239 Episode Four Five Days of Trials (I)

It was as if the settlement was on fire.

In the settlement of Luu, which also fought for one or two by the woods, there was a blazing fire.

Unless it's also a big feast, the fire won't burn until such a late night.

But of course, it couldn't have been a feast.

Then swirling in a space filled with brightness and heat was an angry passion that burned more intensely than a burning fire.

"What if we're discussing swallowing each other in a place like this! We should head to Castle Town now!

Barking was one of the three chiefs, Graph-Zaza.

"For whatever reason, they turned their swords to the people by the woods! The knife is retaliation! There's no reason to get lost!

"Please wait. Still, there is no proof that this killer is Cycleus."

Gazran-Rutim, still deposited in it, is desperately trying to offer Graf-Zaza.

Voices concurring and rebelling against it swirled again like flames.

"Are you saying that at a time like this, those who happen to be completely irrelevant have turned their swords against the people by the woods? That can't be right! Besides, the master of the inn that was attacked with him probably testifies that the Inn Town had a man like a nobleman who did not deserve to be!?

"Even so, there is no proof that the other person is indeed noble. Now, if Cycleus was not guilty, the people of the woods would turn their suspicions against the monarchs."

"What are you talking about?" I guess those people are insulting me no matter how I treat the people by the woods! There is no longer a reason to offer a sword to those morons!

Graf-Zaza must be mad at that fact that the forest people were attacked in grandeur during the day.

The people of the woods do not forgive men who turn their swords to their compatriots. Not only are the exotic Astas born, but the evil men who have even turned their swords to the Luu family as escorts, an unforgivable enemy to the people of the woods.

Those who were angering with the same thoughts as Graf-Zaza were abundant on the spot.

Rather, it seemed that the majority within gathered on the spot endorsed Graph-Zaza.

Gathered on the spot were the families who lived in the settlement of Luu, the representatives of their families, as well as several families brought by Graf-Zaza and Dari-Sauti, and the rest were the heads of families who were close to the house of Fa, such as Fou and Lan and Sudra.

The men shout out as if all of them burn their eyes to anger and compete for the hegemony.

The women watch such men quietly with a grief-filled and distressed eye.

It's as if the settlement is on fire - and I-Fa thought so once again.

"Oh... I don't know what the hell you mean..."

A blurry voice, approaching from behind.

Looking back, there stood Rimi-Lou with a crying face and Ziba-Lou supported by it.

"It's as if this was a noise when they burned down the south woods and lost their homeland... how horrible... and what a sad voice..."

To Ai-Fa, I couldn't answer anything.

Ai-Fa is the most fiercely angry and insanely insane person on this occasion.

If you open your mouth, you don't know what kind of anger you'll get.

So Ai-Fa was just staring at everyone's frenzy as he squeezed all the power he could and desperately twisted the fierceness that was going to overflow.

"Didn't you recognize Asta from Fa's house as a friend, Gazran-Rutim!?

and Graf-Zaza slaps further fury at Gazran-Rutim.

"The people I called my friends were found despicable and abusive outlaws! That's how cool you look!

"With me, my chest is full of anger and thoughtlessness. If you'll excuse me, I'd like to slay the gatekeeper, lay low, but step into Castle Town and find where Asta is."

In a tone that is only not expensive - but burns a fierce flame no less than that of Graf-Zaza in those eyes, Gazran-Rutim said.

"But - that's why I keep trying to be calm. If we accidentally turn our swords to the nobility of Genos, we may lose everything. I really only want to avoid such things as Asta's presence triggering and closing the future of the people by the forest."

"… so what do you say?

It was Donda-Lou who asked as such.

"Whatever it is, Asta of Fa's house has been compromised. From Cycleus in the castle, all I could return was the word" relax "in the hands of the guards - not to tell me to just keep waiting for nothing until the morning, five days after Cycleus showed up?

"Whatever. We should also follow Asta's whereabouts independently."

"How do we go after him? Also, where are you going to do that?

"If Cycleus and the soldiers insist that there be no murderers in Castle Town, all the land but Castle Town. If you couldn't find Asta's location after that, wouldn't that be the time to claim that there was a killer in Castle Town?

"That's a far-fetched story... Genos not only has an accommodation town, but also a Turan and farm area. It won't be as big as we can look for it in five days."

