Chapter 126 (1/2)

The Second Prince's Hopes

My uest was a small boy

His dark skin and eyes rabbed my hand with his face full of tears

“Please! Come with me! I-It's my dad-!!”

“!!”

I pro

“Lord Johan, I'll come with you!”

”I'hts”

I quickly refuted Herman, who had stood up, ready to follow me, and dashed out of the house The boy's hand never leftunusual after a while When the sun had set, everything becae It sounded like a fight had broken out

I stared into the darkness In the middle of er's backs

“You plagued bastard!”

A scream could be heard from within the crowd

With the situation as dire as it is, there's still soht? No, that's probably not what's happening

I suppressed the urge to sigh First things first: let's get to the boy's father I'll settle the fight later

Deciding so, we headed straight for the boy's ho towards the centre of the ruckus

“Hey, that way is-”

“Quickly! My dad is going to be killed!”

“!?”

I was left in shock fro'?

In other words, so how the boy's attention was glued to the crowd, the rest of the circumstances were obvious

“You stay here”

I let go of the boy's hand and pushed h the crowd

There were two er while the other had dark skin and see the latter is the boy's father

The younger ers at him

“Give ive you!”

“That's le snippet of their conversation ue

The supplies that we gave out were already a source of discord The state of this village seeht

“Do you hear how shameless you sound?! If you hadn't come out of the forest, none of this would've happened! Whether it bemother, or how I'm stuck in this hellhole, it's all your fault!”

“Like hell it is!”

Thebullshi+t! Didn't you know that the disease only started spreading ever since you all came here!?”

“If you want the real reason, it's because you lot started cutting down the trees! We didn't want to haul our asses into the town either! But you destroyed all of our forests and left us with nothing!”

“You're saying it's our fault!?”

“Stop it!”

I forced my way in-between the tho looked like they were about to start another round

“Please calm down and cool off your heads”

I keptfurther conflict, but that didn't see man was determined to push me out of the way to reach the old man

“It's none of your business! Get lost!”

“I will not leave Blae the situation you're in, would it?”

“Then what do I have to do to change it?!”

The youngout his frustrations

“Every sick fae deep in the forest, abandoned by the country! Can't you see that this is all their fault!?”

“Y-Yeah, it's because of the people in this dauys weren't here…”

A voice ca words of the people joining in with the youngat the dark-skinnedintent clear as day

This is bad, I muttered in my heart The buildup of the people's frustrations, fear, and anxiety had reached the boiling point, and they were directing it all towards the villagers Nothing orse than a group of people in stressful situations that were about to crack

“Get out…”

With that s

Then another one This time, it was clear he wanted to throw it at full force The people's rew

“Get the hell away from our faces!”

A small stone hit the dark-skinned man's lifted arms as he tried to protect himself

Thehim

“Kuh-!”

A stone hit ed out my left eye After the initial pain, the war down my cheeks was very apparent The thick liquid had rendered ht eye, I scanned for the person who threw the stone Everyone seeht of my injury that their demonic expressions from before had completely disappeared It looked like they had simmered down a bit

“Please calm down”

I repeated the same words as before

This time, the words finally arrived I told the to children

“The country has not forsaken you”

My words shook the populace

I was sure that, for each of the betrayed again were clashi+ng fiercely

“The Second Prince, Nacht von Elster, is currently trying his hardest to save all of you”

“Prince Nacht…?”