To You Who Never Loved Me - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

<The Beginning of the Story [2] >

That year sacrifice became the younger son of the man who killed my

father.

Because he was the murderer’s son, he paid for his father’s sins.

People rationalize themselves in different ways.

I had to hide in the house the day he was sacrificed and fall into despair. In

fact, I live at my father’s sacrifice. I live at the cost of not saving my father.

At that moment, the blood that had accumulated on the ground became a

lake and became a sea, and even now, it seemed like it was eroding my

body.

Because my dad said every time I had to hide my special ability. No!!. That

was an excuse. I was sick of myself. But nonetheless, I still want to live.

I’ve been lucky this year, but I don’t know what will happen next. At night, I

looked at the sky through the window and prayed to all the gods that

existed. Please let me survive.

But my prayers were not answered.

* * *

“Rose, do you understand.”

“It’s a decision for the sake of the villagers.”

People put a garland over my head and a beautiful dress. It seemed to be

an attempt to protect their own conscience by carefully dressing the

people who were sacrificed for the sake of the village.

In the past year, a lot has happened. When I became an orphan, people

were kind at first. But, it seems I have been bothering them to get

something to eat all the time.

From ‘The child of a traitor who tried to leave the village’ to a ‘poor

children who lost their parent’.

My position in the village as a child who has lost a father has changed.

And, because I have no family to protect, I became the sacrifice of this

year.

“By the way, there were some people who came to the village. What are

they doing?”

I overheard other people’s conversations by chance when I leaned my

head towards the village women.

“I am an Adventurer, and I swear I can kill Leviathan s in this village.”

“Why do they always go around and look for the monster’s anger?”

“That’s why the new mayor is also trying to expel them.”

They can kill the beast…

There are a lot of people like that. Self-proclaimed heroes who said they

would cut the head of a monster came to our village, but every time only

raging monsters exist. Perhaps the same goes for those who came this

time.

“We’re in a hurry, Rose.”

I quickly erased my thoughts about them, and I got on the boat

surrounded by people. The villagers row the boats to the rocky island in

the sea. With the rocky island in front of me, I hesitated to get off the boat,

but it’s of no use. At the urge of the villagers, I reluctantly set foot on the

rocky island.

Huiing spakk.

Because of the strong winds, seawater splashed on my face. Whether it

was because of the cold or the fear that my body was trembling, I could

not even tell.

I didn’t even revolt and was quietly tied to a pillar by the villagers.

“Rose, I’m sorry.”

They left that one short word and hurried away. Leaving me alone, I was

watching the boat that was going farther away without knowing it or even

turning my head.

Am I really going to die too? When the child died last year, I couldn’t watch

the scene from a distance because I was hiding at home. After that, I

couldn’t see the boy in the village, However, I do not know whether the

boy is really dead or not.

But when I thought I might die like that child and like the children before

that, fear came to me.

Splash splash.

Dark night.

The movement of the waves hitting the rocks was gradually increasing.

“It’s okay, I’m not scared, I’m not scared……”

I soothe myself alone. It’s okay, it’s not scary.

But that didn’t relieve my fear, so I started to hum.

However, the tone was messy, and gradually the crying started to creep in.

At that time, a voice mixed in with my fearful hum. It was a man’s voice.

There was no one here except me. No, it shouldn’t have.

“Who, who are you…?”

I turned to find someone hiding on the rocky island, but couldn’t find

anything. In addition, I was soaked by the stiff waves hitting my whole

body, I couldn’t even think of finding a man anymore. I realized. That it’s

time for the monster to come.

The blue sea water around the rocky island was shaded black. Shortly

thereafter, the seawater splashed up and wetted my whole body again,

and the Leviathan raised his head.

Fish-like dead eyes, freshly caught by the sailors, came into contact with

me. The gleaming green scales reflected the light and hurt my eyes.

However, when it got closer, it became shady and the glare disappeared.

Instead, the fishy smell of the sea came deeply.

“Huh, uh….”

I bite my teeth, but a cry comes out. When I was shaking uncontrollably, I

managed to lift my eyelids, and my eyes met Leviathan again. Then the

monster opened his mouth wide. Along with the darkness, this time there

was the smell of the dead body. The behemoth’s saliva flowed down from

his upper teeth in a sticky manner.

I was so stiff that I couldn’t even struggle. A fierce fear that I had never

experienced engulfed me.

I didn’t want to die like this.

I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die!

But even with such a prayer, the beast’s fangs appeared just above my

head.

