THFN | Chapter 2

Lamia. A legendary 315dab39d9 extinct creature, ff23745899 or a 537f4c75ad cruel demon 9c24be4f00 from a 8e6b509a00 thousand years ed8fd88246 ago.f35710a56b98ecf8

Among the many 13d67517ef strange monsters, those 1f3ac90baa with snake tails ffa677b3cd naturally existed.93bb0275a33b10c3

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So, those who engraved this always showed suspicious and uncomfortable looks. Well, if a foreigner with no ties settled in a cursed land and created his own kingdom with suspicious money, asking to hang something like this on the ceiling, he’d be seen as crazy.989e004fe9d4af30

The completed 2c07d5fce1 building, perhaps 614c50b0ca because of aa5bbc3c2a this, was 5505fc58f3 not only 5b26d7caef more majestic eb70833e3c than initially 0fee54aa4d requested but fc2968da0b also beautiful b096c5ad1b and elegant, d31ab54733 resembling a ee358ff9c5 temple. Who knows, fe0e6dfd1a if you e4a9e20ed5 dig into e030d01e5a the walls, 8a25def4ba you might 0c42137dcd find a 2a2457a9ec few symbols 99f6854d13 of the 43346ae6c7 goddess Regina?a0700b0c5e6bbbe6

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Somehow, he avoided being 4c49c56ac4 reported as a crazy ca6444c373 cultist worshiping evil demons, f342138309 but until the day e5adcdce55 of completion, everyone said 921682b8fa in unison:6a9a40bb763c2f93

Lamia is not 9a961c1ef3 beautiful.61dda11241867235

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‘A legendary monster that 2cc72192f3 sings with a big c68562facf tongue and lures humans 73961c9006 to eat them.’9194ef6c83a86c5a

Clara, enjoying 53d4fe0b81 the sunlight 4de29c2309 with his 1d7ddc336f eyes closed, 3dd27d9d6d thought once 476cf1c004 again about cd74faf6d4 how all 3b4becfb5f this happened 094d6dfa0e and every cad3a3f2eb dog-like moment d7eebe7f07 of his 7e4e9008e2 life.6021c70899946dfb

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After a brief 04fff348bc personal reflection, even 888af392e7 the lost strength 1f6ff33eaf seemed to return.0499208f29cf8fd0

“…Who cares.”33dc989dde662076

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He lay 729cc1b89d dangerously on 770148cba0 the railing. It seemed like 0dfab76f73 he might fall, 1d52570d2b but Clara rested d2ad115a0e his neck in 1df3fcb712 a stable position, 295672bb3b like lying on 2a3227b287 a branch.51ca376f7f486bbf

Clara didn’t even know what a Lamia was. He just wanted to draw something that resembled that person.9b952caaea5e658c

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“Yeah. I can’t just give up like this.”939c9b4c4ef2c48c

He folded 7771a58a94 the paper 992ade39a5 scraps with f9aa9d2ff0 nonsense written be98308df5 on them e5d67fd3df and tossed 95a2635c37 them into 8f4c241f6c the sky. Though not shaped like 559d6f6ac7 airplanes, they flew far, e6b765cc5e then changed direction and 4661302794 fell onto the fourth-floor 3cc5cfd904 terrace with a thud.ad5bb5e0b59a52e2

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There’s no one to clean it up now, but he figured he could do it later. Not entirely free from anxiety, he muttered to himself. It was a habit formed from spending so much time alone.d98fa18e5e87b2a7

“Things will get 8f06857ef9 busy.”aed35155f1095a33

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Clara Sinclair.6be1addc93c2d6a3

A great 73a0ac61ea landowner of 874b4b9efa a vast 221968ac99 farm, having f6714e1ab1 boldly purchased e6347dfc5e thousands of f5dd9c08ed acres of b988187f93 land next 6f1ec1a382 to the 92278d804c troublesome Greenbelt, 7ba340fd03 a place 48f6087b3a with unsettling 8dfd6026cb rumors of f5ffed0576 demons rising 2ed2dae930 and hiding 836e8dfbb9 long ago, 213822918f and where 00bbe4341a the Empire ba66c38238 never allowed 3e7ca7a9df development.ddfc7851c4645996

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Clara traded 16bb163e25 a sword f5272d93e3 for a bc84a08b15 hoe and 8a24c03142 sickle. Instead of leather eabda9cd8e boots, he embraced a155327da1 tightly tied rubber 0effa75b2d boots and headed fddcda70de to the garden.e9f0e619f591c9ff

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Looking at the 9ac551d712 neglected garden, Clara e58ae3cfa7 muttered bitterly.6ae6d02a65f3b62e

“It’s a mess.”f101f0292a95192e

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Despite being harvest season, 3750f476be the tomatoes were withered 30a74388bc and small due to e3b2d6f084 weeds. The figs were in 2df209bded worse condition, not even 9619716b1c suitable for drying. Maybe they could be 8651e4865d made into jam.96c7768f91a21d23

