252 – Assault (1)
The day after entering the hideout, Chester, who had received treatment, opened his eyes in a daze and stared at the ceiling of the cave.
As he frowned at the blurry vision, a person’s face appeared in Chester’s field of vision.
“Chester. Woke up?”
“Monia.”
Still confused, Chester heard Monia’s voice in her weeping and reached out her hand and hugged her.
He buries Monia’s face in his own chest and strokes the back of her head.
“Did you cry again?”
“…… No.”
“I cried, but what’s wrong?”
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Monia was silent as Chester patted her on the head.
Monia has lived in an abnormal environment. Castrated from her own self-identity as a child, she grew up as a doll of hers who could only do and say what her duke wanted, which began to grow with her trauma of being abandoned on her deserted island a few years ago. Did.
With a past of growing up in an abnormal environment, she quickly established her self through a shocking experience on an uninhabited island where no civilized society exists.
Survival.
The biggest task left to Monia, who has her self, is neither revenge nor anything else, but survival.
She must have that ability to survive.
To survive, you must have that kind of strength, skills, and tools.
Harsh natural environment that cannot survive without it.
Dangers are everywhere around her, and the environment is unbearable even if she stays still.
Living in such an environment, Monia, who has established her self and grown up, falls in love with Chester, and she quickly develops a relationship from a lover to a married couple.
And, the first bond she made with her own will was very precious to her.
It’ll stick a little more. She becomes a little more dependent. Whether the existence of the duke’s daughter, Monia, was created, or the identity of the abandoned young lady, Monia, was created while holding Chester tightly.
Chester was well aware of that. That’s why she wanted to travel the world.
She hoped to meet more people, make connections, and find her own identity piece by piece from those people, creating her existence as her monia.
However, in the process, Monia was also experiencing confusion.
Accepting people who are different from before, in a different way than before.
She came and she suddenly told a bad story, then Chester got beaten up and her money was taken.
There are also people who hand out huge favors to them just for the illusion that she has gone through something similar.
She met Chester’s past ties and even had the shocking experience that Chester couldn’t even remember the names of her hometown friends, and that her own country was in the flames of war because of her own father’s desire. I’ve also heard that he got caught up in it and disappeared.
I also had the experience of a strange person with no name who didn’t even remember how to kill them with a grudge that I couldn’t even remember, and I had the experience of destroying a city. I also had the experience of jumping in and helping out.
Malice without reason, goodwill without reason, resentment and revenge without memory, loss of the country…….
Monia went through all the huge events she had to go through in a lifetime, the huge events that she wouldn’t have to go through in a lifetime, all in a short time.
Because she is like that, she is shocked and shaken a lot.
She is living her life laughing, but she is screaming out of sight.
Because her world comes too big and too heavy for her.
That’s why she wants to raise her own value in such a world.
She wants to become a more capable person.
Hoping that Chester will continue to look at him and love him in this difficult world.
She wants to learn her skills by finding weapons and tools for herself. She works hard
But she’s originally a worldly business, and even though she works hard, everything doesn’t lead to good results.
On the floating island, there would have been a high probability that hard work would lead to good results.
Nature is very complex and vast, but its principles lead to survival and reproduction.
All life lives looking at it.
That’s why, if you live with them, you can very simply step on the rules of the world and enjoy it.
That’s why hard work comes with results.
If you learn knowledge, you can use it to produce good results, and if you learn skills, you can use it to produce better results.
But human society is a different story.
Too complex and entangled, forgetting the simple principle of life and running strangely.
The greatest of these is greed.
Desire makes people ugly.
The wise king made a stepping stone to destroy the country, and the greedy duke stepped on that step to start a war and finally drive the country to ruin, and to this day it is in the hands of other countries full of desire to take over the land. You will be harassed.
It shouldn’t have been necessary, but I made it that way because of his desire.
Chester hated desire.
Of course, Chester also has desires. He didn’t deny it. Desire is an inseparable part of human life.
