Meer Ray was worried about us until the end, but we were supposed to stay in the sacrificial hall.

Though it did seem safer to have a kanji hanging house. On the other hand, it seemed safer still to put oneself in the sacrificial hall, where Sung's family's eyes glowed, if one were to be wary of the part where around Diga-Sung or Dod-Sung might run wild disregarding the parents' intentions.

Besides, there will be fierce men here, except Donda-Lou.

Thirteen men, headed by Dan-Rutim and Lau-Ray.

Around it, moreover, there are dozens of people by the woods, who are in a neutral position.

Whatever the Sung family were up to, it would be physically impossible to break through this wall of meat and extend it to an impudent imitation.

To put it further, in addition to the safety aspect, there were other reasons for us to stay here.

Exchange with the rest of the family.

The parents who agreed with the deeds of Fa's house, and the parents who were interested, gathered together to listen to us.

Its epitomes were Dari-Sauti, the head of the Sauti family, and Moga-Suti, the elder.

"Sautti is a family member who lives on the southern edge of the woods. He is also the blood muscle of the five families and, well, I don't care if you consider him to be the second largest family member after Sung and Lu."

Dali-Souti, who looks pale but has plenty of style, introduced himself that way with a smile on his square face.

"Therefore, neither Sung nor Lu can feel comfortable with his shoulders. If we join one of our families, the power relationship between the two families will be quite skewed.... and because our settlement is somewhat closer to Luu, the Sung family is very wary."

"I see..."

"It's not meant to cause confusion by the woods. So we've been careful not to get involved with Sung or Lu as much as possible.... Besides, he was a little snotty with the likes of both families who were brothers and sisters by the woods. Just shut up and hunt Giva. That's how I feel most honestly."

Their families in Lou are starting to drink a little farther away. Dan-Rutim's laughter is very lively.

"But this time the actions of Fa's house, apart from those things, will not be able to be thrown away at all. So let me tell you something, to Ai-Fa in Fa's house, Asta."

Around Dari-Sauti, who describes it that way, were gathered his family members, his parents, as well as the heads of small families such as Fou and Ratz.

With the exception of the seven families headed by Luu, the eight headed by Sung, and the house of Fa, the smaller families will be accounted for to exist about 21. About 80% of them seem to be gathered together.

I don't suppose all of that is agreeing with us, but I guess you want to hear more about it anyway.

"The story was that Luu's family has already mastered the technique of blood loss from Fa's house, but is that something anyone can remember?... and if you remember that, all giva meat will taste like that meat you ate today, does that mean?

"Yes, of course it can fail, but it's not that difficult of a technology. The men of Lou and Rutim seem to have gotten it in a few days, and even I haven't had that much experience judging Gibba yet in the first place.... By the way, how was the food taste?

"It was delicious. To be honest, I was so surprised that my heart was about to stop."

And, Dari-Sautti put his head on disappointment with his thick fingertips.

"So even if I skip all the business in Inn Town, I want you to get to know the technology. But the settlement of Sauti is on the southern edge, very far from every house. I think around Maam or Min is the closest thing in Luu's family, but still not a comfortable distance to get through. Is it possible for us to learn technology?

"Yes. I also talked to Gazran-Rutim, Rutim's eldest brother, about that area. If the house is far away, shouldn't we just swap the men for a few days?

"... swap the men?

"That's right. For example, we're offering two Rutim men and two Sautti men to your house. Let those two learn their skills at Rutim's house, and at Sauti's house, two people out of Rutim show off their skills to everyone. That way, the number of men will remain the same, so it will be possible to acquire the skills as usual to do the job as a hunter."

Dari-Sautti turned his eyes round and the other parents bothered.

"What a strange way... to let a man who is not a member of your family live in your house for a few days."

"Yes. Without trust between houses, it would be a very impossible rough business.... Gazran-Rutim said that's how people in the woods should rebuild their trust. To my mind, individual houses are too far away by the woods. I was wondering, therefore, if the relationship with a house that is not a family member has become too thin."

