Chapter 215.3
A few weeks ago, someone somewhere started saying [promise]. No one ever clarified [with whom] they made that promise, nor did they discuss its contents, but in a closed community, they valued harmony with the original people, and above all, they were afraid to deviate from it. So the days passed by without anyone ever mentioning the content.
But one day, when the adventurers who had been using the term went outside, a few of them returned, bathed in the blood of those who had returned. When Colette, who was still friends with one of the other adventurers, asked him about it, he replied with a puzzled look on his face: [I promised], he said.
[I didn’t make the promise], she said.
After that, people started disappearing. All the people who disappeared were either from outside or had lived in other towns.
At first, a search party of guards searched for the missing people. Sometimes their families would also send search requests to the Adventurers’ Guild, but after a while, no one would talk about it, and meanwhile, the miasma caused a commotion, and no one cared.
“When did Jean start acting strange?”
“Today…. No, he hasn’t gone crazy. He was really acting as usual before and after the treatment.”
“What about the appointment?”
“I wasn’t sure when I asked him about it, but he said maybe…[he] saw it in a dream.”
…There’s that funny word again. To summarize Colette’s unintelligible story, Jean had a dream in which she saw [someone] making a [promise] to [someone].