I was running in a deep forest.
Winter will come soon. Snow falls on this region mercilessly. When winter comes, you can not enter the mountains like this.
If you do not hunt now and do not make dried meat or salted meat, the table in winter will be lonesome.
I do not want to repeat last year’s failure.
Let ‘s do our best to make my ten-years-old winter happy.
Alright, I took off a large rabbit at once.
“Even though hunting is going well… I can not find anyone” (Rougue)
Recently, I was looking for an assistant for assassination.
There is a limit to what one can do.
However, not everyone is okay.
To have magical power is the minimum condition.
I looked for a child in an ordinary household with magical powers as they are at a rate of about 1 in 10,000 people.
Even if you have magical power, you may spend a lifetime not knowing that if you do not know how to use it.
It is difficult to find such a person, but if you have eyes of Towerhades who can see magical powers, you can search efficiently.
In spite of such expectations, even when searching through the entire Towerhades territory, I could not find a child with magical power.
“… Do I have to search in areas other than Towerhades?” (Rougue)
It is better for me to find an assistant as soon as possible.
An education would take at least two years, and an additional year to have actual experience of assassination. I would like to find someone within a year.
A powder snow began to fall.
I thought that it was cold, but it cold enough for snow to fall.
Let’s go to see Dia tomorrow.
As it is snowing, it is impossible to cross 320 km over two mountains.
I have been meeting once a month, but considering that I can not meet during the winter, I do not mind going around twice this month.
I felt a sign.
I hold the bow… but then I notice that the sign is not a beast but a person.
The place where I am is deep inside the forest, with wolves and bears.
No one should be hunting here. Who would dare to choose such a dangerous hunting ground?
While wondering about it, I go over to where they are.
It was a girl. She looks about my age.
It is cold enough to snow, but she is barefoot with only a thin, dirty rag cloth. She is trembling in the cold while embracing her body which is so thin that it is about to break.
She is thin with gloomy hair, and she has nearly starved to death. I think that her facial features are good, but I do not really know if that is also the case because of how starved she is.
It is crazy of you to enter such a dangerous forest without any equipment. How she is still alive is a miracle.
… And, what surprised me most is that she has magical power.
I could not find magical powers after looking at every single Towerhades inhabitant.
However, it seems that she does not know how to handle magical powers, magical power is smouldering deep inside my body. This is not different from the ordinary people, and the girl himself will not be aware that she has magical powers.
“I-I do not do anything wrong, s-so do not do bad things.” (girl)
I appeared in front of her, but she was frightened since I was not doing anything.
“… Who are you? Why are you deep inside this forest?” (Rougue)
“M-My village was poor, I-I was thrown away, I-I can’t return to the village… t-the Towerhades territory over the mountain is rich so I tried to g-go there…” (girl)
The girl’s started falling over in the middle of the explanation, so I supported her.
… she is as light as a feather.
“I want to hear the story, but please eat before that.” (Rougue)
I smiled and handed out the sandwich that I brought for lunch.
The girl had surprised eyes.
To get food from others, it seems to be impossible for her living in a poor village that needs to have its population reduced.
… I heard that the territory next to me has incompetent lords and are imposing heavy taxes out of greed.
The girl finishes eating a sandwich.
She looked very happy.
She noticed my eyes and her face turned red. Finally, it seems that she could afford to care about the eyes of others.
“Well, you seem to be heading towards Towerhades, and I am the son of Lord Towerhades.” (Rougue)
“… Why is it such a coincidence?” (girl)
Certainly, it is a terrible coincidence.
But, I think that it is destiny.
“If you feel like it, you can become my exclusive servant? I need your power.” (Rougue)
Finally, I found someone with magical power.
In addition, I was evaluating her.
The action after the abandonment by the population reduction is good.
She did the judgment that it is useless to return to the village, she excluded it from her options, she sought out the possibility of survival and executed it.
It is a necessary qualification for an assassin that they can take the right actions in extreme conditions, and it is hard to learn aptly.
The girl looked up at me and was shedding tears.
“What happened?” (Rougue)
“I am happy, it is the first time that someone said they needed me, it’s been said to me that people do not need me all the time, I was always treated like a disturbance…” (girl)
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