Chapter 407 – Karen
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“It’s a witch!”
-Fuck!
Karen felt a sharp pain in her head.
I felt a warm liquid dripping down my forehead. Reflexively, she touched it and examined it, and there was blood on her hand.
Karen looked at where the stone had come from.
A group of boys are looking at me and smiling brightly.
The sight of these boys made Karen frown. She was stoned out of the blue, and she couldn’t feel better.
“It’s a witch! Even if you stare at it like that, it’s not scary at all!”
Throwing a stone is a red flag.
Children stick out their tongues and wiggle their hips as if to tease themselves.
Seeing the children like that made Karen angry.
Instead of apologizing, it seemed like they were excited, so it was a natural emotion for humans.
Karen picked up a stone from the floor and threw it at the boys.
-Ah!!
The stone she flew hit the child’s head and she bleeds out the same red blood as her own.
“Crying!!”
The boy immediately burst into tears.
Seeing him whining made me feel a little relieved.
“Eh, witches kill people!!”
The little ones shout and make a fuss in the neighborhood room.
Karen was suddenly frightened by the sight of the children and ran away.
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“Karen! Karen!! Where are you!
Doran’s angry voice echoed through the house.
Hearing the voice, Karen quickly crawled under her bed and hid.
What happened with the children seemed to have reached Doran’s ears.
Doran is a scary man.
Karen didn’t know why she was living with him. From the time she started thinking, she was a person I lived with.
Doran found himself lightly.
“Rat, here you are!”
Doran’s growling face, revealing his face under the bed, was truly frightening.
Karen was dragged out of the house by Doran, who had a bloody expression, grabbing her by the hair.
“Ah… Uh… Uh…”
Karen complained of her pain to Doran, but she couldn’t help it.
Standing there was the boy who had been stoned and his mother, Pamilla.
A bandage was wrapped around the boy’s head.
‘It was he who threw the stone at me first…’
Karen said it wasn’t her fault she wanted to tell her.
But she couldn’t speak.
Still, Karen explained to Doran, gesturing with her hands and feet that she was hit first.
– Jab!!
But what came back was Doran’s thick palm.
“What are you saying, you asshole.”
Karen, who was slapped by Doran, fell to the floor.
“This asshole made my child like this?!”
Starting with that, Pamilla started beating her, kicking the fallen Karen.
Karen endured Pamilla’s beating by curling up on her.
Doran just quietly looked at it.
Next day.
Karen could see Familla and Doran tangled up on the bed, filthy naked.
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Karen, who was on her way home from running errands for Doran, stopped her steps when she saw a stone flying past her and brushing right in front of her nose.
It’s the boys again.
Karen picked up a stone.
The little ones wince.
But in the end, Karen couldn’t throw.
Because she knew that if she threw, she would get worse.
“The witch is scared! Attack everyone!”
Children’s stones fly.
Karen ran away.
“Ah…Ah…Ah…”
Although Karen complained to Doran that her children were throwing stones.
-Puck!
What came back was violence.
Karen said she didn’t even go as far as the village.
She started playing in the woods a lot by herself.
No, she was spending her time rather than playing and she came home.
One day like that.
She spends time in the woods and returns home to find Doran lying dead on the bed.
A hatchet was stuck in the back of his naked head.
She was a little surprised, but she wasn’t sad.
She didn’t notice Doran, and she thought it was rather good that she could eat the bread to her heart’s content.
But that pleasure is short-lived.
Karen is captured by villagers who barge into her house, and she is tied to a log and hanged.
Firewood was piled under the log.
“They say she didn’t shed a tear when Doran died.”
“It’s been a terrifying year.”
“As expected, raising a child abandoned by a goddess…”
She was abandoned by the goddess.
It’s a sound Karen has been constantly hearing since her childhood.
At first she didn’t know what she was talking about.
She could only speculate, however, that she was not an idiot, and that she was called that because, unlike the other children, she could not speak.
“I told Doran that he had to be disposed of earlier.”
“Tsk tsk… I don’t even know what kind of curse I was cursed by that bitch’s mother.”
“Gordon, who went missing in the woods before, must be the fault of that little bitch! I saw that bitch do strange things in the woods.”
For some reason, the villagers were angry with themselves.
