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The weather was getting more and more cold.
Giant Sun flies high, the cloud layer appears dim and illusory, more and more yellow streaks appear when the day and night alternately sky, the star light appears cold bright, all sorts of signs are showing, this will be one also will want the cold winter compared with the old times.
But the homeless people have been very unendurable such winter.
„Red nose Tom” holds one bunch of firebrands that is collecting with great difficulty, walks lamely on returning to the road in inhabit region, the Frost Month cold wind blows from the north, periphery the volume crosses the sparse forest and low hillside, blows on the face, rinses in the collar, making his as if whole person soak in cold water that in a basin cools gradually.
He is 17-year-old young people, under the Ainz law, he has grown up, however the long-term malnutrition lets him and most people of the same age is equally thin diminutive, seems to be underage from the build general, the face that only then that becomes dark roughly and numb eye has been able to reveal that gradually his true age, as well as reveals his bad living environment.
He has been able to see the inhabit region, said is an inhabit region, in fact in a flake crude camp situated in Southern Region mountain forest, even even/including Yingdi said that is very reluctant: Some low tattered tents and stone pile of accumulations here, the surroundings gathered round a similarly tattered stockade and thorn, the Tanzan mine little odd/surplus lineage/vein who extended to the southeast have formed a low barrier here, forced to hide the pitiful people here provides the asylum of most basic to resist from the northern cold wind, let in the winter later some, making here person live was slightly longer.
Tom holds the firebrand to walk into the camp, what sees is in pairs an indifferent soulless eye, here is gathering 26 households and 102 people, but several days ago this digit is 109. Most people are the refugees who runs away from the condor lead(er), occurred makes these people be homeless there floods, the remaining people come from Southern Region each Viscount territory, for various reasons loses the poor who the land, loses the asylum.
They wander between cities or the villages and small towns, was driven away and been arrested to plunder, kills by the local feudal lord or the local wild animal, or dies is cold and hungry, Southern Region is barren, most lands are hard to provide for more population, but regarding these only knows that blows the aristocrat who takes the blood and sweat from the land and serf, any wanders the refugee in own territory is disgusting mouth that needs to eat meal, therefore the refugees can only choose „settling down” finally in the wilderness.
Tom found place that oneself have stopped over, that is a tattered small tent this is very good condition, because is not each family has the tent, many people already lost almost all belongings in the going into exile process, they can only rest in the tree root or Shiwoli, is binding the tattered clothes or one weeds gets by, but small tent that reason that Tom can also have keeping out wind and rain, completely is because he and his elder sister's sickle and bow and arrow also.
The fire of high-piled firewood before tent has extinguished, but did not have at nightfall now, therefore Tom held in the fuel the tent, after waiting for the eye to adapt to inside darkness, he noticed that a bright eye is looking at itself in the darkness.
„Elder sister,” Tom looks to that black hair girl, „I had not found the mushroom, only found these fuels.”
Black hair girl is in a daze, after several seconds, suddenly said: „The two children of Pomme Family/Home starved to death.”
„......” Tom is complying in a low voice, sits down in the darkness, several seconds later, in a low voice said that „today...... Has to eat?”
Black hair girl is in a daze once more, in the Tom heart has cannot help but had an ominous premonition, but a small meeting, black hair girl suddenly has actually moved the half body, tried to find out that the same thing lost.
That is only the build not big pheasant, but also brings the fresh smell of blood just in filling various unusual smells tents, Tom has not realized its existence completely.
An emaciated pheasant is insufficient the bellies of filling sister and brother two people completely, particularly in they can only have this food under every day the premise, but this still made Tom be in high spirits: Compared with roasting the mushroom and roasts the moss, the meats can support a longer time in this even more cold weather, he joyfully: „Did you project on the thing?! We do not need to be hungry today!”
„Will exit gives the chicken to pluck to take the hunting knife,” black hair girl said lightly, „belt/bring in conspicuous place.”
„Un!” Tom makes an effort to nod, but even more adapts to the darkness in tent along with him, he noted on oneself elder sister finally exceptionally she always lay down by a strange posture in the corner, the physical strength of speech obviously was also ordinary, Tom had the ominous premonition to gather up to go, finally saw elder sister shoulder nearby bloodstain, as well as was incapable of hanging down in the body side arm, „was elder sister, you injured?!”
„Was nipped by a wild dog, injured the muscle,” the black hair girl sound shivered finally, „I...... Had no way to go hunting.”
As if one bucket of ice water from the beginning sprinkle, the Tom flash from the beginning as cold has no way as the sole with the blade, has no way to draw, the injury of arm means that can the elder sister who goes to the grove to go hunting lose the ability of gain food only, but this also means them...... Must die without doubt.
