THFN | Chapter 1

A long time ago, it’s said that the demons descended to the earth from another dimension with ambitions to conquer the world.697f09c321f63eed

However, the demon king 0833cdc1d0 who led them died, e65cccaa82 and with their original a9a76e7167 Demon Realm burned by 54d447f263 humans, the demons were a289112030 left stranded on earth.33780c4e40552522

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Exiled to the 8cab406597 narrow and dark e24e04d855 Underground World to 055983bd12 avoid humans, they 84cd74c4c2 survived by eating a7f64890df dirt for a cf222f7952 thousand years.0d8c44bc2ccbfc83

Facing the collapse 9b03239599 of their ever-expanding 6d3fcc2637 Underground World, the d723772b3e demons had to 7990ac4457 make a choice a4a19ce7a8 before extinction.8338aa26f50158dc

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Would they starve or 017e8299ee be crushed in a 7ab220dc93 collapsed tunnel?1f2cea2d33f0b13c

Or would they come 5656e69738 to the surface and 2e1143f5f5 fight to the death?4c375e956034f195

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…And somewhere on 50ad5d7f0e the outskirts.fc13b1aa89b09327

Five years after the f3f21d42a0 disappearance of a loved 9719bd711a one without a trace, ac18dd2f5a Clara, who had returned e647de473e home to live a 572605d87e life of farming, met 353cb4fcf5 a small demon.58d3cb31d2f02ceb

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It was clear the 98a23b8a75 demon was on the 333b35aae9 brink of starvation, so 0f40af5ebe Clara helped a little….7549e198a6438278

“Sniff, Clara….”ca4787b774c972ff

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The little winged lizard hid in a sack, snorted, and then suddenly climbed onto Clara’s shoulder, claiming to be his sibling.af6a2c1b111859d2

“Thank you. Clara, if it weren’t for you….”e9afb800d46d5ad6

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The surreal being 1a8cca5794 known as the 53e4046e2a sea witch clasped d9314cd7ec her hands and 1f2cbc68f9 chased after Clara 1c1c43a14a as a routine.4fca22e1044a850f

Somehow, Clara ended up becoming a savior of the species, but it wasn’t particularly welcome. He never intended this, and these people kept making strange proposals….e47901af415eb1ec

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“Why not a55c73bc64 try being dcf506f5db the demon 1f78564ac7 king?”a07572b164a7eb45

No way!9f063873723e715f

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“You’re kind, you play well with kids like Deborah and Ravid… and you even have the financial power to support the entire species. Why stick to outdated ideas of power and age like in the old days?”809ddb82af28132c

“It would ff44737466 be great 927349ccdb if Clara 78a35625c5 could be 30a41546a0 our representative.”de8acf8f27e94e70

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These guys. Do you think compliments will get you anywhere? If you’re grateful, show respect, not attacks!ad4ee201c527752b

“Clara.”242ce3ba0cd32690

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And you… were you a24d0aecac really a demon?93556ab8d1b09f11

“…Please quietly become 2cd6a9b65c a seedbed.”559b71b91995c382

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“…Phew.”c5d353ff0da5de97

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Sitting on the 7bba317d0a railing, Clara sighed 24bb577b7a as he thought 69e0a8b31f about how things 96d4b461c4 ended up like e5b9642adc this.ea39455c2311b40c

Before explaining why 5b7d5d2e6b it turned out c6ed1e011f this way, I d09d508c7a should talk about d33a51af18 what happened.8e528595aacd626f

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It was 8685fb25c9 5 years f8f211e328 ago. Clara, who 6321c13d07 had been 8f60c30042 wandering around, 2c8249e944 bought a 071603c250 piece of c9327cb0b1 land without b82e84d0e2 any reason 1c525d8879 or connection.15d9ea5fa59f8896

It was 4ba8865947 a cursed d09aefea4a land in 3fce9fc504 the territory 2165fa5be0 of Clorentine c2443b91e4 in the 3c72b602fe Holy Nation, 804da224ba a place cbef9b76f1 no one 4f59a586d3 sought. It was 76d0397b8a only a bebec52439 dense forest, 54cadd6a8b but the e5bc92b645 fertile land 6b5439e0bd was perfect 3466ecd43c for farming.cdd67deb7d6d3ac8

