147 (7) Blue Moon 16 - Settlement

"Stupid! How can you not die!?

Rau-Ray gives a whisper in the face of anger.

"Our sword has definitely gone over your torso! Are you really human!?

"Hmm. I just mouthed 'Contraindicated Leaves'. I don't know what you don't know about the blessings of the forest."

A voice cracked by crazy joy.

The voice of Tay-Sung, degenerate like someone else, but still clearly familiar.

We've been put out of our way.

of human beings ready to die - no, to Tay-Sung's paranoia, which also outweighed death.

My nose was smelling more intense blood than yesterday.

If you only look down at the eyeballs, a vagarious pool of blood is appearing at your feet.

Tae-Sung is probably fatally wounded.

There are as many as four hunters, and they can't possibly harm their own work.

But I guess Tay-Sung's paranoia has gone beyond such common sense and cooking as well.

Apparently, Tay-Sung was also standing against a tree that was behind the stall.

That's how he's laying his hands on my throat from behind.

What kind of defense was followed by such a backlash? I couldn't perceive.

But I wasn't unconscious. This is what happened just moments after I blinked, so I'm sure Tay-Sung jumped through the stalls and grabbed me like a beast - with his back slashed by three hunters.

So by what means did Rudd-Lou's presence, which stood in a position that covered me, retreat?

I can only imagine this too - I could somehow guess when I saw that Rudd-Lou tapped a broken knife to the ground and grabbed the big one anew.

In the process of jumping at me, Tay-Sung grabbed the iron pan that was installed in the stall, which may have prevented him from slashing from Rudd-Lou.

Speaking of which, I think I've heard the hard tone of metal bumping into each other, and that would explain Rudd-Lou's knife broken.

When I thought that far with my half paralyzed head, a crazy voice echoed Tay-Sung's hatred again.

"I can't die until I reward you with a blade against the Orthodox Chieftain Sung family! It is this lad who brought doom to the Sung family who deserves it for his last journey!

"You're kidding me! He's been breaking the woodland code, and he doesn't deserve to call himself Chieftain! Just let go of Asta, you dead bastard!

Rudd-Lou turns back in a shape of anger no less than Lau Ray.

But Tay-Sung rewarded it with a devilish laugh reminiscent of Zazz-Sung yesterday.

"Neither the forest code nor the laws of the capital matter! The great Zazz-Sung was trying to bring us a new code and order to replace them! You fools who don't understand your ambitions! The only thing I could do was make a fool out of the people of the capital, you indolent bastards! You've lost the only means of subjugating the humans in the capital!

"I'm tired of hearing that kind of favor! What a new law and order! Aren't they just thieves?

"We just reclaimed our unduly deprived wealth! I risked my life to protect the fields of Genos, I just got that reward! Shame on you, Genos folks who just wanted to trap us by the woods and rinse our sweet juice!

Is this really the voice of a mortally wounded human being?

He is no less than Donda-Lou, a voice filled with the temper of tearing.

And I feel terribly powerful from the fingertips that grabbed my neck.

Tae-Sung is just scratching my neck with one left arm instead of his right. When I try to get a little physical, that fingertip compresses my neck bones to punish it, so pathetically, all I could do was stand up like an idiot and listen to Tay-Sung interact with everyone.

"Shiatsu! So is that why you do the thief's imitation! If you're so shameless as to imitate it, you'd better die!

"Then die! In the woods, Giva will kill you! Decay into the woods with only a few copper coins from the horns and fangs! That's the fate of the forest people that Genos gave us!

"You bastard......!," Rudd-Lou said, burning his eyes so hard.

If you notice, the other three are standing around trying to surround us.

Three hunters dressed in red blood with a wet knife.

Lau Ray is a phase of anger, Sin Lu is faceless, but both burn his eyes like fire, and Ai Fa is -

Ai-Fa was burning her blue eyes out more violently than anyone else on the spot, but she had become more of a sad look than any other.

It was that look that made my heart bore me, and I was finally able to regain to myself the consciousness that was only diverging from reality.

"Wait, Tay-Sung - did you really believe that Zazz-Sung's teaching was right...?

Under the throat, a new force is applied.

"What is it, life, Fa's house? What do you want now, your sins are unforgivable! You conspired with the Lew family to bring doom to the Sung family!

"No, but..."

"We have been kept for eighty years the unjust code given to us by Genos! How many people do you think have starved to death in the last 80 years!? Still, we have not even been allowed to eat the grace of the forest, we have just been foolishly hunting for Giva! Thus, neither the newborn toddler, nor the old man who continued to endure the raw of the ordeal, nor the hunter who was wounded in the battle against Gibba - who was not watching but did not try to get grace from the woods, but died starving, keeping the code in stupidity! Genos killed me! I will never admit that such a fate is right, etc!

"Even I don't think that's right! So I started this kind of business to bring grace to the woodland!

