"If this happens again in the future, please notify me as soon as possible!"
Yaeji followed closely behind his father. Hearing these words, he couldn't help but defend himself: "But those villagers..."
"If you die, you will die. How many of them must die in any year? Now there is a patrol to take care of you. Your mission is to receive training and become the next generation of the Eightfold Divine Master!"
"Can......"
"What's wrong!" Lord Yaeji stopped and turned around. His eyes did not have the concern that Yaeji suspected, but instead became more indifferent:
"You are still in the growth stage. If you die in that place, what will happen to the village in the future? When will you reach adulthood and be as powerful as your mother, or even surpass your mother..." Lord Yae paused.
After a pause, he changed the topic: "Since the establishment of Yae Shrine, there have been extremely few shrine maidens who can control Sakura Fukiyuki, let alone the men of the Yae clan."
"Under normal circumstances, shrine maidens are the top fighting force in the village. As for the god master, I believe you understand it. It's not that I don't want you to hunt monsters. If monsters invade the village and kill the villagers wantonly, our Yae clan will naturally want to
On top.”
"But!" Master Yae changed the subject: "You and Sakura are too young, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in strength. Before you reach that level, it is best not to take risks easily. Next time there will be monsters attacking villagers.
If it happens, no matter what, you must tell me as soon as possible."
Seeing his father turn around and walk towards the shrine, Yaeji lowered his head and said, "Yes."
There are some things that cannot be said, even if he really wants to tell his father his secret. Even if the shrine maiden uses Sakura Falling Slash thousands of times, there will always be times when she is not in good condition and misses, but he is different, he only needs to move his mind, those moves
The ability to change is not bad at all, and it is used like clouds and flowing water.
When his physical strength increases and his endurance becomes longer, wouldn't it be easy to kill monsters like the wolf monster with Sakura Fukiyuki in his hand?
Especially the move of inserting it into the monster's flower to release the "Ron Dance" made Yae Ji look forward to its power.
What his father said so much was just to make him understand that his current age was not suitable for dealing with monsters, even though he already had the ability to kill low-level monsters.
This thing is just like the candidate shrine maiden in the shrine. Only after her rapid rise in adolescence is over, will she become an official shrine maiden and be released to fight monsters and protect the party.
When he was young and weak, if he died while fighting monsters, it would be the shrine's loss.
After all, Yae Village is a small place. To put it bluntly, the Yae Shrine is only supported by three or two big cats and kittens. If a shaman goddess is trained in a way that does not fear death, the Yae clan should have become extinct long ago.
"That's right." Lord Yae, who was walking in front, spoke again: "Go to Rin's place after you get home."
"cold?"
Yae Ji was stunned and then thought of something.
...
Yae Ji washed the fishy smell off his body, changed another set of clothes, and then silently sat next to Rin.
Rin was still asleep, and seeing Sakura trying to wake her up, Yaeji quickly made a gesture.
Looking at Rin's pale face, Yaeji fell into deep thought. Although the doctors from the big city couldn't tell what kind of disease Rin had, they could only prescribe some prescriptions to strengthen the body and nourish the body. But if someone really has the ability,
, can Rin be cured?
Yaeji made up his mind and planned to discuss with his father in a few days whether he could take people to a nearby big city.
As if she had some kind of nightmare, Lin, who was lying flat on the bed, frowned and drops of sweat frequently appeared on her fair forehead.
Just when Sakura wanted to use a handkerchief to wipe away Rin's sweat, the person who was originally lying on the bed seemed to be frightened. He lay on his side and curled up, like an abandoned kitten.
"Brother~sister...no...don't leave me!"
gibbering.
Yaeji gently opened a corner of the quilt and held it in Lin's small hands with fingers tightly intertwined.
"I won't leave Rin~"
As if there was magic, the frowned eyebrows gradually relaxed, and the tight petite body slowly relaxed. Only the folded hands tightly grasped Yaeji's palm.
"Bring me a fan." Yaeji whispered.
Sakura, who was kneeling across from her, nodded and found the fan from behind another door in the room.
"I'll fan you, and you go prepare lunch."
Sakura handed over the bamboo fan, tried not to make any noise, and walked out of the room.
Yaeji fanned silently at the side, the breeze blew by, and the sweat on his forehead slowly disappeared.
Not long after, it seemed that the food prepared by Sakura seduced the little glutton in Rin's belly. His little nose moved first, and Rin, who was sleeping in a daze, opened his eyes and looked at everything in front of him dimly.
"Brother...brother, is it morning already?"
Yaeji smiled and said, "You little lazy boy, it's time for lunch."
"noon?"
Rin was startled and his eyes widened as memories from the past flooded into his mind.
He struggled to support his body, his little face was full of anxiety, and a pair of big and smart eyes were looking around Yaeji's body.
"Are you okay? Are there any injuries? Is... the monster killed?"
"Nozawa and I worked together to kill that monster. Look, didn't I do a good job?" Yaeji held Rin's weak body.
This time, Rin finally freed her arms and touched Yaeji's clothes with her hands.
"Is it really okay? That's a monster!"
Yae Sakura, who was sitting at the small square table, sighed, "Rin, haven't I told you many times? My brother is very strong."
Rin pursed her lips. If possible, she didn't want to have anything to do with monsters at all.
The monster...is the culprit who killed my mother.
"Okay, okay, let's eat first."
...
One week later.
Yae Ji's face turned ugly as he listened to Nozawa's report.
The message Nozawa sent to him must have been embellished, but in fact...
Yaeji squeezed out a sentence through his teeth: "They really said that?"
"Yes." Nozawa, who was sitting on his knees opposite Yae Ji, was slightly suffocated. He hadn't seen him for a week, and he felt that the power of Master Ji had increased more than a little.
If he hadn't looked like a child with the naked eye, he would have thought it was the Lord God from ten years ago in front of him!
"Who is spreading rumors? Have you found out?"
"I only know that the source of the spread is from my mother-in-law's house, and the handyman is the most widely spread among them. We suspect..."
Before Nozawa could finish speaking, Yae Ji interrupted him, "Head boy? Which boy? Is it the one who spread rumors at the well before?"
"Yes, it's him." Nozawa paused and then said: "There have been three monster attacks in the past seven days. Although they are all low-level monsters that are not worthy of publicity, the villagers are very fond of them.
set."
Nozawa glanced at Yaeji cautiously again, his voice surged up and down, and he said:
"Most of the villagers don't know that they think that digging wells has angered the Fox God. They say that you are stealing the Fox God's authority. You need to..."