Time in a collapsing world

"elder brother!"

In the Yae Shrine, a little girl with long cherry-pink hair rushed towards Yae Ri who had just entered the shrine and hung on him.

"cherry."

Yaeli smiled, with something strange on his face. Every time he called out this title, there was always an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

and……

Yaeli looked at the little girl who was looking up at him in his arms. Her delicate little face also gave him a sense of déjà vu, which was really strange.

Yaeli shook his head, smiled and stroked the head of the little girl named Sakura, whose full name is Yaezakura, "I'm back. I'm sorry, I still couldn't find the Sakura I promised you last time."

Even though Yae Village has developed so well, it is also facing a huge problem - drought.

It almost never rains every month in Yae Village, no matter it is spring, summer, autumn or winter. It almost reaches a certain extreme. Not to mention the cattle, sheep and crops in the village, even humans themselves are facing water shortages. .

This is a very strange phenomenon, because only the large area of ​​Yae Village is extremely dry. Far away from this area, although it does not rain every day, it is not to the point of dying of thirst.

It was as if the village was under a curse called "drought."

Thanks to this, the cherry blossom trees that were supposed to be in full bloom near this village also remained in a state of water shortage. A large number of them died, and it was almost impossible for the few stubborn ones to bloom.

This was something Yaeri knew, but because of his sister's wish to see cherry blossoms, he still went out to look for them. He even left the village a little and went to a farther place where the monsters were entrenched.

Unfortunately, apart from being chased into disgrace by a few large monster beasts, nothing was found.

"It's okay, brother, Rin will understand..." Yae Sakura climbed off her brother's body, her cheeks slightly darkened, and she consoled her sensibly.

Yae Li shook her head, straightened Yae Sakura's hair that she had accidentally ruffled just now, and then walked towards the house behind her, with Yae Sakura following closely behind.

After changing her shoes and walking into the house, Yaeli saw a soft bed on the ground in the wide space of the house. Lying on it was a little girl with the same long pink hair, but she was older than Yaeli. Ri and Yae Sakura are both younger. They have slightly messy long hair, with a small ponytail tied on both sides. They are covered with a thin quilt. They look at the door with weak expressions when they see their brothers and sisters coming back. After that, as soon as your eyes light up, you have to sit up.

Yae Li frowned and quickly stepped forward to stop her, "Don't force yourself when you are sick. Just lie down."

"Um……"

The girl with twin tails was named Yae Rin. She was the youngest among the three siblings. After hearing Yae Ri's words, she responded tiredly, and then her eyes looked at the small cloth bag around Yae Ri's waist. With the light of hope.

"..."

After a moment of silence, Yae Ri opened the small cloth bag, allowing Yae Rin to see clearly the empty space inside. This also made the hope in the other person's eyes turn into disappointment, but she still managed to smile:

"It seems that the cherry blossoms are still not in full bloom this year..."

"……How's your body?"

Yaeli glanced at the pile of small handkerchiefs placed next to the bed. They were clean.

"I feel much better. I didn't vomit blood again today~" Yae Rin, like Yae Sakura, is also a very sensible child, but sometimes what Yae Rin wants to hear is not this kind of white lie.

So he looked at Yae Sakura who had been silent behind him. The other person shook his head slightly, with a little sadness on his cute little face.

"..."

Yae Ri chatted with Yae Rin for a while, telling her some particularly interesting stories to her who was unable to go out due to physical reasons.

He adapted them from his own experience of being chased by monsters outside the village. Yae Rin had no idea that in the story she heard from her brother, the hunting boy who was chased by the beasts was Yae. Li himself, just listening to Yae Li's humorous language, couldn't help but feel funny.

But he didn't dare to laugh, fearing that if he laughed too much, he would suddenly vomit blood in front of his brothers and sisters, causing them more trouble...

Yae Sakura sat obediently on her knees behind her brother, listening to the story Yae Ri told her sister. It was obviously very funny, but for some reason she couldn't laugh.

After a while, the sun hung high in the sky and shifted slightly to the west. Yae Ri asked Yae Rin to take a good rest, and then asked Yae Sakura to leave the house together.

"Tomorrow I will go to the city again to find a doctor."

A little further away from the house, Yae Ri said to Yae Sakura after ensuring that Yae Rin would not hear the conversation between the two.

"Doctor in the city...Brother, are you going to go away again?" Yae Sakura looked uneasy. She knew that there were many terrifying monsters outside the village and was worried that something might happen to her brother, so she wanted to persuade him.

But before she could say anything, Yaeli smiled as if she had no idea, "Don't worry, I've walked the road in the city more than once, I'm rich in experience, and I also bring a sword with me, so I don't have to worry about monsters. ."

In order to treat his sister, Yaeli had indeed walked all the way from this remote village to the city many times, but he did it secretly, so no one knew about it at first.

When the doctor brought him back, he casually said that he was passing by the village by chance and was invited by him to treat Yae Rin.

Only when he came back late one time, and the sensitive Yae Sakura looked like she was about to drop her pearls, did he have to say it.

Yae Sakura was very firmly opposed to her brother taking such a risk at first, but due to Yae Ri's persuasion and considering Yae Rin's condition, she had to reluctantly agree.

But so far, more than ten doctors have been invited, but none of them can cure Yae Rin's strange disease. This makes Yae Sakura's expectations become smaller and smaller, and she feels that the doctors in the city are not good enough. Very reliable guy.

Therefore, this time Yae Sakura once again had the idea to prevent Yae Ri from venturing out of the village.

"Brother, monsters are very scary. Several guards in the village have been killed in the past few days, and they are all armed!"

Yae Sakura grabbed Yae Ri's hand and looked at him with her big clear eyes, full of stubbornness.

Yaeli was also helpless. He had said many times that he could kill monsters, but his sister was too cautious and didn't want him to get involved in any danger.

And just yesterday, an old guard with ten years of experience was eaten by a bear demon.

At this juncture, if Yaeli wanted to convince his sister to let him go, he would have to put in a lot of effort.