945 At the end of the long darkness (3)

So, three years of the month and day passed.

Nothing has changed. With the secrets of the Sung family, Zei-Sung spent their days with promises.

Zei-Sung's base is no longer just the training of hunters and the presence of Thur-Sung. When the sun is high, it is dawn to practice, and at night, you have dinner with Thur-Sung, and you fall asleep together. It was just days to repeat it.

Four-year-old Toor-Sung has grown up extremely healthy. It is a quiet temperament similar to her mother, but her innocent smile always made Zei-Sung happy.

However, the more you love Toor-Sung, the darker your feelings become.

As Toor-Sung gets older, he will eventually know the weight of the Sung family's secrets. At the age of five, he will also be allowed to go to the feast, so by then he had to disclose everything.

When will we be released from this code of secrecy? For Tour... at least for Tour, we have to show him a bright ending)

With that in mind, Zei-Sung's anguish led to another wedding feast in Sung's settlement.

This time, they're going to welcome the ladies from Dana. Based on past failures, weddings were filled with obedient women.

Wedding feasts are held outside the hall. In front of the main house is the fire of the ritual, blessing the two who are bound together, rinsing the pot with all the meat and vegetables, and pouring over the fruit tree liquor. However, at the feast, not only the family members of the other party, but also the parents of each family member and the offering, so the secrets should not be revealed, so the people of the Sung family could not rest.

(Will the Dana ladies accept the secrets of the Sung family... or will they return their souls without accepting them...)

Zei-Sung felt depressed and thought that way.

Then something small hit my feet. In surprise, a seven- or eight-year-old girl was on the ground.

"You were... Kruer-Sung. It's not something that runs around during a feast."

Zei-Sung held his hand, but the girl, Kurua-Sun, did not move.

She looks up at Zei-Sung with silver-grey eyes that are unusual around the forest these days. Sei-sung frowned when he realized that his face was bloodless.

"What the hell is going on? If anything happens, tell me."

"I... the crowd of northern settlements... in the house where the toddlers are gathered..."

Zei-Sung was stunned.

There is also Toor-Sung in the place.

And the children under the age of five had not yet been taught how heavy their secrets were.

Zei-Sung ran out of the square shortly after looking at Kur-Sun, who had entered the square.

The children are gathered in the house of the branch furthest from the main house. Running around the huge chapel and rushing toward you, the great men in the furs and skulls of the gibbers stood on the spot.

The number of people is three. He is standing in front of the door panel of the house with his back to this side.

The door panel was about half open.

There was no other way to peek at him - Toor-Sung.

Zei-Sung couldn't afford to think, "Hey!" he shouted.

The crowd looks back. At his feet, Toor-Sung's eyes were completely round.

"What's the matter, change the bloodline? Did we commit any indecent assault?

A crowd of men wearing furs asks. Probably for Zaza's parents. Your body is bigger than Zei-Sung, but you still have a young face.

"No... what are you doing in a place like this? It's time for the feast.

Zei-Sung managed to calm down, feeling his heart pounding.

And the men of Zaza laid down their faces, and put the bottle of their hand upon their breasts.

"Even if you don't say so, you are eager to receive the blessings of the Sung family. It was just a random tour around the shrine.... and this little boy was peeking at his face from the door panel."

"... this house has children under the age of five. I haven't been qualified to join the feast yet."

"Hmm. So I guess that's why I tried to peek at the feast. But because the hall was in the way, and we couldn't see anything, we were just telling him about the feast."

And the black eyes of the men of Zaza glowed.

"So? What are you complaining about? You yell at us for a good reason, don't you think?

"... that child is my daughter."

When Zei-Sung answered in that way, the men of Zaza rounded their eyes.

Then, laugh hard and hard.

"I mean, are you mistaken for my daughter? No matter how bloodthirsty we are, we're not going to do such a brutal imitation of a child, are we?

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"But for the recent hunters of the Sung family, it was quite a temper. Keep up the good work and let the chief flourish.... see you soon."

The men followed the path that Zei-Sung had come to and returned to the feast.

Zei-Sung pushes Toor-Sung toward the ground and then closes the door panel.

Thur-Sung looked up at Zei-Sung with a jerk.

"Um, Mr. Zei...."

Zei-Sung knelt on the ground and grabbed Toor-Sung's shoulders.

"What were you talking about with them?

"What? That's why... it's time for a stroke..."

"Is that all? Didn't they ask you about the house?

Then the blue-faced women approached from behind the hall.

"No, I'm sorry. I fell asleep all the time. Did something happen outside...?

Zei-Sung grabbed Toor-Sung's shoulder and yelled at you.

"Whether it's your job to take care of the baby or not!? You want to destroy the Sung family? Then you can tell the truth in the square as much as you want!

And the women fell on the spot, and rubbed their foreheads against the rug of the hall.

The other toddlers lay down in the back of the hall, looking at Zei-Sung with their scared faces.

"But I'm sorry... I never meant to..."

"Whatever you do, one mistake will destroy the Sung family! Your children, your parents, everything in your blood will return your soul! You... you big idiot!

With a rough breath, Zei-Sung turned back towards Toor-Sung.

That little shoulder that Zei-Sung grabbed is trembling unreliably.

And Toor-Sung was pouring tears from his blue eyes.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry, Mr. Zei... because Tour did something terrible..."

It is not uncommon for Toor-Soon to cry with a delicate temperament.