"... Rutim's eldest brother means that he is the son of that Rutim parent and heir to the parent, right?

"Yeah. Exactly."

"Interesting. Is that fireball-like parental trail son of a man who states such a valve? I'd actually like to see you face to face and exchange words."

This Mitsune named Dari-Sauthi has a similar atmosphere to Gazran-Rutim somewhere.

Not only is it a big body shape, a distortion that seems honest, but also a style that young people seem to weigh in on reason with deposition - parts that seem to be the beauty of Gazran-Rutim feel similar.

I think if even Giza-Lou added to this, he'd have a huge face. That would eliminate any appearance such as Diga-Sung.

Of course, even then they have completely different doctrines and claims.

But wouldn't it be better for something like that to be different?

Giza-Lou, who values the order by the woods, and the innovative Gazran-Rutim, as well as the conservative but also active Dali Sauti - these masterpieces bump into each other's opinions and only search for the path that seems most right, feels meaningful.

(... is it my strange temperament to think that way)

I can't help but be prepared to take the lead myself.

My presence is a knockout, and I can't help but feel that I want you to explore the best path on it.

But I'm from Fa's house.

My failure is the failure of Fa's house, and it will also be the failure of Ai-Fa.

So I guess I have to consolidate my readiness to walk with these masterpieces, too.

I guess I have to stick my chest out and insist that this is the right path for me.

(And -)

If it's an eye-fa, isn't it also possible to shoulder to shoulder with these masterpieces?

Seeing Ai-Fa go head-to-head with Zaza and Dom's parents, I was able to think that way.

Instead of hanging around the words of Gazran-Rutim, Ai-Fa was able, by his own words, to cross with Zaza and Dom's parents. I could chew Ziba-Lou's words and feelings and reconstruct my words and feelings from there. I don't think that's something that even Giza-Lou and Gazran-Rutim can do.

(Yes, and even those Sung family members -) and I sneak out of sight.

Dan-Rutim and the others have fruit liquor in the area on the diagonal, to the head of the Zaza family.

Their claim, reputed by Mother Meer Ray for being harder headed than Donda-Lou, seems to overlap with Giza-Lou.

It is a conservative force of bees, if you ask me.

I guess for them, it's something sarcastic and abominable, like me and the presence of Ai-Fa.

But they are never enemies.

They even seem to think that they are one of the right people by the woods.

Wouldn't "transformation" be allowed for the first time, being able to convince even them like that?

(So after all... the only disturbing molecule for me is the existence of the Sung family...)

When I was thinking about that, "Parents of Fa's house," a new voice raised.

I'm the head of Fow's house.

"Fou's house has been cut off from Fa's house until now. That's because I, the parent, made the decision that it's dangerous to connect Sung's house with Fa's."

Ai-Fa looks back at you quietly.

Fou's parents put their right fists on the floor and drooped their heads deep.

"Admit here that the decision was wrong.... So again, I want you to connect me to Fow's house"

"... it doesn't seem to me that Fou's parents were wrong in their judgment. If Fou's house was inextricably connected to Fa's house, we wouldn't even know how the foolish sons of the Sung family behaved."

With that said, Ai-Fa laid his hand on Fou's parents' shoulders without a trace.

"So I guess the parents' decision was to keep the family safe. It's nothing to be ashamed of."

"... but you were even pitying us like that and giving us fur, and we..."

"That's, like, some kind of mistake," he said, making Ey-Fa's face seem so grumpy.

"I should have told the women at Fow's house that too. I don't give anyone fur or anything.... If you agree with my words more than that, you should also learn the skills of blood loss and demolition in Fou's house. Asta, you said you'd need a lot of Giva meat soon, right?

"Oh. By the end of the Blue Moon, we'll have to make tons of dried meat, and even if we don't wait that long, we'll need more than ever at the point of wholesale food to the inn. You won't be able to rely on the Lew family alone forever."

Fou's parents looked sincerely at me and Ai-Fa's face.

