143 ③ Blue Moon 15 - Truth

"- Dari-Sauti and the others, who were guiding the Chamber of Commerce, also seem to have suffered small hand injuries. Fortunately, no one lost their lives, but two of them seemed so deep they couldn't get out of the woods for a while."

After dinner, in the settlement of Luu, the report was to be fulfilled by Gazran-Rutim.

The threat of the murderer was removed very abruptly.

But it's not the kind of situation you'd be happy to let go of.

To get more information, I and I-Fa were forced not to go home and stop by Luu's settlement.

"I don't know the exact number, but he was attacked by more than ten gibberishes. Perhaps Zazz-Sung and Tay-Sung flashed the juice of the 'Gibbon's Fruit' on him, leading Gibba that far. … and let the men of the Chamber of Commerce also hit the fruit of Gibba and turn Gibba's eyes to you."

Well, it was exactly what I imagined.

But I can't believe you feed your own flesh on the "Sacrifice Hunt" guidelines and bring up more than ten givahs - I don't think it's sane shabbat after all.

"There's more than ten Gibbs in just four. Then you can't have a winning eye. There were just no dead people, wow."

Gazran-Rutim also gives a heavy nod back to Rudd-Lou's gavel.

"Still, Dari-Sautti seems deeply regrettable for not being able to consider both Zazz-Sung and Tay-Sung names. A messenger from the Sauti family said he would always come and apologize if the wound healed."

"It's nothing like that. It was fine. Well, Sung's predecessors, like those walking skeletons, probably had less trouble screwing me in the woods."

In the hall, eight humans remained.

Me and Ai-Fa, Gazran Rutim and Rudd Rudd, Donda Rudd and Giza Rudd - plus, it's Grandma Ziva and Mother Meer Ray.

It is very rare for a weak old lady Ziva to remain in such a place.

However, when she learned of Zazz-Sung's death, Grandma Ziva had expressed her willingness to participate in this painful meeting.

"Problem number one would be that I couldn't hold onto a guy named Tay-Sung. What was Dari-Sauti saying about that?

On behalf of the silent parents, Giza-Lou asked Gazran-Rutim.

"Yes. Indeed, Dari-Sauti also said he saw the man who hid his face in a bandage slash Tae-Sung away. Tay-Sung, deeply slashed in the chest, clinging to the man's coat, was thrust as-is and fell to the bottom of the valley," he said.

"Hmm. But if you haven't seen him dead, you should think he's still alive. Even dying humans might be able to light settlements or harm women. … you still can't get rid of the guard hand completely"

That said, Giza-Lou looked at me and Ai-Fa with his eyes as thin as thread.

"Asta. Are you still going down to Inn Town tomorrow?

"Yes, I just got ready for the toy planting. The people at the castle still want it....... but I think from tomorrow we will need to be more careful than ever"

Zazz-Sung, with his presence, has given the people of the Accommodation Town even more fear and vigilance.

An unforgivable sinner has impeached the deception of the stone capital.

I don't think everything the man said was wrong when it came to that murder star. I think the relationship between Castle Genos and the woodland would have enclosed distortions and deception since its inception eighty years ago.

But that shouldn't have been spoken out of Zazz-Sung's mouth.

It was a problem that the people of the woods, who had endured the ordeal, should solve with their own hands.

It would only anger and terrorize people that such charges were made against the great sinners who would harm others, set their homes on fire, attack travellers and try to deprive them of their wealth.

I think that's why the people of the town were sparked both by the anger of being cursed by the sinners and by their fear of the people by the woods at the same time.

And if we are those who have any suspicion that we may be unfairly discriminating against the people by the woods - we must remember all that fear.

After all, the people of the woods resented themselves.

Even if it's ostensibly adultery, there's a whirlpool of hatred and dissatisfaction with the people of the capital.

Actually, I don't think so.

For good and for evil, the people of the woods have no great interest or interest in the people of Genos.

It is rare to realize that we are being unfairly discriminated against because there is a strong sense that we are only martyring in our pride.

But there was a whirlpool of resentment within Zazz-Sung.

As a chief, I wondered if it was because I was also dealing with the people of the castle. The man seemed to be solidified in a sentiment of resentment and humiliation.

That's what made it happen today.

The connection between Genos and the woodland has been complicated and teased over the past eighty years.

It's like Zazz-Sung shook down the blade of paranoia on that edge thread that we were slowly trying to unravel.

