Death’s Door - Chapter 180

Nur: “*Sips on tea* It is very delicious, Miss Valens. Forgive me if I am rude, but going from a sword point to drinking tea was a little too sudden even for me”

Valence: “It is fine, Mr. Finnerman. I mistook you for an intruder or a robber, but who would have guessed you were just someone who got lost. I apologize for frightening you”

The woman Nur just met was a feline type demi-human by the name of Jude, Jude Valens.

By the way she wielded her sword; it was obvious she was a former knight or maybe even a Holy Knight.

Jude: “People usually avoid my territory since I am a demi-human. I was not expecting to have a company”

Apparently she was visiting the graves, which is why she brought cups and a tea kettle. It seems like they were used as offerings of sorts to the dead.

Nur: “But why tea? I thought people brought sake or something alcoholic?”

Jude: “That is a human custom, my family’s way is to offer a cup of tea to the place of rest. At least, it was”

She sadly looked at all the graves around her.

Nur: “So many of them”

Jude: “Yeah. Whenever a demi-human or a demon dies, the humans refuse to bury them in their cemeteries, so they end up dumping off many of their corpses in my territory. Least I could do was give them a proper burial”

With the war waging on between humans and demons, without a doubt, the casualties on both sides were sky high. But the demons usually did not get the luxury of having a proper burial. They were lucky if their corpses were set aflame, at least that way there was some dignity in it…