541 The Thirteenth Day of the Green Moon ③ ~ Law and Code ~

Outside the Kamado cabin, Chim-Sudra and another young hunter were waiting. The older hunters were sending the other women home, so this is the sum of the Sudra hunters.

Lyelpham-Sudra compared the appearance of those two names with a harsh eye.

"We're going to exchange words with the soldiers. Chim stay away from me, get ready for the bow, and watch from behind. … but don't let go of the arrow until you pull the knife."

"Ok, parent lyelfam"

Chim-Sudra had a harsh look and took the bow that was hanging on her shoulder.

I turn to the squares of the settlement, trapped by Lyelpham-Sudra and another hunter.

If you go through the side of the motherhouse and go a few meters, it's already the square. While I was following that path, I was able to confirm the soldiers' appearance.

In front of the mother house of the main house, there is a flock of soldiers of all ten.

All armored, knife lowered, fully armed. In front of him stands mother Mia Ray and Barsha, who put their arms together.

But the problem was the sight behind it.

Many more soldiers are pushing to their homes.

Dozens of Totos stand in the middle of the square. The soldiers are the Totos who rode this far. That number certainly seemed to be about fifty.

"What the hell is this all about? I didn't even hear a word about so many guests coming."

Mother Meer Ray's resolute voice echoes.

One of the opposing soldiers had a splendid decoration on his helmet.

"We've come to investigate the lives of the people by the woods. I'm not going to do anything to hurt you, so let me reveal myself in the house."

"What's an investigation about? You know, visiting people's homes should take the courtesy you deserve, right?

That said, Mother Meer Ray pointed her finger closer to the branch.

"Look, those guys walked into the house, even though the person in the house could stop them. By the woods, there's a code whereby people who step into their homes without saying no to their families cut off their toes."

"It's your code, not the law of the kingdom"

I stood next to Mother Meer Ray, along with the hunters of Sudra.

"Doug! You're Doug, right? What the hell is all this fuss about!?

"... Asta at Fa's house. How could you be in a place like this?

The man had hidden his face with his cheek, but was rarely Doug, a hundred lions long.

Feeling my heart pulse so hard, I'll see what I can do.

"I was studying cooking with people from the Lou family. What the hell have you come all this way to do?

"We're here to look into the lives of the people by the woods. I'm not gonna do anything to hurt you."

"Hmm. You want me to break into the house without even taking off my footwear and find out what? I can't forgive such a lawless imitation as being left out of the Sheikh Donda-Lou."

Mother Meer Ray was never disturbed. He puts his chest up and looks at the Dougs with a strong eye.

Instead, Balsha put her hands on the knife on her hips with a more tense look than she'd ever seen before. At least, this Doug is regarded as more than Balsha.

Doug turns his gaze to those two husbands again.

"... if you have any complaints, you've mentioned them to our superiors. We will carry out our mission."

"Don't wait. Where are your superiors? Let me know his name."

"... it was His Excellency Chief Thousand Lions Ruid who gave this order. Lord Ruid is waiting for our report in Castle Town."

On Doug's signal, the rest of the soldiers tried to approach the motherhouse.

"I'm telling you to wait!," Mother Meer Ray let it stop with a tense voice.

"In this house, the oldest of the Lew family is resting. You can't keep a noisy person like you close to the oldest."

"... how many times do you want me to tell you I'm not going to do you harm?

"If you want me to trust those words, shouldn't you wear them a little bit?

Mother Meer Ray pulled back, keeping an eye on the Dougs.

That's how I stick my back to the doorboard perfectly.

"You can't go through here until you let me hear what I'm convinced. Bring your superiors and them here, or wait for our parents to come back."

Doug stayed upright and looked like Meer Ray's mother.

I hold my fist and look back at Lyelpham-Sudra.

"Lyelpham-Sudra, keep it up -"

"Um, I know"

Lyelpham-Sudra grabbed my wrist. No fear approached Mother Meer Ray. Another hunter follows at the same pace.

"I will not allow you to lay your hands on the chief's companion, soldier of the king's capital. If you don't want to see blood, walk away from here."

"... if you stand in the way, we have no other way to pull the knife out, too"

"Are you going to give your souls back in a place like this?

Lyelpham-Sudra rather said so in a long way.

In the shadow of his cheek, Doug looked grinning.

"On this occasion, there are fifty soldiers. Even with Masala's Balsha, there are only three of you. There's only three of us. You think we can do that?

"But on this occasion, there are only ten of you. With only ten of us, you think the three of us could have one?

The soldiers were silently awaiting Doug's orders.

I seriously doubt if this is the guys who were cheerfully laughing and eating Giva food. Something, even a quiet fighting spirit, was full of tenacity on the spot.

