102.The Kids Aren'T Alright
「どうしようかねぇ......」
小さな声で呟いたザンガーは、方法はともかく死ぬつもりではあったので、自分がどうなろうとあまり気にはしていないが、追放を宣言されたプーセの方は憔悴しきっているようだった。
ラボラスが出て行ってしばらくたち、室内からは見張りがいなくなったが、家の外にはいるだろう。
そっと背中を撫でているうちに、プーセは泣き疲れて眠ってしまった。
頬を腫らしたまま眠る顔を見て、ザンガーは自分が治癒魔法が得意であれば良かったのに、と自分の無力さに呆れていた。
「本当に、名ばかりの指導者とはこのことだねぇ」
ラボラスが出ていったドアを見る。
間も無く、完全に夜が明ける。
遠くで、何かがぶつかる音や、悲鳴が聞こえてくる。
「やってるね......。あの人間は、大丈夫だろうかね?」
そう言えば、彼の名前を聞いていなかった、とザンガーは笑った。どれだけ、自分が変質して死んでしまうことを恐れていたのか。
「ん......んぅ?」
「起きたかい。悪いけれど、傷の治療は自分でやってもらえるかい?」
涙の跡も痛々しいプーセは、無言で頷き、腫れ上がった頬に向けて治癒魔法をかけた。
ゆっくりと腫れがひき、本来の細い顎と白い肌を取り戻したあとも、プーセの表情は晴れない。
「プーセ。あんたを迎えに行かせたあたしの判断が悪かったねぇ。人間だから、荒野で傷を負っているかと思ったんだけれどね......」
そのために、治癒魔法が得意なプーセを指名したのがいけなかった、とザンガーは頭を下げた。
「それは、もういいんです......。私は助かりましたけれど、他の人はあの人間に殺されてしまいましたから、それに比べれば」
無理に笑う表情が痛々しく、ザンガーは見ていられない、と視線をそらした。
「今、あの人間の男は襲われているみたいだね。さて、その結果次第で、この村やあたしたちもどうなるか......」
そう言いながらも、ザンガーは大人数に襲われては、いくら荒野を抜けて来られる実力があるとはいえ、攻撃魔法で袋叩きにされて終わりだろうと考えている。
「その......」
プーセが、遠慮がちに顔を上げた。
「どっちが勝ったとしても、あまり状況が好転するとは思えないのですが......それより、シクは大丈夫でしょうか?」
「なんとも言えないねぇ......ラボラスはあの子をどうこうするとは思えないけれど。プーセのことが知られたら、きっとびっくりするだろうね」
それにしても、とザンガーは改めて思う。
「あたしが人間ひとりを招き入れただけで、とんだことになってしまったね」
プーセが本当に追放になるなら、自分も共に森を出よう、とザンガーは心に決めた。
獣人に襲われた時、攻撃魔法が苦手なプーセでも、一人が犠牲になっていれば逃げるくらいはできるだろう。
「そのくらいは、させてもらわないとね......」
「ザンガー様?」
「なんでもないよ。とにもかくにも、今は待つしかないね」
いつの間にか絶えそうになっている囲炉裏の火に、ザンガーは小枝を放り込んだ。
数名の取り巻きを従えたラボラスは、プーセ弾劾のために一二三の行いを詳しく聞こうとシクを探していたが、家にいないので仕方なく一二三を殺害しに向かった。
そこで目にしたものは、一二三によって細々と解体されている同胞たちの姿だった。
「うわ......」
「うぐ、げぇええ......」
連れてきた取り巻きたちも、とんでもない光景と濃厚な血の匂いに、口を抑えたり耐え切れずに吐いたりしている。
しばし呆然としていたラボラスは、彼を無視して作業を続けている一二三に向かって大声を上げた。
「貴様が、ザンガーが引き入れた人間だな! 同胞に、我らの仲間になんということを!」
「あ?」
振り向いた一二三は、両手を再び赤く染めている。
「人間とは......」
ここまで残酷なものなのか、と取り巻きの誰かがつぶやき、全員が戦慄している。
「お前らも、こいつらと同じように俺を狙ってきたのか?」
だとしたら大歓迎だ、と一二三は闇魔法収納から水の入った瓶を取り出して、のんきに腕を洗い始めた。
「いったい、同胞に何をした......!」
怒りを押さえたように低い声で問うラボラスに、一二三は視線も向けない。
「いい感じに材料が揃ったからな。この連中の身体を調べてみた。ほれ」
一二三が投げたのは、小指の先ほどの小さな白い塊だった。
一二三が指差す先には、手足を無残に細切れにされたエルフの姿。
