Pouting her lips and her eyes are set on the window beside the table they sat. Sera only got thirty three coppers from the mushrooms she gathered and that thirty copper become the payment of the food they are eating right now.
She stares at the people who walks along side the paths. Some bards singing on the corners. the sun is nowhere to be found but the moon gave a little light to those people outside.
Forest in front of her is finishing his cup of milk. The Inn was somewhat lively, the adventurer's chitchats with their comrade. Smiles on are plastered on their faces, as they eat their dinner in such fest.
No one is talking to them, Who would like to talk to them. there are just one of the low ranking adventurers. Almost everyone inside the guild has silver and orichalcum.
"Let's leave early in the morning and continue our intrusion at that labyrinth. That gnome! I will really kill him If I saw that guy again. I walk to the point that my sole of my shoes gave up." she mumbles. She still thinking how her effort got turn into smoke.
Forest paid no heed at her instead just nod. His mind is still lingering at what Lih vha said to him. He cannot take it and believe. there is also something that he cannot figure out but, he thinks that, that hobgoblin is hiding something else.
He took a glance at her, he thought again of her being part of something he cannot understand. The girl in front of him was totally way too young from what he saw in his dreams. Was it she or she had a sister? She want to ask her however, what if she don't have an older sister, of perhaps she did a brother who loves cross-dressing. 'Wait what? Is that allowed to do here?' he thought. He shakes his thoughts as he put down the empty cup on the table.
"I'm going upstairs. Do whatever you want as long as you will wake up early." Sera yawned and stretched her body as she walk towards the floor.
Forest followed her upstairs. Making good acquaintances among adventurers won't do well to them. As the matter of fact, they might be his enemy soon.
Demons are not allowed in the human continent but some human can enter at the demon continent. Some of them where from black society who kidnaps demi humans' girls and sell them to the noble who has weird taste. Who has sexual interest to something that is uncommon to humans. Forest is not yet aware of everything happening in the human continent. All he knows was the royal kingdom was trying to get rid of them.
In the demon continent. The village near the human continent suffer great lost from the war happening right now on the border, the elves took allied forces with the human empire. With the war right next to them the scarce supply of food making the villagers grew weak and malnourished.
The people where too hungry to go for a journey, the only thing they can do is look for food and keep living until help arrive at their village. Even If they did set out, they will only die on the way in starvation.
Time comes, no help is receive. They are losing hope, their children began to die and fell sick. The animals in the forest fled as the forest is set on fire. The state of the small village is terrible sight.
Euphora sat on the ground as she look at her dead little sister. Their neighbor starting to eat the carcass of their dead relative, and now she will too. Her mother and father was crying silently. They didn't go out and tell everyone about their dead daughter. If they did, they will only go and savage her body. The villagers have now gone mad, and that is something that cannot avoided at this time.
Euphora stomach kept grumbling, at the past, she was as fat as a cow, but today, she was as thin as a bamboo. She lick her lips as her nose switched. She sees her sister as her food no matter how hard she pinched herself to go back to reality.
She stood up, and walk close to her sister who just died. Euria was so thin, she is already skin and bone.
She lowered her head and sniffed at her carcass. It smells aromatic when it comes to her. She can't help her canine to dig in to her little sister Flesh.
"What are you doing? Euphora!" her father shouted at her, she pay no heed instead she pulled out the skin she bite into. Blood flow out of her mouth as she chewed on the flesh.
She didn't spoke instead she already lose control of herself. She leaped through the air landing on her father body. Due to the disease he got he was not able to fight back. Euphora scratched his face randomly and bit him on his neck leaving a fatal wound.
Her mother hit her with a plank that almost broke from the impact as her strike it right to Euphora. She was frightened of how her child began to act like a wild animal, wild monster.
"I'm sorry. Calm down. Euphora. Can you recognized us?" She said with tears in her eyes. Euphora gnawed and spit the hard red thing on the ground. She growled at her like she already took her instinct as an animal. Her mother was so shocked and petrified from her. Euphora didn't have hard time killing her too.
As she busy eating the flesh from her mother. Refilling her empty stomach she got her sense back. Her eyes pasted on the meat she was holding. The fur on the meat which resembles her mother's fur. She look around, her father whose head is almost about to snap off. Her sister who lies on her bed wearing her burial gown.
"What have I done" She mumbles as she look down on her body ensanguined on her mother's blood. Her eyes went blurred as her tears escaped on her eyes.
"Please… Forgive me… I didn't want it to be like this" She cried…
Days have passed, she had no choice but to continue what she already done. Nothing has left already, the people in the village has been killing their own kin for their own good. Their mind is not on the right already. To survive they had to lessen their population, and eat the body of the disease.