"What are you guys doing!

And - there, the anger echoed.

I looked you in the eye, I'm breathtaking. Two hunters in charge of Gibba approached them, bypassing a flock of tototosses that tumbled into the center of the square.

"Are you soldiers of the king's capital? Don't say no to us, what are you doing in Luu's settlement!

They were, obviously, furious. He abandons the giant giva he was carrying on the way by the two sides, then rushes towards him. The ten or so soldiers set up a camp to protect Doug.

"Well, if you think it's been a quiet day, it's this noise. Are you going to sell a fight to the Lew family?

Another hunter raised a challenging voice as he rubbed the pattern of a lozenge on his hips.

Both eyes burn the hunter's fire, causing the mood of tearing to be seen from all over his body.

It was Dalm-Lou and Rudd-Lou.

"... you've got four more monsters"

And, regaining his usual rough tone, Doug discarded it.

Darum-Lou glimpses the starving wolf-like glance.

"Answer me, soldiers. Are you going to fight with the Lew family?

"I'm not going to argue. We were investigating a settlement by the woods."

"What's the investigation! The soldiers over there were treading their own houses!

"Oh, if I'd trampled all the way to Brother Durm's house, I might have seen blood on the spot."

Darum-Lou hasn't yet. This may have been the first time I've seen Rudd-Lou reveal so much anger.

On his face, there is a grin. But even that laugh looks horrible, it was also a young wolf's time shape.

Even I have nothing to gain from the martial arts, so much so that I can feel the flaming power from its entire body. They were furious by the blazing fire after being trampled upon and vandalized by an important blood family home.

"Darm, Rudd, don't pull the knife out of you."

The voice of Mother Meer Ray still leaves me calm.

Rudd-Lou and his men had not yet pulled the knife, but their fingertips were hung on their hips, and the soldiers also took the stance of pulling the knife out as if they were responding to their killing.

"That's not good. This is really going to make a fuss about seeing blood."

Lyelpham-Sudra snapped in a low voice.

Lyelpham-Sudra was intent on avoiding strife until the end. Of course, I felt the same way.

And - I've managed to quell this commotion, and I've been going through my thoughts so hard in my head, I've finally come to find one light.

"Wait a minute, Doug! Do you have permission from Marquis Marquis Marstein for this investigation?

Doug looked back at me loudly.

"We are not in a position to take orders from the Marquis of Genos. What are you talking about now?

"After all, then, you have not obtained permission from the Marquis of Genos. If that's the case, this is clearly against the laws of Genos."

Doug shrugged his shoulders and turned to me physically.

"Next to the code, shall we bring up the law? Do you think we, the soldiers of the King's capital, would imitate such a far-fetched thing?

"It is He who has given you the command that is far-fetched. In the light of the laws of Genos, this act is clearly a sin."

"That's tough. You and I are the inhabitants of Genos. We are empowered to investigate the lives of our people."

"Sure, we are the people of Genos, but at the same time we are the people by the woods. Don't you know that this forestside settlement is given autonomy?

Finally, Doug pushed silence.

Perhaps those auditors have been harassing the people by the woods in the shambles of kingdom law. In Genos, however, this conduct was clearly to be regarded as unlawful.

"When the roads were cleared by the woods, new laws were enacted about forestside settlements. It is that when a human being, not a compatriot, steps into a settlement, the people of the woods have the right to ask why - if the people of the woods fail to recognize the legitimacy of their purpose, they are forced to leave."

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"We are also given the right to punish, at our discretion, any person who breaks the woodland code. Those who step into the settlement house on their own are in a position where they can't complain if their toes are cut off."

"Don't be ridiculous. Such an act should be tolerated in the territory of the kingdom-"

"But that's the truth. If you think it's a lie, check it out because there's a sign at the entrance to the street cut open by the woods. There's got to be something written down in the west and east."

Doug pushed silently again.

All this time, I'm gonna lay the words over it.

"If here and now you become a dispute between you and the people of the woods, it is you who will be the sinners. It is you, not the people by the woods, who are trampling the laws of Genos. Do you, the elite troops of the King's capital, want to break the law and hurt the people?

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"Please, pull this off. If my words are lies, do it again for questioning or whatever. You have broken the laws of Genos without knowing."

A few seconds of silence fell.

Then Doug called out to the soldier next door, "Hey," in a low voice.

"Retreat. Send word to your men."

The soldier returned the salute and then ran away to a nearby branch.

After we see it, Doug turns to us.

"Ask His Excellency Ruid to verify the authenticity. If your words were true, once again, words of apology would be delivered.... Woman, you were talking about being the chief's companion"

"Oh. I'm the companion of the chief, Donda-Lou, and I'm Mia Ray-Lou."

