That Time I Got Reincarnated Into A Goblin Girl Chapter 15

Four more months had passed since then, and there was only around a month left until my first birthday. Though without my mother or my uncle, what was the point? As a baby, I have so much more time to think, time that only made me think about their deaths even more.

I know that they did it for me, but I hated myself for making them come to that decision. It wasn’t fair that they had to die for me, but I couldn’t deny their sacrifice. I never had a loving family in my old life, so I guess that I was lucky to have one that cared so much about me in this one.

Fortunately, I still had Sola and Tully with me. Since that day the young man came in and threatened Gerald to do his dirty work, I been allowed to sleep with them in their room. They take care of me when I have nightmares of my mother’s death and give me more attention than I need, but I don’t hate it. Without them here with me, I don’t know what I would do.

Though during these past few months, Sola and Tully have seemed a bit more distant from me than back in the village. It like there hiding something from me. They’re always smiling at me, so it’s hard to tell, but day after day I can see it in their eyes. It’s like a deep sadness that is taking away their spirits.

Sola’s not even as energetic as she was before. I usually notice the biggest change in them whenever they head off to their lessons with the other kids. Once they get back, it’s as if something has changed.

I keep thinking that this has something to do with that young man from before, but whenever I try to see what is going on in that room, a female caregiver picks me up and takes me away. I really wish that I could walk again. After eleven months all I can do is stand up for a few seconds before falling down on my ass. It was humiliating to me.

Talking was a no-go as well. All I could say at this point were yes, no, and a few other words that I practiced saying before going to sleep each night. Though no one actually listened to me when I said either. They just thought that I was saying the words that knew so far without reason.

Being a baby had its difficulties, especially when it came to using the bathroom, but I try not to focus on that too often. What mattered was that today I was finally going to see what they were teaching these children.

Today was the day that caregivers would be busy. Once a month some random fat man would appear and talk with Gerald, the director of the orphanage. Every time he came here, most of the staff were sent over to him. Whenever he came, the other children were forced to line up and met him, and then at the end of the day, one of the children would disappear.

If I didn’t know any better, I would say that they were being adopted, but there was no that that he would come for four months straight if he wasn’t doing something shady. For the first three months that we were here, we were instructed by the director not to go out and see him, but today Sola and Tully were told to greet him with the rest.

They told me that it was dangerous to meet him, and tried to lock me in the room, but neither of them noticed that one of my playing blocks that the director got for me was lodged between the door, preventing it from being shut all the way. Luckily, they were rushed out, or else that wouldn’t have worked.

I managed to crawl out of the bedroom, and I made my way toward the classroom, making sure to avoid the audience room as I did. I didn’t want to be spotted. After several minutes or so of crawling, I finally made my way to the classroom, whose door was slightly open.

When I made my way into the classroom everything looked normal. There was just a bunch of wooden desks and chairs, and what looked like a blackboard.

THUD!

Well, I wasn’t paying attention I bumped my head right into one of the desk legs. While it didn’t hurt that much, it still made me stop and rub my head. As I did a small blue ball fell off the desk and landed on the floor before rolling toward me.

Curious I went to pick it up, but the moment that I touched it, it began to light up and displayed an image on the floor. Was this magic? I looked at the picture and turned away the moment that I did.

What I saw displayed in the image was purely disgusting, and it made me sick to my stomach. What the hell were they teaching these kids? None of it was the least bit humane, and to force it on children! I had to get to Tully and Sola! I had to help them!

“I crawled out of the room as fast as I could making my way back to the audience room, where from the cracks of the doors I was able to see the other kids present themselves before the man.

“Ugh ugly, next!” the fat man yelled forcing the next child to walk forward. It was the thirteen-year-old girl. “Hmm, not bad, a may just have to go for some more mature meat this time around.~. Next!”

“I-I-I’m Tully.”

No!

The moment that the fat man laid his eyes on her I could see a disgusting smile form across his face.

“So, Gerald, is this one of the elf girls that you told me about?” he asked the director, refusing to look away from Tully.

“She is, but she is under the protection of Lord Vst,” the director said, trying to detour the man from having interest in her. “It wouldn’t be wise to touch her.”

“And why would that be?” the man asked, sounding pissed off. “Aren’t all these dumb children under his protection, but what does he care? He leaves them here and never comes back for them. Why should he care if I take a few for myself?”

