Episode 144 I raised a tiger cub! (2)
Lois looked at the bodies of the dead orcs with emotionless eyes and lightly waved her hand.
Kwajak-.
A short sound of destruction was heard, and a black space appeared and swallowed up the orc corpse.
After completely removing the orc’s body, he turned his attention to the family lying on one side.
‘No matter how basic it is, they come in without even being lightly armed.’
The Nokchi Mountains are said to be a place where various races and hermits live together, but there were also a variety of monsters.
In particular, the deep mountain range was a rough terrain where ordinary beings could not easily set foot.
The entrance to the mountain range, where humans traveled to and from the mountain range, was safe, but it was still more dangerous than other areas.
However, didn’t the family lying there enter the mountain range without any decent weapons?
Weak, unarmed humans were nothing more than good food for monsters.
Lois approached them.
Unlike the man who had already died, the middle-aged woman was still alive.
She narrowed her eyes and looked at Lois.
“that… ah… … .”
It seemed like he wanted to say something.
Also, it was not difficult to know what he wanted to say.
Lois asked, looking at the woman.
“Are you asking for my child?”
In response to that question, the woman nodded slightly.
A red-haired girl who fainted in a woman’s arms.
The child looked to be just 6 or 7 years old.
Lois took the child out of the woman’s arms.
Lois opened her mouth as she looked at her mother’s fading eyes.
“I’m not in a position to take care of anyone yet, so I can’t say I will definitely take responsibility.”
“… … .”
The mother’s eyes became earnest as she heard Lois’ words.
Lois responded with a sigh.
“However, I will help this child often until he can stand on his own.”
“ah… … .”
“What is the child’s name?”
To Lois’ question, her mother answered while holding her breath.
“lee… ah.”
A short word.
That was the end.
The woman lost her breath with a smile of relief on her lips.
Lois just stared at the woman blankly.
At that time, Finn hanging on Lois’ shoulder asked.
“What are you going to do?”
Lois, who ran away from Valentina, suddenly picked up a human child.
He scratched his cheek while looking at the child in his arms.
“Anyway, I already said I would help, so I guess I should help.”
“Are you going to raise that child?”
“Are you crazy? Why am I raising him? The kids I raised were enough of a nuisance twin. “It’s hard for me to even take care of my own body.”
“then… … ?”
“I heard there’s a village near here anyway? “I’ll leave it to you.”
“aha!”
“If you give them a reasonable amount of gold, there will be someone who will become your guardian. Since it’s close there, I come by whenever I can and check on the situation. “Honestly, this is enough for a stranger I just met today, right?”
If you hadn’t seen it, you wouldn’t know it, but wouldn’t it be very uncomfortable to leave behind a child who lost his parents?
Therefore, Lois planned to find a suitable guardian for the child in a nearby village and leave him there.
“Let’s see, then the nearest village is…” … .”
Since I already came out to visit a recently created village, going there wouldn’t be a bad choice.
Just as Lois was about to take her steps.
“huh?”
Lois’ gaze returned.
“Why are you doing this?”
“It’s human.”
Lois sensed a presence approaching nearby.
“It looks like we weren’t the only ones who heard the screams.”
Lois mumbled and looked at the sleeping child.
‘I guess you wouldn’t have sold porridge even if it wasn’t for me.’
Looking at the speed of those approaching, it seemed like they would arrive within a few seconds.
Additionally, the energy I felt was a little stronger than that of an ordinary person.
In other words, they were people who had trained attribute powers.
Enough to handle a few orcs lightly.
While Lois was laughing, humans appeared, just as he said.
Rustling-.
Three men emerged from the nearby bushes.
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They appeared to be hunters from a nearby village, as they were wearing various weapons, bows, and animal furs.
They looked slightly surprised when they saw the couple’s corpse.
The men hurriedly rushed over and examined the wounds of the dead couple.
“… “I got hit by a monster.”
“It’s a face I haven’t seen around here.”
“It appears that quite a few of the residents of the territory fled after a riot broke out in the territory two days away. “I heard there are a few people in the village across the street who ran away like that.”
“Tsk tsk.”
The men were talking amongst themselves and asked Lois.
“What happened?”
Lois, slightly concerned about the question, answered.
“I was attacked by an orc.”
“But what about the orcs?”
“I don’t know. “You suddenly ran away?”
Rather than saying she handled it herself, Lois chose to just ignore it.
The hunters gave a puzzled look at those words.
“The orcs ran away?”
“yes.”
The hunters swept their chins.
Soon their complexions hardened.
“This is dangerous… … .”
“If the orcs run away… “There’s a dangerous guy around here.”
“Did some ogre or troll species come down here?”
“Let’s move faster than that. “If the top predators have really come down, it’s quite dangerous here.”
Those who made that decision spoke to Lois.
“Bring your younger brother and follow me.”
“to?”
Lois flinched and made an embarrassed expression.
‘what? This isn’t it… … .’
He just wanted to leave the child to them.
However, things were going strangely.
While Lois was confused, the bearded man who seemed to be the leader of the hunters gave instructions.
“You and I will take care of the dead.”
“yes? older brother!”
“They are children. “Shouldn’t we at least let them have their parents’ funeral?”
