99 – Report on the Fall of Kindness (9)
People possessed by a witch approach the cabin. Drooling, grinning wildly, taking the same steps as if marching in a parade, waving their arms at the same angle, and tilting their heads with unfocused eyes.
The woman with the kitchen knife in her apron appears to have come out from preparing dinner. The person holding the ax and the whetstone is the person who sharpens the blade. A person came from working in the field with a shovel, and a person took off half of his clothes to wash off the sweat…
People who were possessed did not care much about what was in front of their feet.
I fell into a tree root, a protruding stone, a small puddle, and even broke my ankle, only to stumble and eventually get up and walk again.
Maria ran to Brother Henry. This was because the monk kept waving his hand out as if trying to swat away an invisible fly.
“Friar, come to your senses. “You need to get out of here first.”
But Henry sobbed and shook his head. His eyes gradually darken and his mouth foams.
“I can’t leave this forest. Because the tree holds my heartAnd my body is His… “When I leave this forest, I will wither and die, longing for Him, like a tree that has been uprooted.”
Among the words spoken between words, joyful words keep coming out. It seems like he can’t do anything about the corners of his mouth that keep rising.
“Everyone, run away quickly… Try it. Just as every sweat of this body is His, you too will soon become completely mine! Just like those who came here before!”
“Friar!”
Mary snapped her fingers and created a holy fire. She lit a bright but cold fire on Brother Henry’s forehead. But it was no use. The investigation just keeps grinning.
“Ah. The Heretic Questioner. Something big is at stake this time. “Now that a big fish has been caught, hunting will be more fun!”
“Roberta!”
At Maria’s shout, the monk who had lost everything to her witch grinned.
“I also do not ‘collect’ everyone who enters the village. My rule is to let go of those who have a clear destination and time. If you call those people wrong, you will definitely get into trouble.
So, I was thinking of just letting you and your group go. But when I found out that she was not just a nun but a ‘shepherd,’ I couldn’t just let her go once I ‘found out’ the story about this place!”
Cain gritted his teeth. The word ‘shepherd’ is what Mary used to persuade Henry. So, Roberta cannot know the content of the conversation. But knowing this conversation…
“Since when? “Since when have you been listening?”
Maria, who came to the same conclusion as Cain, urged Roberta after Brother Henry. The monk is giggling, clapping his hands and laughing.
“From the beginning, everything. Brother Henry is truly the best bait. “He thinks he’s warning everyone who approaches, but in reality I’m just letting him do whatever he wants.”
Cain gritted his teeth at the illusion of ice flowing down his spine.
It was all a trap. How Henry tried to help them, but was constantly interrupted, leaving behind a suspicious impression.
In the end, I was unable to overcome the persuasion and revealed the truth. The whole thing was a trap set by Roberta. Maria is now so filled with anger that she even cries.
“Why? Why are you doing this? “Why are you like this!”
“That’s how you get the taste of hunting. Please, please, don’t get caught by me. I’ll give you time, so feel free to run away wherever you want. “Please don’t get caught by me. Now, run away!”
Brother Henry rushed in. Maria, whose body stiffened for a moment, could not cope. Cain pushed Henry against her body. As if that was a signal, the outside villagers flocked in all at once.
“Out the back door!”
Cain shouted. She held a sword in her left hand and a staff in her right. The idea was to ride out on her horse, which she had tied up in her backyard.
However, the backyard was empty.
The stake to which her horse was tied was pulled out and scattered on the floor, leaving behind only messy hoof prints and blood stains.
Brother Henry hurriedly tried to come out the back door. Lily and Maria push open the door and block it. With one arm sticking out, Henry tried to catch them somehow.
“Friar, please come to your senses…” !”
Mary cried out as she struggled, but Brother Henry was already out of his mind.
He roared and threw up his arms like an angry beast. Cain approached the door and held out his staff. He placed it on the monk’s forehead and then pushed it away.
The monk fell backwards. There was a loud bang, but he stood up again without screaming. His eyes are shiny with madness and his mouth is drooling and laughing. That was until Lily and Maria closed.
“Ah… “
Maria closed her eyes tightly. For a moment she seemed to turn her head away, but then she shook her head and looked ahead of her.
The villagers were approaching from behind. A semicircular siege net was drawn. The net was getting narrower. There was a bang and a knock on the closed door.
If you want to get out, now is the time.
Cain rushed in. Shadows were covering the sky, but it wasn’t completely dark yet. She at least flashed the sword in her left hand, enough to get people’s attention.
Cain deliberately stabbed her sword in the wrong direction. It was an absurd direction, but the villagers frowned at the sunlight reflecting off the blade.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Cain slammed her staff down between her opponent’s neck and collarbone. At the sound of her heavy blow, the sound of bones breaking was heard.
Her opponent is defeated, but she can’t wait to see it through. Because someone else is attacking me from the side.
She swings her staff and shoves at the shoulders of approaching villagers, targeting her upper knees, her inner thighs, her solar plexus and uvula.
