I Became a Slave to a Mythical Shepherd

Episode 6. fairy

Even ancient people are not as foreign as aliens in the eyes of modern people. We have our own morality and hygiene, and in this era, there is something called common sense.

And since I fell in this era, I will have to follow the standard of this era. I know that. I know…

“Did you say that the girl lived alone?”

“Yes, what, right?”

“No one in the village knows the name Ino.”

“···yes?”

It’s okay, but this didn’t seem like much.

Ino has been around for a year or two, but there are no adults to take care of her and no home to return to.

I knew that he would be attacked by strangers or wild animals while he was alone in the valley.

Still, the grains of my body were approaching 30, so I have that much responsibility. Besides, didn’t he even owe his own life some time ago?

The clothes she wears and her behavior are questionable, but… I don’t know why. Who secretly takes care of you behind the scenes?

Sometimes, when I see myself claiming to be a fairy, I wonder if it’s just what kids at this age are like, or if I should seriously take them to a child psychologist.

We can’t leave such a child unattended in the wild.

When my parents started whispering, something seemed to be getting serious, so I hurriedly intervened.

“A kid named Ino? I’m not a bad kid, I think I’m just wandering around because I don’t have a home. I’m sure I would have been in danger if he hadn’t shouted at that time. It’s like leaving it alone…”

“Son, I have something to tell you.”

“you. Let’s talk among ourselves first.”

At the mother’s words, the two start a fierce conversation by winking at each other. Roughly speaking, it contains the shifting of responsibility towards each other, embarrassment, and concerns about how far it is okay to say…

did i say something wrong? Did I miss something?

Anyway, after such an uncomfortable silence for a long time, the mother starts to speak first.

“Isn’t that a girl? yes?”

“What, is that so?”

Parents’ expressions are now starting to shrink because they can’t rot. What? What is it?

As soon as I answered my mother’s words, my father walked slowly as if he had made up his mind and put his arm around my shoulder.

“Haa… from tomorrow, for a while, don’t go out the way he came out. Or I’ll just take care of the sheep, and you and your mother here weave baskets or milk the sheep…”

“What happened?”

“It looks like we’ve been possessed by a fairy.”

“…”

“…”

“father?”

“…”

what is this…

As I blinked in surprise at the unexpected reaction, the two of them continued to speak calmly, one word at a time.

“If there is a fairy in the mountain, young boys especially should not go near it. Guys like you can get caught.”

“Listen to your mother. In fact, if it’s a fairy, the same goes for a young man. When I was little, my older brother who lived next door was dragged away by a fairy, leaving only his hat behind…”

“I am worried about you. Of course, there must be many good fairies. But do bad guys enjoy kidnapping children?”

Other seven-year-olds might be fooled by this childish prank.

But I can’t be fooled even if I want to be fooled.

If you are in your late twenties and add your present life, you are now well over 30 years old. How can you believe the nonsense that if you get close to a forest, a fairy will catch you?

I ponder for a moment.

“···all right. For a while, I will graze the sheep somewhere else.”

“Yeah, well thought out. Did you say North Field? I don’t know what will happen, so I’ll have to tell the other villagers. You, talk to me at the town meeting.”

“I don’t know if our village can afford that,” he said.

Do you burn wood? Then, what about Ino who lives nearby?

After my parents send me to that bed and lay me down, the two of us start talking about this and that again. It is mainly a story about ‘how to avoid and prevent fairies’.

It is expected that there are not one or two abandoned children, as their parents constantly use the plural of ‘fairy’.

“I have to get rid of it somehow. My son got possessed by a fairy and ran away from here…”

“Do you know what curse you will face if I kick you out? I’d rather not approach people…”

“Then, if a fairy appears in another place, then in another place, what if? Is it a problem with a child? huh?”

As the mother pushes forward with strong logic, the father, who has not thought much of it, is gradually pushed back.

It’s a big deal.

