Chapter 29:

Explain - Arc 0

Lucid Memories:The Observer's Servant Eyes「明晰思い出:観察者の従者眼」


I'm scared, and so is my wife.

The village that we live in is governed by a cult called "The Observer's Servant Eyes", they're said to be the eyes of their God, and that they were chosen to protect the weak, and help them live a prosperous life, and it sounds perfect, it sounds too perfect, because it really is.

They do protect us, but at a cost, not money, but sacrifices, everytime a child reaches the age of ten, they must be given to the cult as a sacrifice, and after that, the family won't be bothered again, but if the family doesn't give their child to the cult, they will be banished, which mean killed because we never saw the banished ones ever again.

The child must be a girl too, and if the mother doesn't give birth to a girl, a limb of the mother will be given as the sacrifice, the fact that the child must be a girl was already a bad sign, we knew what was going on, but we chose to ignore it, because if we disobey them, we would die.

I too once had sister, and so does my father, and his father, and so on, we were used to it after since we only need to sacrifice one, I've also seen some of my relatives that had lost some of their limbs, it must be hard for them to live like that, though we couldn't do anything to change the way things would work.


Luckily my wife was the youngest, and so she wasn't sacrificed, though it must've been hard for her to lose a sister, it must've been hard for everyone.

They would take them into their building, and after that they would never return, you could sometimes hear screams from afar, but after one scream, you won't hear another. 

It was obvious, it was very obvious, we knew what was going on, hiding behind their smiles, we knew everything, but we couldn't do anything, they were that powerful, governing three generations, and before that, governing other people, they must've failed and died, we don't know how, but we're certain, that if we confront them, every single one of us will die.