This thing in this state. Going down to the boarding town was supposed to be a more dangerous act than it was yesterday or today.

"Zazz-Sung has... gone the wrong way..."

Grandma Ziva snapped at the lid.

Rudd-Lou and Jizza-Lou, who were about to open their mouths about something, also push silently with it.

"I'm sure Zazz-Sung thought that would save the pride of the clan... that it was right for us to cut off our ties to Genos eighty years ago and live free... I guess that was the right path for Zazz-Sung..."

"Hmm? But you just keep roughing up the grace of the woods and not hunting the giva at the heart. So, neither the pride nor the snare by the woods, eh?

"But the problem with more gibberishes would be the people of Genos, not the people by the woods...? Because if not only the Sung family but all the people by the woods put themselves in such a life, all the fields in Genos would be devoured..."

"I see. So you mean to show Genos how important the presence of the people by the woods is. After all, a man named Zazz-Sung seemed an unforgivable shame.... well, where the man kept sitting on the seat of the chief, there would not have been such a life-threatening forest people"

Ziza-Lou said so lightly, without any slight interest.

If I were you, I would be proud to take the knife and not obey such an order.

But the people of the Sung family were obeyed by their improbable orders.

Next to the Sung family, the families of Zaza and Dom, then the smaller families, and thus the last of the hostile forces, the families of Luu - Zaz-Sun might have thought of dyeing the woodland side with his own delusions one by one.

And against Genos, if you have any complaints, I'll give up all your work as a hunter, and you were trying to take the safety of the fields hostage and forge a relationship more than reciprocal?

If Zazz-Sung continues to reign as a chief without gaining a demon, how far has that influence reached - I don't think that's such a story as to make him laugh easily.

"I agree with that, Giza... but I guess Genos wasn't entirely right...? Eat only the grace of the woods and live only in the woods... We've lived that way in the south woods... I guess that's how it seemed to Zazz-Sung that it was right to get those lives back..."

"Something Ziva woman says like she's covering that skeleton bastard. You don't think he was right or anything, do you?

and Rudd-Lou frowned feeling a little anxious.

Grandma Ziva slowly looks around at the humans on the spot with her eyes hidden by her heavily draped eyelids.

"That's as much as I'd like to hear... What did you guys think when you heard Zazz-Sung...?

Donda-Lou, forming instead of the oldest in his seat, sipped the fruit liquor and then answered.

"If you really don't care what Genos does, just dump this Morga forest, as Zaza's parents say. I'm offering you a reward, attacking a traveler to earn wealth. That's not what a hunter does."

"... I feel the same way about my parents," Ziza-Lou said, and Rudd-Lou also said, "That's right. I think so too," I agree.

Gazran-Rutim answered after much thought.

"But abandoning the Morga Forest, which we have defined as our home town, is not much of a story either. The kingdom of the west could even be pursued as a traitor, which is why it would be even more unacceptable to change a god who serves twice. … then I think I should only look for the right way to live around this Morga forest"

"You're as tough as ever.... What about Asta and I-Fa?

Asked by Rudd-Lou, Ai-Fa tilts her neck slightly.

"If you're really incompatible with the people of the castle, you're going to have to take them down or dump the woods. But I hope to live by these woods, wherever possible, according to the code set by the women of Ziva and their forefathers."

"I agree with Ai-Fa, too. I don't like people in town, but I love living here."

"I don't want to throw this woodland away, either," Rudd-Lou said when Mother Meer Ray stuck with Grandma Ziva.

"Well, what about Asta? Well, I know you don't have to ask."

"Yeah. I feel the same way as everyone else.... If I were to add, I think Zazz-Sung did it the wrong way. The way Zazz-Sung did. So I guess that means he couldn't lead the people by the woods."

"Hmm? That's what my dad said, isn't it?

"Yeah. Plus the act of vandalizing the grace of the forest. If the people of the woods wanted to lead the clan with the belief that they should live freely, they should have explained it to everyone properly. As a newcomer, I felt like I had to put up with the blessings of the woods until I was starving to death."

I was supposed to be picked up from the front and the right.

In other words, Luu and the parents of my fa have each stuck out a noisy glance.

I headed to Donda-Lou for now and decided to change my tone as well.

"I'm going to understand with my head that that's what makes me proud to be a hunter....... but, for example, distributing the prize money paid by Genos to poor families, even so, does that become an act of defilement of the hunter's pride after all? If so, the question arises as to what bounty exists for."