“But he brought these ones with him personally. There is a chance that he may come back to visit them,” the director told him, but he was wrong. The commander would never come back to see us. He stole my mother's pendant and dropped us off here, making us someone else’s problem. There was no way that he would ever come back here.

“I don’t care,” the fat man said back to the director. “Now be a good lap dog and show me the other two~,” he said, licking his lips.

“Only Sola can be shown, the other one is still a baby, so she isn’t allowed to be here,” the director said to him.

“Does it look like I give a fuck?” he said in a dark tone that made me want to run away.  “Bring me the other one now.”

“Yes sir,” a few of the fat man’s attendants said, as they started to walk towards the door I was at. I quickly hide behind a giant flowerpot vase the moment that they opened the door. Luckily, they went the other way and avoided even looking in my direction.  Though I didn’t want to be spotted on their way back, so I decided to crawl into the room and right behind the couch that the fat man was sitting in.

“This is Sola,” the director said. I saw him have to drag a resistant Sola out before the fat man, whose face was now unknown to me.

“Let go of me! I won’t do it! I won’t do it!” Sola screamed at them. Was she really hiding this fear inside of her this entire time and I didn’t even realize it? How could I be this ignorant? She was suffering, and I was doing nothing.

“Oh, a feisty one~,” the man said in a perverted tone. “I enjoy breaking your kind the most~.”

SMACK!

“No stay away from me!” Sola yelled, slapping him in the face.

“Why you little bitch!”

“Soa-Soa!” I crawled out from behind the couch, calling to Sola to distract the man so he wouldn’t hit her. “Soa-Soa!”

“Illya? …Why…why are you here?” Sola asked, looking at me as tears started to roll down her eyes.

“Sir we couldn’t find the child!” one of the people that the fat man yelled, running back into the room.

“No need, she’s already here~,” he said looking at me with a disgusting gaze across his face. While he talked no one dared to speak.

“Hand me the child Gerald,” he told the director, even though he was close enough to pick me up by himself. When the director did, but Tully and Sola grabbed my hands but were forced to let go out of fear.

“Interesting,” he said, holding me with his fat, greasy hand. “To see all three types of elves in one place, how intriguing. And you, you’re the most intriguing one of them all. A high elf. I never thought that I would see one in my life, let alone a baby. Just looking at you makes me want you all the more~.”

“She is a baby!” the director yelled at him, making him place me down on the ground, where I crawled back to Tully and Sola who embraced me tightly.

“And why should that matter? Don’t you think that the taste would be even better?” The man asked him. It was disgusting! I saw the picture, and I knew what he was planning to do, and I wanted no part in this. The fact that these children hadn’t tried escaping this place yet meant that there was no way for them to run. How could the commander be so careless to let this happen to a place he fucking sponsors!

“Please I beg of you, please just stop this already!” the director begged him, but that didn’t seem to work.

“So, what I’m hearing is that you want all of these kids dead, is that right?” the fat man asked as his men started to return, each one pulling out a sword, waiting for their next order. “Or do you think that sacrificing these three to save to rest is more than a fair exchange?”

“I….I….”

“That’s what I thought,” the fat man arrogantly said back to him. “Good, now take all three of them. We’re having a feast tonight boys~.”

“NO!!!” I looked over and stood in front of me, and Sola was Tully! “You won’t touch my family, you filthy human!”

“Oh~. What this?” the fat man asked, sounding intrigued by Tully’s defiance. She was never like this. I had never heard her shout or yell before. Not to mention she didn’t even stutter once.

“I won’t let you take them! Take me!”

No.

“You can do whatever you want to me, and I won’t scream! I won’t cry or beg! Just let them go!”

No. No. No! Tully. You can’t! Please note you, not you! I can’t! I don’t want to lose anyone else!

“Oh~, I haven’t seen a girl like you since the first time I started doing this,” the fat man said to her. “I will enjoy making you beg for death. Boys just this one. She just bought them a month~.”

NO!!!

My mind broke as I watched them drag Tully away. She didn’t resist, even though she knew what they would do to her. She protected us, but the cost was too much.

“Wahhhhhhh!!!! Wahhhhhhhhh!!!” I couldn’t help myself but begin to cry, seeing her leave my line of sight. Once again, I had lost someone precious to me. I hated it. I hated that these fucking humans took everything I cared about away from me. They would pay. They would all pay!