Chapter 72 – Foir (8)

The fact that the union leader was the culprit exploded the village like a bomb.

People were holding their hair, sighing deeply, or wandering aimlessly with expressions that couldn’t get out of shock. Jack, the center of the case, remained silent. After hearing that he had been cleared and that the head of the union was the culprit, he had been drinking without stepping out of the house.

Hanson, who used to gossip about Jack, always wore his hat down and bowed his head whenever he passed near Jack’s house, and Lorena had a particularly dark look on her face. Alice was busy preparing documents to solve the case.

It is said that if the law office sends the results of the investigation, the local court will deliver the official verdict on the case, but it seems that there are many documents to prepare for such a case.

So today I was sitting leisurely in a chair and staring at the town square. The town square was better value for money than the zoo. It was because all kinds of animals would show up just by sitting still, circle the plaza, and then disappear elsewhere.

He faced a cow with an udder twice as big as the others, and saw a rooster with five hens improve in a stately manner. Lorena sighed and walked over to see her squatting in front of a fountain.

I took a quick look around, then cautiously moved next to Lorena. Slowly, Charlie came around Lorena with a stick, saw me coming and ran away. Charlie had candy in his hand, and when I looked at it, he hid it behind his hand.

“Lorena.”

“Oh, Evan. Uh, when did you come?”

Sensitive Lorena didn’t even notice that I was next to her. I sat down next to her and peeked at her armpits through the loose shirt. If you look closely at the wide shirt, you can see her side breasts and bra.

She was staring at me, unconscious of my gaze, and I said, scanning her tanned skin.

“Just now. Why are you so depressed?”

“…Did I look depressed?”

Lorena smiled bitterly as she said that. Lorena seemed to be trying to hide her feelings in her own way. But her sagging shoulders and wobbly gait revealed her feelings.

“Now it turns out that the union president is the culprit.”

“…Yeah, that’s right.”

“It turns out Uncle Jack wasn’t the culprit, shouldn’t we be glad?”

“That’s right. You should be happy.”

Lorena wiped her face. Even the languid exhalation made me excited by the innocence of not knowing men. Lorena looked at the soil with wet eyes. A rooster’s footprint was stamped there.

“I should be happy, but… Because it’s shocking The head of the union did a great job. He gave us this house at a very cheap price, arranged for me to work on a ranch, and said he would seriously look after my dad’s rehabilitation.”

There are no people in the world who are just kind. The suggestion of a good-looking union leader was, in the end, nothing more than a desperate struggle to seduce a woman she liked. I nodded her head and stroked her back.

“Forget the kindness of such a person. There are so many people who think of you.”

I really liked the lumpy feel of the bra hook. Lorena moved a little closer as I gave her a pat on the back and nodded her head. Lorena said.

“I thought you were a really nice person. I don’t know what to do now.”

She looked really confused. I said, wrapping my hands around her back. My fingers ran down her arm, but Lorena didn’t care, as she was busy managing her own emotions.

“The more I think about it, the more depressed I get. In the past, I also suffered from bad memories, but whenever that happens, I try to forget it while thinking of the pleasant things that will come in the future. Bad things in the past are problems that need to be forgotten, not overcome. Because things have already been resolved.”

“Forget it?”

Lorena looked at me. Her face was quite close. She had a pretty nose and her yellow eyes sparkled like pumpkins. I smiled at her and said:

“Okay. Because there are many better and more fun things to do. You’ll forget I think only of the pleasant and hopeful things that lie ahead.”

Lorena was looking at me and smiling. I nodded, but I knew it wasn’t time to kiss yet. I saw Charlie standing in the corner, looking at us. As I looked at him and playfully tried to bring Lorena and her face closer, Charlie jumped up and said,

“Float, get off! You pervert!”

Then he picked up a stone that had fallen on the floor and threw it at me.

“Charlie!”

Before I could dodge, Lorena lightly grabbed a rock Charlie threw and threw it into the fountain. The action was so natural and gentle that I forgot my situation and admired it. Lorena stood up and said.

“Charlie! You just almost hurt Evan! What is this?”