Karen asked why she was in this situation.
She didn’t know why she had to die.
“Ah… Uh…”
The villagers lit firewood without hesitation.
The hot heat rode up from the bottom.
“Ah…”
There was a smile of relief on the faces of the villagers.
Karen felt an unknown chill from their appearance.
‘Is it because I can’t speak? Was it because he was abandoned by the real goddess?’
Karen was embarrassed.
She didn’t do anything and she had to die…
Anger flared up later.
How good would she have been if she had rather been a witch, as they say…
Then.
She could have killed them all.
It was then.
The fire of the roaring firewood went out.
“What about stopping…”
An old man with gray hair appeared with a magician’s robe and a staff.
“Three, Mr. Cedric.”
When the wizard appeared, the villagers’ mad faces suddenly calmed down.
He was a wizard named Cedric who settled in this village a few years ago.
He made his own living quarters near her village.
He also heals the villagers.
If there was any trouble in the village, he would help.
They also handed out delicious candies to the children.
Karen once received and ate some candies.
When she first saw him, she felt a bit reluctant and didn’t want to get close to him.
The temptation of the sweet candy was so strong that she couldn’t help it.
“I will take that child.”
“Three, Mr. Cedric. This child was abandoned by the goddess.”
“So you’re saying no?”
Cedric frowned, and the villagers immediately lowered his head like a frightened dog.
“Oh, no. If it’s Cedric-sama…”
“Don’t worry. He won’t be noticed by you.”
“Well, then…”
Karen was saved by Cedric and sent to his dungeon.
“People say you were abandoned by the goddess. It must be unfair. You weren’t born because you wanted to be born that way…Right?
Karen naturally nodded at Cedric’s kind words.
“I know how you can be saved.”
At her words of salvation, Karen pricked her ears.
“We will bring a savior to this unreasonable world. The situation you are in is not a big deal. Even if you cannot speak, the savior will gladly accept you.”
Little Karen could barely understand what Cedric was saying.
However, Karen, who has been living in the dark for a long time, knew how to nod her head.
Cedric smiled in satisfaction at Karen’s actions.
In any case, Cedric saved his life.
More than anyone Karen had ever met, Cedric was trustworthy.
“My students, Thomas and Tommy.”
Cedric introduced two wizards who were slightly younger than him.
I think I heard that man’s name even in the village.
It was such a common and ordinary name.
Karen thought she was an ordinary name for a wizard.
They were so reticent that they wanted to be unable to speak with him, but that was not the case.
After coming to Cedric.
The bullying of the villagers also ended.
Karen was satisfied with that alone.
Cedric and his students also informed Karen of her writings and various knowledge.
“I was expecting this because I was abandoned by the goddess… But your talent is worse than I thought…”
Cedric grumbled as he couldn’t progress with the black magic.
Hearing this, Karen became sullen.
“Heh heh…You don’t have to be so disappointed. Even so, you are useful. You will play an important role in calling the savior.”
Karen was worried that she would be kicked out of this place, but when she heard Cedric’s words, she felt a little relieved.
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“Karen, it’s finally time for salvation. It means that the time has come for you, who are lacking, to be used. Cleanse your innocence. Let’s go to meet your savior.”
That day, Cedric’s expression and tone were softer than ever.
As Cedric had said, Karen took a clean bath and headed to the altar.
It was a foundation that would bring in a savior, which Cedric had painstakingly created over the years along with Thomas and Tommy.
When I entered the room with the altar, a bloody smell vibrated.
Cedric’s disciple, Tommy, was cutting a woman’s heart.
She was still alive.
But her eyes were blurry and she didn’t scream even when her own heart split.
The blood that flowed from her heart passed by the altar, which was already stained red, and flowed down to the floor.
There were numerous corpses lying on the floor.
The faces of the corpses were familiar.
Years passed, but I was able to recognize it.
The woman who beat herself up.
Children who have grown a little since then.
All the villagers who tried to burn themselves were lying here as corpses.
“Are you afraid?”
Cedric’s eyes were benevolent, but it seemed that he felt a different kind of creepiness than usual.
Karen involuntarily shook her head.
She didn’t know the truth
Is this feeling you are feeling right now is fear?
Or is it the expectation that she will meet the savior she has only heard about for a long time…
