Brother! Brother! Wake up! Hurry up and wake up!!
I had a cup of cold water splashed on my face at night to wake up. I opened my eyes quickly.
Never pour water on a mans head when hes sleeping looking up. It sucks and hurts incredibly. Its the exact sa feeling as when you are sentenced to death by drowning. It really induces the sa terror as suffocation.
Wh-Whats the matt-?
Before I could finish, Freya covered my mouth. She checked her surroundings vigilantly and in a soft voice said, Be careful, brother, theres soone coming, and it doesnt look like theyre harbouring any good-will. Its that group of rchants. Everybody is asleep like you right now. All of the elves are basically drunk. Look at this, brother.
Freya placed a sheet of paper on my shirt. I borrowed the light provided by the torches to read it. It was a very simple recruitnt advertisent. But it had Galle Village written on one part of it. I thought about it for a second. It looks like Galle Village is short on workers. But the ti period for recruitnt was
A few days ago. In other words, when everyone gathered for the celebration a few days ago. Which ans that the people here ca for work. No, maybe it was because they believed that Galle Village was producing gold, and all the females ca to get gold-jewellery made. As long as gold is involved, people will get obsessed it. After being an apprentice for a few years, theyll be able to create gold-jewellery. They could then grind it into gold-powder afterwards and it would beco theirs.
Brother, maybe we have discovered the most frightening case. This is my new discovery. See this? Brother, this is a bone! This was a bone that was found in that pile of ashes. It wasnt burnt completely! The charcoal we saw wasnt charcoal but burnt corpses!!
Freyas gaze was filled with terror. The terror that was soon to befall woke right up. It looks like this place is much more frightening than I imagined. This is no elf-trafficking case. This is this is this is inviting n here and killing them and then kidnapping the won!
I looked at the elves sound asleep in all directions, even Luna was sound asleep. I couldnt wake her up no matter how much I shook her. Freya looked at , nodded and said, Your guess is right. They definitely spiked the drinks. But it wasnt as effective on you since youre mixed-blood. That group of rchants is coming over now.
Just them?
Yes, because all the other elves who were preparing to assist are dead.
Freya nodded. I noticed that the pearl-necklace on her chest was missing. I made a wild guess, Freya, did you poison them?
Yes. The villagers of this village have all beco rotten to the core. They were planning to sell the elves that ca for gold. Of course, its not their fault, but the fault of the tax official. The tax official threatened the villagers into doing this so that his issue wouldnt cause the capital to be disappointed.
I clenched my teeth.
This sort of thing will incur everyones hate. A regional official doesnt represent himself, but the governnt. I cant believe the tax official ca up with such a sinister plan for the sake of his own desires and to fatten himself up.
That group of rchants are definitely involved too. They definitely had a hand in plotting it.
Brother, we must hide now. They should be coming over to take people away soon. I poisoned them, but the poison is only effective on elves, so all of the elves in this village who were assisting them are dead. That group of rchants will definitely do everything in their power to kidnap the female elves!
What about Luna then?!
Leave her here! Onii-sama! Dont worry about Luna for now. She will definitely return to your side. The most important thing right now is for us to hide! We arent ard. Forgive for being blunt, but you dont have any fighting capabilities while I cant last long in a fight due to my body. So we have to go to the stables now and see if theres a horse available.
Freya grabbed my arm and dragged towards the village. She was so tense and anxious that she reverted back to her old way of addressing . It looks like were in a real pinch here and have no ti for so brother-sister ga. Freyas body started to give in. It looks like she ran back here as fast as she could.
I only found out what Freya had been up to during the ti she went away later on. She first went and ford a friendly relationship with the tax official and found out that the village had to offer him gold tonight. At the sa ti, she found out about their shortage of people who could refine gold.
She then heard about the recruitnt flyer from a husband-and-wife couple. Once she got a grasp on what was happening, she poisoned the wine in front of the village chiefs house before running to the gold mine with everything she had.
She got the dog to sneak in and bring out a bone while there werent many people around thanks to the celebration.
She then ran back here after all of that.
How did they transport the people?!
Obviously with the horse carriage! Onii-sama, their horse carriage is used for transporting people! If my guess is right, they smuggle the gold in through those fruits. They just didnt give us the fruits with gold. Onii-sama, we dont have a second to lose. We just need one horse. Miss Luna will be fine!
I looked at Luna who was sound asleep next to . I tried to see if I could pick her up, but a person whos sleeping is particularly heavy. Even if I wasnt affected by the drinking and didnt drain myself with all that dancing, intimate hugging and smooching, all of my limbs were blatantly powerless so I just didnt have the strength. I had no way of taking Luna along at that mont.
Onii-sama! Hurry!!!
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At the sa ti, at the northern army camp.
!!
Vyvyan suddenly opened her eyes wide. She sat up in a violent fashion and placed her hand on her chest, where her heart was racing while she panted. She had seen her son get hit with an arrow in her dream. He had been shot in his thigh with an arrow by a group of people dressed in black under the moonlight. After falling off his horse, he had been hung up, and his throat was pierced with another arrow. Vyvyan knew that it definitely wasnt a dream, but one possible future.
Her ability was mind-reading, but she had another ability on top of that; clairvoyance. She could tell what a person wanted to do because she had clairvoyance. Her brother could see the past, while she could see the future. However, the one caveat she had was that she could only see one possible future.
Fuu
She breathed gently and didnt say a word. However, her blood-red eyes, which looked like they were dripping blood due to her anger, told the whole story. Nothing in this world held any aning to Vyvyan. But she would not allow anything or anyone to threaten her son.
If theyre going to threaten him, then regardless of whom it is or what the case is, Vyvyan was dead-set on gouging their hearts out.
And this ti, it was definitely not like the deer hunting festival last ti. That ti, ra had hesitated for a long ti, so she wasnt such a big threat to her son. But it was precisely because of that, that she didnt notice it. It was different this ti, though. Since she could see it in her dream, it was a clear indication of the severity of the matter this ti.
If the previous assassination was considered the work of shabby assassins, this ti, it was a trained rcenary group in pursuit.
She stood up and got dressed. She then waved her hand and vanished from the camp, leaving just a leaf that was blown past by the wind.
Lucia was lying underneath the moonlight. She curled up and continued to breathe evenly and gently. She didnt know what took place afterwards as she was still imagining herself and her handso husbands appearance in her dream
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