294 15 Crows
"What?" As soon as the masked birdman heard those words, he was utterly shocked and at the same time, he was confused as he didn't understand why Krico wanted to do such a horrible thing to his own wife.Ñ00v€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.
But before that, he also thought, why did Krico never mention his wife to other tribe members and kept her identity secret from everyone.
"You must be wondering about why I didn't mention it, right?" Krico slowly turned back as he said, "Because I didn't see her as my wife and doesn't want others to know about her."
"Why is it?" The masked birdman asked as he was thinking back to the time when his friend was good and always wanted something to do to the tribe.
However, at some point of time, he changed.
He preferred his strength over the tribe's future. If he could get a great strength he would not hesitate to destroy the whole tribe.
"Haha," instead of replying to his question, Krico laughed as he waved his hand sealing the surroundings of his house with some kind of barrier.
'Looks like this matter is very important to him. He even sealed the surroundings to prevent others from listening to his words,' the masked birdman thought in his mind as he waited for Krico to say the truth.
As expected, as soon as the surroundings were sealed, Krico cleared his throat as he said, "It's our tribe's old priest who died a few years ago."
"What? Why did he do that kind of thing? He did a lot for our tribe," Masked birdman was shocked to hear a great person he idolized from his childhood.
The fire crow tribe's power structure was somewhat different from other tribe's power structure.
After saying those words he casually swept away the masked birdman with his huge wings.
"Why? Just why are you doing all these things?" The masked bird asked Krico while gritting his teeth.
"I am already explaining you; but, you are the one who keeps distracting me," Krico looked at the masked birdman who was on the floor and continued, "Let me explain the whole story until then keep listening."
Krico glanced at him and nodded his head in satisfaction and started the story.
"Just after I became the tribe leader with you and your father's help, the old priest came to the tribe leader's house to have a talk with me. While we were discussing the tribe's future, I asked the old priest to predict my future with his divine skill, hehe" Krico stopped for a while and laughed making the masked birdman shocked.
He was shocked because it was very dangerous to use the divine skill and every priest could only activate that skill once every ten years and that was also only to check the tribe's future; however, when he heard Krico's words, he was unable to believe that the priest used his divine skill for checking Krico's future.
"Haha, don't be shocked. The reason he agreed was also because of you and your father, so he believed that I am the chosen one to lead the Fire crow tribe towards glory and checked my future that is only related to the tribe and I was shocked by what he after using his divine skill," Krico's face became serious all of a sudden as he explained.
The masked birdman didn't disturb him and waited for Krico to continue his story.
"He said that I have to marry a tribeswoman who was an orphan and has the highest purity of our ancestor, the three-legged fire crow's bloodline in her body but the matter of that marriage should not be known to anyone and should be concealed from everyone no matter what happens," Krico said with the same seriousness on his face.
"Huh?" the masked birdman was puzzled as he stood up from the ground and asked, "What it has anything to do with the tribe's glory?"
He didn't understand how a tribe could become glorious by marrying a woman. So, he asked Krico while wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth.
"After hearing those words, I asked the same thing. To that, he replied, 'The actually chosen one was not you but your first son who was born from her body, haha'. Once I heard his words, I felt something in my heartbreak," Krico said to the masked birdman in a sad tone.
"What?" the masked birdman asked with a shock on his face as he looked at Krico.
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