Chapter 317 – Chapter 317

“Where are you going from here?”
“That way.”

I’m walking with the little boy in silence, and suddenly the little boy goes crazy, perhaps because I left a gas light on at home.

“No, this isn’t it now!”
“What?”
“What are you doing, uncle? Do you seriously intend to feed not only me, but also my friends?”

I answered calmly.

“Yes.”

So what about rice?
It wasn’t much of a problem for me.

“Lie!”

Has this little boy been lied to all his life his?

“Don’t lie! It can’t be! There can be no such person! Why don’t you be honest with me?”

Glancing, let’s roll our eyeballs upward.
The little boy with a fishy smile that didn’t match his age at all said.

“Are you planning to call all my friends and kill them all at once?”

At those words, I stood tall.
At my reaction like this, the little boy must have thought his prediction his was correct, so he shouted in a more triumphant voice.

“Look at this, that was the intention! Do you think I’ll sell my friends? If you’re going to kill me, just kill me!”
“Whoa…”

A sigh came out of my mouth.
I’m not going to lie, but at this moment, my heart was so full that I wished I had at least a cigarette in my arms.
Instead, I took a chocolate bar out of my subspace pouch, peeled it myself, and tossed it into the kid’s mouth.

“What is this… Eup, ugh!”

As if she thought it was poison, the little boy spit out what came into her mouth her in an instant, and sweetness began to linger in her mouth her.
I hurriedly ate the chocolate bar, forgetting about the current situation for a moment.

“What’s this…This taste, the first time I’ve seen it since I was born…”

Wouldn’t a young boy make a face like that if he met an existence that he thought was a goddess for the first time and fell in love at first sight?

“Eat another one, man. There is a saying that the ugly man will be given another rice cake.”
“… !”

As if I had waited, I handed over another chocolate bar, and the little boy ate another chocolate bar in such a hurry that he was afraid he would choke.
The almonds mixed in the chocolate bar are chewed so hard that not a single powder is left behind.

It looked like a beast, but it didn’t look ugly at all.
Just… She was just sad.
With that small body, at such a young age, I starved to this extent… Furthermore, the fact that he was wary of adults to that extent.

“Does it still feel like a lie?”
“… Isn’t that obvious?”

This kid is still…

“There can be no such person! I even tried to kill you! Unless you’re crazy… You can’t give me something so delicious. Black, uh… Aaaaang.”

I stared blankly at the crying little boy.
Certainly, if it had been Caisis, he might have already snapped his neck when the little kid did something impudent.
But I wasn’t Caisis.

“I feel sorry for you, you bastard. Can’t we?”
“For that reason, there can be no one to help…”
“Here you are. It’s okay, and if you received and ate two chocolate bars, it’s worth the money you ate. Stop your useless doubts and continue guiding the way.”
“I see…”

Still, the two chocolate bars seemed to have been eaten properly, and the little boy started moving again.

Watching her walking along with her skinny legs that would break if she was hit with it, wearing rags that would make you hate it even if you handed it to a beggar, it just feels like your eyes are getting moist for no reason.

In a way, I didn’t even know that the past of Miho and Noah, which I hadn’t seen, was like this.

“Kyaaaaang! Dad!”
“Dad, hehe. Today, I solved the entire Noah problem book!」

It’s hard to breathe when you think about how these children lived.

“Whoa…”
“Here.”

When I finally caught my breath, I arrived in front of a small house made of rubbish from Garbage Alley that stinks to the point of nausea.

Oh god
It’s not Hansel and Gretel’s house made of sweets, it’s a house made of garbage…

The little boy immediately glanced at me, and she opened her mouth in a weak voice.

“Marie, Shana. I’m here.”

What jumped out at the child’s words were two girls in dirty rags who wouldn’t be strange if they got sick just like the little boy.
Even the girls looked younger than the little ones.

“Brother… I’m here? Cool, cool. That person… ?”
“…”

Neither of them even looked good.
No, it was natural.

Vaccination means that even I, who have been vaccinated, will get a new disease if I live in this alley for a week.
The fact that children are living in a place like this to the extent that their immunity has crawled to the bottom and the government has come forward to vaccinate them.
It was no different from being sick and being told to search.

“That person is…”
“Hi? Uncle, you are not a strange person. So don’t be too nervous. First of all, I have to give you the chocolate bar I gave to your brother.”
“Choco… Bar?”

I handed the chocolate bar to the two girls who tilted their heads and gave them a squeeze.

“Sniff sniff, are you eating this?”
“Yeah, I haven’t heard anything like poison, so you can eat it. Your brother said they were so delicious that he ate two of them.”
“Ah…Thank you.”

Rather than politeness, it only seemed like a way of life learned to survive.

“… !”

The two girls, who carefully bit into the tip of the chocolate bar, hurriedly shove the chocolate bar into their mouths, just as her little one had seen, and chewed on it with both hands tightly covering her mouth.

“Big! Cool, cool!”

While she was eating, she coughed as if she had heard it, but despite this, her face shows a happy expression on her face her.

