144 • Blue Moon 15 - Reunion

"Huh? Are you going home to Fa's?

At the doorstep of Lew's main house, Mother Meer Ray said so in a startled manner.

"It's so late, why don't we just get some rest today? Geez's gonna kick your leg, huh?

"That would be enough if you could lend me the candlestick.... Besides, the usual house is used by those who were once Sung families?

"That's true, but even in this house you can make about a place to sleep. Originally there was no Durm, and if you kick Rudd out somewhere, you can have a room."

"No, it's painful to get that far. If you can keep Asta's prepared dishes and other belongings, there's no problem.... Right, Asta?

"Yeah."

"But if a man named Tay-Sung were alive, wouldn't it be dangerous? What would you do if they attacked you on the night lane?

"If you are one of those men, you are not my enemy. Even more so if you have a hand injury."

Ai-Fa's will seemed stiff.

Staying in the main house, not the empty house, seems to me to be a pretty unexpected thing to do for Ai-Fa. Do you care if Donda-Lou or Giza -Lou, the eyes around it?

"On my way home, I'm going to let those who were the Sung family talk a little bit. … Now excuse me"

Wearing the fur cloak and the knife he had left behind, Ai-Fa returns the refreshment.

Give my regards to Mother Meer Ray, who still looks sinister, and I followed.

Walk the Great Square at night with Gazran-Rutim, who was waiting for me on the table.

The Great Square was lit with pine lights.

Since last night, even the settlement of Luu has been under strict precaution.

Multiple men are taking turns looking around seven houses. Unless Tay-Sung can be captured or even found in its carcass, I guess we won't be allowed to sleep with our pillows high.

Is Tay-Sung really dead?

"Hey, Sin-Lu. Can you let me go inside? Because I have permission from Donda-Lou."

It was the young parent of the branch, Sin-Lu, who was playing the role of guard just near the house of purpose.

Sin-Luu nods, standing with us in front of a house that was once empty.

The doorboard of the house was also hung from the outside.

It is a rushing, rough makeover.

The people in this House are compatriots to be protected, but they are also still to be watched.

Sin-Lu knocked on the doorboard about twice after pulling out the candle.

"It's Sin-Lu. Rutim and the people of Fa's house are asking to see you. If you'll excuse me, open it."

After a often lost silence, the doorboard was pulled open from the inside.

It was - Yamil-Ray - who put his face out of it.

And.

The moment Yamil-Ray showed up, the strong vanilla scent pounded my nose with tremendous momentum.

"To us, what can I do for you?... Tay-Sung's remains finally discovered?

"No, I just want to talk a little bit about Sung's main house."

A small breath into Gazran-Rutim's words, Yamir-Ray pulled back softly.

We move forward with our feet in turn, and Sin-Lu, who stays outside, closes the doorboard.

"Nana, you guys," a slightly nostalgic kick-ass voice sounded dim.

Each of the empty houses has been reassembled with the Sung main people who were sent to their new home.

I became a family member of the Ray family, Yamil-Ray.

I became a family member of the Rutim family, Oura and Zwei.

And it is Mida, who became the family of the Lou family.

"I'm sorry I'm late at night. I just want to exchange a few words, so I promise I won't stay long."

While Gazran-Rutim and I-Fa were taking off their leather footwear, I didn't see how they were doing for the first time in days.

Oura and Zwei sit down by the wall on their right hand side toward each other, snuggling in perfectly.

Yamil-Ray, who welcomed us, heads over the opposite wall in supple footsteps, where he calms his hips.

And from us, in the middle of the front wall, in the hills, the meat mass Mida sat down.

"What the hell is that, Sa? What Atashi and I know, we should have talked from what to what, yo.... and if the previous parents screwed up, shouldn't there be anything to worry about anymore?

Smaller than his age, Zwei, with his head clamped like an onion, raises his voice as tall as a little bird's chirp again.

But somehow, she seemed a lot less energetic than the last time I saw her.

Other people, that's the same.

Oura quietly lays her eyes down, holding her daughter's thin shoulders.

Yamil-Ray, also slammed against the wall, holds one foot with both hands and the other extends to the floor, leaning his body towards a slightly self-depraved feeling.