“under… All right.”
A fellow hunter let out a long sigh and picked up the body.
When Lois saw this, a look crossed her eyes.
‘Hoo?’
Monsters are sensitive to the smell of blood.
It was quite dangerous to take a body that smelled of blood in a forest like this.
Seeing him take such risks and even prepare the bodies for his children and hold a funeral for them, he didn’t seem like a particularly bad person.
“What are you doing! “Hurry, follow me!”
Lois was worried when she saw the bearded man gesturing towards her.
‘What should I do with this…? … .’
Things turned out a little strange… … .
‘Well, I was planning to go anyway.’
So Lois followed the hunters, holding the red-haired child.
Two hours later.
Muong-.
Lois sat on the chair and looked blankly at the door.
‘no… Why doesn’t someone who said he was going out for a while come back!?’
The hunter’s village was about an hour away from the site of the orc attack.
A small village with about 20 houses clustered together.
As soon as they arrived there, the hunter took Lois to his house and went out.
He said there was something he had to take care of urgently.
Thanks to this, Lois had to sit blankly in the house of a man she had never seen before.
“pin.”
“yes!”
“You go and tell your mother. “I am here.”
“yes!”
After the previous runaway incident, whenever Lois was away for a long period of time, she always reported her location through a pin.
Otherwise, there will be chaos at home again.
How long has it been since Finn left?
Lois looked down at the sleeping child.
‘this child… … .’
There was a strange feeling in Lois’ gaze looking down at the child.
And that moment.
“Umm… … .”
The red-haired child lying in bed slowly opened his eyes.
Lois and the child’s eyes meet.
“… … .”
“… … .”
The two look at each other in silence.
The child was the first to open his mouth.
“… who are you?”
At this, Lois sighed softly.
‘I know… ‘Who is it?’
Who am I and where am I… … .
How did this happen?
Lois, who had suddenly become the child’s guardian, asked while stroking the child’s head.
“Are you Leah?”
“… yes.”
“I am… hmm… “Can I say he was a handsome older brother who was passing by?”
When Lois introduces herself like that.
Druk-.
Finally, the door opened and the landlord appeared.
“I’m sorry. “The meeting got longer.”
It seems that the villagers were discussing among themselves the top predator that had come down to the base of the mountain range.
Without knowing that a truly scary being was sitting right in front of him.
Seeing the bearded man coming in while saying that, Lia sneakily hid behind Lois.
Anyone can see that they are wary of the bearded man.
Therefore, Lois was a little dumbfounded.
‘When did this little boy cling to me like this?’
However, Lois couldn’t separate the child who depended on her, so she just left it alone.
On the other hand, the bearded man didn’t say anything, perhaps because he took Lia’s reaction for granted.
Instead, he brought a chair in front of Lois and sat down, asking.
“My name is Jack.”
“I’m Lois.”
“okay… “What do you plan to do now?”
“well.”
Jack looked surprised at the voice being so calm.
At this point, Lois corrected his misunderstanding.
“Because I have nothing to do with this child.”
“huh? “What does that mean?”
“That’s literally it. “I’m not this child’s family or anything?”
“Ha, but why were we together earlier?”
“It’s a similar reason. I only went because I heard screaming. “It’s just that I arrived before them.”
“Well, is that so… … . I thought we were brother and sister for sure… … .”
“Where are you looking?”
There was clearly no resemblance between Lois and the red-haired child.
Nevertheless, the reason Jack saw them as brother and sister was because the girl was not wary of Lois.
“Anyway, for that reason, I will just stand up. “You saved the child, so you can take care of this child.”
It was something that could be said to be quite callous.
But Jack couldn’t catch Lois.
This is because I could not tell a boy who still looked young to take responsibility for the child.
But instead of Jack, there was a hand that grabbed Lois.
“brother… … .”
Two small, white hands held Lois’s hand.
Lois looked down at the red-haired kid who was looking up at her.
“brother… “Can’t I go?”
It was a child’s voice filled with earnestness and sorrow.
As Lois stood there without shaking off the child’s hand, Jack sighed and said,
“Like you said, I will take charge of this child. Still, he relies on you so much, so wouldn’t you stay with him for a few days? “At least the child can make up his mind.”
At Jack’s request, Lois looked at the child in silence.
‘under… … .’
Lois sighed inwardly.
If someone had grabbed me by force, I would have shaken it off without a single thought.
But look at those young eyes.
Lois was slowly feeling weak.
and.
‘This little guy… ‘I feel strangely touched.’
At first, I didn’t think much of it, but as time went by, I started to feel something strange about the little boy named Lia.
A little while ago, I felt something strangely bothering me.
‘There’s something, but I don’t know exactly what it is.’
Lois’ intuition was speaking.
That there was something between this little boy and himself.
Because of this, he agonized over whether to leave or stay.
Royce seemed to have thought about it at least 200 times in 30 seconds.
He made a decision.
‘Just watch and you’ll know.’
I thought it would be better to find out what the unknown feeling was rather than leaving behind an unpleasant feeling.
Lois answered, scratching her cheek.
“what… “Just a few days.”
The child’s face brightened at his answer.
Lois didn’t know that day.
How will this relationship that you have created continue to flow?
fantasy,
