The boys and girls were playing and making fun. Fujimaru Rika took Gerda's hand and finally ran out of the pile of children.
Looking at the flowers held in her hand, Fujimaru Rika sighed softly.
Flowers...
Whether it is the flowers in the history of human beings or the flowers in the strange stories, they are all the same beautiful.
This place is similar to the world you live in.
"Sir Fujimaru Rika, look over there."
Gerda pulled up Fujimaru Rika's hand and pointed in the direction of the door.
“Then it is…”
In addition to the location at Gerda's doorstep, a group of children gathered there.
Surrounded by the children are those who seem a little older in the village... older children.
"We are very happy to receive your bouquet."
The older man looked twenty-three or four years old and said to the children with a smile.
The women around him looked one or two years older, with a gentle expression.
"That's great... it's really, so good to be able to raise you into adulthood according to God's will."
"Even if we take a step first, you must live here well. We will wait for you where you will eventually arrive."
The woman gently stroked the cheek of a girl in front of her, and the expression on her face... revealed kindness.
"Is they said..."
Fujimaru Rika suddenly pinched the flower in her hand, walked to Mashu's side, and asked in a low voice.
"......Um."
Mashew nodded, with seriousness and reluctance on his face.
At the age of twenty-five, after raising the child...
This is the rule of this strange belt.
"The children spent half a year cultivating bouquets. At this time, is it okay to have no bouquets?"
Gerda stood beside Fujimaru Rika and Mashu with a smile.
Nolra didn't come over.
The child's face had a gloomy look.
"No, what does it mean?"
Mashu was stunned and continued to ask Gelda.
“The bouquet is a proof.”
Gerda raised his hand, held Fujimaru Rika holding the flower's hand, and let the flower appear in front of everyone.
"A proof of the loved one."
"If you don't have flowers in your hand, you will not be able to go to Valhalla smoothly. Only those who are loved can go to Valhalla."
"This was a long time ago, Lord God made such a prescribe."
Valhalla, the God's regulations...
Recalling the rule that "being trampled to death by a giant", Fujimaru Rika subconsciously frowned.
"Warhalla's words, I remember it was a world that I only arrived after death in Nordic mythology."
Fujimaru Rika looked down at the words in her hand, the proof of "being loved".
"Well, it's what the predecessors said, but in the original words, was it a place where the selected brave men gathered?"
Maxiu added explanation.
"The palace of the great god (Odin), the palace of the warrior, Valhalla, only the soul selected by the great god's messenger Valkyrie (Valkyrie), can go to such a place, not the realm of the living, so..."
Mashu's eyebrows also frowned.
Holding the flowers, it looks like I am leaving, isn't this...
"A special day means seeing off the adults who have already raised their children."
Nolra came over and said in a low voice.
Send the "adults" to the feet of the giants...
"When it comes to this, I would like to thank you very much, Lord Fujimaru Rika, Lord Mashu, Lord Nolra."
As if he had thought of something, Gelda smiled again and greeted the three of them.
"If you hadn't saved me, I would have died at the feet of the giant without flowers. At that time, my soul would always be wandering in the world, and I would not be able to go to Valhalla."
"So-I really thank you."
Although thanked-
But none of the three showed a happy expression.
Gerda still didn't think about the meaning of the words they said last night.
Maybe—and there is no way to think.
In such a world, her ability to think is naturally bound. In Gerda's thirteen years of life, she has never thought about the meaning of her life.
If the time could take longer, Fujimaru Rika might have confidence that Gerda could think, desire, break free from the shackles of the village and gods, truly pursue freedom like a human being, and struggle to [live].
But... the time is too short.
I met Gerda yesterday afternoon. It was not even twenty hours since I met several people, and there was no particularly effective communication at all.
——Not to mention, the adults standing there and about to walk out of the village gate.
"The gate of the village can only be left."
Gerda looked up at the huge portal compared to people and said to the people around her.
"Actions like my yesterday are actually not allowed. Only on the day of choice can only be obtained by adults."
"That--"
"Sister Gerda, why did you go out through the door yesterday?"
Nolra asked Gerda.
"Because if you don't look for herbs, Laura will die...Lara's situation can't be sustained until the imperial envoys arrive."
"I don't want to see Laura die, I want Laura to continue to live."
"That's how it is."
Nolra nodded.
"What's wrong?"
Gerda looked at Nolra with some confusion.
"nothing."
Nolra smiled.
Live—
Although I want to let other people live, being able to take risks for these three words is enough to prove something.
"O Lord, Lord, we obey the will of God and offer everything."
At the gate, the adults had already started praying.
Norra and Mashu both looked a little ready to move.
Looking at these innocent people, because of the will of the gods, they must willingly offer their lives—
Nolra and Mashu couldn't remain indifferent to this kind of thing.
"Wait, be patient."
To be continued...