I never thought encountering bandits would return to me with this butterfly effect.

– Seruk.

Ino is dangerous.

I slipped on my coat and walked out of the house on tiptoe.

Looking outside, the horizon, which was still blurry, is now buried in darkness.

It was easy to go to the goal on a day like this without a light source, so after being away from the village for a while, I hurriedly lit a fire and made a torch.

In a very wide and deep darkness, I am a dot.

As soon as the torch goes out, everything disappears from sight and you have to stand there for hours, blind.

Just as the wind blew and the flames were dangerously shaken, my worries about it grew.

It’s not just because my body is seven years old, but the reality of relying on a small light in this darkness makes people weak.

This is not even South Korea, where tigers and wolves outside the zoo were extinct, but ancient Greece, where bears and wolves rampage everywhere.

This is because a child who is blind and has no means of resistance is not a snack, but is full of beasts to be eaten at the level of an appetizer.

“Ha… did you come out for nothing?”

no. I had to come out impulsively, but I did well.

How can you stay still when you treat an orphan as a ghost and try to drive him out even now?

Shivering from the cold, I was able to find my way straight away. No, there were no roads in this area anyway, since it was a meadow because sheep roamed around so much. You can only get a rough direction by looking at the stars.

Every time a beast’s eyes appeared nearby, he ran wildly, and before he knew it, his chin was full.

I couldn’t tell if the two lights I was seeing belonged to a rabbit or a wolf looking for a snack, so I had no choice but to run as soon as I sensed something other than myself.

– Aww woo woo.

Just canceled that thought. I just came out In a situation where you don’t know when you’ll go to the goal, you shouldn’t be messing around. On the subject of a seven-year-old.

Now, the trembling of my chin is not because of the cold, but because I am afraid. Gradually, it seems that voices are heard here and there, and the eyes seem to increase…

“What are you doing here?”

“Ahh! f*ck!!”

“What does that mean? city···”

“You, you don’t know. Are you okay?”

found.

No, did he find me?

As always, Ino was wearing a white outfit that I don’t know why she was washing every day.

Looking down at me with a bewildered expression, I ask again.

“How did you come all the way here? Dangerously at this late hour…”

The danger is you, not me.

The words came out of my throat. The night was short and there was much to be said.

“I’m fine. By the way, do you know your parents?”

“me? I’m a fairy so there’s no such thing?”

ruined?

I don’t think he was an illegitimate child, but he seemed to have been abandoned because of a mental problem. Like this harsh ancient world.

In a small society, people are supposed to live as good as they are good, pretending to know even if they know, and pretend to know even if they do not know.

At the same time as throwing away the uncomfortable child, he blames this and that misfortune in moderation. Abandoned child will not be able to protest.

Originally, a small society goes back like that. And the same goes for our village, where only shepherds live in a mountain valley.

Are there any adults who can’t eat like this?

“Starting tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, the villagers will search all over the area to drive you out. They seem to be thinking of cutting down trees and filling up the swamps.”

“I-you kicked me out?”

“Yes, whoever takes care of you normally will not be able to continue to take care of you like now…”

uh?

“Get down!”

-Wheei Iik!!

What flew into your head? stone?

Unknowingly, I reached for the catapult that I had put on my waist, but Ino grabbed my right hand to block it.

“You are slowly going back now. It’s dangerous for a boy like you to wander around for a long time. Other fairies might try to take you.”

“Other kids? right. What else do they do… no. Just tell them to get out of here.”

He had received help last time too, but it seemed that he was wary of outsiders and the community among street children.

[get out.]

[Get out of here.]

Unbeknownst to me, strange eye-lights gather and stare at me from beyond the small circle of light illuminated by the torches.

Seeing that, Ino instead wrapped around me and roared like a beast, forcing them to retreat.

“Did you see it? Fairies don’t welcome you. You shouldn’t be here.”

“…they shouldn’t be here either. They are still children, but they should sleep under the roof.”

