445 Twenty-fifth day of the Tea Moon ③ - The settlement of the Sauti family

We're going for a settlement in Sauti with two luggage cars.

Unexpectedly, it was all men who accompanied them. The story was that the men were more familiar with the treatment than the women because they sometimes sustained hand injuries in the woods.

Twelve men, including me, are in two luggage trucks. All the people I knew the name were face-to-face except for Donda-Lou and Mida. Namely, there are five members: Ziza-Lou, Dalm-Lou, Sin-Lu, Lyada-Lou and Zida. The other six are familiar men of the branch.

Tour-Din and Yun-Sudra decided to have him go home first. It takes a lot of time just to get back and forth between the Lou and Sauti houses, so no matter how much you raise, it's almost sunset for you to return. I decided to have someone from the Lou family send me home, and I asked the Tour-dins to tell me that too.

"I think there were only thirty people injured. A few of them are in danger, but all the men in Sauti are hunting, and most importantly, they don't have enough medicine."

Sin-Luu had stated so.

"Besides, it seems the people in town don't even know how to connect bones. It would be that Rud-Lew is running around alone now. I thought I'd head to Lilyn and Mufa's more nearby, but I thought it would be Lew's house that had the most pills, so I decided to get back here."

"Yeah. At least it'll be faster than the guards heading back to Inn Town."

I'll try to answer that, even though I feel like doing it.

It takes roughly two hours to get back and forth between the Lou and Sauti families. In the meantime, is there any injured person who gets hurt too late? Even if I don't respond, I get freshly irritated.

"... why didn't Limi go back with Sin-Lu? There can't be any point in him staying."

When Darm-Luu asked in a bottomed voice, Sin-Luu looked back at you as he lifted his damp hair.

"He didn't feel like leaving by his side because the northern ladies, who knew his face by the hand of Kamado's number, also suffered a few hand injuries. You should be working with Rud-Lew to help the injured."

"Right. The men of the castle even let the Mahdra women work. … It's ridiculous, however little Giva it was, such as putting women deep in the woods"

In the dim, Darum-Lou is burning blue eyes.

Then Giza-Lou, who had remained silent, also raised his voice.

"But how did it get so noisy? The Chiefs would have told us about the horrors of the hungry Gibba, and also told us what to do about it. Dari-Sautti and others should have prepared even the fruits of Giva."

"I don't even know the details. Anyway, the guards were losing me, and I couldn't even speak properly."

"I guess I touched the fury of the forest. Now that you've done your fear, you can stop doing ridiculous work."

Darum-Lou said so mercilessly.

Zida and Lyada-Lu don't talk in silence.

After about an hour, we finally reached the settlement of Sauti.

but more than I thought, the settlement was surrounded by tranquility.

I see a lot of people under the roof stretched out in the square. But that number seemed to be about fifty at best.

"... except for the injured and the guards on the lookout, it looks like you're back in town"

Sin-Lu crushed it to no one.

Either way, the two luggage cars are dropped off at the roof.

Then a little shadow waved at me when I realized it.

"Come on, come on! Bring me some blood and pain meds!

It is Rimi-Lou.

Plus, I can see the women of Sauti.

And beyond that, dozens of people lay powerless.

My luggage stopped moving, so I try to jump in a hurry.

Then they grabbed my shoulder from behind. Looking back, Darum-Lou was staring at me with a scary face.

"Hey, whoever you are, don't leave by the hunter. There can be people who hate the people by the woods."

"Yes. Okay."

It would have been natural to think so, had it been Darum-Lou, with no interaction between the guards and the people of the North.

In the meantime, I decided to climb onto that Darum-Lou myself and get off my luggage.

"Uh, you're finally here! Over here! I've got the people with the worst scratches gathered here."

Around the middle of a crowd of people, now Rudd-Lou waves.

I couldn't forbid the war as I walked toward you.

It is as if it were a disaster in a field hospital.

Twenty or so people are groaning locally and painfully without being able to get up. The wound is covered with cloth and red blood. Some of them were affixed to arms and feet.

But unlike my imagination, all of the human beings lying there were the people of the west. In other words, they were all guards.

There is also the figure of the people of the North. but that number was five or six at most, and they were all sitting around silently. They were also injured, but no one seemed to exist as one seriously injured enough to be unable to wake themselves up.

"Oh, you've come all the way to Asta? Ma, no. This way. I'll take the rim."

Saying it that way, Rudd-Lou received a small pot from Dalm-Lou. It's for sale in town, it's a blood suppression medicine. It's an expensive medicine, formulated with the knowledge of the town.

