My Eldritch Horror Wife Followed Me To Another World
Chapter 76: Traces

Chapter 76: Traces

Sosora, Malak, Issa, and Tilo continued looking through the forest for traces of Tair. As time passed and word spread, more people from the nearby tribes joined them.

Tair’s wife, Rilere, hadn’t been planning on making it such a big deal at first. Maybe Tair just needed a break from everything for a day and was simply taking a walk around the forest. But as more people joined in, it started becoming clear that Tair was missing. Otherwise, someone would have seen him.

When she saw the serious faces on the four youngsters leading the search, she realized that it was for real. So, while the four searched, she spread the word before joining the search herself.

However, they turned stones, dug up plants, and split grass without finding so much as a hair of Tair.

They hadn’t looked in the center of the forest yet. Before going there, they wanted to rule out all other possibilities. After all, if they recklessly entered the center of the forest, they risked joining Tair in disappearing mysteriously.

They would much rather comb through the rest of the forest and make sure they had left no stone unturned before entering the center.

But the more they looked, the more it started to seem like Tair had been unlucky enough to run into a monster king in the center of the forest.

It was when they were right about to cross the border into the center that Issa noticed something amiss.

After everyone had rummaged through the forest, it was difficult to tell what traces came from who at a glance. However, a couple of broken branches and a piece of fabric hanging from one of those broken branches high up in a tree?

Those traces looked like someone who had fallen out of the sky and crashed into the tree.

They had found traces of Tair.

Now, the only questions were why he had crashed and where he had gone. They looked around nearby.

Maybe he had an accident. Something like a heart attack. It was unlikely but not impossible. But he was nowhere in the area. The strange thing was that there were no signs of him crawling anywhere, either.

It looked like he had dropped out of the sky, hit the tree, and then disappeared before he could touch the ground.

This wasn’t the work of a monster king. It was outside the center, and a monster king would either leave obvious traces or no traces at all.

That meant someone from the tribes had done it.

This wasn’t someone who had an accident and went missing.

This was an attack. It was an attack on Tair, but it was also an attack on the peace of Tiabe. The poor, fragile peace, which had just barely managed to avoid breaking, was once again on the verge of shattering.

The longer Tair’s disappearance went unsolved, the more the peace would crack and shatter. They had to find the culprit as soon as possible.

Fortunately, there were two advantages to it being an attack.

Someone had to have seen something.

Tair flew sometime during the middle of the day. It was an impossibility for him to drop out of the sky, crash into a tree, and get hauled off with no one hearing or seeing anything. They just had to poke and prod until they discovered who was lying.

Secondly, since Tair had been removed from the scene of the incident, he was likely alive. His life could still be intact. The fragile peace could still be salvaged and restored.

However, it wasn’t all flowers and sunshine.

Tair was a veteran of Aer’s warriors. He had been around a while and knew his way around combat. Even if things were peaceful on the surface, he would have been on alert since Sosora and the Aer tribe had dipped their toes in tumultuous water recently.

He had been taken down and whisked away without anyone noticing anything despite being on guard.

Whoever did that was capable.

This wasn’t a petty grudge from long ago or some offense.

It was a planned attack executed by someone capable enough to kidnap Tair without witnesses and almost without traces.

It wouldn’t be easy to find the perpetrator. Even after finding the perpetrator, it wouldn’t be easy to bring them to justice and save Tair.

It was a good thing that Monkey had decided to be proactive recently. Most other chiefs and leaders of the tribes watched and only took action when necessary. Often, they only directed from behind the scenes and let the younger members of the tribes handle it.

Someone like Monkey was the exception. But the Gezercher tribe had three Faces. The other two were staying out of it, so maybe it wasn’t that big of a deal.

While Monkey was an exception in terms of activity and willingness to get involved in the everyday affairs of the forest, he was not an exception in terms of strength. He had more than earned his spot as the Face of the Monkey of the Gezercher tribe. His strength would be essential to getting a clean finish to Tair’s kidnapping.

The Gezercher tribe would also be helpful in looking for clues.

But in a situation like this, trust ran thin.

Sosora trusted Monkey and the Gezercher tribe to a certain extent. They had shared sausages, after all. And she knew that Monkey had no reason to do anything to her tribe. If he wanted to cause them trouble, he just had to reveal the Roaring Boar’s death to the forest and Sosora’s involvement.

By now, it would be difficult to do that without evidence.

But there was evidence.

The Roaring Boar had been quiet for more than a week.

However, the other tribes had no reason to trust the Gezercher tribe and Monkey. A little skepticism and double-checking everything the other tribes did could be the key to figuring out who was involved and who was innocent.

More specifically, for some, it was a matter of finding evidence of the Lowat tribe’s involvement.

There was no way they had nothing to do with this.

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