August 2000. Koydu, Eastern Sierra Leone.

Agina Shisei opened her eyes early in the morning.

A two-compartment house with a concrete wall and a zinc roof is not a good place to beat the heat in the morning. However, Agina Shisei woke up earlier than usual, not because of the heat, but because of the noise.

He stepped out of the house, pulled his neck, and looked over the ridge.

As I could hear the rattling car noise from far away, Agina Shisei quickly returned to her home and woke her son up.

“Get up, come on! ”

My nine-year-old son could not wake up easily.

I would have let him grow up more, but he forced his whining son to wake up.

After that, I ran to the next room with no time to breathe. It was to wake up guests who stayed at their home this week.

When I opened the door made of frost with branches and leaves, the smell of alcohol pierced my nose with the intense heat.

“Wake up, Dwayne! ”

Agina Shisei shakes the man with all her strength. However, after eight months, his precious guest could not wake up.

It's because I drank last night. I'm fine with a drink, but I'm fine with cocaine. It won't wake you up no matter how hard you shake it.

I noticed the water bottle placed next to the customer's head. He pours half the water on the guest's face without hesitation.

“Soon there will be a RUF in this town. We have to run now! ”

Luckily, the guest woke up as soon as he poured water on his face. However, unlike the wind of Ajina, the sleep-awake customer found a plastic can in the corner first.

He put his face on a plastic bin that he used as a lumen, full of time.

“Uwaeeeeek!!! ”

Ajina Shisei and her son went out of the house with a guest who could not get a good hangover.

It was not easy to support a guest much bigger than himself with his skinny figure.

How long can we run like this?

Worried about how far this guest could go in the woods.

He stoops his feet into the unpopular forest behind the house. But his attempts were blocked by the guests.

“Car! My car and Jim! ”

“No! ”

Ajina Asei grabbed the guest towards the forest. But the guest didn't even flinch.

“You've got to take the car! ”

Despite the history of Agina, his guests forcefully set foot towards the blue BMW X5 parked in front of his house.

“You can't run away from the RUF if you wait this long. Hurry up!"

Agina, who was in the passenger seat, urged the guests. However, the drunk customer could not even start it at once.

After several attempts, the BMW began to slowly progress. However, the car that drew the crosswalk before the speed was too fast stopped at the edge of the road.

A guest of Agina's with her head on the headrest snores with her mouth open.

You look out the wide open window at the situation in Agina's village where her head falls out.

The town is noisy. The villagers, who noticed the RUF raid, come out of the house and scatter their horns. I got out of the car thinking that she had to save her son, who was in a hurry. But that's when the terrible sound hit his ear.

Bang! Bang! Bang! >

< Two, two, two! >

The sound of gunfire makes me feel like the moisture in the jungle has eaten away at me.

Murder vehicles chopped up the roof with saws will be here soon.

Agina decided it was better to voluntarily surrender, weighing down whether she would rather be caught on the run or surrendered.

He tried to relax his beating chest while holding his son's hand tightly.

‘It's going to be okay. ’

It's not the first time a RUF party has visited a village today.

Sometimes they would come into the village and steal the goods and food they needed.

Those with guns threaten the villagers with their vile swearing words, but no blood flows.

She swallowed a dry saliva, hoping to be safe again.

Less than a minute later, the noise grew and two cars appeared.

On top of the car with the song, it was crowded, and their hands were armed.

The sound of the music stops as two capped Mitsubishi Pages enter the middle of the town. People roar.

A man in the passenger seat, who looks like a chief, pulls his hand out of the window and commands something.

An unscheduled firearm bursts into flames.

Two, two, two, two! Two or two! >

The sound of gunfire in the air and the jungle is a warning not to run. The villagers knew that if they ignored the warning and moved on, it would become a beehive.

As soon as the roaring beans hit the town, the scattered villagers stopped.

Ajina's son looked at his father with a frightened look, covering his ears with both hands. Agina breathes with a nervous expression and prays that no bullets will be fired toward her.

At that time, the man in the passenger seat of the paje found a villager running away, ignoring the warning.

He ordered us not to run away from the speaker installed in the car. However, as the villager ran toward the forest, he stretched his two fingers and pointed to the pushed side.

A soldier straps a large cylinder over his shoulder. The soldiers around you step back in unison.

< Pueng! Chuuuk! >

Suddenly, you hear something explode with the feeling of the ground ringing. It sounded completely different from the familiar AK-47.

< Kuaaang!!!!! >

Less than a second later, I saw a man flying into the air with a heavy white smoke spreading along with the thunderstorm. You hear a cry in the woods.

The people in the car laughed as they saw this.

