Surviving a Cruel Fairy Tale

37 – Act 2. Eternal Neverland – The War of the Big and the Small (2)

Once ignited, madness began to spread quickly as if it had been poured with oil.

Even in the Hook Pirates, which had been forbidden to kill children until now, with the death of a colleague and a civilian, one member lifted the taboo, and now everyone desperately wielded their swords.

After that, it was literally a war.

The sight of each other rushing at each other for life and spattering blood touched the most instinctive part of human beings.

If the chaos spreads like this, then it gets out of control.

Children and adults are intertwined.

It was like watching a war between the big and the small, but there is no time to be intoxicated by the tragedy.

If it’s Little Red Riding Hood, you’ll be fine.

Even though she thought so, her heart pounded at the tenderness she had shown since she was young.

I feel anxious.

Originally, she was a woman with a strong mind that I didn’t have to worry about.

With the help of the Tin Woodman, but crucially, had it not been for Little Red Riding Hood’s dedication, I would have died in the forest before long.

So I thought there was no need to worry, but I couldn’t calm the anxiety that was itching inside.

“Bad adults!!”

“You are hurting us!”

The children aimed various weapons at the adults with a really simple logic, and the adults also turned on the lights in their eyes and rushed at them as if they would not be unilaterally dealt with.

The gray marble is stained with blood.

Frowning between the eyebrows at the fishy smell, it moves forward as much as possible while pushing and kicking away the children who rush at it.

What is the distance between Little Red Riding Hood and the little shack I stayed in?

I don’t know.

It was difficult to recognize that the crowd was so entangled that it was not simply crowded, but mixed with each other and splattered with blood.

There are even explosions everywhere.

I don’t know if it was the bad guys or the Hook Pirates, but the war was definitely intensifying.

…… Okay.

Little Red Riding Hood is stronger than me.

Although her body has gotten younger, it doesn’t mean that everything she has built up has disappeared. Instead of worrying about her, worrying about what happens after she joins…….

“Patra Shuuu!!”

In a fleeting moment, thoughts are cut off.

With a deafening cry, I instinctively raised my arms, and a huge shadow came crashing down on me along with a strong mysterious expression that seemed to weigh down my shoulders.

“Cheer!!”

The body flew.

I was prepared in advance, but that wasn’t enough.

After flying and rolling on the floor several times, I was able to finally stop and raise my head.

A huge dog with pure white fur.

Apart from the question of whether it is right to call a dog of that size a dog, they were all old-fashioned people, even the blond boy sitting on its back and sighing.

Are you coming out of here?

“Hurt our children!?”

“Kong kong!”

“I can’t forgive you. As an adult, despite having no ability, I made the fairy sad!!”

The hook…… Can’t intervene

But with the help of other sailors, it is true that each of them has less fighting power than mine.

In a situation where I couldn’t even join Little Red Riding Hood, I was the only one who could deal with that duo from Dogs of Flanders.

“Patrache!”

“Dump!”

“Tear and kill everything!!”

Putting out its strong front paws, the monster ran right in front of him in the blink of an eye, carrying the boy on its back.

However, the situation is different from the first surprise attack.

It was easy to dodge that attack because I had it engraved in my eyes and prepared for it in advance.

This beast was no faster than the hunter, nor possessed the strength of the Tin Woodman, nor the manifold of Little Red Riding Hood.

Of course, even that is a pretty difficult opponent for me.

It is true that I have become quite strong due to my experience in the forest and the expansion of my vessel, but I cannot match the strength or speed of the giant beast.

Just.

“…… Whoa.”

I don’t feel despair.

A hunter and a woodcutter.

When I first met them, I instinctively felt fear.

I felt the feeling of being out of line as a living being and the despair of not being able to resist, but it wasn’t to that extent against those two.

“Get out of there.”

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“Hey! You’re not going to listen to grown-ups, are you?”

“…… Is that so?”

I also have urgent business to do.

I don’t know how far it will go, but unlike Hook, I didn’t think it was necessary to protect the child.

I hate to kill him, but as long as he beats me up.

“I don’t intend to force responsibility on children, but it is an adult’s duty to tell them what not to do.”

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In a crowded situation, Little Red Riding Hood gazed intently at the empty seat the artist had left.

He definitely said to wait.

She didn’t want to disobey him, but she couldn’t help thinking as the children’s air raid turned the entire underground canal into chaos.

How long can I wait?

What if he’s wrong?

It didn’t take long for the anxiety to turn into impatience.

If she were an adult, she would think a little more calmly, but her thinking has also changed to that of a child, and Little Red Riding Hood has more instinct than reason.

Let’s go find it.

It didn’t take long for her to come to that conclusion.

Like that, Little Red Riding Hood slowly walked through a maddening scene showing the bottom of human beings killing and killing each other.

Her children didn’t touch her as they were her children, and the Hook Pirates saw her again and again and flinched because she was used to her, but she didn’t wield her sword.