I give you a nod back, wondering if the woman named Sallis Lang-Fou, who once visited Fa's house, is the daughter-in-law or daughter of this person,

"You'll still need time to sell the meat itself in the lodging town, but at the moment, there's going to be a shortage of meat to use for cooking. So if you're going to prepare meat at Fou's, I'd like to buy it at Fa's house."

This was also an offer from the Lew family.

He wanted it to be well distributed, as all the family members of Lew would be concentrated on wealth, which could also result in buying the resentment of a small clan.

Fou's parents, silent, drooled their heads again.

So Dari-Sutty, who was turning to the listener, yawns greatly.

"Well, there's no end to the story, but it looks like you've been up all night. Looks like we're done with that liquor, and it's time to go to sleep."

When I saw it, Dan-Rutim, who was somehow moving around the center of the sacrifice hall, waved to me, "Hey."

"How long are you going to be gone? Come here, Ai-Fa for Asta!

"Copy that. I'll see you tomorrow."

"Oh. Let me hear a lot on the way home. The eyes of Sung's family are loud here."

The parents of Sauti and Fou also scatter in empty spaces.

I took Ai-Fa and stopped by Dan-Rutim and the others.

"Right here, right here! You guys, sleep here!," Dan-Rutim taps on the laying cloth on the floor.

It was precisely the position in the middle of the sacrificial hall, surrounded by the family of Luu.

"Is this it? It's kind of a restless position."

"What? I don't care what the Sung family blubbers are up to here! If they try to get past our bodies, they'll bite the flesh off that leg!

And so he laughed out loud, and then Dan-Rutim lay down.

The Dalm-Lu and Lau-Ray also fall asleep from the next.

Indeed, well, such a strong defensive wall would not exist.

No matter how vast the sacrificial hall is, if as many as seventy human beings fall asleep, there will be almost no more foot stomping grounds. I think it's absolutely impossible to step over this carpet of meat and get close to us.

"Um... So, you want to go to bed?

"Um," Ai-Fa lowered her hips.

And then I loosen my golden brown hair and then lay it down as usual.

Are you saying that even at last year's Parents' Conference, I - Fa slept in miscellaneous fish while being surrounded by men in this way?

When I thought about it that way, my chest bothered me at least.

(Well, I guess there's no one else in the Sung family to imitate like that, but that's too careless a story)

I lay down in that tiny space, as far away from Ai-Fa as I could.

But - such care did nothing to help.

And I fell asleep on my back, and Ai-Fa leaned over me.

"Ugly. Don't leave me."

Ey-fa drops in perfectly.

And that fingertip rubbed my chest.

"Oh, you know, I-fa..."

"It's weird. I'm tired. Tomorrow if you want to talk."

That's what I said, Ai-Fa's been pressing her forehead against my right shoulder.

"I'm really tired. I feel like I've spoken a year's worth of words.... and my head hurts a little"

"... yeah, well, you worked really hard today"

Darum-Lou didn't glare at me somewhere, and while I was in jeopardy, I tapped Ai-Fa's head gently.

"Good night, Ai-Fa. Get some rest."

"Hmmm......"

With a better sleep than usual, Ai-Fa began to rest easy and restful as it was.

(I don't know what Ziza-Lou said about the parents of Fa's house who don't have any family to decide the end of the woodland, but it doesn't matter how big the house is.)

I think sneaky as I look down on my defenseless sleeping face like that child.

(Besides, it's not like Ey-Fa alone carries something like that. It is the people of the woods who decide the end of the woods. As one of its representatives, as one of the parents with a large number, I-Fa is just trying to do his job, I'm sure...)

The Sung family, a chieftaincy muscle but out of the norm by the woods.

If only those people could do something about it, I'm sure the future by the woods would open.

(I can see that direction, too, somehow. The point is, you just have to give family members like Dom and Zaza a situation where the Sung family will be abandoned.... With my wicked wits and Luu's force, that must not be a difficult story)

It's a parents' meeting that ended with a huge shoulder watermark, but I guess I should be satisfied first because I was set up with such a muscle path.

