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Chapter 316 – The Missing Girl
“Could it be the child… or perhaps the people of this village?”
Myrril nodded at my question. That’s strange. If he has such a sensitive and accurate sense of smell, he should be able to follow the scent trail.
If they were taken away…
“The people in the village were probably teleported or summoned by a magician.”
The Witch of Sarz, Ecla-san, also performed a teleportation of residents from the Western Territories to the capital. Although her magic had been depleted due to the reckless scale of the operation involving thousands of people, it would not have been impossible for an ordinary magician to perform a similar feat with the residents of this village.
“The problem is the purpose. Is that what’s so unpleasant?”
So it’s definitely unpleasant. Well, considering what I’ve been shown so far, it would be.
“What’s your name?”
Myrril asked, staring at him with a serious expression.
“Wau.”
“Wau? Just like that?
Oh, I thought they were having a real conversation, but can’t she read his real name?
“Not a bad name. But Beastmen, being a race that depends on their bodies for survival, don’t have the ability to manipulate complex sound scales with their lengthy speech structure, so they have no interest in long names. Wau is Wau.”
“Uu, Wau.”
“Huh?”
At Wau’s call, Myrril tilted her head and laughed.
“The owner of this outfit is called Nonya. She’s a girl from the Winged Tribe, about ten years old.”
“So she’s from the Winged Tribe? Does that mean she can fly?”
“No, she’s the slave of the village chief, and it looks like she’s wearing the collar.
As I thought, it’s going to be a disgusting story no matter what.
“Uu, Wau?”
“Hmm, it’s okay. We’re going to the Imperial Capital anyway, so I’ll take you with us.”
It seems that the Snow White Wolf, Wau, wants to come with us until he finds Nonya, the Beastmaster’s child. I tell him to hide behind the vehicle in case of battle. I strictly order him not to go to the front or the side by mistake because bullets will fly.
He seems to understand that Casspir is a vehicle, but he looks in through the window and sticks his nose out, which is unusual.
“””Hyaaaah!”””
“Can you get in?”
The Beastmen inmates inside seem frightened by something they are not used to seeing and scream.
“Wau!”
“That’s right. The first time I saw one in person was when I met the child before you.”
I had a feeling that was the case, but it seems that Moff and Wau are quite rare characters.
“How far is the Imperial Capital?”
“I don’t remember the map here, so I don’t know exactly, but it’s probably about a hundred miles or so.”
Myrril draws a diagram on the hood with her finger. It’s probably a rough estimate based on the locations of the towns we know from aerial maps, the distances between them, and the routes we’ve taken so far. That’s amazing. I wonder if you need spatial awareness or a mathematical background to be able to do that. I couldn’t do it.
We send a signal to Wau and bring Casspir back to the main road. We try to see if he can keep up with the car’s speed and find that he can easily follow us as long as we keep a pace that would be comfortable on a snowy road. If we were to go full speed, Wau would probably be faster. We run for about an hour, but Wau doesn’t seem tired at all and runs happily beside us.
Myrril looked at Wau and let out a small sigh.
“I hope the girl Nonya is safe. I don’t want to see Wau sad.”
“I agree.”
I also don’t want to see any more children suffer, no matter what country or race they come from. Myrril understood and looked at me with a disappointed expression.
“Probably, but the inhabitants of this village are no longer alive.”
“So they were sacrificed, just like the people in the kingdom’s capital when we were summoned.”
“Yes. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have taken all the people from such a remote area.”
I have no sympathy for the village chief who enslaves the Winged Tribe’s little girl, but I don’t know the villagers or have any grudge against them, so I don’t know how to react. What I’m more concerned about is what they summoned by using those people as a sacrifice.
“Could it be that they summoned another hero?”
“It’s annoying that it’s not impossible. But you must understand that that hero, sage, and saint have all become prey for the Demon King. They might still have enough intelligence to change their tactics.”
“Ah, yes, but I didn’t make the saint a prey, you know? I think that’s a misunderstanding, Myrril-san.”
“When you’re cut off from the strings that control them and turned against them, it’s probably the same thing.”
That’s how it looks from their side.
“But every time they change their tactics, they become more stupid, more useless, more hideous…”
Myrril began to look around cautiously. She wasn’t holding a weapon, so it didn’t feel like an enemy had appeared.
I could tell that the sky was getting darker. The wind that rustled through the trees in the forest was also getting stronger. The fine snow was being blown into the air, making the visibility worse.
“It looks like it’s going to get a little rough. If the blizzard gets any worse, we might as well stop somewhere. If we hit a cliff…”
Myrril looked ahead and raised her hand to stop me from speaking.
“Wait, Yoshua, it looks like Wau… found something.”
After turning around and calling out, the giant figure disappeared in an instant, heading towards the horizon, which was beginning to fade.
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