Reassembling Faith (5)

Erpen Adamberta.

Having left the elves' residential district, he had spent a full 300 years among humans.

Over that long span, he had reached one conclusion about humans.

— They are rationally foolish.

At first, he too had thought humans were simply stupid.

They cut down 100-year-old giant trees just to make chairs,

sold out their friends for a few gold coins,

and even worsened their conditions by going straight back to work the next day after treatment without resting.

Erpen often clicked his tongue at the countless humans and the narrowness of their vision.

But as 10 years, 20 years, then 100 years went by...