一瞬、ラボラスは視線を泳がせたが、すぐに一二三へと視線を戻す。
「足と手の指先に計3つ、同じような白い塊が入っていた。言っとくが骨じゃないぞ。手も足も骨の数はそれ以外でちゃんと他の奴らと同じだった」
「おまえらが、年をとったら次第に変質していく原因を調べてるんだよ。興味ないのか? 自分がどうやって死ぬのか、どんな死に様を晒すことになるのか」
一二三は、転がる死体を指差す。
「戦いに身を投じるなら、ああなって死ぬのが定めかもしれんな。俺もそうだろう。だが、戦いと無縁ならどうだ。運良く生き抜くことができたら?」
「我々は、森へ還ることができる! 森の民として、森の一部へと戻るのだ! お前ら人間とは違う!」
「ああ、そう」
ラボラスの必死の反論を、一二三は無感動に流した。
「それより、これを見てみろよ」
さっさと歩き始めた一二三が立ち止まったのは、木の根元にある血だまりのそばだった。
もちろん、これも一二三がせっせと死体を運んできて作ったものだ。
「木の幹に近い部分だけ、うっすら白くなっているのがわかるか?」
「白い......なんだこれ?」
首をかしげるエルフの前で、一二三が拾った木の枝を血だまりに突き刺して引き上げると、蜘蛛の巣のような白い糸が絡まる。
「最初は、元々お前らエルフの血の中にある成分かと思ったが、そうでもないらしい。あっちの血だまりは変化が無いだろう?」
そう言って一二三が差した広場側に作られた同様の血だまりは、赤黒くはなっているものの、特に白色化するような変化は見られない。
ここまで学校の科学実験を思い出しながら、意気揚々と対照実験の用意をしていた一二三だが、大体の状況がわかって満足げに頷いていた。
「仮説でしかないが」
と、前置きしつつ語り始めた一二三に、エルフたちの視線が集まる。
「エルフのエリアに入ったあたりから、生えている木の種類や空気が変わったのも理由の一つだが。村の周辺の森を構成しているこの木が原因だろうな」
一二三は、血だまり横に立つ大木の幹をペシペシと叩く。
「幹からか葉からかはわからんが、この木々からの成分が身体に溜まっていくと、体内で固形化して木のような性質に変化するんだろう。それが、元々肉体を構成していた血肉を侵食していくんだろうな」
自分自身に言い聞かせるように語り終えると、一二三はぐるりと周りを見渡した。
「で、どう思う? お前らは木になって死ぬ事を選ぶか? ここで武器を抜いて魔法を打って、この連中と同じように単なる肉塊になって終わるか? それとも、今のうちにこの木の呪縛から逃げるか?」
一二三の言葉には、誰も返事は返せない。
互いに顔を見合わせて、ざわざわと語り合うだけだ。
「貴様は......」
討伐対象であるはずの人間の言葉に狼狽える同胞たちに、そして無残な同胞の死に様と、その死体を弄ぶ一二三に、ラボラスが一人、怒りに震える。
「わけのわからん理屈を並べて、自分の罪を糊塗するつもりか!」
「理解できない......いや、したくない、の間違いじゃないか?」
ケラケラと笑いながら、一二三は持っていた枝を投げ捨てた。
「死ぬことから目をそらすなよ。誰もが必ず経験することだ、怯える事は無い」
刀を抜いた一二三は、大きく一度、深呼吸をする。
「ほら、選べ。ここで戦って意地を通すか、冷静に自分たちの環境を見直すか」
その言葉に、数名のエルフがそっと距離をとった。
そのことも、ラボラスの癇に障る。
「貴様らには、森の民としての誇りは無いのか!」
「馬鹿な事を言うな」
激昂するラボラスに対し、一二三は冷静かつ不機嫌をあらわに言い放つ。
「誇りとか理想が人を死に近づける。お前らのくだらない“掟”とやらが、結果としてエルフから死に向き合う機会を奪った」
艶のある刃紋を見つめながら、一二三は恍惚の表情を浮かべた。
「死ぬというのは、その人物を完結させることだ。生き方に沿ったものか、それとも不満に満ちたものか、何かを達成したか志半ばの非業の死なのか」
つと、エルフらしからぬ筋肉質な身体に力を込めて睨んでくるラボラスに目を向ける。
「思いも、目標も、未来も、死ねば終わりだ。そこにあるのは完成された人生。殺すことはその人生を完成させることだ」
だから、と刀を正眼に構える。
「望むなら、その終わりをくれてやろう」
「この人間は......」
取り巻きのエルフが半数はジリジリと下がって行き、半数はラボラスの判断を待っている。
仲間たちの視線を集めたラボラスは、そっと腰のナイフに手をかけた。
