108 – Circulatory System (10)
Sandyi carved a tree to make an impromptu barbecue rack. Not only did he have a knack for cutting, but he also had his own skills in crafting and catching.
He put plenty of spices and salt on the skewered meat and grilled it.
The smell that stimulates the salivary glands fills the cave.
Everyone chose to die as a way to respect the circulatory system, but Candy went on the path of killing and preying without hesitation.
If a student of the Ministry of Pensions saw this, it would be frightening.
If you are rejected by the circulatory system, you will be pushed to the outskirts and you will end up with the lowest score. Maybe because I prepared in isolation from others, I don’t know how to adapt to the circulatory system.
Moreover, Luna didn’t feel much of a problem with this method.
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Cecile asked in a mixed tone.
“Candy. Is it okay to eat this?”
His answer was too simple.
“Yes.”
The curious thing is that he only brought salt and spices when everyone else brought a full load of food.
After Cecil hesitated for a moment, he handed Luna a barbecue skewer first.
Luna held it in her hands and bit it as much as her fingernails. It was evident from his clumsy behavior that he did not know how to eat well.
Cecile was confused.
Luna is a young lady who seems to have grown up with a lot of respect. However, even though she is not used to raw food, she was doing her best to accommodate Candy. The head of the Ministry of Magic abandoned her greed and left everything to Candyi. What the hell happened between the two of them to form such a trusting relationship?
Cecile closed her eyes tightly and pondered.
Actually, she wasn’t in a position to cover things up either. I am hungry and the rest of the group is still far away.
Her head pounded when she thought of the letter from Bertang that had just arrived.
Bertang said that he somehow managed to cross the overflowing river, but he refused Cecil’s suggestion that Candy join the side.
You can’t trust Candy, and going to a dangerous area to avoid marauders is like going into a bear’s den to avoid the rain.
But it didn’t take long to make a decision.
The answer came easily when asked if it was Bertin or candy. Her heart’s compass was already pointed at the man in front of her eyes.
She finally held out her hand and said.
“Give me too.”
I starved all day and had to eat anything to move the next day.
And the other day, when Candyi asked for a translation, she also remembered significant passages related to alchemy. If you think about it, it could have been that the act of predation had its own theoretical basis.
Soon after, Candyi handed over a well-grilled skewer.
She started tasting her nervously, and her eyes widened as she surprisingly liked her taste.
The meat of wild animals usually has a strong catchy smell, but thanks to the unique spices, there was no objection to the taste and aroma.
Did she come to this class for the purpose of hunting? She wouldn’t have had to prepare her spices this far otherwise.
After confirming that Cecile was eating well, he put a few more skewers on the fire and stood up.
“I am eating on my own. I’ll wash some boar blood and come back.”
His body was stained with blood from preparing the meat.
As Candyy went outside, an awkward air once again drifted inside the cave.
Cecil finished eating the skewer he was holding and asked Luna.
“I have something to talk about with candy. Can I go out?”
Luna carefully looked at Cecile’s clothes. She had an expression as if there was something disapproving about it.
“Yes… But there are conditions.”
“What is it?”
“Put on this cloak and go.”
Then he handed her the cloak, which he had dried well and folded up behind her.
“Huh? Uh, thank you… Woah.”
It’s nice to be able to block the rain with a cloak, but I wasn’t sure if it was really a favor.
***
Cecil followed Candyi’s footsteps. In the meantime, I felt something, so I turned around and saw a spirit that looked like a wolf. It was a spirit that Luna handled.
“… ?”
It was following Cecile. Was she prepared for an unexpected emergency? Or does she have other intentions hidden?
I felt uncomfortable, but there was nothing I could do about it.
She didn’t go far and she found candy. He was washing himself in the rain water falling like a waterfall in front of a cliff.
I thought it was just lightly wiping his hands and feet, but he was exposing his upper body to his bare body. At the unexpected harvest, Cecil cleared her throat for a while and killed the presence.
He got so close that he checked his body closely, and suddenly his head went white and he couldn’t move.
“… !”
His upper body was full of scars as if he had been scratched by something. There were even traces of distorted penetration left in the abdomen. It was not just one, but several.
Even an old veteran walking around the battlefield wouldn’t have suffered such a wound.
At most, I’m only 17 years old. What kind of life did he lead during that time?
Unexpectedly, the dark side of her sweetheart caught her.
Then, Candyi suddenly turned around and looked at Cecil, who was half-hidden in a tree, and said,
“You can’t take off your mask if you look at it like that.”
“….”
“I want to wash my face.”
When the spying was discovered, the mischief sprang up. She revealed herself and untied the laces of her cloak.
“Um… Then how about taking a shower together?”
“….”
“Showing each other what they hid one by one.”
Then the wolf spirit behind him started barking ferociously.
Kurrureukong! Kong!
Cecil wrinkled her brow and looked at the person who was in her way.
The wolf spirit revealed its fangs. When he broke the condition of wearing a cloak, he seemed to protest.