"... the bounty should be grabbed for the poor clan... I don't know now, but my little clan didn't have the strength to just get a knife or an iron pot..."

I nodded "I see" to Grandma Ziva's explanation.

"So you've lost sight of a clear use because in the first few decades all your clans have had knives and iron pots. So, the Sung family started singling it out,"

"What the hell is that? Asta talks as much as Gazran-Rutim."

"I'm sorry. I'm also talking about sorting out feelings and thoughts.... No, I've been worried about Zazz-Sun ever since I heard him say it in Accommodation Town. I wonder why this man's words don't resonate so much with my heart."

"Hmm? That's because he's a bastard."

"I don't have a body or a lid to say that.... but as I was saying, my newcomer, I didn't care what Genos did from the start. I was really pissed off about stories about not vandalizing the grace of the woods or about people by the woods being scorned as' gibber-eaters'. So a free life without interference from a castle person sounds very fascinating."

Then before they yell at me if I'm willing to agree with Zazz-Sung after all, I'll hurry and keep the word going.

"But I wasn't at all convinced by what Zazz-Sung said. That's probably not because Zazz-Sung was doing a bunch of bandit stuff, but because the folks at Sung's branch didn't look a little happy.... I'm sure Zazz-Sung was a chief who could only tie people up with fear. Let others follow it because they thought they were right. That way, then, no matter how right your first beliefs are, you can't steer them in the right direction - and that's what I thought."

"... Is Zazz-Sung's Belief Right?

With a difficult face, Ai-Fa asks.

I let him shake his head, worried that he might have had a headache or something.

"I think it's absolutely wrong to attack travelers because of how much they were unfairly discriminated against. But it's odd that people should be discriminated against unfairly, because people by the woods should be more free, and if you expressed your feelings about it on the floor of the Conference of Presidents or something, and exchanged opinions with everyone, maybe you could have found the right path? I'm so sorry I didn't."

"Too bad... I'm so sorry..." Grandma Ziva snaps low.

"Zazz-Sung's father was a fine hunter... so when the gaze and Leema houses of the chieftaincy muscle were destroyed, we, the Lew humans, convinced the Sung family to give him the seat of chieftaincy, and the rough guys like Dom and Zazza followed it... but I'm sure Zazz-Sung couldn't take over from his father just the strength of his self-esteem and ambition and take care of his compatriots... that's really unfortunate... that's a heartless story..."

"... what matters to us is not the old stories, but what lies ahead, oldest."

Donda-Lou said low and turned to Gazran-Rutim again.

"Is that all the messengers from Sauti were saying? Then it's just that there were no lies in what the Rudds heard in town."

"No, one more thing. There was a story I couldn't see.... The luggage car Totos was pulling fell under an obvious cliff. One of the bags spilled from it was trampled by Gibba in front of Dari-Sautti, and he smashed the contents."

"What, was it even packed with human carcasses?

"No. They said the contents of the bags were just sand"

Donda-Lou frowns a lot.

"Nobody pays copper coins for just sand. Wasn't it food or something that looked a lot like sand?

"That's how I asked, too. They say that when Gibba showed up, they threw down their luggage and totoss, pulled out their swords, and fought resolutely. And after leaving Gibba and capturing Zazz-Sung, he began to return to town willingly, not in the wind that cared about the luggage that fell under the cliff.... Maybe they didn't mean to head to the eastern kingdom from the start?

"... that guy. I mean, what happened?

"Yes, I was wondering if they were just pretending to be merchants in order to arouse Zazz-Sung... Camua-Josh told me that five escorts out of eighteen merchants, but that Dari-Sautti couldn't even identify which were merchants and which were escorts"

"Hmm. I see. Sure enough, they were all walking fine on their own feet. Yeah, yeah on the carrier. I guess it was five or six people at most. It's unnatural for a bunch of Sauthi people to survive so long as they're merchants in the capital."

To Rudd-Lou's words, Gazran-Rutim nods again.

"But," he said, "it was Ziza-Lou.

"Weren't we talking about a two-month plan to go through the forestside settlement to the eastern kingdom? Even if it's a lie, we actually heard it more than twenty days ago. By then, the Sung family had not yet fallen, so the story would not fit."

"Yes, that didn't come down to me either, but maybe after I found out about Zazz-Sung and the others' escape yesterday, I quickly worked out such a measure. If it's someone named Camua-Josh, I feel fine doing that."

"No -" I was supposed to raise my voice.

If I say this, Camua-Josh might buy Donda-Lou's wrath.

