Helmut: The Forsaken Child - H.F.C Chapter 10 (Part 1):

Helmut is a male. Darien, the first human he saw in the forest, is also a male.

The pale, round, and slender women with delicate frames felt somewhat strange.

They were treated differently from the small men who were obviously laborers at first glance.

However, they all looked unhealthy. Pale and fearful expressions.

A few large men moved them to another building as if they were herding sheep. They firmly closed the door and even bolted it.

-Is there a woman you like?

Elaga asked, making a growling sound with her breath.

“Like? I don’t even know those humans.”

Elaga realized that Helmut was too young to expect any reaction.

-Come to think of it, you’re still a kid.

“What are you talking about? But why are those women crowding into the house? It’s daytime.”

When men work outside, women work inside.

But those pale and beautiful women didn’t seem to be doing any work at all. They were like the ruling class of humans.

-Those women are offerings.

“offerings?”

-Naho prefers human females with tender meat and good digestion. Those females with pale, beautiful skin and soft bodies without muscles are offered to Naho. If they’re too small, there’s nothing to eat, so they’re raised until they mature. That’s why women who are to be sacrificed are kept separately like that.

“So those women are…”

-Livestock born and raised in the Forest of Roots. There’s only one human village here. They live safely, eating and drinking to their heart’s content for a short life, but before they become adults, they become a meal for Naho. He slowly pushes the prey into his mouth, enjoying the fear and pain. He’s like a pervert!

Elaga frowned. Helmut stared intently at the building where the women were confined.

It felt strange. Living so openly in a group in the Forest of Roots.

Monsters prefer weak and tender humans as prey. There’s no way they would leave them alone.

If, there weren’t a blatant guardian of a powerful monster.

“So Naho protects that village in exchange for the women as sacrifices.”

-Yeah, but it’s actually the human guy who maintains it. There’s a human who rules that village. All the humans there are Naho’s livestock, and that human is Naho’s representative. Men maintain the village through labor, and the most loyal ones are given women as a reward for mating. That’s how they maintain a certain number.

“So it’s like a farm.”

-Now, look. The leader has appeared.

A vile-looking old man appeared, leaning on his cane. When he gestured, the firmly closed door opened and a man went inside and came out dragging a woman.

The old man, who looked satisfied as he lifted the trembling woman’s chin, nodded.

“Aaaaah!”

The woman’s scream reached where Helmut was, making his skin tingle. The struggling woman was dragged away by the men with her mouth agape.

“So he’s the representative.”

Helmut suddenly remembered what Darien had said. There’s a man in that village who enjoys human flesh. He knows how to get out into the outside world. Could it be him?

“What are they going to do with that woman?”

-Either eat her, mate with her, or offer her to Naho.

It was a sickening statement. What could one do? It was the ecosystem of humans formed to survive in the Forest of Roots. He, who grew up with Elaga’s protection, had no right to judge.

-That human, somehow he knows how to pick up falling humans. That guy Darien half-destroyed that village twenty years ago. It’s already fully recovered. If your luck was a little worse and you fell into Naho’s territory, you would have become livestock on that farm.

“Why did Elaga raise me? If it was bothersome to take care of me, you could have just thrown me into that village.”

When Helmut, who was suddenly curious, asked, Elaga was silent. In fact, she was going to eat him, but ‘somehow’ she saved him, gave him food, and ended up raising him. There was no way to explain that ‘somehow’.

If she were a human, he could express the emotion of not being able to swallow a young life looking up at her with big, round eyes in all sorts of languages.

But she was a leopard and a monster of the Forest of Roots. Elaga said gruffly.

-I don’t need to increase Naho’s livestock.

She raised Helmut because she didn’t want to benefit Naho. It’s an incredibly cumbersome task to say that she did it because she hated someone, not enough for a full explanation.

But Helmut nodded. After all, that’s Elaga’s personality.

“I see.”

-Let’s go back.

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