141 Murder Star ① Blue Moon 15 ~ Trusteeship ~

15th of the Blue Moon.

Even that day, when it never ended peacefully, the way it started was no different from the day before.

Nevertheless, it is by the woods in a martial state. We woke up with the sunrise. When we put up the wash and opened the doorboard, it was the Dom family boys who were guarding Fa's house all night long who stood there.

The number is four.

They set fire to all sides of Fa's house and took turns sleeping, preparing us for the assault of the murderer.

"Good morning. Let me clean up dinner."

The four men in Gibba's skull nod back silently.

Last night, I was frightened by the leftovers from the stall, but let me behave like 'Myrmu Grill'. but he is a man of the northern clan known for his particular bravery among the people of the solid woodland. From that aspect, as always, I could only find a rockless expression that lurked anger at the Zazz-Sung et al. who defiled the Dom family's name.

One of the four stays in the house, and three head to the water field with us.

They are thus voluntarily guarding Fa's house in order to restore their pride, having been raided by Zazz-Sung and set to let Tay-Sung escape.

If I'd taken care of Luu's settlement as before, I wouldn't have had to manpower them like this. Dom's parents agreed with me that they wanted to live in their home as much as possible.

Perhaps it is also strong to think that Zazz-Sung's official attacks on Fa's house are not low, and yet we want to reward the murderers with our own hands. How dare they guard Fa's house while we go down to the lodging town? Thanks to you, we don't have to worry about being set on fire or poisoned while we're away to encourage business in town.

Once the wash is cleared, I will go to the woods to take care of the knife, manage the food pantry, and simmer the poiton. Everything else is as usual: there is always a man of strength in his place.

but in that sampling task, it was also necessary to help Dom's men and get it done as soon as possible.

Because you only have to leave the house an hour earlier than usual and head to the settlement of Luu.

If we were splitting up into two hands and going down to Inn Town like we usually do, we'd probably need that guard manpower too. Besides, since valleys and suspension bridges of terror existed along the road from Fa's house to Accommodation Town, it was decided that it would be dangerous in case they were ambushed there.

That is why, until the settlement of Luu, he was guarded by the men of Dom, and after joining the Vina-Lu and the others, he aims to accommodate the town while being guarded by Lud-Luu and the others.

This seems to be the most dangerous time on the road for us, but we arrived in Accommodation Town that day and without being hit by such a strange disaster - our work began again today.

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"... the Camuans safely passed the settlement, didn't they?

Finishing the first rush of the morning, I asked Vina-Lou once again, eating the fine 'Myrmu Grill'.

It is the shade of the groves. Instead of us, Rudd-Lou stands and flies a sharp gaze in the north direction of the street as he carries the same thing to his mouth.

A short distance away, Sin-Luu and Rau-Ray prepare for the raid from behind, while at the stall, Ai-Fa looks to passers-by and guests coming from the south side of the street for exploration. It will not be possible for this eye-catching, suspicious man to approach our stall first.

Vina-Lou also responds with a slightly repressive voice to keep them out of their way like that.

"Yeah, it's been a fuss all morning... well, the humans were quiet stuff..."

"Hmm? What do you mean?

"Totos pulling the luggage was making a scene and it was hard... well, I guess he was scared of that because the men over here looked scared and dropped him off..."

I see, Totos.

That's well, that's the big deal, so humans won't be enough to pull the load.

But I can't really imagine a diagram of more than twenty people in the capital walking wide through forestside settlements in rows with a bunch of tototosses.

"I wonder if there were about ten Totos... the rimi and the little ones, they were rare and haunted..."

"That may indeed be spectacular. I would have liked to have seen it too, if I could."

But they should have followed the southern route that we used today into the woods and kept going south down the settlement. Fa's house is more northerly than Lou's, so he didn't get a chance to see it.

"That's not funny. The people of the capital are walking down the path by the woods with our faces. It's kind of an unpleasant sight."

Rudd-Lou comes to his mouth like that while he plays a solid role in surveillance.

"Was Rudd-Lou watching too? You've been up a long time."

"Hmm? I saw it when I was a kid. The men you've been watching are the ones you've been sleeping with"

"Oh well. The same thing happened some years ago."

And then it ended in the worst possible consequence of being attacked and wiped out by Gibba.

