"Kid, are you okay?"

Louis couldn't say "good" at the moment, his stomach ached from hunger, his chest swelled with the water he had sucked out of the water he had sucked up, his hands and feet were worn out by the sand and gravel at the bottom of the river, and even though he had washed it with water, there was still some fine sand embedded in the wound, and it was a burning pain, and the most painful thing was his heart, the reality of waking up from a coma to find himself still enslaved by the northerners.

However, he was much more sensible than he had just left Neustria, he had seen the pain and sorrow of the world, he understood that the world was full of cruelty and ruthlessness, and that friendliness was as precious as soft and delicious bread, so he nodded at the man who had saved him from the river and cared for him so much, "I am much better now, Uncle Olab. ”

The man known as Uncle Olab looked like an old man from the outside, his temples were gray, his eyes were cloudy, his face was full of wrinkles, and his arms and legs were also wrinkled. However, his seemingly frail body was not only extraordinarily tenacious, but also showed a talent for caring for the horses, so he survived in the captives to this day.

He looked at little Louis sternly: "You are from Turnest." ”

"Yes."

"If you are a native of Turnest, how can you die in this place where you can't see St. Aubrey!" Olab scolded, "Cheer up, young man. The pig's head that believed in the truth had taken me to the other side of the sea, and I did not give in—I was a Sugeni desperate to return to the place where St. Aubrey was. You, as a Turnestite, are going to die. I must die at the feet of St. Aubrey! ”

"Have you been to the other side of the ocean?" Louis was so surprised that he forgot the pain in his body, "You? ”

"When the pig-heads who believe in the truth attack Tournest, they take me and my companions as slaves," said Uncle Olab, who paused for a long time, for what had happened to him in that terrible place was something he had not wanted to tell anyone, but now he told the child in front of him, "Hey, if you've been under them. You know that even these heretics from the north cannot compare with them, and in their eyes, we are not human at all! This eye of mine is because I accidentally said the wrong thing and taught them to be blind! I have several friends with whom I grew up, and I have watched them tortured to death, and the believers of the truth are some of the most cruel, demons in human skin, and I would rather die in the sea. Devoured by fish, they don't want to stay on their land for a few more moments! ”

"Ahh Louis shouted, "Mirai told me that everyone there was gracious. Kind and simple, women will not leave their children to go out to work. Men are religious......"

"Whoa! These nonsense must be some kind of pig's head who believes in the truth - I'm sorry. St. Aubrey, I didn't mean to insult the pigs - I said it! You said. Yes and no? ”

Louis nodded and admitted that he was right.

Orab's eyes bulged, and he glared at the air around him, and when his anger subsided a little, and he thought that Louis was just a stupid child, he relented a little, "It is true that women do not leave their children behind to work, because if any woman dares to do so, she will teach her father, her brother, her husband, her son to be grabbed and dragged into the streets, and to be beaten alive with stones to the cheers and celebrations of the multitude, and they have specially chosen small stones instead of large ones, so that she may die before she dies, There was plenty of time to scream to warn and intimidate the other women. The kind of game we call 'Playing Water' here, and in them it is called 'Stinky Woman', and every child plays this from an early age, so that one day they can use this skill to kill their mother, sister, wife, daughter, ......."

"Huh?" Louis coughed twice, he didn't want his mother to be busy with work all day, but he never thought of stoning his mother to death, "Kill people like this, the judge doesn't care?" ”

"Judge? Poor boy, that is their law, and when every doll in their place hits the ground, the family picks him up and says to him, 'The rules of truth are the best laws in the world,' and everyone else says the same, and there is nothing that they do not believe in this nonsense, because whoever shows the slightest disbelief in this is immediately hanged or beaten to death, because the rules of truth are set - those who do not obey the rules of truth must be put to death at once, and those who doubt the rules of truth must be put to death at once. The people who think that the rules of truth are not the best—"

"Immediately put to death." Louis finally followed.

"That's right, that's it. They all genuinely believe that the truth is the best, at least on the surface, and hey, sometimes, I think that we pagan slaves are free men, and they are slaves enslaved by the truth - they don't treat us as human beings, so we don't admit that the truth is the best, the most suitable for humanity, the most merciful and good, but we are not going to be put to death right away - and we are just blinding one eye. ”

Louis was silent for a moment when he heard Uncle Aubrey's mean words to come home, and since he left Neustria, he realized day by day what he had done wrong, but he still had a faint hope in his heart that he was not a fool who had been completely fooled.

Now, that hope has been dashed.

"People who have not been to their land cannot imagine that they are so shackled by the truth," said Uncle Olab, who managed to find an audience and could not take it back as soon as he opened his mouth, "the truth dictates what kind of clothes their women wear, and what kind of posture their men use to urinate, and they pick up a dish, not whether it is delicious or poisonous, but whether it is in accordance with the truth." They affectionately call everyone brother and sister, because their own brothers and sisters can be stoned to death for the truth, so to take the brothers and sisters in their mouths seriously, that is the most stupid fool, they are all very religious-yes, they can't pretend to be so religious, they have long been executed in the name of truth, and the rest are at least superficially religious-"

Louis bowed his head in frustration, it was clear that he was one of the "stupidest fools", probably the stupidest of them, and that Miray did not even call him a brother, he abandoned his hometown and his mother for his lies...... (To be continued......)