Savage Forest - Chapter 65
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 65
Tarhan could hear the girl’s light footsteps moving around the kitchen. He naturally listened to the sound and began to wash himself in the yard behind the house.
The irregular limping noise, unlike other people’s footsteps, gave him pain as if an awl was being pierced in his chest every time he heard it.
‘… Don’t ask for more. Just being able to walk again is a miracle.’
After that night, the girl suffered from a fever as if she was about to die.
The cause was the girl’s left foot, which had been bitten by a hippi by the river that day. The blood and pus from infected feet continued to build up and burst open over the next few days.
At first, he couldn’t help but push away the girl who kept clinging to him.
The girl said she was cold, but when Tarhan saw the girl’s skin changing from blue to red, he suddenly got scared. He was caught by the patrol, already prepared to die, while carrying the girl’s limp body on his back and went to Piache’s house, who lived at the end of the village and among the empty fields.
“Why on earth did you bring her here now?!”
The old woman, who had shouted loudly that she would never again take care of a child from an empty field, sweated buckets and squeezed out the pus from the girl’s rotten feet all night long. In the end, the girl miraculously survived, though her limp legs were unable to recover to the point where she may not be able to even walk.
She recovered where she could go back and forth between the kitchen and the room, and to a small extent, outside was a miracle in itself.
They finished their simple meal together.
He had to stop the girl who kept trying to clean up the empty dishes, and after washing them, he placed them neatly in a neatly organized cupboard. Looking at the neatly organized kitchen, he noticed the lack of living items and found it difficult to step away.
In the empty fields, a house of this size was close to luxury, but compared to the standard of living in the village, it was far from sufficient.
After soothing his throat from the anger that was coming again, he turned his head and went outside, and the girl’s hunched back came into view. Next to the jar of water left outside the house, she was washing something down again.
‘Isn’t all the dishes done earlier…’
He suddenly got emotional and angry. Even though he told her to leave it alone, she couldn’t keep her body still.
Tarhan approached her with the intention of nagging her to stop and get some sleep, but the girl, who sensed his presence, was so shocked that she hid what she was holding in her hand. Still, he immediately realized that what she was holding in her small hand was the folded underwear she used.
There was a little bit of blood in the water she had put it in.
When she spotted him, her face instantly turned bright red, even down to her earlobes. The anger that had been burning through his head disappeared in an instant.
An awkward atmosphere suddenly passed by.
He stopped in the doorway, dumbfounded, staring at her face, then quickly turned around and left. Even after he left that place, the heat on his face did not go away for quite a long time. With mixed feelings, Tarhan raised his hand and washed his face.
It wasn’t long before she had her first period. The natural train of thought drifted back to the memory of the first night he discovered it.
How many days ago was it?
It was midnight. He suddenly opened his eyes because he couldn’t feel the small, warm body that should have been in his arms. He found the girl sobbing alone in a corner of the dark room.
At that moment, his heart sank.
The girl didn’t show her pain very often, so whatever went wrong, he assumed it went terribly wrong. He wondered if the pus on her leg had returned.
His eyes widened.
“What is this… Get on my back quickly, to Piache…”
He didn’t even have time to think, so he approached the child quickly. He tried to lift her up on his back, soothing her with a voice that had come low due to sleep.
However, he felt her flinch and retreat.
His throat tightened at that sight, and his anger rose. He had been displeased with her unwillingness to show her legs to him for a long time. It was even more so because he couldn’t figure out why she didn’t want to show it to him.
“What on earth is wrong…”
Grabbing her hand, he forcibly felt her thigh and examined her left leg.
Sure enough, there was a black mark running down the inside of her leg in the darkness. It was clearly blood. He groaned, feeling like he was going out of his mind, and immediately picked up the girl and carried her on his back.
“Hurry to Piache…”
Then, the girl gave out a rough breath and shook off his arms.
This was his first time experiencing that level of rejection, and he woke up as if someone had broken a jar of cold water on his head.
She let out a soft cry, like a baby animal, and she flung her hands in front of him again. He had no choice but to put her small body down again. The girl who fell off backed away till the edge of the wall. She waved her hand wildly in front of him again.
It seemed like she was telling him not to look.
At that moment, like a thunderbolt, an afterimage of the past that he had forgotten came to mind. The most memorable memory was the day his older sister’s period began.
The image of the girl who was crying, thinking she was seriously ill, made up the bedding for the girl and took her outside, flashed like a dream. After that, his sister did not sleep in the same room as the other younger siblings.