When she saw them firing RPGs without hesitation at the runaway villagers, she realized that they were a different kind of people than the thieves who had sought out the village so far.

Through the loudspeaker, the voice of the man in the passenger seat resonates in the village.

“All residents of the village, every elderly, woman and child, are to assemble in the town square immediately! ”

I was in a hurry.

Agina shakes her guests desperately. However, his guest, who was snoring and sleeping peacefully, was unable to wake up.

The microphone hits his eardrum.

“Do you want to die? You can't jump now!!! ”

He took his son's hand and ran to the square, leaving the guest in the car.

* * *

Close to ten AK-47s target the villagers.

There is a rusty sword lodged beneath the old gun.

It was an unparalleled bayonet, but the villagers knelt on their knees and followed the rebels' instructions.

A man in a passenger seat in shiny sunglasses stands in front of nearly 50 villagers. He opens his mouth with his hands at his waist.

“I am General Baby Killer. At this time, Koydu Village became the property of the RUF. ”

Someone jumps up and yells at you for some nonsense.

“What kind of law is that? ”

Several guns aim at the screamer.

The baby killer raises his hand, restrains his subordinates from acting, and smiles heavily.

“Koydu Village was originally owned by our RUF. So we have always been merciful to you. You're living proof of that now. ”

RUF has always been an uninvited guest. They were plunderers of diamonds and food coming from the mines, and they had never helped the village.

Agina Shisei glances back, listening to the crazy man calling himself a baby killer. It's because Dwayne was so distressed that he had to leave it in the car.

They pull the trigger when they see something they don't like or a little bit of rebellion. I was stunned by the thought of what disaster would happen if they found me asleep in the car.

It doesn't matter how you get out of this situation. The only thing that mattered now was whether he and his son, Dwayne, could save their lives.

The baby killer, who gave a full speech about how important they are and how much grace they have given the village, concluded.

“We got rid of all the Camazos who took over the mines. So starting today, the owner of the Diamond Mine is RUF! ”

As the baby killer shouts, his escort fires live ammunition into the air, shouting in unison.

The villagers applauded reluctantly. But their minds did not care who became the owner of the mine.

This is their land, but ever since the diamonds were discovered, expensive stones have never been theirs. What the villagers wanted was to have a healthy day without worries.

* * *

Agina was detained in an empty warehouse with the villagers. The women were isolated elsewhere.

A moment later, you hear the voices of men giggling outside and the screams of women.

Gina puts her hand on her son's shoulder, which she buries in her face between her knees. For the first time, he was relieved that his wife had died early from an accident.

At that moment, the man with the broken eye stabbed her in the side.

“Did the guest run away? ”

Gina looks at Besham.

When a wealthy foreigner first appeared in town two weeks ago, Besham and he competed fiercely to attract guests to his home.

Agina shakes her head with a heavy expression.

Besham asked with a surprised expression.

“Where is it? ”

“Sleep in the car at the village entrance. ”

If we let them do this, they'll find out as soon as the rape party is over... Asuna's heart became heavy as she thought of the customer.

There was a strange look on Besham's face.

The groaning of men and the screaming of women that had been going on for more than two hours subsided.

The party that was unlikely to end ended, leaving only the feeling of a woman.

Besham shrugged his head and lifted his ears. As soon as it was quiet outside, he suddenly got up and knocked on the door of the warehouse.

“Here! I need to talk to you! ”

Son of a bitch!

Agina Besham woke up to dry her breasts. But at that moment, the door of the warehouse opened wide. Agina remains frozen.

“What the hell!”

After the revolution, the soldier pointed a gun at Besham.

Besham pointed to Ajina and said.

“There's a foreigner staying at his house! I couldn't get far... ”

The soldiers rush to the town entrance before the horse ends.

Agina closes her eyes with a sigh.

* * *

A baby killer sits on a chair in the center of the square.

Just to his right stood a man with a completely shaved muscle. The black adidas shorts were left untied, but the man was wearing blue polarized sunglasses on his face.

He turns an axe the size of an adult man's forearm around in the palm of his hand.

The sons of Besham, Ajina and Ajina were dragged out.

The baby killer said, as the three of them knelt on the ground.

“You found it?”

“Yes, I did, but I couldn't get drunk enough. ”

“You said you were in the car. Why don't you just drive? ”

“I couldn't find my car keys. ”

The baby killer spits on the ground and mutters.

“One son of a bitch got me in a mood. ”

The baby killer pulls the marijuana out of the top pocket of the statue and lights it on fire.

Drugs are prohibited drugs in most countries and are limited in purchasing and taking. But drugs can be found anywhere in Sierra Leone.