Mida - only this off-standard big guy can't get inside right now, he just has that unusually small looking eye, and I feel like he's staring at me.

"It seems that Zazz-Sung did lose his life, but the whereabouts of Tay-Sung remain unknown. I want you to tell me one more time what that man is like."

Gazran-Rutim advanced his legs to a place where he could see them evenly scattered across the three sides, where he lowered his hips.

Me and i-fa let me line up slightly rear of that dependable back.

"So come on, that's scattered, too, what you talked about! Grandpa Tae was too close to his predecessors to think of anything on his own, yo! I'd do anything if I was ordered, but I can't do anything if I'm left alone, I'm like a doll made of mud, yo!

Hysterically, Zwei turns.

But Grandpa Tae and his predecessors are equally the "grandfathers" who divided blood for her.

Those two fled the woodland settlement and ended up with the murderer. If you weigh the blood connection, she will be the wingman who gets the most complicated mood.

"Zwei is right...... my father Tay was supposed to rot his soul faster than anyone else because he had served by his side as a side of his predecessor's parents since he was younger. Therefore, if the man in the main house does not order anything, he should also not exchange evil deeds of his own will..."

Oura, who was the mother of Zuvai and the daughter-in-law of Zullo, the head of the family, said so in an unchallenged voice.

His eyes, which were as cloudy as his father's, stared at the cloth on the floor where there was nothing, even as strong as a human sorrow.

"I'm not doubting your words. Even if you think in conjunction with the words of my father Dan or Asta, you can believe it's true.... But what if, for example, Tae-Sung had been entrusted with some sort of order by his lifetime Zaz-Sung? Even after Zazz-Sung's death, is he to obey that order?

"Come on... if you find out about the death of your predecessor's parents, or you may even abandon that order. But I don't have to guide you about that...... isn't Father Tae already losing his life, too?

"I don't know. We haven't been able to discover the dead body, so we're going to have to deal with it as something alive."

I'm sure Gazran-Rutim is also killing his own mood and throwing this kind of question on the bereaved families. Even if they use words like "father" and "grandfather" when they are cut off, there is no way to flatter them.

Formally, being cut off doesn't change the fact that Tae-Sung was their blood family. My feelings were on the other hand heavier, especially in the absence of blood Oura and Zwei's powers.

At that time, he said, "... oh...!," Mida suddenly let out a prolonged shout.

"You are a man who can cook a delicious meal... you are a woman who scolded Mida... why are you here...?

I almost collapsed disappointed.

but my dear Parent looked back at Mida with a cheerful face with a single knee claw on.

"Have you noticed by now? You've got a lot of crude heads, you. … but it seems the same and most importantly"

"Yeah... hey, how come you guys are here...? Watching you makes Mida hungry...?

That "you" thing is probably mine.

It is a less appreciated conditional reflex.

Until the incident happened, Mida also had supper at the Luu main house, but since yesterday, she's going to be trapped in this house with her original family, and this was the first time she's seen me or Ai-Fa face to face.

"We came to talk about Tay-Sung, too.... What did Mida think of Tay-Sung?

"Tay-Sung liked it...? Next thing Yamil, Oura and Zwei, I liked it...?

"Ugh, idiot!," Zwei turns again.

"So glad to see Yamir, Oura and Zwei again, but I'm sad that Tay-Sung will die...? Where did Tay-Sung go..."

"Hey! Don't cry, okay?

When Ai-Fa raised her voice sharply, Mida's movement, which was about to tremble as she sifted, stopped perfectly.

"Mida, you don't cry... so I hope you don't scold me...?

"If you don't cry, I won't scold you," he said, laughing as if Yamir-Ray, who had been silent until now, had made something of it when Ai-Fa responded on the top of the Buddha.

"You can already make Mida say something, Fa's parent Ai-Fa. If you were me, you'd be able to exchange words with animals."

"Do you treat a human being who was once your brother as an animal, you? Make it as hateful as possible.... and why are you sprinkling the smell of vanilla like that? My nose is starting to hurt, I am."

"... if I complained, would you put it on the men in your place? Especially with Rutim's eldest brother, who's got that fine physique."

And, Yamil-Ray shrugs his shoulders in a throwing way.

Naturally, Gazran-Rutim said, "What am I?" I rounded my eyes.