If we're just going down the road of a cut settlement. Still, pulling the tototoss and stepping deep into the woods, etc. would be a tremendously risky barbarity.

Whatever it is, the race has been thrown.

Leaving Genos at sunrise, it takes roughly 40-50 minutes to reach the settlement of Luu, and roughly two hours from there south to the settlement of Sauti - by now, we should be together when we are pushing the path without a forest path.

Keep going from south to east along Morga's mountains and take half a day to get through the woods. What an endless journey.

And this is only the beginning of a long journey that will take a long round trip and a full moon.

(I wonder how far back and forth the lid moon and one month on one way means)

When we get out on the street, we don't even know whether to use Totos like a carriage horse or just walk on our own feet, so we can't even grasp the exact distance, etc.

But if it were on foot, the speed would be about five kilometers per hour at best.

Even if you walked from dawn to sunset, you'd still be around for 12 hours at most. The distance you can go on a day is 60 kilometers at 5x12.

If that's 30 days, 1800 kilometers.

Not at all, not at all.

But - but I feel like it was about 2,000 kilometers from Tokyo to Ishigaki Island.

Even from Genos, which is the easternmost part of the kingdom in the west, there is so much separation by Sim, the eastern kingdom?

Growing up in an island country, it is a sense of distance that is hard to feel right now.

"I wonder where the Sung people show up. Are you going to attack the people in the capital who are walking in the woods, the settlement of Lew, the settlement of Sung, this lodging town... if this happens, I want you to show up anywhere else."

That's the last of Rudd-Lou's words, and we decided to end the break.

Rotate, I'll be in charge of "Giba Burger" with Lara-Luu and "Myrmu Grill" with Vina-Lu.

"Um, I knew we didn't have a lot of customers. It's getting kind of worthless."

And Lara-Lew had a slightly grumpy face.

Nothing. The sale didn't fall that far.

It's just a lack of vitality.

Customers from the south and east have come to buy at a pace that is almost the same. Even the customers of the people of the west are not completely gone.

However, the traffic on the street in front of us has clearly decreased.

It is obvious to me that unwanted humans are careful not to approach the northern end of this open-air area.

But this looks right. If it's even a percent chance that the murderers will attack me, I don't think I've ever gone beyond caution.

And around ten meters north of the stall, six guards still stand today looking bored.

Everything is the same scene as yesterday.

"Well, we can only hope this noise subsides as soon as possible. Now let's take care of the customers who come to the store even in this situation."

"What? 'Cause we don't talk to people in town like Asta, and we don't have anything to take care of or snap at, do we?

"That's not true. It's not just AC talking. Besides, if you're interested, you can talk, right?

"There's no one in town interested."

Lara-Luu turns away a lot.

At that time, Dora's father and daughter came to the store.

"Hey, I'll take two today."

"Thank you! May I have" Giva Burger "and" Myrmu Grill "two at a time?

"Yeah. The pot store and the cloth shop are crazy, so I thought we'd take it."

Keeping Tara's hand squeezed tight, she still had the usual brightness and flair back on her father's face.

Even though I was once struck by the anxiety that if the Zazz-Sungs appeared at this moment right now - and so on, I knew, I would be very happy.

I smiled back at both of them and called on Vina-Lou, who seemed bored, "Two of those, please".

Ai-Fa, standing between the stall and the stall, is silent and immovable.

"... Speaking of which, are you all family?

And while Dora's father offered him copper coins, he threw those words at Lara-Lew.

"What?" his father laughs very naturally at Lara-Lew tilting his neck.

"Are those colorful ladies or young people with yellow hair brothers? That's what Tara told me, isn't it?

"Huh? Oh, no, you mean Sister Vina or Rudd? Well then we're all brothers...... so what?

"I don't know, but when you ask me, I think the vibe does look alike. Isn't that dark-haired daughter your brother?

"... Sheila-Lou is a division."

"Division?"

"She says she's a cousin. I hear there's no such word by the woods."

I'll make it up to you, Dad said, "I see," and spilled a laugh again.

Lara-Lew is still smiling at her father, both alert and unambiguous. but finally I even told Tara, "Hey, Rimi-Lou ain't coming to town?," Lara-Luu finally exploded.

