“Quite a few of us come from the Laus Mountains, but we had never heard of an elf village being there. We’ve only seen impoverished and miserable elves in the city, so we were shocked to see such a beautiful and elegant race. But our mission had to be carried out. We…conducted a night raid as we always do and killed the ones we can’t sell as slaves, while abducting the rest of them. That was the order from our sponsor,” the captain admitted.

“There was an odd fella out of us. He wasn’t exactly built for war, but everyone liked him because he was pretty talented; he even killed three of the armed elves that night. He then went by himself to ransack empty houses and to look for elves that were still left behind, but I didn’t say much to him because I knew he would be safe on his own. Then I heard a loud scream from the house he entered.”

“…”

“When I ran into the house, through the curtains, I saw an elf woman holding a dead baby, with his knife stabbing it. It wasn’t hard for me to figure out what had happened based on his pale face. She wouldn’t stop screaming, so we quickly pulled her out of the house and left the baby’s body in...