"Is it? The Sims with chestnut hair and the people of the west who became aristocrats, and Asta with her rare black hair and yellow skin in Genos - I think it would be hard to dive in if there were so many eye-catching people."

"Hmm......"

"If you couldn't uncover it by searching the entire territory of Genos without a scratch, there's nothing else to think of as a castle town or fleeing outside Genos. Still, if the guards insist that there are no murderers in the castle town, can they also insist on showing proof of what they can say all that way?

"I agree with Gazran-Rutim."

and Dari-Sutty, one of the last of the three chiefs, advances in.

"I don't see why Cycleus would expose Asta at a time like this in the first place. Besides, isn't it too crude an M.O. to try to expose that face to the other person in the daylight and to the crime? If it was that guy named Cycleus's plan, I wonder if he would choose a slightly smarter way to do it"

"So Dari-Sauti also thinks that people other than Cycleus are the culprits?

"The possibility would be five minutes. People by the woods, people who hate Cycleus, etc., may have explored trying to catch on to that relationship, or Cycleus himself may have dared to resort to rough manoeuvres to provoke the people by the woods. … Whatever it is, we should stay calm."

Apparently Dari-Sauti was more calm than Gazran-Rutim.

Even the insignificant Gazran-Rutim may still not be completely deposited in such a setting.

Naturally if you have the same thoughts as yourself - and I-Fa thought so in his heart.

"Besides, I guess it's Asta's physique, not life, that's what they crave over there. I don't know how true it is to say that you want to welcome Asta as a guest, etc., but if you wanted life, it would have been easy to do the job on the spot."

"Yes, but..."

"Roughly, sifting a knife in anger is not a woodland fashion. There's a killer in Castle Town, and we may be distant in our search for other land to prove it, but it's our way of doing it."

That being said, Dari-Sauti only burned his eyes up for a moment.

"It is only through all my hands that I can sincerely believe that this is the truth that I am allowed to sift a sword, and I also think that I can sift a sword with strong force.... One of the Forestside Chiefs, Dari-Sauti, supports the words of Gazran-Rutim because of such thoughts"

"... what if Asta's life in Fa's house is lost because of that far-fetched way?

Graph-Zaza asks in a bottom-line voice.

Dari-Sauti replied as he returned to his calm gaze again.

"At that time, with the total power of the people by the woods, there is nothing else to make the culprit redeem his sins. Even if we turn all the nobles against our enemies, even if we lose our second home, the Morga Forest."

So apparently, the comeback was decided.

Graf-Zaza clutches his mouth as the angry shape, and Donda-Lou speaks out on its behalf.

"Then, starting tomorrow, Leu and his family will go down to the town of Genos to do their work. We're in a time of rest."

"Only Lew and his family, enough hands on the search?

Fou's parents say dissatisfied, Donda-Lou looks back at you loosely.

"Not all of the people by the woods can abandon their work as hunters. That's what passing the flush means."

Wearing the disconnect, Ai-Fa flipped herself.

On its back, "Wait" is called out.

Without having to look back, it was the voice of Donda-Lou.

"Where are you going, Ai-Fa in Fa's house?"

"What I found out. If the path is set, I will return to the house of Fa in preparation for tomorrow"

In a voice that was about to crack, Ai-Fa replied that way.

"The Chiefs set the course, so they don't imitate it against them. If the people by the woods, that would be natural."

"Hmm... I guess that word isn't false, huh? If you're going to go to Castle Town alone, tie your hands and feet to make them look good."

"If you can do it, you can try it!

Occasionally, Ai-Fa lost her equilibrium and looked back at Donda-Lou.

At its chest, Rimi-Lou said, "Ai-Fa!" I'll take it.

Ai-Fa chewed his back teeth and drank down the passion that seemed to overflow.

"... let's swear to the woods that there is no falsehood. I obey the decisions of the chiefs."

Donda-Lou was unexpectedly looking down at Ai-Fa without excitement.

But his eyes are burning more violently than anyone else on the spot.

"It's only natural that you can't be normal. If it was me and my family who were taken, they might have taken the knife without restraint.... That's why I asked you the truth. If you suffer, leave it with the Lew family."

"I'm fine. Asta's coming back on her own, so I can't leave Fa's house empty."

"Then do you want to put someone from Lew on the stand?"

