138 126. Girl's Past

"Haku. Please eat slowly because it's hot."

Saying so, Priscia gives Haku a hot itch. Haku spoons the itch, carries it to his fearful mouth because Priscia says it's hot, and eats it puckedly. Looks like it's hot but you can eat it.

"... yummy"

Priscia smiles like a paaaa and flower blossomed when Haku tells her thoughts. And when I went to pick up Haku's clothes, I left the room. He'll be sweating, too, so he said with something he can wipe his body off.

In the meantime, I watch Haku eat itch. My face is faceless, but I eat it deliciously. I can't stop spooning just now. And...

"Whoa, you ate beautifully. You were hungry?

"Mmm."

The inside of the vessel was eating up beautifully. Priscia's not enough. Rika seems to have made it so she can stay, but she ate it all up. You've been in such a small body a lot. Priscia, who came back with a change of clothes, seemed so happy to see it.

Then Huck tells me he's getting dressed, so I went outside. Priscia stays in her room to help, too. I can't stay in the boulder to help either, so in the meantime I decided to wait in the living room. If Ekura were here, we could fit in.

I waited like that for about an hour. Priscia and Haku came down from upstairs. Huck is wearing one of the white pieces Caro bought yesterday.

"Oh, isn't that a cute outfit?"

"...... eh"

When I say that, Haku grips the hem of the piece shyly with a slight face down. Priscia is smiling when she sees it. That's adorable. Then Haku took his seat, and while Priscia was preparing us a drink, Haku...

"... oh no, help me, thank you"

And I'm going to thank you. But...

"I'm not thanking you like that. It's natural to help your family, isn't it? Don't be shy of Huck from now on."

"... n"

That's what family is like in me. We all help each other and support each other, so we can have a house called Family.

"How's your body?

"It's okay, it hurts, it's gone"

"Right. That's good."

I also heeled while Haku was asleep. I'm glad it worked. Not only is my body wounded, but my headache seems to be healing.

Then Priscia came back, and she handed out drinks to everyone, and she said she was staying neat drinking that.

"... oh no... listen, I want... I need to talk"

Haku looks so serious at me.

"Is that an important story?

Haku snorted.

"My... thing"

Speaking of Haku, when you were in the Empire? But that must be Haku's trauma. Even now Huck's body is still slightly trembling and Priscia is holding him tight.

"... Haku. You don't have to try to talk about it. If it's hard, we're not gonna have to hear it."

But Haku shakes his head to the side.

"... talk. I think it's necessary to have a family."

He looks at me with a secret determination to say so.... I have no choice. You wouldn't have anything to say to me if you were so determined.

"Okay. But if it's hard, you can stop."

When I say that, Huck snorts again. Priscia stares at Haku looking so worried on the side. In it Haku began to talk about himself in a pompous way. That was an incredible story that we could never imagine.

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I've been there since I got my mind on it. A place surrounded by walls that doesn't even shine sunlight. It's giddy and bugs are gushing. Such a place was everything to me.

Hundreds of children were gathered there to train them in fighting and other skills every day. When you lose, adults beat you up. If you fail to train, you will be beaten. Those days went on.

And one day, a few of those children at a time, we were gathered.

"I'm going to ask you guys to get into the next training. Bring it."

When adults say that, others bring something like a cage from somewhere else. And when I opened inside, there was an animal in there. I was wondering how you would use such a cute animal for training.

"I ask you to do what you can to kill them without hesitation."

And the next thing they gave me was a knife. I couldn't do that then. Because I still felt sorry for you. But the grownups won't miss that.

The kids who could have killed the animals immediately went back to training, killed them, but the kids who took the time were beaten, and the kids who couldn't kill the animals, like me, were beaten up.

"Yikes!

I was brought to a certain room. And...

"You have a day of reflection here. Stay with him."

Stabbed a knife in an animal in front of me that I couldn't kill, and was left in the room. Animals are still alive. Fine voices are raised. As I watched such an animal, the adult left and closed the room. Around that moment a side was engulfed in darkness.

While I can't see anything, all I can hear is the tiny squeal of an animal. I knocked on the door over and over again and asked for help but no one would come. In the dark, I was crying.

… the next day. When I left the room, the animal didn't move at all.

I had no hesitation in killing an animal after doing so over and over again. Because I didn't want to go back to that room anymore.

Then it didn't take that long for the subject to change from animal to demon and from person to person.

I don't know where I brought him from, but I killed all sorts of things every day, killing the goblins, killing the kids I've been training with.

Because if you don't kill Goblin, you can just get caught and offended or eaten, and if you don't kill your opponent, you'll get yourself killed.

One day, a child gathered us together to escape the place. We can get away from here ourselves. Say so.

All the children agreed with the words. Because I didn't want to live like this anymore.

And the plan was carried out. Kids trying to escape demonstrate their previous training, killing adults one after the other to move on. The children thrust with joy. You can be free if you leave here. Believe me.

But it wasn't that sweet. That's where he showed up.

"You can't, if you try to escape"

That's what I said. He was a young man who killed his children laughing. Even as the children cry and beg, they kill the children, ignoring them and laughing. We were held back, with no hands, no legs.

"I'm sorry to bother you, Master Gargante. But that's the S-rank."

"Ha, I don't mind. You're getting paid. It's just that we're going to have to go on another request soon, so this is the last day."

"It is. Have fun at the end of the day."

And the man, before us, began to smile and stab the child who contemplated this operation with a sword. The child cried over and over and asked for help but did not stop, but on the contrary healed the wound and stabbed him over and over again. Not to die, but to make you suffer.

At the end of the day it lasted until I begged the child to kill me better. I felt my last heart broken at this time.

Then the adults got tougher. If you behave suspiciously, you will be beaten and trapped in a dark room every time something fails.

And then, at one point, I was put in a pill I wasn't sure about, and so many kids died and went. That was put in by me too. It hurt all over my body, my blood bled out, it was painful, it was very hard. But, yeah, some parts of me thought this would kill me too. But...

"Whoa! I survived that pill!

I have survived. Because of the medicine, my body moved better and my senses sharper than before. The magic I've never been able to use is now available, and my growth rate has increased considerably. At the price of this, the hair, which was brown, fell out of color and became white, and my eyes became red.

From then on, I was the only one put outside. I didn't get excited or moved outside the first time I saw it...... Because it all looks black and white. Nothing is different from the previous room. Because my heart was broken and I didn't feel anything anymore.

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"Then... many people... killed. But... here it fails. So... I got caught, and now I'm gonna be..."

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Neither me nor Priscia could speak up. I knew they were doing terrible things with Huck's whining during the battle. But this is too harsh. Priscia also hugs Haku in tears.

"Back then... it hurt, it was hard, I cried a lot... what it meant to be alive... I didn't know"

"... Haku"

"... many times... I want to die... I thought"

……

"But..."

"Haku?"

"I'm glad I didn't die... I'm glad I'm alive... because I can't... see you..."

I would have wept too if I had noticed. Huck also looks at me in tears.

"Earlier, when I woke up... the view... the color... was attached. Beautiful...... thought. I want to see a lot...... I thought!

"Then let's all see all sorts of things! We see all kinds of things in our family, we make all kinds of memories, and we're going to live together!

Me and Priscia hug Huck as much as we want. We can't really understand Huck's heartbreak. Haku wouldn't want that either.

So that the wound can heal at all, so that we can have a little fun living the rest of our lives, we can only support Haku's life in colour.

If you say you don't like Haku anymore, we won't let you go.