But I had to speak as a member of the forest people.

"Rather, isn't it unnatural to change such a huge job for one sinner? If that were the case, it would seem more natural to assume from the outset that it was a trap to fall into the Sung family. Perhaps the people of the capital had the certainty ten years ago that the people of the woods had attacked the Chamber of Commerce."

"... what does that mean?

The gaze of a quiet but very powerful Gazran-Rutim flies.

Taking that gaze, (you were...) and I was beaten to my own thoughts.

From the beginning, Camua should have suspected that the culprit in the ten year old case was the Sung family.

I was trying to screw up my discomfort and anxiety when I found out that nothing of the essence would change. That was my mistake.

This is what happened.

The Camuans were not cautious of the Sung family raids. It was only in order to induce a raid on the Sung family that such a plot was set up.

I lay my words on top of each other as they taste an unspeakable sense of vanity.

"A mutual acquaintance between me and Camus was an associate of that business group ten years ago. The person was convinced that the culprit in the incident was a forest people. … I didn't know until today that the deceased was a business associate, but I think Camua knew that from the beginning."

That's how I looked back at Donda-Lou, who was silently burning my eyes.

"Donda-Lu, don't you remember? More than twenty days ago, the day Camus visited this Luu settlement, we talked about Camus and his business association, didn't we? Didn't Camua already make a statement at that time that he suspected the people by the woods...?

"... you think I'll forget what the people of the woods have insulted you, kid?

"If that's the story, I remember it too," Giza-Lou also voiced.

"My father Donda said all the merchants who tried to pass by the woods ten years ago were killed by Gibba. Then the man named Camua-Josh replied," I don't know if Gibba really killed him. "

"Awesome. I don't remember that old story," Rudd-Lou shrugs his shoulder.

I totally forgot those words, too.

I just remembered, it wouldn't have stopped this happening today - but still, my detours are cursed.

"I'm sure the Sung family attacked the Chamber of Commerce in the same way ten years ago. Even this time, if the Sung family had remained a chieftaincy muscle, it would have succeeded. … if they are really helpless merchants."

But it wasn't the merchants who pulled the luggage.

I'm sure they were all experts in rough things - "Guardians" or something.

And the contents of the luggage truck were just sandbags, not products sold in shims, etc.

Everything was a ploy to plunge the Sung family.

"In the first place, there were only two people in the current Sung family who could get physical, Zazz-Sun and Tae-Sung, so normally if you think about it, you don't have the power to attack the Chamber of Commerce or anything, do you? So I think it is all the more unnatural that we rapidly worked out such measures to arouse the Zazz-Sungs. Instead, it would have been more unexpected for them to have worked out such a measure over two months that the Sung family had fallen?

"I see......" Gazran-Rutim crumbles low, all the others, were silent.

It is probably out of understanding for the people of the woods to work out a ploy that went so far to fall into the wrong hands.

"If that hadn't happened at the Parents' Conference, the Sung would still have reigned by the woods as a chieftaincy muscle. If they took the same job as they did ten years ago, they would attack the Chamber of Commerce in the same way. With that prospect, didn't they work out a plan? So the truth is, it may have been as comfortable as being devoured of a terrible shoulder blush by a forest folk who had fallen the Sung family earlier.... Still can't be that we didn't talk about the Chamber of Commerce yet, and we didn't have a zero chance that the big sinner Zazz-Sung and others would show up ready to crush the balls, so we dared not to do so"

"But who the hell was that ploy based on?

Does this mean that the Lord of Genos, who has so far duly done the Sung family's lawlessness, has suddenly stirred up the blade of repudiation? "

I shake my head at Gazran-Rutim's impending voice.

"I don't know that far.... but at least I find it hard for Camus to set such a big trap with discretion. You should need to go through the castle to ask the Sung family for a job, because then you will also bruise the lord of Genos. Then shouldn't we think that there was some kind of cooperation from the beginning?"

Drafted by the lord of Genos and asked Camus to execute it?

Or did the Lord of Genos cooperate in the drawing up of the Camus?

Which way, the lord of Genos has nothing to do with it.

"... is that what the castle does to people?"

and - Donda-Lou finally burns those eyes out of flames.

"The people in the capital want to capture the Sung family murderer, but they tricked us? If they had spoken from the beginning, the men of Sauti wouldn't have been bothered."

"That's - that's the hard part. Dari-Sauti was wanted by Camua-Josh to be thorough with the guide. Still, it was Dari-Sauti's own will that stood up to Gibba himself."