Cecile sighed when even the candy didn’t show much reaction, and tied the laces of her cloak again.
“Ehh… I’m kidding.”
He doesn’t even look at me when I unbutton it, and he doesn’t respond even when I’m provoked. Are you enduring with patience or is there someone you are loyal to? I couldn’t figure out what was inside. It would have been boring if he had waggled his tail gently like a mutt, but on the contrary, there was no reaction, so the medicine rose a little as it was.
“It will be cold, so go inside.”
Cecile stopped talking nonsense and went right back to the main topic.
“Actually, I came here to ask you something.”
He brushed back her dark red hair and said.
“… What?”
“I need your help. Let our group members accompany you until they cross the danger zone.”
“….”
This is also the reason Candy came to visit.
“There are no kids in our group who can fight. Luna asked you because she seems to be treating you as a group leader.”
He did not ponder for long.
“There is nothing difficult to ask. Me and Luna are indebted to you.”
“Are you allowing me?”
“Yes. But be prepared. It will be a difficult journey.”
***
“Going to the danger zone?”
Jason said, the group leader of the raiding party that is leading the way to enter the circle.
“That’s right. I kind of didn’t understand.”
News came that those who belonged to the top ranks and some who had fled from the marauders had entered the danger zone.
A group member of the raiding party that accompanied them cynically mocked those who went to the danger zone.
“Looks like you don’t have a good sense of reason. Either they’re crazy about fighting, or they don’t know what’s more dangerous than a raiding party.”
A plundering team is all about stealing food and supplies. Regulations forbade them from inflicting additional harm other than subduing them.
I could have been seriously injured if I went to the danger zone. So, the decision to run away in that direction was bound to look stupid.
“Well, that’s why we are so ahead.”
They took two weeks’ worth of food by plundering. Thanks to that, I was able to enter the circulatory system while enjoying a rich diet without any distress.
At the beginning of the circulatory system, there were only three or four groups including themselves. They are taking the lead, overtaking the kids who were expected to be at the top.
As we were advancing through the thick forest, Jason, the group leader, suddenly stopped his colleagues.
“Hey, wait, wait.”
Then the other group members stopped and looked at Jason. He looked around and spoke urgently.
“Hey, are we on the right track?”
“What are you talking about?”
One of my co-workers pulled out a compass and checked the direction.
“Were you heading north?”
Jason’s expression changed strangely.
“No, hey, I think I saw it once when I came here, are you sure?”
“… ?”
Another joked about the situation.
“Why are you so lost? You secretly put alcohol in this bastard’s canteen and sipped it. Don’t do that.”
Then everyone except the group leader giggled and laughed.
“Hey, hey! These babies, I’m not playing around. Come here.”
He hurriedly ran to one place and called the group members.
Jason’s face contorted into a serious contortion, and the laughter drained away as everyone sensed that something was seriously going on.
“What?”
There were footprints of four people in the direction they were heading north.
To see it as a trace of another group that went ahead first… I was so used to it.
“Look carefully.”
The leader of the group set his foot on a single step.
The size of the shoe and the shape of the outsole matched exactly.
“… !”
Everyone was so shocked that they couldn’t say anything. I thought I was moving forward, but in reality I was going round and round in the same place. I worked all day, but it was all for nothing.
“Don’t trust the compass here.”
Jason pulled out his dagger and left a large x on a nearby tree.
“Something is disturbing us.”
They moved in a different direction than north. Sensing that it was unusual, everyone couldn’t even throw a joke.
After moving like that for about five hours, the group leader noticed something and his face turned pale. There was a big x mark in the direction they were going. It was exactly what Jason had indicated.
Jason yelled, slashing a nearby tree with his dagger in anger.
“Damn it!”
The faces of the group members, who intuited what kind of situation they were in, slowly began to grow fear. It meant that no matter where you moved, you would always come back to the same place.
“What the hell… this….”
And as if they were laughing at the devastated. In the woods, someone’s laughter echoed in the woods.
-Carruleuk!
They were startled, drew their swords, and put themselves on alert.
“What is it? What a child!”
There was nothing where the laughter came from. There was not even a wind, and not even the leaves swayed.
And laughter spread from another direction.
-Kirreuk karuk!
It was the sound of a bright child’s laughter, but hearing it in the forest where not even the sunlight came in gave me goosebumps all over.
Soon after that, the sound of laughter started to become more frequent. It wasn’t just one or two.
Up in the trees, under their feet, behind the rocks, they were watching and taunting them from all sides.
“We didn’t kill anything! Let us in!”
Something went wrong. Although they clearly followed the principle of non-killing, the circulatory system did not accept them.
“Ah….”
One group member’s hand trembled and dropped his sword. Surrounded by something insubstantial, I fell into a panic before long.
They felt it with their body, not their head. Something huge and unapproachable was playing with them in their grasp.
I realized that I had been underestimating the circulatory system too much, but it was too late.