The Reincarnators
chapter 53: the ritual of monsters

that word made katia and ren recall the first second they saw the monster, he did indeed look a bit weak with his body that was a little thin like he had not eaten for a few days.

"and let's see that" said Kazuto who pointed his finger at the wall that had a large cut.

"wait, what is a sword slash mark," said Katia who when looking at kazuto who nodded his head.

"but how, the monsters we fought used empty-handed techniques," ren said.

"it may belong to a human, I hope so, but even though he is a human the attitude he shows is truly outrageous" said Kazuto who saw this shattered monster, who was not the only one, and di doesn't know if he should be happy if the one doing this is a human.

"i don't think it belongs to a human, master," said Kumara who made the three people look at him.

"please explain, please" said kazuto.

"i've heard this from my village, if there used to be a ritual to create powerful monsters, it was done by gathering tens to hundreds of monsters in one place where they were forced to kill each other, to make the monster even more powerful, the person who gathered them gave them some kind of magic that made them even more violent, so that they would kill and eat each other so that there was only one left," kumara explained to kazuto, ren, as she said, and katia.

"so you're saying that this is a ritual to create that monster, ?" asked Ren who got a small nod from kumara as this was the first time she had seen this incident with her eyes.

"wait, is it possible that the monster we previously fought was the one that had killed all those monsters, ?" ask Katia who got the trousers from kumara.

"no, you're wrong, the monster we fought earlier was weak, too weak if I have to say, because this is a monster created from a fight where there are only 1 monster that can survive, he said, then the monster should be much stronger than that" said Kumara.

"from the smell, it looks like the monster survived by pretending to be dead here," said Kazuto who saw a pile of rotten corpses in front of him, perhaps he waited until the real monster left this cave, which was the only one in the world, therefore he came out when they came, for perhaps he had been convinced that the monster that frightened him had left.

"for sure, the monsters will try to pretend to be dead" said Katia who recalled her first experience when killing monsters, truly a bad experience if she had to say.

"i know if we should take this matter seriously, but can we do that somewhere else," ren said that makes them aware if they are still in the cave with a basuk carcass.

then they immediately came out of the cave with the kumara that remained in her fox form and said that she would be naked because the clothes she was wearing before were destroyed when she became a fox, and she was naked, which makes kazuto have to think about this because as his contractor he must be responsible for him.

"alright I think we're done," said Kazuto, who had packed everything up and was preparing to return to the capital, to be honest he was quite happy with the holiday this time around, plus now he has a contract creature that is hard to come by for others.

"master, is it okay for me to stay with the master, ?" ask kumara who is a little worried.

'he must have thought if he would definitely trouble me later huh,' thought kazuto who was ruffling his hair back then, "you don't have to worry about kumara, you've made a contract with me, you've already made a contract with me, that's why you're my responsibility, so don't worry, if someone is bothering you then me and ren will beat them up" said Kazuto, who pointed towards ren who nodded his head, agreed if anyone disturbed their friend, the meteka would beat him to pieces.

"y-yes, thank you," said the delighted Kumara but when she felt the sharp gaze of the purple-haired woman, whose face told her not to mess with her man.

"by the way Kazuto, instead of you intending to meet the king and queen before this holiday ends, how are you feeling, ?" ask the worried ren.

"so are you going to give them a chance, ?" katia asked, to be honest she was surprised when she heard that princess Lousse is the older sister of kazuto, she was originally happy for kazuto because she still had family left, she had family left, but it made him think of 1 question, why kazuto who is the prince of their kingdom lives in the village and did not know his identity until now.

the answer was obvious if kazuto had been thrown away by them, because that was the only thing that katia could think of, but given the lousse who kept trying to get close and always being nice to her, she said, it's possible that something is happening behind the scenes that nobody knows about so they make excuses if Kazuto has died.

"i don't know, but I want to see if they really love me and if it's true, then I try to forgive them" Kazuto said.

"but they threw you away, can you still forgive that kind of old man" she snapped, he knew even though they were a kazuto family especially the royal family but what they did made katia unhappy.

"i don't think katia" ren said to katia, who seemed to have lost her temper.

"and what do you mean, ?" tanyakanya.

"before, I asked my father what happened to kazuto when he was a baby, he said that when it happened a kidnapping that is still not solved at the moment," the word ren gives a rough idea of what happened when Kazuto was a child.

"wait so you said that if the hexion kingdom had an intruder that kidnapped kazuto and somehow he reached the village where he lived" Katia said.

"that's what my father said, but I don't know for sure" Ren said.

"but even so, why would they make a guess if kazuto died, I don't understand" Katia said.

"it's possible to maintain the reputation of the hexion kingdom, therefore they make rumors if I'm dead, and remember if word has spread if I'm suffering from an illness, then people will become believers without investigating the case," kazuto explained.

"so that's it, yeah I think it's quite reasonable, if only the other kingdoms knew if the prince of the hexion kingdom had been kidnapped, he said, then the other kingdoms will definitely use this opportunity to suppress this kingdom," said ren who more or less understood after hearing what kazuto said, as well as katia.

"but do you intend to take your place as a royal family, ?" ask katia

"i still haven't found the answer" said Kazuto, to be honest the reason why he came to this forest was to dispose of his thoughts regarding them, but he felt that it was time for him to meet them, lousse himself has done his best to get to know Kazuto better and why if he doesn't do the same.

"yes, it's a bit difficult, but try, and don't forget that we will always support you, be it for kazuyo yuki or for the von hexion cassion, we will always accompany you" the word ren pats Kazuto on the shoulder, while katia gives him a sincere smile that has the same meaning as what ren says.

"i am also a master, no matter what master chooses I will always be beside the master," said Kumara in the form of a human who gets an additional change of clothes from Katia.

"thank you all," said Kazuto who smiled at them, he was grateful that he had a friend like this and hoped that this would never change in the future.

then after that they went out of the mystical forest and waited for the horse carriage they had ordered 1 week ago, and finally they returned to the hexion kingdom with a new friend.