To Gazran-Rutim, who responds calmly, Donda-Rou turns his eyes when he is a beast.

"But didn't Sauti's men take the knife because they thought they were helpless merchants? If they had all been informed that they were soldiers of the capital or something, the story would have been completely different.... and the guys at the castle refused to talk about all the Sauti men providing security, right?

"... Yes"

"Besides, they still don't try to allow Fa's house to take a break from business. 'Cause I want to scare a guy like Tay-Sung who killed him.... Everything they say is a lie. What are we supposed to believe in people who don't try to take this far?

Donda-Lou's hand crushed the earthen bottle of fruit liquor.

The slightly remaining red liquid wets its fingertips and floor cloth.

"Donda-Lou - No, be Lu's parent, chief by the woods, please, just keep an eye on the brief. How the chief behaves determines the fate of the forest."

"I don't even have to be told that. Except that the chiefs who should lead the people are me, Graf-Zaza, and Dari-Sauti. In the remaining eight days that Genos tells us, we will decide the path to show the people."

Um, no less impetus on the night of the Conference of Parents, Donda-Lou had turned into a mass of enthusiasm.

"Donda-Lou, can I have just one word from you, too? I'm not convinced by the human way of the castle either, but there's still one thing - Donda-Lou just said that Camua-Josh insulted you, right? What do you think about that now?

Donda-Lou's blue-burning eyes are directed towards me from Gazran-Rutim.

I drank my saliva, breathed, and then I lay down my words.

"The words of Camua-Josh were true. On top of that, he either provoked the people by the woods - or maybe he was giving them a warning. If we keep this up, we'll judge the Sung family first.... but Donda-Lou felt insulted, when he heard the words of Camua-Josh, that there was no way the folks at the woods would do such a bandit thing...?

"... then what?

"Wouldn't that mean that it was Zazz-Sung, not Camua-Josh, who betrayed Donda-Lou's trust at that time and hurt his pride as a forest folk?

"Asta, are you willing to cover that man even this time of year?

Giza-Lou's voice, which never heats up in a different way than Gazran-Rutim's, makes me sweat so cold.

Still, I couldn't help but say.

"I'm not going to be covering him. But we couldn't realise that Zazz-Sung was guilty that far. Isn't the sin of letting Zazz-Sung go wild so far responsible for both the man in the castle and the people by the woods?

"... that we and the men of the castle are alike?

"I didn't say that. But I think it needs to be firmly identified to whom and how much of a nonsense has caused things like today.... Only in the case of ten years ago, it is the people of the town, not the people by the woods or the people of the castle, who were harmed by Zazz-Sung. Can you say that all that is not in a castle person?

What do you know about people in town? If the word... had returned, maybe I would have been destroyed in my identity as a forest folk.

But Giza-Lou said this after shaking his head small to the side.

"We have never been able to bring the Sung family to justice because they did not have solid proof that they had sinned. It is my fake heart not to be with the people of the castle who did not judge the Sung family with their testimony."

"Yeah, so..."

"I know. It was our sin not to be able to bring it to justice - because it is also the word of the head of the family, Donda. But still, let me tell you something. At least I don't think I can trust a castle person."

That being said, Giza-Lou turns his eyes as thin as thread to his father.

Donda-Lou has been making fun of me ever since.

"... I see what you're saying. With that in mind, we'll make our way."

That's all I said, Donda-Lou pushed silently.

A painful silence leaps into the hall.

Eventually - in it, Grandma Ziva's grief-filled voice sounded.

"... I guess this wouldn't have happened if we had been able to bond more firmly with Genos..."

Indeed, Ai-Fa said, "That's not true!," he said.

"Ziva women, our ancestors paved the way for misery, which is why we are here today! It will be the work of the humans who live now to open up their present ordeal!... and even the Ziva woman who still suffers with me is one of those people who lives now. I'm sure it's not right for a Ziva woman to mourn and grieve in that way"

"... yeah hey... I guess I have something to do before I mourn..."

Grandma Ziva's squeaky face probably smiled softly.

"Thanks, Ai-Fa... My wife almost got caught up in old memories all over again..."

I = fa turned to pussy with an angry face.

but there was me in that direction, so my gaze just hits me.

"... what are you looking at"

"I'm looking at my parents"

In the dim, Ai-Fa blushed her cheeks and snapped my head.

The emergency meeting, which lasted until midnight, was to end for the first time.