Besides, I was able to bond with families like Sautti and Fou.

When this happens, the immediate problem is about Mida-Sung obsessed with my cooking.

However, countermeasures could also be taken in that regard.

We had a matrix tomorrow morning calling Mida-Sung himself to the settlement of Luu.

'If you want some delicious meat, learn that skill yourself'.

It also means, 'If you don't like that, give up eating good meat'.

We were going to let Sung's main house state this proposal in the presence of people like Zaza and Dom.

Mida-Sung is obsessed with my cooking. As it is, let me offer the solution to Yamir-Sung's threatening remarks backwards that he may go down to the lodging town on his own and cause some noise.

It doesn't matter if it's Mida-Sung himself, it can be the man in the branch. Anyway, even the Sung family can learn the techniques of blood loss and demolition.

Still, wouldn't it be ideal if even the people of Zaza and Dom had asked to accompany them, not to mention the outrageous, such as sending only Sung humans to the settlement of Luu?

After supper, when he made me listen to those stories, Donda-Lou thought for a while before - he said, "Take it personally".

Probably conveyed my thoughts exactly.

My thoughts are that you shouldn't cross blades with Zaza or Dom.

My bad wisdom is that every time the Lew family deepens their ties to them, the Sung family will lose power.

Originally, there is nowhere to be found, such as the Lew family and the cause of their hostility.

The Lew family has repelled the Sung family, and they profess the Sung family. Because that's the only thing that's supposed to be eating wrong.

(What a delightful story to say that Mida-Sung's appetite is the breakthrough)

But really, that could be the last hope for the Sung family.

If Mida-Sung, the rightening of his desire to eat something delicious, takes the initiative to encourage his giva hunting job, can he pay for all the bitter air that has starved in this Sung settlement?

A man hunts a giva, and a woman cooks. That families join forces and get rich raw for delicious dishes - if they can regain the sentiments that will allow them to find joy there, there may also be light in those, rotten fish-like eyes.

(If my imagination wasn't off, those people would be the victims too. If that's how we can make Sung's main house human naked, we might as well hippet his authority as a chieftaincy muscle without bleeding)

It may take a little while, but I guess that's how much effort it takes to regenerate the Sung family, which would have accumulated a history of corruption and obsolescence over the decades.

(Well... it'll all be tomorrow, right)

One last time I dropped my gaze on Ai-Fa's loving sleeping face before closing my eyelids in the dark too.

◇

Then, how long has it been?

My consciousness was loosely dragged back into this world, attacked by a sensation of incompetence.

(... what?

I don't know what happened.

Something was just clearly wrong.

In my head, red flags are blinding.

A sensation of incompetence flows through my consciousness, which is still half awake.

What's this smell?

Oddly sweet - so what is this smell that irritates the nasal cavity when it creases strangely?

Open the heavy eyelids cursorily.

But the world was closed in the dark.

Beast fat candles seem to have completely burned.

My head is heavy.

The body, too, is heavy.

I kind of feel like I'm dreaming, like only a part of my consciousness has awakened.

Maybe this is what the world calls a gold bondage?

(No...)

So, what's this smell?

This smell - something, it's offensive.

My nose, throat and lungs strongly refuse to let this smell enter my body.

The identity of the discomfort is the identity of the red flag.

(No way... with poison gas or something, you're not going to kill us all...?

Thoughts that don't even clap like that suddenly pop up.

Occasionally, I became captivated by a fierce sense of anxiety, and I was to wake up physically with great difficulty.

But - to think, my body doesn't follow me.

All my feelings were empty and my body could only move cursorily like a dull tortoise.

I feel a little weight and heat under its chest.

It's Ai-Fa.

It's Ey-Fa's fingertips.

I lifted my dull right arm like someone else's and lay my hands flat on its fingertips.

Ey-Fa's body temperature is slowly coming through.

