Speaking of this, Lilata paused.

After a pause, the corners of her mouth, which had been pulled down since the night before, slowly moved up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Although the degree of the pull-up is very small, people can clearly see that she is smiling.

"Thank you for saving me before. Please take care of yourself in the future... (Ainu language)"

Lilata's words were the only thing that Ogata directly understood among the large number of words she just said.

This was the first time Ogata saw Lilata smile.

Looking at the slight smile on Lilata's face, Ogata was startled for a moment.

"...Hmm." Ogata nodded, "Then I will accept this Hoho Kiri. Thank you for your gift, I like it very much, thank you."

Ogata lowered his head and looked at the exquisite jewelry in his hand. A smile with some complicated emotions slowly appeared on Ogata's face.

"...Thank you." Ogata carefully rubbed the thick Hokkili in his hand with his fingers, and said thank you to Lilata in front of him.

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The team of five people and two horses changed back to four people and two horses.

Under the watch of Ulape and Lilata, Ogata and others embarked on their journey again.

In a short while, Urape and Lilata, as well as Sivasi Village, all slowly disappeared behind Ogata and the others.

Ogata and Omachi pointed the heads of their horses at a trodden road in front of them, and let the horses move straight forward along the road ahead at an unhurried speed.

"ha……"

At this time, Amachi, who was riding his horse and walking beside Ogata, suddenly let out a sigh of relief.

"What's wrong?" Ogata asked, "Are you tired?"

"It's not that I'm tired, I'm just relieved that Lila Tana's child was successfully sent to her relatives. After working for so long, it's finally not in vain..."

"It's a pity that I didn't get any great reward...Forget it, just think of it as doing good deeds."

"Don't we get paid?" Ogata on the side answered.

"Is that dried meat?" Amachi asked back.

"There's also this." Ogata smiled and raised the thick Hokiri he just got from Lilata in his hand.

"Do you like this jewelry very much?" Ating asked.

"It's not so much that I like it, but it's better to say that I think this jewelry is of great significance to me." Ogata carefully put the thick Hokiri back into his arms, "My sword... In addition to killing and injuring,

Besides being my own enemy, I can still do other things..."

"I don't understand..." He didn't go to school properly, so his mind is not that bright...

"You'll understand later." Ogata shrugged.

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Not long after Ogata and the others left, Urape took Lilata back to her home and began to sort out the things she would take into the mountains.

Because Wu Lapei has been living alone in the past few years, there are not many important things in the family that need to be taken away. In a short time, she will pack all the luggage.

When Urape was packing her luggage, Lilata, who had just smiled slightly at Ogata, now exuded a "human" aura that was stronger than before.

However, it will still take a long time to return to the innocent little girl she was before.

While Urape was packing her luggage, Lilata was sitting in the corner of the house, twirling the blades of the windmill with her fingers expressionlessly.

Ulape has been silently paying attention to Lilata's condition.

Looking at Lilata's current appearance, Urape couldn't help but feel sad.

When her daughter and son-in-law died tragically, Ulapei's grief was no less than that of Lilata.

But she still suppressed her sadness and tried hard to look strong in front of Lilata.

Because she knows: Lilata now has only one elder she can rely on.

If she doesn't become strong and keeps crying, she will only set a bad "example" for Lilata.

So Ulapei could only suppress all the sadness in his heart.

Ulapei knew that the most important thing now was to let Lilata recover from the trauma as soon as possible.

Urape, who was trying to be strong, was packing her luggage while thinking about ways to make Lilata happy.

Soon she had an idea.

With an idea in mind, Ulapei quickly packed up the luggage that he was going to take away, then tried hard to suppress the sadness in his heart, showed a warm smile, and walked quickly towards Lilata.

"Lilata, you can play here by yourself for a while, I'll go out for a while and I'll be back soon."

Lilata nodded slightly.

After Lilata nodded, Ulape quickly walked out of his house and found the village chief who was patrolling around the village, urging everyone to pack their luggage quickly.

After finding the village chief, Ulapei said directly to the village chief:

"Village Chief, I want to take Lilata to the forest to pick some mushrooms. Is there still time for us to pick mushrooms?"

"Picking mushrooms?" the village chief asked with a frown.

"That child Lilata loves the mushroom soup I cook the most. She used to always clamor for me to cook mushroom soup and follow me to pick mushrooms. So I want to make something she likes to eat for her.

Come on, cheer up. If you take her out to pick mushrooms, it will just relax her mind."

The village chief naturally knows what Lilata's current state is.

For such a young girl to encounter such a thing, the village chief also sympathized very much.

After thinking for a moment, the village chief nodded.

"...Okay. Anyway, it will still be quite some time before everyone packs their luggage, but you have to go back quickly."

Seeing that the village chief agreed, Ulapei nodded with a little joy and excitement.

After quickly returning home, Urappe walked towards Lilata who was still sitting there playing with the windmill.

"Lilata, how about we go to the forest to pick some fresh mushrooms and make mushroom soup tonight?"

"Mushroom soup?" Lilata's eyes flickered with a faint light.

After hesitating for a while, Lilata nodded gently.

Ulapei, who was smiling brightly, stretched out his hand towards Lilata.

Lilata raised her little hand, grabbed Ulapei's big wrinkled hand, and slowly stood up from the ground.

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"Why is the road here blocked again..." Amachi looked at the blocked road ahead with an unhappy expression.

There were trees falling down in their path, and these trees must have been crushed by avalanches.

"This is a common thing in the mountains." Aizan explained to Azing next to him in a helpless tone.

"There is no other way." Ogata sighed softly, "Since the road here is blocked, we can only temporarily return to the original road and then find other roads."

"It's really troublesome..." A-Machi also sighed.

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Sivasi Village

"Village Chief, half of the families have packed their luggage." A young villager reported to the village chief in front of him.

The village chief nodded slightly and let out a sigh of relief.

The villagers packed their luggage much faster than she expected.

At this speed, we hope to leave the village before dark.

Feeling that the boulder in his heart had dropped a little, the village chief raised the pipe in his hand and took a puff.

"Well, thank you for your hard work." The village chief patted the young man in front of him on the shoulder.

"Village Chief, do you want to take a rest?" The young man said slowly and hesitantly, "You haven't had a rest since just now. I think it's better for you to take a rest first..."

The village chief shook his head and spat out a big eye socket: "No, I'm not very tired..."

"Village Chief! Village Chief! Village Chief!"

A sudden anxious shout interrupted the village chief's words.

The person who shouted anxiously was a young villager with cold sweat on his face and a look of fear in his eyes.

The villager ran towards the village chief and shouted loudly:
To be continued...