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Through an encounter with a wounded child and a little girl polishing the stones and apologizing, feelings of hatred, guilt, and compassion intensify.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"It is revealed that the rocks in the mountains are the graves of ancestors; they died in the war started by the kingdom. A man brings nourishing food, grain, and firewood to an old man, defending kindness without expecting anything in return. Through an encounter with a wounded child and a little girl polishing the stones and apologizing, feelings of hatred, guilt, and compassion intensify.","key_events":["Someone brings nourishing food, grain, firewood, and medicinal herbs to care for a stubborn elder.","An injured bleeding person is helped; sky-blue eyes identified as Groer royalty eyes.","Revealed rocks in mountains are ancestral graves of those killed in war started by kingdom people.","Discussion of selfless kindness recalls being taken in by village after parents died.","A child caught polishing gravestones says she wants to apologize to mountain ancestors unprompted."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"HMPH... YOU'RE RIDICULOUS.\nWHAT WERE YOU DOING OUT HERE, ANYWAY?\nTH-\n\nTHINKING.\nWHY WOULD YOU BE THINKING AROUND A BUNCH OF DEAD PEOPLE?\nD-DEAD...?\nTHAT ROCK.\n\nAND ALL THE OTHER ROCKS HERE.\nTHEY'RE THE GRAVES OF OUR ANCESTORS.\nTHEY WERE KILLED IN THE WAR THAT PEOPLE FROM YOUR KINGDOM\n\nWAGED IN THESE MOUNTAINS.\n\nIT'S BEEN A WHILE, ELDER. I BROUGHT YOU SOMETHING NOURISHING.\nTHIS STUFF IS BITTER,\n\nBUT THEY SAY THERE'S NOTHING BETTER FOR EXTENDING YOUR LIFE.\nI'VE STOCKED YOU WITH A FEW MONTHS' WORTH OF GRAIN AND FIREWOOD,\nAND I'LL HUNT FOR MORE IF YOU NEED IT.\nWHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED? MEDICINAL HERBS?\n\nHAH, YOU STUBBORN OLD FOOL.\n\nAND YOU CALL YOURSELF THE MOST RESPECTED ELDER IN THESE MOUNTAINS?\nASIDE FROM FEELING SORRY FOR THE CHILD,\nTHERE IS NO REASON TO HELP HER.\nELDER,\n\nHAVE YOU EVER RECEIVED A KINDNESS\nFOR NO REASON AT ALL?\n\nI HAVE. MANY TIMES.\nFROM YOU, WHEN YOU TOOK ME IN AFTER MY PARENTS DIED,\n\nAND FROM THIS VILLAGE THAT RAISED MY SISTER AND ME.\n\nAND BECAUSE OF THAT, I GREW UP KNOWING HOW TO SHOW THAT SAME KINDNESS TO OTHERS.\n\nGO ON AND LIVE LIKE THAT UNTIL YOU DIE OF OLD AGE.\n\nHAVE YOU EVER RECEIVED A KINDNESS FOR NO REASON AT ALL?\n\nRELAX.\nI'M NOT HERE TO HURT YOU.\n\nWE NEED TO STOP THAT BLEEDING FIRST.\nSKY-BLUE EYES... THE EYES OF THE GROER ROYALTY.\nYOU INVADE OUR LANDS... AND NOW YOU PITY US?\n\nWHAT GOOD ARE LANDS IN THE FACE OF SAVING A LIFE?\nI HAVE AN OLDER BROTHER BACK HOME, AROUND YOUR AGE.\n\nLET'S JUST SAY I'M FEELING SENTIMENTAL.\n\nEVEN IF THERE IS SUCH A THING AS KINDNESS WITHOUT A REASON,\nHOW MANY PEOPLE ARE TRULY CAPABLE OF GIVING IT?\n\nCOME ON OUT.\n\nH-H—\nHELLO.\nWHAT WERE YOU DOING OVER THERE, CHILD?\n\nI-I WAS POLISHING THE STONES.\nAND WHO TOLD YOU TO DO THAT?\n\nN-NO ONE.\nI-I JUST WANTED... TO A-APOLOGIZE\nT-TO THE ANCESTORS OF THE M-MOUNTAINS.\n\nHERE, LOOK.\nSEE HOW OUR MOUNTAINS ARE SURROUNDED BY THREE KINGDOMS?\n\nONE OF THEM IS YOURS.\nTHOSE THREE KINGDOMS\nINVADED OUR MOUNTAINS JUST TO FLEX THEIR MUSCLES,\nAND A LOT OF PEOPLE DIED.\n\nSO HOW COULD ANYONE HERE NOT HATE YOU?\nI-I DIDN'T KNOW.\n\nI-I'M SORRY.\nI-I-I'M\n\nS-SO\nV-VERY SORRY...","bubble_count":61,"pages_count":28,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"It is revealed that the rocks in the mountains are the graves of ancestors; they died in the war started by the kingdom.","spoiler_summary":"It is revealed that the rocks in the mountains are the graves of ancestors; they died in the war started by the kingdom. A man brings nourishing food, grain, and firewood to an old man, defending kindness without expecting anything in return. 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