“Rice, pervert! Just now! Bar, I just touched Lorena… !”

Lorena took one look at me and then she said to Charlie.

“Charlie. Evan is my friend While comforting each other, you can stroke his shoulder. Apologize to Evan.”

I said nothing. I’d make Charlie feel worse if I didn’t do anything here than I did.

“This, profit… !”

And as I thought. Charlie screamed, his face flushed red and his teary eyes.

“No apologies! I will never apologize!”

“Tea, Charlie?”

When Lorena calls out to Charlie with her embarrassed voice, Charlie runs away before he knows it. Charlie ran to the edge of her plaza and shouted at Lorena.

“I’m not playing with Lorena anymore!”

I couldn’t help but laugh. If I had done that shit when I was young, I would have died already, but children who grew up being loved were definitely different. I didn’t notice others, and I think everything is my own. Those children will get the right education, love in the right way, and become upright and kind farm boys.

Wasn’t that someone else’s business after all?

In front of my eyes, Lorena was hunched over at her waist, wearing skintight jeans. Her prominent hip line and her strong back muscles that showed through her thin clothes kept making me excited. Sorry Charlie, but Lorena was mine.

“Ah! Everyone! We are now preparing to burn at the village entrance! Gather!”

Contrary to Charlie, who was walking away, a young man working at the temple ran and shouted. Lorena shuddered at the news of her guild leader’s death. I asked as I held her hand.

“Shall we go?”

Lorena glanced at me and looked at the town entrance with her anxious face. Beyond the rugged terrain, faintly, I could see people preparing to be burned. Lorena nodded and squeezed her hand. I casually reached out her hand to her.

Lorena looked at me with her surprised face, and I gave her a nod of her head again.

“Let’s go.”

Lorena then hesitated a little, then nodded and grabbed her hand.

“Huh.”

We were heading to the burning ground like that. As much as the head of the union was burning, I wanted to burn with Lorena tonight as well.

******

The head of the union was speechless. The fire place was full of people who had gathered to watch people burn to death. Alice sat in a separate seat as a law firm employee, and she motioned for me to come up as well.

Alice had a priest next to her, so I shook her head and told her I would not go, and Alice belatedly remembered the priest next to her and nodded her head.

“Dad?”

Hearing Lorena’s call, I involuntarily turned my head and answered.

“Why are you calling me?”

Lorena looked at me with a puzzled expression, and she let out a blank laugh.

“Huh?”

I belatedly realized that Lorena’s dad, Jack, was around here, so I looked around and asked.

“Ah, what is it? Is Uncle Jack nearby?”

“You are right in front of me.”

As she said, Jack was standing in front of the people watching the burning. It was as if he had been granted the right to watch the burning ceremony from the front. People naturally made a place for him to see comfortably, and thanks to this, Jack was able to face the head of the union.

Jack was silently staring at the guild leader. The guild leader also looked at the guild leader trembling, his body full of bruises and traces of torture. Said Jack.

“Why did you do that?”

A low, serious voice.

At this moment, it was as if Jack from his Knights Templar had returned. The people stopped talking, and the priests who were about to execute the sentence waited for the leader’s answer. The head of the union smiled and shook his head. The slightly raised corners of his lips let him know that he had no sign of remorse.

“Why, why did you do that?”

“I, what did I do so wrong? Did you even do this?”

“What did you do wrong? Are you asking because you really don’t know?”

The union leader drew in a breath. As he was preparing his last will in his life, his attitude was spleen.

“It’s your fault that you came to this town! To this village of Foire! Criminals like you crawled in far and wide for a living! Gambling, drunkenness, and doing all sorts of dirty things, ruining the atmosphere of the village! I don’t even pay union fees! Even if I invite your daughter to a drinking party, refuse! What have you done for the village! A parasite-like bastard who only eats the benefits of the village! You won’t be welcome wherever you go! It’s all your fault! It’s all your fault!”

Jack’s face hardened. The priest silently threw a torch at the dry firewood.

“Quaaaaa!”

With the leader’s scream behind him, Jack slowly turned around. His face was more gloomy than ever.