Some stories are not exciting, and some people are not immortal. There is a bottomless pit deep in everyone's heart, where the deepest past and the most feared present is buried.
After parting from Connie, Takashi and Sasha rode along the forest trail, where the spruce trees towered and the shadows of the trees were restraining.
Dauper, the place where the story begins, Takashi silently looked at the village with small two-story buildings, houses and buildings increased significantly, and their appearance changed dramatically.
No matter how difficult the day, as long as there is a small ray of hope, people will hold it tightly and tenaciously grow it with enthusiasm.
Takashi calmly watched the people coming and going on the street. Five years ago, there was a large influx of foreigners from the Mary Wall. Now, this section of Dauper is also much livelier, and some passersby looked curiously at Sasha and Takashi.
Most people don't know them. After all, there aren't many aborigines here. Takashi remembered the scene when he came to this world, and was reborn. Before that, he died at the hand of robbers....
Sasha took Takashi and they came to a beautiful farm, Mr. Blouse stopped hunting and was now raising horses, he managed the place well and now life is better than before.
"Sister, you are back." A little girl looked at her excitedly.
Sasha came over and hugged her, "Kaya, are you used to living here?"
"No problem, I'm fine." The little girl nodded. Actually, she was not Mr. Blouse's daughter, she was adopted.
The last time titans appeared in Rose territory, Kaya's mother was killed by a ten-foot-tall titan that sneaked into the village and Sasha saved her
In addition to her, there were several children on the farm. These children were homeless. Mr. Blouse adopted them and allowed them to do simple work on the farm.
There is no exploitation of child labor, which is actually a good deed, if no one adopts them, these orphans may starve to death and if they are just invited to live, they will think they are a burden.
Sasha introduced Takashi to the children, she had been home briefly last time and everyone at least knew her.
"I know, he's the sword demon! It's said he killed 55 titans!" One boy looked at him adoringly and said excitedly.
"I heard his story and he doesn't seem evil." The old man representing the Village told the children Takashi's story, and they were all surprised at how powerful the soldiers were. They really didn't expect that this place would turn out to be the village of the famous sword demon.
Takashi ate lunch at the farm. Mr. Blouse was very happy and Mrs. Blouse was also very excited. She seemed to consider Takashi as the candidate for "son-in-law".
The appearance is nice, the strength is powerful, the achievements and fame although not important are great, at first glance, the conditions are really good, of course, since Takashi came back here, he has been a little distracted.
Mr. Blouse heard about this and, after lunch, gave Takashi a hint: "Are you going to continue like this, don't you consider retreating to the second line?
"No matter how powerful you are, remember sooner or later strong trees also fall, Sasha told me about you, I think it's better for you to retreat from the battlefield."
After receiving the key to his father's hut, Takashi laughed, carefree and calm, "This may be the meaning of my existence. When I draw my sword and fight, I can feel that there is still something to live for."
"I want to be someone who puts everyone out of misery, I fight for the future." Takashi looked at Sasha and shouted, "Sasha, do you want to come?"
"Yes!" Sasha ran out of the kitchen with a piece of bread in her mouth.
Mr. Blouse sighed and watched him leave along with his daughter, since he brought him in and woke up, he found that Takashi had changed completely.
He didn't know what the other party had experienced in the forest, Takashi only woke up at that moment, and when he looked into his eyes, he even felt fear, those weren't just the eyes that appeared after he almost died.
Takashi walked together with Sasha to the remote corner of the village, in front of the ruined log cabin, no low weeds growing in front of the door, Mr. Blouse must have taken care of taking good care of this place.
"Amazing, I still remember when you and your father came to the village." Sasha's eyes were curious about Takashi's little house.
Takashi said nothing and inserted the key into the lock and opened the dusty wooden door. With a creak, the door was opened and the inside of the house was the same as when he left, except that the tables, chairs and benches were now covered with dust.
The sun once again shone on the somewhat damp and rotting wooden house, and dust was scattered in the few rays of light.
"This place sure feels lonely, doesn't it?" Takashi asked with a slight smile.
"Well... You don't necessarily have to go back to live in this place, you can look for another place, with the money you earn you can buy a new house." Sasha said not knowing what to say concretely.
"I would live alone anyway..." Takashi asked, "Sasha, do you want to try that food that many say is one of the best?"
Sasha's eyes sparkled with excitement and she nodded, "Do you have that food here? Yes, I want to try it."
"The first time can be very important for people, won't you regret it?" Takashi slowly approached Sasha and looked into her eyes.
"No, I want to try it." Sasha said with a determined look.
"Well then, close your eyes." Takashi said with a slightly serious look.
Sasha said nothing and closed her eyes.
Takashi then slowly touched Sasha's cheeks and his lips suddenly touched Sasha's.
He was curious what it felt like to kiss, he didn't know what awaited them in the next operation and at least he wanted to have kissed.
Sasha, who felt something warm enter her mouth, was slow to react and when she opened her eyes, she looked at Takashi's face and immediately bit down hard.
"Ah!"
Takashi pulled away from Sasha a bit puzzled. "Well... Sweet taste, but it definitely felt strange, Sasha?"
Sasha covered her lips with her hand and looked at Takashi, inevitably her heart started pounding and she said, "Ehh.... I have to go, my mother is waiting for me."
"It was a sudden thing, Sasha I..." Takashi was about to stop Sasha when she ran off at high speed. "Did I look like an idiot?"
Takashi looked around and stood still for a while. He sat alone on the stool and, for a long time, whispered the phrases of a song.
Closing his eyes, Takashi began to remember his parents, what would his old folks be doing right now? He couldn't know, all he wanted was that they weren't having a hard time.
"I will win..."