But now Thur-Sung was scared by Zei-Sung. His eyes, wet with tears, were filled with a clear light of fear.

Zei-Sung gets hit in the head and takes his hand off Toor-Sung's shoulder.

Toor-Sung crouched on the spot and repeated, "I'm sorry..."

(What am I... doing?

Put your hands on your loved ones and beat your anxiety without letting them feel cared for. It was once Zei-Sung was made the head of his father's family.

That day, Zei-Sung lost one important thing.

I'm sure Toor-Soon has lost something important too.

Looking down at a young daughter trembling and crying, Zei-Sung felt her soul sinking into dark mud.

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Then Toor-Sung became a child who didn't laugh at all.

When I saw Zei-Sung, my body trembled and turned away. That's how badly my heart hurt.

Zei-Sung didn't know how to calm it down.

Of course, I apologize for the disturbance that night. But I don't suppose the four-year-old Toor-Sung didn't understand. At the end, Toor-Sung could not say much because he would cry and cry "I'm sorry...".

(All I did was push my anxiety and fear to kill myself... and I hit it on such a young tool...)

Eventually, Thur-Sung was five years old and became an age to learn the secrets of the Sung family.

Even if the truth was told from the mouth of Zei-Sung, Toor-Sung only lay down his eyes without strength.

I wonder what it's like to be forced to lie or hide at the age of five.

Again, Zei-Sung couldn't understand it.

Not only Toor-Sung, but the toddlers born in the last few years will be born with secrets. Will you be born in secrets, live in secrets, and return your soul in secrets?

Aware of that, the children of the other houses hardly smiled.

Young couples also became afraid of having children.

Zei-Sung didn't realize that.

Zei-Sung may have kept his eyes and ears shut while he lived in Sung's settlement.

(I must have... been deceiving myself all along. While training the hunters and trying to cope with the presence of their partners and daughters... they didn't face their sins at all)

By the time Thur Sung turned five, Zei Sung was twenty-four.

Nine years had already passed since the day I had my first guinea pig.

Meanwhile, the parents and partners who raised themselves are returning their souls.

The eldest brother, who became the new head of the family, married his partner, but has not yet had a child. The eldest sister, who was married to the rest of the family, gave birth to two children, both of whom returned their souls in the "Amshorn's Breath" before reaching the age of three.

My youngest sister was already twenty years old, but because she was sick, she was still unmarried. For the Sung family, it was a proposition to increase their family, but for that reason, weak people could not be looked after. I never said it, but my youngest sister seemed to be secretly relieved not to marry her partner.

And the women whom they had married from their families lived not long.

I chose only obedient daughters, so there was no one who would go upside down like the old Zaza crowd - but most women returned their souls before giving birth to their children.

I don't know why.

After all, couldn't you endure living in such a secret?

Couldn't you just stand living with your mouth shut while vandalizing the grace of the forest without fulfilling the hunter's job?

(... so what are we?

Everyone in the Sung family accepted the code of secrecy.

Nine years later, there was no human being who had been torn apart by secrecy.

(We embraced Zatsu-Sung's words in agony... was Zatsu-Sung so frightened? Didn't we have the pride of being around the woods?

Or was that how you believed Zatsu-Sung's words were correct?

Now I didn't know that either.

All I knew was the stark fact that there was no turning back this path.

(If the secret is revealed, even young Tours will return their souls. Is that all you can do?)

Throughout this period, Zei-Sung was still obsessed with his daughter's existence.

Even if I could not develop the right bond with my daughter, I could only protect her life - that was the only meaning of Zei-Sung's life.

The hunter's training continues. But it was just a distraction from the lifeless. Zei-Sung was so convinced that he would never live as a hunter again.

There is no more hope left in the Sung family. It was obvious from looking at the person in the main house. Led by his parents and chief, Zulo-Sung, the main family members were buried in lazy life without performing their work or training.

My eldest brother and second brother lived in self-corruption and enjoyed playing with weak opponents. It was as brutal as if dead Migi-Sung had possessed it.

His youngest brother was fat and fat, and his youngest sister was obsessed with bronze coins - Oula-Sung, the daughter-in-law of his parents, and Tae-Sun, his father, looked like a dead man.

Also, the same thing happened to the people in the subdivision who looked like the dead.

I'm sure Zei-Sung has the same eyes.

Even Toor-Soon's eyes, which were as bright as jewels, had lost their sparkle because of Zei-Soon's heartless treatment.

In the meantime, only my eldest sister, Yamil Seung, is exerting his poisonous vitality.

Yamil-Sung didn't know anything about it. He seems to be taking his family, Tae-sung, away from Sung's settlement all the time, but he doesn't know where he is wandering. Perhaps on Zatsu-Sung's orders, he was watching the rest of the settlement and the town.

Yes - Zatsu-Sung also lived forever without giving back his soul.

The body seems to be weak year after year, but there is no sign of returning the soul. Even though most of his hair fell out and turned into bones and skins, Zatsu-Sung ruled the Sung family with his boiling obsession.

(That Yamil-Sung might be able to inherit Zat-Sun's will and obsession. But is that... the hope of the Sung family?

After all these years, the Sung family has failed to fulfill their grief.

Follow the northern clan, destroy the Lou family, and bring all the clans into compliance with the new code - is that really the end of the line?

And is that the end of the line for Toor-Soon to live healthily?

Zei-Sung didn't know.

And after another five years, the Sung family suddenly came to an end.