"There's no way you can come with a little girl like Limi at such a dangerous time! Just now, what the hell are you guys!?

Your father and Tara both got off to a decent start.

Exactly. In Lara-Luu, a slightly twelve-year-old woman, though a forest folk, they can't frighten the two of them.

No - or is it that I have exceeded my immunity to these two forestside people?

"Did I offend you? Then I apologize. I didn't mean to piss you off.... Hey Tara"

"Yeah.... hey, sorry"

Tara puts her head down a little bit, and Lara-Lew is stunned.

While this was happening, the order was finished.

"Please wait.... Ah, Vina-Lou, thank you. I've already received your money."

Vina-Lou, who has otherwise carried a two-name "Myrmou Grill," throws a pale smile at his fathers that he thinks is for sales.

"Thank you," said Father, and this one returned an extremely warm smile.

"Then be careful after this. I pray the sinners are caught as soon as possible."

"Bullshit, Asta, stay! Hey guys, thanks!

While dropping off the back of a severely physically challenged father and daughter, Vina-Lou stuck his head wrapped in the Vale of Lara-Lou.

"With all those West folks out there, you're driving me crazy... but don't shout out loud while I'm at work, Lara...?

"I know! Ugh!

"... ah," Vina-Lou fades out.

Because a bunch of people in skinned capes showed up switching with Dora's father and daughter.

"Welcome. Thank you every time."

The East People's Chamber of Commerce, Silver Pot, is a full member of the store today.

Only one Schmiral, with his hood off, stares at my face silently for some reason.

"Um, can I still have five today?

"Yes."

Nod small and shut up again.

I wonder what. Maybe it's my fault, but I feel like I have a very cut eye.

"... what have you done, Schmiral?

"No.... just talked, heard"

"Talk?"

"The inn of the people of the south, the food of Asta, the story of being eaten."

"Oh, you mean The Great Tree Pavilion in the South?

Silence.

Eyes like a cut.

Give me this far, and the servant will follow me.

"Uh, uh, the master of The Great Tree Pavilion in the South can be revealed in a mix of southern and western blood, right? So when I heard about the reputation of this stall, you took the job of wholesale cooking for dinner..."

"Supper, Asta's cooking, edible, happy"

"Oh, thank you. But this is all about the intention of the innkeeper's husband..."

"Master of the Inn, the people of the West, can't you?

"Yes?

"I am the master of Xuanrong Pavilion, the people of the west. Asta, the people of the west, hate you?

"Oh, that's not true. Even this stall has guests from the people of the west. As far as I'm concerned, I hope the people of the west and the people of the woods have a better relationship."

Schmiral has embarked on just a few moments.

"Master of Xuanrong Pavilion, the same thing, I hope. Xuanrong Pavilion, dinner, can't you?

"Well, that's the name of the inn used by the Schmirals, isn't it? Of course, if I can do my job there, I wish or fulfill it..."

"I, I'll talk. Master of Xuanrong Pavilion, I'm sure you'll be delighted. … we are happy"

"If that happens, I'll be glad too. Thank you to Schmiral for always bringing all the great stories"

Schmiral pulled himself back and now showed him a slightly nagging trick.

"... disturbed. It's embarrassing."

Am I going to be disturbed now?

Then what a mess I am from morning to night.

"But would you like some time? Whatever you say, this is the time of year, so I can't move either. I'm not really in a position to wander around the lodging town..."

"It's okay. Disaster, it's over."

"Huh?"

"Brothers, astrologers, I'm here. Moribe, the evil star of disaster, vanished, I said."

"Astrologer - is it divination? I'd be really glad to hit that."

Speaking of which, Sims, the kingdom of the east, is also known as the land of magic, the land of spells, etc. It may not be surprising to have an astrologer.

"It will definitely disappear. Disaster, I'm leaving. Star movement, absolutely."

"Really? Now, if a sinner is caught by the end of the blue moon, I'd love to talk to the master of that inn."

Schmiral shook his neck sideways to whisper my words.

It's a rare and sudden gesture for this overly deposited young man.

"No. Murder star, disappear. - Today, it disappears."

"Today?"

"Today. The evil star of catastrophe, today, will vanish."

And Schmiral has embarked on himself again.