一二三が、笑う。
シクが木陰から、そっとザンガーの家の様子を見ると、出入り口前に二人のエルフが気だるそうに立っていた。
眉を潜めて口をモニュモニュと動かしたシクは、必死で口の中で詠唱を行う。
「ね、眠れぇ......」
催眠魔法は、シクが辛うじて使えると言ってもいいかもしれない程度の魔法だ。エルフとしてはあくびが出るほどの詠唱時間を必要とするうえ、完全に覚醒している相手にはあまり効果がないが、ぼんやり立っているだけの相手にはなんとか通じる。
「や、やった」
壁に背中を預けて、ずるずると座り込んだ二人の見張りを確認したシクは、そっと建物の中へ入る。
そこには、並んで座る指導者ザンガーとプーセの姿があった。
「シク? 無事だったのね」
「ぷ、プーセ姉ちゃん......」
膝の力が抜けたシクは、へなへなと座り込む。
「ごめんなさい、ラボラスに聞かれて人間のことを教えたせいで......」
ポロポロと涙をこぼすシクに、プーセが慌てて寄り添う。
「大丈夫よ。傷は自分で治したから、ね?」
「で、でもラボラスがプーセ姉ちゃんを追放するって言ってた......」
顔を青くしているシクが震えていることに気づいたプーセは、力強く抱きしめる事で慰めた。
だが、言葉がうまく出てこない。
追放が怖いのは、本当のことだからだ。
「シク、あの人間は今、どうしているのか知っているかい?」
ザンガーの質問に、シクは座り直した。
「良くわからないけれど、エルフが樹木と同化する理由がわかったとか言ってて、でもたくさんの大人が殺されて......」
珍しく大声を出したザンガー。
その視線は遠くを見ているようだ。
「あの人間の考えている事は、あたしにもよくわからなかったけれどね。まさかそんな話に......それで、その理由は聞いたのかい?」
「あの、本当かどうかわからないんですけれど、森の木から身体に入るのが悪いとか、なんとか......」
正直、半分も理解していなかったシクの説明はあやふやで、隣で聞いているプーセは首をひねっているばかりだったが、ザンガーには理解できた。
「なるほどね。あたしが長生きするわけさね」
ひゃっひゃっと笑うザンガーは、プーセたちにゆっくりと語る。
「あたしはね、小さい頃に森で怖い思いをして、家からほとんど出なくなったんだよ」
「私が聞いた理由は、多くの村人からの話をいつでも聞けるように、居場所を決めていると聞いておりましたが......」
「それは、まあ体面上の言い訳、取り繕っただけの話さ。本当は、単に森が怖くなっただけだったんだよ」
エルフのくせに、と自嘲する。
「森が怖いって、どういうことですか?」
シクの質問に、ザンガーは小さく「話しておこうかね」と呟いた。
「あんたたちも、森で見たんだろう? エルフの死に様はどんなものなのか」
言われて、プーセは一二三に死を乞うた老人を思い出し、息を飲んだ。
シクは半覚醒状態で朧気であったが、かすかな記憶はある。
「あたしもね、今のシクより小さいころに、森で見たのさ。死にゆくエルフの老人の姿をね。......それも、あたしの祖母の死に様を」
ふぅ、と息を吐いた。
「祖母はね、苦しい、痛いと言って、あたしに助けを求めたけれどね......小さな子供でしかないあたしには、なんにもできなくて、結局、あたしの名前を呼び続ける祖母から逃げたよ」
それから、森への恐怖が拭えず、エルフでいること自体にも嫌悪を感じるようになったという。
「でも、もし人間が言うことが本当なら、あたしも少しは救われるね。エルフだからじゃなくて、本当に森のせいなら......」
また息を吐いたザンガーは、火を見ていた視線をプーセとシクへ向けた。
「あの人間には、生きていて欲しいねぇ。もう一度、話がしたいよ」
それはつまり、同胞の死を願うも同然の言葉でもあった。
Chapter 102: The Kids Aren'T Alright
"I wonder, what shall I do..." (Zanga)
Muttering that in a small voice, Zanga has no real care about what happens to her as, putting the method aside, she had planned to die anyway, but Puuse who was declared to be exiled was completely haggard.
