The moon is bright, the stars are shining, and even the breeze is refreshing. Everything seems so wonderful.

The reason why the word "seemingly" is used to describe it is because the scene that is about to happen at the moment can only be called bloody.

A large carnivore with a body length of more than two meters, a height of about one meter, and a weight of 400 kilograms, is crouching on the ground. Judging by the terrifying fangs that protruded from the roof of its jaw, there was no doubt that its race was about to emerge.

Destroy the Bladetooth Tiger, the top predator among the Bladetooth Tiger. In an age when dinosaurs are extinct, the saber-toothed tiger is arguably one of the top creatures.

Its beautiful and ferocious appearance at the same time is the best proof of this. Its sleek, muscular limbs give it the ability to pursue its prey, and its massive twenty-centimeter-long fangs allow it to cut through creature muscles in an instant...... It's okay to be blunt, it's the perfect predator.

However, in the present day. The correctness of this natural fact is about to be subverted.

Although it was prostrate on the ground, it was never for rest. It's about running. The tense muscles of the Bladetooth speak for themselves.

So far, however, it has not made any meaningful moves to its target.

This doesn't make sense.

If it had judged it to be its prey, it would have attacked long ago, as the target was now within a suitable distance. If it's not the prey, it's only because the other party is a more powerful creature than it.

Indecision is almost impossible for a beast.

But there was something that kept the Bladetooth from moving, but unfortunately it couldn't understand what it was with its intelligence.

Its prey...... It's so weak.

The so-called strength is the weight of the flesh for living beings, and the body determines the speed and strength.

And the creature in front of the saber-toothed tiger is unimaginably weak from this point of view.

Standing on two legs, with its hairless limbs and slender stature, it was impossible to survive in nature - it was not a creature that existed for predators.

The Bladetooth Tiger naturally couldn't understand that such a crystal clear primate did not match the life form of this planet.

And for a beast, it doesn't want to understand.

Although I was confused for a while, in the end, it was the instinct of hunger that prevailed. It grinned wide, growled, and moved.

Then, in the next moment, the end has already arrived.

The huge head suddenly exploded, and before it could start running, its body began to lean forward, and the blade-toothed tiger, which showed its intention to attack, was on the ground.

It's all happening so fast that it's over before it even realizes it. Regardless of the heart of the person who killed it, at least the means were merciful enough.

「……」

With the end of everything, the guy who caused this bloody situation indifferently withdrew his bow and arrows.

Surprisingly, this terrifying-looking beast died in an instant...... It's just a little girl.

A beautiful little girl.

If the word "beautiful" is too vulgar, then this word is still very suitable for describing her.

She looks like she has delicate skin that is not like a human being, and although her elegant facial features are immature, they also reveal a kind of intellectuality, but the most eye-catching thing about her is her eyes.

The light gray eyes were so empty that they seemed to hold everything, like some kind of gem that could suck the soul in. Those are not the eyes of ordinary people.

…… Nor is it what a girl of her age should have.

When it comes to girls of nine or ten years old, they should give the impression of being innocent.

But look at what she looks like now -- who would dare to measure this girl by the words of innocence and innocence?

Obviously killed the girl who raised her hand in front of her, but her face remained unchanged and her breathing was not disturbed. One can only feel an unusual calm.

The corpses strewn with blood on the ground, and the bloody breath floating in the air, could not make her beautiful face, which can be called art, half moved. If this is the beautiful thing called "innocence", it is ......

Then there must be a huge fallacy somewhere.

「…………」

Glancing at the lifeless body again with a gaze that did not show any intense emotion, she walked away abruptly.

In the direction of home, I took another step.

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For the girl, everything just now was just a little episode on the way home.

Not even insignificant.

The girl is no longer a toddler who does not know what life is.

So she understood very well what had just happened. In order to protect her own life, she strangled another life with her own hands.

This matter is by no means as light as it may sound at first glance.

Even if it was for the sake of self-protection, what the girl had just done was always an act called killing—and there was no escaping the fact.

The heaviness of destroying an individual who can be recognized as a living being, unlike ants, flowers and trees, is also extraordinary. Not to mention a small child.

However, there was no emotional fluctuation at all from the girl's unshaken quiet and plain makeup.

In fact, deep down, she is indeed not as calm as she seems on the outside.

It's something like disappointment.

Really...... The fact that she was strangling her life with her own hands didn't give her any special feelings. When such a conviction appeared in her heart, the girl rarely felt disappointed.

She didn't have any feelings to say about the large carnivorous beast she had given her death...... Because she didn't feel anything.

In addition to disappointment, anger followed.

Anger hidden under a calm exterior.

Why is it only me who is like this?

Girls often ask themselves. This question hidden deep in her chest has never been told to the second person.

The girl is an obedient and good child in the eyes of her parents, a quiet and wise child in the eyes of her elders, and even a different existence in the eyes of her peers.

That's why they're not the same as the girl.

I didn't understand her anger, I didn't understand her powerlessness...... It's not a confrontation of positions, it's a failure to even perceive the difference.

But why is there such a difference between her and the crowd?

It would be too biased to say that it is genetic. The girl's parents are very normal and gentle characters, and none of them have such extraordinary qualities as the girl.

The girl has never been really happy since she was born.

At first glance, it sounds like a fantasy. No matter what kind of guy you are, you must have let go of everything because of something when you were a child. Because it is human instinct to feel joy.

But such a self-evident truth. It doesn't work here in girls.

The so-called excitement, the so-called excitement, the so-called joy...... Even all the positive sparks from the soul are all things that have nothing to do with girls.

She was often confused...... Confused by the foolish smiles of children her age. Because she couldn't put on a smile like that anyway.

The girl could not even understand the meaning of the word "joy...... In her eyes, caught in a crippled world, everything is so insensitive.

For a girl, there is nothing worth crying about, and there is no joy enough to be there - she is abnormal.

The abnormality of herself, the girl herself is also conscious.

She wants change.

「…………」

At the far end of the line of sight, a vague outline of the building can already be seen - a building that should not have been present in this era. It stands to reason that life with this level of intelligence should not have evolved on this planet at this moment.

That's where the girl's clan gathers, in other words, she's home.

Thus, this short adventure of hers came to an end. On the contrary, this is where her story begins.

-- By the way, the girl's name is Yonglin. He is the heir of the Eight Meanings.