I'm totally falling asleep. Note that I-Fa kept catching me by the chest.

I tried to call it "ii-fa".

But my throat is constricted and I can't pronounce the word well.

If you noticed, your mouth was crunchy.

No heart, or my eyes hurt.

It seemed dry all over my body.

(Maybe - is this smoke...?

Did the candlestick fire ignite the wooden building?

No, then there must be a firehand up there somewhere.

Besides, there must be someone who notices the anomaly sooner than I do. We are gathered here now because of the elite fierce men by the woods.

(Anyone awake...?

Inside the sacrificial hall without a single window, so the world remains closed in darkness for ever.

No matter how staring, I don't see anything.

It's just - there, it was quiet as a nightmare.

I can't even hear Dan-Rutim snoring.

The only thing that touched my five senses was the odd sweet fragrance and the body temperature at the fingertips of I-Fa.

(Anyway... if I'm here, it's not good...)

I wrapped the towel around my head and covered my nose and mouth with it.

That's all, I feel a little easier to breathe.

Besides - that's how I just raised my torso, and I also felt like the sweet, lukewarm scent had faded a little.

I don't know what it smells like, but maybe this is a heavier substance than air, like LP gas.

(Ok......)

Follow Ai-Fa's arm in the dark and insert your left arm into its back.

And so, when I tried to cause the body of I-Fa...

They're here.

"What? That hungry ghost is awake, isn't he?

Malicious, young man's voice.

It's wild but prolonged and an unpleasant voice in my ear.

It's Diga-Sun.

"Why is this guy the only one awake? Ah? Is that Meremele leaf only ineffective for exotics, yeah, Tay-Sung?

"Come on... to me, whatever"

A missing voice of emotion responds to Diga-Sung.

At the same time, he was poked at an orange light from behind.

I look back cursorily.

Diga-Sung and Tae-Sung - and even Dod-Sung had a geese neck on the spot.

Diga-Sung is setting a candlestick on fire.

The other two are bare hands.

palms, but with a firmly lowered knife on his hips.

And - all of them, covered their mouths with cloth.

"Fair enough. Ah. If you're just such a weak hungry ghost, you won't have a problem waking up. You got lucky, huh?

Together with Diga-Sung's voice containing a poisonous laugh, the other two creep in.

Resistance was impossible.

It wasn't originally arm strength, and besides, my whole body still remained heavy as lead.

"Stop... Ro..."

All the best, squeeze your voice.

But I could only speak as fine as an old sick man.

My body is dragged to Dodd-Sung, and Ai-Fa's body is dragged up by Tay-Sung - Ai-Fa's fingertips leave my chest without force.

What the hell is this?

What the hell is going on?

Reality is rare, as if even in the bad nightmares of the extraordinary.

"I defied you, it's no use. Huh? Except for you, I'm so screwed."

With a humble laugh, Diga-Sung kicked the head of an unknown man whose name lay at his feet.

But the man doesn't even move like a corpse.

"I bought it from Sim's magician, he burned a vanilla called Meremele. Come on. I wanted to know sooner if this was funny."

Vanilla - like a sleeping, drug-free thing?

Is that what made all the fierce men by the woods sleep so badly?

"If you keep sniffing this guy, he won't wake up with a knife to open his belly. I needed five white copper coins to buy this much. Huh?... Well, if this clears up your seniority grudges, it's cheap."

Diga-Sung's staring eyes move from me to Ai-Fa.

Reflectively I shook up my fist, but that is also controlled by Dodd-Sung.

"Don't slap me in the mouth for nothing, I'm leaving. If you stay in a place like this forever, you won't be able to move until we do."

That's how we were dragged halfway out of the sacrifice hall.

In doing so, I tried to kick the bodies of many men, but, after all, no one awakens.

It sucks.

Worst development ever.

Really - I wonder how bad these guys are.

Besides, I don't even think it's very sane.

"Do this... you think it's just gonna work, you guys?

When I went outside, it was so much easier to breathe that I could just make a decent voice out of it, too.