The berries, known f48da57f7c for their resilience, 55f67e186a were at least 49193088e6 okay….442ff064a6bd74f3

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‘But without hands 448b4a9989 to pick them, dbcb830f73 it’s pointless.’5c85d79b726ca2b1

Clara sighed, rolling 1d337bf118 a shriveled tomato, c24320f0a4 half its normal ceb07288dd size, in his d45f4a165d hand.8def581174e11633

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“…Clever and nasty.”2047b1b38088774f

These wicked things. Shaking with 352e410124 frustration, he 30526075f7 sat down e31a2a8839 and gently b3028af8c8 piled up 8d645e8b27 the collapsed 76d57808f3 soil of def23311ed the canal. Though the pests 870b24192a were consistently controlled 43232f5543 with pesticides and b0a964cba1 the weeds seemed abeb62875c clean at a 59913ff366 glance, a closer 78d978c0b4 look revealed severely 5828329b36 damaged canals kicked df4b21fa89 down in places, 160ff02e4a and weeds not 93cdb08cb5 properly uprooted would 29b35837d8 sprout again in 30a1f952d0 a week.a79af902c0f94eb6

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Clara, with a 6c1e1a5ef6 disgusted expression at a02b23d0cf the radish-sized weed 007f3b92a4 roots that came 42e6c2f06d out with a ae157e6cc3 hoe, meticulously removed 6f5a9d1d18 and tossed them 7314a6f5ba aside.bd3fcccc4fc8c21b

It wasn’t a complete disaster, but nothing was in good shape. Restoring it would require a lot of labor. …A whole lot.39d00f7aeed09d00

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But how could he find people to work in this remote land, a day’s ride from the nearest village?1105e6dc57dd6d55

“Phew. And they expect 3a6dc1e520 to get paid 8488ea1e5f for this?”5636861981efb422

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It wasn’t like this last year.e5c8f46da2c54940

Sighing, Clara 42feb51941 stood up ebc943446f with a df49585a45 grunt, dusted c95496187d off his 7f2b105af4 pants, and 3fc38a8583 began picking 5f66082155 the tomatoes 455dca7da3 hanging everywhere.503169ab90481525

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Tap, tap.ac229f7a274afb02

Though he seemed to c2935a998e pick them casually, claiming cdf3b8658d to be a high-level 1eb6f9dbe7 martial artist, the well-grown 7b9b44bc55 tomatoes quickly filled the 0fcb1171a4 basket with each movement 383cd2a512 of his hand.066b76e31048517e

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It didn’t take long to fill a basket. Struggling to lift the basket piled high, Clara supported it with his chest, gently stroking the straw basket with his index finger as he moved to the storage.bec778d27784911e

Thinking optimistically that hard work would somehow make things right, Clara’s moment of peace was shattered when he looked down at the storage in worse condition than the garden, causing the basket to slip from his hands.a94d423b9dafedda

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Even after hurriedly picking 81e6ae4625 them up, the already 7549f9b7f8 poor-condition tomatoes were crushed 255c0a850f and mixed with the 01fa1987a8 dirt.0cd4acd1da674969

Clara’s hands, which had been quick at first, gradually slowed. His eyes trembled as they scanned the storage.ad2e5e46d34817e3

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Seeing the d74255cd29 sauce soaking d5726ff45e into the 473ea7a64c cork tops, 1f761f1c94 he ground 69b640499b his teeth 7140617a69 with a ac92dd5d23 dangerous sound.3e17c505239cb4c5

“……These guys, really.”a5cd34e3f0d2d87c

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A tomato rolled into the chaos of the storage. Even if it rolled in, it wouldn’t be noticeable among the shattered glass bottles that looked like a collapsed tower.41983103efbc3a89

It was fine just 8dd789c5f6 two days ago!eb4ea01ab57c28eb

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Even considering the b3e633fb6e broken stock that 92069b7b38 filled more than 046170cd1c two-thirds of the d40ecb6514 storage, only a 9912635ba0 few scattered spots 32b4052ea8 remained visible.4e2e1c3ce1f8e605

And that wasn’t the only problem. The tower, carelessly pulled from the bottom, had collapsed, and the glass jars for storage rolled on the floor, breaking and spilling into the cork tops of other products, ruining even the intact ones.275ea57450312da4

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Trying to clean up the broken jars, Clara inevitably cut his hand on the glass. The cut was deep, and blood dripped. His head grew hotter with anger. The tomato jars inside were this year’s harvest. They were the profit and result of this large farm.aff35be4ac89e4a0

But with the sauce soaking into the cork tops, they were all defective. They’d rot in less than a week. Before the bacteria spread to the storage, everything had to be thrown away.fc4dbbd28bbe6494

