"I, I... am... not... "
Bawanshi wanted to retort, but found that her tongue was already tangled.
I'm so scared... Why can't I say it in a more beautiful voice and with a more generous attitude?
Faced with the fairies surrounding her, Bavanshi suppressed the fear and panic that was about to burst out of her lips at any time, and wanted to talk seriously to everyone of the same kind.
"Why have you been with us for so long? Why are your feet still in such a weird shape?"
"It's so ugly! If it's cut off, Bawanshi will be the same as us."
“I think that’s great.”
"Yes, such a Bawanshi is so pitiful."
"Well, how pitiful."
"so poor."
"Let's chop it down."
"Bhavanshi won't object, because she has always been very obedient."
"No. She, we are helping her."
Amid the goblins' sincere expressions, Bawanshi, who had some bruises on her face, had no time to care about the pain, as anxiety gradually filled her consciousness.
My mind went blank. It was so scary. So scary. What happened? Did I do something wrong? Did I do something to deserve being treated like this?
It's so scary. No, I don't want my legs to be chopped off. Even though it's ugly, I don't want it. I don't want to feel pain, I don't want to be afraid anymore, I don't want to die...
"do not come!"
Bawanshi remembered that she seemed to have said such words when she was a little collapsed. At the same time, she only now understood her own situation.
"Strange, Bawanshi, you are very strange today."
"When I played with you before, you never resisted."
"We are all doing this for your own good."
The goblins did not retreat after hearing her shout. Instead, they continued to move forward with confused expressions, but they did not drop their weapons.
She was so frightened that she slowly backed away, wanting to call on other high-level fairies to save her, and then she realized that she had made a mistake.
Because this is a remote area, only some low-level fairies come here. Normally, she would not come here by herself, but was brought here by everyone.
Are you going to fight to the death?
However, the fairy girl had completely lost her courage.
She would be afraid if she were abandoned by her companions.
She would be terrified if she were disliked by her companions.
Therefore, Bawanshi felt that she was powerless, but at the same time she was thinking, maybe everyone was just doing this for her own good?
Maybe I misunderstood.
However, the fairy girl was still very scared in her heart.
But it doesn't matter what it is, she just wants to escape from here as soon as possible.
So Bavanshi pushed away the fairies who were blocking her and jumped to the end of the inland sea without caring about the consequences.
Towards the door leading to the real world here—
Bawan Xi heard from other fairies of the same kind that it was a world belonging to humans, and that fairies could easily die if they stayed there for too long, because it belonged to humans, not fairies.
As she was thinking, she felt like she was falling into a bottomless pit.
As her internal organs floated up due to the fall, a gloomy feeling surged in the fairy girl's heart.
I don't know what it is, but I have a desire to die...
No, I don't want to die. I hope to continue living, and then be like the princess in the human storybook, rinse my body with hot water, dry my hair a little, go to bed with a blanket under a warm room, go to a favorite place, and enjoy a leisurely life in a sunny place -
As she was mumbling this in her mind, she remembered that when she had said this to the fairies before, they had all shouted at her in a strange way:
"Wow, it's a princess."
"Bhawan Xi is a princess."
"But that's a storybook abandoned by humans. That means if Bavanshi is a princess, she was abandoned, so she's not a princess."
"No, Bawan Xi is a princess."
"Yes, Princess."
While talking like this, the fairies nonchalantly snatched the storybook that Bavanshi was reading, wrote Bavanshi's name on it, and then called her "Princess" again while laughing. Finally, as if they were tired of playing, the fairies threw the storybook into the water.
When Bawan Shi finally found it after spending a long time in the lake, there was no content left in the storybook.
Finally, she tore up the storybook and threw it into the water, but then she remembered something and picked up the pieces expressionlessly and swallowed them bite by bite.
Please——
"don't want......"
A wail burst out of his throat.
Then, the fairy girl felt that she had hit something so hard that her whole body felt like it was about to be torn into pieces.
She could already foresee the horrible human beings tearing her flesh and clothes, gouging her flesh, and the excruciating pain.
Bawan Xi closed her only free eyelid, trying to at least block out her vision.
However, the expected severe pain did not come.
"...?"
So she opened her eyes slowly and tremblingly, her eyes were filled with tears and blurry, and what she saw was not the cruel "human" -
It was sunlight, a sunlight that was completely different from the world of life, and this sunlight from the human world made Bawan Shi feel very uncomfortable.
"This is the human world...so scary..."
Bawan Xi murmured, the fear that came from loneliness and the inexplicable sadness made her eyes red.
So I burst into tears.
She didn't know how much time had passed, but when she came to her senses, she found that it was already dark, and she was still alone in the human world. She wanted to go back.