"Asta, pay attention, please. Strong stars, when they disappear, surrounding stars, get involved. A lot of fate, turn. … the weak stars, the annihilation of disaster, will be involved"

How should I describe the feeling I felt then?

Someone is walking over his grave, as I say in the West. But also like...... the unspoken chills crawled up my spine as I loosened up and with a hot iron pan in front of me, I shook my body unexpectedly.

"... Master of Xuanrong Pavilion, I will speak. Disaster, please leave."

At the end of the day, he narrowed his eyes to me, and Schmiral walked away with his compatriots.

"As usual, I don't know," Lara-Lew laughed, but it wasn't funny to me.

I get a bit of a heartbeat.

The evil star of the calamity will vanish. Involving a large number of human destinies...

What an ominous prophetic word that was.

The fact that it gets so tight when you apply the existence of Zazz-Sung there is another thing that scares me.

(Well, it would be preferable to be able to catch him exactly rather than get him secretly killed in the woods...)

Does that mean that there will be a lot of damage here?

Do you still have that much strength in Zazz-Sung that you slept through the years?

Despite my incomprehensible fortune, I feel more and more anxious.

"... Ah, it's Totos," he snapped there with a voice that Lara-Luu seemed to care nothing about.

Indeed, the people of the east, who had taken Totos, were about to slip out in the north direction alone.

"Totos sounds creepy, doesn't it? So without being eaten, oh, I wonder if they're working for humans?

"I don't know. In my hometown, birds like Totos were pretty much eaten."

When I exchanged words with Lara-Luu, who was energetic and invincible as usual, I felt that the anxiety in my chest was only slightly diminished.

It's really comforting because the women of the Luu family, not just Lara-Luu, are grand without any signs of fear of Zazz-Sun's raids. I guess my stomach sits differently than mine or something.

"Did Lara-Lew also see how the people of the Chamber of Commerce were going through the settlement too?

"Yeah. It was just when I finished my job at the water plant and was out there. It was just a bunch of bad guys. Like Sim's people, he was hiding Mi-na's face."

"Yeah. Well, maybe that's what travelers are for. Was it still smaller than the last Chamber of Commerce?"

"I don't. I don't remember that long ago. I was only two."

"Huh? Was that such an old story the last time the Chamber of Commerce passed by the woods?

"Yeah," Lara-Rue nodded as I questioned her, a little surprised.

"It's the year my brother above Sin-Lu was born, so that's exactly ten years ago. Then I'm two. You can't remember that."

"Right... I see..."

I wonder what.

Something was caught in my heart.

Stick, whatever that was years ago, it's none of my business.

It shouldn't have anything to do with it - my chest is going to bother me again.

Ten years ago, a large chamber of commerce passed a settlement by the woods.

But whether the lead of the people by the woods was inadequate or unprepared, all of them were to be attacked by Gibba and lose their lives.

Dozens of humans have lost their lives in the woods.

Not the people of the woods, the people of the west.

(Well, maybe...)

The discomfort like cotton wool draws some form of fluffiness.

This is not the first time I've felt this uncomfortable.

Only yesterday, I was supposed to get a taste of this.

But at that time, Zazz-Sung was still captured by the Gene family.

It has nothing to do with that, I was just shaken by the encounter between Gazran-Rutim and Camua-Josh, and from there, more than twenty days ago, Camua-Josh came to the settlement of Lou, in association with...

(That's right. Even then, Camua was talking about the Chamber of Commerce...... no, was it more Donda-Lou? Anyway, that's what I said back then. That was ten years ago...)

I totally forgot about that.

Because I didn't have anything to do with it, no matter how many years ago it was.

That's still the same. I didn't think it would change. Whether it was five or ten years ago, doesn't that matter?

It's just - back then and now, there's only one difference.

That means I was telling you from a completely irrelevant road that there was someone who died unexpectedly ten years ago in this Genos.

The person said he was Milan-Math's best friend and also his wife's brother.

It was only ten years ago that the unknown man lost his life.

(Maybe - was that person also a member of the Chamber of Commerce?

But the person was killed by the forest people, Milan-Math said. Proof of this was that he was holding Gibba's fangs and horn necklaces in his hand.

(So, the guy was only dead under the cliff...)

On second thought, there are no cliffs or anything like that in this lodging town. There are so many cliffs that you fall and lose your life - as far as I can tell, in Morga Forest.