When it's time for the baby killer to finish smoking a pot, the soldiers who went looking for it show up.

Agina Shisei shakes her head when she finds her guest being dragged away by two soldiers.

I felt like my own fate was about to befall him. Of course, that harsh fate cannot be avoided either.

The moment the eyes of the Baby Killer, who had been bored with everything with those squishy eyes, grew suddenly when four soldiers found the blue BMW grinning and pushing.

He gets up from his seat and leaps toward the car, not even realizing that the marijuana was missing from his fingers.

“Oh!!!!! ”

The excitement was never concealed by a baby killer looking at the newest four-wheel drive X5 in real life.

The exterior of the car, which was covered in dust and mud, was a mess because it could not wash. However, when I rubbed it with my hands, the glow of the new car shined brilliantly.

The soldiers push the car hard behind him, but he gets into the car without hesitation. He closes his eyes to the exquisite smell of leather sheets and the soft sheets that hold him.

When the wheel of the X5 stops, the baby killer looks sad and steps out of the car.

He gestures at the man who is unconscious.

“Wake him up!”

Two soldiers bring a bucket of water from the well.

They pour water on the fallen.

< aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!! >

The man is struck by a thunderbolt. He slumps on the floor and opens his eyes.

The first action he took when he realized he was in a strange situation was to stand up and shut his mouth with his hands and run somewhere.

The soldier raises his gun when the man suddenly runs. But the baby killer raised his hand to stop his henchmen from killing.

“I'm fine.”

Agina prayed that her guests would run away like this. But that didn't happen. His guests vomit on the ground, not taking a few steps.

“Uweeeeeek!”

The RUF party chuckles at the man suffering from vomiting.

The baby killer instructed the man to bring water.

The man who emptied the glass of water handed to him at once circles around to see if he was awake. And as soon as the landlord realized the situation was caught by strangers, he made an impression.

The baby killer approaches the man and examines him.

I noticed the scaly hair and hot beard first.

The face full of soup was surprisingly Asian. The baby killer noticed that although he was crouched in sweat and time, the shirt with the number of little eagles in his upper pocket was quite expensive.

Well, if you want to bring such an expensive car to this part of town, you'll have to wear it.

He opens his mouth with a big smile.

“Where are you from? What brings you here? ”

The man stares at the target with a blank face.

When the baby killer realized that he and this man were not speaking, he ordered an interpreter to point his finger at lowered head, Agina Shisei.

“You okay?"

Agina asked with a worried expression. But his guest said the wrong thing.

“These guys are RUF, right? ”

“Yes. They're brutal. Give me everything you want. If you don't, you'll die. ”

The baby killer, who didn't like talking in an unknown voice, ordered that his words be interpreted immediately. Agina translated his words.

“I'm here for business in Australia. ”

“What business? ”

The man suddenly bursts into laughter.

Agina is concerned that her guests are not out of their minds due to extreme tension and fear. But the customer's spirit was bold.

“Hehehe. There's only one purpose for outsiders looking for this place, right?" ”

“You've come all the way from America to smuggle diamonds? If you can find Lebanese merchants in Freetown, you can buy them safely. Why are you here in person? ”

“How can you trust them? I'll sell the really good stuff to their regulars first. Besides, they don't deliver. I like direct deals in the mountains. ”

“So, did you find a supplier? ”

The Asian shakes his head, thinking of something, and then opens his mouth.

“Lebanese liar. Bastards. Trying to trick me. Find me. Find the diamond yourself. ”

The translator, Ajina, was surprised.

Sierra Leone was a British colony, so the common language is English. However, when they enter these remote areas, the indigenous people use their respective native languages.

In indigenous villages that have never been properly educated, it is impossible to understand English except for a very small number of people such as Agina. However, the words that came out of the customer's mouth were the native language. I had never seen an outsider speaking his native language before.

“The people who have found this place so far underestimate us, but you seem different. ”

“I want to. Diamonds. And friends. ”

When the word friend is heard, the baby killer smiles wide enough to see gums. Somehow I felt like I could talk to this guy.

He put his hands on the man's shoulders and said, The voice of the translator, Ajina Shisei, trembled.

“Th-that's why a real friend needs to give and receive good gifts. He said if I gave him this car as a gift, he'd be my friend. ”

The man shrugs. It was a gesture to give the car as much as it needed to connect a good source of diamonds.

Body language is a universal term. The baby killer's face was full of joy. But the man said something, and the successive interpreter of Agina Shisei broke the mood.

“But I lost my keys last night, so I can't drive now. The emergency key is at a hotel in Freetown.... ”

Surprised, Agina does not finish her translation. It must have been because I started the car a little earlier.

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