"Go back."
No one was listening, but the fairy girl still said it.
She nodded to herself and began to observe her surroundings, trying to grasp the situation first.
In her vision with this awareness, she saw a hut with a campfire inside.
So, she walked towards that place, and what happened next was the "blood-sucking incident" widely circulated among Scottish hunters.
The four hunters were frightened by the blood-covered Bawan Xi and her abnormal feet. They even abandoned the property they had just exchanged and chose to run away.
With a confused look on her face, Bawan looked at the belongings left by the hunters. Although she was puzzled, she still took them away. Perhaps due to the hunters' frightened attitude, she did not dare to stay in the cabin any longer and could only go back along the way she came out, which was a small lake.
At this moment, the night sky was always cold and bright, covering the beautiful and quiet Scottish Highlands. She walked on the magnificent Scottish Highlands, feeling a sense of desolation and beauty. After reaching the lake, the fairy girl squatted down and looked at the quiet lake.
She saw her reflection in the lake, covered in stains, and her eyes were like caves, dark and empty.
So she lowered her head and pressed her face back into her knees and began to cry without even knowing why.
Perhaps because she was too tired, she accidentally stumbled and fell into the lake.
Afterwards, after going through the same torn-to-piece pain as before she came, the fairy girl finally returned to the place she wanted to return to.
It felt like a long time had passed, and everyone should have left.
Bawan Xi was thinking this, and at this moment, she heard the sound of fairies flapping their wings behind her. She reflexively hugged her head and squatted down involuntarily.
"Bhawan Shi, you are back."
"I told you she would come back. She's very good."
"Yes, we are doing this for her own good."
The voices of the fairies reached her ears, and they seemed to be blocking Bawan Xi's way, as if they didn't want her to pass.
Bawan Xi lowered her head and answered quietly, "Yes."
"Bawan Xi, why did you run away? We are obviously doing this for your own good."
The fairies tapped the ground with their toes, fully expressing their dissatisfaction.
"Yes, it's all for your own good."
"Forget it. Just keep playing with us to make it up to us."
"This time we're going to play for a long time."
The goblins meant for Bhawan Shi to be beaten by them as before.
Bawan Xi lowered her head, clutching her filthy long skirt tightly, and squeezed out a small "I'm sorry" with her dry throat.
When I lowered my head, my vision was covered by the messy red and black long hair that stretched out randomly, making it look dark and narrow.
The originally pure red color had turned into a difficult-to-remove black color due to long-term tearing and the accumulation of blood.
"You stink, can you please get away from me? It's really disgusting."
"What a bad smell."
"...S-Sorry."
Bawan Xi still kept her head down and apologized in a trembling voice, not having the courage to look the goblin in the face.
"I-I'll clean it up...right now."
"No need for that. You're going to be disgusting soon anyway. After we play with you, we'll still chop off your ugly legs. It's all for your own good."
The next moment, the fairy girl caught a glimpse of a fairy approaching her palm at lightning speed out of the corner of her eye.
However, due to her experiences over the years, her body moved before her brain. Bawan Shi held her head with both hands and hunched her shoulders.
But to her surprise, no slap came. The goblins seemed to have discovered something and stopped suddenly.
"Hey, what is that? It's shiny."
"What treasure is it?"
"Human?"
"take it out."
"We want to see."
Due to the demands of the goblins, Bawan Xi had to take out all the property he got from the hunters.
"It's something humans use for trading."
"Wow! So beautiful."
"Bhawan Xi you are awesome."
As if they saw something special in Bawan Shi, the fairies suddenly became more friendly.
Then, they said:
"Bhawan Xi, we are good friends, and you are also a princess, so can you continue to go to the human world and bring these to us?"
The goblins did not give Bawan Shi a chance to reply, and they just took their belongings and left, as if it was natural for them to do whatever they said.
However, in the following days, Bawan Xi was "accepted" by her companions more than before and was not beaten because the goblins were busy playing with the human treasures they got from her. But as time went on, the goblins thought the treasures were too little and forced Bawan Xi to go to the human world quickly and bring more treasures back.
Even though the fairy girl kept explaining that it would be very painful, the fairies still pushed her in.
Before that, they would say:
"Bhawan Xi, we are all good friends with you, please come back."
Unfortunately, by this time Favia had already arrived in the English Highlands, and due to the obstruction of the hunter organization, no one passed by nearby.
So when Bawan Shi got nothing that day, she started crying, and after she finished crying, she went back.
At first the goblins didn't say much, but after Bawan Xi hadn't made any big gains for several days, they began to bully the goblin again.