Everyone is having an empty stomach, is impossible to have anybody to help oneself sister and brother, lost all people regarding these, even if only on the hands and feet the small injury, the losing labor force of very short time, is the fatal threats!
Let alone, is been extremely easy to infect by the person who the wild dog bites, but once in this case infects, is impossible to rescue.
„I......” Tom clenched teeth, set firm resolve, „tomorrow I am bringing the bow and arrow......”
„Do not go,” black hair girl said harshly, her line of sight falls on Tom's foot, „you went, did not come back, goes to the grove to go hunting to be possible with pick the fuel to be different in neighbor!”
Tom is not inborn cripple, his leg by the knight interruption of feudal lord family/home, because that knight went to the church to listen to preaching, Priest of Blood God sect said that only then broke a leg of man personally, can let the skill in martial arts and courage breakthrough bottleneck, therefore knight Lord without hesitation broke Tom's leg to compensate half pocket wheat afterward.
„I will put the trap,” Tom persists in saying, „how I am distinguishing the trace of bear and wolf, will go round......”
„But if you die outside, I definitely will also die,” black hair girl is staring at Tom's eyes stubbornly, „goes to the grove to pick the mushroom, looks for the tree root following tree seed and fruit, really not good......”
What to do really isn't good can? She does not know.
Tom is biting the lip, is pondering diligently, finally said the fermentation for a long time idea: „We can...... Looks for here feudal lord......”
„How did you forget everybody to lead in Carroll to be driven away?” Black hair girl said severely, „the present is Frost Month, month that no longer the cultivation, is hard to hunt, aristocrat Lords will not allow in the territory to be many at this time, even if a mouth!”
„That......” Tom thinks, said hesitant, „perhaps in the mine needs the slave Tanzan Town feudal lord to have a big mine, even if Frost Month, the mine also needs the slave laborer......”
„Can you be the slave laborer?” Black hair girl is staring at Tom's leg, „I have no way to work now, you have no way, even if they want the slave, will not want our!”
„Does that walk toward south again? Heard that the Clearwater River south side is the Cecil Family new development territory, development that place, should lack the people of various working...... I will at least tan hide.”
„Have not thought that” on haystack that black hair girl deep sigh tone, the eye depends on finally at a loss backward putrefy, „aristocrat Lords...... Is same......”
The wind of howling blows again from the north, has curled this dreary poor camp.
Hungrily and made the people stop in one day coldly the only activity, everybody rolled up to own tent or the haystack in abundance, came to reduce the loss of stamina and quantity of heat in this way as far as possible, but in this process, the camp was gradually peaceful.
But beside the camp, in the dense woods, some shadows of rocking is actually gathering slightly.
They are having all kinds of actually especially excellent arming, the body does not have any unified marking, they gather in groups in the mountain forest, is away from the trees and dim light of night is fixing the eyes on that small settlement.
Like is gazing at the hyena of prey in the darkness, is eyeful greedy and hungry.
......
In the Cecil territory feudal lord tent, Gawain received the report of Philip.
„A refugee rallying point? North Clearwater River, east in Tanzan mine mountain forest?”
„Yes, Sir,” young knight nods saying that „should Knight Byron come to report to you, but he in the mountain in ruins is exploring, the news changed to here.”
Gawain puts down the dipping pen in hand: „Is scale much big? Has sent for contacting?”
Meanwhile in his heart an excitement: After makes a connection with the news way in all directions, the investigators finally start to discover refugee living point that these hide!
„Scale is not big, probably 100 people, but may contact other refugee living points through them,” Knight Philip replied, „, but our people have not contacted with them...... Because is a little troublesome.”
„Troublesome?” A Gawain brow wrinkle.
„Some militants of unknown origin are moving nearby that living point, perhaps waits for starting mercenary ‚catches Nudui’,” on the Philip face to reveal sentiment of the loathing, „news that according to passing on, that batch of person arming very excellent, determined that has unusual profession, even possibly one to two Spellcaster assumes personal command, but the rank is unclear.”
„Does Extraordinary of plural number assume personal command?” Gawain is a little slightly surprised, „this mercenary team strength.”
Knight Philip nods: „Sir, how to handle?”
„Naturally is...... Goes should by the citizen belt/bring of Cecil Family asylum to come back these,” Gawain smiles, „east of the Tanzan mine, south of various noble territory mountainous regions, plains, jungle as well as the rivers, all are the places of without owner, in south this place, so long as is the without owner, that is Cecil Family!” 8)
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