Birth of the Moon God's Descendants
Chapter 69 - Massacre of Soldiers
Arata and Izumi along with one of the soldiers who joined earlier continued to look for the perpetrators of this massacre in the forest, while waiting for the other soldiers to come.
Meanwhile, the Shogun goes on his horse to look for footprints that may be outside the forest.
The four of them had guessed that the one who carried out this massacre was the mountain bandits, but they still felt that there was something odd, because the soldiers should be able to defeat the mountain bandits even though they were outnumbered.
"Areally what is it possible that the one who committed this massacre is a mountain bandit?" Ask the soldier. He felt very sad and upset to see the bodies of his friends killed.
"I'm also as thoughtful as you are, it's highly unlikely that those mountain bandits can defeat the soldiers this easily." Reply Izumi.
"But I think it's also very strange, we found a lot of the bodies of our soldiers here, but I didn't find a single mountain bandit's body here at all. " Reply Arata who was looking in the bushes.
Izumi and the soldier stared at each other, they were shocked to realize that there were not even any corpses of mountain bandits here.
"Average... You're genius! " Shouted Izumi while staring at Arata
Arata is shocked to see Izumi suddenly staring at him, but he is also happy to be called a genius by Izumi.
"We must quickly tell to, Shogun-sama, about this!" Shouted Izumi.
"Ready! I will soon be chasing Shogun-sama! " The soldier shouted while riding a horse and immediately set out in pursuit of the Shogun.
Outside the forest, he did not see the Shogun. However, as he had to relay this information immediately, the soldier immediately rushed away from the forest looking for the Shogun.
When in the middle of the road suddenly the soldier saw the footprints of the horse, the soldier was immediately convinced that this was the footprint of the Shogun's horse, he quickly followed the footprints.
In the forest now only Izumi and Arata remain, they both continue their search to find other evidence.
"Arata, be careful I'm afraid there's a trap they set. " Say Izumi
"Yes, yes, just relax, you think I'm a child until I have to be told. " Tight Arata with a shitty tone.
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On the other hand, the soldiers were on their way to the forest. They all carried complete weapons and wore armor. However, the soldiers did not know about the massacre that was in the forest.
"Hurry now! We can't make Shogun-sama wait for long! " Shouted the commander who led the soldiers.
It did not take long for the soldiers who arrived just in front of the forest, so many soldiers who came even they seemed to have surrounded the forest.
"They will enter the forest only a few people, others will wait outside and secure the area!"
After that 12 warriors entered the forest, yet they already felt an extremely unpleasant aura within this forest.
"Gazu-san! And arata-san! We have come! Where's y'all! " The soldiers shouted.
"Oiii! We're right here! " Shouted Arata while waving to the soldiers.
The soldiers went into the forest, they immediately met Arata who was standing near a tree.
"Arata-san, why is it so quiet here?"
"Where are the other soldiers?"
"Is there a problem, Arata-san?"
After coming to Arata the soldiers immediately showered him with a lot of questions.
It also makes Arata's head and ears become hot, because constantly asked by 12 soldiers, he became a little upset because of it.
Instantly the soldiers instantly fell silent like statues, the soldiers instantly became like a child who had been infuriated by his parents.
"Good! Now follow me and don't ask me much more. Understood?" Said Arata staring seriously at the soldiers.
"Ready! Sir! " Reply answer the soldiers.
Arata road ahead and the soldiers follow him from behind, the soldiers are still confused by what really happened in this forest, but they already dare not ask Arata again after being snapped by him.
Arata's face was also like hinting to all of them for no one to speak anymore.
"Woi, what exactly is going on here anyway?" Ask slowly the soldier in the back to his friend.
"I don't know either! But maybe we'll find out soon enough. " Answer the soldier.
The longer Arata took the soldiers deeper into the forest, the more the soldiers felt there was a very bad incident in this forest, one of them pub ventured to ask Arata.
"Arata-san! What exactly is going on here?! " Shouted the soldier in a furious tone.
As Arata stopped walking, the soldiers behind were shocked to hear his theme yelling so loudly at Arat, but they actually wanted to ask Arata a lot of questions.
"Yes, Arata-san is right! What exactly is going on?
"Where are the soldiers on duty supposed to be here?! "
"Don't shut up! please answer you Arata-san! "
Arata turned to the soldiers, but the soldiers were surprised to see Arata shed tears. As soon as the soldiers immediately felt guilty, the soldiers thought Arata was crying because their question offended him.
"A-arata-san what's the matter?" Ask the panicked soldiers.
"The soldiers who served here have all been killed... B-but we still don't know who the mastermind of this murder is... "Jawab Arata was very sad.
Instantly the soldiers were instantly shocked to hear it, there were even some who instantly fell to the ground. The soldiers were very confused about what else to say, they wanted to think that Arata was just joking, but that was all impossible because Arata was crying like that.
Suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps from behind the tree that was in front of them. Suddenly they all looked seriously at the tree.
"Oi, you've all got here..." Said Izumi who came from behind the tree.
The soldiers immediately heaved a sigh of relief, because what appeared was Izumi instead of her enemy. But, Izumi was astonished to see them looking so sad and she was also very surprised to see Arata crying.
"W-What's this?" Izumi asked as she walked over to them.
But none of them answered the question, but the intelligent Izumi could immediately guess what happened.
"Oi, Arata, have you explained to them? " Tanya Izumi whispered in Arata's ear.
Arata nodded his head while still crying. Izumi sighed, all she had to do was take them to where the soldiers in the forest were killed.
"It's been... Don't be sad we have to find the culprit of this massacre right away. " Say Izumi with a smile.
As Arata and the soldiers were immediately shocked to see it, they very rarely saw Izumi smiling like that. But because of Izumi's smile, it raised the spirits of the soldiers to be able to find the culprit.
"Let's all follow me! I'll take her to her place. " Said Izumi.
The soldiers followed Izumi from behind.
