Chapter 530
Raon raised his gaze, clutching at his pounding chest.
Unlike the small and cozy village view that came to mind a while ago, the village of Capoli was sophisticated, but there were large buildings.
If it grows a little more, it can be called a small city. It was completely different from the image of the village in my hazy memory.
However, the shape of the ridge rising as if overlooking the town of Capoli and the sunset that seemed to be caught between them matched perfectly with the memory that suddenly bloomed.
It felt like different paintings drawn by other people were overlapping into one.
‘Are you sure… .’
Raon pressed down his bluish lips.
‘This is the town I lived in.’
Just as muddy water soars when you play footsteps in a valley, the past of your previous life, which was immersed in the depths of the sea of memories, slowly comes to mind.
This must have been the town where I had spent my childhood before being kidnapped.
‘That’s why I was used to everything.’
The feeling of familiarity when the village of Capoli popped out of Siris who was manipulating the caller, the natural walking of the trail on the way to this place, the feeling of being convinced by seeing the ridge seen from the entrance of the village, all of which I felt confident in this village. because he lived in
‘Ugh… .’
Along with a strong headache, new memories stimulate the brain. young men and women. The figures of two people who seemed to be the mother and father of the previous life were drawn.
The faces of mother and father were not visible. Only the hands and mouth were exposed, but the hands of the two were very hard, and the corners of their mouths were hardened as if they were angry.
Then I think of my mother running down the trail with me on her back. The steps were rough. He didn’t seem to care if I was hurt or not.
“under… .”
Raon let out a low sigh while holding his forehead.
‘I thought it was kidnapped, but maybe it was sold.’
He had comforted himself that he was not abandoned by his parents, but kidnapped by a shadow, but it seems that was not the case.
Nausea comes out. Regret that I came here for no reason and saw the dirty memories rushes like a wave. My stomach ached as if ants were eating my heart.
‘Damn it… .’
As I was clutching my throbbing hair, I heard a low voice from behind.
“Where are you uncomfortable?”
Raon hurriedly turned his back. An old man with a benevolent expression bent over him and smiled.
‘I didn’t know even though the general public approached… .’
The old man did not feel even the slightest bit of mana. He is an ordinary person who has not even entered martial arts. My emotions were so strong that I didn’t even know that such an old man was approaching.
“… it’s okay.”
Raon spat out the thick voice of a middle-aged man to match the appearance he was camouflaging.
“Hmm, I don’t think this is our first visit.”
“Why do you think so… .”
“path.”
The old man turned around and pointed to the trail he had just passed.
“People who come to the village for the first time walk on the wide road, not on that trail.”
He smiled lightly and held out his hand.
“Chief of Capoli Village. It’s Berurik.”
“It’s called Balen.”
Raon said the alias he had thought of beforehand and took Berric’s hand.
“You must be surprised to see our village after a long time.”
“That’s right.”
I nodded as I thought I could get information about the village from Berulik.
“A lot has changed. Just a little longer and it will be worthy of being called a city.”
He looked around the town and gave a satisfied glance.
“Why has the town of Capoli grown so big?”
“Of course it’s not because of the iron ore mine.”
“Iron ore mine?”
“hmm? Don’t you know that too? The mine was discovered a long time ago… .”
Berulik tilted his head, saying that it was a mine discovered when he was young.
“I’ve been here a few times, but I didn’t really know because I just passed by every time.”
“Then I guess I’ll have to explain!”
He came to the side with a smile as if his mouth was itchy because he wanted to let people know about the developed town.
“Come in at once.”
Berulik waved lightly and entered the village first.
Raon looked at Berulik’s back and licked his lips.
‘It’s not a bad thing.’
Perhaps because they came to Capoli Village too soon, information on the black market has not yet arrived.
It was an opportunity to grasp the information first, so I followed Berulik’s pace and followed him.
“The reason our village developed like this is because, as I said before, an iron ore mine was discovered. I also lived in the next town at the time, so I don’t remember exactly, but it’s been over several decades.”
“… … .”
Raon narrowed his eyes as he listened to Berulik’s words.
‘It must be after I left town.’
If there had been an iron ore mine before that, the town wouldn’t have been so small and cozy. Whether kidnapped or sold, it was clear that the mine was discovered after that.
“The iron ore at the entrance of the mine was of poor quality, but the further you go in, the better it is, and there are many reserves, so the name of our village is getting known little by little. Not too long ago, we opened a new business partner in the center of the continent.”
Berulik couldn’t hide his smile as if he was happy that the town was developing.
“Good job. But how did you become the chief of this village after living in another village before?”
Raon pretended to be interested in Berulik and asked questions that might elicit information.
“I originally lived in the village of Prisil on the other side of Mount Iharo.”
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“But why are you here… .”
“There’s been a big problem with our town, and this Capoli.”
“What if you say it’s a problem?”
“There was a landslide.”
Berulik sighed as he cautioned the children running around town.
“Decades ago, more than half of the village collapsed due to a landslide, both in this village and in Prisil, where I lived. A lot of them are grown-ups and have died without any complaints, and there are a lot of people whose bodies have never been found.”
“ah… .”
“At the time, it was hell itself. The village of Prisil, where I was, was also heavily damaged, but few people survived in Capoli. When everyone was about to leave, thinking that the town itself could not be maintained, an iron ore mine was accidentally revealed.”
He pointed to the entrance to a mine built halfway up Mount Haro.
“I feel sorry for the dead, but the living have to live. The survivors of Capolli and Prisil gathered here and became miners. They built a factory like that in a place called Yuhwa Merchant, so everyone can live to their fullest.”
Berulik looked down at the huge factory built in the center of town.