There is no screaming. Dull hitting sound. The sound of bones breaking. The only sounds are the sound of the body falling apart and the sound of the body being dragged and forcibly trying to hold on.
Even though she is ‘possessed’ by Roberta, and even though she is crawling towards her with a grin and even drooling over her, her body is still a human body.
I fell, unable to withstand the fighting techniques that threw my body off balance.
A man holding a large butcher knife approached. Even if he wasn’t conscious of it, he seemed to have developed a habit of it, and he had a knife slung over his shoulder that could easily kill a conch.
If you approached it wrongly, you would be cut by that thick blade. The man even has a strong body. As Cain was thinking for a moment, something rushed past him.
It was Lily. She held up a long blunt pole, which she thought might be a flagpole.
A flagpole is a tool used to hang a large flag anytime, anywhere. Therefore, the wood of the flagpole must be hard and sturdy enough to be used as a weapon. Moreover, the end of Lily’s bong even had an iron stopper attached to it.
Lily stuck her rod into her man’s solar plexus. There was a sound of deflating air, and her manly posture collapsed. Just like that, Lily hit her man’s foot with the tip of her pole.
Rather than hitting him, it was closer to trying to crush him. There was a crunching sound, and the big man immediately fell forward.
Still, the man just smiles and crawls across her floor.
“It’s open!”
Maria, who knocked down a villager with a kick, jumped up. Lily ran, swinging her baton to her side. Finally, Cain got out. When I looked back for a moment, I saw Brother Henry smiling brightly and drooling at the open cabin door. But he was crying in his eyes.
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I entered the forest along the trail, but it was shallow. I can’t go any further than the other side of the road. This road goes into a narrow gorge, a narrow place where hoodlums block the road and extort money. A ‘hunter’ would have already prepared for this route.
So Cain, Lily, and Maria climbed up the tall tree. The branches of the trees in the Black Forest were as strong as their trunks. It is so lush that it is not difficult to jump from tree to tree if you want to.
“Okay. “Let’s summarize.”
Cain whispered. Maria let out her sigh.
“It turns out that the gamekeeper who defeated the demon lord was a witch who went crazy, and is there anything else to organize other than mobilizing all the villagers to catch us?”
“Yes. We don’t even have words anymore. And you will never be able to get out this way on foot.”
Cain recalled the turmoil she had experienced before she came to this village. Didn’t the bullies start rolling their tails when they heard the sound of ‘Berta Village’?
“You probably noticed, if not everything, that something strange was going on. Maybe he knows but doesn’t say anything. “If they see the thugs and the earl’s guards fooling around, they’ll all be fooled too.”
In response to Cain’s guess, Mary whispered softly.
“So, what should we do?”
Lily also looked at Cain as if she was curious.
“We need to resolve this with Roberta. Lets think. A hunter skilled enough to catch the Demon Lord would not have let us go without any basis. “Perhaps he can use the senses of all the villagers at will, like he did with Brother Henry.”
“Damn it, what on earth are you doing!”
Maria raised her fist. She looked like she wanted to hit a tree trunk.
“It’s herd hunting.” Lily whispered.
“It seems like we are being hunted down. Excuse me. Movement of villagers… They look like hunting dogs chasing a fox. They are scattered, but not beyond a certain distance. “At the same time, it is spreading as if trying to push it in a specific direction.”
“If we keep going like this, we’ll just get eaten.”
Cain muttered. It is already advantageous to Roberta in many ways, but if she even acts as she intended, then there is really nothing she can do.
“But what should we do? You saw that even holy fire doesn’t work. Brother Henry was not ‘purified’ by fire.”
In response to Mary’s question, Cain recalled the unpleasant trees with her face painted on them. The woman without one of her hands guided us to the clearing where the Knights of the Holy Grail had had an accident.
“What if it was a tree?”
“A tree?”
“The tree that is said to have grown from a human body. If you light that tree on fire… ?”
Maria thought for a moment and nodded her head.
“There is a point. But to do that, you have to go almost through the village or go around it. “It’s exactly the other side from here.”
How can I avoid the eyes of the villagers who are spreading out and searching and the hunters who have lived here for over 10 years and have taken care of the village themselves?
Maria couldn’t think of any solution. That’s why she held her dagger upside down. But I couldn’t stab myself.
“No.”
Lily held onto Maria’s wrist tightly.
“Maria. “No more.”
“There is no way. And the leash is still on. I’m not doing this because I want to do this too. But no matter how you look at it… “
“There is.”
Cain sighed heavily. Lily and Maria looked at Cain. Cain pointed to his bruised arm.
“They said I was ‘broken.’ When I laid my hand on the tree, the tree started spewing out very vile sap.
Whatever it was, it was something very bad and harmful to you, Maria, but that’s why ‘Mother’ burned what was in me… “I didn’t feel anything, and neither did Lily, right?”
“I did. Me too… “There was nothing special.”
Lily also nodded her head. Maria still seemed confused.
“So, what should we do?”
Cain lowered her voice further.
“What happens when an unclean sacrifice goes up to the altar?”