The brave Simmel wants to resign

Ordinary people also emit magical power, but they cannot recognize it. As the emitted magical power gradually accumulates, it will create a monster called a magical spirit.

This village was afflicted by a cursed spirit.

Of course, the villagers were unaware of all this.

They desperately need a scapegoat, someone to vent their frustrations on.

The two sisters, who had no parents, were not qualified to defend themselves and were quickly arrested by the villagers. They were first verbally abused, then beaten, and after it was determined that they could not resist, they were dragged to the dungeon next to the village chief's house.

This place is almost completely unattended; the area inside the fence is another world altogether.

The ground felt like a hard shell made of compacted excrement and rotten straw.

It had never been tended to, so the stench in the air was so strong and pungent, a mixture of decay and fermentation, that every breath felt like licking a rotten rag.

Flies were everywhere, swarming on the wooden boards, walls, and floor. Any movement would send them buzzing up in droves.

The girls were on the verge of a breakdown.

(How did it turn out like this?)

(What kind of torment will follow?)

(The men in the village, even the village chief, gradually started looking at me and Mimi with 'that kind of look'...)

But luck and misfortune—

Today, outsiders have come.

The village chiefs seem to want to use others to carry out the "trial".

Fear caused the two small figures to curl up. The older sister's arms were wrapped around the younger sister's neck, and the younger sister's face was buried in the crook of the older sister's shoulder. Both of them were very thin, and their hair was matted together.

The two looked at the boy in uniform with a mixture of wariness and fear.

(Are we going to die?)

Nanako hugged her younger sister tightly, passing on her meager warmth.

(I'm the older sister, I have to protect Mimi....)

But this idea didn't last long.

(How scary....)

They are just children, after all.

Courage doesn't last long.

Please help us...

Prayer is a natural human reaction, but to whom should one pray?

As talented sorcerers, the Kaba sisters were able to see cursed spirits when they were young. If such things exist, perhaps gods also exist.

But if God has tolerated what the sisters have gone through so far, why bother to save them?

My parents are gone, who can I turn to for help?

The two children are very young and have only read fairy tales.

Nanako remembered that a fairy tale book said that a hero would rescue the imprisoned princess.

Does it really exist?

No.

Anyone is fine.

Please save her.

Please help Mimiko.

Again and again, like a drowning person desperately grasping at the last straw.

Please help us.

This is a prayer that has been repeated countless times.

But that time...

That's enough.

She thought she heard a sound.

...............

...

The chirping of insects in the countryside is very loud, and the land is vast, so people always unconsciously raise their voices when they speak.

If this behavior continues, the facial muscles will become deformed, and irreversible damage will be left to the throat during the developmental period, which may eventually result in a hoarse and sharp voice. In addition, due to the backwardness of local dialects, the grammar will be very complicated and redundant.

Just talking to someone can be so annoying...

(No, normally I might think this is 'local flavor' and laugh it off.)

(Ultimately, it's because I'm really frustrated right now.)

Xia Youjie is very irritable right now.

The boy's black hair was tied up in a bun, with a wisp of hair falling across his forehead.

His eyes were half-closed, one hand was raised, and his fingertips lightly touched his brow bone, as if he was blocking the light. There was no smile on his face.

Xia Youjie.

Seventeen years old.

He is a sorcerer.

A so-called sorcerer is a profession that can control their own magical power and is responsible for removing curses and exorcising cursed spirits.

Every year, countless people die in Japan from 'accidents' caused by cursed spirits, which naturally led to the emergence of the profession of sorcerer.

Xia Youjie is one of the three top-level sorcerers of this era.

As a sorcerer, he helped many people, but in the process, he also endured unimaginable negative emotions.

He's been in a bad mood lately.

When he saw what was happening in front of him, his mood worsened.

From his perspective, he was just here on a mission. The sweltering summer heat was already unbearable, and the rural environment only made him more and more irritable.

After exorcising the cursed spirit, the villagers' fawning faces also annoyed him.

Afterwards, the villagers forcibly took him, who was sleep-deprived, to the village chief's house, saying they wanted to solve the source of the curse.

And then, this is what we're seeing now.

Wooden cage.

The girl trapped inside.

They believed the girls were the culprits because they could see the cursed spirits, but in fact, the opposite was true. Girls who could recognize cursed spirits and use cursed power were 'talented beings'. They did not leak cursed power or create cursed spirits.

On the contrary, it was these villagers who couldn't control their magical power who were the real culprits.

And the perpetrators, in their ignorance and enthusiasm, oppress the innocent.

Talented people are thus bullied by sheer numbers.

what.

I'm so annoyed.

The finger tapping between his eyebrows became faster and faster. Originally intended to refresh himself, it gradually turned into an attempt to suppress the darkness in his heart with pain.

So irritable, so irritable, so irritable.

Why am I trying to save them?

The burdens the sorcerer had carried to this point were about to crush him.

What's the point of continuing the rescue efforts?

If the end is a scene of persecution of 'compatriots' and mountains of corpses and seas of blood for our comrades...

I would rather----------

A man named Xia Youjie.

At a crossroads in life, I am about to make a decision.

Her name is Nanako Kaba, and she is Mimiko Kaba's sister.

He is also about to experience a turning point in his life.

That was far from ideal, yet it couldn't be changed.

Because this world has no native gods, and even if it did, they would certainly be beings with a perverse sense of humor. The gods who reign supreme over all the heavens would not have the power to help so many victims.

however.

At this very moment.

That's enough.

A voice suddenly rang in my mind without warning.

It was heavy, yet it made you feel warm.

The expressions of the Jiachang sisters and Xia Youjie changed simultaneously.

The former was in a daze.

The latter, on alert, immediately assumed a fighting stance.

The next moment——————

Help me up.

light.

Extending beneath them.

The light displayed complex geometric patterns—circles, triangles, and incomprehensible runes—emerging from the ground and spinning rapidly, instantly illuminating the entire filthy pigsty.