Book 2-1.3 Flashback (II)
Venersis, who was holding her right
hand with his left hand, and her shoulder with his right hand, shouted
out in extreme surprise, but before he knew it, the dagger had cut
through her skin.
“No!”
Venersis shouted as he urgently
grabbed her left hand and pulled the dagger out, but a fountain of blood
started to pour out of her chest. Even Venersis’ quick action could not
prevent the dagger from stabbing her heart.
“My tribe … and my son … will follow the rules of the desert and make sure to get rid of you.”
Mairez
looked at Venersis with eyes full of grudge, and Venersis felt like
every place her eyes landed on hurt more than when he was slashed by a
shamshir.
As Mairez’s body started to grow cold in his arms, Venersis just blankly stood in place.
Now,
he could no longer get rid of the stigma that Venersis, the ‘Bloodied
Hands’ murdered the Mother of Pareia. He could not make any kind of
excuse. His name and his pride had both received a large scar.
“Hmm……”
Venersis
looked down at Mairez with a blank expression before letting out a loud
moan. He then carefully laid her down in the paoe and walked out.
A long time later, the large box that was in the corner of the paoe started to move around.
Thunk.
The lid of the box made a noise as it flipped open, and a young boy came jumping out of it.
His eyes that were open extremely wide looked to be very shocked.
Although
he had opened the box just slightly to make sure nobody was around
before opening the lid, the shock in the heart of the child had not
subsided.
The next moment, the child’s eyes grew so wide they
looked like they might rip. The black pupils in his eyes grew large
before suddenly shrinking.
“Mother.”
The boy who looked to be around ten years old had seen Mairez’s body. The boy urgently called to her as he ran towards her.
Yulian Provoke.
The
first son of the Glow of the Pareia tribe, Mairez’s one and only son
Yulian, could no longer speak after seeing the bloody chest of his
mother and just kneeled down next to her.
‘Mother…..’
Tears started to fall from Yulian’s eyes. He put a hand over his mouth to muffle his cry and hugged his mother’s body.
Knowing that
Venersis’s attack had started outside, Mairez tried to hide her son, but
Yulian was stubbornly not listening. He was a male and a son, so he
felt that he should protect his mother, who was a woman.
What
Mairez had said to convince her son after feeling proud seeing the small
practice shamshir in her son’s hand, ended up being the last words
Yulian ever heard coming out of his mother’s mouth.
“Mother……”
With
his hands and face completely covered in blood, Yulian laid on his
mother’s chest and cried quietly. He needed to keep his mother’s wish.
Although
he was very young at 10 years old, he knew exactly what he had to do.
If he cried loudly right now, he would simply end up a prisoner. The
cost to get him back would be quite heavy as well.
“Mother, I will
not be sad. I will only cry this one time. Mother, I … this son of
yours will make sure to return this grudge…I will follow the law of
the desert and return it in the exact same way … so I will not be sad.”
A boy’s promise.
The child of Baguna, the Glow of Pareia, and Mairez, the Mother of Pareia.
While
Yulian Provoke was making this promise, outside, the dry desert sand
and the dust of the wilderness had absorbed a lot of human blood. It
then combined with the wind that you often see in the desert wilderness.
A red wind befitting the name Red Desert started to blow.