But I'm not likely to be able to do anything loud or anything like that.

"How dare the Sung family do this in a place where all parents are... are they going to turn all the clans against their enemies...?

"Let it go. Don't let the exotic slap you in the mouth."

Diga-Sung's snotty face approaches the tip of my nose as Dodd-Sung holds my sides.

"And why can't the Sung family blame me?" We're in a blessed position, aren't we?

"Blessings...?

"Oh, yeah. Come on. The wedding of the eldest brother and eldest sister in the main house is to be decided. You're not gonna talk about this shit, are you?

Chills crawl up my spine on purpose.

Blacker, more intense than I've ever felt before, stuck in my lower stomach.

"Diga-Sung takes Ai-Fa of Fa's house as his daughter-in-law. Yamir-Sung takes Asta of Fa's house as his son-in-law. You guys just wait for doom, you can be Sung's people, huh? Cry and rejoice, kid?

"Don't be ridiculous... do you think we'll agree to that?

Diga-Sung retreated like a gibberish.

Then I laugh with such an ugly face.

"Well, you guys can't do anything about having those eyes anymore! If you say no, I'll put you both together and shove you down the valley bottom! That's right. All the other parents will think is that Fa's house abandoned the woodland and fled to some town!

"Don't shout, Digga. Lew's parents are supposed to be sleeping in empty houses, not sacrificial halls."

To the words of Dodd-Sung, who exhaled in his drunken breath, Diga-Sung shrugged his big body once again.

"Oh, don't be surprised, Dodd. Hey, the guys at Lew led us to an empty house on the south side of No. 1, didn't they, Tay-Sung?

"Yes. As you say."

"Then don't worry. Hey, hey. I screamed out loud from here, and it sounds that way. Bye.... so you, too, give up. Be Yamir's son-in-law or be eaten by Mundt at the bottom of the valley, you'll be left with only those two paths."

And Diga-Sung looked back at Tay-Sung better.

I held an eye-fa that remained slowly unconscious, toward Tay-Sung.

"Bring Ai-Fa to my house. I know you won't wake up for a while yet, but keep your hands and feet tied exactly. Okay? If I talk to Yamir, I'll be right there."

"Yes," says Tay-Sung.

On that back, I called for "stop."

"Try to imitate something a little strange to Ai-Fa... I will never forgive you guys"

Diga-Sung lagged behind again.

Even with the laughter snapped, the blood you see from its face goes down.

Tay-Sung, however, remains faceless.

"... how can a man who can't even stand on his own feet not forgive what?

At the same time that Dodd-Sun's voice sounded like that, a sharp pain ran through my brain.

Dod-Sung, with my body, grabbed my hair by force.

"Please, don't let it slip you from being Yamir's son-in-law, you exotic? I don't want to welcome you into my family. I'm gonna slap your legs so you don't get away with it, and I'm gonna slap you right down into Mundt's nest."

"... if you can do it, do it"

I glanced back at Dodd-Sung's eyes like a hungry wild dog from close range.

Dod-Sung also trembles his body again, then strips out his yellow teeth, as if to disgrace his cowardice.

"Oh, I'll do it. I'm looking forward to seeing you like that for as long as I can.... Let's go, Digga. You go too, Tay-Sung."

"Yes."

The figure of Ai-Fa disappears beyond the darkness.

I repeated my breathing heavily, biting my back teeth so hard that it was going to crack.

With every breath of fresh oxygen, I can see the force returning to my hands and feet.

The other half was actually about to recover, as it was brought to Dodd-Sung's arms.

But - not yet.

Now we still can't shake these guys off and get away with it.

When I get a little more strength back, I'll skip it and run away at once.

Never - never, never let Ai-Fa imitate you funny.

(You said Donda-Lou was an empty house on the south side of number one, right?

These guys are trinkets because they easily divulge such information.

Broiled the inside of my stomach by the flames of passion - and that's how I ended up captive to the evil Sung family.