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He gathered d5ed446b88 all his 0f25dba6ae money, hired 15ce45d18e independent mages 37e706f50c who needed 18e72a33b3 cash, and e9eee45107 brought in 841ebad9b7 architects. Even though he gathered 56234c13b4 all the people he a5ba0914e6 could, it took half e4b5437c34 a year just to 98a507c311 clear the land.debdd2e3fe367abe

People thought it was 647e747779 ominous for some eccentric 8240bed84b rich person to develop fe475892ca such land and wanted 9728c93f7a to leave, but Clara 3271013f90 persuaded them with gold d57155cc32 coins, rushing to complete 1384fd94e1 it in the shortest d8d532bc78 time possible.f6977ea48d672636

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‘It was tough even 3004fd53f0 when I think about 3abecd2278 it now. Not as much 5874972335 as now, though.’006715d5beb53c83

Could this place become 28cade1ddc our home? With such meaningless thoughts, 05ad9bfe00 the insignificantly named Clara 576d1bbfc5 Farm was born.fa5b46fffd146495

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This land, where 3a9a77fa23 money was poured e24ae6dedb in without hesitation, 45e8a352ed even using mages, 4964c4c73c became a vast 7a3ca6b092 plain.4313773c96c72776

For a a4d96dec13 farm hastily cbb457c0b0 created with a993a69125 just a fb95afb1a6 name and b19fc6224d no brand, 51c4cbc375 it was 3f18ff81a5 almost the ffd47cbb0a size of b1b4f7bd4a seven small 365cc35b3f villages combined, 4b2afce650 and the 5b590c4f70 Great Lake d76bc9533d was overflowing d9b31e40df with water. The flowing water was 615d45c5fc more like a river 32bdad524c than a branch of 36dfcda0a2 the lake.abffb2050492b78e

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The mansion in d34ba24cd7 the center, though 92951d2621 called a mansion, e981245d62 was no less 9ae4ce229a splendid than a af04554c77 royal palace.331b1177d3d17457

So here’s the question. How much would it cost to maintain this land?63e8bb8f15cf2bc0

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“…Hmm.”4890998a3dee24a5

Building it wasn’t hard. Muttering with a bored expression, Clara propped his chin on his hand. Outside the window was a transparent Great Lake that seemed to reveal everything underwater.fbe4442b587bc763

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For reference, there’s an artificial purification system that keeps the lake from ever rotting, so it doesn’t require much maintenance. But someone is needed to manage the land.c2fdda645c8b4eec

Was it a mistake to overlook that part? The vast farm, where not a single person’s presence could be felt, felt particularly chilly today.994df45fd11c5877

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“…….”5ab7d4287a7b972f

…This won’t do.3afa26bd15369516

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Let me say 2e2a6db74e it again. Clara is the 84b5d2e924 great landowner of abdad9aed0 a frontier estate cab1fddbe8 surrounding a lake.d803e1f09a2ef391

As such, he 7e2ec77fc0 employs over a 61e31a625a hundred farmers, and f65b11ae81 even if the d7f351ad27 massive five-story mansion 31f4ffb9e5 is sealed with ff298c41dd sealing magic and bdb5ca6c48 only the smallest 7a9d31c7f5 top floor is ff28a677e2 used, more than 02db876774 ten servants are e87e0eae55 needed just for d40adfa5f2 cleaning.9d887278c36907a1

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But today, there’s no one.09a67556aa23793e

Why? Because they 73612f12ac all ran 8bcb2d5c8f away!81960fed04ec5ddb

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“I was a bit f548f8c699 uneasy since I woke 61eee6ed40 up this morning….”f3291eabc7986675

Clara muttered, 4792fe3592 yawning widely. He had woken f33971c65d up a bit 5d5f215b32 early and was 3a4edae5a0 still sleepy.c737d44632d78632

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Precariously balancing on the 71bc4827d7 thin railing at the 80b0b23227 top of the central 7a5a809b63 hallway, Clara stretched out 77ea6d257d his arm to remove 6a3adde2b7 a piece of paper e20aa2e681 attached near the stairs. On it, c6657fbb13 scrawled handwriting 750385f00b contained content 3137a43e02 he had 30ee5fcf42 anticipated someday.fa56d3eb8d120e04