The guards had disappeared from the room a little while after Laboras left, though they were likely waiting outside.
While having her back gently caressed, Puuse got exhausted from crying and fell asleep.
Watching her sleeping face with its swollen face, Zanga was disgusted at her own powerlessness while thinking
"Really, in these matters I'm only a leader in name ~nee." (Zanga)
She looks at the door where Laboras exited.
Before long the day will dawn.
In a distant place she can hear screams and the sounds of things clashing.
"They are at it, eh...? Will that human be alright?" (Zanga)
Just how scared of transforming and dying am I?
"N... nh?" (Puuse)
"You woke up? Sorry, but can you handle the treatment of your wounds by yourself?" (Zanga)
Puuse, who was painful to look at with the traces of her tears, silently nodded and cast healing magic targeting her swollen face.
Even after the swelling slowly subsided and her originally slender chin and white skin returned, Puuse's facial expression didn't clear up.
"Puuse. It was my bad judgement for having you go meet him ~nee. I considered that he might have been injured in the wastelands since he's a human, but..." (Zanga)
"For that reason there was no other choice but to send Puuse who is good at healing magic", Zanga apologized.
"That's already in the past... Besides, if you look at it differently, I survived while the others got killed by that human." (Puuse)
Zanga averted her look as it was painful for her to see Puuse's expression of forcing a smile.
"It looks like that human man is currently getting attacked. Now then, I wonder what will happen to this village and us as result of that..." (Zanga)
Even while saying that, Zanga believes that no matter of him having the strength to come here while surviving the wastelands, he will likely end up getting ganged up with offensive magic while being attacked by a large number of people.
"That..." (Puuse)
Puuse lifted her head shyly.
"Even if he won, I don't think the situation will change for the better, however... rather than that, is Shiku alright?" (Puuse)
"I can't really say ~nee... I don't think that Laboras is together with that child though. He will most likely be surprised once he gets to know about your situation, Puuse." (Zanga)
"Even so", Zanga revises her thinking.
"With me just inviting a single human, it has turned into such an unfathomable situation." (Zanga)
If Puuse really gets banished, I will also leave the forest together with her
Even Puuse who is bad at offensive magic will probably be able to escape if I sacrifice myself when we get attacked by beastmen.
"If I'm not allowed to do at least this much..." (Zanga)
"Zanga-sama?" (Puuse)
"It's nothing. Anyway, for now we can't do anything but wait." (Zanga)
As the fire of the sunken hearth was about to die out before she realized, Zanga tossed in a twig.
Laboras, accompanied by several of his followers, searched for Shiku to ask him about Hifumi's deeds for the sake of Puuse's denunciation, but since he wasn't at home, he reluctantly headed out to kill Hifumi.
What he witnessed there were the figures of his comrades who had been minutely dissected by Hifumi.
"Uwaa..."
"Ugu-gueee..."
Even the followers he brought along are vomiting unable to bear it or are holding their mouths shut due to the dense stench of blood and the terrible scene.magic
Being dumbfounded for a short while, Laboras raised a loud voice at Hifumi who is continuing his work while ignoring Laboras.
"You bastard are the human who was dragged in by Zanga! What are you doing to our brethren, to our friends!?" (Laboras)
"Ah?" (Hifumi)
Turning around, Hifumi's hands are once again dyed red.
"Human..."
"What a cruel thing to go this far", as one of the followers mutters that, all of them shiver.
"Did you guys also came aiming for my life just like these fellows?" (Hifumi)
"If that's the case, you are very welcome", Hifumi took out a bottle filled with water from his darkness storage and started to care-freely wash his arm.
"What the hell did you do to our brethren...!?" (Laboras)
Hifumi doesn't even turn his look at Laboras who says that in a low voice as if suppressing his anger.
"I assembled the parts in a good mood. I tried to examine those guys' bodies. Look!" (Hifumi)
What Hifumi threw was the small white lump of the pinky from before.
Ahead of where Hifumi is pointing at is the figure of an elf which had its hands and feet cruelly chopped into small pieces.
