"It's so boring... I want to find something interesting to do..." The girl with a red headband squatting beside the grass was playing with the grass blades underneath.

As for her best friends, the girls wearing orange, purple, and blue headbands are now standing next to the girl with the red headband.

"If you feel bored, just go practice archery." Purple Headband said casually.

"I don't want to." The red-headed belt said, "I practiced this morning. My arms are still sore. Now I just want to play."

"Then... why don't you come and sit at my house?" Orange Headband suggested in a low voice, "Let's sit together and chat. The time will pass quickly."

"And my grandma just made a new dress recently, so we can take turns trying it on together."

"Oh!" The girl with the red headband stood up from the grass, "Ashley, your grandma made a new dress... huh? That's right!"

Before the girl with the red headband finished speaking, she suddenly paused and said "Yes" abruptly.

When the other three girls standing next to her cast doubtful glances at the girl with the red headband, the girl with the red headband said excitedly:

"How about we let Ashley's grandma go see those foreign gods possessed?"

Possessed God - the Ainu word is "Torumpei".

The Ainu believe that everyone is possessed by a god from birth and is protected by the possessed god.

Everyone has different possessed gods, so everyone's personality and abilities are different.

The more powerful a person is, the more powerful the possessed god is.

The possessing spirit usually attaches itself to the back of everyone's neck and enters and exits the person's body from the back of the neck.

Some people with special perceptions in this regard can see what other people's possessed gods look like.

The girl with the orange headband, who is Ashley's grandmother, is a well-known expert in Qina Village who can see clearly what other people's possessed gods look like.

Hearing the suggestion from the girl with the red headband, Ashley, who was wearing an orange headband, was stunned for a moment and then said hesitantly:

"Isn't this...not good?"

"What's wrong?" the girl with the red headband retorted without hesitation, "Ashley, aren't you curious about what the possessed gods of those foreigners look like?"

"Maybe we can see an interesting possessed god."

What Red Headband said aroused the interest of Blue Headband and Purple Headband.

Ashley, who happened to be bored right now, also became slightly interested.

"Then... let's ask my grandma." Ashley said softly, "See if she is willing to go and see the possessed gods of those foreigners."

"Okay! Let's go!" Red Headband raised his fist high, then took the lead and ran towards Ashley's house.

The four girls arrived at Ashley's home with great fanfare.

Ashley's family was originally a perfect family of four - grandma, father, mother, and Ashley herself.

What is regrettable is that Ashley's father also unfortunately disappeared in the previous "disappearance incident".

Since then, Ashley's family has become a broken family, with only her, mother and grandmother left in the family.

Red headband, purple headband, blue headband and Ashley - as soon as the four girls rushed into Ashley's house, they saw Ashley's grandmother making clothes and Ashley's grandmother weaving.

Mother.

The four girls straightforwardly explained their reasons for coming to Ashley's grandmother.

When she learned that these four people wanted to take her to see the gods possessed by foreigners, grandma was a little bit reluctant.

But unable to withstand the coquettishness of the four people, grandma finally agreed to their request.

Ashley carried her grandma on her back and, surrounded by her three friends, looked around for the group of foreigners who had just visited their village.

"Where have all those strangers gone?" The girl with a red headband put her palms on her eyes and looked around.

"I'm more curious about what the possessed god of the male Kazuto is like." The girl with the purple headband smiled, "If he is really a fake samurai, then his possessed god must be very weak."

"I would rather see those gods possessing white-skinned people." The girl with the red headband answered.

"I don't know which of these foreigners is more powerful than the men of the same age in our village... Ah! I found it! It's a white-skinned foreigner!" The blue-headband pointed his finger not far away.

One finger.

The rest of the people looked over one after another - and happened to see Skulucci and others coming out of the house of the village chief of Chepke.

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Led by the two middle-aged men sent by Chepke, Skulucci and others strode out of the village.

Along the way, it naturally attracted all kinds of eyes.

Some people simply cast curious glances at Skulucci and the others.

