Chapter 27 The Village that Remained the Same (2/2)

[Papa, welcome home. I’ve been a very good child, you know]

[Really?……Good girl.]

The cute girl was also fairly sensitive to her father’s trouble.

[Papa has become bald somehow, Papa…are you alright？]

[Yeah, it will regrow in time…. for sure.]

[I see]

After asking about why he lost his hair, Seto’s daughter stared at me in curiosity.

[Papa, who is this person？]

[About that……]

In the village’s point of view, I’m nothing but a food now.

What will Seto tell to his daughter?

[This person, is called Fate, and he came here to defeat the monsters. He’s a super strong guy.]

[Really!?]

His daughter looked at me in awe. Then she gradually began to cry. Perhaps, she’s reminded of her mother who was killed by the monsters.

It was dinner time when his daughter finally settled down.

In Seto’s absence, she said that the village chief had given her foods. To this little girl, her grandfather and grandmother was scary, she told her father that she was always scared when eating.

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[That was bad indeed. I’ll be here from today onward.]

[Yaay, I love you Papa！]

Looking at this sight, I told Seto what’s in my mind quite frankly.

[You……have changed.]

This guy who threw dog shit and stones at me in the past. He’s now a fairly good father.

Seto had a sorry look upon hearing my words.

[At that time, I was but a kid. It was what father…… village chief had said, so I took it at face value. After my daughter was born, I started to think a little differently……I guess, I did changed.]

However, even if 1 Seto had changed, it means nothing if the rest of the villagers didn’t. This village needed to refresh their way of thinking, only then they could start over.

The meal wasn’t that good. It was just grains put inside the juice of wild plants, then boiled together. It couldn’t be said as fine dish. However, it did have a nostalgic taste in it. My father used to cook this food for me.

[Are you guys still eating this?]

[Aye, this village is still poor even after you have left. In body and mind.]

Unable to become rich, staying poor, made their mind deteriorate. In a way, it was good that I left this village back then.

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While eating the porridge, I listened to Seto’s story. Mainly about the monster’s attacks.

He said that the monster had grown wings, and is able to fly. Troublesome.

It was the size of goblin. Had sharp fingernails, and horns on its head.

Because it attacked from the sky, it’s nearly impossible to escape it.

[How many of them are there？]

[No idea. But only one has been sighted so far.]

Having heard enough, I reached out to Greed.

[What do you think?]

『Perhaps it’s a gargoyle. A fairly smart monster. Only one will attack to judge the situation. Then, they will attack en masse when the time comes.』

[That’s one bad monster……when do you think that time is?]

『At night. When it’s cloudy and there is no moonlight, those thing likes pitch dark night.』

[…………Wait a minute]

Wasn’t it rather cloudy today? The moon would be blocked if it is.

Also, there was also what that villager had said. Yesterday, they heard monster’s cry from the forest.

Could it be..

My conversation with Greed, to others would seem like I was talking to myself. Therefore, Seto and his daughter’s face had become weird and indescribable. But it’s not the time to think about that, there was something more important.

After a while, the bad premonition came true.

From outside, I began hearing cries one after another.

When I thought that things had become troublesome, Greed said something funny.

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『Fate, how about it? To appease the gargoyles will you be the sacrificial, bait, bait！』

[Are you kidding me? I’ll go outside.]