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Meanwhile, the children fighting on the hill panic over ghosts and flee at a strange sound coming from beside the ancestral tablets.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"The Whitebeard sets a cruel condition for the girl who wants to be accepted into the village: she must kill one of their own. Eden objects, saying this test disrespects death, but the Whitebeard sees him as the seed of tyrants. Meanwhile, the children fighting on the hill panic over ghosts and flee at a strange sound coming from beside the ancestral tablets.","key_events":["Eden confronts Elder, calling using death as a test dishonorable.","Elder demands foreign girl kill a villager to earn a place in the village.","Villagers blame young king's death on prophecy about princess staining crown with blood.","Village children argue and fight over hanged man, blue-eyed stranger, and haunted hill.","Strange sound from ancestor tablets frightens children who flee screaming about ghosts."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"YOU MUST KILL.\n\nWHAT?! WHAT DO YOU—\nIF YOU TRULY WISH\nTO MAKE A PLACE FOR YOURSELF HERE,\n\nYOU MUST ELIMINATE ONE OF OUR OWN.\nTHEN, I WILL ACCEPT YOU IN THEIR PLACE.\nARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?\n\nTHE CHOICE IS YOURS.\nTHIS IS THE ONLY WAY.\n\nIF YOU REFUSE, YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A PLACE HERE.\nELDER!\nEVEN HERE... I'M STILL...\n\nSHE WAS SO YOUNG... GONE FAR TOO SOON.\nYOU'VE KILLED MY SON AFTER ALL!\nTHE KING HAS PASSED AWAY.\n\nAND HE WAS SO YOUNG AND HALE.\nIT'S JUST AS THE PROPHECY FORETOLD.\nTHE PRINCESS WILL STAIN THE CROWN WITH BLOOD...\nSHE MUST BE A BRINGER OF DEATH.\n\nTHIS IS WRONG, ELDER.\n\nHOW CAN YOU BE SO CALLOUS ABOUT A PERSON'S LIFE?\nYOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST TELL HER TO GO OUT AND DIE!\n\nSO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT'S WHAT I MEANT, EDEN.\nEVEN IF THAT CHILD\n\nRESOLVED TO KILL SOMEONE,\nIT WOULD ONLY PROVOKE THE HOSTILITY OF THE CLAN.\nIT IS NOT THE PATH TO BEING TRULY ACCEPTED IN THIS VILLAGE.\nSO YOU ARE RIGHT. I’M TELLING HER TO STOP WASTING HER BREATH AND LEAVE.\n\nUGH...\nNNNNGH!\nYOU ONCE SAID THAT A TRUE WARRIOR OF THE MOUNTAINS\nNEVER DISHONORS DEATH.\n\nWEREN’T YOU THE ONE WHO TAUGHT ME THAT, ELDER?\nTHE MOMENT WE USE DEATH AS A TEST,\nHOW ARE WE ANY DIFFERENT FROM OUR ENEMIES OUTSIDE THE MOUNTAINS?\nSHE IS A VICTIM, JUST LIKE US!\n\nAND YET, SHE IS THE SEED OF OUR TORMENTORS.\nWHATEVER TRAGEDY THAT CHILD HAS SUFFERED,\n\nTHAT FACT DOES NOT CHANGE, EDEN.\n\nIF YOU TRULY WISH TO MAKE A PLACE FOR YOURSELF HERE,\nYOU MUST ELIMINATE ONE OF OUR OWN.\n\nTHERE'S NO WAY I COULD—\nSO WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THAT GUY YOUR BROTHER HUNG UP ON THE HILL?\nI HEARD HE FOLLOWED THAT OUTSIDER INTO THE MOUNTAINS.\n\nHOW SHOULD I KNOW?\nI WISH THEY'D KICK HIM OUT RIGHT NOW, ALONG WITH THAT BLUE-EYED OUTSIDER.\nTHINGS ARE FEELING GRIM LATELY. REALLY GRIM...\n\nI HOPE WE'RE NOT HEADED FOR ANOTHER WAR.\nDON'T SAY THINGS THAT'LL BRING BAD LUCK.\nWHEN ARE THE MOUNTAINS EVER NOT GRIM?\nTHE HILL ITSELF IS A DEN OF GHOSTS.\n\nTHE SOULS OF THE DEAD WANDER THERE, YOU KNOW.\nSTRANGE THINGS ARE ALWAYS HAPPENING THERE.\n\nWOULDN'T IT BE BETTER TO JUST GET RID OF THE PLACE—\nHEY, WHAT THE HECK!\n\nYOU—!!\nTHAT WAS MY LAST ONE!\nSHUT UP.\nWHAT DO YOU KNOW? STOP RUNNING YOUR MOUTH.\nYOU KNOW IT'S TRUE!\n\nTHAT HILL HAS ALWAYS BEEN WEIRD!\nEVER SINCE THAT PERSON DIED—\nGAH!\n\nL-LIAM!\nSHUT IT, ALL RIGHT?\n\nYOU LITTLE—!\nI WENT EASY ON YOU ‘CAUSE YOU’RE SMALL, BUT SERIOUSLY...\nHEY, STOP IT!\n\nWHY ARE YOU TWO FIGHTING?!\nI'M GETTING SICK OF YOUR TOUGH GUY ACT WHILE HIDING BEHIND YOUR BROTHER, YOU LITTLE WIMP.\nSHUT YOUR MOUTH.\n\nAGH!\nWHAT WAS THAT?\nDID THAT COME FROM OVER THERE?\n\nBUT THERE'S NOTHING OVER THERE BUT THE ANCESTRAL TABLETS...\n\nEEK!!!\nAARGH!\nIT'S A GHOST! 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