Some people stared at Skulucci and others as if they were wary of thieves and thieves.

Scrooge turned a blind eye to the various types of sights projected from the surroundings, held his head high, and strode out of the village.

Just like a general returning triumphantly from a victorious battle.

Avger and Lev, who were brought into the village by Skulucci and are now following closely behind Skulucci, do not have the good concentration of Skulucci.

The two of them never lifted their guard from the beginning to the end, and kept observing their surroundings with vigilant eyes.

Looking at the surrounding low houses made of vegetation and furs, the Ainu people who were not very tall due to racial issues, and the bows and arrows they carried on their backs, Avjie whispered to Sku in front of him.

Lucci asked:

"Boss Skruchi. What did you just say to those Ainu people?"

The language Afjie and the others speak is Lucian, so there is no need to worry about the villagers of Qina Village hearing their conversation.

"I'm just reminding them that Vladimir's gang plans to plunder everywhere, and this village may suffer, so I suggest they make preparations in advance."

Avger and Lev, who talked less, both had their eyes widened at this time.

"Then what?" Afjie asked, "How will those Ainu people answer?"

"They seem to be planning to defend their village." Skulucci spread his hands, "It's a pity. It's in vain that I kindly suggested that they lead the whole village to temporarily hide in the mountains."

"Boss Scrooge, why are you always like this..." Avji's face was full of helplessness.

"It's okay if you don't participate in Vladimir's robbery, but you even came here to report the news to the surrounding Ainu people..."

"It's not that I came here specially to report the news." Skulucci hurriedly corrected the errors in what Avger just said. "I just came over to inform them."

"Boss Scrooge. That's why you are always called a weirdo by others."

The look of helplessness on Avji's face became more intense.

"Why do you always do such thankless things..."

Although Avger is not considered a veteran subordinate of Skulucci, he is also an old man who has been following Skulucci for a long time.

Because his life was saved by Scrooge, he has been following Scrooge wholeheartedly.

Because he had served under Skulucci for many years, Avger was sure that his boss must be the strangest one among all the Cossacks.

Skulucci was one of many Cossack expeditions sent to explore the Far East.

Although the formation of the Cossacks is somewhat romantic - a group of people who could not bear the oppression fled to a new land, established a new home, and absorbed various ethnic groups except the Jews, gradually growing stronger

, are called "free people". ("Cossack" means "free people" in Turkic language)

But in fact, anyone who knows a little bit about the Cossacks knows how cruel and murderous the Cossacks are.

Before Avger was born, the vast land east of the Ural Mountains and west of the Pacific Ocean was already under the rule of the Tsar.

When the Tsar conquered the lands east of the Ural Mountains, the main force was the Cossacks.

In the process of conquering this large land, the various things the Cossacks did made it difficult for Avge, who was also a Cossack, to talk about it.

Not to mention burning, killing, looting, and even cannibalism, his father and ancestors had done it.

People in Europe know that the Cossacks are murderous and brutal.

However, Skulucci, who is also a Cossack, does things that are not what a Cossack would do.

Since being sent to the Far East, Scrooge has never done anything that would be criticized as "cruel" or "bloody".

The group of people who were sent to explore this large island inhabited by the Ainu people were asked by the tsar to "explore, focus on reconnaissance, and avoid causing trouble."

Therefore, the various expedition teams sent here had to restrain their brutal nature.

But despite this, almost all expeditions will still do something from time to time that makes people sigh: This is worthy of the Cossacks.

Many villages on the northern end of the island have suffered varying degrees of damage from various expedition teams.

In this era, technology is underdeveloped and information transmission is slow.

In addition, the Ainu are not monolithic among themselves.

Therefore, villages located in the south such as Kuma Village and Qina Village still do not know that many Ainu villages in the north were razed to the ground by the Cossacks.

But Scrooge is the only one who has never done anything bad so far.

I have always made no mistakes and only devoted myself to exploring and drawing.
To be continued...