Whispering down my throat, I still shook my voice desperately.

Tay-Sung explodes the laughter again.

"It's a stupid act! Why do you have to imitate the fruit so distant when it's all over your eyes!? If only we could eat the grace of the woods, we wouldn't even need copper coins any more! That would be the life of the righteous people who make forests gods!

"But then, the western fields will be vandalized by Gibba! Even the people of the woods are part of the kingdom of the west, so it should be right to live with each other's support!

"Then it was only then that we needed further strength! If there are no hungry and dying humans, the people by the woods will gain further power! So if 500 more people were to increase to 1,000, it would also be possible to hunt Gibba more than ever, and no matter how much we harvested the grace of the forest, Gibba would no longer be attacking the western fields!

I knew it - and I was reminded again.

What was at the root of Zazz-Sung was the same as me and Ai-Fa and Gazran-Rutim.

By the woods, I want more richness.

"If so... then why have you guys been putting aside your 'giva hunting' jobs for the past decade or so? No one would have endorsed the act of attacking travellers or depriving them of their crops, but if the Sung family had nevertheless preached the importance of further power and richness after having properly done their job as hunters - for which they needed to harvest the grace of the forest - wouldn't there have been families who would have agreed? If that was how we had also properly discussed with the castle of Genos and gained the right to harvest, everyone would have admired the Sung family as the great chieftaincy!

"You fool! Then I've just been snagged by Genos. It's no different than before! We must crush the false raw itself given to us by Genos!

"Hey, you haven't answered Asta's question, you shameless murderer. Why did the Sung family leave their job as hunters behind?

To Rau-Ray's words, "It is your fault, the family of Leu," Tay-Sung returned.

"Twenty years ago, you have stripped the Sung family of their fangs. First of all, the Sung family needed to gain more power than you! Otherwise, none of the family members scared of the Lew family would have tried to listen to the Sung family. That's why we kept quietly accumulating power while protecting our people and wealth!

"... we're not talking about it. So you guys didn't do your job as hunters, did you repeat the thief's imitation, and were in love with each other for over a decade? So what did you guys get? Didn't you just get just a few copper coins and an inert people who lost both pride and power as hunters?

"It is! Because Zuro-Sung didn't have the power to succeed Zuro-Sung's ambitions! If Zazz-Sung hadn't even gotten sick, I'm sure we'd have the right raw and proud in our hands by now!

"Then resent the previous parents, or incompetent parents, who got sick or something before they accomplished it with their ambitions. Didn't you guys just corrupt all you wanted, hoping you were ambitious?

That's how Lau-Ray leaned his neck a lot like a hound with a fierce look on his face.

"Besides, your story is full of excuses. By and large, besides you and Zazz-Sung, what makes a man who wants to know what he is, not exist as one? Aren't you and Zazz-Sung the only ones who were bored just now with that kind of bullshit in their chests?

"... oh, you're right! In the last decade or so, everyone who knows Zazz-Sung's ambitions has died! The only Zulo-Sung to know about it was corrupted like that too! The Sungs are gone - the Sungs are gone!

"What, then it's a difference to resent Luu and Fa more and more -"

And I heard screams and twitches coming from the hedgehog when Rau-Ray approached me like I was frightened.

The soldiers in white - the Kingsguard of Genos has arrived.

"You murderer, you were still alive. The sin of stepping into the town of Genos with its filth deserves death."

Melfried, the head of the Kingsguard Corps, leads the way, with only ten soldiers approaching us in unparalleled footsteps.

Before his eyes, Ai-Fa stood up.

"Wait! What are you doing, you guys!

"What I found out. Dismiss the sinner."

"You lying bastard! Asta... you don't see my family being captured! If you get close enough, you'll only hurt Asta!

"My eyes are on me too. Don't guide me, people by the woods. Let me slap that bareback off before that murderer goes on to impersonate me."

"Something that can be imitated like that! You missee the power of the hunters by the woods!

With his back to us, Ai-Fa turned back the knife.

Mel Fried's grey eyes glow more and more like a cold reptile.

"Are you willing to point a knife at us, people by the woods? It's an unforgivable sin."

"You're kidding me! He looks fine and laughs with all that slaughter and carving, right? What are you gonna do if you crush Asta's throat while she snaps her neck!

Rudd-Lou also turns toward Melfried.

At the same time, Tay-Sung started laughing at the devil again.

"Nice! Kill each other! That's what you deserve! The people of the woods and the people of Genos are destined to hate each other until one of them dies!

"... Whatever, it's Tay-Sung. Your words don't make any sense. You can't accept your own doom, and you're just making a scene by doing that to distract that fear?

It was Sin-Lu who did so in a relatively calm voice.

But Tay-Sung's laughter never stops.

"There is no fear in my heart! The Sung family's fate has already run out! And then if I can take this unforgivable rebel on the road any longer, I'm in for it!