Laboras's sight swam for an instant, but his look immediately returned to Hifumi.
"There was a similar white lump in 3 feet and fingers before. You can't call it bones. Besides, the number of bones in the hands and feet was the same as the other guys." (Hifumi)
"I'm investigating the cause for you guys gradually changing once you got old. You not interested in it? How you will die? To what manner of dying you will be exposed?" (Hifumi)
Hifumi points at the scattered corpses.
"It might be your fate to die like that if you throw yourself into combat. It's like that for me, I guess. But, how about if it isn't related to combat? If you were lucky enough to survive?" (Hifumi)
"We can return to the forest! We will become a part of the forest as people of the forest! It's different from you humans!" (Laboras)
"Yea, true." (Hifumi)
Hifumi discarded Laboras's frantic objection indifferently.
"Rather than that, try looking at this." (Hifumi)
Hifumi began to walk quickly and stopped next to a pool of blood which was located at the root of a tree.
Of course it was created by Hifumi diligently carrying over corpses.
"Do you see that only the part close to the trunk of the tree has become slightly white?" (Hifumi)
"White... what's this?" (Laboras)
Once Hifumi stabs a tree branch he picked up into the blood pool and pulls it back up in front of the elf who is tilting his head to the side, the branch is entwined by white strings, similar to a spider web.
"At first I wondered whether it originally was a component that exists within the blood of you elves, but it doesn't seem to be the case. The blood pool over there hasn't changed, right?" (Hifumi)
As Hifumi says, an identical pool of blood had been created in vicinity while leaving some open space in-between. It's a puddle giving off a dark red colour where one can't see a change similar to turning white in particular.
As Hifumi prepared a controlled experiment in high spirits while recalling the scientific experiments at school so far, he nodded in satisfaction as he got the main gist of the situation.
"It's nothing but a hypothesis." (Hifumi)
The elves' looks gathered on Hifumi who began to talk while giving such preface.
"One of the reasons is that after you entered the area of the elves the kinds of trees growing here and the atmosphere is unusual. But the cause is this tree which is composing the forest in the vicinity of the village, I guess." (Hifumi)
Hifumi slaps the trunk of a large tree standing next to the pool of blood.
"I don't know whether it's from the trunk or the leaves, but if you accumulate components of this tree in your body, it will likely change your bodies' composition to something similar to a tree by becoming solid within your body. I guess the flesh and blood which composed your body originally gets corroded by it." (Hifumi)
Once he finished talking in a way of obviously persuading himself, Hifumi surveyed his surroundings by turning around.
"So, what do you think? Do you guys choose to die by turning into a tree? Will you end your lives and become mere lumps of meat just like these fellows by clashing with magic and drawing your weapons here? Or, will you run away from the curse of this tree before it's too late?" (Hifumi)
No one is able to return an answer to Hifumi's words.
Looking at each others' faces, they are simply talking with each other noisily.
"You bastard are..." (Laboras)
Only Laboras trembles in fury due to his brethren being flustered by the words of the human who was to be their subjugation target, due to the cruel manner of his brethren' deaths and due to Hifumi toying with their corpses.
"Do you intend to cover up your crimes by lining up incomprehensible theories!?" (Laboras)
"Are you unable to... no, unwilling to understand your mistake?" (Hifumi)
While giggling, Hifumi tossed away the branch he was holding.
"Don't avert your eyes from death. It's something everyone, without fail, will experience. There's no need to be scared of it." (Hifumi)
Drawing his katana, Hifumi takes one large breath.
"Hey, choose. Will you persist in your obstinacy to fight here? Will you calmly review your own circumstances?" (Hifumi)
Several elves quietly took a distance due to those words.
That matter is irritating Laboras as well.
"Don't you weaklings have no pride as people of the forest!?" (Laboras)
"Don't talk such rubbish." (Hifumi)
Hifumi bluntly tells the enraged Laboras while baring his displeasure and composure.
"Pride or such is a dream bringing people close to death. Thanks to your guys' stupid '
Hifumi showed an expression of ecstasy while gazing at the charm of the hamon.
"Dying is something that completes one's character. Did they follow their way of life? Or, was it filled with unhappiness? Was it an unnatural death in the middle of their aspirations or did they achieve something?" (Hifumi)
He calmly shifts his attention to Laboras who glares at him and puts strength into his muscled body which is unlike that of normal elves.