“I didn’t expect that to happen. There must have been a lot of children who lost their parents, so it must have been a struggle.”
Raon said he was sorry and quietly asked about the child.
“Unfortunately, most of the children and the young couples raising them were crushed by the landslide. At that time, it was not the cry of a child, but only the cry of an adult.”
Berulik shook his head, saying that he could not forget that hellish scene even now.
“okay… .”
Raon trembled as he hid his hand in his sleeve.
‘They didn’t just take me.’
Even in such a secluded village, if many children are kidnapped, the nearby Mugana kingdom has no choice but to move.
It was clear that Derus had kidnapped the children and forcibly created a landslide to silence an outside investigation.
‘The devils… .’
Kidnapping children wasn’t enough, causing landslides to kill parents, something even the demons of Hell wouldn’t do. My stomach groaned as if I was about to vomit.
“Hoo-wook… .”
Your lips open on their own, and a rough breath comes out. If Derus was here, he would have been impatient and attacked him.
“Here.”
While Raon was forcibly suppressing his emotions, Berulik’s steps stopped. At the beginning of Mount Haro, there was a stone tower as large as a building.
“This is a memorial stone and grave built to comfort the dead at the time. The survivors of the time built it themselves.”
Berulik looked at the stone tower with a vague gaze.
“I can’t console the unfortunate dead with this, but… .”
“… … .”
Raon listened to Berric’s words and approached the stone tower. As I tried to touch the tower with trembling hands, a new memory came to mind with a strong shock.
No, it’s not a new memory, it’s a memory I saw as soon as I came to this town.
However, unlike that time, the faces of the mother and father were properly revealed.
He has a thick beard and looks ferocious, but his father has soft eyes and his mother has a graceful look with her black hair. Their rough hands and hard lips were the same, but their eyes were different.
My parents looked at me with eyes filled with sadness, sadness, and urgency.
My father stroked my hair carefully, handed it over to my mother, and picked up an ax hanging on the wall.
Mother nodded and climbed through the window. Barefoot she crossed the village entrance and entered the trail.
The mother’s feet and face were covered in blood as she ran unstoppably, and she exhaled a thick breath, but she did not stop walking until the end.
But my mother couldn’t get out of the way. The moment the black shadow covering the slender moon approached, she collapsed vomiting her blood, and my memory of her ended there as well.
‘Then that hand gesture… .’
The hard gestures, stiff lips, and wild steps of my mother and father that I saw when I first came to this village were all to save me from Derus’s men.
I was neither abandoned nor sold.
My parents desperately tried to protect and protect me, even in situations where they would die.
In the midst of the sinking headache, I heard the voices of my mother and father.
William.
My name that two people called. An affectionate name meaning a gentle, peace-loving person. It was my name that I couldn’t live like that.
With the clear memory of my mother and father laughing at me, all the memories of the past that bloomed in my mind have subsided.
The stone tower comes into view again. whole body loses strength My limbs were shaking so much that I couldn’t stand up.
Raon dropped to his knees. Fiery from the bottom of his soul, he clenched his hands together as he chewed his tongue so as not to reveal his burning anger.
‘Mother, father.’
I will take revenge. I will do anything to bring Derus Robert’s head here.
The consolation of the dead is an afterthought. Now was the time to swear revenge on those who lost their children and died without even closing their eyes.
“Thank you.”
Berulik patted him on the shoulder and smiled softly.
“They will also appreciate you.”
He was satisfied, as if he thought he had prayed to comfort the dead.
“Do you have any more questions? It’s a story everyone knows, but after a long time, I’m in a good mood, even this old man.”
Berulik smiled as if he liked the person Raon created, Valen.
“I’m looking for work. How are the factories and mines here?”
“Oh, really?”
Berulik smiled, saying that if he wanted to work, he would introduce himself. He seemed to have scored by quietly listening to everything he had to say.
“First of all, I just want to look around today because I have to talk to an acquaintance in the town I originally planned to go to.”
“You won’t regret coming here. It will be a city soon.”
He gestured quickly and entered the factory first.
“uh? Chief?”
“What are you doing here at this hour?”
The factory workers standing in front of the furnace lowered their heads looking at the village chief.
“I heard it passing by.”
The village chief waved his hand and said not to worry.
“You caught the young man again and started chatting.”
“Looking at his dry mouth, he must have suffered for a while.”
“It takes one every week.”
The workers shook their heads in pity.
“Yeki! these people! Don’t say anything to a good person!”
The village chief blushed as if embarrassed and waved his hand. I don’t think this happened once or twice.
“… … .”
Raon nodded to them and inspected the factory.
‘They are all ordinary people.’
There is no mana inside, and there is no movement unique to an assassin. It was clear who literally maintains the factory here.
From the outside, there doesn’t seem to be any major problems with the factory. But since Siris couldn’t have lied, it was clear that she had something in it.
Just as I was about to create a ring of fire and a sense of narrative, the room on the left opened, and a plump middle-aged man with a bulging stomach walked out.
“Oh, chief. Are you here?”
“Work foreman. Why is it so hard to see your face?”
Berulik frowned as he called the middle-aged man the foreman.
“It has to be a lot of work. Who is next to you?”
The foreman looked at Raon and smiled. However, unlike his lips, his eyes were not smiling.
“Oh, I caught it along the way. It’s been a while since I cleaned my mouth.”
Berulik grinned, saying he approached first.
“Ha, the number of victims has increased by one.”
The work chief said that he would like the village chief to chat and waved.
“no. I am more grateful because I have heard a lot of good words.”
Raon looked at the foreman and lowered his head. When he raised his gaze again, his eyes sank into an eerie light.
‘found.