"Because your delightful father blew a funny story on Ray's parents. I smell Gibba's blood, so if I don't do something about it, I won't have a wife.... and Ray's parents ordered him to rinse Leelo's leaf juice on his skin every time he bathed in the water."

And while Yamil-Ray brings up his braided brown hair, he also looks at me with cold eyes.

"I heard that Asta should have noticed the smell, too, so I got an extra round of applause. I'm the one with the nose that's going crazy.... Was Asta really smelling like that from my body?

"Yeah, well, yes... with a professional pattern, something sensitive to smell"

"... yeah," Yamil-Ray continued to dazzle my face, keeping his hair up.

With its arrogant and arrogant eyes, Ai-Fa gives a frustrating voice.

"You're a surprisingly disciplined woman to keep such a promise even in Ray's eyeless settlement of Lou. If you give Ray his name and take care of his wife, your heart will be a little clearer."

"You're the ones who ordered me not to defy anyone, aren't you? I don't have the guts to keep my word and complain. Besides, I don't want the hunter to tell me what my wife is like."

What a disturbing atmosphere.

It was the reluctant Gazran-Rutim who arbitrated it for me.

"More than that, Yamil-Ray. What do you think of Tay-Sung? If he had survived, what the hell would he have done best?

"I don't know anything about that other than who I am.... I'm just saying, if you think of Tay-Sung as just a bunch of bifurcated men, you're gonna get a sore eye, aren't you?

"What does that mean?

"That man has spent more time with his predecessors than anyone else in the main house, rather than a division, and has corrupted his soul in his mind, that is.... How do you know that man was always by my side and Digga's side?

Naturally no one could have known such a thing, so neither Gazran-Rutim, nor I, nor Ai-Fa, had to respond with silence.

Yamil-Ray hangs his lips like it's not even funny as he drifts just a little bit of his former ruthlessness.

"Because that was the order of the previous parents. Parent Zuro's lazy temperament made the previous parents look for our trends to figure out who to set their next parents for. … while being offered never to disobey our orders, that man was watching over us as the eyes of his predecessors"

"... So there was a chance that you, the women, could be the head of the family?

"Instead of possibilities, I would have been the head of the family if I had stayed that way. Digga and Dodd didn't have the qualities to lead a clan."

That was a new fact of shock for me, too.

If such a future had been realized, how the hell would the Sung family have become?

If Zazz-Sung, who was trying to rule the Sung family even in the hospital bed, had secretly given the seat of his parents to Yamil, who wished the Sung family doomed...

I shook my head and decided to put an early end to such barren thoughts.

No matter how much you think about it, you're unlikely to imagine a bright future or anything. Not as long as Zazz-Sung is in the other world, but how heavily and deeply Yamir's business would have been otherwise.

"That's how a man named Tay-Sung was an obedient servant to Zaz-sung. After Zazz-Sung got sick and couldn't move, that's what made him work like a limb. … so if Tae-Sung is alive, you can never get close to me. If Zazz-Sung had given Tae-Sung an order to spill the Sung family's blood, etc., he would have thought of saving me instead of Zulu, the head of the family, or Diga, who was my eldest brother."

"... that's the first time you've heard of a person named Tay-Sung who was so deeply involved with Zazz-sung. You were seen as the next parent."

To Gazran-Rutim's words, Yamil-Ray hoists his lips.

"I just kept my mouth shut because I didn't even think I needed to talk to you. If that doesn't bother you, cut it off as you like. It's not the Rays, it's the Jeans and Doms who are disgraced and furiously mad, what do you think?

"No, wait, Gazran-Rutim -"

I became a wingman in a hurry to speak up.

I don't think Yamil-Ray would do such an imitation considering his own retention. That must have been holding his mouth for Tay-Sung. Because if Zazz-Sung had been properly mutilated as it was, Tay-Sung's soul would have been freed, too.

But sooner than I overlapped words, Gazran-Rutim controlled me with his eyes.

"Stick around, I'm not going to blame you. The results would not have changed because no one could have assumed that Zazz-Sung, who had been offended by the disease, would escape on his own, even if he had been told the story. Besides, where Zazz-Sung saw you as his successor, it's just Zazz-Sung's will, and I don't even think your sins will be heavier."