"Not necessary.... but tomorrow I'll let you go down to town too"

"Whatever you want," Donda-Lou said low, staring straight at Ai-Fa.

Ai-Fa stroked Rimi-Lou's head, nodding one to Ziba-Lou and then pointing his foot at Gilr, who had kept it in the main house.

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That is how Ai-Fa returned to Fa's house alone, but it was not a very sleeping thing.

Anger and agitation fill the body like boiling water.

It's like the blood all over your body is boiling.

And at his feet, the abyss of despair opens his mouth pompously.

I could lose Asta permanently - I just thought about it that way, and my body and soul were going to be scattered.

If it is absolutely right to stay on this occasion, let us endure any agony.

Also, if I can save Asta by heading to Castle Town right now, I will try to retreat in any ordeal.

But there was no way to tell Ai-Fa which of them was right.

Is it right to move?

Is it right not to move?

Because I don't know that, I'm supposed to get a taste of the annoyance that's going to tear my body in two.

(Forest... please give Asta a hand with protection...)

No matter how much I pray, my heart is not at ease.

I grabbed the necklace given to me by Asta, nodding on the floor, and still had to keep praying with the thought of spitting blood.

(I can't... I can't live like that anymore...)

Losing her mother, losing her father, and even her bond with all her clans, Ai-Fa decided to live alone.

If everyone fears bad luck with the Sung family and doesn't admit that everyone will live as a hunter on the women's own, there is no other way to live alone. That's how I've spent two years thinking about it.

But I - Fa - have come to know the warmth of Asta.

It clearly reminded me of its happy raw, living with others and sharing their misery.

Thanks to Asta, I was able to reconnect with Rimi-Lou and Ziba-Lou, as well as with the folks of Fou and Run.

Sudra and Din, as well as Luu's family, were also able to connect with a new edge.

Still, for Ai-Fa, the family was only Asta.

Only Asta wanted to live with me as a family.

Instead of Asta, nobody gets stuck.

Just as Rimi-Lou's replacement as a friend and Ziba-Lou's are not boring anyone, so is Asta's replacement as a family.

If I lost Asta, Ey-Fa's heart would be smashed to pieces of wood dust.

Can you stand the same pain of losing your beloved family as you did two years ago - such confidence could not be found where you looked.

Have I become weak?

No.

Getting Asta should have made me stronger.

Along with Asta, I want to live happily ever after.

The stronger that feeling was, the more resilient the body and soul were able to hunt for more giva than ever before.

I'm getting stronger.

I am frightened by the sense of loss that might deprive me of its strength.

I want to feel the warmth of Asta.

I want to hold that body in my arms.

With a blurry voice, "What are you doing!" I want to scrub my cheeks on those cheeks.

Ai-Fa cuddled her own body and tied the passion to her, which seemed to overflow.

If I lost my restraint, I was going to cry a lot.

If I forgive myself for that, I felt like I would never be able to stand up again.

So Ai-Fa continued to suppress herself by squeezing all the power she had ever cultivated.

(To town... to town, should I try to go down?

Such an impulse strikes me like a torrent.

If you're just going down to town, it's not a sin.

If we don't even get over the walls of the castle town, we shouldn't be swept by the woodland code or the laws of Genos.

There is no guiding principle whatsoever, and I know that I went down to town at such a late hour and it would be nothing.

Keeping your body at rest for tomorrow would be the best way to go.

Still, Ai-Fa couldn't do the impulse she'd been holding up from the depths of her body.

(Go down to town and look for the gates and walls so the gatekeepers don't find you... that's all I need. In it, if you can make yourself say that Asta lives healthy while being deprived of her liberty... so maybe you can soften this suffering a little)

Ai-Fa stood up, wrapped his hunter's clothes around him, lowered his knife to his waist, and then headed to the front door.

Gill, who was breaking his body and falling asleep, slowly opens his eyelids.

"I'm sorry. I'll have another one working for you, Gill."

When I gently stroked that head, Gill blinked wonderfully.

It was precisely at that moment that the doorboard was knocked from the outside.

I = fa, stunned and stifled.

"Asta...... is that Asta!?

But the reality was heartless.

What was heard from outside the door was the fine voice of the ladies "No…".

Ai-Fa pulled through the calluses as she was savored so much that she was about to collapse on the spot.