“It’s okay because they’re all fairies!”

Are you okay with being a fairy?

But how can a person, a child, be left alone in the mountains?

No matter how much I am a slave, even if I am the son of a slave, I live in a house that is well protected from the wind and eat three meals a day without starving.

If people have a conscience, they can’t do that.

“We live well among ourselves! We help each other, and the older sisters help me a lot!”

“Older sisters? How many?”

“500 years old!”

It was a completely pointless conversation.

I gave up persuasion from this point on.

Anyway, I felt relieved, but for some reason I felt sorry for him, so I told Ino.

“Thank you for helping me last time. If someone comes and tries to harm you, you have to run away?”

Ino tilted his head as if he was bewildered, but I was even more impressed by his appearance.

Even before reincarnation, I had younger siblings… The second, like an asshole, went out without a penny after kicking German philosophy like me, and I even looked after the younger children…

How did their college entrance exam go? Will I live well?

Of course, the second one can’t live well. If the guy from the philosophy department had come to ancient Greece instead of me, he would have gotten a job…

“Because there are many people I think of when I see you. Should I be safe?”

“what? It’s dangerous, so go back!”

“···okay. safe and Stop talking about fairies.”

“If fairies stop talking about fairies, what will they talk about…”

“done. I’m sorry I tried to talk. I’ll go back.”

“for a moment!”

Just as I was about to turn around and leave, Ino called.

When I turn my head, Ino spits something sticky in her mouth and puts it on my lap.

“You are bruised there. It’s better if you put this on…”

“Thank you.”

Bacterial infection Thank you.

I’m grateful for your sincerity, but if you make people go through this hard work and smile proudly like that… it’s okay.

I held back the words and walked back the way I came.

Ino’s figure disappeared into the darkness before I knew it, and the ominous eye lights that surrounded me also scattered one by one.

Even the whispers disappear and the ominousness gradually disappears.

After walking for a while, looking east, a red energy comes to mind and colors are added to the world.

The sky is dyed red like an apple just ripening, and the grass below is beautiful with dew bouncing orange…

“Is it ruined?”

I started running right away.

99% chance of getting caught.

Sooner or later, my mother will get up to put out the fire, and my father will get up and cut firewood shortly after that, but since they both need me, it’s obvious that they will come to wake me up.

If either of them wakes up before I arrive, they will find out that I have escaped in the middle of the night.

Throwing away the torch, which was slowly running out of function, started to sprint with all its might. Dew splashes from the grass trodden by your feet and splashes onto your face.

Faster, maybe it’s because he’s seven years old, but he seems to get tired quickly, and his legs are too short, so he can’t move very well.

-month!

“no! You’re not trying to play! I don’t want to play! go back!”

“month! Whoop!”

Zephyrus rushes in quickly. It seems very nice to see the owner from the morning.

I’m not happy at all

“What, what? Have you heard of a thief? Honey, wake up! Zephyrus is crying!”

“thief? Some kind of thief in this f*cking poor corner…”

In the end, everything was settled after the mother with a club in both hands and the father with a loaded bow came out.

I am a mad dog lover who wants to play with a dog from the early morning, so I jumped out like a madman and ran around all day long.

The stick that had just been thrown was not a perch for a torch, but a means to play toss and catch with Zephyrus. The one with burn marks and ashes at the end… the one with…

“Does it have to be bright to throw and catch at night?”

“…”

“…”

“sorry. I was wrong.”

A psychopathic animal abuser who throws a burning stick at his dog.

For a while after that, my parents forbade me to go near the sheepdogs.

And after a while, the plaster that Ino had applied was removed, and the wound was completely healed. Adults have been walking around the place where Ino was for a while, but I haven’t heard of any ‘fairies’ being found. It must have escaped safely.

All problems seemed to be resolved.

“Zephyros, let’s go!”

“no!! Son, let’s go with mom.”

“…”

I just became a madman.