Yamil-Ray caught a chilling smile and now Gazran-Rutim had a calmer smile.

"And you're already a Ray family person. I'm sure Rau-Ray won't forgive you, such as transferring your pattern to Dom or Gene.... Yamil-Ray, Zazz-Sun is gone from the world, so you should be released from his curse now too"

"... if I could forget about that guy so easily, I wouldn't have a hard time"

That being said, Yamil-Ray snorted deeply and hid that look with his long hair.

"Tay-Sung, because it should be with me. … but if Zazz-Sung died without leaving any orders, Tae-Sung would finally be able to martyr to his will too"

"My will?

"... the will to destroy someone soon."

A severe silence fell into the hall.

Oura is even staring sadly at the floor, and Zwei is taking it so badly that he can help it.

Mida looks around at everyone with a blurry face the same way, and Ai-Fa is the silent Buddha top surface.

Gazran-Rutim stared at Yamil-Ray's powerless figure for a while before standing up largely.

"Thank you for taking so long. … you will be returned to your respective homes on a day not so far away. Until then, it will make you feel cramped, but try to live right as a forest folk in the future."

No one responds.

Me and Ai-Fa, too, rose their hips as Gazran-Rutim.

"He's gone already...? Hey, Mida doesn't know your names...?

And so Mida suddenly raises her voice, and Ai-Fa, who was turning her back, looks back at you like a curse.

"Can a person who can't remember his face, when he hears his name, remember him?

"I don't know his name, so I forget his face...? Mida is Mida from Luu's family...?

"I know.... I am the head of Fa's house, Ai-Fa"

"I'm Asta, the family of Fa's house."

"Thanks... Mida wants to see Ai-Fa and Asta again too...?

"If we're on edge, we'll see each other again"

Flipping the fur cloak, it was now time for Ai-Fa to turn her back on Mida.

On its back, Mida speaks out loud.

"Ai-Fa...... Asta...... If you find Tay-Sung, don't kill him...? Tay-Sung is really a sweet grandpa...?

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Say goodbye to Gazran-Rutim, who remains in the settlement of Lou, and we set foot on a forest side road dominated by darkness at night.

I borrowed one candlestick at a time, replenished with plenty of veterinary fat candles, but for me it's my first night march force. Pay attention to Geez and Mundt at night, which is a matter I learned as soon as I lived in Fa's house, but I don't even know what to look out for.

"Don't leave me, Asta. As long as we protect it, nothing is dangerous."

Saying it that way, of course I'm stuck with Ey-Fa's voice.

There is no danger if we are not alarmed. If you return the back, it's dangerous if you stay alert.

Fortunately, I wasn't as bad at dark spots as I was at high altitudes, so I never exposed myself to all sorts of things like the first time I crossed a suspension bridge.

But creepy things are creepy.

Of course, street lights and the like are non-existent, and the moonlight barely reaches them, as they are trapped in the woods from left to right. If we lose the fire of the candlestick, it is the night darkness that is so dense that we cannot see an inch further. I guess if it weren't for Ai-Fa instead, I wouldn't have been able to go this far in grandeur.

"... it's been a hell of a day."

While walking, Ai-Fa snapped low.

"Zazz-Sung was captured, and he died.... That's all I'm saying, but don't feel as dangerous as when my oldest brothers attacked me in Sung's settlement"

"Oh. For better or worse, that must be the one who's chief by the woods. Until I was weak because of my illness, I wonder if I was as fierce as Donda-Lou."

Such a man finally squeezed all his power and scattered a curse all over this world. Such a world is doomed.

I guess we have to do everything in our power to avoid being swallowed up by the black-hole-like abyss that resulted from the extinction of that murderous star.

"I wonder what will happen to business from tomorrow"

"Hmmm...... I don't know that unless I try going down to town anymore. All this time, I think hitting bad will ruin everything. Whatever the man in the castle says, if he thinks he should rest, he should rest exactly."

"... that's the test for us."

That's what Ai-Fa said, staring straight ahead at the dark end.

"Our previous inability to correctly bond with the people of the town… and it must be our, must defeat, trial that has overlooked the decadence of the Sung family"

"Yeah. I guess so"

In that way, anxiety and fear for the darkness at night diminished as he exchanged words with the pompous.