However, it was a different story if it was greed that was so huge that it devoured itself and made it ugly.
“Monia.”
“Huh?”
“Is it difficult?”
“… ….”
It wasn’t just the fact that Chester was hurt by her choice that made Monia difficult.
Those emotions that everyone feels in life.
That feeling that everyone can realize.
Life is hard.
It’s hard.
Even breathing is tiring.
That very emotion was overtaking Monia.
Chester thought it would be good for him to go through that feeling as well, so he just watched Monia.
And now, he wondered if Monia, who had been watching like that, had reached a limit.
“Shall we go back? To the island.”
Chester’s low question.
On an island where no one lives, only they live.
Monia quietly closed her eyes and imagined such a future.
Her happy past, which had already been vaguely felt, overlapped with the future, and delivered a soft peace to Monia’s heart, which was full of her anxiety.
In the morning, he walks through the forest, observes the changes around him, then goes to the river to look for traps. If you catch a fish, it’s good, if you don’t catch it, it’s a pity, but there’s nothing you can do. You can enjoy delicious fish on the day it is caught.
After breakfast with preserved food and fish that I got yesterday and made simply, it’s time to go hunting while looking at the traps.
Once the management of the traps is over, the daily routine begins. After looking at the to-do list that I organized yesterday and the to-do list that I learned from looking at the time this morning, I start my day after thinking about what to do in what order.
Sometimes I spend time laying out and managing tools, sometimes I learn and practice new knowledge or skills, and sometimes I have nothing to do so I spend time leisurely enjoying the wind and sunshine and singing.
Happy, blissful times.
Suddenly, Monia wanted to go back to the island without realizing it.
Of course, since we don’t know where the island is, it might take a long time to get back, but… I wanted to go back.
‘… ….’
She thought for a while, but Monia stopped her tears and looked at her own heart.
What does she want to do herself?
* * *
Water hiding in caves In the hideout of people, of course, a delivery method is needed to deliver various items necessary for life.
To that end, some of the water people completely cut their hands off the water people work, spread out to several villages, find jobs that are not unusual even with a large amount of supplies in those villages, and work while simultaneously sending supplies to shelters. Do
Some send weapons and clothes, some send food, some send herbs, etc.
In this way, the water people spread across the continent, collecting and sharing information from all over the continent, fighting against the hands that were targeting them.
However, everything has an end.
The recently captured water people resisted steadfastly, but in the end, they could not overcome the continued torture and opened their mouths one by one.
No matter how strong your mental power is, you cannot overcome the torture unless your mental power is strong enough to be insane.
Torture isn’t just about inflicting pain, it’s about cutting the heart and soul.
Of course, I don’t trust the information that comes out of my mouth forced open because of the pain.
I ask several people for the same information, and when they get an answer, I keep cross-validating it to see if it’s true or not.
What if everyone gave a set false answer? So what if you actually went to a place known for information, but what if it was empty?
Now, a hell where you can never die unfolds. The simplest example is nail plucking.
Pull out your nails. If you wait, pick it up again. Wait and pull again. Because nails keep growing.
They don’t even give you time to get used to the pain. It takes a long time for nails to grow, so by the time you pull out the newly grown nails, you have already forgotten about the pain of having them removed.
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So, I feel the pain vividly again and my fingernails are pulled out.
The never-ending pain is what makes the truth spew from the tightly locked mouth.
“I see. Three horses. Two other continental horses and one Tongdan continental horse. Those two look like horses from the Matoto Continent…….”
“How do you know?”
“They pay attention to beauty and have a lot of cool and pretty words. Especially long legs. Even horses of similar size can be recognized by the difference in leg length.”
Rowan drew his weapon while explaining to the men his employer had recently given him.
“Then, let’s go.”
“Looks like a pretty good horse, should I take that one?”
“That’s right.”
On that day, water people who were hiding their identities on one side of the continent were arrested.