His lips become dry.
Even though he had a vague idea of what she was going through, he didn’t know how to react.
His heart tightened, and his breathing became shallow. As he reached for her, groping her again, Tarhan felt her small head slightly lifted.
Even in the darkness, big drops of tears were hanging from her eyes that were looking up at him.
“Th, that… Sh*t…”
His chest felt tight with frustration. He couldn’t seem to remember what his mother had told his sister, and even though he tried to squeeze his brain, nothing came to mind.
“This is what all women go through… D*mn, I mean… once a month…”
In the meantime, he felt a sense of duty to explain what this was, and even in the midst of the deathly embarrassment, he continued to stutter.
It was because this girl didn’t have a mother to explain these things to her.
He was the only one for this girl. Although he was such a stammering idiot, he was really the only one by her side.
The thought made his head feel like it was turning red.
He gritted his teeth, thinking that if it were going to be like this, too, he would add more. At that time, the creeping voice came.
“…I, I know. What this is.”
At that moment, that small voice seemed to hit his ears.
What, what? He asked again like an idiot, and the girl’s face, red all the way to the tip of her nose, brought herself to her knees and answered.
“…I was waiting. I mean, Grandmother once told me…”
Her small voice could no longer hide her embarrassment and trailed off.
Tarhan had never felt like such a fool in his life. He closed his eyes tightly to block the sight. He didn’t know what kind of mind he was in that night to wash the blood-stained blanket with her and fall asleep again.
The next day, he ran to Piache and asked her, and the answer was astounding.
“It was so late that I thought there was none, but it turns out that wasn’t the case. Don’t be so nervous. She had it extremely late compared to her peers.”
Then, with a nonchalant expression, she said something shocking.
“…Her body will wear out, so don’t touch her for a while. Even if she has started her period, it takes time for her body to fully mature into that of a woman.”
While the fiercely raised eyes gazed at him, no words came to his mind. Even his neck was red, and he left the house, screaming that it wouldn’t happen.
That night, she casually snuggled into his side again.
Tarhan was as stiff as a wood carving and almost spent the night feeling the warmth.
When he finally fell asleep and opened his eyes, he, too, had his limbs entangled with hers. As soon as he opened his eyes and saw it, he was startled. He barely managed to separate his body from her small body without waking her up.
Old habits had never been so scary.
In fact, he has been noticing that her body has started to change a lot lately.
As he was holding her in his arms, he suddenly felt a softness that he had never felt before and got embarrassed more than once. No, it was soft before, though the texture was a little different. He thought she was just a stiff, dry, warm body.
When they were together, he felt warm, fluffy, ticklish, and endlessly happy. When he hugged that girl’s small body and tried to sleep, the shamefully dirty and harsh daily life he experienced that day felt like a daydream.
When the girl’s body grew up in a short time, it began to give an unprecedented feeling of soft and cloud-like. The narrow lines of her shoulders rounded, her breasts formed an unprecedented mound, and her waist became narrower, with a pleasing curve rising where the fleshy thighs met.
There were more than a few times when, without realizing it, he followed the shadow of that girl like possessed as she walked between the kitchen and the room.
Just like now.
‘Sh*t…’
As he thought about that girl, the thing under his pants was expanding in size, showing off its presence. There was never a time when he wasn’t embarrassed by the heaviness of his body as it stood up every morning.
It was a crazy ordeal.
He wasn’t even a beast. It was clear that this d*mned body was crazy. Why would he get so excited about that girl?
Even though he gritted his teeth every time because of the guilt and tried to calm it down, there was no way it would go his way. He felt like a scoundrel, emphasizing the sensuality of an affair and flirting with a weak girl who was like his own sister, who was always anxious to do better for him.
Tarhan nervously swept his face, overcome with guilt that threatened to drown his body.
‘That kid now…’
She was like family to him now.
…No, she was more than that.
The feeling that he would die without her now overlapped with the image of the girl blooming beautifully, growing distant day by day, and he was suffering from severe pain inside him.
“Take your time, at least half a year. Before that, don’t put a finger on her.”
In the meantime, the expression on Piache’s face as she flashed her eyes and tried to talk him down, not knowing what he was feeling, came to mind, and a hot groan naturally escaped from his throat.
‘There’s no way I could touch that kid…’
He rubbed the back of his dry neck, feeling confused, anxious, and helpless. Even though a deep sigh came out along with a sigh, he didn’t show it and moved his legs toward his workplace.
It seemed like today would be a long day.
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