But I guess I was more vigilant with Ey-Fa.

About half an hour to Fa's house, so I stopped at the fence and entrusted my share of the candlestick to my hand.

Then put your hand on the knife pattern and turn back in the left direction.

"Who is it? Come out."

It's not Geez or Mundt, it's human.

Occasionally I get nervous too and light a candlestick fire over there.

Not so many people think about ambushing us.

So after all, it was the men by the woods who appeared loosely like ghosts from beyond the darkness at night - with gray hair.

"Tay-Sung......"

The smell of strong blood and the scent of "Gibbon's Fruit" really irritates my nasal cavity.

Tay-Sung stood between the trees.

After all, Tae-Sung lived.

But I couldn't confirm the knife wound that Tay-Sung had on him.

Tay-Sung, for some reason, was not a hunter's coat, but a skin-long cloak used by the town's humans to completely cover his body.

Maybe that was taken from Doug's Hahn. Tay-Sung was only grasping at that bandage man's cloak before he fell off the cliff, I think Gazran-Rutim said.

Whatever it was, Tay-Sung stood there in a cape like that.

Gray hair, gray beard. The dark blue eyes are as cloudy as dead fish, and the old face has no emotions whatsoever.

And in its right hand, glancing from the mating eye of the cape, a steel knife was gripped.

"Hmm...... did the previous parent Zazz-Sung want Fa's human neck, not Luu? Well, less hassle than being able to get down to town or something."

That and the relative Ai-Fa burned both eyes more intensely, while still the expression remained calm.

"But you'd know if you were a hunter, too. You have no power to harm us now. If even a little pride remains in being a forest folk, throw away the sword and keep it."

"Throw away the knife. … but that's not now"

A missing voice of emotion, nothing different than when I heard it before.

Is it true that this man was slaughtered and fell off a cliff that could also be fatally wounded?

Everything stays the same.

But - on Tay-Sung's wrapped skin cape, there was no sign of blood returning.

Even so, I can smell strong blood from Tay-Sung's flesh.

Maybe under that cloak, it's bloody.

"To Ay-Fa, the head of Fa, is Asta, the family of Fa. It is not to harm you that I have appeared before you. Because I wanted to ask you to do something."

"What do you want me to ask?

"Yes, for that I have been waiting for you on this occasion. No, there was only the figure of Dom's men in Fa's house, so I was on my way to Luu's settlement, too. It would have been difficult to get close to you in the settlement of Lou, so it was a pleasure for me to meet you in such a place."

"I wonder if you were such a mouth-watering man. Doesn't it seem that there is any power left outside?"

"That's not true. I will die soon. So before I do that, I want to do my last job."

"Wait. Let me ask you one thing before I do. Are you already aware of the death of your predecessor, Zazz-Sung?

Tay-Sung nodded, like a doll, dusty.

"I know. Dom's men were talking like that out loud. That's why I wanted to see you even more."

"Hmm. Admitted. Then say what you wish for."

Tay-Sung's words, thus unleashed, were outrageous far beyond my expectations.

"I want you to eat your cooking, Asta"

And Tay-Sung said so in an inorganic voice, like mechanical rigging.

"My cooking?... well, why would you want to eat something like that?

"I heard you are trying to bring richness to the forest side with that dish and yet steer the edge with Genos in the right direction. Is it really possible, or carve it into this body, and then I want to die?"

"But I don't..."

"If you will fulfill that wish, I will throw away my sword and obey your words. And I swear I will dedicate the last few hours I have left for my compatriots"

What you are saying may have been worthy of the people by the woods.

But - I knew I couldn't even feel the human flavor of one shard in that voice.

Its dark blue eyes are more and more cloudy, and its bloody face has no expression either.

It should be noted that Tae-Sung remained Tae-Sung even now that the people of Sung's division regained their weak but humane eyes and emotions.

"I also got the opportunity to give you your dishes on the night of the Parents' Meeting. But I couldn't feel your power enough that night because I ate it comically. … I want to know your power and be sure that all my actions were wrong before I die"

"... then we should turn back to the settlement of Luu. Lew would still make sense better than Dom."

"No," Tay-Sung shook his head as Ai-Fa responded quietly.

