Ilona likes her father very much, but her father is always busy with work and is not at home, and her father's fingers are rough like grinding paper, and the beard on his face is also very prickly, so Ilona prefers her brother at home.

My brother is a few years older than Ilona.

It's been so long that Ilona almost forgets the faces of her loved ones, but every time Ilona is bullied by the bad kids in town, her brother always picks up something and rushes over to scuffle with the group of kids.

I remember that he couldn't beat him every time, so in the end, he would always become a brother and sister who were bullied together, and in the end they teased each other, limping and supporting each other and going home with a smile.

The brother and sister played together, played football, painted, climbed the house, accidentally lit the haystack while their father was not at home, almost burned down the house, scolded together, were beaten together, ate on a table and slept on a bed.

Although life is poor, it is also happy and happy in the company of family......

My brother would always say to Ilona.

"When you grow up, I'll take you out of Fog Village."

"To the forest?" The young Ilona asked innocently.

"Yes, but no, I'll take you and Dad farther away! Go and see the fog-free places, farther than the Papal States, farther than this land! ”

Ilona knows that it's just bragging, but bragging is always better than a life without hope, and only when there is hope in life will life be happy, just like the Bible says.

……

One night more than a decade ago, the crows were hunting the mycelium monsters around the castle as usual, and when the troops spotted the anomalous creatures and pursued them, the crows were led into the fog and headed in the direction of the fog village.

Ilona's home is small, with only one room within the four walls, where she eats, sleeps, and plays.

That night, the family was sleeping soundly, when they suddenly heard a woman's cry outside the window...... The sound was close, like wandering outside the house, and the cry was so miserable that it no longer sounded like it came from a person's throat.

Ilona wakes up from her sleep, only to find that the sound in her ears is not a nightmare but a reality.

The young girl was frightened, and when she wanted to break down, she cried but was covered by her father's big hand.

"Don't make a sound, she'll go......"

Ilona remembered her father's voice vividly, and she watched as she stood in front of the bed and made a boo gesture, holding a broken chair leg and walking slowly towards the door. And her brother hugged her tightly, reassuring her that nothing terrible would happen tonight.

Ilona remembered the nursery rhymes that the children in the town would sing, and the story about Aunt Mary......

The story goes that the weeping woman wanders around the night and takes children who don't sleep well and plants them in her garden...... But as long as you lock the doors and windows, you can be safe.

But tonight is different, the monster called "Aunt Mary" is chased all the way by the crows and is stimulated. A huge wood knife splits through the broken wooden door, and Ilona sees the terrible creature, the woman who has lost her human form entangled in mycelium.

The father's weak body blocked the door to try to stop the monster from entering, yelling at the children to escape through the window.

And when the elder brother pushed open the window, a flower with a human head blocked the window and smiled at the two children, the elder brother protected the younger sister for the first time, but at the same time, the terrible flower bit off the neck......

More flowers poured in from the window to eat her, and in her panic, young Ilona could only shrink in the corner with trembling, only to notice that her left eye suddenly hurt and she could no longer see anything...... I didn't even see what hurt me.

The remaining right eye watched his brother roll his eyes and fall in front of him, losing his life with blood loss, while his father was chopped into meat by the monster because he insisted on blocking the gate......

Later, the crows arrived and drove the monster away...... It was also the matter that he was later accepted by the Hunyadi family as a personal servant of Master Cesare.

When Ilona first began to like Cesare, she couldn't tell.

Maybe it was because the old count had instilled in her over and over again, and it was Cesare's words of intercession that allowed her to live to this day, or maybe it was ...... It's because Cesare used to say it to her when she was a child.

"When I grow up, I'll take you out of this forest......"

Ilona still remembers this phrase and is willing to do whatever she does for Cesare...... It was as if his brother was still alive with him, but Cesare probably didn't remember that sentence for a long time.

After all, he hadn't even sent a letter back since he went to school...... As soon as Cesare was gone, it was many years.

The year Cesare went to study in Sant'Carliu, Ilona's memory was so clear that she could never forget it in her life......

One night, Ilona was tidying up Cesare's bedroom as usual.

Although the room hadn't been used since Cesare went to school, Ilona insisted on cleaning the room every day so that Cesare wouldn't have a place to stay when he came back to see her one day.

There was no knock on the door but was rudely pushed open, and Mr. Janos with a conspicuous scar on his face entered, he was a key member of the crows, and he had never seen him smile every day......

"Master Cesare has gone to school, is there anything wrong with you?" Ilona wiped the sweat from her forehead and asked politely.

"No, I'm not looking for Cesare, I'm looking for you." Janos said expressionlessly.

"Find ...... I? Am I not doing well enough...... Or, where does it need to be cleaned? ”

"You're doing a good job, I'm not here to question your work as a servant." Janos stared at a restless Ilona as he spoke. "I heard you want to join the crow hunt, is that true?"

Ilona was visibly shocked to hear the other party's question, she had witnessed the battle of the crows, and she knew the mission of the crows...... Know more about what it will mean to be a flock of crows.

But she did want to join the crows......

Thinking day after day, year after year, she wanted to avenge her family, not just to kill the monster that appeared in the foggy village, but not to let the same tragedy happen to anyone again......

Can...... How could she possibly do that? Ilona hung her head and hesitated, she was just a first-order servant, and these things were too far away from her no matter what.

"Yes or no, give me an answer." Janos said solemnly, as if he didn't have much patience to wait.

After repeated entanglement, Ilona nodded silently in response.

"Okay, change your clothes, you come with me."