"Er, is Limi-Lu...?

"This way. I'll come with you."

Led by Sin-Lu with medications and bandages.

Rimi-Lou was by a group of the people of the North. Of the people of the north, two were women.

So, the other four or so are male.

They are all giant, queer men, like Donda-Lou. They also had bandages wrapped around their heads and arms and blood stained there.

There are only about five guards on the lookout. They all had blue faces and surrounded the people of the North silently. That one still seemed unable to get out of the fear brought on by Gibba.

"Glad you got your meds! Look, it's a pain medication!

"Thank you, Rimi = Ru"

The northern women with bandages around their heads smile softly.

Those purple eyes opened wide open, acknowledging my appearance.

"You, huh?

"Ah, yes. You've seen it once before. How long has it been?"

The women nodded and looked back.

One of the men sitting in the back rocks a giant like a mountain.

"... Asta at Fa's house. I'll see you again, I didn't think."

"Ah! Are you, Eleo-Cher!?

I shouted out loud, and then I rushed to shut my mouth.

but the guards on the lookout don't even try to keep their eyes peeled as they stand quietly.

"You've been hurt too, haven't you? Are you all right, sir?

"Fine. Shoulder bones, people by the woods, healed me"

Eleo-Cher had a bandage wrapped around his head and upper body.

The head appears to be lacerated and bleeding abundantly. And the upper body was wrapped around both his right arm, whilst the mummy man. It's probably fixed because you dislocated your right shoulder.

But, just like a few months ago, he had his purple eyes shining quietly and powerfully. I don't even see the colour of pain on my tough face covered in golden brown beards.

"Asta, Sin-Lu, can you apply blood suppression pills to that person, too? Rudd sewed it for me, because it seemed like a pretty deep wound."

Rimi-Lou, who looked after the women, raises his voice that way.

As Sin-Luu stepped out over there, the men who were on the front side of Eleo-Cher shifted to the side to clear the way for me.

Seen up close, it is such a horrible look. Instead of Donda-Lou, there are also big men around who are comparable to Ji-Mayam. They all had golden-brown swirling hair flourishing, and their faces burned red copper were as tough as statues carved into the rock beds.

Sin-Luu unbandages Eleo-Cher's head silently.

In the meantime, he's been keeping an eye on me.

"... this is terrible. Have you spoken of any pain medication?

When Sin-Luu asks, Eleo-Cher slowly shakes his neck to the side.

"With all this deep hand, it was off to the shoulder bone, but you couldn't give it medicine? Well, there wasn't enough of them, so... Asta, give me your pot of medicine. Two for the wooden spoons."

"Yeah, this pot, huh?

Look, there was a black pill packed in there.

It is a moist, semi-liquid medicine. This is expensive as well, conditioned in town. Apparently the quality is exceptionally better than the lolo leaves that can be taken in the woods.

The wooden spoon was enclosed in the kettle, so I used it to soothe the medicine one mouth.

"Go ahead, Eleo-Cher. I think it's pretty bitter though."

Eleo-Cher was immovable like a statue for a while, but cursorily opened his mouth.

Insert a wooden spoon into the teeth-lined mouth that looks sturdy.

Give me another bite on the same procedure, and then I'll circle my sights.

Then Rimi-Lou, who was approaching at some point, offered me a pattern with water.

"Yes. The pain medication is bitter, so give him some water. Wash the wooden spoons and put them back in the kettle."

"Yeah, thanks"

Eleo-Cher silently drank the patterned water and cleaned the wood spoon with the rest of the water before I put it back in the pot.

Limi-Lew is committed to nursing other men. Though not as bad as the guards, everyone still suffers the corresponding hand wounds. Perhaps it was because they were tough that they didn't show the color of pain.

"... Asta at Fa's house. You, thank you."

and Eleo-Cher whispered in a whisper to the lid.

Its lips are barely moving and its gaze remains pointed in a different direction.

"The meal, it was very, delicious. First, I made it, you, I'm listening.... we, all of us, the people of the woods, are grateful."

Maybe he was tearing the guards' ears off.

I softly lean my mouth in his ear as I pretend to help Sin-Lu.

"If you were pleased, it's above all.... and I want to tell you something, Eleo-Cher"

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"Your sister, Chiffon-Cher, still lives safely in Castle Town. And I also managed to tell people that you were showing her around."

Eleo-Cher slightly rocked his thick shoulders like a rock mass.

"You, feelings, thank you. But dangerous, wouldn't it?