"Lew's parents will never forgive me. If we can't get through it, we'll break the bond between Fa and Luu. … and I have made the city of Genos my place of death"

"What?" Ai-fa narrowed her eyes to the noisy feeling.

Tay-Sung overlaps words at the same pace.

"Tomorrow in Jomtien, I will visit your shop. Let us eat your dishes there, Asta at Fa's house"

"Don't be stupid! You can go down to Inn Town or something! All you have to do is get captured by a man or guard by the woods before you can reach Asta!

"It's okay. With this outfit, at least the guards will be able to walk through town unobscured."

That being said, Tay-Sung pulled down the hood of the skin cape deeply.

Certainly, well, it's hard to imagine a proud forestside people dressing themselves as people in a town.

But such was not the problem.

"What are you up to, you? I can't live up to my modest wishes like that."

Putting his strength to his fingertips grabbing the pattern, Ai-Fa dropped his hips a long time.

Tay-Sung, however, doesn't even move with a tingle.

"Then slay me and slay me on this occasion. I will die in the life of the Sung family, given to me by Zazz-Sung, in full gratitude."

"Why do we need to go down to Inn Town or something! There are Luu men on the spot too, so it's the same thing to go back to Luu's settlement!

"No. I want to fall into your hands in the Inn Town of Genos, watched over by the men of the town. I want to show the people of the woods how they judge the people of the woods, the people of the town. Maybe that's the only way to redeem my sins"

"... bullshit. I don't know what you're talking about."

"The people of the town should hate the people by the woods. That's because Sung's humans have committed numerous sins. And now that Zazz-Sung is dead, I'm the only person left to redeem it.... because I am the last of the men who have harmed Genos in the words of Zazz-Sung."

Tay-Sung said that untouched.

"After I eat the food and throw away the knife, you may do as you please. You can slash him down on the spot, or you can leave your figure with the guard. It would have been nice if the men of Sauti had disputed us, but they had lost their power first. Zazz-Sung, too, must have been killed by the humans in the capital. Then you can't. A people by the woods disputes the sins of the people by the woods before a man in the stone capital. That's the most important thing. … so I am not allowed to die comically, either, when slain by the human sword of the capital."

"Are you really insane? I can't trust you."

"I guess so. I'm offering this story because I want my sanity back, too."

Ai-Fa's sharp eyes and Tay-Sung's vain gaze intertwine in darkness.

"Um," I said, jeopardizing that even now the Ey-Fa knife would slash Tay-Sung and lay low.

"Accepting your offer is very difficult. I don't even know if I'll be able to open a decent stall tomorrow in the first place, and I just opened it and the Lew men are by my side. And we can't blame them for weighing up our bond with Lou, and where they did, they won't miss you."

"If the men of Lou slay me, they will still be good. With the human eye of the town, it can also help save the woodside rather than being slashed down by Fa's parents on this occasion. … but until I know your power, I can only thank you once and for all as a Sung human being."

"No, but if it turns out to be such a fuss in front of a customer, whatever your thoughts are, they're just scared of the people in town."

"Yes. So ideally, you want me captured by the hands of the people by the woods and handed over to the guards. That alone should heal the hearts and minds of the people in town enough."

It is something too keren-flavored.

It would be hard to believe a story like this because it was no longer an eye-fa.

"... my words to be preached have been preached. I'll leave the rest to you."

"Right. … then again, I have nothing else to capture you on this occasion"

Ie-Fa dropped his hips even more.

Tay-Sung nods as if he has no emotion whatsoever.

"Then I will give thanks unto you. … but I will flee because I am unlikely to defeat you"

"You think you can get away from me with losing your power like that?

"Maybe I can't. If you leave your family behind and come after me."

Tay-Sung's appearance drifts away.

"Wait! Don't move there!

"No, I'll run. If I can escape, I'll go down to Jomtien, Inn Town tomorrow. So slay me, and lay low."

Tay-Sung's appearance was distant to the unreachable spot of candlestick lights.

Then he stepped on the ground and tried to chase it, Ai-Fa - with his thoughtless eyes that let the fire dwell, he kicked me.

"Damn! What the hell, that man!

Quickly, Ai-Fa was unable to move off the spot, and Tae-Sung had let her go again.