Still pull open the doorboard with your fingertips on the knife pattern without alarm.

Standing there was Sallis Run-Fou.

"I = fa, that outfit... no way, I was going down to town alone!?

Against the backdrop of the darkness of the night, Sarris Lang-Fou opens her eyes to surprise.

But what surprised me was Ey-Fa.

This was the first time in two years that Sarris Lang-Fou had visited Ai-Fa.

"Hey Ai-Fa, please, don't be impotent. My family, Asta, has decided to join the people of the Lou family tomorrow, hasn't it?

Sarris Lang-Fou grabs it on the shoulder of Ai-Fa.

In the last two years or so, Sarris Run-Fou had become about two fists smaller than I Fa's.

It is not Salis-Run, friend of Ai-Fa, who stands here, but Salis-Run Fou, the women of the Fou family.

But the hand of Sarris Run-Fou, who grabs the shoulder of Ai-Fa, had the same warmth as before.

"Sallis Run-Fou... What the hell did Sallis Run-Fou do to visit this fa's house?

Even when he came across it on the road or in the water field, Sarris Lang-Fou turned a blind eye to his weakness and never tried to get close to Ai-Fa from himself.

Its Sarris Run-Fou is clutching to Ai-Fa's shoulder and pointing her tearful eyes straight at her.

I = fa had no idea what to think.

"I was worried about Ai-Fa..." says Sarris Lang-Fou, staring back at Ai-Fa like that.

"I lost so much of my family that I was forgiving my heart, and when I thought about how sad I-Fa was... I couldn't stay or stand"

"... why?

The tears that were finally in Sarris Lang-Fou's eyes drifted down into the words of I-Fa.

"Two years ago, I betrayed Ai-Fa... the Sung family was terrified, and both Lan and Fou were cut off from Fa's house, and besides, I..."

"That's not even a sinful story to Sarris Lang-Fou"

Back and forth at the time, when Ai-Fa had a bad relationship with the Sung family, the two were cut off from each other.

SARIS LAN-FOU - Because the Fou family men, who at the time had decided that SARIS-LAN would be dowry, had been distracted by I-FA.

The Fou's men have wished to be dowry to Ai-Fa.

Naturally, Ai-Fa rejected it.

Saris-Ran saw the interaction.

Salis-Ran then dowried to another man in the Fou family to have a child.

The man who betrayed Saris-Ran should also have served as son-in-law to another woman in the Run family.

So the Fou and Lan families bonded back together, and only Fa's house was cut off.

But it was the result of bad luck with the Sung family and Ai-Fa's aspiration to be a hunter, and there should have been no blame whatsoever on Saris Lang-Fou.

"No, I'm not. Sure, it was the parents of Fou and Lan who forbade me from keeping up with Fa's house, but I accepted it at my own will. I weigh my fear of the Sung family more than my compassion for my childhood friends - and my jealousy of the beautiful Ai-Fa."

"Such a thing..."

"That's the truth! I cannot live as proud as I am of Ai-Fa, a foolish bunch of women."

Saying, Sarris Run-Fou has nodded his face to the chest of Ey-Fa.

What a small, sneaky body, Ey-Fa thinks blurry.

"I don't deserve to name my Ai-Fa friend... but I don't want to lose Ai-Fa... please, don't be impotent..."

"… I do not intend to go against the decision laid down by the chief. I was just trying to get out to see what was going on in town."

"Are you sure...?

Sarris Run-Fou raises the wet side of her tears.

Towards you, Ai-Fa nodded "It's true".

"And I've always thought of Sallis Run-Fowe as a friend. Even if you are no longer allowed to behave as a friend, it was my father and mother and the presence of friends like Sarris Lang-Fou who raised me up to fifteen years. I haven't forgotten that feeling for a day."

Sarris Lang-Fou's face was squeamishly distorted.

That's how I cuddle Ey-Fa's body to the force.

Thin, small, warm body.

Instead of Asta, nobody gets stuck.

But this Sarris Run-Fou replacement doesn't get stuck with anyone either.

With the despair of losing Asta and the happiness of being able to regain Sarris Lang-Fou, Ai-Fa was to be so disturbed that she couldn't think of anything.

The first night of the five worst days as such went down with the tears of Sarris Lang-Fou.