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There was a village that had been trampled by barbarian plunderers. In the grand scheme of things, it was nothing. Nobody really cared much about that village being wiped out.
Who would care about a small farmhouse burning down when the world was in an era where entire nations and cities were falling? The plunderers who were clad in animal skins and wielding axes had even defeated the mighty imperial army.
The girl looked at her burning house. Her father, who had fought against the barbarians with a pitchfork, was impaled on a wall and burned alive. Her mother was violated by the barbarians in the barn.
“Oh, Lou!”
Someone cried out the name of the god, though there was no answer.
‘Why, just why?’
The girl trembled as she hid inside a dirty wooden barrel.
“Please, please, please.”
She prayed to Lou over and over, asking him to end this hellish moment.
Clunk, clunk.
The sound of metal footsteps approached.
The girl's breathing became rough, and she couldn’t stop the panting no matter how hard she tried.
‘They’ll find me at this rate.’
Even though she knew this, her breathing only grew louder. It felt like her heart would burst out of her chest.
Creak.
Someone opened the lid of the barrel. The girl looked up with her eyes widened. She couldn’t see his face very well because of the burning...
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