“Oh, it’s delicious… ! This is the first time I’ve had such delicious food in my life!”
“So? Rather, the child next to him…”
“Ah, Shana, she had been begging and had her neck her trampled hard once before… I can’t speak now.”
“…”

Instead, a girl named Shana thanked me with her polite bow of her head.
The more I looked at them, the more I felt sorry for them, and they seemed like they were going crazy.

That made my heart even heavier.

Because I was never in a position to be ‘responsible’ for these children. A week at most.
If it’s time to go back to the present day, eventually I had to say goodbye to these children. Is it really right for me to lend a helping hand to these children?

The topic of this has always been there.
In order to help disadvantaged children, it is wiser to teach them how to live rather than satisfy the hunger right in front of them.

However, there’s no way you can do that in a week.

“Uncle, it’s okay.”

Startle!

Only then did the little boy who had been watching silently next to me express his sincere apologetic expression his and then open his mouth.

“I get it now. Man, you really are a good person, unlike other people. So, you don’t have to worry about not being able to take responsibility for us. We don’t even want to go there.”
“…”
“Just… You know what I said earlier.”

That it makes you full

The little boy said with a happy smile.

“We have more than enough of that!”

Unable to find a solution, there was nothing I could do except meekly agree to the unchildlike consideration.

“Okay. This man will fill your stomach.”
“… !”
“Wow!”

Watching the children rejoice at my words, I took out one or two items from the subspace.

Not to mention Nayoung’s lunchbox, which I don’t know how many I packed before coming here.
I took out a lot of emergency food that I had prepared for the unexpected.

“Wow… !”

When I opened the lid of the lunch box Nayoung made, the frightening smell of fragrant food stung my nose.
The starving little ones were just drooling as their eyes were taken away by the food.

It was exactly the same as Miho’s appearance when we first met.
At that time, Miho was also starving all day, so she didn’t even know that the ramen was hot, so she tried to eat it in a hurry and spilled it all on the floor.

“If I were Kaisis, I might have been able to make a nice house with my mysterious magic and wash you guys clean in an instant. Unfortunately, I’m not that good a person.”

Instead.

[Use the Blessing of Healing.]

With a wet tissue, I wiped the children’s faces, necks, and hands that needed to eat in a hurry, while at the same time using the blessing of healing.

“Ahhh…! Voice comes out My voice is coming out!”
“Three, my God. What a miracle! Heh, heh!”
“The replacement uncle is…”

I smiled and put the entire lunch box into the arms of the children.

“Is that important right now, or is the food that looks delicious right in front of you important? What do you think is important?”
“… Food.”
“Then, eat the food first.”
“… !”

As soon as I finished my words, the children picked up the food with their hands and pushed it into their mouths as if they had heard something.
Looking at that, I can definitely understand why Miho is so obsessed with food.

Unlike modern times, which do not know the bitterness of hunger.
Here, a huge number of children were always suffering from unimaginable hunger.

In a way, Miho’s gluttony was clearly due to this influence.

“Taste… I have. It is so delicious.”

Even if you pour out your tears, even if your stomach is full.
Looking at the children who keep pushing in, like people who can’t eat food unless it’s today, I opened a drink one by one and handed it to them rather than drying it.

“Then I will choke and die. Eat while drinking this.”
“Now, even if I die of choking, I think I can die with a happy smile. Hehe.”
“Uh huh, that’s not what a child would say.”

A world where you can leave without regrets with a delicious lunchbox.
All of a sudden, I get a sense of how good the world I live in is. I don’t think I’ve ever been grateful to be born on Earth.
When I look at the children in front of me, cunningly, I feel fortunate that I was born on Earth, not in this world, and in Korea.

“Isn’t it really exploding?”
“Aww, it’s ticklish. Uncle, hehe… But since he is the man who gave us such delicious food, you can poke it as much as you like.”

As I stabbed my bloated belly, I explained about the emergency food I had brought out earlier.

“This is a can of tuna, and this is a can of peaches… Other than that, everyone can keep it for a long time, and it’s a food that can be eaten anytime just by opening the lid like this. Eat when you feel like eating.”
“Go, thank you.”

The children, who were treated with food and even given food to eat later, were happy but not genuinely happy.
The children looked at me and opened their mouths.

“By the way… Well, we have nothing to give you. Whoa, if you want anything, I’ll even give you our lives. If it wasn’t for him, I’m sure I would have died sooner. Now that we are able to eat such delicious food, our lives now belong to you. Whether it’s an experiment by a warlock or a sale to a slave trader, I’ll gladly accept it.”
“So, it’s not like that. Stop it, you son of a bitch. I didn’t help you because I was expecting something from you.”

These days, our modern society has become desolate if it has become desolate in its own way, but it was nothing compared to this world.
What kid would say something like that?

“Is there anything you really want? If there’s anything you want, I’ll give my life to get it!”

Isn’t this enough to just want to look back?

“Well, then! Why did you come all the way to a rural village like this?”
“The goddess sent me here.”
“… Uncle, how about going to the temple first? No, if you say what I just said in the temple, you might be executed as a heretic.”

Fuck…

I said with a deep sigh.

“Well, I have to wander around looking for something that could be called a treasure. I don’t really expect that from you…”

It was then.
Shanna, who said she hadn’t heard her voice because she hurt her neck her, raised her hand and said,

“I know, treasure story! I was dumb, so I could hear it!”