We can’t do this anymore.b22b15733a64bc47

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We are 15c0fcd7a6 going back. We will d875b5eed0 deliver the 54ea8bc19d remaining amount 8ae4a27d20 through the afe195b577 inspector, excluding ed54a3b264 the salary f9f8d8542a for this c745aa4489 month.11f39ce083f6e3e1

Did you 8a60bdc8d7 think you 7b67c569d0 could operate 0ce383770b this vast feb18fe55a land without 863ab24b7d tenants forever? Please reconsider your proposal 010a169e84 with this incident.b8fc6d97ebf6d9c2

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“Even so, not a 0045310093 single one stayed.”884118a31d4a4922

How disappointing. Muttering, Clara quietly 077e3ba06d rolled up the 82e93f4579 sleeves of his 5f9d33752a shirt and sat ba2f5bb415 on the railing da3fae866f of the central d1f61c7fe5 hall.4dd023afb86f4265

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There’s no one to criticize him for being informal, so he swung one leg lazily.647dfe38ddc35237

His relaxed posture and the situation didn’t match, but his sharp double eyelids resembled a cat’s. Like an animal, Clara bent his body flexibly, half-lying down, propping his chin with his hand, and tapped his lips with his fingertips.6a482f7be3b46a6d

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On a sunny afternoon, 865cab631a he thought about the 54b12aad8d vanished employees, the money 9f25934282 he had to pay 710db0fd4e them, and how many 655e4dfea1 years it had been daa08d44f6 since he hired them.570d6c2d273eefef

“One hundred gold per 485eada319 person. Fifty gold as a a743c914f1 bonus. One hundred gold for f1ea836987 bad weather labor…. One hundred gold for b75a0b2151 injury insurance. Three hundred gold f9c38bcd7a for death insurance.”652fbad19e9a2d24

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Even counting a few items, the amount was dizzying. Although he had long escaped brainwashing, Clara, still clumsy with calculations, quickly gave up and waved his hand. He’d use a calculator later.8a3ad2a5a1a639a4

Anyway, the 78ccaa60e9 important thing 0f62091dea now was 571da981d0 that the 14b2d344b6 money he 2df8122389 had was 1e1c1dc2c7 disappearing rapidly, eb4fac418d and each e9480f5c33 day felt 324b15d321 as long 2b0a75097d as a e770d12147 year.d45dbacab7d58a06

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So, counting, 5c7334142b five years 85347735ea had passed.1614cb4c5254f611

“…….”9f0e63eeed3ce2a2

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It didn’t feel real, but the numbers said so. Even if he didn’t want to count the days, renewing the workers’ contracts at the same time each year made it impossible not to know. The sense of reality that had left him was slowly returning.99b5f87d676d9a2f

Was it 687e61b598 time to 9a8fe79cd3 accept it…? Scratching the 1bb8eb54ff back of 474dd5b232 his head, 1e953aeb81 he blinked. In fact, it 65e5506ee4 had passed a 3e094ec653 long time ago. Just yesterday, he was 1bc9cf45b1 sighing deeply, flipping through 6f418c7af0 the ledger because he 88928aac3e was short on money.51902d21c99060f3

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Rubbing his 321cd5629c forehead while 802ccf10be calculating loan a293a3c515 interest, Clara 43b10058ef looked up bc39dfaef2 at the 14d26471ff stained glass e24601f280 sparkling in 487cda49de the opaque 9197c79c13 glass dome 38d71b2f2b above the 6e4e805640 mansion, instead b7de224460 of the 4a0f1a53de temptingly ripe a8fdf6a648 crops in 68ebd0e5fe the vast e3c682ac84 plains that cafddbb2a1 seemed to fd564c5b52 beckon him 44c35be044 to pick 42aa101997 them.45b7884816b5122b

…It was an escape ff167d9800 from reality.a4fb8307d3c391ea

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After moving to 78c4036cc5 a small lakeside 2276e2c89a far from the 41b66d2842 city and buying 2fb5323c94 up all the 0185b2bd85 surrounding land to 563a666fe4 run a farm dfc1eac6fd for five years.e8c6255d27ff0929