"Your desires, your objectives and your future comes to an end once you die. What's left is a completed life. Being killed is something that completes that life." (Hifumi)
"Therefore", he prepares the katana by aiming at Laboras' eyes.
"Let me bestow that end upon you, if you so desire." (Hifumi)
"This human is..."
Half of the followers are gradually withdrawing while the other half is waiting for Laboras's judgment.
Laboras who had the looks of his comrades gathered on him quietly took the knife at his waist into his hands.
Hifumi laughs.
When Shiku observed the state of Zanga's house from the shades of a tree, the two elves in front of the entrance stood there listlessly.
Shiku who moved his lips with a *monyumonyu* while lowering his eyebrows frantically performs a chant within his mouth.
"S-Sleep..." (Shiku)
His magic is at a level where Shiku might be able to barely use hypnotism magic. On top of requiring a chanting time to the degree of making an elf yawn, it hasn't much of an effect on a completely awake opponent, however it will somehow work on opponents who are only standing around absent-mindedly.
"I-I did it." (Shiku)
Confirming the two guards sliding down to the ground after leaning their backs against the wall, he quietly enters the building.
There he found the figures of the leader Zanga and Puuse sitting next to each other.
"Shiku? You were safe?" (Puuse)
"Puuse-neechan..." (Shiku)
Shiku who lost strength in his knees sits down weakly.
"Excuse me for telling Laboras about the human after he asked about it..." (Shiku)
Puuse snuggles up to Shiku who sheds large drops of tears in a rush.
"It's alright. I healed the injuries by myself, okay?" (Puuse)
"B-But, I was told that Laboras will banish you, Puuse-neechan..." (Shiku)
Noticing Shiku who has a pale face quivering, Puuse comforted him by hugging him reassuringly.
However, her words aren't coming out smoothly.
It's because she's truly scared of being banished.
"Shiku, do you know what that human is currently doing?" (Zanga)
Shiku corrected his posture upon Zanga's question.
"I don't quite understand, but he spoke about comprehending the reason why elves get absorbed and arbour or something like that. However, many adults were killed..." (Shiku)
Zanga raised her voice which was unusual for her.
That gaze seems to be looking in the far distance.
"The things that human is pondering about is something I didn't understand well either. Don't tell me, it's because of our conversation... So, did you hear that reason?" (Zanga)
"Umm, I don't know whether it's really true or not, but bad stuff is entering one's body from the forest's trees or something like that..." (Shiku)
The explanation of Shiku who honestly didn't understand half of it either is ambiguous. Puuse who was listening next to him was only cocking her head in puzzlement, but Zanga was able to grasp it.
"I see. It's because I lived for a long time." (Zanga)
Zanga who laughs with a *hi hi* slowly speaks to Puuse and Shiku.
"You know, as child I was afraid of the forest. I practically never left the house." (Zanga)
"The reason I heard is that you complied with the location which was decided in order to listen to the stories of many villagers at all times, but..." (Puuse)
"That is, well, an excuse in concern of my dignity. It's story which was used to cover it up. In truth I had only become afraid of the forest." (Zanga)
"In spite of being an elf", she laughs at herself.
"Being afraid of the forest, you say. What's this about?" (Shiku)
Zanga muttered a small [Will they let me speak, I wonder?]  due to Shiku's question.
"You guys also saw it in the forest, right? The manner of an elf's death, that is." (Zanga)
Once being told, Puuse recalled the elder elf who begged Hifumi to kill him and gulped.
For Shiku it was faint due to his half-awake state, but he has vague memories of it.
"Me too. When I was younger than Shiku is now, I saw it in the forest. The figure of an elder elf heading towards death. ... And in addition to that it was my grandmother's death." (Zanga)
"Fuu~", she exhaled.
"My grandmother, you know, told me that it was painful and agonizing and that she wanted me to give her relief, but... the me who was nothing more than a small child couldn't do anything. In the end I ran away from grandmother while she continued to call my name." (Zanga)
"And then it reached the point of even feeling disgust towards being an elf, unable to get rid of my dread of the forest", she says.
"However, if what the human has said is really true, I will be saved a little bit as well. If it's really because of the forest's nature and not because I'm an elf..." (Zanga)
Breathing out once again, Zanga turned her look which was fixed on the fire towards Puuse and Shiku.
"I wish for that human to survive. I want to talk with him once more." (Zanga)
Those were, in short, the same words as if desiring the death of her brethren.
Summoned Slaughterer
呼び出された殺戮者
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