There's Nothing Wrong Starting Life In Another World From Zero
Chapter 313: The Girl Seller of the Lighters
Today I visited a city in the far end of the kingdom, originally these were only two villages combined into one to form a new city.
Among the passersby, I saw a red-hooded girl sharing something I knew very well, it was a box of matches of wood.
Some people buy it for 1 copper coin.
For most people, it's too cheap a price even so people are still willing to take it without adding up the amount.
When I and the girl looked at each other and she thrust a box at me without saying anything, the world was so cruel that even a little girl had to sell something like this to survive.
I gave her one silver coin for one piece I took, it might be my feeling but I saw her smile.
Without caring about it any more I went to the town hall to meet the people who stood up to welcome me, there the one in charge of this city welcomed me, well... even though I don't wear a crown on my head I'm still considered a king.
When I waved my hands people were screaming, this was the first time I saw people so excited when I met them.
"From now on you live in harmony with each other," and my words make people grow excited.
It's different levels.
I received an honorable banquet from the person in charge, when a servant lit a match to light a candle, suddenly everyone around me fell down without cause.
"What's going on?"
I checked the match and it was exactly the same match I was holding, I ran out of the building towards the direction where I met the girl, just like the people I met inside the building everyone else experienced the same thing.
My head was getting confused even when I was facing the girl, when I saw her eyes an unfamiliar sight just flashed before my eyes as if it were a flashback.
It was a winter where the snow fell so heavily, at that moment I saw a little girl running to and fro with breathless breath, his body trembled with coldness and his face looked extremely fragile as if it could be uprooted at any moment.
He kept trying to thrust the match in his hand even so no one bought it.
"Please buy."
How much he tried still no one bought him, with a crying face he kept doing it over and over again.
The snow began to thicken until he finally gave up, he dragged his feet back to his small house at the end of the village.
Waiting for her there was a grandmother lying on the bed.
"You're home yet? What sell?"
"Yes grandma, people need her the most" replied the girl, of course it was all a lie, even so the girl smiled warmly and a few days later her grandmother died.
Now he himself and must try to survive, this village and the next village just leave it until in the end the girl also died right when she lit her own match, when he died he sent a curse in his last breath.
"One day when you buy me a match, your life will be over"
Like that's.
And now that it became a reality, people bought matches from the girl in front of me, not because they were cheap but they remembered the girl they had abandoned.
The girl had asked for help to save her grandmother but no one heard her.
The girl asked for help because of hunger no one wanted to help her.
When my sight returned to normal, the girl in front of me had completely disappeared leaving behind a terrifying story that would be shared with everyone in future generations.
I quote a sentence at the end of the story.
"When you have the opportunity to help someone, then do it so you don't regret it later on."
The new city that was created is now just a dead city with a tomb in front of their house.
I told Bellatrix and Katharina who had finished their work. Both of them could not stop the tears that fell on their faces.
Now I regret it.
I shouldn't have told him.
