He only managed to suffer through a single hours worth of sleep, but the previous day he had already given the order for the villagers to be assembled.
He stood there, on a wooden platform, with Jikouji at his side as they watched the villagers gather. The first drops of rain splattered down, lightly coating their hair in a series of wet droplets.
It seemed word had spread, and the villagers had an inkling of why they were here. The gazes they shot his way were not friendly. But he barely registered that, and struggled to keep his eyes open and his gaze focused.
They seemed to be taking forever to gather, and his gaze became distracted, as he observed how the mud gradually moistened and became stickier and wetter with each person that stepped upon it. He took notice of the rising intensity with which their disgusted expressions were manifest in response to the filth that clung to their feet.
'We are rather predictable, are we not?'
//Author's Note
In this chapter, it's setting the stage a little more again. But in the next, we will begin to see how things will develop, so I hope you can bear with me.
Thanks for all your comments lately, they've been really kind, and have helped motivate me a great deal.
I understand some of you want more chapters each day, and I did promise a gift to you all. I will, in time, start releasing two chapters per day, but that will not happen for another couple of weeks.
But for now, that gift I mentioned. There's something odd called the privilege system, which I discovered a few days ago. To try and make it up to your guys for going premium so suddenly, I plan to do a mass release at the end of next week. I'm hoping, using the privilege system, I can release 10 chapters, where the total cost will be as low as possible, or completely free if it will let me. I need to play around with it a little more to be completely sure, but I will keep you updated.