Euphora stayed inside their home. The leftover meat lay on the table drenched in blood. She felt guilt creeping inside of her. She gnawed on the bones until she got satisfied, she kept thinking that those bones are from the wild monster on the forest. Thinking that she is eating her own parents make her vomit. Vomiting is such waste. What is important right now is how to leave the village since outside her home is in chaos. No help is coming. No news are getting in. No one is on their right mind. The villagers are already in state of madness.
Tomorrow. Will tomorrow come again to her? Or this will be the time she will embrace her fate.
Euphora heard banging on the door. She put down the bone on her side as she sniffed on the air. A sent of something new to her. What was it? She took a pose where she will ready to counter attack whenever the door opened. Her eyes become fierce as she focus on the door that is being force to open.
She don't have an Idea of what is happening outside their home. She had no idea how many days had passed, the only thing she knew is how long it would take to consumed one whole body.
As the wooden door fell she dash and leap toward the prey. She has forgotten who to communicate after all after some years of keeping alive in the village with scarce supply of food.
A human granted with mana seized her. The sorcerer look down on her as the people behind the casted put a sack on her head and tied it.
"This will be a good fetch. "The man said as he touch her sticky skin covered with blood and sweat.
"Look at that, she ate her entire family. That's gross" the other man said covering his nose from rotten smell coming out from the house.
"Let's go. We already got some good to sell tomorrow…. This village is makes me vomits. I wonder what those filthy nobles saw from this Demi humans. They are filthy as shts" he remarked.
"Nobles are filthy too. No wonder they are attracted to something filthy" the group of men laughed as they are having good time. Euphora squirm in like a worm as she tried to escape from them.
Tomorrow will come at her, yet n chance of going back from having freedom. Tomorrow, she will be enslave under filthy human.
As they went to the adventurer guild, at the entrance there is a familiar man standing on the doorway. His eyes were affixed on her. Sera halted her steps as the man walk toward at her.
"what are you doing here?" She furrowed her eyebrows as she stared at the upcoming man.
"And what do you think you are doing. Running away and keeping your mother worried sick" he retort back his glare shift to the man behind sera.
"You run away with some one?" he continued.
"We just met. We are both adventurer. Do tell mother that I can live my life from now on."
"Running away from Weistreid won't do any good to you" he said emphasizing every letter yet only audible between them.
"Forcing me to marry older than me is unthinkable. Even though I am already at the right age to marry. I am not yet ready. Do you think that even we two get trial marriage we will never going to last long? Also stop trying to get me just to marry that old dude."
"I can manage to survive on my own and marry any man I want." She furiously answered back.
"your mother will not like you attitude. Is that how your father thought you how to be… Ah yeah I heard that your father ran away from his responsibility and he didn't go serve the army after all. You did take your father after all. Run…"
"Do you have any prove about that?" she replied. She felt her blood going up into her head as she heard her father. Her father is something that won't run away from his responsibility, he is not coward like him.
"I am not running… I am facing the path I plan to take. Even though I am not betrothed to that ugly guy… who was he again? I am the type of person that won't chase a man after his treasure unlike you."
"do you think I can take no as your answer. You will coming with me. No matter what you answer is" He said as he grab her wrist. Forest intrude between them without saying a word. Of course he can't talk.
"What! Move or else" He threaten that caught every people attention. Sera took her hands back and glared back to her.
"What? What will you do to us? Huh?" She answered raising her eyebrows.
He unsheathe his sword and answer.
"Then I will drag you home injured" he smiled
"If you can" she replied and pull Forest back.
"Stay back. Don't let yourself be involve to my business" she said. She did not wait for his answer and she took her sword and didn't take of the sheath. She tied the sheath on the hilt to fasten it and won't slide of in the middle of the fight. She do have confidence in fighting in sword.
Theo strikes and sera block it and tried to counter attack however she got blocked. The people around them began to watch them fight. Sera bound as her attack is blocked. Skip as her strike landed on his sword. Thrust and slashing. The two give a good show. Some of the bystander shouted and cheered.
Theo slash his sword vertically which make sera bend he knees and she wipe her feet to make him fall. Theo fall on the ground but soon recovered as he sprang up from his feet. Thrust and Sera was able to dodge as he skip along the ground and leap forward as her counter strike. She got blocked and she took casted whirlwind on her left hand and strike him underneath. He flew upward and fell on his butt from unexpected counter attack… Sera pointed the tip of her sword to him and stared at him.
"Now go tell mother that I will not going home. Never again. And that is my decision to make not her. This is my life not hers. If she wanted to become rich on no time then marry him instead or let Maria marry him" she answer and he nod. Accept his defeat in embarrassing way.