It was then.

I heard a hum. The sound that I thought was mishearing.

The Leviathan’s mouth, who tries to eat me, closes and retreats. My gaze

turned towards the sound of the hum. Singing the hum I had been singing,

a man approached from the distance.

I guess I didn’t hear the hallucinations before. I opened my eyes in tears

wider and looked at the man. He certainly looked older than me, but he is

not a perfect young man. He is a boy with smooth muscles but fine lines.

It wasn’t a song that was sung directly by voice, but it was sweet to hear.

Like the nymphs singing.

A light blond man that closes to gray hair with white skin was walking

slowly over here. When a beautiful man laughed, as if a nymph was

disguising himself as a man, the dimples on his cheeks were sunken.

Wait a minute. He is laughing?

“Ah…”

It was only when I would feel discomfort. The Leviathan ran toward the

man. It’s only had two feet, but the beast was fast. Revealing his huge

teeth, Leviathan stuck his teeth in the ground where the man was.

I was about to close my eyes because I couldn’t see someone else’s death.

Leviathan’s green body was seen with the white sword lightly embedded!

A pure white sword was stuck on Leviathan’s back. At that moment,

Leviathan shook its body with a huge cry. It was natural for a man to fall

from Leviathan’s body. However, something appeared in the man’s hand,

right before he fell. It the other hand that was not holding the sword. With

a handle in the middle and blades on either side, it was carved like a

crescent moon.

The man threw the weapon at me. I flinched reflexively, but before I was

properly scared, the flying weapon broke the ropes that held me on the

pole. Then I became free!

But I can’t be happy.

With a plop!

It is because the man fell with the sound of water.

Go-oh-oh!

Leviathan looked around as if looking for that man. It seemed to have

completely forgotten my existence. Meanwhile, I crawled into a corner

and hid behind a rock.

“Sigh……”

My breath caught. It was unavoidable that my whole body trembled.

Carefully sticking out my eyes behind the rock and looking for the

Leviathan. Trying to find the man, Leviathan looked around in all

directions, bled green blood, and then jumped into the water.

The man, are you still in the water? People won’t be able to survive in the

water for a long time…!

I was afraid that the man who saved me would die. However, right now I

can’t move easily because I don’t have the strength.

Fworst.

With the sound of the water, my hands lifted to the side where I was

hiding. I knew that I was the only one there when he came out of the

water, but in a situation where my whole body was stiff and I couldn’t

move. I won’t be able to help him.

Soon a completely wet man stretched out his upper body. For a person

who had been in the water for a long time, I didn’t see any signs of holding

breath for a long time, but it wasn’t a big problem for me now.

“Hi?”

In the dire situation against monsters, the man looked at me and smiled

brightly. It was even so bright, so I had nothing but silence.

“Little girl, are you going to keep looking from far away?”

His voice was not boyish but not perfectly mature either, it wasn’t

uncomfortable to hear. Rather, it is good to hear.

“Would you like to help me?”

It was only when the man spoke again that I realized.

I moved my legs that were still trembling and ran towards the man, and I

grabbed the man’s arm. But a moment later, my gaze was forced to shift

away from the man. A huge shadow appeared in the sea where I was

holding the man’s body. It was Leviathan.

“Come up quickly!”

As soon as the man climbed onto the island, Leviathan’s face, with its

mouth wide open, soared. That was a very small distance.

“Is the night still long here??”

“If we stay like this, it will be a big problem!”

I screamed at the benefactor who saved me without knowing it.

“You might die!”

“We are not going to die.”

“……”

“Because I will save you.”

For a moment, my heart shook. Of course, it was for a while.

This is because the Leviathan’s long tail hit the man’s body. At the same

time, the man’s body flew and hit the rock.

Look, what did I say.

“Ahhhhhh!”

The Leviathan, approaching me, stretched out his eagle-like claws and

grasped my body. I felt like my ribs would break. However, if the ribs are

broken and I die, that would be fortunate too.

“Uh, eup!”

I will be eaten.

Whether eaten by Leviathan or sink in the water.

I closed my lips and tried to hold my breath. However, it was not enough

to just hold my breath because I suddenly was dragged into the water. In

addition, Leviathan took me away from the rocky island.

What I can see in my sight, when being dragged towards the water while

being held by the monster, is the sunlight turning red.

Is the sun setting already….?

It was a time when I thought of something useless, am I desperate now?

Something flew through the water. It was the crescent-shaped sword I saw

earlier. The man came back.