Chapter 1 - The Dumb Mute

The town of Tal is just located south of the continent. The continent of Samis is rather large. That is why the habitable parts of the continent are high. The Town of Tal is located in the southern part of the continent, specifically in the Kingdom of Lin. In this kingdom, the buildings are made of brick and stones. Resembling European architecture, the town of Tal is a prosperous town simply because it is near the sea.

Sizing for about one hundred square miles, the prosperous town of Tal is a hub of riches. The Kingdom of Lin heavily protects this town and rumors that the town will soon be turned into a city. But in these town full riches, it also means that various people come here seeking labor. But even with the riches of the town, it couldn’t keep the hundred thousand population fed.

Hence, the slums exist.

In the slum there are squatters. Poor people who built shacks, and make use of abandon buildings. The slums are quite in a poor state, unlike the streets outside of the slums. There is no proper road, and the dirt is everywhere. No individual would come into this place unless they want to make contact with the various thugs hiding in the slums.

Gangs, robbers, and nasty bandits live in this place. Beggars also reside here in bulk. The Lord of the Town would love to get rid of them, but with the forces carefully guarding the Town against outside threat. The cleaning up of the slums is always put to halt.

The Town of Tal is just too busy to care about some unfortunate people. Heck, the people in the slums are lucky that they aren’t being hunted down by the Lord’s forces. If they were, they would be cast out to the wilderness. And meet monsters that would surely rip their heads apart.

But for now, let us focus on the Slums. Here you would find a certain beggar that the people around call as the ‘Dumb Mute’. This beggar had a grayish hair, average height and is completely malnourished.

This man appeared a month ago suddenly in the middle of the slums. The people of the slums saw the wet man, and immediately took everything he had. Left with nothing on him, the man woke up to find himself on the side of an alley, freezing to death. The man suddenly despaired at what is happening to him. He cried and he went into a fetal expression until he finally calmed himself down. At first, he went to ask people where he was. But nonetheless, he realized that he could not speak their language. And that the people things that he could not speak at all, so he got the nickname as the dumb mute.

For he could not understand the signs, the language of the land. Even the beggars know the language thus he has been labeled as the dumb mute. Of course, without any understanding of the language of the land, he wasn’t able to know their opinions. In fact, the dumb mute is more concern about how he would survive today. His eyes didn’t have any light on it, he is feeble and the poor rag clothing of his makes him even more pathetic.

The Dumb Mute is now thinking about where to get his food. He thought about the usual place. So he stood up from the alley and head towards there. In the usual place, where Garbage and the few bits of organs from the port get thrown, were various people from the slums trying to find anything that can be consumed.

The Dumb Mute’s appearance made the other people look upon him. They frown as if they could not handle his existence. These people are beggars yet they even sneer at the dumb mute. They watch the Mute walked at the organs thrown away. Looking at him scouring the various thrown away organs and pulling out intestines of sheep’s and pigs. The people could not help but whisper in mumble.

“Look at him...”

“He is eating those things again. He is not afraid that the Gods would blight him?”

“Leave that dumb mute be. It is better not to get along with him”

The Dumb Mute could hear them. But he doesn’t understand their language, thus he could not know that there is a tradition in the Town of Tal not to consume the organs of the sheep’s and pigs It is considered as a disgusting thing to do, and the people who usually does meets their end.

So in the eyes of every people in the town, the mute is a dumber than ever. That is why no one really bothers him that much; of course, there are people that would spit at his face, people that could not stomach the dumb mute’s behavior for doing such disgusting thing.

Many think that the Dumb Mute is a just dumb, or that he is particularly crazy. But for the Dumb Mute who came from an another world through unknown methods. Eating organs is not that much of a taboo for the dumb mute. He even once partakes on various cuisines is normally just called exotic.

But even with all of these leftover organs. The malnourished Dumb Mute could only eat some of it. It was clearly rotten, there was dirt on it and it smelled bad. Despite that, the Dumb Mute took the organs, went to the nearest torch to heat them up. The people saw this and thought.

“Look at the dumb mute...good heavens, is he really thatdumb?”

“Forget it...let us find some meat for ourselves.”

The Dumb Mute continued heating up the organs he scavenged. After doing so, he went to the side of the road, took a bite of the organs and started devouring them. The Dumb Mute’s face was quite contorted, his face looks green and he looks like he would vomit at any second.

But even so, the dumb mute didn’t, for vomiting would cause him trouble. He had no way of getting food, and these organs and the fact that he can only beg for people to take pity on him is his way of survival now

This is his life now. Ramiel, who somehow got transported into a parallel world, could not help but feel dread. Not knowing anything, not getting any sort of gifts. Ramiel could only live this pathetic life in order to survive.