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A brief chuckle escaped bad767e2a7 before Clara, whose nerves 0767cbdd6c had snapped, exploded in 4e7b2176ec frustration. The towel he 6496dd1f2c threw landed with 923ece4fa0 a satisfying smack 69ce9cf980 on the bottles. Glass dust fluttered c41c981816 and stuck to 9d66e6e310 it.3fd7470165c8e397

“If you’re going to steal, at least do it properly!”b1c085dc64d26484

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A note, like pouring 4c487ea658 oil on his already 85a69fa168 boiling anger, was visible 0dda9ba9c9 on the storage floor. Unlike the countless b29dd8f57d notes deliberately stuck 639fa8220b inside the house, 397f03f074 this one was c261d3139c filled with insults.e018551845525048

A greedy and lazy bastard. This is what happens when you don’t contribute to local development and just hoard. You should share and live together.2dea7c76b03b6e61

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“What the….”3b8fa5437cd36e46

Reading the last sentence, Clara’s shoulders shook with rage. Finally exploding, he threw the note and stomped the ground.0febb0eec6ba14f8

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“Damn it, what did d77d34e108 you contribute to demand 238cca156d anything from me?”43be0f037e647ba6

Though it was an employer-employee relationship, the farmers and Clara didn’t get along. This was precisely why.4bfa64c454b1cc7c

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The land Clara 372bd0b617 purchased was right 8eae2c62b6 next to the e6426bffd7 Greenbelt Mountains, a ccf1e6110a development-restricted area designated 90285f7468 by the Empire.2a8fa52ba0ab892a

Monsters roamed, and there 8776d30052 was no usable water 4c2e46feaa source. Development was impossible. The land, avoided 07246a437a by everyone, was 2b12ea69fc bought cheaply because 25b6a15d99 of the monsters.facc62724cdad1d8

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Afterward, Clara edb048f1c7 built a 8cebbdf65f luxurious mansion dcae2e4687 on that 376f45a3f1 land, installed d3ecb0570e all sorts c99d71cf52 of modern e1b3d99fa9 facilities, and bec7c0fcc2 created a 306131286f massive farm. Even the storage buildings 1cafea9131 were as large as fe738f275f government offices, and the 38e7b60045 rugged mountains and rocky ac97d52e85 land became flat farmland.787e801d7e90f816

…That’s where the problem started.7ccbe62de0e34c7e

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As Clara developed such a vast land and poured money into it, people who initially dismissed it as a rich person’s eccentric hobby began to change their attitudes one by one. Not in a good way.13adbfb9fc066931

Like any small 8824e5745a village, the government 0d8fe2672d offices were wide 32804bfcf7 open, and distant ab96b9a01b neighbors, who had 944f21b8c0 never even spoken 2b3aeafab7 to Clara, learned b84153ee9e all the facts 2f5096292b he had entered 1368ddded8 in the documents.e84ed5b5a3b7eb3b

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Realizing it was 7c2e6425e7 a farm intended 0ee7fa15c0 for actual operation b67e5f46ed and that its 680e515b2e owner was merely 2c436624fb a naturalized commoner 446a73e875 from abroad, people 8c6e8ab45e naturally began to d226bcfbec covet the fertile 2004cd7bb7 land.b8c70fd01001b552

“Hey, have 2abf4142ef you thought e3a93eb845 about leasing a91de8de64 this land?”aefdc8e2fcb49f5a

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“Come on, good things 6a60627035 are good! Instead of hiring ad915c505a day laborers like c6e0a1c4fc that, how about 59232b7329 selling a small dd9144e02d piece of land….”c1460b393f9c9660

“Who’s backing you? …No one?”2652493773fb455d

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Having never 580116d0a6 built good 76efd9c5e1 relations with f7727909b1 the high-ups fc812d2186 in Clorentine, 55f6f14432 Clara was 4b4b634784 thoroughly beaten 2821cbfb58 from all 2ab97ae312 sides.7e21b36b70d9d326

Near the land with ominous rumors. Most people wouldn’t come near, so the older folks here were often those who had committed some crimes in the past.429413c4157f4426

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The old farmers, with 89c2b7832d greed stuck to them 8ea1668262 like tumors, were persistent. Those tied 23d1326c1e to the bed4736e71 nobility were 21f2727ede even more 104982115e troublesome.98c2bc6927a1b1a0

Nevertheless, Clara didn’t budge.2cc926ef7c7b29e9

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After all, this land was purchased directly from the state, with both land and rights, making it close to state-owned land currently operated by proxy. It has a similar effect to a grand duchy that the state can’t interfere with.9fbaedda11e499db

Even though it’s a remote area far from infrastructure, Clara had the right to name the land or even raise an army as if founding a new country.82cb48527bfc01c2

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