Then, after all, is Milan-Math's best friend part of the Chamber of Commerce and died in the woods?

It was also attacked not by Gibba, but by the people by the woods.

(Ten years ago - it was just ten years ago, too, that Zazz-Sung left the seat of his parents. Whatever, if you were to imitate such lawlessness, you'd be Zazz-Sung, not Zuro-Sung. If you had already gotten sick, maybe you ordered someone else to do it instead of moving yourself)

No way, was that "someone" Tay-Sung?

The pieces fit in the heels, and the paintings that you don't even want to see become more and more obvious.

But we still don't have enough pieces.

Now the possibility of Zashma's chamber of commerce being attacked is finally becoming more realistic.

That's nothing, it's not even a surprising new fact.

Whether the possibility is 10% or 90%, what matters is whether it really materializes. There will be no alarm or anything like that on the side of the camouflage, so fluctuations in probability shouldn't make much sense.

So - something's missing.

The discomfort in me doesn't disappear.

"... hey, are you okay, Asta?

And suddenly Lara-Lew flanked me, and I was heartily surprised.

"It's a customer. If you're not feeling well, should I make it?

"Yes, no, I'm fine. Please wait..." I was about to be surprised even more.

What a late boy he was smiling at in front of the stall.

"Oh, that? Did you stay in Genos, Leyt?

"Yes. I've been ordered to leave a message because this job is dangerous. It's terrible, isn't it? I've been alone for two months."

Laughing innocently and tilting his little neck adorably, "So today, just one minute, please," Late Boy has offered two red copper coins.

"Thank you every time.... but how do you live? Maybe he was originally born in Genos?

"That's right. Except there's no family, no house, nothing."

The boy with flax hair, with the same smile, said so.

"My mother died at the same time that she gave birth to me, so I followed the edge and let her live in Kimmus's Tail Pavilion. So you met Camus, who showed up as a customer about two years ago, and you let him be your apprentice."

"Heh! So you mean the adopted son of Milan-Math?

"No. You only put it at home in good faith. Now that you're in Camus, you're paying for copper coins to stay with us."

That was a harsher childhood than I ever imagined.

Is that why this boy started to have such an adult atmosphere?

"You've been very good to Milan-Math. I wanted to see more different worlds, so I started to think I wanted to be by Kamua's side. … If you spend time with Camus, you'll be able to live on your own, even if you don't want to."

"Right.... but two months alone is tough, huh?

"That's not true. I was alone originally."

And the late boy said, with a smile on his face that didn't even kill the bug.

"My father was the leader of a big business association. That would have cost him his life in an unfortunate accident ten years ago, and he said his mother had died following him.... I haven't had any memories of my newborn life."

I almost dropped my freshly made "Giva Burger" in an iron pot.

That face, the late boy stares back with his brown eyes.

"I knew you didn't know. But it's not like the camouflage stopped me, it's okay."

"Late... then, the best friend of Milan-Math..."

"Yes, the brother behind Milan-Math, right? He was a business partner to my father.... Milan-Math must have overlapped his wife and my mother and felt pity for him. She really loved me, not just your real daughter."

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"Don't look like that. I didn't originally have a parent, so I have no idea what it's like to lose one."

Laughing so innocently, Late Boy took 'Giva Burger' out of my hand.

"Now if you'll excuse me. We'll buy it every day starting tomorrow."

Late boy's little figure disappears across the street.

Halfway off that back, I thought I heard the last piece fit in my head.

Camua knew from the beginning that the culprit in the case of the complete destruction of the Chamber of Commerce ten years ago might be a forest folk.

On top of that, I made a plan for this one.

Maybe that's why he didn't accompany the late boy.

Leyt, you can't let a boy follow the same path as his father.

(No, but the situation is different now than it was ten years ago, even if the incident ten years ago was the work of the Sung family, only Zazz-Sung and Tae-Sung can now imitate such lawlessness. There's no way you two can attack a Chamber of Commerce protected by four hunters and five "Guardians" - just because you attacked them, it just fits the payback...)

Finally, the puzzle was complete, but my conclusion remained the same.

Yet the anxious chest stiffness doesn't try to fit in at all.

That's how I was going to work with such anxiety all day - time slowly passed by.