The next day, Cui Ciyou patrolled the eastern side of the village alone.
As he approached the edge of the forest Observation Tower, the sound of children shouting and crying caught his attention.
"Get out, Demonfolk! Demonfolk aren't allowed in the village!"
"Take this! Eat my... Knight throw!"
"Got you! Right in the head! Yay!"
"I hit the Demonfolk... I'm Ars, the hero of justice who defeats the vicious Demon Emperor!"
"Hehe! I hit her too! I'm the new hero-Golden Knight Aldebaran!"
"Wow! That's so cool! I want to be a hero too!"
Cui Ciyou followed the voices to a muddy field, where he saw three boys slightly older than Rudeus throwing mud and stones at a smaller figure dressed in a patched hooded garment.
The little figure lay curled up on the ground, shielding what looked like a basket against her chest with her body as she whimpered softly.
"What's that? Some Demonfolk treasure?"
"Hit it..."
"Let's take it... She must've stolen it from somewhere anyway..."
"Today, we heroes of justice will punish evil!"
The three boys laughed as they played their so-called hero game.
That game consisted of throwing wet mud mixed with stones at the child on the ground and mocking her.
They were even getting ready to step forward and snatch whatever she was protecting.
I can't see her face, and I don't know whether her hair is green. But this scene... it has to be Sylphy!
Sylphiette-one of the original story's heroines.
Cui Ciyou seemed to have recognized the child being bullied.
Back on Earth, when I ran into something like this, I was the eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth type.
I never really understood how Rudeus and Sylphy could just take the bullying in the original story.
Sylphy was of mixed elven, Beastfolk, and Humanfolk ancestry. The