"Yes? Is it dangerous?

"Turan, the castle town, the people of the north, the words, the interchange. Nobility, know, danger, wouldn't it?

It's a little harder to tell because I can't speak more than Schmiral... but if the nobles find out that the people of the North, who live separately in Turan and Castle Town, are in sneak contact, is it not dangerous, does it mean?

"I think it's okay. It was the merchants of the people of the South who asked me to speak, so they will not enter the ears of the nobles of the West."

And since Lifreia, the master of Chiffon-Cher, seems sympathetic to the people of the North, you don't have to worry.... and I stopped telling him that because it felt like something was in jeopardy. The people of Moribe should first see in what way Marstein, Lord of Genos, takes Lefreia's actions.

"Damn! When will the tototos pick you up... didn't they forget about us?

And I could hear one of the guards standing a little further away saying so.

"It doesn't begin to blur. Let's thank Selva that there is life."

"Even if we're safe today, we don't know tomorrow. We still have more than a month left in the rainy season, right?

"That being said, we'll have to endure until the day of change comes. No way, are you willing to quit the militia because Giva is horrible?

"I didn't say that... but I'm sick of this job!

One voice is getting louder and louder.

But neither Eleo-Cher, nor Sin-Luu, nor the other people of the North, sought to look back on you.

"Only noblemen and Sims merchants would gain from paving the way here, wouldn't they? Why do we have to put our lives on the line?

"If Genos gets richer, our lives will be moisturized too. Besides, there's no point in blurring that out right now."

"Heh. If nobles and merchants earn copper coins, our salaries go up, too? Never in the last few years have I remembered having good thoughts!

I guess the guards also have the grudges and hardships of being guards. That's what I thought, and I tried not to care.

but the person who heard it approached slightly from the center of the square.

"What are you fussing about! Don't slap me in the mouth for nothing, concentrate on your work!

He is a guard who still looks young, with a bandage around his head and his left arm hanging from his shoulder. Apparently the position was higher than theirs, and the guards on the lookout were to salute each other cheerfully.

"The pick-up car will be here soon. We should thank Selva for all the noise that kept us from dying.... more or less, you've been satisfied with five bodies, but don't complain. These guys are like hurt on your behalf, aren't they?

And with the arm of the safer one, he points to the people of the north.

I wondered what a replacement meant, and when I looked up, I had that young guard and eyes.

The guard opens his eyes like a little.

"What, you were here, too?"

"Oh, are you Malus? Thank you for your time."

It was Mars, the guard's platoon captain, who had faced each other several times in Accommodation Town. He had his helmet removed and bandaged, so he couldn't immediately notice.

"This time, I totally took care of you guys. Without that young hunter, some of his people would have given their souls back."

"Yeah, that was a really bad disaster. He's been attacked by a hungry giva."

"Hmm. It wouldn't have been such a commotion if we'd dealt with it calmly. But one of the guards who lost me to fear threw a spear at Gibba. So angry Gibbs jumped in here, and this is it."

Abominably abandoned, Mars watermarked my back.

It's Eleo-Cher sitting there.

"You were the first one to stop that giva. If you hadn't strained your body there, perhaps some of you would have returned your soul at that point.... or I wouldn't have been able to tail Giva without you guys, and there would have been more damage"

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"Let me tell you what you're doing. Until the wound heals, you should rest tight with the twist of the Turan"

And it came to pass, that Mars returned the blemishes.

Speaking of which, when Eleo-Cher walked out of the logging site and came to see me a few months ago, it was this Mars who came to pick it up.

The people of the north are all similar in appearance, so Mars himself may not have noticed, but what a strange patrol it was.

"Was it you who set Gibba up?"

and Sin-Luu quietly crushes after finishing Eleo-Cher's allowance.

"You could have done a lot of gibberish without a knife. How the hell did you end up here?

"... knife, no, but axe, there was. Marutai, the batter, there he is."

"Did you tailor the giva with an axe or a marutai? That's a big deal."

That is how Sin-Lu also takes up the hand of another northern people.

I had to head over there, too, but at the end of the day, I just had one last word to let Eleo-Cher speak to me.

"It's been a really tough day. I hope you get better soon."

Then Eleo-Cher returned a heavy voice with only his eyes turned to me.

"Work, rest, too bad.... woodland, meals, delicious. Turan, I can't taste it."

That's how Eleo-Cher snuck up on me so the guards on the watch wouldn't notice.

Harsh as a rock, that face had an innocent grin on it, as if it were a child.