Chapter 38: Lets Go! (3) (1/2)
Chapter 38: Let’s Go! (3)
“I heard later that there was some trouble at the Shahnaz camp,” Eshnuna said inally two candidates for Shahnaz’s succession: Shahnaz Hawa and her older sister Shahnaz Hayi However, a couple of days before the D-Day, they heard reports that Hayi had suddenly deserted the camp, and the Shahnaz camp couldn’t find her anywhere
“I ry she must have felt Not only was her position stolen by Hawa, but she had to also become a sacrifice in a cere…that Ms Hawa’s sister had brought the broken beings to coe?”
“That’s probably what happened” Eshnunna stared at the empty space before her “The day before the attack, the only ones who knew of the plan were the recruits, me, and a couple of people fros had ambushed the recruits the day before the D-Day
“Of course, Hayi could have simply failed to understand Shakira and run away But whatever her intention was, there’s a high possibility that she was connected to the first arrival of the broken beings”
Chi-Woo fuh his memories
[I want to live Let me live, have mercy…!]
[Help! Granny…! Please…!]
[You da—!]
[I will kill them! Kill them all! I will kill this damn bitch and shred the rest of you to pieces—!]
He nodded, recalling what the vengeful spirit that possessed Hawa had screaeful spirit’s true identity was Shahnaz Hayi, Eshnunna’s story held validity
“Then the fifth recruits…”
“Most of theed away”
“Dragged away? Where to?”
“Those beings had a deep interest in the existence of heroes and a slight fear of the unknown”
Although Chi-Woo hadn’t directly talked to these beings, he rey he felt when he touched a cursed being It was enough to make the hair all over his body stand on end, and he still res desire only one thing: they want ather as many creatures from other Worlds as possible and further increase their number,” Eshnunna said “In other words, they want er?”
“That’s essentially what I’ve been doing I gather as many animals as I can find, take care of theht he ained composure and asked, “But if their purpose isn’t to kill the this? What is their purpose…?”
“I don’t know,” Ehnunna replied sih I don’t knohy they do what they do, and I shouldn’t be privy to the knowledge”
“…”
“Do you know the situation we’re in on Liber?” Eshnunna asked apropos of nothing after Chi-Woo fell into silence
“We are livestock, no different froed beasts” Just like animals, they were to be tamed and raised in a confined community “Of course, for livestock, we receive quite superb treat as we serve them, while a majority of our people had died in the attack” The current population on Liber is less than 10 of what it was Taking into account those who are imprisoned or kept in confine population
“Considering that,” Eshnunna said, “How do you think those beings would see heroes like you, who have come from other worlds?”
“…How?”
“As food, you’re the ultimate delicacy, difficult to hunt As pets, you’re the ultra-rare exotic pets” Eshnunna shrugged “Where do you think that leaves us then? We’re neither special nor rare, and we can’t do anything e forto figure out what they are thinking and angering them in the process, we have to show the all their orders” Eshnunna’s sleeful, but empty and helpless instead “That’s the only e can stay on their good side and receive our treats”
Chi-Woo let out the breath he had been holding Although he had a rough idea, the situation was ht In Earth’s ters, cats, chickens, and cows No, considering everything he had heard up to this point, that y They were probably at the bottom of the lowest level of the food chain, and the same was true of the hero recruits With their powers stripped away, they weren’t much different from the natives
“Were the sixth recruits not much different from the fifth?”
“They were a bit different” Eshnunna snorted “I had so with the sixth recruits, the fifth recruits were practically saints in comparison” Not only were their abilities nullified, but their personality and behavior also left h He didn’t kno terrible the sixth recruits were, but there was so else he needed to know
“What happened to them?”
“What do you mean?”
“Are they still alive? Or were they like the fifth recruits…”
Eshnunna huffed out a soft breath and shook her head “I can’t…say for certain, but I did take all of thes” Unlike the fifth recruits, a very small number of whom had survived, she had turned over all the sixth recruits alive
‘Why?’ Chi-Woo wondered about the difference between them, and the answer came to his feared the high place where the fifth hero recruits came from Why would they have captured the sixth recruits with this fear of the unknown?
an evil spirit would do</e about the fifth recruits scared them Then he recalled the hero from the fifth recruits he heard had disappeared—the sorcerer who first realized the nature of the broken beings According to other people, the hero clais; however, it was difficult to tell if that was the truth There was a good possibility that the sorcerer could feel their fear and finish so Eshnunna reign in control while keeping watch fro independently in risky situations, and as when convenient
with the natives, the sorcerer could be going after the anized the inforained frouys were certainly no idiots, nor were they sieful spirits that only acted upon their instincts Perhaps they were capable of for in co after gathering the recruits Chi-Woo gave the thought some time