"Such imitation will not save your soul. Let Asta go."

"Let him go! After I've stopped my breath!

Melfried pulled the knife out, listening to Tay-Sung laugh.

Not one, two.

While carrying a silver knife in his left and right hand, Melfried looks cold at the eye-to-eye eye-fa.

"Get out of there. If you don't, I'll kill you too."

"... I'm not willing to cross blades with a castle person. Please, you pull it off."

Trembling with passion, the voice of Ai-Fa.

The soldiers behind Melfrid are also gripping back the spear of their hand.

Two things, the air on the spot boils down...

And a neat voice suddenly dusted the air into a wood.

"Let's not. I don't think you need to fight anywhere."

A little long shadow, wrapped around a skin-long cape.

The man emerged from nowhere, blushing his golden brown hair or something.

"... it's not your act. Let's have him pull in, Camua-Josh."

Melfried responded by keeping his gaze fixed more on Ai-Fa and Rudd-Lou.

"That shouldn't happen," Camus says in a voice with no sense of urgency as he approaches you.

"You and I-Fa are dear friends to me. It's none of my business if those friends are pointing swords at each other. Don't be such a rush, Melfrid."

"Then do something about the people by this forest. I have a duty to uphold law and order."

"Right. But I owe the people by the woods. I have imitated them to deceive them. I have to pay you back what I owe."

With that said, Camua stood between Ai-Fa and Melfried.

It's an inevitable position for either sword to be swung down.

That's how he himself didn't even try to get his arm out of the cape, and Camua was relative to Melfried in an outfit that turned his back on Ey-Fa and us.

"I would have listened to your wishes, wouldn't I? So this time, take my wish. … this settlement should be made at the hands of the people by the woods"

After a few seconds of silence - Melfried put only his left hand knife in his sheath.

Camua says "thank you" and looks back at the eye-fa behind her.

"I left the rest to you, Ai-Fa. I need you to help Asta."

Ai-Fa remained silent and away from the spot.

And they're getting closer to us.

"It's Tay-Sung. Turns out your breasts are carelessly full. But what are we gonna do with Asta on the road? Doing that doesn't help.... No, the more you sin, the more your family will suffer"

In a very quiet voice, Ai-Fa said so.

Tay-Sung said, "What's family!" and throw up.

"We are no longer family or family members, such as those who gave in to Luu in the name of Sung! The only thing I can call my countrymen is Zazz-Sung, who carelessly scattered his life!

"Are you serious about that? Is it more important to you than your blood?

Saying, Ai-Fa made a strange bare gesture.

He spread his arms to the left and right and sent instructions to Lough Ray and Sin-Lough to back off.

After only getting lost for half an instant, the two pull back just a little bit.

Ai-Fa approached us for a few more steps as he lowered his knife unconstitutionally.

"What imitation? Get any closer and I'll crush your family's neck, okay? Well, my life seems to be the limit, so no matter how you behave, it doesn't end the same."

"Do you hate Asta that much? Asta is just trying to bring richness to the woods. I'm just striving for such richness that the people of the woods will never starve to death. If the Sung family had the same ambition, is it unthinkable in the wind that it is Asta, the house of Fa, and the house of Luu, who will take it over?

"You're just waving your tails at Genos! No matter how rich you get, you can't regain pride in such an act!

"That's not true! I - we just wanted to live with it, not be flattered by Genos! Instead of trampling the law and the code, I just wanted to reconnect my fringe as a compatriot living under the same law and code!

Staring into Ai-Fa's eyes, I cracked desperately.

I couldn't help but notice the sad look on Ey-Fa's face.

"You think you're a compatriot? Genos, who has unfairly abused us, says he is a compatriot!? Don't be ridiculous! Genos is an enemy, he should be subdued!

"I don't think so! Even the people of Ai-Fa and Luu shouldn't think that way! The people of the woodland have only adhered to the code by their own will, so even if they have been treated unfairly, they are not aware that they have been abused, etc! So if only the Sung family held such carelessness - it must have been given to them by the castle of Genos"

The man in the castle was listening to this question right next to him, but he couldn't avoid it and keep talking.

"That carelessness will be taken over by Luu, Zaza and Sauti. On behalf of the Sung family, they became chieftaincy muscles, and will interact with the castle in the future. I guess we will take the carelessness that the Sung family could not hold alone with all the people by the woods in the future. Still, we squeeze our forces so that we can tie the right edge without giving in. So... can you leave the end of the woodland to us?

"... idiot, what about you?," Tay-Sung said, with such a fierce passion of hatred.

"What do you know about the end of the woodland? I'll be dead soon! Zazz-Sung is already dead! The doomed world of the Sung family deserves ruin and despair! All you have to do is destroy everything by the woods, this town, the stone castle!

No way - and I bite my teeth.

