A Smile from the Heart

On his way back to the Soma Village, he could see a few people walking in the same direction as him, which he could guess were the people from the same village.

On the way he also found a couple of dried up plants and trees, that were present not too far away from the boundary of the Soma village. He used his axe to collect a few portions of the wood from these dried up trees.

Unfortunately, for this task he could only use his muscles and not much of his brain and senses due to the lack of time, but some physical exercise of the body was also very important for a healthy lifestyle when living on these hilly terrains.

Until he reached back to his own broken home which was located at the western boundary of the Soma Village, he noticed that the dusk had arrived and the sky was already beginning to get darker by the minute.

"Your time of fixing will come, but it would have to wait for a little more time", June pondered in his mind while standing in front of the old and broken one room wooden hut that was provided to him by the elders of the Soma village.

When he turned around in the direction of the village, he could see the people of the Soma Village carrying on with their usual routine work.

Women were returning from the river stream after filling the water in their big clay pots that they were carrying, whereas men were also returning from the forest with a few hares and some kind of birds hanging on their back, and some even had a few fishes with them as well, and they looked very similar to the grey fishes that June had caught.

"They must have caught them from a different location on the river stream", June pondered in his mind while looking at his own collection.

Three different groups of children were playing around with sticks in their hands while running around after each other and all over the place, and also there were a few elderly people who were sitting under the tree near their own houses, casually laughing and chatting with each other while at the same time also keeping their eyes on the playing children.

It looked just like any other simple and casual countryside village life as one could expect.

"It is actually so simple that it feels kind of refreshing to me." June smiled with an unknown sense of peace that had somehow crawled up to his face directly coming from his heart, calming him down after a much intense and busy day of work.

But, at the same time his mind never stopped its functioning.

When he had noticed this natural behavior of the Soma villagers, June could conclude two very important things directly from these observations. Out of which the first one was pretty good but second one was many times worse than the first.

The first thing that was very clear to June was that all of these people who are currently living in this village, from elders to children have already developed enough immunity within their physical bodies, so as to not let any of the poisonous effects or aftereffects of the water from the river stream affect their health or life span in any visible way.

But the second thing was that from his first conclusion he also understood that the water that was present inside the river stream had been poisonous for a much longer time, since long before any of the current Soma villagers or even quite a few of their older generations were even alive because there is no way that a normal human body could be this fine after lifetime of intake of this kind of poisonous water.

While he was noticing the villagers, due to his own unique appearance, of particularly his azure hair that were present on his head and his eyebrows, he had also instantly attracted the attention of these Soma villagers.

But he did not want to interfere with their daily lives in any way, so he ignored all of the unnecessary attention that he had attracted from all of those nearby people and got back to his own work.

This was also one of the two main reasons that he had returned back to the Soma village only after it was dark enough to reduce any extra attention that he might receive due to his unique hair color from the people of the Soma village.

Where as the second main reason was that it was almost the time to eat.