The writer clearly headed for the ship of the Hook Pirates.

So he thought that if he headed there he could meet him, but things didn’t always go smoothly.

“I was here too.”

“You… ….”

“Ah, have you forgotten me? That is so sad.”

The shepherd boy smiled and waved at Little Red Riding Hood.

“I need to get out of here.”

“What? Aren’t you happy?”

“I hate to say it twice. Move.”

I can’t be happy.

An opponent who has already fought once, and allowed a blow during that time.

Of course, that doesn’t matter much to Little Red Riding Hood, but I didn’t like the idea of blocking him from going to the artist right away.

He is fragile.

He has infinite possibilities, but on the contrary, he is too weak and a small existence that must be protected.

So we have to go.

He promised to show him something beautiful, so she promised to keep him.

This was a contract.

After the death of the hunter, Little Red Riding Hood decided that there would be no greater happiness than that.

So, as she was about to choose her own death, the man was the last small hope she had.

So her tone was extremely inorganic, but on the contrary, it was also fiercely hostile.

“Ha, that’s interesting.”

However, there is no way the shepherd would know that.

Even though he thought that he had already shown the difference in his skills once, he was just annoyed by Little Red Riding Hood, who seemed to ignore himself.

“Hey, you know what?”

Little Red Riding Hood didn’t answer, but the shepherd pulled the corners of her mouth into a smile as if she liked her reaction.

“I don’t want to fight with my sister. If possible, I want to be friendly with each other. I’m serious.”

She narrowed her eyes at her sincerity.

Little Red Riding Hood didn’t know much about the world yet, but she at least knew that people with whom she wanted to be intimate should be treated with respect.

At least he won’t give me a flesh-filled gaze like that.

“I don’t have time to listen to your bullsh*t.”

“It is too much to say nonsense.”

Lies are the root of a shepherd.

The boy, who dropped his words saying that it would be difficult to dismiss it as nonsense, took a step very naturally.

“You mean lies. Is it good? It makes this deadly boring world a little more pleasant.”

Laugh.

The shepherd boy takes another step closer to Little Red Riding Hood by acting out a kinder smile than anyone else.

“Isn’t this world pretty boring? Everyone makes a fuss about useless things, and makes a big deal out of insignificant things.”

He hates being bored.

So, another step forward with the sophistry that it is not bad to make life more prosperous with a slightly different lie.

Around the time when the distance to Little Red Riding Hood was only five steps.

“So… ….”

Clutching his cane, the boy raised his head.

“To kill them all.”

Leap and disappear.

Watching it in real time, Little Red Riding Hood took a shallow breath.

It was the same in the previous battle.

The shepherd boy dug into her movements with a phenomenon different from what she had seen with her own eyes, and gave up.

Pointing to the incident at that time, the artist said.

“…… The source of the shepherd boy is a lie.”

Lies.

To deceive someone.

She clenched her fist, recalling his words that if that was the origin, the boy’s bizarre movements would also be a kind of trick.

If you want to hide behind vanity, there is a way.

“Whoa… ….”

Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist there.

In that case, it is not a dot, but a plane.

It doesn’t focus on one point, but it hits so hard that the entire area is swept away.

The red cloak, which spewed out at once as if to explode the mystery within her body, gathered all her strength in her right hand and clenched her fist.

“Uh huh huh? Uh huh!?”

It was there.

Hearing her voice in her ears, she nodded her head and swung her fist, and before long, a group of golden lights swept everything around with an explosion.

“…… Aww, big…….”

No matter how much the shepherd boy was, there was no way to escape from the violence of that enormous power, and in the end, he was thrown far away and moaned.

It’s not to the point of dying, but to the point where I can’t move for a while.

The shepherd boy who has been crawling on the ground struggles to raise her head and stares at her red cloak.

“Lord, I will kill you…” ….”

A crushing blow broke her right arm, but her left arm was still intact.

The boy, who raised his upper body with his remaining arms, stares as if he is about to die and shouts in anger.

“You, I will definitely kill you. I will kill you, I will kill you, I will definitely kill you!!”

Little Red Riding Hood looked at the shepherd boy patiently, then nodded her head and approached him.

Let’s kill here.

Leaving remorse is the work of fools.

It was Little Red Riding Hood who had become younger in body, mind and thinking, but it did not mean that she had completely forgotten her life in the forest.

Like that, Little Red Riding Hood approached to break the boy’s head, but that didn’t come true.

“That’s it!!”

Invasion of Tinkerbell, who watched the whole process.

She looked at her shepherd and let out a deep sigh, then opened her mouth, pointing at her Little Red Riding Hood.

“Killing children is taboo in Neverland! Even with the same child, it is absolutely forbidden! Okay?”

Little Red Riding Hood did not answer.

Just with his teeth clenched tightly, his eyebrows wriggled slightly as if in great difficulty.

Things started to go in a bad direction.