In my words, maybe I can't erase Tay-Sung's hatred.

"... then take my life as a souvenir too"

And I snapped like that with the voice of Ai-Fa losing her power to the sieve.

In front of me stunned, Ai-Fa takes one step, a foot.

"Stay away! Are you willing to close my gap with such nonsense, Fa's parents?

"I don't mean to. I just can't feel like exposing my family to congratulations and shame while they hurt me in front of them.... If you want to kill Asta, kill me too"

"Ai-Fa! You, what are you talking about!

Such a cry doesn't suit Ey-Fa.

Besides, no matter what kind of predicament you're in, you can't believe you choose to die yourself - that's definitely not what I know Ai-Fa does.

Ey-Fa slumped disappointingly, dropping his hips machete at his feet.

And the knife in that hand will be replaced by the left hand and the pattern will be offered to us.

"With this knife, I want my life to cease. Hopefully, kill me before Asta does.... I don't want to see Asta die."

"Wait! Stay away! I'm not going on a rape plot like you! You're gonna give this kid a knife, not me!?

"What are you talking about? Asta has a bunch of women. What power does she have? No matter how profound you are, how easy would it be to receive this sword faster than Asta?

Further as Ai-Fa tried to get closer, Tae-Sung also said, "Don't move!," he whispered.

"My right arm is immobile! Your knife must have turned down your right shoulder muscle. So I can only take one human on the road! This kid is gonna kill me right now, so if you want to die, just poke yourself in the throat and die!

"Right......" Ai-Fa snapped.

"Can't you still move your right arm, Tay-Sung"

At that moment, Tay-Sung's fingertips, who was compressing my neck, lost power on the pretend.

At the same time, Ai-Fa steps in and moves my body away from Tae-Sung.

And - somewhere far away, yellow screams echoed.

Probably someone from the town who buried the streets.

With my body cuddled, Ai-Fa falls to the ground.

That's how he held me to the ground, and Ai-Fa lifted his half-body and pointed the knife behind him when he was finally properly replaced.

But such caution was not necessary.

Tay-Sung, also swallowed by a tree, collapsed as he sprayed a large amount of blood from his throat and left elbow.

"This... the hell...?

I cursorily lift my half, too, almost unconsciously twinkling.

Neither the Rud-Lu's nor the Camua's nor Melfried's have changed their standing as one of them. Yet Tay-Sung sank into a sea of blood.

Maybe all of this was a nightmare, not a reality, when such ridiculous thoughts crossed my brain - a small shadow gleamed from the shadow of the tree Tay-Sung was bringing.

"You shameless loser of pride. … what do you know about the pain of losing your own child to hunger, such as you who have lived muddy in the Sung family?"

That's - oh, my God, he was Sudra's parent.

The shady man, smaller and more luxurious in stature than anyone else on the spot, shook off the blood of the knife before putting it in the leather sheath and looked back at the leader of the Kingsguard in white.

"I killed the great sinner by the woods. Have I broken any capital laws?

"... a decree had been issued that a great sinner, whether alive or dead, should be held captive. There's no law against you."

"Right. That would be nice."

Only shady, no way to win, Sudra's parents snapped like that.

I'm sure he was leaving the 'Myrmu Grill' stall in the gap where Tae-Sung was distracted by the eye-fa's in front of him, turning to the grove behind him, little by little, cautiously, killing the signs.

And then he slashed Tae-Sung's left elbow from behind, and after Ai-Fa secured my figure, he poked a knife under his throat.

"Fa's parents, thanks to you for driving me, I was able to keep this murderer out. After all, he couldn't move his right arm."

"This is the one who saved my family's life. No matter how thankful you say it, it won't be enough."

Depending on her like a deer claw, Ai-Fa was grabbing the tip of my right hand with her left hand all the time.

Feeling its temperature and strength above all else - I got up slowly.

And then we approach Tay-Sung with Ai-Fa.

Is there so much blood in one human body?

It's such terrible blood all around - Tay-Sung stared at the void with no expression.

I'm not having any emotions on that side.

The eyes are cloudy as dead fish.

Until just now, I wonder in what form he used to utter words of hatred and curse.

I couldn't even imagine it at all.

"Tay-Sung......"

I knelt down instead of Tay-Sung, even though my feet were stained with blood.

The cloudy eyes that gradually lose their light look at me powerless.

"On the night of the Conference of Parents, are you the one who helped Ai-Fa?

Tay-Sung closed his eyelids as if he refused to answer.

But.

Tay-Sung slowly opened his eyelids again as his weakly raised and lowered chest stopped moving.

And just like when I ate "Giva Burger," I put a soft, full smile on its bloody face.

"... I finally got my last job done..."

That was Tay-Sung's, final word, born into a division of the chieftaincy muscle, who lived 51 years flirting with a chief of too powerful and evil power.