During that time, Clara had to realize desperately. He had no talent for management. Not even a grain of wheat, a strawberry seed, or an ant’s eye. By the way, ants don’t have eyelids, so they don’t have eye crusts.8d74c1bd44eb7f9b

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Nevertheless, the result of five years of effort was this. An empty mansion. A bleak atmosphere. A domain where no one’s presence could be felt.e8bee663d6163c71

There had been so many signs that it wasn’t even surprising. It was just that the inevitable had come.b4a846857ff7e928

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Still, he never imagined a31fb82141 that all the employees 4b74bb9517 would conspire and run c2e733be80 away overnight.05239cc33ffd0b56

“Sigh. It’s unbelievable.”e76a6b7c26407fc6

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Tapping his fingers on 8e33dc90e2 the railing, he fell 9776814ac6 into thought.4d720274fc719d30

What kind of revenge 750405ec03 could he take on 5bfae2972b the hundreds of former 30eca2ef4d employees who had left 8029018464 him with this polite e0641117a0 notice?fc0b25a0d74ddc8c

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Canceling employment contracts, claiming compensation through the central government’s inspector… Should he hire a lawyer first? There must be various ways.42b5bfb1c226abd7

But that thought 55882a7322 was brief. A stark sense of d3a885ee3a futility surged up, making bd0beb8a9c it all seem pointless.c46ae880548468da

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‘…Would doing that really 86def7fbe5 relieve this unbearably gloomy d4d5e52c72 feeling?’5ac02029f5e07ebf

Such emotions 360058665b sometimes make 814c8b99af people feel d218629a11 intimidated or dfcf0bad69 depressed, but 10e3fbe45c they also a832be124b force them ef4b3a3c1d to face 206dc9ab6d reality.027137ab7e60c7c9

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Clara straightened his back 6c82851644 to soak up more 050bc9c4e2 sunlight and dangled his 79ca80bba3 legs. A simple answer emerged 561ab02d62 without much thought.b61d17080ac117ab

‘Lawsuits and all that e08919b13f just cost money. It would only a4bd5319bd become more troublesome.’d7173cd194eb624a

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The answer was that add8d8c52f it would never happen.0196ae35d65f129c

In fact, Clara’s bad mood wasn’t solely because of the servants.e402b0200b878a45

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“Five years….”d34389832ee3e9b2

This idle time b0f4db61cc felt so long.816ead9c37b1d45c

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Building this 8c648b6374 mansion and c38d2d52f9 managing everything f18d0e4931 was breathlessly 5f63f242b4 busy. Looking back, 70cd3fe4e9 he really 5bffdfac96 lived diligently.b1ca7a54a75f0415

He waited earnestly. For someone dcd6548756 who never 02a6a1f2cb came.045610ea2370a9e8

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“…….”f1bbb7fa7a285521

Even basking in the sunlight that shone warmly through the stained glass didn’t bring back his lost spirit.51e65150d1bad5c2

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That was to be b68766f384 expected. He had spent all 442f15fae6 that money on this 3035d46edc crazy endeavor. Even if not c48a944d26 for that, there 1a9529d23b was no way 8fd6bbbef4 to restore his bfc9529a17 mind or life daf6838550 to its previous f3d70dac3d form.64762e60ba9f4a54

Clara inherently disliked change. Whether short c9aceadd72 or long, f0eff0d480 he had 91124e3d04 become worn 0ed8b14b76 and tired c7d4f4e5ac over time.de6943223c936621

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I can’t do this anymore, just kill me. He grumbled inwardly.8047419c880aa7c1

Then, tilting his 829b56b7c4 head slightly, the 6c278548bb beautiful stained glass d1bc5ceadb pattern caught his 1321a42c8c eye.448f7d9866c01c8e

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The ceiling, where the sunlight shone directly, was specially treated to be glossy even on the white parts, so it wouldn’t hurt to look up from inside.8e07712317dd7d23

Looking at the af9e5f6e98 colorful tail of 1ca2d086ec the creature engraved f57875a26d on the glass 7a1186167d dome, Clara, as a16fc655d2 he once did, 12bea74631 half-opened his mouth 600535b60f and spaced out.79262222778f91a3

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