Owner of the S-Rank Dungeon Campsite (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 136

Karina showed a slightly troubled expression and stammered out her words.

“Mom couldn’t accept that Auntie had taken her own life. It happened while Mom was briefly away on a mission. They’d even made plans to wear matching outfits and dance together at the festival, and to go down to the Primordial Forest to play in the water… Anyway, she’d made so many promises about the future—it didn’t seem like someone who was thinking about dying at all.”

“Really…?”

It truly was strange. Would someone contemplating death really act like that?

If she’d been troubled before, there should have been some warning signs. The whole story left an uneasy feeling, like a fishbone stuck in one’s throat.

What bothered me most was that the incident had occurred while the Chieftain was absent. I couldn’t help but wonder if the Elders had pulled some trick during her absence.

“What about Lycan’s older brother?”

“Lycan’s brother was an exceptionally strong native warrior among the Lamie tribe, but he vanished one day. It seemed impossible he’d have been helplessly kidnapped by outsiders, yet the adults insisted it was definitely the work of outsiders.”

“And no one actually saw it happen?”

“No. There was absolutely no evidence.”

That was strange too. It felt like they were pushing the blame onto our people without any basis whatsoever.

Once I started thinking it was odd, everything began to feel suspicious.

“We should probably tell Mom about this first—whether it’s true or not.”

“That would be good.”

“But we have to leave for the extermination mission tomorrow. I’ll tell her when we get back.”

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