"I can't apologize to you, either, until I can confirm the veracity. But well... no matter what, I didn't mean to kill you."

That said, Doug flinched himself lightly.

In that direction of progress, Rudd-Lou and Dalm-Lou stand.

"Hey guys, are you going to leave all this alone and go home without even bowing your head?

"I told you. As soldiers of the kingdom, you cannot bow your head without knowing what is true or false."

"We have the right to cut off your toes."

"Humph," Doug snorted as Darum-Lou said in his bottom voice.

"Asta from Fa's house fits in round because of it, and you want a rough thing? We can't give you a finger unless the superior commands us to."

"Don't, Rudd, Dulm. Are you planning on waging a war in a place without a parent?

The two pulled themselves back as they twitched their flaming killer.

Slipping through the straw, Doug moves on toward the Totos.

"Damn! I can't fit in like this! That's what I'm supposed to say, isn't it?

"Then don't wait for the parents to come home. Of course, parents can't tolerate such lawlessness."

Ever since I said that, Mother Meer Ray has smiled at me.

"Thank you, Asta. We've heard about autonomy, but I never thought I'd have the power to shut the soldiers up like this."

"Yeah. I was told repeatedly that they couldn't possibly break the laws of the kingdom, so I came up with it. I guess they really didn't know about autonomy."

But that's too far-fetched a story. It would be a fairly important case that the people of Moribe were given formal autonomy, so it did not seem very good that Malstein had not communicated it to the auditors.

(I guess it was Ruid who gave the orders to the Dougs, but it should be either the auditors who gave the orders to that Ruid. Where the hell did the transmission go wrong?... or is this really the noise that resulted from a transmission error?

A glimmer of doubt creeps up in my chest.

I thought I should convey this suspicion to Camua-Josh as soon as possible.

"... Sheila is Kamado Hut? At this hour, you're supposed to be working in the main cabin."

And, after seeing the Dougs leave the square, he spoke in a voice that Darum-Lou pushed to death.

Mother Meer Ray looks back at you with a "oh" smile.

"Don't worry, the soldiers aren't even close to Kamado's cabin. If you like, why don't you go worship your face before you go back to the woods?

"Don't be stupid. I don't even know when they'll turn back, but can we go back to the woods or something?"

"Oh. I'll run along and tell my dad about this. In the meantime, Brother Dulm would like this place, wouldn't you?

That's how he abandoned it, and Rudd-Lou also ran away again.

"Oh man," Mother Meer Ray shrugs her shoulders.

"Damn, my guys don't have a lot of blood. Then I'll go around the branch and listen to you. Astas, keep making sweets."

It was hard to change your mind that far, but Camua-Josh doesn't show up until the sun goes down. Until we headed to the Kimmus Tail Pavilion, we had nothing else to do.

"... I don't know how they do it. What's the point in imitating them like this?

That's how Lyelfam-Sudra snapped as he headed with Darum-Lou to Kamadu's cabin.

"Even if we look into Luu's settlement, things like what they get will not come out. It's just like being here to piss off people by the woods."

"Right...... Outreach, maybe that's what it was all about"

"What? What are you gonna do, piss us off? Besides, if we become sinners, don't we gain more and more?"

"Yeah, but I'm not sure about that either."

Speaking that way, Dalm-Lou, who was leading the way, looked back with tremendous momentum.

"If you don't like it, it's weird! Those guys just call themselves shameless outlaws! With the sheik's forgiveness, I'll slap you!

"Uhm. I would have been just as disturbed if I had been vandalized the settlement of Sudra, too. I hope you get to your family soon."

Darum-Lou struck his tongue and then walked slightly faster.

Chasing it, Lyelpham-Sudra takes a small breath.

"In the meantime, I seem to have succeeded in pissing off the people in the Lew family. I hope Chief Donda-Lou doesn't lose me to anger."

"Right. Before Donda-Lou heads to Castle Town, I'll be exchanging words with you."

If it was Donda-Lou, he would definitely head down to Castle Town to find out this sin first. But it was supposed to be more dangerous to put oneself in anger than the other's thoughts could know.

(If it was Donda-Lou, you'd listen calmly no matter how angry you are. If this is some kind of ploy, we need to cut this one back by the proper means)

Thinking like that, I held my fist in.

Then I become aware of the emotions that have developed with two things in my chest.

The settlement of Luu, an important compatriot, was trampled and vandalized by the soldiers. That outrage at the lack of outrage seemed to be driving me, as it is now.

(No matter what thoughts you have, you can never forgive imitation like this)

With that in mind, I followed Darum-Lou.

There was only two minutes left until we headed to the Kimmus Tail Pavilion.